1 00:03:09,289 --> 00:03:10,457 Yeah. 2 00:03:14,528 --> 00:03:15,529 Morning, sir. 3 00:03:15,896 --> 00:03:17,864 It's a hard life if you can't read. 4 00:03:18,899 --> 00:03:19,866 Pardon? 5 00:03:23,403 --> 00:03:27,974 Sir, Mr. Wiley Starke has... Well, he's passed away, sir. 6 00:03:28,608 --> 00:03:30,277 His funeral is tomorrow, 7 00:03:30,343 --> 00:03:32,212 and I thought that you might want to know since... 8 00:03:32,312 --> 00:03:33,780 What got him? 9 00:03:36,116 --> 00:03:37,784 Just got old, sir. 10 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:41,455 Yeah, well. 11 00:03:43,123 --> 00:03:44,124 Yeah. 12 00:03:51,798 --> 00:03:52,799 Well... 13 00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:14,834 I always thought you'd go first. 14 00:07:54,174 --> 00:07:55,175 Hey. 15 00:08:00,013 --> 00:08:02,282 Don't look so disappointed, huh? 16 00:08:46,793 --> 00:08:47,927 Buddy? 17 00:08:58,538 --> 00:09:00,607 What can I do for you, sir? 18 00:09:13,086 --> 00:09:14,320 That's all right. Come on in. 19 00:09:14,921 --> 00:09:16,289 Have a seat. 20 00:09:23,296 --> 00:09:25,632 What's on your mind, sir? 21 00:09:26,466 --> 00:09:28,668 About time for me to get low. 22 00:09:30,136 --> 00:09:32,472 - To get what? - Down to business. 23 00:09:36,042 --> 00:09:37,444 I need a funeral. 24 00:09:38,111 --> 00:09:39,846 For whom? 25 00:09:39,946 --> 00:09:41,281 Me. 26 00:09:42,015 --> 00:09:44,384 For you? You want to buy a funeral for you? 27 00:09:44,484 --> 00:09:45,485 Am I not talking right? 28 00:09:45,885 --> 00:09:47,554 I'm sorry, sir. Are you sick? 29 00:09:47,654 --> 00:09:50,190 - Everybody dies. - All right. 30 00:09:50,690 --> 00:09:51,958 I see. 31 00:09:53,026 --> 00:09:57,397 Well, sir, the church can help you get your affairs in order, 32 00:09:57,497 --> 00:09:58,731 and arrange a service for you. 33 00:09:58,832 --> 00:10:00,834 Well, what would you say? 34 00:10:01,835 --> 00:10:03,036 About what? 35 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:04,337 Me. 36 00:10:04,871 --> 00:10:06,673 A eulogy. 37 00:10:09,642 --> 00:10:10,977 I don't know. What do you want me to say? 38 00:10:11,044 --> 00:10:13,346 Say what you'd say right now to my face. 39 00:10:13,813 --> 00:10:16,683 Well, Mr. Bush, I don't know much about you. 40 00:10:17,217 --> 00:10:18,351 I've heard stories, but... 41 00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:19,886 What stories? 42 00:10:19,986 --> 00:10:21,588 Just stories, you know. 43 00:10:21,688 --> 00:10:22,689 People talking. 44 00:10:22,789 --> 00:10:25,859 What kind of stories? I mean, say one. 45 00:10:26,359 --> 00:10:29,696 Well, sir, my mother used to say that gossip is the devil's radio. 46 00:10:30,530 --> 00:10:34,868 What matters is that when you come to the end of your life, 47 00:10:35,835 --> 00:10:37,871 that you're ready for the next one. 48 00:10:39,873 --> 00:10:42,509 Now, have you made peace with God, sir? 49 00:10:48,648 --> 00:10:49,883 I paid. 50 00:10:49,949 --> 00:10:52,752 Well, Mr. Bush, you can't buy forgiveness. 51 00:10:53,887 --> 00:10:56,723 It's free, but you do have to ask for it. 52 00:11:13,106 --> 00:11:16,376 I heard the most awful things about him when I was a kid. 53 00:11:16,876 --> 00:11:18,545 Y'all come on in. 54 00:11:34,761 --> 00:11:38,431 Hey, hey. That's that old man Bush. It is. 55 00:11:48,942 --> 00:11:49,943 Hey. 56 00:11:57,317 --> 00:11:58,618 We know about you, old man. 57 00:11:59,252 --> 00:12:00,987 You stay out of this diner, you hear me? 58 00:12:02,088 --> 00:12:03,456 There's women and children in there, 59 00:12:03,756 --> 00:12:05,291 and we don't want you around them. 60 00:12:06,659 --> 00:12:07,660 Hey! 61 00:12:08,027 --> 00:12:10,496 Look at me when I'm talking to you, old man. I know you hear me. 62 00:12:11,798 --> 00:12:13,099 You hear me? 63 00:12:13,166 --> 00:12:15,435 You come around here again, there'll be trouble. 64 00:12:17,236 --> 00:12:18,438 Oh, shit. Whoa! 65 00:12:24,010 --> 00:12:25,078 Carl! 66 00:12:28,214 --> 00:12:29,349 Carl, honey! 67 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:33,519 I know. It's all right. 68 00:12:48,468 --> 00:12:52,338 - Frank? There was a fight. - Let me guess. 69 00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:56,542 - Carl? - Well, yeah, 70 00:12:56,643 --> 00:12:58,645 but it was with that old man Bush. 71 00:12:58,745 --> 00:13:00,346 Old man? 72 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:01,981 - Is there a body? - No. 73 00:13:02,315 --> 00:13:04,550 He was the one that was doing the beating. 74 00:13:04,651 --> 00:13:06,552 I ain't never seen nothing like it before in my life. 75 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:10,890 Social event of the year, and I missed it. 76 00:13:11,824 --> 00:13:13,159 You read the paper today? 77 00:13:13,493 --> 00:13:15,695 People are dying in bunches. 78 00:13:16,362 --> 00:13:18,731 Everywhere but here. 79 00:13:21,768 --> 00:13:25,004 What are the odds of a funeral home going broke 80 00:13:25,338 --> 00:13:28,841 when you have a business that everybody on Earth needs? 81 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:33,813 If you can't make that work, it's got to be you, right? 82 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,349 And, yet, I don't know. 83 00:13:37,183 --> 00:13:38,718 What do you do when people won't die? 84 00:13:39,619 --> 00:13:41,187 - Well, I guess... - One thing about Chicago, 85 00:13:41,387 --> 00:13:42,488 people know how to die. 86 00:13:43,523 --> 00:13:46,059 They drown, get run over, shot. 87 00:13:47,627 --> 00:13:48,928 Whatever it takes. 88 00:13:49,028 --> 00:13:52,899 Well, we get it done around here. It's just we're not in a hurry about it. 89 00:13:57,337 --> 00:13:58,938 It's them or us. 90 00:14:08,081 --> 00:14:10,249 I might know of someone who's looking for a funeral. 91 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:15,922 How much did he have? 92 00:14:16,222 --> 00:14:18,024 It was all wadded up. 93 00:14:19,992 --> 00:14:22,428 Hermit money. That's good. 94 00:14:31,237 --> 00:14:32,705 There it is. 95 00:14:35,408 --> 00:14:36,776 There's his sign. 96 00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:51,858 What are you doing? 97 00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:56,763 You've been wanting a shot at sales. 98 00:14:56,863 --> 00:14:59,732 As of right now, you're on commission. 99 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:06,439 Remember, foot in the door, establish trust and drop the hammer. 100 00:15:11,611 --> 00:15:12,912 I'd rather you go, too. 101 00:15:14,313 --> 00:15:17,417 No doubt. But if you don't do this by yourself, 102 00:15:18,084 --> 00:15:20,319 you'll never know if you're any good. 103 00:15:20,419 --> 00:15:23,990 And you'll never be good if you don't know that you are. 104 00:16:12,305 --> 00:16:13,506 Hello? 105 00:16:31,324 --> 00:16:32,892 Wanna see inside my house, do you? 106 00:16:33,125 --> 00:16:34,160 What does it look like? 107 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,201 Katie. 108 00:16:45,137 --> 00:16:48,474 I see you at the church with your wife and baby? 109 00:16:53,479 --> 00:16:54,714 Yes, sir. 110 00:16:54,814 --> 00:16:56,849 What the hell you doing here? 111 00:17:02,622 --> 00:17:03,589 I heard... 112 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:06,826 I heard you were after a funeral, sir. 113 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:08,361 - A funeral? - Yes, sir. 114 00:17:09,362 --> 00:17:11,230 I work at Quinn Funeral Home, sir. 115 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:13,799 I thought I could help you. 116 00:17:25,845 --> 00:17:27,413 You like rabbit? 117 00:17:30,917 --> 00:17:32,518 It's how you put things together, see. 118 00:17:33,486 --> 00:17:35,888 Now, some things go, 119 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:38,224 and some things never will. 120 00:17:39,492 --> 00:17:41,027 And the Indians said that everything spoke to them. 121 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,896 That's how they made medicines, and knew what to eat. 122 00:17:43,963 --> 00:17:45,731 I mean, things talked to them, 123 00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:48,467 clear as we talk. You believe that? 124 00:17:49,035 --> 00:17:51,070 - I don't know, sir. - Yeah? 125 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:55,574 Well, you don't listen, you don't hear nothing. 126 00:17:59,312 --> 00:18:03,249 All right. Be ready here directly. Got forks here. Here you go. 127 00:18:03,282 --> 00:18:04,550 Did you make this furniture, sir? 128 00:18:04,884 --> 00:18:06,752 I've never seen anything like it. 129 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,423 - Can't tell what's holding it up. - Yeah, well... 130 00:18:11,958 --> 00:18:12,959 Magic. 131 00:18:13,592 --> 00:18:17,630 - Yeah. Yeah. - All right. 