Winter's Bone Page #3

- Okay.

- [Gail] Ree.

Hang in.

Hey.

We're back here. Put this down.

Both of you sit on your hands.

Don't touch it.

- Hey.

- Hey.

Damn, Sweet Pea.

What's with all the guns?

Just teaching them a little bit of survival.

Hi.

[Ned coos]

Got the truck off him.

You are who I always did

think you were, darlin'.

You truly are.

[Ned coos]

Now, you gotta turn it this way.

Backwards?

Yeah. Give me that.

Does your mama know what's going on?

l'm not sure.

You think you should tell her?

This is the exact sh*t

she went crazy trying to get away from.

It'd be too mean to tell her.

I guess she couldn't help anyhow.

Nope.

[bluegrass]

[Woman]

I look on that valley far below

It's green as far as I can see

As my memories return

Oh, how my heart does yearn

For you and the days that used to be

High on the mountain

Wind blowing free

I wonder if you still remember me

Play it through.

I wonder if you still remember me

- Or has time erased your memory?

- [knocking continues]

As I listen to the breeze

Whisper gently through the trees

I wonder if you still remember me

Say.

[chattering, laughing]

Come on in.

lt's Ma's birthday.

Happy Birthday.

[woman resumes]

Y'all want anything?

Something to drink, food?

l'm hunting for Dad.

I was guessing that.

Stars on a summer morning

Come on now.

First appear

And then they're gone

Wish I was

A little sparrow

And I had wings

And I could fly

I'd fly straight away

You know me and Jessup

quit keeping company

a good while ago.

l figured.

l thought you might still

know a thing or two.

l'm kind of afraid l might.

I wish I could kick back for this one, Ree.

You still bad on the bottle?

No. No, I give that up.

A couple months ago,

Jessup and me run across

each other by total accident.

He got me to laughing so.

Things rekindled for a day or two.

Then he was gone again.

About, maybe, three or four weeks back,

l'd stopped at Cruikshank's,

and he was in there with

three fellows I didn't know,

and they didn't look

to be having no fun, either.

Did Dad say anything?

He looked square at me

but acted like he didn't know me,

like he'd never seen me before.

Something real wrong was going on.

l'm sorry.

If you stay really still and quiet--

[sneezes]

...it'll come out. Bless you.

[Sonny]

How long do we have to wait for a squirrel?

[Ree]

A long time, usually.

Wish we could get deer.

[Ree]

lt's not time for deer.

When is it?

ln the morning or at night.

You know that.

[whispers]

Do you see one?

- Mmm.

- I do.

Where?

There.

Ah.

You want to help me pull the trigger?

All right, put your finger right there.

All right, you guys want

these fried or stewed?

- Fried.

- Fried.

Fried?

All right.

- Hey.

- [Gail] Hey.

All right.

Now, get your fingers in there.

l'll get mine in.

1 , 2, 3.

Pull. Pull hard.

Now, l'm just gonna slit it down here.

Now, get in there

and get them guts out.

l don't want to.

Sonny, there's a bunch of stuff

that you're gonna have to get over

being scared of.

l'm not scared. l just don't want to.

Come on.

Put your fingers in there.

Good.

Do we eat these parts?

Not yet.

[motor rattling]

[motor stops]

- You think I forgot about you?

- What do you mean?

Forgot about you and everything

happening over here?

That's your business.

You forget us if you want.

The law found Jessup's car

at Gullet Lake this morning.

Somebody set fire to it last night,

burnt it down to nothing almost.

He wasn't in it.

He's gone, ain't he?

This is for you all.

[paper rustles]

His court day was this morning.

He didn't show.

I'd sell off your timber land

now while you can.

No, uh-uh.

We won't be doin' nothin' like that.

That's the very first thing they'll do.

Once they've took this place

from under you all, girl,

go out and cut them

hundred-year woods down to nubs.

Might as well have the dough

to spend on your own.

Hm?

[object rustling]

[keys jingle]

[sniffs]

You get the taste for it yet?

Not so far.

Suit yourself, little girl.

Them pills helping

your mama's mood any?

She keeps takin' them,

but they ain't working.

Tell her hey.

[sniffs]

Mom, look at me.

There's things happening,

and I don't know what to do.

Can you please help me this one time?

Mom?

Mom, look at me.

Teardrop thinks

I should sell the woods, Mom.

Should I sell?

Please, help me this one time.

l don't know what to do.

[Ree]

Who the hell is he?

[Gail]

Judging by that car, he ain't

from our neck of the woods.

Mike Satterfield, A-1 Bonds.

What is it you want?

We hold the bond on Jessup Dolly,

and now he's a runner, it looks like.

Dad ain't no runner.

He didn't show for court.

That makes him a runner.

Will you excuse us, please?

Go on.

Look, I don't want to kick

your dad's ass, all right?

I just want to keep the judge off mine.

Dad is dead.

He didn't show for court

'cause he's lying dead somewhere.

When was the last time you saw him?

A couple of weeks.

Who's he running around with?

Where they all hanging out?

He doesn't tell me that stuff, sir.

You know I got the legal right

to go in there hunting the man

any place l want.

I know you'd be wasting your time

and pissing me off.

Jessup Dolly is dead.

He's lying in a crappy grave somewhere

or become piles of sh*t in a hog pen.

Maybe he's been left out plain in the open.

Wherever he is, he's there dead.

And you know this how?

You must've heard what Dollys are,

ain't you, mister?

Well, I've heard what some are anyhow,

and I have bonded a few.

I'm a Dolly, bred and buttered,

and that's how l know Dad's dead.

How old are you?

1 7.

You know, uh, your daddy

was short on his bond.

This house and stuff here

couldn't cover it, not nearly.

D'you know that?

I didn't know nothin'.

They told me everything after.

Well, he was short on his bond,

but then this fella comes

in the office one evening,

got him a sack full of crinkled money

and just laid it down right there,

covered the rest.

Seemed like somebody

needed him sprung in a hurry.

This fella with the money have a name?

Sh*t, no.

Probably left that in his other pants.

How long before we get

kicked off our own property?

l reckon--

l reckon you all got this place

about another week.

That's my guess.

A week?

And there ain't nothing l can do?

Nope.

Ain't nothing left to do...

unless you can prove he's dead.

Catfish, Blond, you boys

staying out of trouble?

[man auctioneering]

[yells]

[barks]

[muttering]

[all mooing]

Thump Milton!

I need to talk to you!

Thump Milton.

Thump Milton!

Thump!

[moos]

[thunder rumbles]

[dogs barking]

[screams]

[Merab]

I told you to leave him be.

[grunting]

- [yells]

- [Merab] Get her, Alice.

No, you don't.

[screams]

[Merab]

That's what you get for not listening to me.

- [thud]

- [Ree screams]

[muffled screaming]

[thunder rumbles]

You was warned.

You was warned nice,

and you wouldn't listen.

Why didn't you listen?

What are we ever going to do

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