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So I just turned on

my internal camera, my head cam.

What does that look like?

And what's this barn look like?

And what's this area look like?

He just kept saying, "I'm all torn up over this.

I'm just all torn up over this".

And it was just so not real.

And then he pointed to the ceiling

and there was a kind of a rope thing

with a small noose-looking thing

at the end of this rope,

and he said this is

where he would work the horse.

And I thought, "Whoa.

What do you mean...

'Work a horse'?"

H:

That rope is a training tool.

They're called a high tie.

And what he'd do is

he'd tie the horse's lead rope to that.

And the horse could go around in the pen,

but he couldn't get out.

He was teaching himself how to ride.

Jenny:

Stallions can be very dangerous.

We didn't know what

his interaction had been with humans.

I just spoke quietly to him.

I probably said things like...

"Oh, you're a pretty boy.

It's a beautiful day."

H:

Well, my impression of Jenny is that, uh...

She doesn't know her ass from a hole

in the ground when it comes to a horse.

Period.

She comes across

as being a person

that knows everything

there is about horses,

but to me, she doesn't

know anything about them at all.

[ Horse snorting ]

Even her husband doesn't know

how to handle a horse.

[ Horse whinnying ]

Jenny:

I didn't realize until we got there

that he'd owned two horses.

So I started asking questions

about the other horse.

"What's the status of Strut?"

And he said, "well, I own that horse.

He gave that horse to me".

And I said, "well, show me

your bill of sale".

And he goes, "well, I don't have that".

And I said, "well,

you need a bill of sale".

And then about that time,

this guy shows up in a little truck.

H:

The person that bought Strut is a friend of mine.

And there was a bill of sale

and everything was there.

I don't think if, uh...

Even if I didn't have the paperwork,

I was going to let her take that horse.

Jenny:

But then a weird thing happened.

This little mini

came up and got up under

and started giving

the stallion a blow job.

It was the strangest thing I've ever seen.

Ever.

[ Music plays ]

Happy Horseman:

I didn't get home until much, much later that evening

and hadn't really paid too much

attention to Mr. Hands.

We did acknowledge

each other's existence.

H:

I had to leave. My boss was out of town

and I was taking care

of his horses at his place.

It was around

10:
00, 11:00 o'clock,

and usually I feed them at 8:00 o'clock.

I went over there ; I'd been drinking.

But I was hungry,

so I ate something.

Well, that was my downfall,

because as soon as I eat, I just pass out.

Happy Horseman:

Something bad happened out there.

I don't think Mr. Hands

knew this particular animal very much.

And I don't think the gentleman

that was with him

was really attuned

to that animal, as well.

It wasn't until around

5:
15, 5:20 in the morning

that he made the announcement

that he needed to go to the hospital right away.

If I had just the slightest inclination

that something was wrong,

he would have ended up in

the hospital immediately.

H:

He could have been out in the barn with his horse.

He could have been out

there with my horse.

I'm not saying he was,

I'm not saying he wasn't.

Like I said, I was not there.

Happy Horseman:

"Please don't let this happen."

And then I noticed that his lips

were changing colour.

Woman:

Sir?

- [ car door opens ]

- Sir!

I'm not getting a pulse. Code!

H:

You need to go out in the pasture with a bunch of horses.

They're going to come to you.

They're going

to see who you are.

Then see what they do to you.

Mr. Hands:
[ Whispering ]

I can't think about it anymore.

H:

That's what you need to do.

Mr. Hands:
[ Whispering ]

...In the "C" direction multiplied by the exponent,

the irrational number that constant can...

[ Shouting ]

Now it's good news!

[ Whispering ]

Multiplied by "C" minus the tangent.

[ Whinnying ]

I can't just stop working. I mean...

God. And I can't do it. I cannot...

The mean is predicted to have elliptical

Gaussian pattern diffracted...

H:

I know another guy that used to work at the Black Hole...

Woman:
[ On two-way radio ]

Does he have any identification?

H:

The same place that Mr. Hands did.

He had made a ripple...

So they fired him.

Mr. Hands, he was building antennas.

He told me all about this one he just did

and how it worked really well.

And they were really proud

of him at the company.

He was liking that.

But I think what really he wanted to do

was get away from that.

He wanted to be a farmer.

He wanted to be like me.

[ Monitors beeping ]

[ Music plays ]

[ Rapid beeping ]

[ Flatline beep ]

[ Fire crackling ]

H:

Mount Rainier is actually a beautiful mountain.

There's a picture

of a deer head on the side.

There's the throat and the horns.

Once I found it,

I couldn't see Mount Rainier for years.

All I could see was that deer head.

It took me a long time to look

around that deer head

to see Mount Rainier again.

Jenny:

I know he really loved his brother.

I think that's why he kept

talking about it and talking about it.

He told me a lot about the things that

they found in the apartment.

He was really

mulling it over in his mind.

And he actually found...

A cast of Strut's penis.

Man:
[ on radio ]

All right, we did a lot of research,

we got a lot of phone calls.

We pulled together

a lot of information.

And here is what we have:

we have an employee, now deceased,

who worked at

Boeing Corporation, Named K...

[ Music plays ]

Happy Horseman:

There was nothing

that they could really screw

this down with.

They will just

basically defame you into oblivion.

Your names will be posted

all over the place.

H:

My secret is out now.

Everybody in the world

knows what I did.

I was evil.

I was evil because I...

I had a love for my animals more

than most people do.

"Go away.

We don't want anything to do with you.

Just get out of our sight."

I wanted just to walk away from it

and leave the past in the past.

Because I had it made.

I had the job of a lifetime.

At 50, it's hard to start over again.

I studied Buddhism

for about three years.

It's been around a hell

of a lot longer than God was ever around.

I still chant to this day.

So I got my beads out

and my book out.

You can wish it away...

But you have to concentrate.

I still want to do the farm life.

That's going to be me again.

Happy Horseman:

The sex was just a small component of it.

And by standing there talking to them,

in a way you're kind of connecting to them,

going... "I'm talking to you

on the same level

that you're kind of staring at me,

mammal to mammal."

Coyote:

If I sat down and tried to talk to Mr. Hands' family,

I'd find that rather difficult to do.

I can't even fathom what kind of hurt

that they're feeling

over the whole thing.

H:

I do miss him.

A lot.

[ Music plays ]

Jenny:

We didn't want anybody showing up here

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