132 00:18:17,964 --> 00:18:22,268 Well, sir, if you do want to plan for your funeral, 133 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:26,005 which I hope will be a long, long time away from now, 134 00:18:26,105 --> 00:18:29,408 but we'd treat you with respect, and offer you 135 00:18:30,276 --> 00:18:32,311 a real good service for... 136 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,450 What'd everybody say about what happened in town? 137 00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:40,620 That crazy son of a bitch tried to kill a man for no reason, is that it? 138 00:18:42,088 --> 00:18:43,456 There's two sides to every story. 139 00:18:43,556 --> 00:18:45,591 People say that, but they don't believe it, no, sir. 140 00:18:45,925 --> 00:18:48,761 They think what they think, and they don't wanna know anything else. 141 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:53,766 I also think that people are so scared about what they don't know that 142 00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:55,735 they make things up to feel better about it. 143 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,804 Like life after dying, you know. 144 00:18:59,505 --> 00:19:00,506 Heaven. 145 00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:03,943 Well, I hope that part's true, don't you? 146 00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:07,313 I don't think we know the actual truth about anything. 147 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,117 I know I don't. I'm just guessing most of the time. 148 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:14,854 Lord, this is good. 149 00:19:20,292 --> 00:19:23,029 You boys been coming out here to throw rocks at my window 150 00:19:23,129 --> 00:19:24,797 for what, 25, 30 years? 151 00:19:25,631 --> 00:19:27,967 - No, I... - Know lots of stories about me? 152 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:32,471 Well, yes, sir. 153 00:19:32,738 --> 00:19:33,873 Tell one. 154 00:19:33,973 --> 00:19:34,974 I'd rather not. 155 00:19:35,074 --> 00:19:37,777 I'd rather you did. All right? 156 00:19:42,481 --> 00:19:47,520 Well, when I was a kid, I heard you killed some fellas in a fist fight. 157 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,695 Is that all? 158 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:00,833 What's your name again? 159 00:20:00,933 --> 00:20:02,668 Buddy Robinson, sir. 160 00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:05,504 Well, if I need you, 161 00:20:06,172 --> 00:20:07,873 I know who you are. 162 00:20:49,415 --> 00:20:53,886 Yes, ma'am. I do respect your wishes. But, you see, state law requires... 163 00:20:55,554 --> 00:20:58,557 No, ma'am. We can't bury him beneath the house. 164 00:21:01,060 --> 00:21:02,361 All right. Well, just for argument's sake, 165 00:21:02,428 --> 00:21:04,730 how would you get the casket under the house? 166 00:21:07,199 --> 00:21:08,534 No casket. 167 00:21:12,638 --> 00:21:16,609 Well, but you have to have a container of some kind, ma'am, for 168 00:21:17,343 --> 00:21:20,146 decency and for sanitation. 169 00:21:22,414 --> 00:21:24,483 Yes, ma'am, but there's lots of things that are natural 170 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:26,452 that aren't decent. 171 00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:31,056 Would you like to come in, sir? 172 00:21:31,757 --> 00:21:33,125 He did what? 173 00:21:33,859 --> 00:21:35,060 - Good God. - Leave it. 174 00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:38,497 No, ma'am. I didn't know that about your husband. 175 00:21:38,597 --> 00:21:41,667 Well, yeah, now I understand why you want him under the house. 176 00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:43,402 But, still... Hello? 177 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,905 Frank Quinn. This is Mr. Bush. 178 00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:51,010 Come on in. Pleasure. 179 00:21:52,678 --> 00:21:53,746 Coffee? 180 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:55,681 It's a pleasure. 181 00:21:56,448 --> 00:21:57,950 She'll call back. 182 00:21:58,417 --> 00:21:59,585 Are you 183 00:22:01,787 --> 00:22:03,322 from anywhere? 184 00:22:04,256 --> 00:22:06,325 Little bit of everywhere, yeah. 185 00:22:06,425 --> 00:22:08,294 Get him a chair, Buddy. 186 00:22:09,461 --> 00:22:11,163 Here you go, sir. 187 00:22:21,507 --> 00:22:23,342 What can we do for you, sir? 188 00:22:23,642 --> 00:22:24,877 I'm after a funeral. 189 00:22:25,177 --> 00:22:28,314 Boy, are you in luck. Follow me, please. 190 00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:19,498 Solid pecan. 191 00:23:20,699 --> 00:23:22,201 Steel handles. 192 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:25,070 Forget the box. What else? 193 00:23:26,038 --> 00:23:27,773 Whatever you want. 194 00:23:28,207 --> 00:23:29,441 - Flowers. - No, no. 195 00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:30,576 Burial plot. 196 00:23:30,676 --> 00:23:32,244 - Got it. - A service. 197 00:23:32,511 --> 00:23:34,446 - Party. - A what? 198 00:23:34,546 --> 00:23:35,547 A party. 199 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:39,785 What kind of party? 200 00:23:39,885 --> 00:23:41,220 A funeral party. 201 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,062 We can do that. 202 00:23:51,730 --> 00:23:52,965 And I wannabe there. 203 00:23:53,399 --> 00:23:54,800 You will be, I guarantee it. 204 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,136 I wannabe there now. 205 00:23:57,770 --> 00:24:02,241 You want to be at your funeral party alive? 206 00:24:03,042 --> 00:24:04,109 Yes, sir. 207 00:24:04,209 --> 00:24:09,548 But you can't have a funeral if you're not, you know, deceased. 208 00:24:11,884 --> 00:24:16,055 Hold on, now. It's a detail. We can look at it. 209 00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:17,122 Pretty big detail. 210 00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:19,158 You want to have a funeral party 211 00:24:19,591 --> 00:24:22,761 while you're alive, so you can go. 212 00:24:24,096 --> 00:24:25,164 Yes or no? 213 00:24:25,431 --> 00:24:26,465 Yes! 214 00:24:27,733 --> 00:24:29,168 Buddy, get some paper. 215 00:24:29,268 --> 00:24:31,337 We need to make a list of who Mr. Bush wants to invite. 216 00:24:31,603 --> 00:24:33,005 Well, sit down there. 217 00:24:33,105 --> 00:24:37,276 I want everybody to come who's got a story to tell about me. 218 00:24:39,411 --> 00:24:40,612 All right, say again? 219 00:24:40,713 --> 00:24:41,880 Probably covers about four counties. 220 00:24:42,047 --> 00:24:43,582 Then I want four counties worth of people 221 00:24:44,383 --> 00:24:45,384 at the party. 222 00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:52,124 Well, sir, the thing is, 223 00:24:52,224 --> 00:24:54,793 how do you invite people... 224 00:24:56,595 --> 00:24:58,130 How do you get people to come 225 00:24:58,931 --> 00:25:00,666 tell stories about you, 226 00:25:01,266 --> 00:25:03,268 that I'm guessing might get them, 227 00:25:04,269 --> 00:25:05,838 you know, shot? 228 00:25:07,606 --> 00:25:09,608 - Now, sir. - You know what? Don't worry about it. 229 00:25:10,042 --> 00:25:13,946 You go on ahead. Don't worry about it. We'll come up with something. 230 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,315 - Couple of ideas just came to me. - Like what? 231 00:25:18,117 --> 00:25:22,855 Felix? 232 00:25:24,456 --> 00:25:27,192 Felix, say hello to me. 233 00:25:30,963 --> 00:25:31,997 Hey, Mattie. 234 00:25:32,965 --> 00:25:34,366 How does she know him? 235 00:25:35,134 --> 00:25:36,301 I heard you moved off. 236 00:25:36,969 --> 00:25:39,638 - I've been back awhile. - Yeah, well... 237 00:25:43,242 --> 00:25:44,643 How are you? 238 00:25:46,979 --> 00:25:49,148 You look like you always did. 239 00:26:00,492 --> 00:26:02,961 Do you see the size of that thing? 240 00:26:03,662 --> 00:26:04,663 What? 241 00:26:05,030 --> 00:26:06,198 What do you mean, what? 242 00:26:06,965 --> 00:26:09,001 That goddamn ball of money. 243 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,577 If he wants a party with pink balloons on his ears, we're going to give it to him. 244 00:26:18,677 --> 00:26:20,245 But we can't throw him a party if he's... 245 00:26:20,345 --> 00:26:24,683 I sold 26 of the ugliest cars ever made one December in Chicago, 246 00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:27,319 with the wind blowing so hard up my ass, 247 00:26:27,386 --> 00:26:30,889 I was farting snowflakes in July. So, don't tell me we can't do this. 248 00:26:31,156 --> 00:26:34,226 - But we can't... - That is going to be the last "but" 249 00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:38,230 I ever hear from you. You're a salesman now. Sell. 250 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:51,910 A thousand years ago, he was the most interesting man I'd ever met. 251 00:26:52,711 --> 00:26:53,712 Get out of here. 252 00:26:54,546 --> 00:26:55,614 He was. 253 00:26:55,747 --> 00:26:57,449 Are you serious? 