EXT. BUCK FARM- NIGHT
Dark pasture bright stars silence.
Randy Spark (17 years old) - extremely tall, corn fed with an unusually large head. He is naked, wearing only a pair of night vision goggles.
RANDY SPARK
Come here and give me a kiss.
Approaches cow.
RANDY SPARK
No one here wants to make out. I swear to God somebody slapped me on the ass.
Holding two black pistols.
RANDY SPARK
Look at the north star.
Cow defecating.
RANDY SPARK
It’s beautiful.
He flips down the night vision goggles.
RANDY SPARK
Big Mike told me to do this so nothing personal.
Cow’s tail slaps his face.
RANDY SPARK
How rude.
Randy glances across a field of cattle.
RANDY SPARK
Unfortunately, your going to have to jump over the moon. Tonight I’m little boy blue.
Muffled shots. Cows flopping.
RANDY SPARK
See, just like going to sleep.
Killing cow after cow with head shots.
RANDY SPARK
Burgers on me.
Lifting guns shoulder level.
RANDY SPARK
This has got to be the time of my life.
Holds down the triggers and spins.
RANDY SPARK
That was fun.
Both clips drop.
RANDY SPARK
Don’t leave we were just having fun.
The remaining wounded cows scream.
RANDY SPARK
Shut up! Your just faking it!
The stock car burns rubber and tail pipes blow out blue flames.
EXT. BUCK CEMETERY- DAYBREAK
Big Mike (42 years old) - is standing six foot two over the grave of Mr. Daryl H. Buck.
BIG MIKE
You were one dumb son of a bitch.
He takes off a ten gallon hat.
BIG MIKE
You thought you could steal my own flesh and blood.
Big Mike props his foot on the tombstone.
BIG MIKE
I’m not finished. My revenge has only just begun. Your daughter, that cop you hired to protect her and your home it’s all gone and that ain’t going to change. I’m getting richer off your land which, is another plus for me. What else is new.
Dabs sweat off his head.
BIG MIKE
I got alot of plans for this spread of land. Think I’ll open a whore house with stripper poles. I’ll call it Diablo Cody. Name it after your daughter.
Big Mike spits on the grave.
BIG MIKE
She’s going to be blowing fire off the devils dick in hell when I’m done with our little honey suckle. You know, sometimes your own flesh and blood just shames you so much that you can't forgive them. Don’t worry about our daughter. I promise she’ll get plenty of love and attention.
Big mike lights up a meth pipe.
BIG MIKE
Let’s see we’ll build a racetrack over your house, a strip club over that peach tree in the yard.
Big Mike snickers to himself.
BIG MIKE
I have something good in store for this cemetery. We can put the strip club over that tree and run the pipe for shitters out to your remains. I’ll place the septic tank right here between you and your wife.
He takes his foot off the grave.
BIG MIKE
A race track and a strip club. Life just keeps getting better everyday and you, just keep staying dead.
Big Mike spits on the tombstone as he talks.
BIG MIKE
It’s a beautiful place. Sure glad I won it fair and square.
Sheriff Griss (thirty eight) - has greasy long grey hair and dark circles under his eyes.
SHERIFF GRISS
Shit.
He climbs down from a bulldozer.
SHERIFF GRISS
Bull doze this right here?
BIG MIKE
The house.
SHERIFF GRISS
What about the graveyard?...
Big Mike glances up at sheriff Griss.
BIG MIKE
All of it. Do the house first.
SHERIFF GRISS
Ok.
Looks down at the grave.
SHERIFF GRISS
If ghosts are real they’ll come back and fuck us up!
Chuckles.
BIG MIKE
Don’t worry, me and Daryl here used to be,
Looks sad.
BIG MIKE
Well lets just say there was a point when we where best friends. Hell, he let me fuck his wife after he died. How did you die Daryl. Oh, that’s right I killed you.
Big Mike kicks the tombstone over.
SHERIFF GRISS
Having fun?
BIG MIKE
A little.
Silence. A hawk screams.
SHERIFF GRISS
What the hell?
Big Mike points his pistol at the sky.
BIG MIKE
We are going to flatten it all. It’s going to be nothing but dirt.
SHERIFF GRISS
You hear that Buck?
Big Mike looks down at the grave.
BIG MIKE
What do we have here.
Cups his ear.
BIG MIKE
Well look at that.
SHERIFF GRISS
A little birdie.
Baby bird chirping beside a tombstone.
BIG MIKE
Birdie.
Picks it up.
BIG MIKE
Oh, we are about to learn how to fly.
The two smile.
BIG MIKE
Well shit, let me help you.
Big Mike is walking to a bridge.
BIG MIKE
Swim away.
Throws the bird into a stream.
BIG MIKE
Swim!
A hawk swoops over Big Mike’s head.
SHERIFF GRISS
Watch out!
Bird is grabbed by the Hawk.
BIG MIKE
Shit!
Several shots echo.
BIG MIKE
Did I get it?
Hawk dips into the woods.
SHERIFF GRISS
I think you winged it.
Big Mike turns around and walks to the grave yard.
BIG MIKE
It dropped like a fly.
SHERIFF GRISS
Are you going to finish it off?
BIG MIKE
You think I give a shit?
Sheriff Griss waddles back to the bulldozer.
BIG MIKE
Doze that house so we can leave. We’ll finish off the cemetery tomorrow.
Big Mike unzips his pants.
BIG MIKE
Yep. You got to love it.
Golden arch wets down the tombstone.
BIG MIKE
God this feels good to see your uppity ass beneath me. While I’m wetting down your stone.
Sheriff Griss starts up the bulldozer.
BIG MIKE
You never thought you could go from watering my seed to laying under my piss.
Violently urinate.
BIG MIKE
Hell, I’m not going to dig you up. That would be disrespectful. No,
Looks around the small Cemetery.
BIG MIKE
I think this is where I’m going to put the shit tank. We will get one that holds about forty five hundred gallons of brown butter, I’ll never drain it. I’m just going to let it overflow until this cemetery is soaked in stripper crap.
He zips up his pants.
BIG MIKE
Looks like a good place to put a shit tank. I’ll lay the septic tank between you and your wife. That way yall can be next to the crap you raised and the shit you brought on you.
Big Mike hocks.
BIG MIKE
Glad we had this conversation.
Spits then lights a smoke.
INT. THE BUCK MANOR- NIGHT 16 YEARS EARLIER
A heavy fog is vacuumed in the front door like a black hole.
SHELLY BUCK
Burrr! The weatherman said it’s going to snow all night.
Daryl Buck shakes the water beads from his broad shoulders.
MR. DARYL H. BUCK
It’s just getting colder by the minute out there. This vent does not want to...
Reaching into the chimney.
SHELLY BUCK
Don’t hurt your back. We don’t need a fire that bad.
Loud snap of metal on metal.
DARYL H. BUCK
Got it!
A nest of baby birds fall in the ash.
SHELLY BUCK
Honey look!
Baby Birds stretch their necks and cheap.
DARYL BUCK
Don’t touch them. We have to figure out a way to get them back to the mother.
Mrs. Buck leans toward the birds.
SHELLY BUCK
Grab the nest before something falls in it.
A black bird flies down the chimney.
SHELLY BUCK
No!
DARYL BUCK
Duck!
Bird zooms straight for the living room window.
DARYL H. BUCK
The mother won’t take them back now.
Bird twitching on the floor.
SHELLY BUCK
Daryl! Please put the bird in a shoe box it may come back to life.
DARYL H. BUCK
Oh, honey it’s dead that thing broke its neck on the glass.
SHELLY BUCK
It’s foot is moving.
DARYL H. BUCK
That’s just it’s nerves.
Shelly is crying.
SHELLY BUCK
These birds can stay in the shed tonight. Tomorrow I will put them out on the window ledge to see if the mother to returns to them.
DARYL H. BUCK
I’m going to pick up more wood.
SHELLY BUCK
It’s getting worse be careful.
Daryl Turns back to look at his wife.
DARYL H. BUCK
Make some hot coco and I’ll be back when it’s ready.
EXT. BUCK FARM- NIGHT
Mr. Buck’s truck stops beside a fallen tree. He begins to pick up pieces of wood and pile it in the bed of his truck.
DARYL H. BUCK
That ought to last the night.
Moan in the dark.
DARYL H. BUCK
What was that?
Daryl points a flashlight into the blinding fog.
DARYL H. BUCK
That’s strange.
A voice echoes louder.
DARYL H. BUCK
Hello.
Daryl Buck walks through the fog toward a moaning sound.
DARYL H. BUCK
Oh God!
He approaches a car flipped upside down. A woman is pinned under it.
DARYL H. BUCK
Are you alright?
Bleeding severely and breathing heavy.
INJURED WOMAN
Help.
Holding her stomach as she moans in agony.
INJURED WOMAN
My baby.
The woman appears to be holding a baby in her arms.
DARYL H. BUCK
I’m taking your baby to the hospital now, you just hold on!
Takes off his jacket placing it over the young lady.
DARYL H. BUCK
Just hold on. I am going to get you a doctor.
INJURED WOMAN
No, I’m already dead. Take the baby!
She grabs Mr. Buck’s sleeve.
INJURED WOMAN
Save her!
Scream.
Head slouches over.
INT. BUCK MANOR- NIGHT
Mr. Buck walks from the bedroom.
SHELLY BUCK
I was getting ready to call a search party for you.
DARYL H. BUCK
We have to go to the hospital.
She notices blood on his jacket.
SHELLY BUCK
Are you alright?
She notices the baby in his arms.
SHELLY BUCK
Why do you have a baby?
Mrs. Buck in shock.
DARYL BUCK
She’s dead. The woman that gave birth. She stopped breathing.
Mr. Buck turns, an infant is under his coat.
SHELLY BUCK
Oh my God.
DARYL BUCK
Get a bottle with warm milk for the child. I am going call the sheriff.
Mr. Buck hands the baby over to his wife.
DARYL BUCK
I’m calling Russel there dead woman down the road.
She looks down at the crying child in her arms.
EXT. BUCK MANOR- NEXT DAY
The Buck’s a sheriff Russel (65 years old) - and his deputy (Griss 25 years old) - stand outside the steps of the Buck’s home.
DARYL H. BUCK
Any word on the mother?
Mrs. Buck is holding the baby in her hands.
SHERIFF
Well we are going to find out who this woman was and the baby will be at the hospital until someone claims it.
DARYL H. BUCK
No one claims the mother. She has no family.
OFFICER
Not yet. Deputy Griss is running the check on the plates.
Deputy Griss (22 years old) - looks at them from beside the car. Mrs.
SHELLY BUCK
That child does not need to be alone.
SHERIFF
There will be nurses at the
Daryl continues to cry as her husband holds her.
SHELLY BUCK
That poor child has to have some family.
OFFICER
Well, we are going to find out who she is and ran with then go from there.
Mrs. Buck gently hands the officer the baby.
SHELLY BUCK
Please let us know what we can do for this child.
OFFICER
Will do mam.
INT. BUCK KITCHEN- NIGHT
The Buck’s are sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast
DARYL H. BUCK
These biscuits a damn good honey.
Phone rings.
DARYL H. BUCK
I’ll get it.
Places the morning paper down and walks to the phone.
DARYL H. BUCK
Hello.
Mrs. Buck looks at the phone as if it were for her.
V.O. OFFICER
Well the parents of that pregnant woman are dead and the closet relative to her says she wants nothing to do with the funeral. We believe the father of that child is in jail for a methamphetamine charge. We are probably going to put the child in foster care.
