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The Spitfire Grill Page #5
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1996
- 117 min
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All right. That's it.
You're all so worked up about
this damn contest, be my guest...
...jump right in.
I got more reading here than I can
get through in a month of Sundays.
Here, you take those.
Effy, you're always reading
everyone's mail anyway.
There.
Meeshack, get back to me
with the best of this...
...and then maybe, just maybe...
...I might put up with
your smart-ass remarks.
It answers one thing.
What's that?
What that Percy Talbott
really came here for.
Ain't that dog died yet?
Shelby told me this whole thing
was her idea.
Who's to say it's not a scam she
cooked up with her prison friends?
If it'll make you feel any better,
I ran her records.
There's no history of fraud or robbery.
She went to prison for manslaughter,
didn't she, Gar'?
She paid her debt.
It's all said and done.
There's got to be...
...over $200,000 in Hannah's
safe by now.
I hope I'm not the only one
to take that seriously.
Bring this meeting to order.
I say it's Hannah's place
to do with as she pleases.
It'll ruin this place.
Ruin it? From what?
We got strangers crawling all over
us now and more coming every day.
Hey.
Their bark's a lot worse
than their bite.
It's not like I came here
looking to start trouble.
I know, but...
...they're just not used to change.
It scares them.
They'll shout it all out
and that'll be that.
It's not like there's a law that you must
stand round and listen, is there?
No.
No.
You want to get out of here?
Sure.
Yeah.
What do you want to show me?
These.
- Your worthless trees?
- Maybe not anymore.
I come upon this fellow out here.
Turns out he's a research scientist.
He said he looked all over the north
for this medical compound...
...that can only be found
in the bark of trees.
He figured it had to be in first-growth
trees but he couldn't find it.
Then he saw these.
Turns out this compound only happens
...when a tree tries
to regenerate itself.
He said he could kick himself
for being so stupid.
Hold on. This scientist fellow.
What's he look like?
A beard, sort of scrappy looking.
- That's him.
I seen that guy!
Sniffing on trees
- Thought he'd gone clear off his rocker.
- Lf he has, I'm going with him.
He works for this
drug company.
He wants to set up a project out here,
to harvest all the bark...
...and stimulate more stump.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
You know, it's all still in the
talking phase, of course...
...but if the numbers they talked
about add up by half...
...this could keep Gilead on the map.
I'd call that real good
news for y'all.
Real good news.
Yeah, and...
...maybe it could be
good news for us.
Us?
Yeah, now, don't ask
me to explain...
...but that first night
when you come into town...
...I had this feeling something
really good would happen...
...and I'll be damned if...
...it isn't sitting next
to me right now.
- I don't know what crazy talk...
- No, listen.
Listen, there's these trees here
and this land.
You're a big part of that now.
What do you mean?
I don't know.
How about you and
me getting married?
What?
You don't want to be
marrying me, Joe.
I don't care what people think.
It's not that.
Well, what then?
Will you want kids?
Well, hell, yes.
Hell, yes.
As many as you want.
I can't have kids no more, Joe.
I...
We don't need to have...
Please.
There's a woman that's meant
to be your wife. I know it.
It's just not me.
Johnny B!
You there?
This is where you live, ain't it?
Can I go in?
You know,
you should have told me.
I'd have made you
something special.
I can bake a cake now.
Look at all your birds.
You there?
"There is a balm in Gilead
"To make the wounded whole
"There is a balm in Gilead
"To heal the worried soul
"There is a balm in Gilead
"To make the wounded whole"
Sorry I'm late. I went out,
lost track of time.
Where you been?
- I just went for a walk.
- What for?
Nothing.
You don't go sneaking off
at the crack of dawn for nothing.
What were you out there for?
Went for a walk with Joe.
You liar!
I just sent Joe off not
ten minutes ago.
You were chasing him!
It's not like that.
Shut up!
You just shut up!
I should've known...
lying trash like you.
I've done nothing bad.
You scared away
the only hope I had.
Damn you!
If you choose to live
with that hope...
Shush!
I lost my son!
You got no idea what that's like.
How the hell would you know?
You didn't kill your boy, did you?
You didn't let your baby die!
You don't know nothing!
It's time you stopped
working at the Grill.
But I like working there.
Anyway, this is really
about Percy, isn't it?
You've had it out for that girl
since she got here.
Because she has no business here.
Never did.
She may have pulled the wool
over your eyes and Hannah's...
...but others can see
what's going on.
You think she helped fill that safe...
...from the goodness
of her heart?
For your information...
...Percy is taking Hannah into
Lewiston tomorrow morning...
...to put the money in the bank.
Good God!
What?
Good God!
Will it take finding Hannah
dead in a ditch...
...for you to see the truth?
Don't you know that girl
went to prison for murder?
Her coming here has been
a godsend for Hannah.
And for me.
That's the reason
you can't stand her.
You best watch your words.
No, I won't watch my words.
You have got that same chip
on your shoulder now...
...that you did when Eli was alive.
The whole town
looked up to him...
...and now that anybody sees
that same thing in Percy...
...you hate her for it
the same way you hated him.
But she is doing something
You are just plain
jealous of that girl.
God.
Gary!
Okay.
'Morning.
What's wrong?
It's gone.
I went to get it out of the safe,
it's all gone.
Where's Percy?
No...
...I checked her room.
All around the house.
She's gone too.
No. I don't believe it.
Something must have happened.
What could have happened?
Don't matter now
what happened.
Just what's left to be done.
What do you mean?
What are you going to do?
Where are you going?
You here or there now?
I came back to get the car.
What goes on?
Sorry to barge in so early, but Hannah
tells me the safe's been cleaned out...
...and there's no sign of Percy.
What's going on?
None of your concern.
Go to your store.
- I'll go when it suits me.
- I don't care what it looks like...
...she didn't take that money.
This is past you.
Stay out of it.
No, not this time.
So help me, Nahum...
...if you condemn that girl without proof,
I'll quit you for good...
...I swear.
When I was out walking last night
I saw Percy...
...bring a sack out on
the back porch...
...then sit there like she
was waiting for someone.
This morning the sack was gone and
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