254 00:26:57,549 --> 00:26:59,952 And I don't just mean the way he looked. 255 00:27:00,052 --> 00:27:02,454 - Well, I hope not. - Listen. 256 00:27:02,855 --> 00:27:04,223 He was beautiful. 257 00:27:06,725 --> 00:27:08,927 Most people are laid out nice and simple, you know. 258 00:27:09,027 --> 00:27:10,896 You always know what they're thinking. 259 00:27:11,263 --> 00:27:15,734 And he was like this big old cave that just went deeper and deeper and... 260 00:27:18,504 --> 00:27:19,905 There's still nobody like him. 261 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,482 You hungry? Let me help you with that. 262 00:27:33,418 --> 00:27:34,419 Hey. 263 00:27:35,754 --> 00:27:39,758 It's okay. It's okay. Hey, are you hungry? 264 00:27:40,225 --> 00:27:42,628 I might have a little hissy fit coming on soon, too. 265 00:27:43,762 --> 00:27:44,763 Is that right? 266 00:27:44,830 --> 00:27:46,565 Feeling a little weepy. 267 00:27:48,233 --> 00:27:49,401 You boys. 268 00:27:50,769 --> 00:27:53,105 I can maybe do something really good for us, Katie. 269 00:27:54,373 --> 00:27:56,942 - You already have. - Money-wise, I mean. 270 00:27:58,410 --> 00:28:00,112 About Mr. Bush? 271 00:28:00,646 --> 00:28:02,514 Yeah. I get half of what we make off of him. 272 00:28:03,715 --> 00:28:05,250 So why aren't you happy about it? 273 00:28:06,852 --> 00:28:08,153 I didn't know I wasn't. 274 00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:15,127 I guess I was for a minute. 275 00:28:16,461 --> 00:28:20,699 But the whole thing about making a carnival out of someone's death, 276 00:28:21,099 --> 00:28:23,135 I just don't know if it's right. 277 00:28:24,002 --> 00:28:25,537 Well, is it what he wants? 278 00:28:25,637 --> 00:28:27,005 He says it is. 279 00:28:27,272 --> 00:28:30,709 Then you are not responsible for what other people do, Buddy. 280 00:28:30,809 --> 00:28:31,810 Just you. 281 00:28:53,298 --> 00:28:54,366 We have a plan. 282 00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:56,201 All we need is a little bit of your time. 283 00:29:05,777 --> 00:29:06,912 It moves, don't it? 284 00:29:07,012 --> 00:29:08,680 This is nothing. 285 00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:12,718 Fancy car, for the dead. 286 00:29:13,552 --> 00:29:15,554 I didn't buy it for them. 287 00:29:17,022 --> 00:29:20,692 I was thinking about your funeral party before I went to sleep last night. 288 00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:23,729 I think I understand it a little now. 289 00:29:25,364 --> 00:29:29,601 When I was a kid, my folks died in a bad car wreck. 290 00:29:31,303 --> 00:29:34,172 And the people at the funeral home, well... 291 00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:38,210 They did the impossible, as far as I was concerned. 292 00:29:38,844 --> 00:29:42,114 I don't know what I would've done without them. 293 00:29:42,214 --> 00:29:45,917 I remember wishing that my mother and daddy was there 294 00:29:46,018 --> 00:29:47,519 so they could see how beautiful they had made it. 295 00:30:16,982 --> 00:30:19,217 - Where'd he go? - I don't know. 296 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:29,795 Don't leave me naked here. 297 00:30:29,895 --> 00:30:31,496 I wish you wouldn't do that yet. 298 00:30:32,431 --> 00:30:34,166 Mr. Bush, you can cut all the hairs you want 299 00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:36,435 after we've taken your picture. I'll pay for it. 300 00:30:36,535 --> 00:30:37,736 Well, why you want my picture made? 301 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:40,806 We're going to run an ad in some papers about your party. 302 00:30:40,906 --> 00:30:41,940 Hang some posters up of you. 303 00:30:42,007 --> 00:30:43,575 And you want me to look like this. 304 00:30:43,608 --> 00:30:44,643 - Yes. - Why? 305 00:30:44,743 --> 00:30:45,877 Why? 306 00:30:46,578 --> 00:30:49,781 Well, it's how people recognize you, sir. 307 00:30:49,948 --> 00:30:52,150 And you want as many people to come as possible, 308 00:30:52,451 --> 00:30:54,219 - so... - So? 309 00:30:54,419 --> 00:30:57,589 A crazy old nutter draws more. 310 00:30:58,890 --> 00:30:59,891 Don't you think? 311 00:31:01,226 --> 00:31:03,228 You ever say what you mean? 312 00:31:37,396 --> 00:31:38,630 Take it. 313 00:31:40,332 --> 00:31:41,800 Do you want him to smile? 314 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,502 That is his smile. 315 00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:50,108 Well, all right. 316 00:31:50,175 --> 00:31:55,013 Now, Mr. Bush, on the count of three. One, two... 317 00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:08,326 Damn. You look pretty good. 318 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:13,999 He pays. 319 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,509 - Well, what do you think? - I wouldn't know you, sir. 320 00:32:24,609 --> 00:32:26,678 Well, maybe the devil won't, either. 321 00:32:27,512 --> 00:32:28,680 This just might work out. 322 00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:31,883 Wait, now where are the shoes? 323 00:32:31,983 --> 00:32:35,420 Normally, people don't wear shoes in a casket. 324 00:32:41,159 --> 00:32:42,727 What are you, about 1 0-D? 325 00:32:42,828 --> 00:32:45,831 A suit coat and trousers, that's going to be $13.19. 326 00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:48,366 And the shoes another $6.50. 327 00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:50,669 It'll be $19.69 total. 328 00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:55,507 - How are you fixed for underwear? - I don't wear none. 329 00:32:58,210 --> 00:32:59,711 One question too many. 330 00:33:06,017 --> 00:33:10,188 Well, I don't mean to be nosy, but how do you know Mattie? 331 00:33:14,059 --> 00:33:15,560 We had a go. 332 00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:30,742 Call. 333 00:33:31,843 --> 00:33:33,778 A funeral party? What the hell's a funeral party, Frank? 334 00:33:33,879 --> 00:33:34,880 You're giving him a party? 335 00:33:34,946 --> 00:33:37,482 If he wants to come to his own funeral, what am I going to say? 336 00:33:37,582 --> 00:33:41,553 I wish my ex-wife would come to my funeral so I could tell her to kiss my ass. 337 00:33:41,620 --> 00:33:42,988 What makes you think she'd show up? 338 00:33:43,088 --> 00:33:44,756 That big wad of money of his you're after. 339 00:33:45,423 --> 00:33:46,591 Felix has money? 340 00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:49,227 Yeah, he came to me looking for a funeral. 341 00:33:49,694 --> 00:33:51,596 Had a big, old greasy ball of money. 342 00:33:51,930 --> 00:33:53,832 Talked like he thought he could buy his way to heaven with it. 343 00:33:53,932 --> 00:33:55,000 Is he sick, Gus? 344 00:33:55,267 --> 00:33:57,002 Sick? He ain't sick. 345 00:33:57,335 --> 00:33:59,504 Ain't nobody going to go to a funeral for that old son of a bitch. 346 00:33:59,604 --> 00:34:01,139 - Language. - They might. 347 00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:05,310 He's invited everyone to come that has a story to tell about him. 348 00:34:05,911 --> 00:34:08,113 You could tell about him kicking your ass, Carl. 349 00:34:09,447 --> 00:34:10,482 Keep it up, Frank. 350 00:34:11,449 --> 00:34:12,550 You all say what you want to, 351 00:34:12,784 --> 00:34:15,020 but if somebody hadn't been there the other day, he'd have killed me, 352 00:34:15,086 --> 00:34:16,955 and I guarantee it wouldn't have been the first time, either. 353 00:34:17,455 --> 00:34:18,423 So y'all go on. 354 00:34:18,456 --> 00:34:21,126 Have your little party for the devil and his money. 355 00:34:23,595 --> 00:34:25,597 I'm going to dance on his grave some day. 356 00:34:35,473 --> 00:34:37,208 You kind of hate to admit it when it comes to Carl, 357 00:34:37,309 --> 00:34:39,177 but he's got a point. 358 00:34:39,544 --> 00:34:41,179 And you don't know what Bush is doing. 359 00:34:41,346 --> 00:34:43,114 What if he just wants to get everybody in one place 360 00:34:43,181 --> 00:34:44,549 so he can turn his shotgun on them? 361 00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:45,817 He wouldn't do that. 362 00:34:45,884 --> 00:34:47,352 I looked in his eyes. 363 00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:50,188 Now, the truth is, nobody knows what he's capable of. 364 00:34:50,288 --> 00:34:51,723 Maybe even he doesn't know. 365 00:34:59,297 --> 00:35:03,868 You still there? 366 00:35:05,704 --> 00:35:07,138 You better be. 367 00:35:12,811 --> 00:35:17,182 I want you close to me, hear me? I want you close to me. 368 00:35:23,321 --> 00:35:24,389 Night, Miss Mattie. 369 00:35:24,489 --> 00:35:26,157 - Good night, Gus. - Night, Frank. 