Mrs. Buck waits nervously by the kitchen window then looks out.
DARYL H. BUCK
Really. Yeah sure we will be there.
Mr. Buck hangs up the phone and slowly.
SHELLY BUCK
Is the child alright.
Mr. Buck walks over to his wife’s side.
DARYL H. BUCK
The girl had no close relatives and the father has been arrested in connection with a robbery. The child is going to be placed up for adoption. I’ve always wanted a child and I think you would be a great mother. This is our opportunity to be good parents to a little girl that needs a family.
He adores her face.
DARYL H. BUCK
Can you think of a name?
She smiles and embraces her husband.
EXT. PRISON GATE- DAY SIXTEEN YEARS LATER
Fumes ripple across road.
SHERIFF GRISS
Out the way mother fuckers!
The Sheriff slams on brakes by prison gates.
SHERIFF GRISS
Broham!
Big Mike walks out the Gates.
SHERIFF GRISS
Free man!
They hug then jump in the Sheriff car.
INT. SHERIFF CAR- DAY
Griss flips on the lights and hits the gas.
BIG MIKE
Have you arranged a way for me to see her yet.
He attaches the box to his neck.
SHERIFF GRISS
Yea! I figured we could just roll up to school after it lets out.
BIG MIKE
A little out in the open.
SHERIFF GRISS
Na. Kids respect authority.
Sheriff Griss lights up Big Mike’s smoke.
SHERIFF GRISS
It’s yours. I got it for you.
Big Mike looks at the zippo and his names is engraved on it.
SHERIFF GRISS
I’m ready to get tore up with you bro. Hell, sixteen years of sobriety would kill a whiskey drinking rebel like me.
Sheriff Griss laughs with rotted brown teeth.
BIG MIKE
Well, I reckon I have a few things to take care of then we can get to the celebration. First things first I want to see my daughter.
Sheriff Griss lights the cigarette.
SHERIFF GRISS
She’s got a boyfriend and he’s one huge son of a bitch. They say he’s going to have the school record in bench press. You got the pictures I sent you Right?
Big Mike holds up the picture of his daughter then kisses it.
BIG MIKE
Well, my little girl likes them big.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- DAY
Sheriff Griss pulls up to a large house in the woods.
SHERIFF GRISS
The Casa.
A topless woman is floating on a swimming pool.
BIG MIKE
Looks sweet.
Big Mike opens the door and is quickly followed by his brother.
SHERIFF GRISS
Welcome Home.
BIG MIKE
Got any Jack Daniels.
Sheriff Griss is overlooking the pool in the backyard.
SHERIFF GRISS
You know I got that brother
He pours Big Mike a drink.
BIG MIKE
I like what you have done with the place.
Turns on a large television.
BIG MIKE
The business must be doing well.
SHERIFF GRISS
Let’s just say the business has changed since you left.
BIG MIKE
How so? How did you get here?
SHERIFF GRISS
We brother. This is your house too. You proved your loyalty to me. I’ll never forget that. As far as now I got it.
Looks onto the pool.
SHERIFF GRISS
Water under the bridge. Half the busts I make in this county is just eliminating the competition. See people are going to do drugs whether it’s legal or not. I figured after you got locked up I might as well start making some money.
Sheriff Griss lifts his drink to give Big Mike toast.
SHERIFF GRISS
We are distributing more crystals. Ice. That’s were the majority of our wealth has come from. People just keep wanting more and more. This new shit we are cooking up has the people feeling lovely and awake for days.
Griss hands off the drink then opens a small drug bag.
SHERIFF GRISS
Toot this up your nostril and tell me what you think.
Big Mike snorts meth off his pinky nail.
SHERIFF GRISS
What do you think?
SNORT.
BIG MIKE
Good cook.
SHERIFF GRISS
Special recipe.
BIG MIKE
Better when you smoke it. Of course you know that.
SHERIFF GRISS
I got a nice bubbler but, we are saving the train for later. This is just a warm up.
BIG MIKE
I have to admit this shit is good.
Smiling.
SHERIFF GRISS
We got two pounds out that trailer down at the bottom of the hill.
Randy walks in.
BIG MIKE
Look what the cat drug in.
SHERIFF GRISS
I found this one in a trash can. Nobody ever claimed him so I finally did.
Randy expressionless.
SHERIFF GRISS
Left for dead now look at him. Don’t be shy Randy. This is your Uncle Mike.
Randy and Big Mike shake hands.
BIG MIKE
Hello.
SHERIFF GRISS
He is quite but, probably my best driver. You like to race don’t you Randy?
Randy nods.
BIG MIKE
You mentioned him in a letter. That really helped the time go by.
BIG MIKE
I hear you are one hell of a driver boy.
SHERIFF GRISS
He is getting ready to take on Jeremy Buck and some top notch drivers at Thunder Mountain.
BIG MIKE
Maybe we should visit the Buck’s tomorrow.
SHERIFF GRISS
A restraining order floated over my desk the other day. I was for you. The Bucks won’t let you fifty feet from Cody.
BIG MIKE
Guess they didn't get my memo.
SHERIFF GRISS
Which one was that?
BIG MIKE
The birth certificate that proves she is my daughter.
Chuckling.
SHERIFF GRISS
She’s got your eyes and your nose.
BIG MIKE
I want to hear her voice.
SHERIFF GRISS
In time. More whiskey?
The two drink whiskey.
SHERIFF GRISS
After you took the wrap shit changed. I know I said this but, I owe you. It would have been me sitting in that chair for sixteen years.
Big Mike lights a cigarette.
BIG MIKE
No problem.
Girls floating topless in the pool.
BIG MIKE
It’s nice to come home to a view.
SHERIFF GRISS
They are strippers and my best customers. The business has branched out since you’ve been locked up. Pills come from Houston and the weed comes from California. We hulled out a trailer house at the bottom of this hill. Under them trees is were we cook.
Sheriff looks at watch.
SHERIFF GRISS
It’s almost three fifteen. Cody should be getting out of school in about ten minutes. Let’s see if she remembers her daddy.
Big Mike touches his shoulder.
BIG MIKE
I feel like she’ll know me when she sees me.
EXT. GUN BARREL HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT- 3:15
Sheriff Griss and Big Mike pull up to Gun Barrel High school.
BIG MIKE
This brings back some memorials of the past.
Rush of high school students running to their cars.
SHERIFF GRISS
Smell that virgin pussy. I just want to make it bleed. ROOF! ROOF! HOWl!
Young girl catching Mike’s eye.
BIG MIKE
It’s her.
She hops in a truck.
SHERIFF GRISS
That’s Cody.
BIG MIKE
She looks just like her mother. Who is she riding with?
SHERIFF GRISS
His name is Eroc King. His father works on stock cars at Thunder Mountain.
BIG MIKE
Pull up to him.
Sheriff’s car sweeps in beside Eroc’s truck.
EROC
What the hell?
Big Mike’s door swings open before the car stops.
BIG MIKE
Cody! Cody!
Eroc stops his truck as Big Mike walks up to his window.
BIG MIKE
Cody I know you don’t know me but, I’m your father. Your father as you know him just found your mother in a car beside the road. He helped her give birth to you then she died.
Cody furls her brow and squints her eyes at the soft spoken man.
CODY
It’s true baby girl your adopted and I’m your biological father.
EROC
Get lost you fucking creep.
Eroc peels out leaving Big Mike in the tire smoke.
INT. EROC’S TRUCK- DAY
Cody and Eroc sit in silence as he drives away from the High School.
EROC
What the hell was that?
EROC
Fucking weirdo.
CODY BUCK
There was something familiar about his face.
EROC
Why was that guy with a cop? Do you think your family is just trying to play some kind of prank on you?
CODY BUCK
I don’t know but, I better get home.
EROC
Come on Cody you can’t actually be taking this guy serious. I thought we were going to the pass.
Eroc touches her thigh.
CODY
Take me home?
EROC
Are you sure?
CODY
Please.
Big Mike gets in the Sheriff Car.
INT. SHERIFF GRISS’S CAR- DAY
Big Mike inhales a cigarette.
BIG MIKE
I want to know more about this Eroc kid.
Sheriff Griss turns the wheel.
SHERIFF GRISS
She didn't give you no love?
Car slowly pulls out of the high school parking lot.
SHERIFF GRISS
You know his father? Banty King.
BIG MIKE
Used to go on hunting trips with him. He was friends with my father. Well, it’s a small world after all. I guess his crippled ass could have a kid.
SHERIFF GRISS
His wife was a looney bitch that killed herself.
Sheriff slows down beside an automotive store.
EXT. KING AUTOMOTIVE- TWILIGHT
SHERIFF GRISS
That is his father’s shop.
Hand painted sign reads King automotive.
SHERIFF GRISS
Do you want to go in?
BIG MIKE
We will have to pay old Banty a visit soon enough. Besides it has been awhile since I’ve gotten my rocks off.
Driving by King Automotive.
INT. KING AUTOMOTIVE- TWILIGHT
Old time Garage with stock cars on lifts.
EROC
Looks like your almost done.
Banty (56 year old)- Paralyzed sitting under a stock car.
BANTY KING
That weld should hold.
Eroc is at the rear of the car and Banty is under the car.
EROC
Paint job looks great.
Eroc pulls the cover back exposing more of a race car.
BANTY KING
She sure is a beaut ain’t she?
Banty moves around the car anxiously.
BANTY KING
This mirror hasn't arrived yet, has it?
Eroc pauses for a second and looks up.
BANTY KING
Is there something you want to tell me?
EROC
A man in a cop car came looking for Cody at school today. He was claiming to be her father.
Banty drops the wrench in the otherwise silent garage.
BANTY KING
He’s out.
Phone by a tool cabinet rings.
BANTY KING
You get on the phone and I’ll take a look at this exhaust.
Banty pulls himself out of the wheel chair.
EROC
Yes sir. Sir she is. Ok, I will let him know.
Banty slides under the race car.
EROC
That was Mr. Buck. Mrs. Buck is on her way.
The door creeps open and Eroc pokes his head in the garage.
BANTY KING
Go ahead and head on home Eroc I got to talk to Mrs. Buck alone for a minute.
EROC
But, we got to fix the exhaust.
BANTY KING
Go home. Get yourself clean you got a big day tomorrow.
Eroc walks out of the garage.
Shelly enters garage.
SHELLY BUCK
I need your help Banty.
BANTY KING
I know. I’m going to do what I can for you and Cody. When Eroc’s parents died I raised him like my own son. I’ve raised him as if he were my own. There is nothing I wouldn't do for him. The same goes for your daughter. I love her as if she were my own daughter.
SHELLY BUCK
There is a man claiming to be Cody’s father.
Thick bifocals and grease on his face.
BANTY KING
You haven't aged a bit.
He smiles.
SHELLY BUCK
Cody’s father is back in town he was just released from prison.
BANTY KING
Good behavior.
SHELLY BUCK
Listen I don’t want her seeing him and if he comes to you or your son I want you to tell me. He’s not going to take my daughter from me. Listen Banty I know it has been years since we have spoke and considering we are from the same small town and still live there
gathers herself.
SHELLY BUCK
It is ridiculous the extent we have gone to avoid running into each other. Especially since your boy and our daughter are so close. I’m just asking you extend the same supervision we would do for you and Eroc.
BANTY KING
I will do what I can to keep this man from seeing Cody. Try and sleep at night.
Shelly smiles at Banty.
BANTY KING
You know I still love you.
SHELLY BUCK
Thank you Banty. I’m sorry to bother you.
