1 00:00:04,088 --> 00:00:06,089 (drumroll) 2 00:00:08,259 --> 00:00:10,010 (fanfare playing) 3 00:00:23,524 --> 00:00:24,733 (music ends) 4 00:00:38,164 --> 00:00:40,165 ("The Last Rose Of Summer" playing) 5 00:00:53,930 --> 00:00:58,391 # 'Tis the last rose # 6 00:00:58,476 --> 00:01:02,562 # Of summer # 7 00:01:02,647 --> 00:01:08,109 # Left blooming # 8 00:01:08,194 --> 00:01:11,154 # Alone # 9 00:01:11,948 --> 00:01:15,951 # All her lovely # 10 00:01:16,035 --> 00:01:20,830 # Companions # 11 00:01:20,915 --> 00:01:26,336 # Are faded # 12 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:29,714 # And gone # 13 00:01:29,799 --> 00:01:34,636 # No flower # 14 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,723 # Of her kindred # 15 00:01:38,808 --> 00:01:44,354 # No rosebud # 16 00:01:44,438 --> 00:01:51,403 # Is nigh # 17 00:01:51,821 --> 00:01:56,283 # To reflect back # 18 00:01:56,367 --> 00:01:59,244 # Her blushes # 19 00:02:00,496 --> 00:02:04,082 # And give # 20 00:02:04,166 --> 00:02:08,837 # Sigh for sigh # 21 00:02:08,921 --> 00:02:10,964 - (birds chirping) - (brakes squeal) 22 00:03:06,937 --> 00:03:10,732 (dramatic music playing) 23 00:03:42,681 --> 00:03:44,724 (footsteps approach) 24 00:03:45,476 --> 00:03:47,102 You Red Welby? 25 00:03:47,395 --> 00:03:48,561 Yes, ma'am. How may I help you? 26 00:03:48,646 --> 00:03:50,605 I hear those three billboards out on Drinkwater Road, 27 00:03:50,689 --> 00:03:52,315 you're in charge of renting 'em out, that right? 28 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,734 I didn't know we had any billboards out on Drinkwater Roa... 29 00:03:54,819 --> 00:03:57,445 - where is Drinkwater Road? - It's the road out past Sizemore turn-off. 30 00:03:57,530 --> 00:03:59,239 Nobody uses it since the freeway got put in. 31 00:03:59,323 --> 00:04:00,323 (drawer opens) 32 00:04:04,829 --> 00:04:06,496 (Red clicking tongue) 33 00:04:06,580 --> 00:04:07,622 You're right. 34 00:04:07,706 --> 00:04:08,957 We got three billboards out there. 35 00:04:09,041 --> 00:04:12,043 Nobody's put nothing up out there since 1986. 36 00:04:13,212 --> 00:04:14,254 That was Huggies. 37 00:04:14,338 --> 00:04:16,172 How much to rent all three of them out for the year? 38 00:04:17,299 --> 00:04:18,341 A year? 39 00:04:19,176 --> 00:04:21,386 You wanna pay for three billboards on a road that no one goes down 40 00:04:21,470 --> 00:04:23,096 unless they got lost or they're retards... 41 00:04:23,180 --> 00:04:24,973 - (chuckles) for a year? - Quick, ain't you, Welby? 42 00:04:27,017 --> 00:04:27,851 Well... 43 00:04:29,311 --> 00:04:31,146 since what I say goes these days 44 00:04:31,230 --> 00:04:33,189 down at the Ebbing Advertising Desk, 45 00:04:33,274 --> 00:04:35,483 I'm gonna strike you a real good deal on those billboards. 46 00:04:35,568 --> 00:04:37,360 Now, what was it your name was, Missus... 47 00:04:37,445 --> 00:04:40,280 What's the law on what you can and cannot say on a billboard? 48 00:04:40,823 --> 00:04:43,158 I assume you can't say nothing defamatory, 49 00:04:43,242 --> 00:04:45,660 and you can't say "fuck," "piss," or "cunt." That right? 50 00:04:45,744 --> 00:04:46,744 Uh... 51 00:04:48,497 --> 00:04:49,497 Or... 52 00:04:50,082 --> 00:04:51,207 "anus." 53 00:04:51,292 --> 00:04:53,835 Well, I think I'll be all right then. 54 00:04:57,006 --> 00:04:59,007 Here's 5,000 for the first month. 55 00:04:59,091 --> 00:04:59,966 I assume that'll cover it. 56 00:05:01,135 --> 00:05:03,011 And here's what the billboards are to say. 57 00:05:03,387 --> 00:05:05,638 Why don't you write up a contract betwixt us while you're at it, 58 00:05:05,723 --> 00:05:08,016 make sure nobody rents them billboards out from under me. 59 00:05:12,897 --> 00:05:14,981 I guess you're Angela Hayes's mother. 60 00:05:15,065 --> 00:05:17,984 That's right. I'm Angela Hayes's mother. 61 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:25,783 Name's Mildred. 62 00:05:27,912 --> 00:05:29,412 How long before you get 'em put up? 63 00:05:29,622 --> 00:05:31,122 (sighs) 64 00:05:31,207 --> 00:05:33,708 Shall we say by... 65 00:05:33,792 --> 00:05:35,293 Easter Sunday? 66 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:38,004 That'd be perfect. 67 00:05:42,051 --> 00:05:42,091 # As I was walking down the streets of Laredo # 68 00:05:42,092 --> 00:05:46,054 # As I was walking down the streets of Laredo # 69 00:05:46,138 --> 00:05:47,138 (exclaims) 70 00:05:47,848 --> 00:05:52,936 # As I walked down to Laredo one day # 71 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:53,937 (exclaims) 72 00:05:54,730 --> 00:05:58,441 # I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen # 73 00:05:58,567 --> 00:06:03,154 # All wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay # 74 00:06:03,239 --> 00:06:05,198 (exclaims) 75 00:06:20,923 --> 00:06:23,800 - Hey, what the hell is this? - Que? 76 00:06:25,177 --> 00:06:26,719 "How come, Chief Willoughby" what? 77 00:06:26,804 --> 00:06:28,221 - What? - Yeah. 78 00:06:28,305 --> 00:06:30,265 - Huh? - "How come" what? 79 00:06:30,349 --> 00:06:32,141 - What, what? - What? 80 00:06:32,226 --> 00:06:34,227 Listen, you fucking beaner, I'd better start getting 81 00:06:34,311 --> 00:06:35,478 some straight answers outta you. 82 00:06:35,563 --> 00:06:36,479 Put that down. 83 00:07:06,343 --> 00:07:07,594 What the hell is this? 84 00:07:08,220 --> 00:07:10,597 Hey, you. What the fuck is this? 85 00:07:10,681 --> 00:07:11,848 What the fuck is what? 86 00:07:11,932 --> 00:07:13,808 This! This. 87 00:07:17,521 --> 00:07:20,189 - Advertising, I guess. - Advertising what? 88 00:07:27,573 --> 00:07:28,823 Something obscure? 89 00:07:29,908 --> 00:07:31,576 I'll say. Yeah. 90 00:07:32,745 --> 00:07:34,412 Don't I know your face from some place? 91 00:07:35,623 --> 00:07:39,083 - I don't know, do you? - Yeah. Yeah, I do. 92 00:07:40,669 --> 00:07:41,544 (spits) 93 00:07:42,755 --> 00:07:44,631 I could arrest you right now if I wanted to. 94 00:07:44,715 --> 00:07:46,716 - For what? - For emptying your bucket there. 95 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,384 That's... that's against the... 96 00:07:48,469 --> 00:07:50,470 being bad against the environment laws. 97 00:07:50,554 --> 00:07:54,641 Well, before you do that, Officer Dixon... 98 00:07:55,434 --> 00:07:58,186 how about you go have yourself a look at that first billboard over there? 99 00:07:58,854 --> 00:08:00,605 And then we can have ourself a conversation 100 00:08:00,689 --> 00:08:02,273 about the motherfucking environment. 101 00:08:03,275 --> 00:08:04,233 How about that? 102 00:08:09,156 --> 00:08:10,323 (engine revving) 103 00:08:14,662 --> 00:08:16,454 (tires squeal) 104 00:08:23,545 --> 00:08:24,629 Fuck me. 105 00:08:25,923 --> 00:08:27,298 (cell phone ringing) 106 00:08:28,133 --> 00:08:29,467 Don't, William. 107 00:08:33,889 --> 00:08:35,890 Dixon, you goddamn asshole. 108 00:08:35,974 --> 00:08:38,351 I'm in the middle of my goddamn Easter dinner. 109 00:08:39,561 --> 00:08:40,478 Sorry, kids. 110 00:08:40,896 --> 00:08:41,813 I know, Chief, 111 00:08:41,897 --> 00:08:43,856 and I'm sorry for calling you at home and all, but... 112 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:47,527 I think we got kind of a problem. (sighs) 113 00:09:22,855 --> 00:09:27,316 ("Buckskin Stallion Blues" playing) 114 00:09:27,401 --> 00:09:30,445 # I heard her sing in tongues of silver # 115 00:09:31,321 --> 00:09:34,615 # I heard her cry on a summer storm # 116 00:09:35,367 --> 00:09:38,703 # I loved her, but she did not know it # 117 00:09:39,329 --> 00:09:42,707 # So I don't think about her anymore # 118 00:09:43,542 --> 00:09:46,794 # Now she's gone, and I can't believe it # 119 00:09:47,504 --> 00:09:50,757 # So I don't think about her anymore # 120 00:09:54,678 --> 00:09:58,097 # If three and four was seven only # 121 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:02,143 # Where would that leave one and two? # 122 00:10:02,978 --> 00:10:06,355 # If love can be and still be lonely # 123 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,318 - POLICEMAN: No, no. No, no. Go back. - # Where does that leave me and you? # 124 00:10:10,402 --> 00:10:11,319 Hey. 125 00:10:11,403 --> 00:10:14,781 # Time there was, and time there will be # 126 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,451 # Where does that leave me and you? # 127 00:10:34,218 --> 00:10:36,052 Sorry I'm late, Denise. 