370 00:35:33,832 --> 00:35:35,166 I'll walk you home. 371 00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:37,502 - No, thank you. - You sure? 372 00:35:37,936 --> 00:35:39,070 Yeah. 373 00:35:40,338 --> 00:35:41,840 You're never going to play anymore, 374 00:35:41,906 --> 00:35:44,376 - are you? - It's not that. I just... 375 00:35:48,847 --> 00:35:51,016 You came because you don't know what to do with yourself. 376 00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:57,088 I slept on the same side of the bed my whole life. 377 00:35:58,757 --> 00:36:00,759 Right after my wife left, 378 00:36:01,359 --> 00:36:03,294 I switched sides, just like that. 379 00:36:05,230 --> 00:36:07,532 And I've never been able to go back. 380 00:36:33,725 --> 00:36:35,093 For heaven's sakes. 381 00:36:57,949 --> 00:37:01,619 Friends, we have a special treat for you today on WCGM. 382 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:04,756 Our guest is going to tune us into the event that everyone's talking about. 383 00:37:05,090 --> 00:37:08,426 And here he is, Mr. Felix Bush, the mysterious hermit from Caleb County. 384 00:37:08,526 --> 00:37:10,428 How are you today, sir? 385 00:37:11,262 --> 00:37:12,430 I am. 386 00:37:14,132 --> 00:37:17,435 Now, sir, exactly, how did you come up with the idea of throwing a funeral party 387 00:37:17,535 --> 00:37:19,003 before you die? 388 00:37:20,271 --> 00:37:21,506 I dreamed it. 389 00:37:21,606 --> 00:37:22,640 Really? 390 00:37:23,608 --> 00:37:27,412 I have to say, sir, you don't look quite like you do on the posters. 391 00:37:27,479 --> 00:37:28,947 I got pruned. 392 00:37:29,948 --> 00:37:31,516 Well, you're a bit of a local legend, sir. 393 00:37:31,616 --> 00:37:35,453 I was a little nervous about our interview. I've heard some pretty wild stories. 394 00:37:36,421 --> 00:37:37,756 Like what? 395 00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:40,825 Well, just from what I understand, 396 00:37:40,925 --> 00:37:43,628 you want everyone that has a story to come out and tell it, is that right? 397 00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:46,131 - Well, you come and tell yours. - Thank you, sir. 398 00:37:47,232 --> 00:37:50,668 Now, how long you been living out there by yourself? 399 00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:51,769 Forty-some years. 400 00:37:52,403 --> 00:37:54,405 Forty years with nobody to talk to. 401 00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:57,242 The first 38 are the hardest. 402 00:37:58,977 --> 00:38:00,178 Now, why would you do that, Mr. Bush, 403 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:02,113 shut yourself off like that? 404 00:38:03,481 --> 00:38:04,482 Why? 405 00:38:08,753 --> 00:38:10,955 You come to the funeral, maybe you'll find out. 406 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:14,359 We'll find out the answer to the mystery February 16th. 407 00:38:14,459 --> 00:38:15,493 One more thing, boy. 408 00:38:17,629 --> 00:38:18,763 There's going to be a drawing. 409 00:38:19,330 --> 00:38:20,798 What kind of drawing, sir? 410 00:38:20,899 --> 00:38:22,934 You buy a ticket for $5. 411 00:38:23,668 --> 00:38:26,771 The day of the funeral, we draw names. Then when I die, 412 00:38:27,105 --> 00:38:29,140 the winner gets my place. 413 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:34,312 Three-hundred acres of timber that hasn't been touched in 40 years. 414 00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:37,148 Send it to the Quinn Funeral Home. 415 00:38:37,982 --> 00:38:39,317 For $5? 416 00:38:39,951 --> 00:38:41,820 You heard him say it. If you want a chance to win 417 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,023 three-hundred acres of virgin timber worth thousands and thousands of dollars, 418 00:38:45,123 --> 00:38:47,325 please send your name and address along with $5 419 00:38:47,392 --> 00:38:49,827 to Mr. Frank Quinn at Quinn Funeral Home. 420 00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:54,332 I'll take a ticket. 421 00:38:54,399 --> 00:38:56,134 You're betting on a man dying. 422 00:38:56,501 --> 00:38:57,468 I didn't mean it like that. 423 00:38:57,535 --> 00:39:01,139 - I was just saying since he... - No, no, it's his idea. 424 00:39:01,372 --> 00:39:03,007 That's what you want, right? 425 00:39:04,809 --> 00:39:08,179 Buy a ticket, son. Tell a story. 426 00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:34,339 Save some for me now. Don't eat it all. All right. 427 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:42,013 Who's this? 428 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:43,214 Felix? 429 00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:46,918 Mattie? 430 00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:50,922 Look at you. 431 00:39:52,223 --> 00:39:54,559 I wondered if you were still under that beard. 432 00:39:54,626 --> 00:39:57,528 Well, I wouldn't know where else to go. 433 00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:02,100 I heard you on the radio. 434 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:03,601 Yes, ma'am. 435 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:06,938 You've gotten downright chatty. 436 00:40:07,338 --> 00:40:09,107 Yeah, reckon so. 437 00:40:11,609 --> 00:40:14,379 Well, this is it. This is my barn. 438 00:40:15,113 --> 00:40:17,582 Yeah. This here's my mule, Gracie. 439 00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:20,718 Say hello? 440 00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:22,620 Well, would you like to feed her? 441 00:40:24,122 --> 00:40:26,591 Go ahead. She'll love you for it. 442 00:40:26,758 --> 00:40:28,426 There. Come on, Gracie. Come. 443 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:32,063 This here's Mattie. Yeah. 444 00:40:32,497 --> 00:40:34,265 Give her some more. 445 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,504 Yeah. 446 00:40:40,939 --> 00:40:45,943 Would you like to see the rest of my place? 447 00:40:48,646 --> 00:40:49,948 Do you want me to? 448 00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:52,950 Yes, ma'am, I do. Yeah. 449 00:40:55,420 --> 00:40:59,457 Yeah. You always know where you stand with a dog. 450 00:40:59,624 --> 00:41:02,794 Keeper of Charlie and Maude. Yeah. 451 00:41:05,797 --> 00:41:09,801 I wanna lay here with them someday, if they'll have me. 452 00:41:11,436 --> 00:41:12,437 Yeah. 453 00:41:14,339 --> 00:41:16,207 Well, it really is beautiful. 454 00:41:16,307 --> 00:41:18,543 It probably looked like this everywhere a hundred years ago. 455 00:41:18,643 --> 00:41:21,846 Well, you leave things alone, they know what to do. 456 00:41:22,981 --> 00:41:24,615 - Like you? - No, ma'am. 457 00:41:24,682 --> 00:41:26,484 I don't know what to do about anything much. 458 00:41:27,285 --> 00:41:29,554 Well, you've been alone a long time. 459 00:41:29,654 --> 00:41:33,491 Well, I guess some people are more suited to it than others, I reckon. 460 00:41:33,858 --> 00:41:36,294 Funny, I never thought it would suit you. 461 00:41:36,361 --> 00:41:39,063 No one to talk to. No one to be with. 462 00:41:39,163 --> 00:41:42,700 - How you sleeping these days, girl? - How am I what? 463 00:41:43,134 --> 00:41:44,135 Yeah. 464 00:41:44,969 --> 00:41:47,071 You sleep good? 465 00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:50,008 No, not lately. How did you know? 466 00:41:50,108 --> 00:41:53,411 Well, looky here. Yeah. 467 00:41:54,379 --> 00:41:57,015 Yeah. This is Valerian. 468 00:41:57,849 --> 00:42:01,052 It'll help you nod off when the nights get long. 469 00:42:04,956 --> 00:42:07,191 Now, you wanna go on aways? 470 00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:10,361 - Yes. - Okay. Yeah. 471 00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:15,233 Would you stay for supper? 472 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:19,037 I don't wannabe any trouble. 473 00:42:19,137 --> 00:42:23,207 Well, a supper guest every 30, 40 years is not much trouble, girl. 474 00:42:24,409 --> 00:42:26,010 All right, then. 475 00:42:27,812 --> 00:42:29,914 Well, you better stay close. 476 00:42:30,748 --> 00:42:35,553 Because some big old wildcat has been eating my chickens. 477 00:42:37,055 --> 00:42:38,790 Or maybe it was me. 478 00:42:41,526 --> 00:42:43,594 Now, you take that root, and you mash it... 479 00:42:47,932 --> 00:42:49,300 Here we go. 480 00:42:53,004 --> 00:42:54,272 Go on in. 481 00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:58,276 - Give me your coat there. - Thank you. 482 00:42:59,210 --> 00:43:02,713 It's a little cold here. 483 00:43:12,490 --> 00:43:13,558 Would you care for tea? 484 00:43:13,624 --> 00:43:14,759 Oh, I'd love some, thank you. 485 00:43:15,359 --> 00:43:16,427 Okay. 486 00:43:21,099 --> 00:43:25,603 This is a beautiful table. You were always good with your hands. 487 00:43:28,506 --> 00:43:29,807 Thank you. 488 00:43:33,244 --> 00:43:34,645 Miss Mattie. 