Mrs. Buck turns to go then stops herself.
BANTY KING
I don’t blame you for leaving me.
SHELLY BUCK
For what it’s worth Banty I’m sorry but, you need to stop bringing up the past.
BANTY KING
I can’t forget it. Your just as beautiful now as you were then.
She walks out the garage. Banty closes his eyes.
INT. GUN BARREL HIGH SCHOOL GYM- SIXTEEN YEARS EARLIER
Shelly Buck and Banty are slow dancing then begin to whisper.
BANTY KING
You feeling alright?
SHELLY BUCK
I don’t want you to go.
BANTY KING
It’s just basic training after that you can come live with me on base in Tennessee.
Couples in the gym dances to an old school song.
SHELLY BUCK
Something happened to me.
BANTY KING
That’s nothing new.
Shelly blushes.
SHELLY BUCK
I’m pregnant.
Banty stops dancing.
BANTY KING
I think we should get out of here for a while.
She squeezes him tighter.
SHELLY BUCK
Let’s just stay.
He pulls her out the gym by her hand.
EXT. GUN BARREL HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT- NIGHT
They run to his truck.
SHELLY BUCK
I love you.
BANTY KING
I know baby.
He raises his sleeve her name is tattooed on his arm.
BANTY KING
You like it.
SHELLY BUCK
I love it.
BANTY KING
Let’s hit the back roads maybe we can make some twins.
INT. BANTY’S TRUCK- NIGHT
Rain begins to pellet Banty’s Truck window.
MISS BUCK
Banty please slow down.
Banty drinks then pushes further down on the gas pedal.
BANTY KING
I’ve been driving this road since I was twelve. I got it.
Banty hydroplanes.
SHELLY BUCK
Watch out!
Banty swerves.
The truck to flip into a ditch.
INT. GUN BARREL HIGH SCHOOL GYM- NIGHT
A young Miss Shelly Buck stops dancing and begins to embrace Daryl H. Buck with a hug and kiss.
STUDENT1
It’s Banty.
They dance in a circle holding each other.
BANTY KING
Daryl!
Banty enters the gym in a wheel chair.
BANTY KING
Daryl H. Buck
He to rolls himself through the crowd of people until reaching Shelly.
BANTY KING
And Shelly sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g.
Banty’s chair bumps into Daryl.
BANTY KING
Hey shit head look at me in the eyes.
He stops dancing with Shelly.
BANTY KING
First comes love then comes marriage.
Everyone stares at Banty.
BANTY KING
Then you leave me.
The band stops playing.
BANTY KING
And spit on the grave of our dead baby.
Banty sips his flask then turns his chair to face Daryl Buck.
BANTY KING
That’s how it goes. How about a game Buck?
DARYL H. BUCK
I think you need to head home. Call it a night Banty.
Banty throws the flask in the basket.
BANTY KING
I can still put it in the hole Shelly. Don’t forget about our child.
SHELLY BUCK
Banty just go.
Their eyes meet and she looks away.
INT. KING AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR- DAY 1983
Banty shuts the hood to the stock car.
BANTY KING
How could this night get any worse?
Daryl Buck opens the door to the garage.
DARYL H. BUCK
Hello Banty King.
Banty looks away and starts to chuckle to himself.
DARYL H. BUCK
Please, I need your help.
BANTY KING
Remember when your dad took us hunting.
Banty wipes forehead with the back of his hand.
BANTY KING
You should get out of here.
He puts up a wrench griped tightly in his hand.
DARYL H. BUCK
I’m here because of my daughter.
Daryl walks closer to Banty.
MR. BUCK
Be a man about this.
Banty breathes deep.
BANTY KING
I may not be able to use my legs.
Banty grips the wrench in his hand.
BANTY KING
I’m more of a man then you will ever be. You trying to fuck with me? You think you got balls bringing her here but,
DARYL H. BUCK
I’m sorry she left you but, it was something she had to do.
Banty throws himself out of his Chair and on to Mr. Bucks legs.
BANTY KING
You sniveling worm.
Buck hits his head hard as he falls.
BANTY KING
I remember telling you how much I loved her and how I want to marry her and have children.
Blood runs from the back of Buck’s head.
BANTY KING
I’m a realist. She left me because I can’t stand. Don’t come here and lie to me.
Buck throws a hard head butt on Banty’s face.
BANTY KING
Shit!
The two roll away from each other extremely injured.
DARYL H. BUCK
I love her! I love my wife it’s not her fault you can’t walk anymore.
Banty spits blood off his face.
BANTY KING
That’s far enough. Shut your mouth.
Banty pushes away as if nothing just happened.
DARYL H. BUCK
I’m not Cody’s father. Her biological father is back in town. He has found her.
Banty loosens his grip on Daryl.
BANTY KING
Here I was thinking you gave her what I never could.
DARYL H. BUCK
Her father is a criminal.
BANTY KING
Was. You said he was let out.
DARYL H. BUCK
He was a know drug addict. Shelly and I don’t think it would be right to have her reunite with her father this soon after he’s gotten out of prison.
Banty laughs and pushes himself from under the car.
BANTY KING
You sure ride your high horse.
DARYL H. BUCK
It’s not about me. It’s about Cody.
Daryl wipes oil and blood from his brow.
BANTY KING
Tighten the suspension so it should be ready to race tonight. Your wife, Shelly she came by earlier and told me.
DARYL H. BUCK
This guy is an X con. He was caught with a lot of drugs and I don’t think he has the right to be in my daughters life.
BANY KING
You don’t believe in giving a man a second chance do you.
Banty looks at Daryl Buck staunchly.
DARYL H. BUCK
Not this one. Not with my daughter. I know your busy getting cars ready for the races so I’ll leave you.
The door shuts leaving Banty in the garage by himself again. He slowly pulls himself under the car and flips on his flashlight.
INT. HIGH SCHOOL DANCE- NIGHT 1947
The dance floor lights up as Banty dances with a younger Shelly in the high school gymnasium.
INT. THE BUCK MANOR- TWILIGHT
Cody walks through the front door and places her backpack down and slowly opens the fridge.
CODY
Mom!
Both parents walk up behind her as she bites into an apple.
CODY BUCK
Dad, you won’t believe what happened to me at school today.
Cody looks at her parents and immediately senses something wrong.
She then stares at the blood on her fathers shirt.
DARYL H. BUCK
We need to talk.
Silence takes over the kitchen as She begins to realize what the silence means.
CODY
Dad what’s wrong.
DARYL H. BUCK
We should have told you this before. You were adopted.
CODY
No way. I get this. You guys are trying to punk me.
Cody starts to cry and covers her mouth.
CODY
This whole time you have known about him and you just lied to me.
SHELLY BUCK
We did it to protect you.
CODY
You showed me pictures of my grandmother. You said we looked alike and that our noses were the same.
Cody covers her face dramatically smearing her mascara.
CODY
What the fuck?
SHELLY BUCK
Your mother died as she was giving birth to you and your biological father was in prison.
CODY
How come you didn't tell me this sooner.
DARYL H. BUCK
He is a bad man.
CODY
Good or bad he is my dad.
DARYL H. BUCK
Baby don’t say that I’m your father I raised you. I’m the one who loves you not him. He’s going to bring nothing but, evil into your life. You don’t want to know him.
Cody watches the man that has raised her beg. She then stares at her mother who is bitting her lip.
SHELLY BUCK
We didn't want you getting hurt baby.
Cody looks out the window and takes another bite of the apple.
CODY
I feel like I don’t know who to trust.
Mr. Buck hugs her.
DARYL H. BUCK
Listen. This man is in town now and I just don’t want you out and about until, until I have spoken to the authorities about him. I want to get a restraining order.
CODY
I want to meet him.
DARYL H. BUCK
Cody this is not a good man. He has done a lot of bad things.
CODY
There is an inherent good in everyman.
DARYL H. BUCK
Not this one.
CODY
I love you dad. You are and always will be my father. I believe he deserves a chance to see me. He’s my father.
DARYL H. BUCK
I don’t want you seeing him and that’s final word on the issue.
Mr. Buck stands up with a stern look on his face.
DARYL H. BUCK
I’m not going to let you do that.
Cody runs up to her room and a slams the door.
INT. CODY’S ROOM- NIGHT
She falls on her bed and picks up her phone and dials.
CODY
Do you feel like going to a house party tonight.
EROC V.O.
Why? You feel bad.
CODY
Let’s just say a little left behind.
EROC V.O.
You can’t sleep. Well, I’ll be there in a minute.
Stares blankly at her reflection in the mirror.
INT. EROC’S ROOM- NIGHT
Hanging over his bed is a buck head mounted on the wall.
BANTY KING (O.S.)
Better hurry up your breakfast is getting cold.
The walls and ceilings are covered with brown paint and dotted with posters of 80’s action heros.
EROC
I’m up.
Holds the phone with his cheek.
BANTY KING (O.S.)
Your food is ready!
Puts the phone down.
EROC
I’m up.
Drinking muscle max 5000.
BANTY KING (O.S.)
I got some food waiting for you.
Eroc slams the drink.
BANTY KING
I got eight egg whites and a bowl of grits. On the table.
Banty rolls his wheelchair into the Kitchen were Eroc is.
BANY KING
You ready for the liftathon?
EROC
What the hell happened to your nose?
Banty’s nose is bandaged up an one eye is badly bruised.
BANY KING
An exhaust fell hit me square in the nose. I was up al night working on that new engine and I got tired and dropped that damn exhaust right on my face.
EROC
You got to be more careful. Your lucky the whole car didn't fall on your chest.
BANTY KING
Are you ready to break the school record today?
Banty grabs Eroc and smiles.
BANTY KING
You think you can beat it?
EROC
By fifty pounds.
Eroc laughs.
EROC
I should have plenty of energy.
Banty clicks on the television.
BANTY KING
I’ll see you at the liftathon.
Eroc starts to open the door.
BANTY KING
Where are you going you still have and hour before school starts?
EROC
Cody called so I am going to go hang out with her for a little bit.
BANTY KING
Remember explode the chest and push with you back.
Eroc walks out the door.
BANTY KING
Feed the dogs before you leave.
He steps out from behind a screen door.
INT. EROC’S TRUCK- NIGHT
Eroc speeds down a desolated two lane road.
EXT. BUCK DRIVE WAY- NIGHT
Cody quickly sneeks out of her house then takes off running.
INT. EROC’S TRUCK- NIGHT
CODY
He was my father.
Eroc briefly diverts his attention from the road.
EROC
Shut up. You are not funny.
Eroc smiles at Cody then notices the dried tear tracks on her face.
CODY
That man at the school yesterday was my biological father.
EROC
You got to be kidding me.
CODY
I’m just finding this out because he has been in prison for the past sixteen years and is apparently an evil drug addict. I’m not allowed to talk to him.
EROC
I always thought you had a little devil in you.
She smiles for the first time in several hours.
EROC
So where are we going.
CODY
Wendy’s friend is having a house party.
EROC
So, you don’t know these people.
CODY
Relax they are friends of Wendy. She said most of them are stock drivers from Thunder Mountain.
EROC
Those guys are a bunch of meth heads. They are so fucking hillbilly.
CODY
They are not? Please listen to yourself talk.
EROC
The way I talk and the way I act are completely different. That’s about everyone.
CODY
I’ve had a real fucked up night can we just get along right now.
EROC
I though we were getting along. Don’t take your daddy issues out on me.
She slaps Eroc.
CODY
That’s not fucking funny.
EROC
It was intended to be a joke. God I don’t get enough credit. We have been dating for a year now and this is how you act.