128 00:10:36,428 --> 00:10:38,513 Did you put up those billboards to fuck with the cops yet? 129 00:10:38,597 --> 00:10:39,597 They're up. 130 00:10:39,681 --> 00:10:42,391 You go, girl. You go fuck those cops up. 131 00:10:44,102 --> 00:10:45,937 CEDRIC: What the fuck do you think you're doing, Welby, 132 00:10:46,021 --> 00:10:47,313 a bunch of billboards like that? 133 00:10:47,397 --> 00:10:49,524 You didn't think there'd be some kind of ramifications, legally? 134 00:10:49,608 --> 00:10:51,192 What's the legal ramifications, Cedric? 135 00:10:51,276 --> 00:10:53,110 You want me to explain legal ramifications, 136 00:10:53,195 --> 00:10:55,738 little punk like you? And don't call me Cedric! 137 00:10:55,823 --> 00:10:57,698 Ain't contravening no laws on propriety. 138 00:10:57,783 --> 00:10:59,534 Ain't contravening no laws on any fucking thing. 139 00:10:59,618 --> 00:11:00,660 I checked all this out. 140 00:11:00,744 --> 00:11:02,078 And where'd you check all this out? 141 00:11:02,162 --> 00:11:03,079 In a... 142 00:11:03,956 --> 00:11:06,165 - a book. - Which book, genius? 143 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:08,459 Book called Suck My Ass, It's None Of Your Business. 144 00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:14,966 - (thuds) - (sighs) Fuck. 145 00:11:15,050 --> 00:11:17,593 How long has this person, or persons, 146 00:11:18,095 --> 00:11:19,637 rented these billboards out for? 147 00:11:20,055 --> 00:11:22,139 Oh... the year. 148 00:11:23,642 --> 00:11:25,268 How long has she actually paid for? 149 00:11:26,311 --> 00:11:27,228 The year. 150 00:11:28,063 --> 00:11:29,856 So it's a "she," is it? 151 00:11:30,732 --> 00:11:31,566 (snaps fingers) 152 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:35,194 I ain't at liberty to divulge that kind of information, Chief. 153 00:11:36,864 --> 00:11:39,574 Mildred Hayes, perhaps? 154 00:11:40,868 --> 00:11:43,452 Ain't at liberty to divulge that kind of information, Chief. 155 00:11:43,537 --> 00:11:44,537 Do you really wanna fuck 156 00:11:44,621 --> 00:11:46,497 with the Ebbing Police Department, Red? 157 00:11:47,374 --> 00:11:48,249 Do you? 158 00:11:49,418 --> 00:11:50,376 I guess. 159 00:11:51,003 --> 00:11:53,129 He said what? To your face? 160 00:11:53,213 --> 00:11:54,589 No crime has been committed here. 161 00:11:54,673 --> 00:11:56,674 Oh, come on. Defamation of character ain't a crime? 162 00:11:56,758 --> 00:11:59,468 It isn't defamation if she's simply asking a question. 163 00:11:59,553 --> 00:12:00,386 What are you, an idiot? 164 00:12:00,470 --> 00:12:02,013 Don't call me an idiot, Dixon! 165 00:12:02,097 --> 00:12:03,306 I didn't call you an idiot. 166 00:12:03,390 --> 00:12:05,016 I asked if you was an idiot. That was a question. 167 00:12:05,100 --> 00:12:07,435 - (chuckles) He got you there, Cedric. - DIXON: That's it? Come on, man! 168 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:09,520 BILL: Hey! Don't go flying off the handle. 169 00:12:09,605 --> 00:12:11,314 Why in the hell you keep that man on? 170 00:12:11,398 --> 00:12:12,523 He's a good man at heart. 171 00:12:12,608 --> 00:12:14,567 He tortured a guy in custody, Bill. 172 00:12:14,651 --> 00:12:17,820 There was no... real evidence to support that. 173 00:12:20,073 --> 00:12:21,115 Take 'em down. 174 00:12:21,825 --> 00:12:23,492 - RED: Huh? - Take that shit down. 175 00:12:23,702 --> 00:12:24,702 Take what shit down? 176 00:12:24,912 --> 00:12:28,664 Hey, boy. You think I wouldn't take you out right here on Main Street, Red? 177 00:12:28,749 --> 00:12:30,708 I thought you only took out black dudes, Dixon. 178 00:12:30,792 --> 00:12:33,794 (grunts) No! No! Stop it. 179 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:35,922 You ever fucking touch me, motherfucker... 180 00:12:38,175 --> 00:12:39,216 RED: You drunk? 181 00:12:39,885 --> 00:12:41,552 - Are you drunk right now? - BILL: Get up. 182 00:12:44,556 --> 00:12:46,891 Nobody ever goes down that road anyways. 183 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:49,810 Unless they got lost. Or they're retards. 184 00:12:51,021 --> 00:12:52,605 Well, don't be nervous, is the main thing. 185 00:12:52,689 --> 00:12:53,648 It'll go just fine. 186 00:12:54,358 --> 00:12:55,775 Don't look in the camera, obviously. 187 00:12:55,859 --> 00:12:57,151 Let's hold for this car. 188 00:12:59,613 --> 00:13:01,948 - (blows air) - In three, two, one. 189 00:13:02,157 --> 00:13:04,367 So, Mildred Hayes, why did you put up these billboards? 190 00:13:04,826 --> 00:13:06,077 MILDRED (on TV): My daughter, Angela, 191 00:13:06,578 --> 00:13:08,996 was abducted, raped and murdered seven months ago 192 00:13:09,081 --> 00:13:10,957 - along this selfsame stretch of road. - (grunts) 193 00:13:11,041 --> 00:13:13,250 What you watching, Momma? Stupid news? 194 00:13:13,335 --> 00:13:15,086 It seems to me the local police department 195 00:13:15,170 --> 00:13:17,296 is too busy going around torturing black folks 196 00:13:17,589 --> 00:13:20,424 to be bothered doing anything about solving actual crime. 197 00:13:20,884 --> 00:13:23,928 I thought these billboards might concentrate their minds some. 198 00:13:24,388 --> 00:13:25,304 Fuck. 199 00:13:26,264 --> 00:13:28,891 MILDRED (on TV): I don't know what the police are doing, to be honest with you. 200 00:13:28,976 --> 00:13:32,645 I do know that my daughter's burnt body is lying six feet underground. 201 00:13:33,271 --> 00:13:34,939 All they're doing is eating Krispy Kremes 202 00:13:35,023 --> 00:13:37,692 and busting eight-year-olds for skating around parking lots. 203 00:13:38,193 --> 00:13:39,527 GABRIELLA (on TV): And Chief Willoughby, 204 00:13:39,653 --> 00:13:40,695 why single him out? 205 00:13:41,029 --> 00:13:42,363 MILDRED: He's the head of them, ain't he? 206 00:13:42,447 --> 00:13:43,823 The buck's gotta stop somewhere. 207 00:13:43,907 --> 00:13:45,366 GABRIELLA: And the buck stops at Willoughby? 208 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:46,951 MILDRED: Yeah, the buck stops at Willoughby. 209 00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:48,411 - Dead right it does. - (TV turns off) 210 00:13:50,455 --> 00:13:51,330 (remote clatters) 211 00:14:03,427 --> 00:14:04,552 ANNE: You all right there, fella? 212 00:14:07,139 --> 00:14:09,724 Looks like we got a war on our hands. 213 00:14:23,655 --> 00:14:24,864 (sighs) 214 00:14:27,868 --> 00:14:28,868 (clears throat) 215 00:14:33,707 --> 00:14:34,623 Can we talk? 216 00:14:40,797 --> 00:14:43,758 I'd do anything to catch the guy who did it, Mrs. Hayes. 217 00:14:43,842 --> 00:14:47,219 But when the DNA don't match no one who's ever been arrested, 218 00:14:47,304 --> 00:14:51,098 and when the DNA don't match any other crime nationwide, 219 00:14:51,183 --> 00:14:53,726 and when there wasn't a single eyewitness 220 00:14:53,810 --> 00:14:56,729 from the time she'd left your house to the time we found her, well... 221 00:14:58,148 --> 00:15:00,149 right now there ain't too much more we can do. 222 00:15:01,234 --> 00:15:03,694 Could pull blood from every man and boy in this town 223 00:15:03,779 --> 00:15:05,654 over the age of eight. 224 00:15:07,199 --> 00:15:09,950 There's civil rights laws prevents that, Mrs. Hayes. 225 00:15:10,535 --> 00:15:12,286 And what if he was just passing through town? 226 00:15:12,370 --> 00:15:14,080 Pull blood from every man in the country, then. 227 00:15:14,164 --> 00:15:16,207 Then what if he was just passing through the country? 228 00:15:16,458 --> 00:15:19,335 If it was me, I'd start up a database. 229 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:21,712 Every male baby what's born, stick them on it, 230 00:15:22,339 --> 00:15:23,923 and as soon as he done something wrong, 231 00:15:24,466 --> 00:15:25,466 cross-reference it, 232 00:15:25,550 --> 00:15:28,385 make 100% certain it was a correct match, 233 00:15:28,470 --> 00:15:29,345 then kill him. 234 00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:33,182 Yeah, well, there's... 235 00:15:33,975 --> 00:15:36,143 definitely civil rights laws prevents that. 236 00:15:36,228 --> 00:15:37,103 MILDRED: Ah. 237 00:15:40,232 --> 00:15:43,400 I'm doing everything I can to track him down. 238 00:15:44,152 --> 00:15:47,196 I don't think those billboards is very fair. 239 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,366 The time it took you to get out here whining like a bitch, Willoughby, 240 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:52,868 some other poor girl's probably out there being butchered right now. 241 00:15:52,953 --> 00:15:55,371 But I'm glad you got your priorities straight, I'll say that for you. 242 00:16:04,131 --> 00:16:06,048 There's something else, Mildred. 