489 00:43:52,396 --> 00:43:55,233 - You still play the piano? - I teach a few girls. 490 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:58,503 I got a good feeling when you played. 491 00:43:58,936 --> 00:44:00,771 Remember that time you was playing, 492 00:44:00,838 --> 00:44:03,241 and the lamp burned out, and you went right on in the dark? 493 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:07,011 I hear that song sometimes at night. 494 00:44:11,616 --> 00:44:12,683 I do. 495 00:44:13,451 --> 00:44:15,353 Sure is quiet out here. 496 00:44:16,454 --> 00:44:18,122 I said, it sure is... 497 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,962 I tried to write you a few times, but 498 00:44:26,397 --> 00:44:27,865 I didn't know what to say. 499 00:44:28,266 --> 00:44:30,801 - Well, I heard you married. - Yeah. 500 00:44:31,269 --> 00:44:33,838 To a doctor. A good man. 501 00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:37,041 We lived in St. Louis for a while. 502 00:44:38,643 --> 00:44:44,649 He died about a year ago. So I came back here because... 503 00:44:47,685 --> 00:44:49,620 I've no idea why. 504 00:44:50,254 --> 00:44:53,291 The list of people who are gone is getting longer and longer, and it seems like 505 00:44:53,824 --> 00:44:57,161 all I'm doing is just waiting for my name to be called. 506 00:44:57,662 --> 00:45:00,331 You have a tender heart. You always did, you know. 507 00:45:01,832 --> 00:45:03,668 You can't wait for anything, Mattie. 508 00:45:04,168 --> 00:45:05,903 Close your eyes, hold your breath, 509 00:45:07,104 --> 00:45:10,741 stay in one spot your whole life, but you're still moving. 510 00:45:11,509 --> 00:45:15,513 Like the world is, you know, moving under you. There's no waiting. 511 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,554 And there's no getting over some things, is there? 512 00:45:25,856 --> 00:45:27,325 Reckon not, Little Bit. 513 00:45:27,391 --> 00:45:28,759 Little Bit. 514 00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:32,196 Oh, my God. I haven't been called that... 515 00:46:16,741 --> 00:46:17,742 Jesus, kid. 516 00:46:17,808 --> 00:46:19,043 Yeah, but it's not our money. 517 00:46:19,110 --> 00:46:22,880 Well, yeah, I know, but some of it's going to be. 518 00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:24,982 I mean, we're putting this thing on. 519 00:46:27,251 --> 00:46:29,754 Well, he should be here. I'm going to go get him. 520 00:46:45,770 --> 00:46:48,439 I'm not exactly sure how much your land is worth. 521 00:46:48,539 --> 00:46:51,776 It looks to me like you could get 10 times that, more. 522 00:46:52,109 --> 00:46:56,781 I mean, it's yours to do with what you want, but it makes me a little nervous. 523 00:46:57,281 --> 00:47:00,117 I never thought I'd see enough money to make me nervous. 524 00:47:01,619 --> 00:47:03,788 We should probably talk about the price of everything. 525 00:47:05,122 --> 00:47:06,424 The clothes, the ads, 526 00:47:06,957 --> 00:47:08,325 our price for everything. 527 00:47:08,959 --> 00:47:11,162 We'll be fair about that. I'm not worried about it. 528 00:47:11,295 --> 00:47:12,963 Well, what do you think, boy? 529 00:47:18,769 --> 00:47:20,504 Well, money makes people do funny things. 530 00:47:21,972 --> 00:47:23,274 I'd probably put it in the bank, sir. 531 00:47:23,341 --> 00:47:24,875 This bank, here, 532 00:47:26,243 --> 00:47:29,547 you can't trust. That's all I'm going to say. 533 00:47:30,815 --> 00:47:31,982 Can I trust you? 534 00:47:34,985 --> 00:47:36,654 Every name and every dollar is on this table. 535 00:47:36,754 --> 00:47:38,622 That's not what I asked. 536 00:47:39,957 --> 00:47:41,726 I've done a hell of a job for you. 537 00:47:43,361 --> 00:47:44,662 I don't see why... 538 00:47:44,762 --> 00:47:45,863 - Mr. Bush, I didn't mean to imply. - Hush. 539 00:47:45,963 --> 00:47:47,498 I've sold horses, cars. 540 00:47:47,598 --> 00:47:49,066 I mean, I've sold watches that were 541 00:47:49,166 --> 00:47:51,001 pinned to the inside of my coat. I'm not ashamed of it. 542 00:47:51,369 --> 00:47:53,204 I don't rob banks. Don't cheat at cards. 543 00:47:53,304 --> 00:47:55,339 I sleep all right, nights I sleep. 544 00:47:55,673 --> 00:47:58,242 Take out for the expenses you already have, and give me the receipts. 545 00:47:58,342 --> 00:48:00,211 When the bills come in for things, you give them to me. 546 00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:01,912 I'll pay them. 547 00:48:02,012 --> 00:48:03,247 You put this money in a box. 548 00:48:03,347 --> 00:48:05,383 The boy and I will take it someplace in the morning. 549 00:48:05,483 --> 00:48:07,651 Whatever new comes in... Listen to me. 550 00:48:07,718 --> 00:48:09,754 Whatever new comes in, you keep it in the bottom of one of them 551 00:48:09,854 --> 00:48:12,223 ugly caskets in there until I come get it. 552 00:48:12,823 --> 00:48:14,592 When the party's over, you name a fair price 553 00:48:14,692 --> 00:48:16,360 for what you've done, and we'll settle up. 554 00:48:18,028 --> 00:48:19,063 A fair price. 555 00:48:35,546 --> 00:48:39,350 Is it just me, or is he extremely articulate when he wants to be? 556 00:48:39,550 --> 00:48:41,385 I don't know who's selling who to what anymore. 557 00:48:43,487 --> 00:48:45,356 It's not clear, is it? 558 00:48:49,059 --> 00:48:50,528 Here you go. 559 00:48:52,763 --> 00:48:54,598 - Where to, sir? - North. 560 00:48:56,267 --> 00:48:59,370 - How far? - Till I say, son. 561 00:49:04,508 --> 00:49:06,377 Step on it. Step on it. 562 00:49:27,932 --> 00:49:29,233 Mr. Quinn. 563 00:49:49,086 --> 00:49:50,654 How much further? 564 00:49:51,889 --> 00:49:52,823 What? 565 00:49:52,923 --> 00:49:54,992 How much further you want to go? 566 00:50:41,138 --> 00:50:43,707 - Don't say nothing. - To who? 567 00:50:44,575 --> 00:50:46,710 You can say "hi." That's it. 568 00:50:48,312 --> 00:51:01,392 Hi. 569 00:51:02,326 --> 00:51:03,494 Hello. 570 00:51:11,001 --> 00:51:13,237 You sure you're in the right place? 571 00:51:13,337 --> 00:51:15,406 Not expecting a funeral. 572 00:51:15,506 --> 00:51:16,640 Hi. 573 00:51:22,379 --> 00:51:23,380 Hey, 574 00:51:23,781 --> 00:51:25,182 Charlie. 575 00:51:33,891 --> 00:51:34,925 Felix? 576 00:51:54,545 --> 00:51:56,347 Yeah. Yeah. 577 00:51:57,715 --> 00:51:59,383 Still standing. 578 00:51:59,683 --> 00:52:00,851 Yeah. 579 00:52:04,888 --> 00:52:07,391 - Reverend Charlie Jackson. - Hi. 580 00:52:08,392 --> 00:52:11,195 That's Buddy Robinson. He don't talk much. 581 00:52:11,261 --> 00:52:12,896 Well, somebody better talk. 582 00:52:13,263 --> 00:52:16,300 A ghost pulls into the driveway in a hearse, 583 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,569 you expect a little bit of a story. 584 00:52:21,405 --> 00:52:22,406 Well... 585 00:52:25,042 --> 00:52:27,745 You know, my hearing's not what it was. 586 00:52:28,245 --> 00:52:31,782 Sounded like you said you want me to preach at your funeral party, 587 00:52:32,316 --> 00:52:34,251 with you sitting there. 588 00:52:35,419 --> 00:52:36,754 Yes, sir. 589 00:52:38,689 --> 00:52:41,892 I've talked to God a lot about you over the years. 590 00:52:42,226 --> 00:52:44,628 He said he broke the mold when he made you. 591 00:52:44,728 --> 00:52:48,932 Said you're sure entertaining to watch but way too much trouble. 592 00:52:55,406 --> 00:52:58,409 What would you want me to say at this funeral? 593 00:52:59,476 --> 00:53:02,012 Say anything you wanna say, Charlie. 594 00:53:06,116 --> 00:53:08,152 Could you give us a minute? 595 00:53:08,252 --> 00:53:09,453 No, sit still. 596 00:53:09,553 --> 00:53:11,355 What's the matter? You scared to be alone with me? 597 00:53:11,455 --> 00:53:14,158 - No, he can hear what's said. - All right. 598 00:53:15,192 --> 00:53:17,294 After you left here, did you do the right thing? 599 00:53:19,963 --> 00:53:23,300 I felt that I did the right thing, yes. 600 00:53:25,436 --> 00:53:28,672 You confessed? Asked forgiveness? 601 00:53:32,476 --> 00:53:34,611 Did you tell her, Felix? 602 00:53:40,184 --> 00:53:43,187 - You've come a long way for nothing, then. - You self-righteous no... 603 00:53:43,287 --> 00:53:46,390 - Don't you dare. - No, hey. You listen to me now. 604 00:53:46,490 --> 00:53:49,226 I built my own jail and put myself in it. 605 00:53:49,326 --> 00:53:52,162 And I stayed in it for 40 goddamn years. 606 00:53:53,197 --> 00:53:54,498 No wife. 607 00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:57,668 No kids, no friends, no nothing. 608 00:53:58,302 --> 00:54:00,003 No grandchildren. 609 00:54:05,342 --> 00:54:08,812 I wouldn't even know how to hold a baby. You hear me? 610 00:54:10,614 --> 00:54:11,849 Forty years. 611 00:54:12,950 --> 00:54:14,852 Now, that's not enough? 612 00:54:16,653 --> 00:54:18,322 You know it's not. 613 00:54:21,125 --> 00:54:24,161 Well, why don't you come to say that then, Charlie? 614 00:54:24,228 --> 00:54:27,498 Hell, tell it all if you wanna. I don't care. 615 00:54:28,132 --> 00:54:31,368 But just come and say something. 