Cody stares out the window.
EROC
Listen I’m sorry.
Eroc speeds up.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S HOMECOMING PARTY- NIGHT
Eroc’s mud covered truck pulls up.
EROC
Well we're here.
A fire were people are gathered drinking beer.
EROC
I don’t know any of these people.
Wendy (17 years old) - runs up to Cody.
WENDY
Cody!
Eroc watches the people around the fire as if hesitant to approach.
EROC
What the fuck is that smell?
WENDY
Cody!
Wendy looks Cody in the eyes.
WENDY
You’ve been crying girlfriend what’s wrong?
CODY
We need to talk.
WENDY
First lets get a beer. I want you to meet someone.
Randy Sparks and three other young men with Mohawks are standing at the grill of Eroc’s truck.
RANDY SPARK
What’s up any you guys roll?
Eroc steps backward.
EROC
What?
RANDY SPARK
I said lets roll, the party is really in the house. Your not scared are you?
Cody follows Wendy up to the house.
EROC
Cody.
She looks back and Randy then Eroc follow.
INT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- NIGHT
RANDY SPARK
What’s up man have a beer.
Eroc keeps staring at Cody.
EROC
No thanks.
A angry smirk runs across Randy Spark’s face.
EROC
Say man do you have a staring problem?
RANDY SPARK
I heard you just broke Big Mike’s bench record. It would be disrespectful to come to his home and not say hello.
Cody walks closer to a picture on the shelf.
RANDY SPARK
Come on Cody, lets go say what’s up to Big Mike.
Randy is walking up stairs.
RANDY SPARK
It’s still a party
Cody grabs Eroc by the hands and pulls him with her.
RANDY SPARK
CHOO! CHOO!
Balcony were people are playing pool.
RANDY SPARK
What’s up man.
Randy walks past the pool table.
EROC
Pretty much every guy in this house has a mohawk.
RANDY SPARK
Not long now. You are about to break through.
Smoke and music leak from the crack beneath it.
RANDY SPARK
The party’s just getting started!
They walk down the hall and up to the door.
RANDY SPARK
Knock Knock.
Randy knocks with rhythm.
INT. BIG MIKE’S SMOKE ROOM- NIGHT
The room is lit by black lights.
BIG MIKE
Ladies and gentleman. The conductor is about to leave the station anybody on the nine o five to fun planet next stop party palace hop aboard.
The smoke is thick in the air.
BIG MIKE
Let’s see who do we have here.
Four guys and six girls including Wendy and Cody.
EROC
So what were you in prison for.
Big Mike ignores the question.
BIG MIKE
You are one big son of a bitch.
Eroc looks at Big Mike who is smoking out a bong.
BIG MIKE
You wouldn't understand.
He exhales grins with gold teeth.
BIG MIKE
I think I likes you.
He passes the crack pipe in Eroc’s direction.
BIG MIKE
I think she likes you.
EROC
I’m not interested in strippers whores.
The stripper pokes her lips out at Eroc.
BIG MIKE
We are all whores Eroc. Jesus fucked a whore! Now you come in my house and talk to my girls with that disrespectful tongue.
EROC
I don’t like the way you speak of jesus. I don’t think you’ve read the bible.
BIG MIKE
I’ve read the bible son. “With an asses jawbone I have made ass’s of them With an ass’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”
Big Mike leans into Eroc.
EROC
Get out of my face.
He then looks at Cody.
BIG MIKE
Hey babe.
Cody stands surprised as hell to be looking at her biological father.
BIG MIKE
You know I wrote you everyday in prison. One day didn't go by when I wasn't thinking of my beautiful baby girl. You look just like your mother.
Eroc impatiently looks out the room.
CODY
You're my dad.
CODY
You are my Daddy.
Big Mike pulls his fingers across his visage.
BIG MIKE
Yeah, I’m your daddy we look just alike can't you tell.
EROC
So what were you in jail for?
BIG MIKE
That was a dark time in my life son and I would rather not talk to you about it now son.
EROC
You are not my dad and I sure as hell ain't your son.
BIG MIKE
Of course you are son. You ever ask Banty were he got you. He’s been cripple since seventeen.
Cody looks over at Eroc.
EROC
Don’t listen to him baby you my girlfriend.
Big Mike starts to luagh.
BIG MIKE
Two kids with no father grow up in the same small town look just alike and fall in love with each other.
EROC
My mothr would have never fucke a peice of shit like you.
BIG MIKE
You never met you mother.
Big mike looks over a t Cody.
BIG MIKE
Listen baby, I don’t want you feeling uncomfortable. You and your boyfriend just chill tonight we got plenty of time to get to know each other now.
Big Mike looks at Eroc
BIG MIKE
Son, Why are you not drinking a beer.
Randy pulls his Mohawk down into a pony tail.
EROC
I ain’t your son old man.
Big Mike coughs.
BIG MIKE
You are my son. See everyone in this room is either my son or my daughter. See it is something spiritual something great boy. Now who are you to say you are not one of my son’s.
Big Mike stands up in Eroc’s face.
BIG MIKE
Seriously what’s your name boy.
EROC
I’m not your boy or your son old man.
Eroc doesn't back away.
BIG MIKE
Well, fuck me.
Big Mike looks at the room and laughs.
RANDY SPARK
That’s Eroc. He broke your bench Press record.
BIG MIKE
Oh, You are the strong guy. I used to fuck strong guys like you in prison.
Big Mike is joined in laughter.
BIG MIKE
Ok, no it’s time to put the women and children to bed.
Big Mike pulls out a pipe for smoking meth.
EROC
I’m out of here.
Big Mike walks up to Eroc.
BIG MIKE
Don’t be scared son. Come on have you some of this.
He holds the pipe out for Eroc to grab.
EROC
No, thanks.
Big Mike takes another hit from the pipe.
BIG MIKE
Let me show you some hospitality.
A girl in the corner coughs.
BIG MIKE
Shut up bitch. You ain’t even on the train yet.
Big Mike turns back around and looks at Eroc.
BIG MIKE
I heard you are some kind of weight lifter.
The pipe is passed to Wendy.
WENDY
Wow. Well, I’ve never done this before but, I’ll try it.
Hands it to Cody.
WENDY
Take it.
She takes the pipe and puts it to her face.
EROC
Let your demons out baby girl!
Eroc looks at Cody with disappointment.
CODY
No school tomarrow.
BIG MIKE
Sit your ass down boy and relax. This is a party you are in my house.
He then takes out an orange lighter.
EROC
You don’t have to do that.
Cody takes the bong in her hand.
CODY
It’s cool. I’ll just take a small one.
BIG MIKE
How much are you going for boy? You trying to max out on some heavy weight.
EROC
Big Mike laughs hysterically
BIG MIKE
That’s fifty pounds over what I did at your age. You are talking bench press right.
Eroc nods.
BIG MIKE
Follow me Eroc I want to show you something. Cody stay here with Randy we’ll be right back.
Cody sits on the couch in an alert state.
EROC
You going to be alright.
CODY
I’ll be fine go.
INT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE TROPHY ROOM- NIGHT
Big Mike and Eroc walk down the hall and into a room filled with trophies.
BIG MIKE
I used to be the top power lifter in the state.
He opens a closet door and grabs a wooden box from a high shelf.
BIG MIKE
You love my little girl? Hell, the way you was taking to her a man would think you would die for her.
EROC
Cody is my girlfriend. One day I am going to marry her. There is nothing I wouldn't do for that girl.
BIG MIKE
Well, I’m her daddy. I hope you understand I just want to be a good dad. While I can.
EROC
She doesn't even know you.
Big Mike pulls a key out of his pocket.
BIG MIKE
Here’s what I want to show you.
Opens a wooden box.
BIG MIKE
Take a look at them.
Two gold plated desert eagles sit in the box.
BIG MIKE
I don’t pull these out unless I want to kill someone, or just to show them off.
He pulls one of the guns out.
BIG MIKE
Sometimes I just feel like showing them off. Isn't this the most beautiful thing you ever seen
Big Mike hands the gun to Eroc.
EROC
It’s nice.
Eroc looks at the guns.
BIG MIKE
So you are going to break my old bench record tomorrow.
EROC
I didn't know that.
BIG MIKE
I tell you what, if you bench over 400 tomorrow.
EROC
Thanks, but I already got a gun.
Big Mikes is confused.
BIG MIKE
Go ahead check it out, no bullshit?
Eroc looks closer at the hand guns.
EROC
No thanks.
Big Mike laughs out of control.
BIG MIKE
What kind of gun you have?
EROC
Shot Gun.
Eroc walks back down the hall.
BIG MIKE (O.S.)
Oh I got more guns to show you boy!
He takes Cody by the arm.
EROC
Let’s go.
Cody pulls against Eroc at the front door.
CODY
Just wait. My real dad is up there. I want to get to know him. Give him a chance to be in me life. He deserves it.
EROC
I think you need to slow down and think about this. The man was in prison for sixteen years. That’s hard time and you don’t even know what for. He’s not your family.
CODY
I told my parents I was staying with Wendy tonight. Go get some rest I’ll be fine.
EROC
Do what you want.
EXT. EROC’S TRUCK- NIGHT
Eroc starts up his truck and speeds away racking off his pipes.
INT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- NIGHT
Sheriff Griss walks up to the window.
SHERIFF GRISS
I’m going to take care of that little shit head.
BIG MIKE
He’s a big kid but he doesn't know who he’s fucking with.
He watches Eroc leave and begins to grin.
SHERIFF GRISS
I think it’s time to christen your daughter.
Big Mike and Griss walk back into the room.
BIG MIKE
Alright guys the cotton candy time. The bubble train is about to leave the station.
Big Mike holds up the meth pipe.
INT. BIG MIKE’S MANSION- EARLY MORNING
Cody and Randy are sitting on the living room couch.
CODY
Why am I getting chills.
He props his mud covered boots on the table.
RANDY SPARK
Relax it’s normal.
He stretches her across his lap.
RANDY SPARK
Take another hit.
She takes a hit.
RANDY SPARK
Just what the doctor ordered.
Passes the glass pipe to Randy.
RANDY SPARK
Colder than the iceberg that sunk the titanic.
Cody licks her lips.
CODY
This shit makes me feel realy horny.
RANDY SPARK
Huh. I thought it was just me.
CODY
I like that but,
Unzips his pants.
CODY
I shouldn't do this.
RANDY SPARK
Do what feels good baby.
He rubs his hand between her legs.
INT. GUN BARREL HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GYM- MORNING
Large men walk up to a young boy squatting weight.
TEAM MATE
Where is Cody?
EROC
I don’t know.
He then racks the weight.
TEAM MATE
She’ll show up.
Banty positions his chair by the stands.
EROC
I hope.
E-roc prepares for his lift.
COACH
That’s what I’m talking about! Yeah baby!
A spotter is behind Eroc with his hands on the barbell.
SPOTTER
You need a lift off.
EROC
Don’t touch the bar I got it.
The shirt he is wearing rips around the arm pits.
SPOTTER
All you baby!
Eroc gets up and stretches his arms and neck.
SPOTER
How much do you want to add?
EROC
Put 400 on there.
He holds the attention of the entire gym.
EROC
I got this come on baby.
COACH
Let’s bring it!
He then grips the bar.
EROC
Up!
Eroc pushes the weight off his chest.
SPOTTER
Come on you got.
The bar slips out his hand.
BANY KING
Eroc!
People in the crowd immediately jump to their feet.
SPOTTER
Someone call 911. It’s going to be ok.
