The Rover Page #2

So, how are you gonna

get to where you're going

if you don't know where

the f*** you are?

Do you even understand

what I just said, half-wit?

We're going to Carloon.

We're going to Carloon.

I just asked that lady how

to get to Carloon from here.

I was gonna do that anyway

and you would've heard me

and you would've asked her what I

said, figured out what I said anyway.

I was gonna tell you anyway.

You wanna know so bad.

But you don't know exactly where

in Carloon we're going exactly,

so, I'm still in control here.

You don't know exactly where

in Carloon we're going,

so you got to take me with you.

I'm taking you with me

because if I get to Carloon

and your brother's not there,

I'm gonna slit your throat.

What you want with my

brother so bad, hmm?

Who are you?

I'm Rey. Is that what you mean?

Why are you here?

Me and my brother came out for

the mines. Like everybody else.

Why's your brother in Carloon?

That's where he was gonna go.

Why are you here and your

brother's in Carloon?

They had to get going

in a big hurry.

Why?

Why did he have to get

going in a big hurry?

I don't know.

I can't talk about it.

Why did your brother have to

get to Carloon in a big hurry?

I can't talk about it.

Well, whatever it was he did,

you got left here to die

while he was doing it.

- It didn't happen like that.

- Really?

How did it happen, then?

I can't talk about it no more,

just stop asking about everything.

'Cause I believe in God and I

know Henry believes in God,

and there's no harm Henry

would want to see me come to.

I believe in that.

Yet look at the harm you've

come to and where's Henry?

He's waiting for me.

He's not waiting for you.

Yes, he is.

No, he's not.

I'll tell you what God's given you.

He's put a bullet in you.

And he's abandoned you out here

to me, who feels nothing for you.

I couldn't give a f***

if you die tomorrow.

God gave you a brother

who's not waiting for you.

He gave you a brother who's not

even thinking about you right now.

Just because you and him came

out of the same woman's hole.

The only thing that means

anything right now

is that I'm here and he's not.

Your brother left you to die.

That's what people do.

You don't learn to fight, your

death's gonna come real soon.

This is 5-1. Passage

is called 2-11.

We should be clear

or clearing shortly.

4-3-7 Echo.

4-3-7 Echo. This is K-K.

Do you copy?

Stop shooting!

I just wanted to fight.

I just wanted to fight him.

Let's go.

Come on.

That lady said it would take about eight

hours to get there, in the old days.

But it might take longer now 'cause a lot

of them old roads ain't there no more.

And all the roads are bad now anyways

so you can't drive fast on 'em.

She said about eight or nine hours.

She wasn't sure if it

was eight or nine.

She seemed a bit confused about it.

And why would he still be there?

He had to wait two

weeks for someone.

There's a man there he's got to

meet, it's gonna take two weeks.

You know this? Or this

is what he told you?

Huh?

Your brother can't be trusted.

Is this something that you know or

is this something that he told you?

Both those things.

You work in the mines?

No.

What do you do then?

I was a farmer. And now I'm here.

Then how come you learned

how to shoot so good?

You was in the army?

When I was a little kid

I grew up on a farm.

We had these neighbors, real old

man and lady, Verna and Clarry,

they's brother and sister.

And they lived on this

land that's all overgrown,

like you couldn't even tell what

they farmed, so overgrown.

And Clarry had these eight tractors,

and none of them worked properly,

so every morning he'd roll each one down

the hill till he got one of them started

and then use that one to

tow all the others back up.

He did that every day.

And when they died, their family,

who we'd never met before,

came around, cleared

out their house

and they found all this...

They found all this

weird stuff in there.

Like...

Like 50 therm...

Thermionic radio valves.

Like them real old valves

they used in old radios.

And pyramid of pumpkins.

And about 5,000 of these

little sticks about this long.

And each wrapped up in newspaper and

tied up at the ends with baling twine.

Why are you telling me this?

I just remembered it.

It interested me.

Not everything has to

be about something.

I'm tryin' to stop thinking about

that little girl who died, but I can't.

You shouldn't.

But I can't.

You shouldn't stop

thinking about her.

You should never stop thinking

about a life you've taken.

It's the price you

pay for taking it.

That's it, sweetheart.

Let's start with the eyelids.

I want you to roll over onto your

front, put your hands behind your back.

And do it slow.

And do it now.

When are you gonna

say something, c*nt?

It's over.

It's over for you.

I know that.

That's good that you know that.

Do you know it, too?

Oh, I know it, champ.

I told you it.

Do you know it's over for you, too?

Whatever you think's over for

me was over a long time ago.

I'm asking about you.

Are you threatening me?

No.

A threat means there's still

something left to happen.

What are you gonna do with me?

You're going to Sydney.

Why don't you just shoot me?

Why don't you do it?

That's what everyone else is doing.

Because me sending you to Sydney

tells Sydney there's a reason to

keep paying us what they pay us.

If we just shot every

idiot we wanted to shoot,

then pretty soon they'd start to wonder

what the f*** we're doing out here.

See, personally

I don't care about you.

I don't care if you get to Sydney and they

let you off or you bribe your way out

or whatever the f*** they

do down there these days.

I don't give a f***.

I'm doing this for me.

You're doing what for you?

You're doing what for you?

I murdered my wife.

I followed her to a man's house,

I watched him put his fingers

inside her and I killed 'em both.

No one ever came after me.

Ten years ago.

I never had to explain myself.

I never had to lie to anyone.

I never had to run and hide.

I just buried 'em in a

hole and I went home.

No one ever came after me.

And that hurt me more than

getting my heart broken.

Knowing it didn't matter.

Knowing you can do something like

that and no one comes after you.

You do a thing like I did, that

should really mean something.

But it just doesn't matter anymore.

Well, champ.

Thing you did in Abo town is the

one thing that does matter to us.

Now you can do all the lying

and confessing you'd like.

What feeling do you have when

you wake up in the morning?

When your feet touch the floor?

Or before that, when you're lying there

thinking about your feet hitting the floor.

What does that feel like for you?

Do you know what I'm talking about?

No, mate. I don't.

You don't?

No, mate. I don't know what

the f*** you're talking about.

What the f***?

Phew!

Is that it?

That was easy.

Do I shoot him again

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