The Gingerbread Man Page #6

be left on your own.

I think you've gotta

come with us,

if you don't mind.

All right. Whatever you say.

OK, listen. Take the Greyhound

to Stillwell, off the 25.

Get a bus at 6:
45,

I'll see you at eight.

Now, whatever,

you wait there for me.

- What about Clyde?

- Hasn't he gone?

You on a cellular,

dumb sh*t?

I thought you'd gone?

You know

a cellular gives a signal?

Get rid of it,

use a hard line.

Yeah. Will you get movin'?

Calm your liver.

Hello? Hello?

- Rick?

- Mallory?

- Yeah.

- Is he gone?

Yeah.

I better hang up.

Don't... Don't miss that bus.

I won't.

Libby, Jeff! Let's get movin'!

Let's get movin' now!

OK, you strap up, there.

Goin' far, pal?

I'm getting out of town.

Been in these storms before.

Yeah, looks big.

Well, y'all have a nice trip.

Hey, it's room service!

You going to let Daddy in here?

Thank you.

All right, we have food!

Food comin' your way.

Where's the pizza?

They didn't have pizza.

Let's enjoy this.

I'm gonna telephone

your Mommy, OK?

You stay here, enjoy this. This

is good food, you'll love it.

What the hell do you mean,

everything's all right?

I mean, you kidnap my kids,

then you punched out a janitor!

And now there's a maniac

after my children!

That's why I have 'em,

they're safe.

God damn you, Rick!

Bring them home!

I can't, Leeanne.

Not now, not yet.

Why the hell not?

Whether this creep's serious

or not, I don't know,

but I'm sure as hell

not taking chances.

I... Leeanne, I should go now.

I'm going to the police.

There's a warrant out for you.

This creep's loose and

there's a warrant out on me?!

I don't care. You made that bed.

I just want my children back.

As soon as the guy's put away,

we'll come home, I promise.

Until then,

it's not safe. I gotta...

Libby! Jeff!

Libby! Jeff!

Libby! Jeff!

- What is it?

- He's got my kids.

Somebody got in the room.

Where would he go? Think!

Move the car!

You hired me to watch her. Now

she's meeting you? I'm clueless.

Move the car. Doss has my kids!

What? How?

Somebody must've been

following me.

- See him?

- No!

Maybe it was his guys.

Let's find him.

I got a lead they might

be in his compound.

- You know it?

- His old hunting place.

- Know where?

- I'll try!

You go to the police. Meet us at

the compound! Move!

Careful. That old man's crazy!

Run my ass over, too!

Put your belt on.

I was just on the phone.

It wasn't your fault.

- If anything happens...

- Take this road.

- I'm not sure.

- Remember!

- I'm trying!

- Think!

- I don't remember!

- Left or right? Think!

Is it left or right, goddamit?

I don't know!

Left, I think.

Back at that tree.

That's his car.

What're you gonna do?

You better wait here.

You're trespassin', lawyer boy.

You're trespassin'.

Give me my kids.

You're trespassin'.

Give me my kids,

you son of a b*tch!

The kids. They've got the kids!

They're safe.

Your kids are safe.

Drop the gun!

The kids are safe?

They're at the station,

not a scratch on 'em.

Will you give me the gun, now?

Throw the gun down!

Throw it down, Clyde.

I killed Doss.

Step over here!

Now!

- Slow down!

- How far?

All right, come on, Bill!

Your kids

are at the station, Rick.

We dropped them off.

Get me the Fire Department.

Send an ambulance.

I need back-up.

Get your hands up!

Lady, get your hands up!

Step around to the front!

Move!

Put your hands on the hood!

It's all right, ma'am.

Easy, Bill.

I know this lady.

- Let us do our job.

- I am...

She's good people, man.

Be nice to her.

Step back!

It's all right, ma'am.

Who started this party?

I don't know.

When they saw he was dead they

just started burning everything.

Just burning everything.

It's all right, I just wanna ask

you some questions.

Careful with this guy,

he's a lawyer.

He'll put you away first.

All right, boss?

Self-defence?

See you at the station.

He lifted

the gun and started to shoot.

You were trespassing

and the daughter said

he fired in the air.

If I waited to see where

he fired, I'd be dead.

I thought my kids

were in danger.

But they weren't.

The Founding Fathers established

the right to protect oneself,

by force if necessary.

Even from lawyers.

And I don't have the right

to protect my kids?

They were found here,

safe and sound,

minutes after you called me.

Somebody took 'em

and dropped 'em off.

They said so themselves.

That's right, somebody.

Some tall guy with a beard

and dirty clothes.

I could spit outside

and hit nine just like that.

Isn't that

a little strange, sir?

You tell me.

Excuse me,

could I see Mr Magruder's kids?

Either it was Doss

or one of his group.

They were in on this,

broke him out of state hospital.

That doesn't carry

the death penalty.

Doss came at me

with a 12-gauge shotgun.

So you thought you had to

protect yourself?

Yes, I did, sir.

But y'all never gave that

courtesy to Officer Watson,

down in Jacksonville, did you?

You put him on the stand.

He was just protecting himself.

You punched holes the size of

cow chips in a 20-year career.

You got yourself in a whole

bucket of sh*t here, Magruder.

And if I were you,

I'd find myself a good lawyer.

I wanna see my kids.

My children? Are they all right?

Yeah, they're fine, they're OK.

Thanks, Lois.

Mommy!

OK, kids, it's all right.

Tell you what, how about

I take you guys to the car...

Don't tell my kids what to do.

I'm trying to help.

Can I talk to you, Rick?

The last thing you've ever been

is a father.

And if you can't keep them safe,

I'll fight tooth and nail for

full custody with no visitation.

Don't do that, Leeanne.

Please don't do that.

And do me a favour.

Keep your white trash tramps

away from my children.

And that drunk pervert too.

Let's go home, honey.

Wave to your daddy.

Bye, Daddy!

I'll have to impound the car.

You didn't actually see those

kids get in that car, did you?

I don't know. I thought I did.

I just saw everybody running.

It doesn't make sense.

What's that?

Why Doss would take my kids,

then release them after an hour.

He wasn't after them,

just wanted to use them as bait.

To get me on his property?

Yeah, and kill you.

With your kids' there,

you're a loose cannon.

Then he drops them

at the police station?

Makes kidnapping charges

harder to press,

and he's got you trespassin'.

How could I find him?

Those cabins were up five miles

of unmarked dirt road.

Me.

He didn't know you'd come.

The kids were taken

before you arrived.

Probably figured you'd call and

she'd tell you the way.

Yeah, Daddy didn't figure

I'd be with you.

And when he saw me he hesitated.

That's when you shot him.

We've got something.

- What'd you get?

- A box of some kind.

Well, Rick, on the good side,

under these circumstances,

you might not have

to do any hard time.

Say that again?

If things go right

you won't go to prison.

So what's the bad side?

Well, even without

serving any time

you're probably

looking at disbarment.

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