EROC
I can’t breathe.
INT. HOSPITAL X-RAY ROOM- DAY
A doctor holds an x-ray up to the light.
DOCTOR
Three of his ribs were broken and his spleen was ruptured.
The doctor smacks his gum.
DOCTOR
He will heal eventually it is just going to take some rehabilitation. He is going to have to wear a full upper body cast for about three months.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S METH TRAILER- NIGHT
Cody is with him and Randy is right of her.
CODY
The smell it’s a lot stronger now.
BIG MIKE
That is the smell of gold my child.
Big Mike opens the door to the trailer house.
BIG MIKE
Now this is where all the magic happens.
Randy carries her up the steps.
CODY
Put me down I can walk.
Randy sets her down at the entrance.
CODY
Wow!
BIG MIKE
You are in the nest now and any little good birdie that comes to the nest knows to keep their beeks closed about the nest. Are we understood.
Cody nods.
BIG MIKE
Good.
INT. HOSPITAL EROC’S ROOM- DAY
Eroc is on the bed unconscious.
COACH STRONG
That slip sure fucked you up boy.
Eroc barely moves his head.
COACH STRONG
I brought you a tape of the first two teams we play. In the mean time get some rest and try to heal up. The players all signed this ball for you.
The coach walks up to Banty and the two shake hands.
EROC’S FATHER
Thanks for coming by to see him coach. He’s going to make a full recovery before the season coach.
The coach looks at Eroc then Banty with uncertainty.
INT. EROC’S HOSPITAL ROOM- TWO DAYS LATER
Cody walks in and sits by the bed.
EROC
Cody.
She kisses him on the lips.
CODY
I brought you some movies to watch.
Eroc turns his head toward Cody and whispers.
EROC
I couldn't stop thinking about you. I hate it when we fight.
Cody is signing his upper body cast with a black marker.
INT. DALLAS POLICE STATION- MORNING
Hank Young (37 years old) - a tall and lanky man, sits in a chair across from the captains desk.
HANK
This feels awkward.
The door opens behind him opens.
DETECTIVE 1
I’m telling you chief it’s these middle of nowhere RV’s housed with a cranked up cook and a shit load of over the counters.
DETECTIVE 2
Tell him about Wells. Wells Texas population three hundred. A man dies in a mobile home before getting rid of twenty seven pounds of crystal meth. It’s not Mexico chief it’s our back yard.
POLICE CAPTAIN
Listen, I want some solid leads not some hillbilly crack head that has already O. D.’d in his trailer house. We will get a narc to go under cover and sell better shit. We will get to the real supplier quicker. Now get out of here.
The detective wipes the sweat from his brow.
DETECTIVE 1
That’s a low blow.
Hank looks at the two detectives in the captains doorway.
DETECTIVE 1
Oh don’t do it. Don’t shoot me Hank
The second detective uses his hand as a gun.
DETECTIVE 2
I’m gonna shoot.
The two stand in the doorway laughing.
POLICE CAPTAIN
The place where Kennedy got his brain’s blown out.
The captain turns away disgusted by the view.
POLICE CAPTAIN
Have a seat Hank.
The two look out the window onto the city.
POLICE CAPTAIN
There are two kinds of people in this world: preachers and pimps. good guys and bad guys, do gooders and bad do’ers.
The captain glares out the window.
POLICE CAPTAIN
Now I know what we are and I sure as hell know you didn't mean to shoot that kid.
He moves his shoulders.
POLICE CAPTAIN
This is going to be the deal. You need the rest and the press is breathing down my fucking neck right now. If that damn reporter leaves one more message.
The captain’s phone rings.
POLICE CAPTAIN
I have to put you on leave while this case is pending. Just relax your mind. This could blow over.
HANK YOUNG
Will it?
POLICE CAPTAIN
You went in there too armed too afraid to think correctly. You embarrassed the force.
POLICE CAPTAIN
I wish I could tell you to take a cruise or get away for a while.
The chief turns up the vibrations coming from his message chair.
POLICE CAPTAIN
You haven't taken a vacation as long as you have been on the force. Well, I’m giving you one now.
HANK YOUNG
A paid one?
The captain leans in towards Hank.
POLICE CAPTAIN
You are a good cop but, you need to lay low for a while. Let this blow over. I’m putting you on leave without pay.
HANK
Once I’m gone, I’m not coming back.
The police captain stands up
POLICE CAPTAIN
Hand me your gun and badge.
EXT. POLICE STATION- DAY
Hank turns to look at the building he spent so many years.
HANK YOUNG
Glad to go.
An officer heads down the station steps.
OFFICER
Taking a vacation Hank.
HANK YOUNG
Something like that.
Jenny Palka holds a voice recorder by his face.
JENNY PALKA
Mr. Young Dallas Morning news can you comment on the events that lead to the shooting of eight year old Jorge Mendez.
HANK YOUNG
It was unfortunate and saddens me. Believe me I’m sorry.
JENNY PALKA
Sorry doesn't bring a mother her child back.
Hank steps into his car and rolls the windows down.
INT. HANK’S APARTMENT- DAY
Hank turns on his kitchen light.
HANK YOUNG
Who’s this.
The machine beeps.
JEREMY BUCK (O.S.)
This is Jeremy Buck Just calling to let you know that the cabin is still available for rent. If you would like to check it out I will be available tomorrow two to ten. The earlier you get here the better. I got mowing to do in the morning but, if you need directions my wife will be at the house all day so just give me a ring.
The machine clicks and a female voice comes on delayed.
V.O. JENNY PALKA
This message is for Hank Young. My name is Jenny Palka. I’m with kltk channel ten news. I would really like to get a statement over the events that transpired two days ago at Wilshire Apartments.
Hank slams the bottle down.
EXT. HANK’S APARTMENT- DAWN
Dawn breaks and Hank makes a call.
HANK YOUNG
Is Mr. Buck there this is Hank Young I’m calling about the cabin for rent. No that’s fine mam just tell him I’ll be there by seven. Thank you mam.
JENNY PALKA (O.S.)
Mr. Young my name is Jenny Palka.
HANK YOUNG
I know who you are.
Hank continues to throw luggage in the trunk of his car.
JENNY PALKA
Are you willing to give us a statement. Something that will clear your name. You can’t just run away from what you’ve done Mr. Young.
HANK YOUNG
I’m taking a vacation.
Hank continues walking
JENNY PALKA
How about an apology to the mother. You owe her that much.
Hank throws the luggage in the trunk and slams the top.
HANK YOUNG
Nothing I say is going to change what is already done.
He slides into his car.
JENNY PALKA
You can’t run from this.
HANK YOUNG
I’m not running. I’m going home.
JENNY PALKA
Where is that.
HANK YOUNG
You don’t need to know.
JENNY PALKA
Your not going to be able to hide from me. I’ll hunt you down and follow you where ever you go.
HANK YOUNG
What do you want?
JENNY PALKA
I want you to apologize on camera to the family of that innocent boy you shot and killed. Then I want you to cry and look like the bumbling drunk oaf you are. I can smell you from here. Your not going to be able to drink your way out of this one.
Hank drives off.
INT. HANK’S IMPALA- DAY
Sixties song on the radio is turned up.
HANK YOUNG
Whiskey wet my soul.
The speedometer climbs.
HANK YOUNG
Good riddance.
Dallas city limits disappear in his rear view mirror.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- MORNING
Topless strippers lay strung out beside stocks.
BIG MIKE
Look what we got here a couple of love birds.
Cody is laying across Randy’s stomach.
CODY
Best night of my life.
Randy looks at the her.
BIG MIKE
Get up I want yall to see something.
INT. BIG MIKES LIVING ROOM- NIGHT
The living room is covered with mounted buck heads.
BIG MIKE
Do you know why the fur on the top of his head is a different color?
Big Mike turns around.
BIG MIKE
It’s cause I blew his skull off from a hundred yards away.
Big Mike then thumps the buck’s head
BIG MIKE
He stood there for a minute like he heard the shot but, didn't feel it. Go to Banty’s and give E-roc his Wheelchair.
Sheriff Griss walks out of Big Mike’s trophy room
INT. HANK’S IMPALA- NIGHT
Hank approaches the car it is evident that the window has been broken.
HANK
What the hell?
A woman begins to beat on the window.
WOMAN IN DISTRESS
Help! I am being robbed! He has a gun! Please my son is still in the house!
Hank rolls the window down.
HANK YOUNG
Wait here. Which apartment is yours?
WOMAN IN DISTRESS
Apartment 155. My baby’s in there!
He approaches an apartment with the door wide open.
HANK
One fifty five.
The number beside the door reads 155.
INT. APARTMENT 155- NIGHT
Hank has his gun drawn.
HANK YOUNG
Dallas Police put down your weapon.
He unloads a shot into the chest of a small boy.
HANK YOUNG
Officer down send back up.
Blood runs down his side and into his hand.
EXT. GUN BARREL CITY LIMITS- DAY
The Dallas Skyline disappears behinds Hank.
HANK YOUNG
This place hasn't changed any.
INT. GUN BARREL BARBER SHOP- DAY
A cast encasing his entire upper body Eroc has only the right arm mobile.
BARBER
How’s life been for you lately son? You don’t look too good.
Barber snips off his pony tail then begins to shave Eroc’s head.
EROC
Alot of bullshit.
BARBER
That the truth?
EROC
I had alot of weight fall me.
BARBER
I can tell.
Eroc sits in the chair watching his hair get buzzed off by the barber.
EROC
I want a Mohawk.
The barber looks stunned.
BARBER
Are you sure that is what you want son.
EROC
Yeah.
Eroc holds the mirror up behind his head and nods.
EXT. BARBER SHOP- DAY
Eroc walks outside.
EROC
I think it’s nice and cool.
Banty grins with a tooth pick in his teeth.
BANY KING
Looks cool. It’s going to be good and hot this summer and that shag will slow you down.
EROC
Can I ask something?
BANTY KING
You know you can.
EROC
Could there be any way Cody Buck,
Eroc looks away.
EROC
She’s not related to me is she?
BANTY KING
What no. Why would you think that?
EROC
We kinda look alike and well you said you’ve never met my parents.
BANTY KING
You don’t look like Cody. Don’t worry son. You got too much on your mind. Just try and relax a bit. I’m going to drop you off at the house and run a few errands.
INT. RANDY’S TRUCK- DAY
Randy sticks his head out the window to take a closer look.
RANDY SPARK
What the fuck does that shit head have a Mohawk for. Over my dead body. That poser piece of shit.
Randy speeds ahead racking off his pipes.
INT. BANTY’S CADILLAC- DAY
BANTY KING
I’m going to drop you at the house. I got to go back to the shop and make sure that stock car is ready for races tonight. If I’m not back by nine take the truck to Thunder Mountain and I’ll meet there.
Flames leak from under the hood as a black impala pulls up ten yards behind.
INT. IMPALA- SUNSET
Hank Young jumps out the impala door and begins to run.
BANTY KING
My dogs, my dogs are still in the car save my dogs.
Hank quickly unwraps the leashes and pulls the animals out.
HANK YOUNG
Hot damn!
Hank can barely stand as he bends over gasping for air.
BANTY KING
My Bible on the dash please don’t let it burn up.
BANTY KING
My shotgun.(cough)
Ammunition starts to explode in the trunk.
HANK
We got to get out of here.
Hank escapes the car.
HANK YOUNG
Sir, are you ok?
The dog licks Banty’s face.
EXT. ROADSIDE- SUNSET
The sheriff pulls up and casually walks out of his car with a blank stare.