243 00:16:11,096 --> 00:16:12,179 I got cancer. 244 00:16:14,099 --> 00:16:15,933 - I'm dying. - I know it. 245 00:16:19,062 --> 00:16:19,979 Huh? 246 00:16:20,438 --> 00:16:22,481 I know it. Most everybody in town knows it. 247 00:16:28,238 --> 00:16:30,406 And you still put up those billboards? 248 00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:33,909 Well, they wouldn't be as effective after you croak. Right? 249 00:16:59,936 --> 00:17:01,061 (sighs) 250 00:17:05,901 --> 00:17:08,068 (song playing) 251 00:17:15,285 --> 00:17:16,619 Well, looky looky. 252 00:17:17,329 --> 00:17:20,581 If it ain't the instigator of this whole goddamn affair in the first place. 253 00:17:20,665 --> 00:17:22,249 I didn't instigate shit, Dixon. 254 00:17:22,876 --> 00:17:24,835 Playing pool against the town midget. 255 00:17:25,212 --> 00:17:26,212 He's right, Red, 256 00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:28,380 you are playing pool against the town midget. 257 00:17:28,465 --> 00:17:30,299 You know, he's a cop. You know, he's observant. 258 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:32,426 I always disliked you, Red, 259 00:17:32,719 --> 00:17:34,762 ever since you was a snotty little child. 260 00:17:35,096 --> 00:17:37,598 You still look like a snotty little child. 261 00:17:37,891 --> 00:17:40,142 That's unfortunate. I always thought you was great. 262 00:17:40,644 --> 00:17:43,187 Even your name, Red Welby. 263 00:17:44,147 --> 00:17:46,523 - Even your name I disliked. - Well... 264 00:17:47,651 --> 00:17:48,525 okay. 265 00:17:48,610 --> 00:17:52,321 DIXON: Like you was some kind of goddamn communist or something... 266 00:17:53,073 --> 00:17:56,700 - and proud of it. - No, it's 'cause I got red hair. 267 00:17:57,869 --> 00:18:00,037 You know what they do to faggots down in Cuba, Welby? 268 00:18:01,039 --> 00:18:02,373 Wow, that's left field. 269 00:18:02,457 --> 00:18:05,167 No, what do they do to faggots down in Cuba, Dixon? 270 00:18:05,794 --> 00:18:06,627 They kill 'em. 271 00:18:07,212 --> 00:18:09,838 Which, it might surprise you to learn, I'm against. 272 00:18:11,132 --> 00:18:13,592 I'm not sure if they do kill faggots down in Cuba, Dixon. 273 00:18:13,677 --> 00:18:15,928 I know Cuba's human rights record's pretty deplorable 274 00:18:16,012 --> 00:18:17,972 when it comes to homosexuality, 275 00:18:18,431 --> 00:18:19,431 but killing 'em? 276 00:18:21,142 --> 00:18:22,851 Are you sure you ain't thinking of Wyoming? 277 00:18:23,687 --> 00:18:25,896 Always with the smart-ass. Jesus. 278 00:18:26,815 --> 00:18:27,898 He's quite good, isn't he? 279 00:18:32,529 --> 00:18:35,698 Hey, Willoughby's a good man. Hey, look at me. Hey, look at me. 280 00:18:36,157 --> 00:18:37,700 I'm talking nice to you now, aren't I? 281 00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:39,159 I'm talking nice to you. 282 00:18:40,203 --> 00:18:41,745 Willoughby's a good man, Red. 283 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:44,081 Shouldn't have this be the only thing he thinks about, 284 00:18:44,582 --> 00:18:46,000 last months left to him. 285 00:18:48,003 --> 00:18:49,169 Last months what? 286 00:18:53,258 --> 00:18:54,133 Oh, you... 287 00:18:54,801 --> 00:18:55,843 you didn't know? 288 00:18:57,012 --> 00:18:59,013 - Yeah, pancre... pancreatic. - (coins clink) 289 00:18:59,097 --> 00:19:02,141 I'm up next. You old ladies quit yakking. 290 00:19:02,475 --> 00:19:04,059 - Rude. - Hey, Mildred. 291 00:19:05,061 --> 00:19:07,104 I saw you on TV the other day. 292 00:19:07,188 --> 00:19:08,856 - Oh, yeah? - JAMES: Yeah, you looked good. 293 00:19:09,858 --> 00:19:13,027 I mean, you know, you came across really good 294 00:19:13,111 --> 00:19:14,862 in the things that you were saying. 295 00:19:14,946 --> 00:19:17,072 I didn't think you came across real good. 296 00:19:17,157 --> 00:19:20,451 I think you sounded... you came across as a stupid-ass. 297 00:19:20,535 --> 00:19:22,578 Ain't it about time you got home to your momma, Dixon? 298 00:19:23,580 --> 00:19:26,707 No, it ain't time I go home to my mama... momma. 299 00:19:26,791 --> 00:19:30,085 I told her I was gonna be out till 12:00, actually. 300 00:19:30,837 --> 00:19:31,754 Jesus. 301 00:19:37,427 --> 00:19:41,013 That's me versus you, Mildred. (chuckles) 302 00:19:41,097 --> 00:19:44,850 (laughs) Hey, Robbie. I think that midget wants to get in my pants. 303 00:19:44,934 --> 00:19:46,602 (gasps) Father Montgomery. 304 00:19:48,021 --> 00:19:52,608 Mildred. I'm... I'm sorry to be calling on you so late, but, uh... 305 00:19:53,568 --> 00:19:56,695 I must say, Robbie has been the consummate host. 306 00:19:57,447 --> 00:20:00,824 Despite his having had, as he was just telling me, 307 00:20:00,909 --> 00:20:02,951 somewhat of a tricky day at school. 308 00:20:03,078 --> 00:20:06,038 Oh, no. Just some of the guys on the team was giving me crap. 309 00:20:06,122 --> 00:20:07,164 Crap about what? 310 00:20:07,248 --> 00:20:09,458 About the billboards, Mildred. 311 00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:12,127 Which is what I've come to have a word with you about. 312 00:20:12,212 --> 00:20:14,213 Oh. Proceed. 313 00:20:14,672 --> 00:20:17,424 I know how hard it's been for you, Mildred, 314 00:20:17,675 --> 00:20:19,176 this past year. We all do. 315 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:22,554 And if there is ever anything that you need, 316 00:20:22,972 --> 00:20:25,265 we will be there for you. Always. 317 00:20:26,393 --> 00:20:28,018 But the town also knows 318 00:20:28,103 --> 00:20:30,896 what kind of a man William Willoughby is. 319 00:20:32,148 --> 00:20:35,067 And the town is dead set against these billboards of yours. 320 00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:37,736 Took a poll, did you, Father? 321 00:20:37,821 --> 00:20:40,823 You know, Mildred, if you hadn't stopped coming to church, 322 00:20:41,241 --> 00:20:44,076 you'd have a little bit more understanding 323 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,953 of the depth of people's feelings. 324 00:20:46,454 --> 00:20:49,373 I had more than a dozen people come up to me on Sunday. 325 00:20:50,125 --> 00:20:52,167 So, yes, I took a poll. 326 00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:56,880 Everybody is with you about Angela. 327 00:20:57,882 --> 00:20:59,925 Nobody is with you about this. 328 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,558 You know what I was thinking about today? 329 00:21:08,643 --> 00:21:10,102 I was thinking about those street gangs 330 00:21:10,186 --> 00:21:11,687 they have down in Los Angeles, 331 00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,605 those Crips and those Bloods. 332 00:21:14,816 --> 00:21:16,358 And I was thinking about that bunch of new laws 333 00:21:16,443 --> 00:21:19,570 they came up with in the 1980s, I think it was, 334 00:21:19,654 --> 00:21:23,073 to combat those street gangs, those Crips and those Bloods. 335 00:21:24,075 --> 00:21:27,661 And, if I remember rightly, the gist of what those new laws were saying was, 336 00:21:28,413 --> 00:21:31,165 if you join one of these gangs, and you're running with them, 337 00:21:32,750 --> 00:21:35,043 and down the block one night, unbeknownst to you, 338 00:21:35,128 --> 00:21:37,421 one of your fellow Crips, or your fellow Bloods, 339 00:21:37,505 --> 00:21:40,090 shoot up a place, or stab a guy... 340 00:21:40,508 --> 00:21:44,178 well then, even though you may not know nothing about it 341 00:21:44,262 --> 00:21:47,306 and even though you may have just been standing on a street corner, 342 00:21:47,390 --> 00:21:48,849 minding your own business... 343 00:21:49,767 --> 00:21:53,604 What these new laws said was you're still culpable. 