616 00:54:33,737 --> 00:54:35,372 Not on your life. 617 00:54:57,060 --> 00:54:59,363 How much do you know about him? 618 00:55:01,265 --> 00:55:04,434 Almost nothing. I just work at the funeral home. 619 00:55:07,738 --> 00:55:10,374 Do you know that he built this church? 620 00:55:12,676 --> 00:55:13,710 No. 621 00:55:15,379 --> 00:55:19,049 How could a man like that build something like this? 622 00:55:20,584 --> 00:55:23,687 I mean, I knew he was a good carpenter, but... 623 00:55:25,556 --> 00:55:27,424 - But this is... - Magic? 624 00:55:29,092 --> 00:55:31,228 Maybe it's the best of him. 625 00:55:32,462 --> 00:55:33,897 Maybe... 626 00:55:35,299 --> 00:55:38,268 Maybe he put his soul into it, I don't know. 627 00:55:39,770 --> 00:55:42,039 What y'all were talking about. 628 00:55:43,574 --> 00:55:45,108 What did he do? 629 00:55:46,410 --> 00:55:47,945 Who was he supposed to tell? 630 00:55:49,079 --> 00:55:51,481 Between him and God, I guess. 631 00:55:53,750 --> 00:55:57,321 I will say that he showed up here half dead. 632 00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:00,958 Can I ask you something? 633 00:56:01,792 --> 00:56:03,327 Do you have to? 634 00:56:05,696 --> 00:56:07,931 Yeah. What are we doing? 635 00:56:09,333 --> 00:56:11,168 Ever since the day you came to the funeral home, 636 00:56:11,268 --> 00:56:15,105 I don't think anything has happened that you didn't want to happen. 637 00:56:15,205 --> 00:56:17,507 I just don't know where it's going. 638 00:56:17,608 --> 00:56:19,843 There's a whole lot of things you don't know, 639 00:56:20,110 --> 00:56:23,513 like what a dog dreams. 640 00:56:24,281 --> 00:56:27,317 You can make up a story about him chasing rabbits. 641 00:56:27,417 --> 00:56:31,021 But you don't know if there's rabbits in there or not. 642 00:56:31,121 --> 00:56:33,523 And he can't tell you now, can he? 643 00:56:35,926 --> 00:56:38,762 People don't say what they mean, either, so you don't know anymore about them 644 00:56:38,829 --> 00:56:41,131 than you do about that dog's dream. 645 00:56:42,966 --> 00:56:46,937 That day you left my house, I saw you stop and look back. 646 00:56:47,004 --> 00:56:50,140 You wanna know what could make somebody like me. 647 00:56:50,674 --> 00:56:54,044 Well, here you are, son. Here you are. 648 00:57:12,996 --> 00:57:15,532 I better stop and tell Frank we're back. 649 00:57:15,632 --> 00:57:19,136 He's probably thrown two or three hissy fits by now. 650 00:57:19,202 --> 00:57:22,572 You can stay in the house with me tonight. I can take you back in the morning. 651 00:57:22,673 --> 00:57:25,976 Well, I haven't stayed with nobody in a long while. 652 00:57:26,510 --> 00:57:28,245 - Well, it's fine if you want to. - Yeah. 653 00:57:29,179 --> 00:57:32,249 Wait. Stop. Let me out. Stop the car. 654 00:57:32,349 --> 00:57:34,017 - What? - Stop it. Let me out. 655 00:57:35,218 --> 00:57:36,586 Let me out! 656 00:57:39,156 --> 00:57:40,891 Put the money in a casket. 657 00:57:40,991 --> 00:57:43,660 You can't walk. It's too far. You might as well get back in. 658 00:57:43,727 --> 00:57:48,332 - I'm gonna follow you the whole way. - Get the hell out of here, boy. Go on! 659 00:58:13,724 --> 00:58:18,362 They keep talking about forgiveness, ask Jesus for forgiveness. 660 00:58:21,565 --> 00:58:23,633 I never did nothing to him. 661 00:58:50,394 --> 00:58:51,595 Frank, I'm back here. 662 00:58:57,401 --> 00:58:58,802 Frank? 663 00:59:39,109 --> 00:59:41,144 Frank. In here. 664 00:59:53,824 --> 00:59:55,459 Here, follow it. 665 00:59:59,429 --> 01:00:00,697 I'm okay. 666 01:00:02,165 --> 01:00:04,201 I was putting the money in, 667 01:00:05,102 --> 01:00:07,404 and I heard some glass breaking. 668 01:00:08,672 --> 01:00:11,341 I locked up the casket and then, boom. 669 01:00:16,113 --> 01:00:17,581 You did good. 670 01:00:19,115 --> 01:00:20,884 It didn't feel good. 671 01:00:42,105 --> 01:00:43,974 Please, Ma'am. Please. 672 01:01:19,709 --> 01:01:20,844 Thank you. 673 01:01:24,581 --> 01:01:26,049 What are you doing here? 674 01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:29,686 Can I sit down? 675 01:01:31,054 --> 01:01:32,422 Yes, Ma'am. 676 01:01:38,528 --> 01:01:39,663 Now. 677 01:01:46,303 --> 01:01:50,006 You wanna know why I have your sister's picture on my wall. 678 01:01:50,574 --> 01:01:51,908 I'm not stupid, Felix. 679 01:01:53,810 --> 01:01:55,412 I take that back. 680 01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:58,381 How long was it going on? 681 01:01:59,216 --> 01:02:00,951 She was already married when I met you. 682 01:02:01,051 --> 01:02:03,720 Were you just making up to me to get to her? 683 01:02:07,490 --> 01:02:09,893 If you're not gonna talk, leave. 684 01:02:13,897 --> 01:02:16,099 Can you help who you love? 685 01:02:17,500 --> 01:02:21,037 I've had 40 years to think about it. I still don't know. 686 01:02:22,439 --> 01:02:26,610 Now, I'd like to tell you how it was. Now, if you don't want me to, I'll go. 687 01:02:26,810 --> 01:02:28,645 - Don't lie to me, Felix. - No, Ma'am. 688 01:02:38,622 --> 01:02:41,057 When did you take up with her? 689 01:02:44,527 --> 01:02:46,162 I came to see you. 690 01:02:47,097 --> 01:02:50,967 And she was there, hanging clothes on the line with your mama. 691 01:02:51,635 --> 01:02:53,470 She turned around. 692 01:02:53,903 --> 01:02:59,342 I promise you, I did not know that I had a heart until right then. 693 01:03:03,446 --> 01:03:05,482 You was a fine, fine girl. 694 01:03:05,582 --> 01:03:08,151 I didn't know why you wanted anything to do with me. 695 01:03:08,251 --> 01:03:12,322 But I was gonna keep coming to see you till my luck run out. 696 01:03:12,422 --> 01:03:13,690 And then... 697 01:03:13,790 --> 01:03:15,458 - She was married. - Yeah. 698 01:03:15,558 --> 01:03:18,261 And she wasn't just my sister. She was my best friend. 699 01:03:18,328 --> 01:03:20,597 We told each other everything. 700 01:03:21,631 --> 01:03:22,666 I can't... 701 01:03:28,638 --> 01:03:30,473 How long did it go on? 702 01:03:35,578 --> 01:03:36,813 How long? 703 01:03:41,651 --> 01:03:43,386 It's still going on. 704 01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:58,201 Did you have anything to do with her death? 705 01:03:58,968 --> 01:04:00,203 Her what? 706 01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:06,309 Tell me. 707 01:04:11,448 --> 01:04:12,682 Felix. 708 01:04:14,884 --> 01:04:17,587 Felix, get out of my house. 709 01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:21,858 Now! 710 01:04:24,928 --> 01:04:26,529 You go to hell. 711 01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:32,702 Felix. Felix. 712 01:04:35,538 --> 01:04:37,040 Take a breath. 713 01:04:43,546 --> 01:04:45,548 You need to see a doctor. 714 01:05:37,467 --> 01:05:38,468 Whoa. 715 01:05:38,568 --> 01:05:40,069 What the hell? 716 01:05:45,608 --> 01:05:48,778 - What? They get it? - Buddy sealed it in a casket. 717 01:05:49,712 --> 01:05:51,815 - Took a crack on the head though. - Is he all right? 718 01:05:51,915 --> 01:05:53,183 - Yeah. - You sure. 719 01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:56,019 I was an army medic. He'll be fine. 720 01:05:56,119 --> 01:06:00,490 But you ought to take those clothes back and get something in your size. 721 01:06:01,457 --> 01:06:03,293 They get the whiskey? 722 01:06:15,738 --> 01:06:17,207 Well, I've been thinking. 723 01:06:17,307 --> 01:06:19,776 What if we had the party at your place? 724 01:06:21,978 --> 01:06:24,481 You know, people will wanna see the land they're getting. 725 01:06:24,581 --> 01:06:26,883 I don't know. Don't know. 726 01:06:26,983 --> 01:06:28,518 Well, it's something to think about. 727 01:06:28,618 --> 01:06:31,120 - Yeah, well. Don't know. - We could... 728 01:06:32,655 --> 01:06:34,824 Don't know that I'm doing it. 729 01:06:36,826 --> 01:06:38,061 What? 730 01:06:39,028 --> 01:06:41,231 I'm thinking of calling it off. 731 01:06:41,331 --> 01:06:42,899 No. You can't. 732 01:06:42,999 --> 01:06:44,234 I can do any damn thing I want. 733 01:06:44,334 --> 01:06:46,402 - No. No. - I say no, you don't say no. 734 01:06:46,503 --> 01:06:48,471 Now, goddamn, you send that money back, all right? 735 01:06:48,538 --> 01:06:49,739 - You're killing me. - Oh, yeah? 736 01:06:49,839 --> 01:06:52,342 I bought things. I've hired people. 737 01:06:53,376 --> 01:06:54,744 Promised money. 738 01:06:54,844 --> 01:06:57,514 Everybody in town is hoping to get... 739 01:06:58,214 --> 01:06:59,916 You know, this thing going. It's big. 740 01:07:00,016 --> 01:07:03,353 I care about this town as much as they care about me. 741 01:07:04,487 --> 01:07:06,923 It's what you said you wanted. 742 01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:11,528 And I busted my ass for you. So now, why don't you want it anymore? 743 01:07:15,365 --> 01:07:20,103 It was the end-of-the-line, tell-it-all, get-out-of-jail party. 