HANK YOUNG
Call an ambulance.
Hank is performing CPR.
SHERIFF GRISS
He’s just drunk.
Hank shoots a cold stare at Sheriff Griss.
HANK YOUNG
Listen I’m a cop. He’s not breathing. I don’t think he is drunk.
SHERIFF GRISS
I’m the law in these parts and this guy is the town drunk.
Sheriff Griss takes off his shades.
SHERIFF GRISS
The ambulance is on it’s way. Why don’t you go ahead and leave I’ll take it from here.
HANK YOUNG
You don’t give a shit about this man do you?
SHERIFF GRISS
He’s the town drunk. He has wrecked a couple times before.
HANK YOUNG
He hasn't been drinking.
SHERIFF GRISS
Where you from Mr.
HANK YOUNG
Dallas.
SHERIFF GRISS
Well out here it takes about half an hour for a ambulance. Just go ahead and take on down the road. You did what you could for him.
HANK YOUNG
You don’t need my statement for your report.
SHERIFF GRISS
We don’t need to bother with all that now.
The Sheriff unsnaps his pistol and puts his hand on the grip.
SHERIFF GRISS
Why don’t you just head on back to Dallas before you stick your nose in something you don’t like the smell of.
EXT. BUCK FARM- SUNSET
Mrs. Buck walks out the front door.
MRS. BUCK
Don’t worry about them dogs they won’t bite you.
Hank pulls up the drive way.
MRS. BUCK
I was expecting you an hour ago.
Hank looks at his watch.
HANK YOUNG
I’m sorry their was a wreck about five miles out of town.
Mrs. Buck notices the shirt wrapped around Hanks hand.
MRS. BUCK
Your hand, are you hurt?
HANK YOUNG
No mam, it’s just a first degree burn.
Holding Hanks hand in hers.
MRS. BUCK
Oh my god we need to get some bandages on that.
Mrs. Buck wipes the sweat off her brow and leads Hank into the front door.
HANK YOUNG
Mam, it is really not bad. I don’t want to inconvenience you.
MRS. BUCK
Nonsense. Mr. Buck is on the tractor he’ll be back in about an hour if you’d like to come sit down for a glass ice tea.
HANK YOUNG
That sounds great.
MRS. BUCK
Well there is Mr. Buck right now.
They both peer out a kitchen window.
INT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- SAME TIME
Big Mike acts as if he was inspiring an orchestra to play.
BIG MIKE
Time for my little girl to get her first taste of what her daddy’s love is all about.
Big Mike grabs meth pipe.
BIG MIKE
You have to try this baby girl.
Big Mike rubs her back.
BIG MIKE
That’s the good stuff right.
Her pupils dilate.
CODY BUCK
Oh! I like that flavor.
BIG MIKE
Yeah, I know you do. It’s bubble gum.
Cody has a ghostly ora about her. Her face is sunk in and she has all the signs of a drug abuser.
BIG MIKE
Thunder Mountain is going to be loud tonight.
EXT. THE BUCK’S FARM- NIGHT
Daryl Buck approaches Hank Young covered in dirt grass and sweat.
DARYL H. BUCK
Well do you miss the city yet?
Hank grins and looks at the tractor then back at Mr. Buck.
HANK YOUNG
Not hardly.
DARYL H. BUCK
Well, there’s a hole in that fence down across the pasture. If I don’t fix it now them cows are going to get into my neighbor’s property. You can wait here or you can come with.
HANK YOUNG
If I can help I’d like to come with ya.
Mr. Buck pulls out a pair of work gloves.
DARYL H. BUCK
You might be needing these. Keep your hands from bleeding.
SHELLY BUCK
Let me get you men some water before you leave.
Mrs. Buck heads back into the home.
DARYL H. BUCK
Are you sure your gonna like living in that little ole cabin.
HANK YOUNG
Just to be able to go to bed and not hear sirens and car alarms on top of that the fresh country air I couldn't ask for anything better.
DARYL H. Buck grins and takes a jug of water from Mrs. Buck.
DARYL H. BUCK
Well it’s just a little walk down this hill. You don’t mind walking, do you Hank?
HANK YOUNG
I love to walk.
Mr. Buck grabs a roll of barb wire from the tractor and the two walk down the hill together.
DARYL H. BUCK
Looks like the fence is patched for now. So you thought about work here.
HANK
I have money sir.
DARYL H. BUCK
Sure but, the wife and I could use an extra hand at the feed store and we’d pay you too.
Daryl tightens the barb wire fence with his tool.
HANK
I think it will hold up.
DARYL H. BUCK
You ever been to a race track before.
HANK YOUNG
Race track?
Hank shades his face with his hand.
DARYL H. BUCK
Stock Cars.
Mr. Buck tightens the barb wire.
HANK YOUNG
They’re pretty loud.
DARYL H. BUCK
They are high performance machines.
A loud engine roar echoes.
HANK YOUNG
Sounds like it.
Mr. Buck chuckles.
HANK YOUNG
What’s that.
DARYL H. BUCK
My brother is a race car driver. They go up to the track a couple hours early to take some practice laps.
HANK YOUNG
That a fact. I didn't know the track was so close. So how’s your brother rank.
DARYL H. BUCK
He’s the best there. Undefeated for the past five years. He’s racing tonight.
Mr. Buck lets out a grunt..
DARYL H.BUCK
Mud Rally is on Thunder Mountain it’s about a minute north on the highway. He’s racing tonight. You are welcome to come after you get settled in.
HANK YOUNG
You mean the track is close to here.
Daryl Grabs the spool of barb wire and throws it in the back of his tractor.
DARYL H. BUCK
Hop on I’ll give you a ride back the cabin.
As the tractor heads over the hill there are several dead cows scattered on the field.
HANK YOUNG
What the hell?
Pasture of bloody dead cows.
DARYL H. BUCK
Shit.
They jump off the tractor and walk toward the first dead cow.
HANK YOUNG
What happened to them.
MR. BUCK
That son of a bitch.
HANK YOUNG
What the hell?
Hank leans down to look at the cow.
HANK YOUNG
You see this hole. They were shot Looks like a hollow point wounds.
MR. BUCK
I never heard any gun shots.
HANK YOUNG
Do you know any one that would want your cows dead?
Mr. Buck looks at the dead cow’s neck.
INT. HANK’S LOG CABIN- TWILIGHT
Hank turns on the light.
MR. BUCK
The top of this fire place is covered up so don’t go starting a fire or you’ll smoke the entire place up.
Mr. Buck looks at Hank.
MR. BUCK
I know it’s not what you are used to in Dallas but,
Hank cuts him off midway through his sentence.
HANK YOUNG
It’s perfect just what I’m looking for.
MR. BUCK
I reckon about a couple hundred a month. That sound about right?
HANK YOUNG
Sounds good to me.
Mr. Buck shakes Hanks hand.
MR. BUCK
I’ll be back in about an hour and a half to pick you up for the race track that is you still want to go?
HANK YOUNG
I’d like to.
Mr. Buck walks out of the cabin leaving Hank alone in the old house for the first time.
EXT. BANTY’S TRAILER HOUSE- DAY
Eroc and Cody sit on the steps of a trailer house.
CODY BUCK
Lets go to your room.
Eroc grabs her face and holds it with his hand.
EROC
I got a better idea. Lets go for a drive.
Then Doors to Eroc’s truck slam shut.
CODY
There is something I have to tell you.
EROC
What?
CODY
I slept with Randy last night.
The truck goes off a dirt road and into a beaten path.
EROC
I thought you would.
CODY
Your not upset.
EROC
I knew you would. The way you looked at him.
He stops the truck.
EROC
Was it good?
CODY
Yes.
EROC
Did you swallow his cum?
CODY
Yes.
A thunderous roar of engines burning ethanol echo in the distance.
CODY
I have to leave now. Good luck at you power lifting meet tomorrow. Bye.
She kisses him.
CODY
You better not take it off.
EROC
I won’t.
CODY
I love you.
Eroc’s embraces Cody once more in his arms.
EROC
I love you too.
Cody walks around the front of the car then slides in the seat closing the door.
INT. BIG MIKE’S GOLD DELOREAN- NIGHT
Cody sits stunned her face red in her hands as tears roll down her cheek.
CODY
You made alot of money tonight daddy.
BIG MIKE
That’s not even the half of it. I want to know what they are saying about this other source.
CODY
There is some guy named chance. He’s supposed to have the purest but I tried it and it doesn't compare to the shit you cook.
Randy Spark pulls her hair from the back seat.
BIG MIKE
I thought I could trust you.
RANDY SPARK
You bitch you had to go and open your loud fucking mouth.
CODY
What are you talking about I didn't say anything.
Big Mike as he continues to drive away from the track and stands.
RANDY SPARK
I guess you didn't know that some fucking cop from another city came poking his nose around Big Mike’s today. Sheriff Griss said your boyfriend was running his mouth about what goes on out at Mike’s.
Big Mike just stares at Cody through the rear view mirror.
BIG MIKE
You made me mad Cody but, I can forgive you I’m not an evil man. We are going back to my place tonight. You’ll have to leave Eroc at the races. I believe he is trying to get the both of us in too much trouble. I love you like a daughter Shelly and I’m just disappointed at how you have repaid me for my years of friendship.
Big Mike’s gold delorean speeds down the red dirt road.
CODY
I really think I want to stay at the races a little while longer.
Big Mike slams on the brakes.
BIG MIKE
You’re ok.
BIG MIKE
You are using your head too much. Press harder to stop the bleeding.
Randy picks the pipe up off the floor and hands it to her.
RANDY SPARK
Just hit this and shut up you will feel better.
EXT. THUNDER MOUNTAIN PIT AREA- NIGHT
Jeremy Buck a large gruff looking man walks down the line of cars inspecting each one until he reaches the race car of big Mike.
JEREMY BUCK
That’s a damn fine ride. Shame it’s always last place. Found anyone to drive this thing for you yet?
Big Mike grins then spits by Jeremy’s feet.
JEREMY BUCK
That’s nice.
Jeremy Buck begins to laugh. Randy Sparks has no numbers on his race car; it simply says “YO.”
JEREMY BUCK
The pit is for stock racing boy. The four wheeler track is on the other side of that hill there boy.
RANDY SPARK
Howdy Mr. Buck my name is Randy Spark.
JEREMY BUCK
You have got to be shitting me. You got a damn kid driving your car. Hell I always knew you were kind of stupid Mike seeing as how you were in prison for sixteen years but, this is just fucking ridiculous.
Jeremy laughs and zips up his jacket.
RANDY SPARK
Big Mike says you talk a big talk but, can you put your money were your mouth is?
A serious look sweeps across Jeremy’s face.
JEREMY BUCK
Twenty five thousand.
BIG MIKE
Boy you ain’t got that much money in your piggy bank.
JEREMY BUCK
I bet I got the deed to my land. Which is worth as much.
Randy grins and looks up to big Mike.
RANDY SPARK
That’s a bet.
EXT. THUNDER MOUNTAIN STANDS- NIGHT
Cody walks back up into the stands and sits beside Hank.
HANK YOUNG
You already eat your cotton candy.
The man holding the green flag suddenly drops it and the cars takes off with a loud boom.
DARYL H. BUCK
Now this is a race.
Cody stands up.
CODY BUCK
I’m going to get some cotton candy. Do you want some Mr. Young.
HANK YOUNG
No thanks Cody I’m fine.
INT. BIG MIKE’S GOLD DELOREAN- NIGHT
Randy sparkstakes an eye dropper and puts a drop on the ice then turns and looks at Randy.