344 00:21:54,481 --> 00:21:56,815 You're still culpable by the very act of having joined 345 00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:58,859 those Crips and those Bloods in the first place. 346 00:22:00,028 --> 00:22:01,653 Which got me thinking, Father... 347 00:22:02,447 --> 00:22:03,989 that whole type of situation 348 00:22:04,073 --> 00:22:06,158 is kinda like you church boys, ain't it? 349 00:22:07,494 --> 00:22:10,621 You got your colors, you got your clubhouse. 350 00:22:10,705 --> 00:22:13,749 You're, for want of a better word, a gang. 351 00:22:14,542 --> 00:22:17,252 And if you were upstairs smoking a pipe and reading your Bible... 352 00:22:17,837 --> 00:22:19,630 while one of your fellow gang members 353 00:22:19,714 --> 00:22:21,715 is downstairs fucking an altar boy, well... 354 00:22:22,884 --> 00:22:25,886 Father, just like those Crips, and just like those Bloods, 355 00:22:25,970 --> 00:22:26,845 you're culpable... 356 00:22:27,555 --> 00:22:29,640 'cause you joined the gang, man. 357 00:22:30,558 --> 00:22:32,267 I don't care if you never did shit, 358 00:22:32,352 --> 00:22:34,394 you never saw shit, you never heard shit. 359 00:22:34,938 --> 00:22:37,773 You join the gang, you're culpable. 360 00:22:39,150 --> 00:22:42,069 And when a person is culpable to altar-boy-fucking, 361 00:22:42,153 --> 00:22:43,445 or any kinda boy-fucking, 362 00:22:43,530 --> 00:22:45,864 'cause I know you guys didn't really narrow that down... 363 00:22:47,784 --> 00:22:49,826 then you kinda forfeit the right to come into my house 364 00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:52,704 and say anything about me or my life, 365 00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:54,915 or my daughter, or my billboards. 366 00:22:58,628 --> 00:23:00,921 So why don't you just finish up your tea there, Father, 367 00:23:01,005 --> 00:23:02,631 and get the fuck outta my kitchen. 368 00:23:13,851 --> 00:23:15,602 But thanks for coming up anyway, Father. 369 00:23:20,984 --> 00:23:22,359 - How you been feeling, Bill? - (sighs) 370 00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:27,364 Ah, like I got cancer in a major organ. 371 00:23:27,991 --> 00:23:31,034 Well, I just want you to know we're all on your side 372 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,661 about this Mildred Hayes thing. 373 00:23:33,329 --> 00:23:36,456 If I have to hear that one more fucking time... 374 00:23:39,085 --> 00:23:42,129 I'm done with this shit. I can't waste my life waiting. 375 00:23:43,548 --> 00:23:45,340 (door opens, closes) 376 00:23:45,425 --> 00:23:47,301 Stop reading fucking comic books 377 00:23:47,385 --> 00:23:49,344 and get me the file on the Hayes case. 378 00:23:50,096 --> 00:23:52,389 Angela Hayes case or the Mildred Hayes case? 379 00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:54,600 There is no Mildred Hayes case. 380 00:23:54,684 --> 00:23:56,226 We've had two official complaints 381 00:23:56,311 --> 00:23:57,978 about those billboards, so, actually... 382 00:23:58,062 --> 00:23:59,021 From who? 383 00:24:03,026 --> 00:24:04,776 There's a lady with a funny eye... 384 00:24:06,112 --> 00:24:07,362 and a fat dentist. 385 00:24:09,032 --> 00:24:12,284 Get me the file on the Angela Hayes case. 386 00:24:13,077 --> 00:24:15,621 "A lady with a funny fucking eye"? 387 00:24:16,539 --> 00:24:17,748 Jesus Christ. 388 00:24:29,344 --> 00:24:30,719 (coughing) 389 00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:32,095 Late night? 390 00:24:35,433 --> 00:24:36,266 No. 391 00:24:37,060 --> 00:24:38,727 Lay off that Welby guy, will you? 392 00:24:40,313 --> 00:24:41,271 Or you'll do what? 393 00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:44,149 Kick your momma's fucking teeth in. 394 00:24:44,233 --> 00:24:45,859 No, you won't. 395 00:24:48,488 --> 00:24:50,656 Who told you I was laying on him anyway? The midget? 396 00:24:51,157 --> 00:24:52,824 What the fuck are you talking about? 397 00:24:53,785 --> 00:24:55,744 And I'm trying to fucking concentrate. 398 00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:56,828 Fucking midgets! 399 00:25:21,938 --> 00:25:23,188 DIXON: What you looking for anyway? 400 00:25:25,942 --> 00:25:27,192 There's nothing to look for. 401 00:25:30,613 --> 00:25:31,822 I don't know what it is. 402 00:25:33,533 --> 00:25:35,075 It feels like it's kinda waggling. 403 00:25:35,660 --> 00:25:38,453 Well, if it's waggling, it's gonna have to come out. 404 00:25:41,541 --> 00:25:43,333 Ain't you gonna take a look at it first? 405 00:25:45,503 --> 00:25:46,837 It's gonna have to come out. 406 00:25:49,882 --> 00:25:51,007 (whirs) 407 00:25:51,092 --> 00:25:53,677 Can I get a little Novocaine there, Doc? 408 00:26:05,815 --> 00:26:06,940 (Mildred grunts) 409 00:26:10,695 --> 00:26:12,028 Give it a couple of minutes. 410 00:26:27,795 --> 00:26:29,880 I just wanted to say there's a lot of good friends 411 00:26:29,964 --> 00:26:31,506 of Bill Willoughby in this town, Miss Hayes. 412 00:26:31,591 --> 00:26:33,592 No! Ow! Stop! No! 413 00:26:33,676 --> 00:26:36,261 (man screaming) 414 00:26:36,345 --> 00:26:37,554 God damn it! 415 00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:44,853 (groaning and whimpering) 416 00:26:44,937 --> 00:26:47,439 Then why don't you tell those good friends of Bill Willoughby 417 00:26:47,523 --> 00:26:50,150 to tell him to go do his fucking job, fat boy. 418 00:26:54,030 --> 00:26:57,199 (siren wailing) 419 00:27:00,328 --> 00:27:01,912 - (siren stops) - (car doors close) 420 00:27:04,999 --> 00:27:06,124 Hey there, Mildred. 421 00:27:06,959 --> 00:27:08,460 You didn't happen to pay a visit 422 00:27:08,544 --> 00:27:09,628 to the dentist today, did you? 423 00:27:09,712 --> 00:27:11,463 - (muffled) No. - BILL: Huh? 424 00:27:11,714 --> 00:27:12,589 (muffled) I said, "No." 425 00:27:13,216 --> 00:27:16,593 Oh, so it wasn't you who drilled a little hole 426 00:27:16,677 --> 00:27:20,472 in one of big fat Geoffrey's big fat thumbnails, no? 427 00:27:21,015 --> 00:27:22,682 - (softly) Of course not. - BILL: Huh? 428 00:27:22,767 --> 00:27:24,643 I said, "Of course not." 429 00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:26,645 (chuckles) You drilled a hole in the dentist? 430 00:27:26,854 --> 00:27:28,230 Denise, no, I didn't. 431 00:27:28,314 --> 00:27:30,607 (chuckling) I thought it was kinda funny myself, but... 432 00:27:31,651 --> 00:27:32,984 he wants to press charges, 433 00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:35,529 so we're gonna have to bring you in, I'm afraid. 434 00:27:41,410 --> 00:27:42,410 (chuckles softly) 435 00:27:51,337 --> 00:27:53,380 (Mildred exhales) 436 00:27:56,884 --> 00:27:59,886 So how's it all going in the nigger-torturing business, Dixon? 437 00:28:00,388 --> 00:28:03,473 It's persons-of-color-torturing business, these days. 438 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:05,058 If you wanna know... 439 00:28:06,102 --> 00:28:07,227 I didn't torture nobody. 440 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:12,524 What's the matter with you, saying that goddamn stuff on TV? 441 00:28:13,150 --> 00:28:14,651 My momma watches that station. 442 00:28:14,986 --> 00:28:16,528 Your momma doesn't know about the torturing? 443 00:28:16,612 --> 00:28:19,114 No, she doesn't know anything about it. She's against that kinda thing. 444 00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:20,282 BILL: Who's against what? 445 00:28:20,366 --> 00:28:23,201 My mama... momma is against persons-of-color-torturing. 446 00:28:23,286 --> 00:28:24,661 She said, "Nigger-torturing." 447 00:28:24,745 --> 00:28:26,830 I said, "You can't say 'nigger-torturing' no more. 448 00:28:26,914 --> 00:28:28,665 "You gotta say persons-of-color-torturing." 449 00:28:29,584 --> 00:28:30,458 isn't that right, Chief? 450 00:28:31,168 --> 00:28:32,085 Ain't that right? 451 00:28:35,298 --> 00:28:38,884 I think I'll be able to take care of Mrs. Hayes 452 00:28:38,968 --> 00:28:40,719 on my own from here on, Jason. 453 00:28:46,684 --> 00:28:48,476 Sure, Chief. I'll be right outside. 454 00:28:58,446 --> 00:28:59,279 (door slams) 455 00:29:00,656 --> 00:29:01,990 Don't give me that look. 456 00:29:03,117 --> 00:29:06,369 If you got rid of every cop with vaguely racist leanings, 457 00:29:06,454 --> 00:29:08,830 you'd have... three cops left, 458 00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:11,166 and all of them are gonna hate the fags. (laughs) 459 00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:12,834 So what are you gonna do, you know? 460 00:29:13,961 --> 00:29:15,170 (sighs) 461 00:29:15,922 --> 00:29:17,255 I wanna know something, Mildred. 