744 01:07:21,170 --> 01:07:23,840 But I guess I haven't got the goddamn guts to speak for myself. 745 01:07:23,907 --> 01:07:27,143 And I can't find nobody else to talk for me, so... 746 01:07:27,844 --> 01:07:30,046 Hell with it. The hell with me. 747 01:07:31,381 --> 01:07:33,182 Step back. Thank you. 748 01:07:55,505 --> 01:07:57,006 Can't you see? 749 01:07:57,907 --> 01:07:59,242 I see that you're mad. 750 01:07:59,375 --> 01:08:01,544 I'm not mad. I'm concerned. 751 01:08:05,048 --> 01:08:06,549 No, you're mad. 752 01:08:08,952 --> 01:08:13,256 If I could get my hands on whoever did that to you, you could see mad. 753 01:08:15,491 --> 01:08:16,693 Buddy, you up? 754 01:08:17,827 --> 01:08:18,895 Yeah. 755 01:08:19,495 --> 01:08:20,530 Trouble. 756 01:08:20,596 --> 01:08:22,231 What's the matter? 757 01:08:22,966 --> 01:08:24,867 Bush is pulling out. 758 01:08:24,901 --> 01:08:26,402 - What? - What happened yesterday? 759 01:08:26,502 --> 01:08:29,138 Well, I told you. We went to Illinois to see a preacher. 760 01:08:29,238 --> 01:08:30,273 Yeah, but what happened? 761 01:08:30,406 --> 01:08:33,409 Well, he wanted the preacher to come to the funeral. And he said no. 762 01:08:33,509 --> 01:08:35,778 Son of a bitch. That's gotta be it. 763 01:08:38,748 --> 01:08:40,817 Sorry. Sorry. 764 01:08:41,751 --> 01:08:44,587 - All right, where's the preacher? - It won't do you any good. 765 01:08:44,687 --> 01:08:45,922 Why not? 766 01:08:46,389 --> 01:08:50,560 Well, he knows something about Bush, and it's something bad, I think. 767 01:08:50,627 --> 01:08:53,262 Well, if Bush wants him, by God, Bush is gonna get him. 768 01:08:53,363 --> 01:08:55,798 You want eggs, Frank, or will the skillet do? 769 01:08:56,399 --> 01:08:57,433 What? 770 01:08:57,533 --> 01:08:58,768 My husband has his head bashed in, 771 01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:00,503 and all you care about is this party. 772 01:09:00,570 --> 01:09:02,605 That's not how it is, Katie. 773 01:09:02,705 --> 01:09:04,574 It's not like that. This is for all of us. 774 01:09:04,941 --> 01:09:06,943 You're like family to me. 775 01:09:07,410 --> 01:09:09,512 Well, this isn't how family acts. 776 01:09:15,284 --> 01:09:16,619 I'm sorry. 777 01:09:18,721 --> 01:09:20,256 I haven't had any practice. 778 01:09:32,935 --> 01:09:35,471 Stay out of her way today, partner. 779 01:10:06,769 --> 01:10:09,405 That's good. Do it one more time, honey. 780 01:10:21,651 --> 01:10:22,652 Reverend Jackson? 781 01:10:24,053 --> 01:10:26,456 Frank Quinn. Quinn Funeral Home. 782 01:10:26,556 --> 01:10:29,525 I was gonna play some dominos this afternoon. 783 01:10:30,026 --> 01:10:32,995 But something told me to stay home. 784 01:10:34,063 --> 01:10:35,565 I should have played dominos. 785 01:10:37,867 --> 01:10:40,203 - Is he out there? - Bush? No, sir. 786 01:10:41,537 --> 01:10:42,839 You sure? 787 01:10:43,606 --> 01:10:44,774 Pretty sure. 788 01:10:44,874 --> 01:10:46,743 Did you check the back? 789 01:10:57,653 --> 01:10:59,422 You told Bush you wouldn't come to the funeral? 790 01:10:59,555 --> 01:11:02,792 If he got that, why are you here? 791 01:11:02,859 --> 01:11:05,394 First off, Bush doesn't know that I'm here. 792 01:11:05,561 --> 01:11:08,030 I wouldn't be so sure about that. 793 01:11:08,531 --> 01:11:10,766 He has a way of making people do what he wants. 794 01:11:13,669 --> 01:11:16,239 Is he really a hermit? 795 01:11:26,949 --> 01:11:30,720 He came to see me after he'd been here. Wants to cancel the party. 796 01:11:30,753 --> 01:11:31,788 I don't care. 797 01:11:31,921 --> 01:11:35,391 He said he wanted an end-of-the-line, tell-it-all, get-out-of-jail funeral. 798 01:11:35,525 --> 01:11:38,661 But that he didn't have the guts to open his mouth. 799 01:11:38,761 --> 01:11:41,631 And he couldn't get anybody to talk for him. 800 01:11:42,398 --> 01:11:46,068 At first, he wanted anybody with a story about him to come. 801 01:11:46,102 --> 01:11:49,405 But he didn't wanna hear their bullshit stories. 802 01:11:49,472 --> 01:11:51,007 Pardon my language. 803 01:11:51,107 --> 01:11:52,241 He wants to tell one. 804 01:11:52,308 --> 01:11:53,676 About time. 805 01:11:53,776 --> 01:11:58,147 Whatever he did has been locked up in him for 40 years. He can't get it out. 806 01:11:58,748 --> 01:12:01,317 I think he told you, and he wants you to tell it for him. 807 01:12:01,450 --> 01:12:02,451 Because he won't. 808 01:12:02,618 --> 01:12:03,619 Or can't. 809 01:12:04,287 --> 01:12:05,655 Or won't. 810 01:12:07,423 --> 01:12:08,758 Or can't. 811 01:12:10,259 --> 01:12:12,528 At least he wants to get the truth out. 812 01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:14,463 Give him that. 813 01:12:15,464 --> 01:12:17,366 I'll think about it. 814 01:12:19,335 --> 01:12:22,038 - Is there a boarding house near here? - I said I'd think. 815 01:12:22,138 --> 01:12:25,141 But if you're not coming, I'm not going back. 816 01:12:26,075 --> 01:12:29,011 I made promises I can't keep to people I care about. 817 01:12:30,646 --> 01:12:33,516 This falls apart, nobody's gonna blame Bush. 818 01:12:36,018 --> 01:12:38,154 Bank will take my business. 819 01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:44,594 If I'm gonna have to start over again, it might as well be from here. 820 01:13:49,025 --> 01:13:50,192 What are you doing, sir? 821 01:13:52,161 --> 01:13:54,730 Getting me a suntan. 822 01:14:01,070 --> 01:14:02,171 You stuck? 823 01:14:02,405 --> 01:14:05,107 You have no goddamn idea how right you are, boy. 824 01:14:08,711 --> 01:14:09,879 I'll sit here a minute. 825 01:14:10,212 --> 01:14:11,447 How's your head? 826 01:14:14,517 --> 01:14:16,619 - It's all right. - Yeah? 827 01:14:16,719 --> 01:14:18,587 Well, we're a pair, ain't we? 828 01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:24,226 You know who hurt you? 829 01:14:24,293 --> 01:14:25,561 No, sir. 830 01:14:25,928 --> 01:14:27,563 Sons of bitches. 831 01:14:32,735 --> 01:14:33,970 You sick? 832 01:14:35,271 --> 01:14:36,972 Just going through the motions. 833 01:14:37,740 --> 01:14:41,143 - What does that mean? - There's alive and there's dead. 834 01:14:41,744 --> 01:14:44,580 And there's a worse place in between them 835 01:14:45,715 --> 01:14:47,717 that I hope you never know nothing about. 836 01:14:52,488 --> 01:14:55,424 Listen, Frank went somewhere, 837 01:14:56,592 --> 01:14:58,427 and the money's gone. 838 01:15:03,933 --> 01:15:05,601 You figure he took off with it? 839 01:15:05,801 --> 01:15:07,770 I don't wanna think that. 840 01:15:08,804 --> 01:15:11,007 But the money's not in the casket. 841 01:15:11,107 --> 01:15:13,442 He said he was gonna call, and I ain't heard from him. 842 01:15:18,814 --> 01:15:21,450 Well, what do you wanna do? 843 01:15:28,724 --> 01:15:31,460 I wanna make you a funeral, if you still want one. 844 01:15:40,669 --> 01:15:42,838 Well, do it if you want to. 845 01:15:47,309 --> 01:15:50,012 I guess, for everyone like me, 846 01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,115 there's one like you, son. 847 01:15:55,484 --> 01:15:57,286 I 'bout forgot that. 848 01:16:34,356 --> 01:16:36,258 I'm glad you decided to come, sir. 849 01:16:36,892 --> 01:16:39,395 Free will is not all it's cracked up to be. 850 01:16:39,695 --> 01:16:42,498 Did you take the money out of the casket? 851 01:16:43,799 --> 01:16:44,767 Yeah. 852 01:16:45,134 --> 01:16:47,102 Well, why didn't you tell me? 853 01:16:48,571 --> 01:16:49,905 I forgot. 854 01:16:51,674 --> 01:16:53,075 You forgot? 855 01:16:55,377 --> 01:16:56,545 Well, where is it? 856 01:16:56,612 --> 01:16:59,014 It's in the hearse under the floorboards. 857 01:17:01,750 --> 01:17:04,420 What? Nobody steals a hearse. 858 01:17:06,222 --> 01:17:09,258 Now, all we gotta do is get the preacher over to Bush and... 859 01:17:09,358 --> 01:17:13,095 Yeah, I forgot to tell you, Bush already said he'd do it. 860 01:17:14,730 --> 01:17:16,565 Where can I catch a train? 861 01:17:16,665 --> 01:17:18,300 You can't leave. You just got here. 862 01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:20,035 Watch and learn. 863 01:17:21,737 --> 01:17:23,205 You might need two canes. 864 01:17:23,272 --> 01:17:24,740 Where's the train station? 865 01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:26,942 Sure you wouldn't rather have a drink first? 866 01:17:27,042 --> 01:17:28,644 I am out of here. 867 01:17:57,373 --> 01:17:59,074 Expecting a crowd? 868 01:18:41,483 --> 01:18:45,487 You asked for it, you old ornery son of a bitch. Yeah. 869 01:18:46,288 --> 01:18:48,824 But what are you gonna do now? 870 01:19:49,351 --> 01:19:51,020 Pretty nice jail. 871 01:19:52,755 --> 01:19:54,723 Why'd you change your mind, Charlie? 