BIG MIKE
You like cotton candy?
He blows the smoke out and passes the pipe to Randy.
BIG MIKE
Get right before the race boy.
Delorean door opens.
BIG MIKE
Just win boy!
He then passes it back to Cody who takes a massive hit.
CODY
Um. Cotton Candy. Sounds sweet.
Big Mike looks at Randy.
BIG MIKE
Sweeter than sugar. Get the car ready I’ll take Cody back to the stands.
Cody crawls to the front seat.
BIG MIKE
I trust you a lot baby girl. I know you would never tell your parents about what we do.
CODY BUCK
That would be bad for both of us.
BIG MIKE
Your Uncle bet against Randy tonight.
Randy and Big Mike laugh together.
BIG MIKE
I don’t want to tell how much but, I believe that your father is not going to like me much after tonight. Promise to keep our secret.
Cody with dilated pupils.
BIG MIKE
You getting happy baby. I know you like that. Just remember this is our secret. Don’t go telling the wrong people.
The door to Big Mike’s gold delorean opens beside the pit area’s concession stand.
BIG MIKE
Now go on.
Cody is standing around an open hood.
RANDY SPARK
I think she likes you Mike.
BIG MIKE
She knows who her daddy is. She loves the glass dick.
EXT. THUNDER MOUNTAIN PIT AREA- NIGHT
Jeremy sits on the ground beside his car.
BIG MIKE
I reckon you ain’t got my money. Your land belongs to me now. I’ll start construction tomorrow.
He drives off then puts his head down in despair.
INT. BIG MIKE’S GOLD DELOREAN- NIGHT
BIG MIKE
I’m going to claim that property tonight.
Big Mike turns to Randy who is riding with him.
BIG MIKE
Your are going to help me.
The delorean speeds away from Thunder Mountian.
EXT. BUCK FARM- NIGHT
Randy Spark leans out the window and begins to throw Molotov cocktails.
EXT. LOG CABIN- DAYBREAK
A fire truck is spraying water on the last bit of flame still lit. The land surrounding.
HANK YOUNG
Almost
Hanks face is black.
CODY
Why don’t you try using a rag.
HANK YOUNG
What?
Cody hands him a rag then sits down beside him.
CODY
You can use my shirt.
She starts to unbutton her shirt.
HANK YOUNG
That won’t be necessary.
She wipes ash and oil from his head.
HANK YOUNG
Isn't it a school day?
A scowl comes across Cody’s face.
CODY BUCK
Maybe I just want to play hooky.
HANK YOUNG
I have to go to the rest room.
CODY
Well go.
He stands in front of himself in the bathroom mirror.
INT. HANK’S LOG CABIN- MORNING
Hank stares at himself in the bathroom mirror after washing his face.
HANK YOUNG
This ain’t right. You just need to go back out there and tell her that it ain’t going to happen. She’s too young and you... you can’t be in this kind of position. She’s not a lady she’s just a baby. You are a cop you know its considered rape.
Hank rubs his face and glares at his reflection.
HANK YOUNG
I’m not a cop anymore.
Mike’s gold delorean opens and Cody steps inside.
HANK YOUNG
So much for temptation. Who is Big Mike.
The reads the licence plate.
DARYL H. BUCK
Got any fix a flat?
Hank grabs a can of fix a flat out of the trunk.
HANK YOUNG
Your daughter was just down here. I figured she needed a ride to school but that other fellow came and picked her up.
Mr. Buck begins to inflate the back tire.
DARYL H. BUCK
Must have been her boyfriend. That’s been her ride to school for the past six months on account of my wife having to be at work so early. She says it embarrassing to get dropped off in this piece of shit.
Mr. Buck laughs
DARYL H. BUCK
Randy’s one of them guys that everyone in the town knows but, not really. Hell, his last birthday party was one of the biggest pasture parties this town has seen.
He kicks the tire as it starts to inflate.
DARYL H. BUCK
There was a fireworks display at the lake and everyone from the sheriff to the preacher was there. Cody seems to think he’s wonderful and I never heard anything but good about him.
Mr. Buck tosses the melted tire in the back of his truck then folds his arms across the truck.
DARYL H. BUCK
I reckon your enjoying your retirement. Breathing in this good clean air got you relaxed yet?
Hank looks at his hand and it is shaking.
He makes it into a fist and closes his eyes tightly trying to focus on something other than the twitch in his hand then looks back at the engine he was working on.
HANK YOUNG
I believe I’m getting there.
The fire truck pulls up beside the cabin and a firefighter jumps down.
FIRE FIGHTER
We found this in the field.
He hold up a broken chard bottle.
FIRE FIGHTER
The fire was set intentionally. Do you know any one that would want to burn your land?
DARYL H. BUCK
Not off the top of my head no.
The fire fighter looks out on the field.
FIRE FIGHTER
Well this fire is contained. Might want to think about any one you might have pissed on. Next time these bottles might be by your home.
The fire truck leaves.
INT. HANK’S LOG CABIN- DAY
Hank grabs a package of frozen peas and hands it to Mr. Buck as he helps his brother, Jeremy, onto his couch.
MR. BUCK
Now are you going to tell me what this is all about.
Jeremy looks at Hank then his brother.
JEREMY BUCK
I lost it.
DARYL H. BUCK
What are you talking about?
JEREMY BUCK
I bet the deed to the land on last nights race.
Daryl slaps his brother in the face with the frozen peas.
DARYL H. BUCK
Who’d you lose it to.
JEREMY BUCK
Big Mike.
Mr. Buck walks into the Hank’s Bath room and smashes his fist into the mirror.
Hank looks at Jeremy then Mr. Buck’s bleeding fist.
HANK YOUNG
I’m sure Big Mike will be gracious enough to let you win it back.
Jeremy and his brother look at each other and then down at the same time.
DARYL H. BUCK
Mike is Cody’s biological father. He’s got a cult of these fucked up kids with Mohawks doing whatever he says. The bastard has been trying to take over my life since he got out of prison.
HANK YOUNG
Now just calm down here. This Big Mike guy doesn't know but, I’m a fucking cop. So nobody is going to come kick us off this land.
Sirens go off outside the cabin.
DARYL H. BUCK
Shit they’re here.
They walk out the cabin.
SHERIFF GRISS
I understand your brother and Mike here had a bet. Now he is here to collect.
HANK YOUNG
Now Sheriff Griss is it?
SHERIFF GRISS
Shut the fuck up boy.
BIG MIKE
I don’t want the money Jeremy. I just want the land. I got big plans for this place and I can’t have you backing out. That’s why I have your daughter Cody.
Daryl H. Buck and points at Sheriff Griss.
HANK YOUNG
This has gone too far. You are a cop what the hell are mixed in this bull shit for. If anything this should go to court.
BIG MIKE
This is not your business so, shut up and get out. You hear me.
Hank steps into Big Mike’s face
HANK YOUNG
I don’t think I heard you to well let me see if this works.
Hank grabs the voice box wrapped around Big Mike’s neck.
HANK YOUNG
Fucking bitch!
and throws it to the ground then steps on it.
HANK YOUNG
Nope. Guess not.
The sheriff steps behind Hank and pistol whips him.
DARYL H. BUCK
Hey! You are on my land you see this red dirt under your feet? My family has been working this soil for seven generations. Put that pistol up.
The Sheriff cocks back the trigger.
BIG MIKE
Don’t kill him.
Jeremy Buck stands outside the cabin shutgun in his hand.
JEREMY BUCK
Your going to fucking die with him.
MR. BUCK
You don’t need to do any killing. You can have my land.
Mr. Buck walks to his truck.
MR. BUCK
I’ll get the deed out of my glove box.
The sheriff then shoots Jeremy Buck between the eyes.
DARYL H. BUCK
No!
He then shoots Daryl H. Buck.
BIG MIKE
Lets go say hi to Shelly.
SHERIFF GRISS
I’d love to.
Mike kicks Hank’s unconscious body facing up.
SHERIFF GRISS
This city slicker here is an x cop from New York. He got kicked off the force after killing some little kid. Fucker is in hiding from the world.
He pops the trunk.
BIG MIKE
Let’s keep it that way.
The Sheriff and Big Mike throw the Buck’s dead bodies on top of Hank.
SHERIFF GRISS
Mrs. Clause is arriving.
BIG MIKE
I’ll greet her.
BIG MIKE
I’ll wait for her.
A car pulls up to the sheriff who is standing in the middle of the road.
SHERIFF GRISS
Mam, can you step out of the car please.
She steps out of the car.
SHELLY BUCK
Oh God!
Big Mike walks out from the cabin.
MRS. BUCK
My daughter were is my daughter.
SHERIFF GRISS
I’m sorry mam she dead.
MRS. BUCK
No! It’s not true you are lying.
SHERIFF GRISS
You are right mam. I am telling the truth now. You are going to die.
Big Mike walks out of the log cabin.
SHERIFF GRISS
Not until we have our fun.
Mrs. Buck screams and tries to escape from the sheriff’s grasp.
INT. BANTY’S TRAILER HOME- DAY
Eroc has a blank stare then his face turns vengeful.
EROC (V.O.)
Cody said the Sheriff cleaned up the mess before she got home to see it. One night a couple of days after she was looking through the cabin she found a shotgun under the mattress were Hank was sleeping. It was Banty’s. To tell you the truth that gun was just pretty and I missed it.
Eroc sits in a chair with the gun in his hand giving off a blank stare.
EROC (V.O.)
It reminded me of a better time. A happy hunting ground were people follows courage and integrity not some crystal.
INT. BIG MIKE’S BASEMENT- DAY (SIX MONTHS LATER)
Big Mike hold the leash of a large dog.
BIG MIKE
You still alive boy?
Hank hides his bearded face from the light.
INT. EROC’S FRONT YARD- TWILIGHT
The sheriff steps out of his car holding his belt.
SHERIFF GRISS
I’m sure you heard what happened son.
SHERIFF GRISS
Banty’s dead. He was drunk and drove into a tree. Say, boy are you listening.
Eroc doesn’t move.
SHERIFF GRISS
Well seeing that yall are broke as shit I went ahead and had him cremated for you. Can pick up his ashes at the police station.
The squad car takes off.
EROC
Banty.
Eroc sits by himself and watches the sun set.
V.O. BANTY KING
What is wrong boy. How are you feeling.
Eroc looks down at his cast.
EROC
Have you ever loved a woman so bad that it made you sick in your stomach?
Banty moves closer to Eroc.
V.O. EROC
I feel like a fucking freak in this cast. It’s no wonder Cody doesn't want to see me.
V.O. BANTY KING
Easy now son. You need that cast to heal right.
EROC
I don’t know if I should just give up or keep trying.
V.O. BANTY KING
If there is a thing I know about women it is that they are capable of being an angle or a devil you just have to decide which one she is.
Montage: Eroc grabs a pipe saw from the shack beside the trailer house.
He sits down and begins to go to work on his cast.
Eroc walks outside carrying the shotgun that was under his bed.
He then begins to saw the upper body cast freeing his right arm from the large cast.
Once the body cast has been sawed off He then begins to saw at the butt of the gun.
Sweat drips off his face turns to a disgusted look after seeing his skin green and peeling.
As he feverishly finishes dust and gravel fly as his truck speeds off down the road.
INT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- DAY
Randy and Cody Are in the living room.
Randy is standing behind Cody holding her by the stomach. He looks at one of big Mikes minions men then motions to the door.
RANDY SPARK
Take care of it.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- DAY
Eroc takes a deep breathe. Randy walks out of the house.
