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on the Enumclaw Plateau.

It's a beautiful area, as you can see.

There are a lot of farms, a lot of people

that love to have animals on these farms,

and a great place to raise children.

I could never believe that an animal

would do this on their own.

We don't allow adults

to abuse children sexually.

Children cannot consent.

Children are innocent, and so are animals.

They cannot consent, and they're innocent.

Mrs. Edwards.

Ready to rescue those horses?

Happy Horseman:

This is a nice little town.

It's not the big city.

You don't have to deal with

the hustle, the bustle, and the crime rate.

Mostly you see in the paper,

somebody's trashcan gets knocked over,

or the drunk next-door neighbour comes over

and pissing on their tires.

It was not a town

that had a whole lot going on in it.

It was quiet.

There was a couple

Chinese food restaurants.

There was a Mexican food restaurant

we'd go to quite a bit.

Quite a few different places to go eat at.

You know,

we're not isolated out there.

We liked the rural setting

but you're not, you know,

dropped in the

middle of nowhere.

[ Music plays ]

H:

Him and his ex-wife got along really well.

He talked to her

on the phone all the time.

She seemed like a nice girl.

Since the divorce, they had gotten

to be best of friends.

They were still friends

up until the day he died.

Happy Horseman:

The type of work he did was basically top secret.

H:

I knew what he did.

I knew exactly what he did

and how he went about doing it,

but... It was just

something that we'd discuss

that was never to be talked about.

Happy Horseman:

I think at one time he was very conservative.

After a while things started changing.

Things started opening

up in front of him.

He was going, "you know,

this really doesn't seem right to me.

Something about this

just is... Kind of wrong."

[ Music plays ]

H:

I had a, uh, apple tree...

Fir tree and a weeping willow.

And otherwise

it was all open pasture, all open field.

Happy Horseman:

Occasionally, there'd be some discussion

on some constitutional issues

of basic freedoms

being usurped by certain political parties

who thought that they needed

to control the morality of the world,

and they didn't care

exactly how they got to do it.

[ Music plays ]

H:

When it'd come to work, he was all business.

When he'd come out to the farm,

he was a completely different person.

He'd be relaxed.

He was comfortable.

[ Music plays ]

Jenny:

They were here during that time

for the son to visit his father.

Woman:
[ On P.A. ]

Flight number 324 to Seattle will be leaving gate 26A...

Jenny:

You know, here they had come all this way

to have this sort of

normal family vacation.

About halfway through their vacation...

The death happened.

H:

I called him at work

and I said, "are you

going to come out tonight?"

He goes, "no, but I'll

be out next weekend".

I said, "oh, no, you

gotta come out tonight.

There's somebody

here that wants to meet you."

And we argued a little bit over the phone,

and I finally got him to come out.

Well, that was my downfall.

Just irritates me thinking about it.

Turn this thing off... Please.

[ Music plays ]

Happy Horseman:

You're connecting with another intelligent being

who is very happy to...

Participate, be involved.

[ Music plays ]

You're not going to be able

to ask it about the latest Madonna album.

It has no idea what Tolstoy is, or Keats.

You can't discuss the difference

between Monet and Picasso.

It just doesn't exist for their world.

It's a simpler, very plain world.

And for those few moments,

you kind of can get disconnected.

[ Music plays ]

It's a very intense,

wonderful kind of feeling.

I don't think anything

really can kind of compare to it.

There's no pain.

[ Music plays ]

At no time, in any way, shape or form,

has anybody forced,

coerced, drugs, ropes, whatever.

There's no bondage

or anything like that involved in any of this,

Because these are...

These are your friends.

[ Music plays ]

[ Door hinges squeaking ]

[ Door slams shut ]

[ Music plays ]

I had...

Submitted a...

Query regarding another role,

uh, which I didn't get and...

After that, I forgot all about it.

And then about two months later,

I received a e-mail

letting me know that the director had...

Saved my pictures

that I had submitted

and was interested in meeting with me

for the role of cop #1

for a movie, and that's all I knew.

[ Chuckling ]

I met with Rob the next day, and, uh,

I was frantically looking for a place to park,

and I was real...

I was becoming later and later

and I was stressed out, and finally...

I just parked in a,

um, a loading zone,

and I ran down to the...

To where I was supposed to meet Rob, and...

And just let him know.

And he said, "well, um...

[ Clears throat ]

Just go back to your car

and I'll meet you over there."

So I went over there

and stood by my car,

and we started chatting about...

About the movie.

And at that time,

he told me what the

movie was about and...

You know, I was...

It didn't faze me because...

I have, um...

I've seen the best of humanity

and I've also seen

the darkest parts of humanity.

The summer prior to this incident,

I was in a softball

tournament in Enumclaw,

and I had a...

A guy on the opposing team

injured himself in the outfield,

and I actually helped him onto the stretcher

that took him to the very same hospital

where this man died.

And, you know,

that hits kind of close to home.

The cold, harsh, brutal reality

is a man bled to death, okay?

And as I researched my role

and revisited some articles that

I had read a year prior,

and also some new information,

you know, I...

I thought about...

I thought about what was going

through this man's mind

as he was bleeding to death.

And how did he find himself

in this place at this time?

And, uh...

You know, I had the experience

of holding a corpse in my hands

that was a few minutes before

a seven-year-old boy

that had drowned in a swimming pool,

and his last breath was...

Frozen in time on his face.

And his... His eyes were fixed,

and I could see

right down into his mouth,

and it was ghostly white, and it...

At that moment, when I was staring

into those empty eyes

and looking into

the depths of death,

all's I saw was

my own reflection.

And... To be there

at that moment in time,

during that tragedy,

[ Sighing ]

for a little boy that could not be revived,

and ended up dying on Mother's Day,

you know, that...

That's embossed in my heart.

And... And it's... It...

When someone dies, it's...

It's something that I...

I take to heart

because there's nothing trivial about it.

There's people that...

That love that individual,

and they will never see them again.

And that's a tragedy.

[ Helicopter whirring ]

Happy Horseman:

We knew it was going to happen.

But we didn't know when.

[ Music plays ]

H:

The media pushed this thing

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