872 01:19:59,995 --> 01:20:01,330 Thank you. 873 01:20:03,165 --> 01:20:04,233 How do you wanna do this? 874 01:20:04,333 --> 01:20:05,668 I don't. 875 01:20:07,302 --> 01:20:09,204 I'm gonna try and tell it, Charlie. I really am. 876 01:20:09,305 --> 01:20:11,373 But if I can't get it done, would you do it? 877 01:20:12,007 --> 01:20:13,776 I want it said, so... 878 01:20:14,410 --> 01:20:15,844 Please, sir. 879 01:20:22,351 --> 01:20:24,019 Tell them the box is in the barn. 880 01:21:12,735 --> 01:21:14,770 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. 881 01:21:14,870 --> 01:21:17,573 I'm Frank Quinn of Quinn Funeral Home. 882 01:21:18,307 --> 01:21:19,975 Welcome 883 01:21:20,075 --> 01:21:22,010 to the live funeral party 884 01:21:23,312 --> 01:21:24,613 of Mr. Felix Bush. 885 01:21:28,150 --> 01:21:31,920 I've done a lot of things in my life, but I've never done this. 886 01:21:31,987 --> 01:21:34,289 I bet none of you have, either. 887 01:21:34,957 --> 01:21:36,291 I bet no one has. 888 01:21:37,126 --> 01:21:41,463 The person that made all this happen for us doesn't like the spotlight. 889 01:21:42,097 --> 01:21:43,966 But Mr. Buddy Robinson 890 01:21:44,633 --> 01:21:46,702 is the heart of Quinn Funeral Home, 891 01:21:47,503 --> 01:21:48,837 and I'm proud to know him. 892 01:21:51,440 --> 01:21:53,509 Many of you have heard stories about Mr. Bush. 893 01:21:55,611 --> 01:21:58,847 But today, I'm told that we're going to hear another kind of story. 894 01:22:02,951 --> 01:22:03,952 His. 895 01:22:51,700 --> 01:22:52,768 Yeah. 896 01:22:58,907 --> 01:23:00,676 I'm Reverend Charlie Jackson. 897 01:23:04,046 --> 01:23:05,681 We like to imagine that 898 01:23:06,415 --> 01:23:07,883 good and bad, 899 01:23:08,951 --> 01:23:11,086 right and wrong 900 01:23:12,554 --> 01:23:14,223 are miles apart. 901 01:23:14,656 --> 01:23:16,258 But the truth is, 902 01:23:16,925 --> 01:23:20,929 very often, they're all tangled up with each other. 903 01:23:21,763 --> 01:23:23,398 Some 40 years ago, 904 01:23:24,132 --> 01:23:26,602 Felix dropped into my life. 905 01:23:29,538 --> 01:23:32,541 And then he dropped out. 906 01:23:33,675 --> 01:23:35,043 In Between, 907 01:23:36,712 --> 01:23:39,548 he built the most beautiful 908 01:23:41,350 --> 01:23:45,020 sanctuary that I have ever seen. 909 01:23:52,261 --> 01:23:54,863 A lot of wonderful things happened in that church. 910 01:23:56,732 --> 01:23:59,801 That's it, Charlie. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you very much. 911 01:23:59,902 --> 01:24:02,771 You're a good man, Charlie. Thank you. 912 01:24:03,238 --> 01:24:04,306 Yeah. 913 01:24:12,180 --> 01:24:17,252 I had to go clear to Illinois to find somebody who had anything good to say about me. 914 01:24:17,352 --> 01:24:19,221 Hell of a thing. Yeah. 915 01:24:24,426 --> 01:24:25,427 So. 916 01:24:33,268 --> 01:24:34,436 Now... 917 01:24:35,771 --> 01:24:40,342 I'm not a smart man or a wise one. I don't know what kind of man I am. 918 01:24:40,442 --> 01:24:43,612 I was always restless. Thought I'd see the world. 919 01:24:45,113 --> 01:24:47,916 But I didn't go nowhere on purpose because 920 01:24:48,750 --> 01:24:51,119 I did something I was ashamed of. 921 01:24:52,955 --> 01:24:55,123 Something I could never fix. 922 01:24:56,024 --> 01:24:58,293 Y'all probably think you know what you'd do, or what you wouldn't, 923 01:24:58,393 --> 01:25:01,463 and I wish you good luck with that. I really do. 924 01:25:02,497 --> 01:25:04,967 When I told Charlie what I'd done, 925 01:25:06,101 --> 01:25:09,471 he told me to confess to God and the law... 926 01:25:09,571 --> 01:25:12,941 You know, somebody else, so I could get forgiveness. 927 01:25:14,042 --> 01:25:16,812 But I didn't want forgiveness. No. 928 01:25:18,780 --> 01:25:21,216 I needed to hold on to what I did, 929 01:25:21,316 --> 01:25:23,819 to be sick from it every day of my life. 930 01:25:23,885 --> 01:25:27,155 So that I never told nobody else, you see. 931 01:25:28,957 --> 01:25:30,158 Nobody. 932 01:25:48,977 --> 01:25:52,981 I fell in love with a married lady, and somehow, she fell in love with me. 933 01:25:58,020 --> 01:26:00,722 The only time that I have been in love. 934 01:26:02,958 --> 01:26:06,395 We made a plan to run off and start a new life, a family. 935 01:26:06,995 --> 01:26:08,363 But somehow, 936 01:26:09,331 --> 01:26:12,200 she didn't show up when we said we'd meet. 937 01:26:13,001 --> 01:26:14,536 And I got a funny feeling. 938 01:26:21,643 --> 01:26:24,880 Her husband answered the door. He had blood on him. 939 01:26:26,181 --> 01:26:29,084 I hit him pretty hard and knocked him down. 940 01:26:29,885 --> 01:26:34,256 I can't remember going upstairs. I remember there was a hammer on the steps 941 01:26:34,356 --> 01:26:36,992 that was covered with blood and hair. 942 01:26:38,493 --> 01:26:42,097 And I found her in the Bedroom, crawling across the floor. 943 01:26:42,698 --> 01:26:45,200 Before I could get to her and help her up, 944 01:26:46,301 --> 01:26:49,104 a kerosene lamp hit the wall and exploded. 945 01:26:50,172 --> 01:26:52,274 And then her husBand, he jumped on my back. 946 01:26:52,407 --> 01:26:55,911 Boy, I had him. Boy, I had... I had him. 947 01:27:01,717 --> 01:27:04,386 But it's funny what happens, sometimes, when things go wrong. 948 01:27:04,486 --> 01:27:06,521 It's like the clock stops. 949 01:27:08,090 --> 01:27:11,226 And you have all the time in the world to think. 950 01:27:12,861 --> 01:27:17,032 I could see that her husband set the downstairs on fire before he came up, 951 01:27:17,099 --> 01:27:18,533 you see. 952 01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:22,804 And as I was slamming his head into the wall, trying to get shed of him, 953 01:27:22,904 --> 01:27:25,240 it came to me clear as anything, 954 01:27:27,709 --> 01:27:30,912 that this was all my fault. 955 01:27:33,081 --> 01:27:34,449 If I'd just 956 01:27:36,151 --> 01:27:37,919 never spoke to her. 957 01:27:39,855 --> 01:27:42,757 And as I was thinking about that, I could see the lamp that he threw, 958 01:27:42,858 --> 01:27:46,995 it set the room we were in on fire, too. And then I realized that... 959 01:27:48,296 --> 01:27:50,098 That I was on fire. 960 01:27:56,071 --> 01:27:57,606 Tried to put myself out. I couldn't. 961 01:27:57,706 --> 01:28:01,810 I dropped him, I turned around, and I was so confused. 962 01:28:02,778 --> 01:28:05,780 And I looked down, and I saw her lying on the floor, 963 01:28:05,947 --> 01:28:08,183 and I called out her name. 964 01:28:08,283 --> 01:28:10,418 You know her name, Mattie. 965 01:28:10,785 --> 01:28:14,289 Mary Lee. Sometimes I called her Mary Lou for fun. 966 01:28:17,125 --> 01:28:20,028 And then I called out her name again and... 967 01:28:25,667 --> 01:28:27,135 I could see 968 01:28:35,677 --> 01:28:37,345 that my only love, 969 01:28:38,146 --> 01:28:39,714 and your sister, 970 01:28:40,949 --> 01:28:42,317 was on fire. 971 01:28:43,485 --> 01:28:44,486 And... 972 01:28:46,454 --> 01:28:50,959 I'm so ashamed. 973 01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:59,034 I reached down, and I tried to help her up. 974 01:29:00,669 --> 01:29:02,671 And the next thing I knew, 975 01:29:04,539 --> 01:29:07,075 I was flying, you see. 976 01:29:08,543 --> 01:29:09,644 Yeah. 977 01:29:11,513 --> 01:29:12,981 I was flying. 978 01:29:16,785 --> 01:29:19,421 I don't know how I got out the window. 979 01:29:19,521 --> 01:29:23,525 No matter how many times I play it in my mind, I can't rememberjumping. 980 01:29:23,625 --> 01:29:27,696 I thought I killed him. But maybe he pushed me. I don't know, see. 981 01:29:29,698 --> 01:29:31,433 But I swear to you, 982 01:29:34,736 --> 01:29:36,605 if I left her in there, 983 01:29:37,906 --> 01:29:40,709 everything I know about myself is a lie. 984 01:29:42,210 --> 01:29:43,912 But that don't matter. 985 01:29:44,212 --> 01:29:45,881 That don't matter. 986 01:29:49,017 --> 01:29:52,454 I didn't get her out, Little Bit, I didn't. I'm sorry. 987 01:29:57,392 --> 01:29:58,693 And that's my story. 988 01:30:01,429 --> 01:30:04,900 I would like forgiveness now, if possible. 989 01:30:06,434 --> 01:30:07,736 And then, 990 01:30:09,604 --> 01:30:12,407 I don't mind dying for real next time. 991 01:30:15,944 --> 01:30:17,812 But please forgive me. 992 01:32:01,683 --> 01:32:02,984 I wonder 993 01:32:10,325 --> 01:32:12,494 if her hair would be white. 994 01:32:15,330 --> 01:32:18,500 I wonder. Yeah. 995 01:33:23,531 --> 01:33:26,935 My funeral, and everybody's in there but me. 996 01:34:07,242 --> 01:34:11,479 Well, Felix, I guess this one's for real. 997 01:34:12,614 --> 01:34:15,984 Now, I didn't see them put you in that box, actually. 998 01:34:16,284 --> 01:34:17,418 So... 999 01:34:22,056 --> 01:34:23,925 So wherever you are... 1000 01:34:25,994 --> 01:34:28,463 Probably giving someone a hard time, 1001 01:34:29,297 --> 01:34:33,301 or something wonderful 1002 01:34:34,002 --> 01:34:37,138 or priceless. Just to confuse them. 1003 01:34:38,907 --> 01:34:40,208 I wish you 1004 01:34:41,976 --> 01:34:43,144 peace 1005 01:34:43,645 --> 01:34:47,148 from the burdens of your mind and heart. 1006 01:34:49,317 --> 01:34:51,152 I wish it for us all.