The Hot Spot Page #4

l've just remembered there was

something else l wanted to tell you.

What's that?

l always get what l want, Harry.

You got a husband who might

have something to say about that.

Never mind him.

He got everything he paid for.

Do you know why we came back

from Galveston so soon?

No. How could l?

He had chest pains.

The doctor in Galveston looked him over

and says he has to have an operation...

quick.

So why did he go huntin' today?

He always overdoes it when he's sick.

He practically can't help himself.

The doctor says if he has another one,

it'll kill him.

So what has that got to do with me?

Anything at all

too excitin' will just kill him.

No.

He had his first attack

the first day he met me.

Harry.

Harry!

Harry!

Harry!

Harry.

You've gotta help me, Harry.

(creaking)

l can't be left alone!

Help me, Harry.

l told you.

l won't have anything to do with it.

You're too worked up.

You're off your head.

You don't know what you're saying.

- You better find something to do.

- Something to do?

Yeah, get a job. Get a hobby.

Have a kid. l don't know. Do something.

Have a kid?

Hell, no. l don't want that.

But if l was pregnant with your child,

l'd show you what l'd do about that.

l've done it before.

(Harry) My God!

lt's not the falling down, honey.

lt's the climb back up.

(Harry laughs)

Light me a cigarette, Harry.

Poor old Harry.

He don't like me.

You lousy little witch.

What's it got to do with likin' you?

l told you we were a lot alike, didn't l?

Now lean down, Harry.

You wanna kiss me, don't you?

Kiss you?

l'll kill you.

l swear to God l'll kill you.

No, you won't.

Not now.

Now kiss me.

(police radio)

Gloria?

Are you OK?

Remember... l started to tell you about...

about the girl that l grew up with?

- The one that died.

- What l...

What l didn't tell you is that...

she killed herself.

And Sutton drove her to it. He did it.

She was my sister, Harry.

l really loved her.

(Gloria) She finally told me.

She'd been havin' an affair

with a woman who was a teacher of ours.

They'd been meeting in Houston.

Somehow Sutton found out.

He seems to know

what people's weaknesses are.

And he was blackmailin' her.

But l... l went to her.

Just... Just to comfort her.

Sutton was there. He'd been there

the whole time, takin' pictures of us.

He said to lrene he had real pictures now.

And what had we been doing in that

bedroom we shared when we were girls?

(camera clicking)

He came into my office after lrene died,

lookin' for money.

He had the pictures,

but he was very clever.

He didn't act like a blackmailer.

He whined and he said he felt terrible

about what had happened to lrene.

That he was a poor man.

Couldn't scrape a livin' in the world.

Said it was his only chance for survival.

And that if he didn't have the money -

just $500 - to leave town,

that he would go to my momma,

give her the pictures,

ask her for the money.

l had it there. l gave him the money.

And once you did...

He knew that l had taken it.

And he asked for more.

He kept comin' back and l just...

l couldn't catch up after a while.

l'm gonna tell Mr Harshaw.

l don't want Sutton to tell him.

l don't... l don't want for anyone

else to have to tell him that.

Come on in. Make yourself at home.

Have a seat.

You a tough guy, huh?

No. You're the tough guy.

l'm worse.

lt's not loaded.

(chuckles)

Well, how about that, huh?

So tell me. What, uh...

What seems to be your problem?

l mean, not that l'm nosey,

you understand.

(Madox) Gloria Harper.

You've been on her back now...

for over a year.

(laughs)

Oh, Lord of mine.

That little girl's got you

all stoked up, doesn't she?

So you drove yourself all the way out here

just to tell me to get off it, huh?

ls that right?

l'm gonna do better than that.

l'm gonna help you off.

Get up. Get up!

Don't you go out on me now,

you son of a b*tch.

Don't you go out on me now!

Come on, get up. Get up!

You like pictures, huh?

You like these pictures?

You got your goddamn pictures.

Come see me, Harry.

l'll meet you anywhere.

Come see me tonight.

Harry?

(line goes dead)

(# "The Want To" by Scott Wilk)

Nice entrance.

What's on your mind?

l'll make it short and to the point.

George says you're gettin' serious

about Gloria Harper.

lf you think you're gonna ditch me

for that saccharin little candy-ass,

you've got another thing comin'.

l don't see as you got

much to say about it.

So that's the way it is, hey?

That's it.

You're gonna wish to Christ

you never laid eyes on me.

l already do.

Not yet.

Not really.

But you will.

(Harshaw) Goddamn it, Dolly.

These Women's Club meetings drag on.

George, you're drinkin' and smokin'.

The doctor says you couldn't do neither.

Jesus, Dolly. One of each

isn't gonna put me over the top.

l've been thinkin'. Good thing for Madox.

Gloria Harper. Huh?

He ought to get real smart and marry her.

- George?

- She's young, fresh-faced,

looks like an ad-writer's dream

of the all-American girl.

Why don't you pour me a drink?

And she's a woman

that you can trust, too.

You know what l mean? Huh?

That's really important to a man.

George, l'm so tired.

Why don't you pour us both a drink?

Come on in my room tonight.

Rub a little bit

of that night cream on my shoulders?

You can do that, can't you, George?

Hm?

l'm so tired. And l'm so hot.

(squeals)

You know, l been thinkin'.

l know l been a bad wife.

But now l'm gonna be very, very bad.

(chuckles)

How bad exactly?

Momma's real angry with you.

(Harshaw chuckles)

She's more angry than she's ever been.

Now we've just got one more...

and then we can get down to business.

Guess what?

All these things l'm doin' to you,

l've done to your boy...

Harry Madox,

down at the sawmill

over and over again.

What's the matter, George?

Don't you like the game, George?

- Don't you feel well, George?

- (Harshaw grunts)

Well, maybe Momma

can make it all better.

There we go.

l'm f***in' you to death, George.

Aagh!

Don't pay no mind

to the way my face looks.

l fell out of bed.

What's on your mind?

Thinkin' about buyin' another car.

Why don't you just

pay for the one you got?

lt's all right.

l'm gonna trade mine in on a new 'un.

Like perpetual motion, huh?

Trade in the car you don't own

for one you can't pay for.

Kinda had my eye

on that Lincoln out front.

- What are you usin' for money?

- You ain't got it yet, do you?

See, now why should l make

another payment on a car

when l'm gonna trade it in on a new 'un?

l was thinkin' maybe you and me could

take that Lincoln out for a little test drive.

Now, listen, you stupid bastard.

l don't know what you're drivin' at.

But l can get a bellyful of you

quicker than most.

So why don't you get wise

to yourself and shove?

You fall out of bed one more time and

the cockroaches'll start talkin' to you.

- That was a hell of a fire, wasn't it?

- What are you talkin' about?

See, the day they had the fire,

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