462 00:29:17,965 --> 00:29:19,341 Why'd you drill a hole 463 00:29:19,425 --> 00:29:22,344 through poor fat Geoffrey's thumbnail? 464 00:29:22,428 --> 00:29:23,762 That did not happen. 465 00:29:24,722 --> 00:29:25,597 His hand slipped. 466 00:29:26,015 --> 00:29:27,766 He drilled a hole through his own self. 467 00:29:28,517 --> 00:29:29,809 Did he say I did it? 468 00:29:30,061 --> 00:29:33,063 (mock gasps) I guess it's his word against mine, then, huh? 469 00:29:34,065 --> 00:29:36,191 Kinda like in all those rape cases you hear about. 470 00:29:36,859 --> 00:29:39,903 Except, this time, the chick ain't losing. 471 00:29:39,987 --> 00:29:43,156 It ain't really about winning or losing, though, is it, Mildred? 472 00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:48,286 You think I care about who wins or loses between the two of youse? 473 00:29:48,913 --> 00:29:50,538 You think I care about dentists? 474 00:29:51,165 --> 00:29:52,707 I don't care about dentists. 475 00:29:53,084 --> 00:29:55,210 Nobody cares about dentists. 476 00:29:56,295 --> 00:29:58,964 What I do care about, or what I'm... 477 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:01,383 interested in... 478 00:30:02,677 --> 00:30:05,345 is tying you up in court so long 479 00:30:05,763 --> 00:30:09,766 that your hours at the gift shop be so shot to shit 480 00:30:10,267 --> 00:30:11,851 that you ain't gonna have a penny 481 00:30:11,936 --> 00:30:14,187 to pay for another month's billboards. 482 00:30:15,272 --> 00:30:17,899 - I got some dough put... - That's what I'm interested in. 483 00:30:17,984 --> 00:30:19,275 I got some dough put away. 484 00:30:19,819 --> 00:30:23,446 But what I heard was you had to sell off your ex-husband's tractor-trailer 485 00:30:23,531 --> 00:30:26,032 to even pay for this month's billboards, that right? 486 00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:29,911 How is old Charlie, by the way? 487 00:30:30,788 --> 00:30:34,791 He still shacked up with that pretty little intern works down at the zoo? 488 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,419 He's still shacked up with some chick smells of shit. 489 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:39,963 I don't know if the zoo's got anything to do with it. 490 00:30:40,047 --> 00:30:42,882 - Although I'd hope so. - (laughs) 491 00:30:44,552 --> 00:30:47,053 How old is she? Nineteen? 492 00:30:47,138 --> 00:30:48,638 - That must smart. - (mock gasps) 493 00:30:48,723 --> 00:30:52,475 (chuckles) Keep trying. Keep trying. 494 00:30:52,768 --> 00:30:55,729 What's Charlie think about these here billboards of yours, 495 00:30:55,813 --> 00:30:57,522 an ex-cop like Charlie? 496 00:30:57,606 --> 00:31:00,233 Ex-cop, ex-wife-beater. Same difference, I guess, right? 497 00:31:00,317 --> 00:31:02,861 His word against yours, though, right? 498 00:31:05,114 --> 00:31:06,531 Charlie don't know about 'em, does he? 499 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:08,825 It's none of his business. 500 00:31:08,909 --> 00:31:10,702 Well, he's kinda paying for 'em, though, ain't he? 501 00:31:10,786 --> 00:31:13,204 - I'm paying for 'em! - This month you are. 502 00:31:13,289 --> 00:31:14,873 How about when... (coughs) 503 00:31:20,671 --> 00:31:22,464 - I... I didn't mean to... - I know. 504 00:31:23,007 --> 00:31:25,008 - It was an accident. - I know, baby. 505 00:31:26,093 --> 00:31:27,052 It's blood. 506 00:31:30,097 --> 00:31:31,264 I'm gonna go get somebody. 507 00:31:32,892 --> 00:31:34,392 - (coughing) - MILDRED: Hey! 508 00:31:35,770 --> 00:31:38,063 - Just let her go. - Come on, Chief. 509 00:31:38,439 --> 00:31:39,898 Just let her go! 510 00:31:41,859 --> 00:31:43,401 (men grunting) 511 00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:45,653 Easy, easy, easy. 512 00:31:50,201 --> 00:31:51,284 Hey. 513 00:31:52,536 --> 00:31:54,829 - (engine starts) - (door shuts) 514 00:31:55,831 --> 00:31:57,874 (siren wailing) 515 00:32:12,932 --> 00:32:15,517 - Do birds get cancer? - MILDRED: Huh? 516 00:32:15,643 --> 00:32:20,021 - Birds. Do they get cancer? - I don't know. Dogs do. 517 00:32:20,106 --> 00:32:23,066 Yeah, well, I wasn't talking about dogs, was I? 518 00:32:29,406 --> 00:32:32,992 Great, the good old "Raped While Dying" route home. 519 00:32:33,077 --> 00:32:34,744 'Cause if there was two seconds in a day 520 00:32:34,829 --> 00:32:38,081 when I wasn't thinking about her and I wasn't thinking about how she died, 521 00:32:38,165 --> 00:32:40,542 "There you go! Think about it some more, why don't you?" 522 00:32:41,043 --> 00:32:43,586 It's good too, that as much as a person might have tried 523 00:32:43,671 --> 00:32:45,922 to avoid the details of what happened 524 00:32:46,006 --> 00:32:47,799 'cause he didn't think it would do any good, 525 00:32:47,883 --> 00:32:49,717 and he didn't think he could bear it... 526 00:32:50,427 --> 00:32:51,719 it's also good to be informed 527 00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:53,847 in 20-foot-high font and in real nice lettering 528 00:32:53,931 --> 00:32:56,975 the precise details of her last moments. 529 00:32:57,726 --> 00:32:59,853 That it wasn't enough that she was raped 530 00:33:00,521 --> 00:33:02,981 and it wasn't enough that she died, no. 531 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,108 "Raped While Dying." 532 00:33:06,277 --> 00:33:07,402 Thank you, Mom. 533 00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:11,447 I gave you the police reports. 534 00:33:11,532 --> 00:33:12,740 I didn't read 'em. 535 00:33:13,951 --> 00:33:16,494 I'm depressed enough as it fucking is. 536 00:33:57,411 --> 00:33:58,494 ANGELA (shouts): Mom? 537 00:33:58,954 --> 00:33:59,829 MILDRED: Yeah? 538 00:34:00,164 --> 00:34:02,207 ANGELA: You ain't going out again tonight, are ya? 539 00:34:02,291 --> 00:34:04,459 Denise and I are gonna grab a couple of beers, yeah. 540 00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:05,835 Denise gonna be driving you? 541 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,421 Angela, Why don't you just ask me if you can borrow the car? 542 00:34:08,505 --> 00:34:10,465 - Can I borrow the car? - No. 543 00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:13,676 - Bitch! - I will give you money for a taxi 544 00:34:13,761 --> 00:34:15,345 if you ask me nice and don't call me a bitch. 545 00:34:15,429 --> 00:34:17,597 Why'd you make me ask you if you was never gonna let me borrow it? 546 00:34:17,681 --> 00:34:20,308 'Cause it was funny! And because you've been smoking pot all day. 547 00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:22,352 - You are such a hypocrite. - Hypocrite? 548 00:34:22,436 --> 00:34:23,895 - Yeah. - How? 549 00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:25,813 You drove drunk with us in the car when we were kids. 550 00:34:26,190 --> 00:34:28,650 - What are you talking about? - Daddy told me. 551 00:34:29,318 --> 00:34:31,694 - When'd you see him? - Don't change the subject. 552 00:34:31,987 --> 00:34:35,073 Did you or did you not drive drunk with us in the car when we were kids? 553 00:34:35,157 --> 00:34:37,367 - Once, maybe. - Okay, once? 554 00:34:37,451 --> 00:34:39,327 When he was in the middle of beating the shit out of me. 555 00:34:39,411 --> 00:34:42,497 - Which we've only got your word about! - Angela, for Christ sakes. 556 00:34:42,581 --> 00:34:44,290 Why are you never on my side, Robbie? 557 00:34:44,375 --> 00:34:46,251 I'm always on your side when you're not being a cunt! 558 00:34:46,335 --> 00:34:48,169 - WOMEN: Hey! - There will be no more "cunts" 559 00:34:48,254 --> 00:34:50,380 - in this house. You got that, mister? - What, are you moving out? 560 00:34:51,131 --> 00:34:52,715 It was a ga... it's a ga... it was a gag. 561 00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:56,177 Are you gonna let me borrow the car or what? 562 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,514 Why don't you just walk, Angela? Why don't you just walk? 563 00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:01,432 You know what? I will walk. 564 00:35:02,059 --> 00:35:04,143 I will walk! And you know what else? 565 00:35:04,228 --> 00:35:07,021 - I hope I get raped on the way! - (shouts) Yeah, well, I hope 566 00:35:07,106 --> 00:35:08,648 - you get raped on the way too! - (door slams) 567 00:35:23,372 --> 00:35:25,456 We're gonna need to keep you in a few days, Bill. 568 00:35:25,916 --> 00:35:27,375 You shouldn't be coughing up blood. 