Valley of Bones Page #3

This gal's American.

Hey, stranger.

You gonna join civilization?

I'm good

right here. Thanks.

EZEKIEL:
This okay?

Let's see.

What have we got here?

We got some from our gal.

And... Oh.

Some fragments

of Edmontosaurus annectens.

I'm in second grade.

Sorry. Duckbill.

T-rex breakfast.

Nice find.

Do you think Dad

would have been proud of me?

Anna, I need your

eye over here, please.

Whatcha doing there, Eze?

Find something?

Susanna, have a beer.

Relax.

Thank you.

This is going great.

Look at this.

Hey, guys.

Come look at this.

Goddamn, look at that skull.

Jackpot.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

What are you doing up here?

I get one bar up here.

I thought I'd

check the weather.

What are you doing?

Checking the weather.

What do you think?

Those clouds

sure look mean.

I don't know.

Remember

a couple of years ago.

We had that big storm.

Yeah.

Yeah, I remember.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(GASPS)

EZEKIEL:
You were

talking in your sleep.

Yeah. I had a bad dream.

About Dad?

What?

No.

No.

It's okay.

You can talk

about him around me.

Me... Me and Uncle Nate do.

Talk about him.

Hey.

Come here.

(NATE CHUCKLES)

I'm telling you,

she's cheatin'.

You just got

a sh*t poker face,

that's all.

Would a guy with

a sh*t poker face

throw that?

Yes.

That's actually exactly

what he would do.

Needless to say,

I called your bluff.

Did you see how I did that?

Well, we're laying 'em down

there, buddy. What you got?

(CLEARS THROAT)

Look at these.

King Pokerface over here.

Layin' it down full houses,

like it ain't no sh*t.

KIMBERLY:
Mmm-hmm.

Yeah, I bet

you wish you were

playing for more

than just butterscotch

and bottle caps, huh?

You wanna put some

real money on it?

Yeah, I don't think

you could afford it.

Well, the way you're playing,

I don't think I'm the one

that needs to be worried.

Well, I'm not out yet.

I see I've got some

more bullshit here

in my pocket

that I found out

in the field.

We can get back

in this game here.

That's my ante.

Now look at that.

Found that out there, too.

KIMBERLY:

What the hell is that?

Ask him.

Nate, this isn't funny.

Get that off the table. Now.

You don't bring that

nasty sh*t out here

around my nephew.

You understand me?

Huh?

Billy, you hear?

I said, don't bring that...

You actually think

I'd give that sh*t

to a kid?

You crack head...

Boys!

(LINE RINGING)

GIRL:
Dad.

Hey, baby girl.

Am I calling too late?

I'm not a toddler anymore.

And it's Friday.

I can stay up till 9:00.

I'm sure you can.

I just don't want

to get in trouble

with your mom is all.

You're always in

trouble with Mama.

(CHUCKLES)

Oh, that's right.

(DOG BARKING OVER PHONE)

Is that the pup?

Is she around?

Yeah. Out in the yard.

Must have thought

she saw something out back.

She was crazy begging

to go out before you called.

That's too bad.

I was hoping to say hi.

I'll pass it along.

She misses you.

Well, you tell that

shaggy son of a b*tch

I miss her, too.

Hey.

I got something I

want you to check out.

I gotta get ready for bed.

That's okay.

That's all right.

You just get

yourself tucked in

and listen.

All right?

(HARMONICA PLAYING)

Hush-a-bye

Don't you cry

Go to sleep, my little baby

When you wake

You shall take

All the pretty little horses

Relax

All the pretty

little horses

(HUMMING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(RAIN PATTERING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

McCoy, storm's comin'.

We're headed back to...

You always snooping around

everybody's tent,

or am I just lucky?

We've been calling you.

What the hell

was that thing?

Can I show you something?

Yeah.

This your Emily?

That's her playing

with a dog there.

We call her Snickers.

She wanted to name it after

something she liked.

She wanted that

dog in the worst way.

McCoy.

Are you in some

kind of trouble?

She's so smart, too.

She does these little, like,

vocab crosswords.

She got "panoply."

Little eight-year-old kid,

I don't even

know what a panoply is.

Wes.

She's a lot smarter

than her old man.

I used to

work for some bad people.

Cartel kind of bad.

I got caught doing a run

and did some time for it.

Cost 'em a lot of money.

She don't know nothing

about those people.

Why should she?

It makes me sick.

'Cause I did that.

You can keep

trying to get...

Just keep trying

to get ahead of it,

somehow.

I tried to quit, tried to...

But it's...

I don't know.

Sometimes I wonder,

maybe it'd be best

if I'm not around.

Is that really

what you want?

I, uh...

I spent some time

inside, too.

Three years.

No sh*t.

Yeah, the judge wanted

to make an example

of me, I guess.

(CHUCKLES)

It didn't even matter

that I was pregnant.

With...

Yeah. I never even

got to hold him.

Jesus.

He went to live

with my dad

'cause my husband

was already out of

the picture at that point.

Then the FBI came down

on us, and it was just me

left to take the fall

and I kept saying I didn't

know it was federal land.

It was Ethan who knew.

But I don't even

know if that's true.

Maybe I did.

Maybe I know I did.

I didn't even see Ezekiel

till after I got out.

You know, not 'cause

I couldn't, but...

And then when I did get home,

he didn't even know who I was.

So, I spent every

spare moment out here

'cause it just seemed

like it was better somehow.

For both of us.

Is that still

what you think?

NATE:
Anna, you coming?

If we don't leave now,

we ain't leaving.

ANNA:
Yeah. We're coming.

Ah...

(CLEARS THROAT)

Heard about the ruckus.

That something

I ought to be worried about?

He'll cool off.

Long days.

Lotta work.

Mmm-hmm.

Did Nate ever tell you

how I happened to

come to know Wes?

McCoy?

I mean,

I guess I assumed...

I'm his sponsor.

So, that means...

Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.

Well, you know, I mean,

we were all young

and dumb once, right?

Anyway, I just thought

it best you know it.

Ain't nothing

I've ain't handled

a million times before.

Ain't nothing

I can't handle now.

(DOOR HANDLE CLATTERING)

(GASPS)

(DOOR LOCK CLICKS)

(CREAKING)

(SIGHS)

You shouldn't

sneak up on folks.

(CHUCKLES)

Oh, sorry.

Come in out of the cold,

at least.

It's pissing rain outside.

So, what's the deal?

You moping?

I don't know.

Well, I ain't gonna

yank it out of you.

Didn't wanna come with,

at first.

Mmm-hmm.

And now

you're glad you did?

(SIGHS)

Well, it makes me

miss my dad.

(SCOFFS)

Sh*t, kid.

You know, dads ain't always

all they're cracked up to be.

Yesterday don't mean jack.

What's that you got there?

Oh, somebody told me

I was supposed

to give this to you.

Who? Someone from the ranch?

Uh, yeah, maybe.

I haven't seen him before.

Look, uh...

Get inside.

Head off to bed.

Okay.

And don't talk to no one else

you don't know.

(GASPS)

(HEAVY BREATHING)

F***!

(CELL PHONE DIALING)

(LINE RINGING)

(MAN SPEAKING SPANISH

ON PHONE)

Put your boss

on the phone, slick.

I got his bones.

You heard what I said?

I'm tired of talking

to the f***ing help.

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