The Electric Horseman Page #8

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Here. Five oughta cover it. Mr. Steele,

I don't want your money.

I saw you on the television,

you and the horse.

I'd be proud to help ya

any way I can.

Right now, looks like we oughta

get you outta this county.

How do you like it

so far?

Edwin.

How's the day? Treatin'

you good? Goin'all right.

Got the whole world lookin'

for that cowboy. I'll tell ya,

he's probably up over

that mountain by now.

Wouldn't worry about it.

I'd go take a nap on my porch.

I wouldn't wanna find him

anyway, 'cept for that reward.

Fifty thousand bucks

is a mound of cash.

Wouldn't get my hopes up.

All right, you're clear.

Come on down.

I don't know where you're

headed, but Excalante's...

just about six miles

up over that mountain.

The woman put together some

stuff to keep you on your way.

There's bread, cake,

stew and coffee.

I put a bottle of somethin' in

there to keep your blood pumpin'.

I sure do thank ya.

Ain't no need to.

Listen, not many people

you trust $50,000 worth.

Better get on over the mountain before

it comes to me what I'm passin' up.

C'mon.

Oh, my God!

Can we rest a little?

Not yet.

Where the hell are we?

Well, you're not in jail.

Look at it that way.

I can't go any farther.

Ah, sure you can.

I've known people

who go through stuff.

I knew a guy

misjudged a Brahma once.

Put his ribs through

his right lung.

The guy could

hardly breathe.

He still got up and rode

the rankest mare there.

I will never understand...

why you find that kind of behavior

admirable. Gets you up the hill.

I have to rest...

for a minute.

Hey, Steele?

Sonny!

Norman!

How do you know

"Norman''?

I never divulge sources.

Divulge sources!

Here. Get up.

Come on.

You sure do your homework,

don't you?

Try to put your mind on somethin'

else. Make things easier.

Get it off your feet.

You know the "Star Spangled Banner''? What?

The national anthem. I know

it's the national anthem.

You mean, can I sing it?

It's hard to sing.

Yeah, it is.

Why do you suppose that is?

You know, that's

a very interesting question.

Why don't we sit down

and discuss it?

I used to be a psychology major

before I went into journalism.

"America the Beautiful.''

That's an easy tune to carry.

Why don't we sit down

and sing it together?

Oh, spa-

Oh, beautiful

for spacious skies

With amber waves

of grain

C'mon. C'mon, sing it. Oh, God!

For purple mountain's

majesty

Above the fruited plain

America

A gold Lincoln Continental

at 706 Elmine.

13-A-9.

No warrant on the suspect.

Ha-

Halloween.

Ha-

Hall-ouise.

What?

Your name? Hallie?

That's not your name.

Alice.

My name's Alice.

My kid sister used to

holler at me after school.

She'd yell, "Hall-ice!''

So they call me Hallie.

Alice Martin.

That fits ya.

I used to bite

and pinch a lot too.

I bet you did.

It's mustangs.

Mares.

They smell the horse.

You know what you need?

A pair of proper shoes.

Hey... where are we?

Are we lost?

Lost?

No.

Good night...

Alice.

Good night, Norman.

We wanna be airborne in 30

minutes. If she's with Steele,

then the network

will know where they are.

That's the news department,

Mr. Sears.

I don't think they're gonna want to

give out that kind of information.

Are you saying we spent $80 to

$100 million dollars in TV time,

and we can't get

a simple piece of information?

No, sir.

I'm not saying that.

You don't ask the news department.

You ask the advertising department.

They'll ask

the news department.

What are you

doin' up?

Nothing much.

You had a hard day. Why don't

you scrunch down in the bag?

Oh, I wish

it were that easy.

I don't sleep.

Ever?

How old are ya?

Not in front of,

in front of people

I don't know.

Slept last night.

The hell I did.

Not in front

of a stranger.

What's the matter? You afraid of what

you're gonna look like with your mouth open?

You have

a mean streak in you.

No.

No, I don't.

I still pinch and bite.

Okay.

Good morning.

I'm still here.

There's, there's coffee

from last night.

It's probably cold.

Probably is

if it hasn't been heated.

And there's cheese.

Cheese?

You're all bent.

Are you sick?

No,

just bent.

Well, here.

Have some cheese.

They say breakfast is the

most important meal of the day.

I know.

I'm the one that said it.

Are you sure

you're not hurt?

No. Just some parts

wake up faster than others.

Broke parts take

a little longer is all.

I would've called a cab,

left you a note.

You know, "Call me, '"

with my phone number.

No. Actually I probably would've

left my answering service number,

and just stuck it right there on

- What's the matter?

I wanna know

what's bothering you.

It was just you and me

last night.

It's not gonna be

on television.

Is it?

I don't know what you're talking about.

The problem is that you get up slowly.

I get up fast.

It was the way I was raised.

Hey, hey! I grew up gettin' up.

We just got up and got to work.

I was up before the sun

ever hit your room.

Well, then you get

the getting-up medal.

Aren't we supposed to be in a hurry?

I mean, isn't that what you said?

Good mornin', Alice.

Good morning.

You're right.

We are in a hurry.

But, let's say

we lighten up a bit.

I think that's a great idea... lighten up.

We're gonna be traveling

together a little while.

Oh!

There.

All lightened up.

Temperatures are dipping below

freezing on the high plateau,

and in the mountains

the snow line is at 3,000 feet.

On the national scene, the search

for Rising Star and Sonny Steele...

is concentrated

in central Utah.

KLSG switchboards have been

jammed with phone calls-

I didn't see any falls

at Cisco Falls. Ain't any.

Hell,you can name

anything, anything.

It's like those people who look

up at the stars and see things:

chickens, bulls, chariots

and snakes and sh*t.

What's this guy's name

who's supposed to have a bell?

Rion or Orion? There probably

ain't no bell up there.

Probably there was

a falls here once.

This whole land was under water

millions of years ago.

If you go slow,

take your time

and you look real close,

you can find skeletons of these

weird lookin' fishes in the hardpan...

long, long gone.

In fact,

all these mountains-

hell, everything,

everything you can see-

everything was under

an ocean once.

What are you smilin' at?

I'm just enjoying the fact

that you-

That you know all that.

It's interesting.

Well, this country's

where I live.

Don't you know where

the subways go?

Not lately.

Oh, yeah, you do.

How'd you know

to find me?

There must've been 70, 80 reporters in

that hotel room, but you were the one...

that found me. I just had a few

hunches and got a head start.

You had more than that, Alice.

You are good.

Let's go.

Here, gimme that stuff.

Okay, I want ya to put

your left foot right here.

I, I don't know how to ride. C'mon.

You're not gonna ride, you're just gonna be

sittin' on him. I'm gonna be doin' the steering.

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