569 00:35:28,168 --> 00:35:30,503 Yeah. Kinda guessed that, Doc. 570 00:35:31,630 --> 00:35:32,797 I'll swing by in the morning. 571 00:35:33,632 --> 00:35:34,507 Anne. 572 00:35:39,388 --> 00:35:41,014 I guess I'll go get your coat, huh? 573 00:35:42,224 --> 00:35:43,808 Well, you know I ain't staying. 574 00:35:43,892 --> 00:35:46,394 - You know I ain't arguing. - (both chuckle) 575 00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,703 (exhales) 576 00:36:03,787 --> 00:36:05,747 (cereal clattering) 577 00:36:31,023 --> 00:36:33,107 (whistling tune) 578 00:36:38,739 --> 00:36:39,614 Oops. 579 00:36:46,622 --> 00:36:47,747 You old cunt. 580 00:36:48,957 --> 00:36:50,416 - I'm not old, Robbie. - (vehicle approaching) 581 00:36:50,501 --> 00:36:52,001 - (both chuckle) - That's Dad. 582 00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:57,715 Hey, Dad. How's it going? 583 00:36:58,384 --> 00:36:59,509 Where's the crazy lady? 584 00:37:06,809 --> 00:37:08,976 Kid's got Rice fucking Krispies in his fucking hair. 585 00:37:09,061 --> 00:37:10,019 What's going on around here? 586 00:37:10,104 --> 00:37:12,730 And What the fuck is going on with these fucking billboards, Mildred? 587 00:37:12,815 --> 00:37:14,273 Kinda self-explanatory. 588 00:37:14,358 --> 00:37:16,150 Well, why don't you just explain it to me? 589 00:37:17,236 --> 00:37:19,237 Guess it ain't self-explanatory, then. 590 00:37:20,572 --> 00:37:23,366 Well, you know, I guess I wanted certain people's minds 591 00:37:23,450 --> 00:37:25,326 kept on certain people's jobs, is all. 592 00:37:25,744 --> 00:37:27,954 I hadn't heard from them in seven goddamn months. 593 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,331 I tell you this, I've heard an awful lot from them 594 00:37:30,416 --> 00:37:31,999 since I put them billboards up. 595 00:37:32,084 --> 00:37:34,377 You think this has focused their minds? Mmm? 596 00:37:34,461 --> 00:37:36,087 I'll tell you what it's focused their minds on. 597 00:37:36,171 --> 00:37:39,132 It's focused their minds on how exactly are they gonna fuck you up. 598 00:37:39,216 --> 00:37:41,342 The more you keep a case in the public eye, 599 00:37:41,427 --> 00:37:43,344 the better your chances are of getting it solved. 600 00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:45,805 It's in all the guidebooks, Charlie. 601 00:37:45,931 --> 00:37:47,598 How much these billboards cost? 602 00:37:47,683 --> 00:37:49,225 About the same as a tractor-trailer. 603 00:37:49,309 --> 00:37:50,518 (snickers) 604 00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,728 - What the fuck are you laughing at? - Nothing. 605 00:37:52,813 --> 00:37:55,356 Laughed at by a guy with fucking cereal in his hair. 606 00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:58,818 - How's Penelope? - CHARLIE: Huh? She's all right. 607 00:37:58,902 --> 00:38:00,069 Why don't you invite her in? 608 00:38:00,154 --> 00:38:01,529 Save leaving her sitting out there. 609 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:03,698 - She here? - She's out in the car. 610 00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:05,158 Oh, that explains it. 611 00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:09,036 - That explains what? - I know I smelt something. 612 00:38:11,623 --> 00:38:12,874 - (Mildred gasps) - Let her go! 613 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:16,544 Oh! Um, I kinda need to use the bathroom, 614 00:38:16,628 --> 00:38:19,088 but if it's inconvenient... actually, it is inconvenient, isn't it? 615 00:38:19,173 --> 00:38:21,132 I can see it's inconvenient. I can hold it. It's all right. 616 00:38:21,216 --> 00:38:22,592 It's the first door down the hall. 617 00:38:22,676 --> 00:38:24,886 Are you sure? I feel like I'm... intruding. 618 00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:26,804 - Just go pee. - Oh. 619 00:38:45,657 --> 00:38:47,825 MILDRED: Look, you said what you came to say, 620 00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:49,202 so why don't you go get zoo girl 621 00:38:49,286 --> 00:38:51,037 and get the hell out of my house, all right? 622 00:38:51,121 --> 00:38:54,874 Um, actually, zoo-wise, they were letting people go at the zoo, 623 00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:58,085 unfortunately, and it was a case of "last in, first out," 624 00:38:58,170 --> 00:39:00,505 so yeah, unfortunately, the zoo had to let me go. 625 00:39:00,589 --> 00:39:03,090 But they were looking for people down at the horse rides for the disableds 626 00:39:03,175 --> 00:39:04,634 to look after the horses down there. 627 00:39:05,093 --> 00:39:08,095 So I'm working down there now, looking after the disableds' horses. 628 00:39:17,523 --> 00:39:20,441 - Don't say a word. - I wasn't gonna say a word. 629 00:39:23,654 --> 00:39:25,571 You don't think I don't wish it had never happened? 630 00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:32,286 You don't think I don't wish she was still here? 631 00:39:32,746 --> 00:39:33,746 I know you do. 632 00:39:35,999 --> 00:39:37,083 (cries) I know you do. 633 00:39:39,711 --> 00:39:41,963 Billboards ain't gonna bring her back, Mildred. 634 00:39:43,257 --> 00:39:46,175 (sighs) Neither is fucking 19-year-olds, Charlie. 635 00:39:48,095 --> 00:39:49,011 Yeah? 636 00:39:50,013 --> 00:39:51,347 But I know that. 637 00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:54,642 Just go. 638 00:39:56,353 --> 00:39:57,562 Yeah, all right. 639 00:39:58,981 --> 00:40:01,899 I'm such a shitty dad, and you're such a great mom. All right. 640 00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:06,362 So how come a week before she died 641 00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:09,240 she comes around asking if she can move in with me at my place? 642 00:40:09,491 --> 00:40:11,867 'Cause she couldn't stand the two of you bitching at each other no more, 643 00:40:11,952 --> 00:40:13,953 - fighting with each other no more. - I don't believe you. 644 00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:15,997 And I said, "No. Stay at home. Your mom loves you." 645 00:40:18,041 --> 00:40:18,958 Now I wish I hadn't. 646 00:40:20,419 --> 00:40:22,253 'Cause if I hadn't, she'd still fucking be here. 647 00:40:22,337 --> 00:40:23,421 (hoarsely) I don't believe you! 648 00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:24,547 Don't believe me. 649 00:40:25,924 --> 00:40:27,091 Ask Froot Loop boy. 650 00:40:38,312 --> 00:40:39,186 Is that true? 651 00:40:40,814 --> 00:40:42,231 - (car door closes) - I don't know, Mom. 652 00:40:42,316 --> 00:40:43,316 (car engine starts) 653 00:40:46,069 --> 00:40:47,278 Yeah, you do. 654 00:40:54,911 --> 00:40:55,995 WOMAN (on TV): What's the matter? 655 00:40:56,788 --> 00:40:57,663 MAN: Nothing. 656 00:40:57,748 --> 00:41:00,875 DIXON: Oh, come on, not Donald Sutherland again. 657 00:41:00,959 --> 00:41:03,169 What is this, frickin' Donald Sutherland season? 658 00:41:03,670 --> 00:41:05,671 I like him. I like his hair. 659 00:41:05,756 --> 00:41:06,672 Hair? 660 00:41:07,341 --> 00:41:08,215 (chuckles) 661 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:10,593 This is the one where his little girl dies. 662 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,928 (laughs) Always a plus in a movie. 663 00:41:13,889 --> 00:41:15,181 Talking of dead kids, 664 00:41:15,641 --> 00:41:17,725 what's happening with the billboard lady? 665 00:41:17,809 --> 00:41:20,144 (sighs) Oh, that kooz won't listen to reason. 666 00:41:21,229 --> 00:41:22,521 She's tough as an old boot. 667 00:41:22,981 --> 00:41:23,898 Oh. 668 00:41:24,483 --> 00:41:27,068 Why don't you just fuck her over through her friends then? 669 00:41:29,154 --> 00:41:30,029 Huh? 670 00:41:30,113 --> 00:41:32,281 You know, why don't you fuck her friends over? 671 00:41:32,532 --> 00:41:34,033 Bring her around that way. 672 00:41:35,202 --> 00:41:37,411 She got any friends you can fuck over? 673 00:41:50,759 --> 00:41:52,134 Rat bastards. 