MAN WITH MOHAWK
Hey welcome to the party Eroc your just in time to smokes. Oh Cody here has already hit the pipe twice tonight. Ain’t that right.
INT. BIG MIKE’S BASEMENT MORNING
A roach runs across the floor.
Hank swipes it up off the ground and eats it. The door then opens and Big Mike and Sheriff Griss stand in the doorway.
The Sheriff turns on a lantern as Big Mike closes the door behind them.
The Sheriff walks up to Hank and kicks him in the face then grabs his cuffed hand and hooks them to a chain hoisting Hank up by his arms.
Big mike sits at a small table in front of Hank and unfolds a collection of knifes beside the lantern.
BIG MIKE
You are probably asking yourself why am I still alive. I guess I wanted you to be dreaming of when you was a kid running up down the creek playing with your brother. See I know you just went undercover. You didn't shoot no boy. You came back to Gunbarrel to get me. See I got knots at the top of the rope.
Blood runs down Hanks face as he lifts his head to look Big Mike in the eyes.
BIG MIKE
There is one reason and one only. It is cause I want to see you suffer. You feel me.
Hank spits the chewed up roach in Big Mike’s face.
BIG MIKE
That’s alright boy. Just think about how you ain’t gettin no proper burial. I’m going to put your head in a big glass jar and turn your body into chili. I’ll serve you up this Friday at the concession stand. Hell I’ll give the chili away but not the recipe.
Big Mike grabs a knife and walks towards Hank.
He then runs the blade down the center of Hanks face.
Hank screams as the Sheriff cuts his nose off.
BIG MIKE
I’ll let you smell your own blood for a little bit while you think about dying.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- DAY
Big Mike’s doorbell rings continually as Eroc knocks on the door the same time.
Randy opens the door and stands in front of Eroc.
EROC
Have you seen Cody?
RANDY SPARK
She doesn't want to talk to you.
EROC
Listen you son of a bitch. If she gets hurt in any way I’m going to blow that strip of hair right off your head.
Randy Sparks laughs.
RANDY SPARK
I’ll let her know you said that.
Randy slams the door in Eroc’s face.
INT. BIG MIKE’S BASEMENT- MORNING
Sheriff Griss and Big Mike stand over Hank’s beaten and food deprived body deprived body. A blanket full of chef knives sit on a table under the light in the center of the dungeon like basement.
BIG MIKE
All the torture has made me sleepy. I’m tired of keeping your sorry ass alive. We are going to kill you tomorrow. I’m going to cut your heart out with one these knives.
Sheriff Griss is laughing and is joined in laughter by Big Mike until Big Mike begins to cough and choke while lashing Hank’s face.
The two leave the room and Hank looks up at his hands cuffed and chained above his head. He then looks at the table were Big Mike and Sheriff griss left the knives covered in his blood.
HANK
Get yourself together. Focus.
Hank then lifts his body off the ground with the remain strength left in his body. His mouth reaches his thumb. His lips then peel back as he takes his thumb off with one bite.
His right arm is then freed from the chain and strenuously reaching for the table of knives directly in front of him. An explosion shakes the light in the middle of the room and sprinkles dirt on Hanks shoulder.
Using all his strength as well as a bloody right hand Hank Pulls himself to eye level with his left thumb.
INT. BIG MIKES HOUSE- NIGHT
Big Mike leans down and softly kisses Shelly on the lips. He then grabs her hair and pulls her head back as she squints her face in pain.
Sheriff Griss looks at Big Mike and laughs. Cody’s wrists are bleeding from the handcuffs. She begins to cry.
BIG MIKE
Oh don’t do that. Here smoke this bitch.
Big Mike shoves a glass pipe in her mouth and lights a bowl of pure meth or, as Big Mike has been pushing Mike’s Dugs. Randy Sparks walks into the room and lights the lighter in his hand.
RANDY SPARK
Somebody doing some the pipe smoking in here?
Big Mike grabs Cody and pulls her down by his legs and grins.
RANDY SPARK
She likes to smoke and she’s a Christian.
Randy’s face lights up his eyes still dilated from the race. He walks in and grabs cody’s ass.
Randy rips the duck tape off of her mouth.
CODY BUCK
When Eroc gets here he’s going to fucking kill you!
RANDY SPARK
I bet you don’t know,
Randy grabs Cody’s face as she screams
RANDY SPARK
I really don’t care.
EXT. BANTY’S FRONT PORCH- DAY
Eroc Looks at a Picture of Banty and him holding a Buck.
The sky begins to turn black as lightning cracks in the distance a strong wind blows across Eroc’s face.
He reaches for a saw by his knee and begins to saw off his upper body cast.
He then takes the saw to the shotgun and saws off the gun barrel then the stock the sun the rises over the porch and reflects off the wheel chair that Sheriff Griss brought E-roc after telling him Banty died in a car wreck.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S PROPERTY- MORNING
A small log cabin sits on the top of a hill surrounded by pine trees.
Fifty yards down the hill is a trailer house connected to the cabin by a red dirt road.
Inside the cabin Big Mike sits in a rocking chair watching the Price is Right.
BIG MIKE
Four four hundred.
Cody is tied to a leash sitting beside Big Mike. She is ghostly thin and incoherent of what is going on around her.
SHERIFF GRISS
This bitch is fucking stupid. Two dollars for marsh mellows. Dumb bitch.
The town sheriff is catching shut eye in a vibrating Lazy Boy beside Big Mike.
The sound of a dog barking outside catches the attention of Big Mike.
Big Mike ceases his rocking as a truck outside skids to a halt leaving a cloud of dirt behind it.
A dog barks violently outside.
The sheriff raises brim of his hat.
BIG MIKE
Sheriff, why don’t you peel your fat sweaty ass off that rocking chair and see what the hell that dog is barking at.
The cabin Big Mike is in sits on top of a hill overlooking a red dirt road and a trailer house.
SHERIFF GRISS
I don’t see nothing.
Twenty feet from the trailer house is a red truck connected to it by a line of fire creeping up the grass.
BIG MIKE
God damn shut that dog up!
An explosion consumes the trailer and rocks the cabin.
BIG MIKE
Get the guns.
Big Mike is staring out of the broken living room window.
BIG MIKE
Kill him
His ears are ringing.
SHERIFF GRISS
Your dead boy!
Eroc is standing beside his truck.
EROC
Hey Big Mike! Fuck You!
The curtain falls.
SHERIFF GRISS
That dumb son of a bitch is walking up here.
Eroc walks up the hill toward the house.
EROC
Come get yours.
Sheriff Griss a fat older man with a long grey ponytail steps outside the front door with a revolver drawn.
Sheriff Griss points his revolver straight a buck shot shreds through him leaving a hole in the glass front door.
Big Mike runs out from around the house in a white bathrobe firing two nine millimeters.
BIG MIKE
Die son of a bitch!
Eroc catches one in the leg then rolls back behind his truck as bullets rip into the truck’s doors and through the top of a large tire Eroc is hiding behind.
Eroc sits holding his leg.
Behind his large mud covered truck holding a shotgun as the bullet wound in his right thigh squirts blood.
BIG MIKE
It’s too late now boy. I killed your daddy and I killed your bitch. It’s alright daddy got his before I burned her with the trash.
Eroc peaks his heads around the truck and watches Big Mike’s elbow poke around a tall thick pine tree.
EROC
You are lying. She is your daughter.
Eroc lays out on his back and unloads three buckshot at the pine blowing bark off the tree and half of Mike’s elbow from his left arm.
Big Mike drops one of the guns and dangle uncontrollably.
Smoke swirls out of the shotgun’s barrel as the light gleams off it’s polished stainless steel.
BIG MIKE
Well her mom was a whore so Cody was just an accident.
EROC
Where is Cody?
The smoke moves slower as time is slowed down.
Big Mike Sits behind the tall Pine staring at his Left arm as it dangles from the tendon.
EROC
Where is she?
Big Mike takes off the white belt holding his robe together and ties it around his left arm.
BIG MIKE
I Already sold her to a man from Thailand. He Fucks little girls and kills them. They call him the Widow maker. Money can buy anything including your whore Cody. He gets them high on heroin then beats them to death. That is were she is boy.
EROC
If she was your daughter why would you do that.
BIG MIKE
She was worthless. She squealed she talked to an undercover cop. A loyal daughter wouldn't tell on her daddy.
EROC
Your scum.
BIG MIKE
I’m your dad you can’t hate me.
EROC
I’d rather be a bastard.
Big Mike then takes the gun out his left hand and unloads an entire clip in the direction of Eroc’s truck.
When the gun clicks Big Mike takes the second clip out.
HANK YOUNG
Go to hell!
Hank throws a chef knife directly between the eyes of Big Mike.
Big Mike falls to the ground and Hank Young watches Eroc emerge from Behind the truck with a sawed off 12 gauge shotgun in his hand.
A hawk flies over head and lets out a call.
The two exchange eye contact. Eroc shoots Hank in the face with a buckshot taking off his chin and severing his jaw with one single blast.
He continues heading up a path in the direction toward Big Mike’s house.
A shot is fired from inside the house as Eroc approaches the door.
At the top of Big Mike’s long staircase is Cody with a small revolver in her hand.
CODY
No.
She runs down to sit beside Eroc who is bleeding out.
CODY
Don’t die.
EROC
Why did you?
Eroc falls to the cold marble floor holding his hand over the left side of his chest.
Blood runs through hi fingers.
He props his head back against the wall and closes his eyes.
The cabin sits in the middle of the woods silent and covered with dead bodies and bullet holes.
Hank walks up to the door bleeding profusely.
HANK YOUNG
Where is the phone.
Cody points the gun at Hank then slowly lowers it.
She is in total disarray.
CODY
In the kitchen.
Randy opens the door and Cody aims her gun at his head then screams.
HANK YOUNG
Shoot him!
Eroc grabs her ankle.
EROC
Shoot.
Randy looks at Eroc and he grins.
RANDY SPARK
He baby put the gun down.
Randy walks towards Cody and Eroc raises his gun. The trigger clicks Eroc is out of ammunition. Randy grabs the gun from Eroc and steps on his chest.
RANDY SPARK
The end.
Hank Just stares at Randy who takes Cody by the leash and aims the gun at Hank.
Eroc lifts the shotgun still in his hand and points it under Randy’s chin.
Blowing the top of his head clean off. Eroc’s eye’s close as Randy drops like a fly.
INT. NEWS VAN- DAY
Jenny and Donnie watch the country road for a turn off.
JENNY PALKA
I think this is the one.
DONNIE
Which one?
JENNY PALKA
County road two fourteen. Turn here.
EXT. BIG MIKE’S HOUSE- DAY
Down the hill from the cabin.
CAMERA MAN
Get a look at that.
Trailer is burnt to the ground.
JENNY PALKA
Look it’s him.
CAMERA MAN
Look at his hands.
JENNY PALKA
Are you recording this.
CAMERA MAN
No.
She gets her microphone ready.
JENNY PALKA
Well, you better fucking start.
Jenny Palka is standing beside Hank in front of what once was Big Mike’s house.
CAMERA MAN
OK we are on in five four three two..
JENNY PALKA
I am standing beside a hero today. He is a Dallas Police officer and his name is Hank Young. Hank can you tell us what exactly happened here.
Hank looks up to the sky.
HANK
I had to chew’em off to get out his basement.
He just stares blankly at the camera reliving the horrific events of being tortured in his head.
A hawk flies over their heads and lets out a scream.
THE END
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