674 00:42:02,646 --> 00:42:04,647 - Hey, fuckhead! - What? 675 00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:08,401 Don't say, "What," Dixon, when she comes in calling you a fuckhead! 676 00:42:08,485 --> 00:42:09,860 - And don't you come in here... - Shut up! 677 00:42:10,445 --> 00:42:12,613 You, get over here. 678 00:42:12,698 --> 00:42:15,908 No! You, get over here. 679 00:42:15,992 --> 00:42:18,494 - All right. - CEDRIC: What? Don't! Dixon! 680 00:42:18,995 --> 00:42:21,288 - DIXON: What? - You do not allow a member of the public 681 00:42:21,373 --> 00:42:23,165 to call you a fuckhead in the station house! 682 00:42:23,250 --> 00:42:24,917 DIXON: That's what I'm doing! I'm taking care of it 683 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:27,503 in my own way, actually. Now get out of my ass. 684 00:42:27,587 --> 00:42:30,589 Mrs. Hayes, have a seat. What is it I can do for you today? 685 00:42:30,674 --> 00:42:33,634 - Where's Denise Watson? - Denise Watson's in the clanger. 686 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,386 - On what charge? - DIXON: Possession. 687 00:42:35,762 --> 00:42:38,389 - Of what? - Two marijuana cigarettes. 688 00:42:38,473 --> 00:42:39,348 Big ones. 689 00:42:40,142 --> 00:42:43,352 - When's the bail hearing? - I asked the judge not to give her bail 690 00:42:43,729 --> 00:42:46,397 on account of her previous marijuana violations, 691 00:42:46,481 --> 00:42:47,815 and the judge said, "Sure." 692 00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:48,899 You fucking prick! 693 00:42:53,196 --> 00:42:55,698 You do not call an officer of the law a fucking prick 694 00:42:55,782 --> 00:42:57,950 in his own station house, Mrs. Hayes. 695 00:42:58,285 --> 00:42:59,618 Or anywhere, actually. 696 00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:02,913 What's with the new attitude, Dixon? 697 00:43:03,582 --> 00:43:05,374 Your momma been coaching ya? 698 00:43:07,210 --> 00:43:08,127 No. 699 00:43:09,045 --> 00:43:09,962 My momma... 700 00:43:10,714 --> 00:43:11,630 doesn't do that. 701 00:43:14,551 --> 00:43:16,510 Take them down, you hear me? 702 00:43:18,221 --> 00:43:20,014 - You did good, Dixon. - (door slams) 703 00:43:20,348 --> 00:43:21,974 Yeah, I know I did. 704 00:43:23,018 --> 00:43:23,976 (clatters) 705 00:43:25,437 --> 00:43:26,562 Almost got that. 706 00:43:27,564 --> 00:43:29,732 BILL: The rules here are twofold. 707 00:43:30,233 --> 00:43:33,527 No kid can leave this goddamn blanket 708 00:43:33,612 --> 00:43:35,613 at any goddamn time. 709 00:43:35,906 --> 00:43:37,948 And every single one 710 00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:40,659 of these dolls and these teddy bears 711 00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:42,912 has got to be hooked up. 712 00:43:43,121 --> 00:43:44,747 Now, your momma and I, 713 00:43:44,873 --> 00:43:46,415 although it won't look like it, 714 00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:49,627 we'll be watching every goddamn move you make. 715 00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:53,214 So the most important thing while we are watching you 716 00:43:53,423 --> 00:43:57,218 is that you do not leave this blanket. 717 00:43:58,094 --> 00:44:02,723 Next most important thing, you do not at any stage 718 00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:05,184 allow the fishing rods 719 00:44:05,268 --> 00:44:08,604 to stick into you or your sister's eyeballs, 720 00:44:08,688 --> 00:44:11,482 as this would be counter-productive 721 00:44:11,566 --> 00:44:13,859 to the entire operation. 722 00:44:14,152 --> 00:44:15,152 What would it be? 723 00:44:15,612 --> 00:44:20,574 BOTH: Counter-productive to the entire operation. 724 00:44:20,659 --> 00:44:21,617 Then, troops... 725 00:44:25,539 --> 00:44:26,705 start fishing. 726 00:44:30,043 --> 00:44:31,544 We are not. 727 00:44:32,128 --> 00:44:33,045 We are. 728 00:44:35,632 --> 00:44:36,632 JANE: Yes. 729 00:44:38,176 --> 00:44:39,051 Yes. 730 00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:43,472 Yes. 731 00:45:17,507 --> 00:45:19,091 Hey, baby. 732 00:45:23,889 --> 00:45:27,016 (chuckling) Yup, still no arrests. 733 00:45:29,686 --> 00:45:30,978 How come, I wonder? 734 00:45:32,731 --> 00:45:34,648 Because there ain't no God, the whole world's empty, 735 00:45:34,733 --> 00:45:36,400 and it doesn't matter what we do to each other? 736 00:45:39,571 --> 00:45:40,821 I hope not. 737 00:45:47,037 --> 00:45:50,289 How come you came up here outta nowhere looking so pretty? 738 00:45:52,542 --> 00:45:55,336 You ain't trying to make me believe in reincarnation or something, are ya? 739 00:45:56,671 --> 00:45:58,631 'Cause you're pretty, but you ain't her. 740 00:46:00,842 --> 00:46:01,842 She got killed... 741 00:46:02,844 --> 00:46:04,386 and now she's dead forever. 742 00:46:07,766 --> 00:46:09,308 I do thank you for coming though. 743 00:46:11,603 --> 00:46:13,562 If I had some food I'd give it to you. 744 00:46:13,855 --> 00:46:15,314 All I got is some Doritos, 745 00:46:15,398 --> 00:46:17,316 and they might kill you. They're kind of pointy. 746 00:46:18,526 --> 00:46:19,818 Then where would we be? 747 00:46:31,247 --> 00:46:32,706 (sobbing) 748 00:46:36,169 --> 00:46:39,672 Yeah, so I, uh, just happened to be looking 749 00:46:39,756 --> 00:46:43,550 over our contract that we drew up back that time. 750 00:46:43,635 --> 00:46:45,219 What I realized was I... 751 00:46:45,845 --> 00:46:48,681 I realized that although payment is to be made 752 00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:50,557 on the first day of each month, 753 00:46:50,642 --> 00:46:53,769 the first payment you paid was actually a deposit. 754 00:46:54,646 --> 00:46:56,063 Wasn't it? It's like we said. 755 00:46:56,147 --> 00:46:57,773 So, actually, in point of fact, 756 00:46:57,857 --> 00:47:00,567 you're actually behind in your payments now, 757 00:47:00,652 --> 00:47:02,444 by, yeah, a month. 758 00:47:03,071 --> 00:47:04,405 Yeah, that's, uh... 759 00:47:04,906 --> 00:47:07,992 It's what the contract says, looking over it and all. 760 00:47:09,411 --> 00:47:11,120 Lawyer says so too. 761 00:47:12,247 --> 00:47:14,164 When you need this next payment by, Red? 762 00:47:16,584 --> 00:47:17,793 Well, now, really. 763 00:47:21,381 --> 00:47:23,799 Or by... uh... 764 00:47:25,010 --> 00:47:26,927 - Friday? - Wow. 765 00:47:28,263 --> 00:47:30,389 When you can't trust the lawyers and the advertising men, 766 00:47:30,473 --> 00:47:32,266 what the hell's America coming to, huh? 767 00:47:33,101 --> 00:47:34,226 Who got to you, Red? 768 00:47:34,769 --> 00:47:35,811 Willoughby? 769 00:47:36,730 --> 00:47:39,481 - Nobody got to me. - My fat fucking ass. 770 00:47:41,985 --> 00:47:45,237 - (whispers) He's dying, Mildred. - We're all fucking dying! 771 00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,032 - Red! - Hi, Pamela. We're a little bit busy 772 00:47:48,116 --> 00:47:50,159 - at the moment, if that's okay. - Red. Oh, Red, I know... 773 00:47:50,243 --> 00:47:52,578 I know you were real anxious about talking to Mrs. Hayes this morning. 774 00:47:52,704 --> 00:47:53,996 Anxious? No. 775 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,749 No, but that's the thing. There's no need to be, because you won't believe it! 776 00:47:57,167 --> 00:47:59,585 Little Mexican delivery boy just dropped in with this. 777 00:48:00,336 --> 00:48:02,046 - What the hell is this? - I know! 778 00:48:02,130 --> 00:48:05,049 It's $5,000! And guess what the note says? 779 00:48:06,092 --> 00:48:08,677 It says to pay for the rental on Mrs. Hayes's billboards. 780 00:48:08,762 --> 00:48:10,971 Can you believe it? That's why I butted in. 781 00:48:11,056 --> 00:48:13,390 - Well, who's it from? - Well, doesn't say. 782 00:48:13,767 --> 00:48:15,059 Well, where's the delivery boy? 783 00:48:15,143 --> 00:48:15,976 Well, he went. 784 00:48:16,061 --> 00:48:17,811 Well, did you see what company he was from? 785 00:48:18,688 --> 00:48:21,398 - Well, no. - What kind of uniform did he have on? 786 00:48:22,067 --> 00:48:24,651 Well, he just looked like one of those fat little Mexican boys. 787 00:48:25,987 --> 00:48:26,820 On a bicycle. 788 00:48:28,364 --> 00:48:29,406 RED: Oh. 789 00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:32,826 - Did I do something wrong? - No, no, Pam, you did good. 790 00:48:32,911 --> 00:48:34,953 Yeah, Pamela, you did real good. 791 00:48:35,246 --> 00:48:36,914 Did I? Oh, great. 792 00:48:37,499 --> 00:48:39,500 (exhales) Ain't life crazy? 793 00:48:44,964 --> 00:48:46,048 What's the note say, Red? 794 00:48:48,968 --> 00:48:52,429 Says here, "This here money is to go towards the fund 795 00:48:52,514 --> 00:48:54,139 "for Mildred Hayes's billboards, 796 00:48:54,224 --> 00:48:56,141 "'cause she ain't the only one 'round here 797 00:48:56,226 --> 00:48:58,268 "who hates the pigs. Signed, a friend." 798 00:48:58,937 --> 00:49:01,563 I guess you can't be too picky about who your friends are these days, huh? 799 00:49:02,565 --> 00:49:03,690 Uh-huh, um... 800 00:49:05,026 --> 00:49:07,402 I guess I'll be needing a receipt off you there, Red, 801 00:49:07,695 --> 00:49:09,321 you know, saying the price of next month 802 00:49:09,405 --> 00:49:10,572 is paid in full and all. 803 00:49:11,699 --> 00:49:13,200 Oh, sure, Mildred, sure. 804 00:49:14,619 --> 00:49:16,578 - Like now. - Oh, sure. 805 00:49:16,663 --> 00:49:17,538 (papers shuffle) 806 00:49:21,042 --> 00:49:22,459 ls Mommy drunk, Daddy? 807 00:49:22,919 --> 00:49:25,462 No, no. She's just got a little migraine, is all. 808 00:49:25,547 --> 00:49:27,798 Little... Chardonnay migraine. 809 00:49:28,049 --> 00:49:30,759 Now, no more chit-chat outta you two, okay? 810 00:49:31,594 --> 00:49:33,887 Can we stay home from school again tomorrow, Daddy? 811 00:49:34,848 --> 00:49:37,391 We'll see what your mommy says in the morning, darling. 812 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,892 GIRLS: Aw! 813 00:49:39,227 --> 00:49:40,853 Eyes closed... 814 00:49:42,063 --> 00:49:44,064 and go to sleep, okay? 815 00:49:57,453 --> 00:50:00,622 You don't smell like puke, which is good. 816 00:50:01,249 --> 00:50:03,584 Aquafresh. Trick I learned. 817 00:50:04,169 --> 00:50:05,460 - Women, huh? - (chuckles) 818 00:50:07,505 --> 00:50:09,798 But it's still your turn to clean the horseshit 819 00:50:09,883 --> 00:50:11,216 outta the stable, you know. 820 00:50:11,301 --> 00:50:13,218 (blows air) Those fucking horses. 821 00:50:14,345 --> 00:50:15,846 They're your fucking horses. 822 00:50:15,930 --> 00:50:17,806 I'm gonna have those fucking horses shot! 823 00:50:19,017 --> 00:50:22,186 I'll do it... you lazy bitch. 824 00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:25,022 - Thank you, Poppa. - (chuckles) 825 00:50:27,609 --> 00:50:29,109 That was a real nice day. 826 00:50:31,529 --> 00:50:33,322 That was a real nice fuck. 827 00:50:37,243 --> 00:50:39,119 You got a real nice cock, Mr. Willoughby. 828 00:50:39,204 --> 00:50:40,495 (chuckling) 829 00:50:43,833 --> 00:50:45,459 Is that from a play? 830 00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,045 "You got a real nice cock, Mr. Willoughby." 831 00:50:48,129 --> 00:50:51,715 I think I heard that in a Shakespeare one time. 832 00:50:51,799 --> 00:50:52,883 You dummy. 833 00:50:53,801 --> 00:50:55,344 It's Oscar Wilde. 834 00:50:56,512 --> 00:50:58,513 - Ah. - (laughs mockingly) 835 00:51:07,690 --> 00:51:08,690 (horses breathing) 836 00:51:44,102 --> 00:51:46,603 (coughing) 837 00:51:51,109 --> 00:51:52,859 Oscar Wilde. 838 00:51:54,487 --> 00:51:55,404 (chuckles) 839 00:52:06,082 --> 00:52:07,040 (gun cocks) 840 00:52:21,681 --> 00:52:23,056 BILL: My darling Anne, 841 00:52:23,641 --> 00:52:25,517 there's a longer letter in the dresser drawer 842 00:52:25,601 --> 00:52:27,686 I've been writing for the last week or so. 843 00:52:28,146 --> 00:52:31,231 That one covers us and my memories of us 844 00:52:31,774 --> 00:52:33,400 and how much I've always loved you. 845 00:52:34,277 --> 00:52:37,738 This one just covers tonight, and more importantly, today. 846 00:52:39,115 --> 00:52:41,616 Tonight I've gone out to the horses to end it. 847 00:52:42,243 --> 00:52:44,619 I cannot say sorry for the act itself, 848 00:52:44,746 --> 00:52:46,580 although I know that for a short time 849 00:52:46,664 --> 00:52:49,750 you will be angry at me or even hate me for it. 850 00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:51,126 - (inaudible) - BILL: Please don't. 851 00:52:51,961 --> 00:52:54,713 This is not a case of, "I came in this world alone 852 00:52:54,797 --> 00:52:56,131 "and I'm going out of it alone," 853 00:52:56,215 --> 00:52:57,716 or anything dumb like that. 854 00:52:58,634 --> 00:53:00,635 I did not come in this world alone, 855 00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:01,803 my mom was there. 856 00:53:02,722 --> 00:53:04,556 And I am not going out of it alone, 857 00:53:05,266 --> 00:53:06,308 'cause you are there, 858 00:53:06,601 --> 00:53:10,312 drunk on the couch, making Oscar Wilde cock jokes. 859 00:53:11,439 --> 00:53:14,524 No, this is a case, in some senses, of bravery. 860 00:53:14,942 --> 00:53:17,319 Not the bravery of facing a bullet down. 861 00:53:17,445 --> 00:53:19,029 The next few months of pain 862 00:53:19,113 --> 00:53:21,782 would be far harder than that small flash. 863 00:53:22,867 --> 00:53:24,701 No, it's the bravery of weighing up 864 00:53:24,786 --> 00:53:27,329 the next few months of still being with you... 865 00:53:28,122 --> 00:53:31,375 still waking up with you, of playing with the kids... 866 00:53:32,210 --> 00:53:34,795 against the next few months of seeing in your eyes 867 00:53:34,879 --> 00:53:37,297 how much my pain is killing you, 868 00:53:37,382 --> 00:53:40,175 how my weakened body, as it ebbs away, 869 00:53:40,259 --> 00:53:41,593 and you tend to it, 870 00:53:42,136 --> 00:53:44,638 are your final and lasting memories of me. 871 00:53:45,848 --> 00:53:46,932 I won't have that. 872 00:53:48,309 --> 00:53:51,520 Your final memories of me will be us at the riverside 873 00:53:51,604 --> 00:53:54,856 and that dumb fishing game, which I think they cheated at... 874 00:53:55,608 --> 00:53:58,485 and me inside of you and you on top of me... 875 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,156 and barely a fleeting thought of the darkness yet to come. 876 00:54:04,283 --> 00:54:05,617 That was the best, Anne. 877 00:54:05,993 --> 00:54:08,495 A whole day of not thinking about it. 878 00:54:09,539 --> 00:54:11,039 Dwell on this day, baby, 879 00:54:11,124 --> 00:54:13,291 'cause it was the best day of my life. 880 00:54:14,460 --> 00:54:15,794 Kiss the girls for me, 881 00:54:16,129 --> 00:54:17,671 and know that I've always loved you, 882 00:54:17,797 --> 00:54:20,549 and maybe I'll see you again if there's another place. 883 00:54:21,008 --> 00:54:24,511 And if there ain't, well, it's been heaven knowing you. 884 00:54:27,056 --> 00:54:27,931 Your boy... 885 00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:30,767 Bill. 886 00:54:45,158 --> 00:54:47,826 ("Chiquitita" playing) 887 00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,040 # Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong # 888 00:54:54,125 --> 00:54:55,417 (no discernible dialog) 889 00:54:56,669 --> 00:54:57,919 # You're enchained # 890 00:54:58,004 --> 00:55:04,092 # By your own sorrow # 891 00:55:04,177 --> 00:55:07,929 # In your eyes # 892 00:55:08,014 --> 00:55:12,601 # There is no hope for tomorrow # 893 00:55:13,561 --> 00:55:16,480 # How I hate to see you like this # 894 00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:20,859 # There is no way # 895 00:55:20,943 --> 00:55:22,986 - (loud clattering) - # You can deny it # 896 00:55:24,071 --> 00:55:25,822 - (grunts) - (crashes) 897 00:55:27,116 --> 00:55:29,075 What the hell's going on around here? 898 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,286 (people sobbing) 899 00:55:33,372 --> 00:55:34,289 What? 900 00:55:35,917 --> 00:55:39,169 (Dixon sobbing) 901 00:56:00,566 --> 00:56:02,359 (faucet running) 902 00:56:02,944 --> 00:56:03,944 Can you stand now? 903 00:56:05,488 --> 00:56:06,780 Yeah, I can stand. 904 00:56:07,782 --> 00:56:09,491 (breathing heavily) 905 00:56:10,576 --> 00:56:11,868 CEDRIC: I'd better get out there... 906 00:56:13,162 --> 00:56:14,412 say something to 'em. 907 00:56:15,915 --> 00:56:17,374 You ain't gonna faint again, are ya? 908 00:56:41,190 --> 00:56:45,860 # Mohammed rolling dice with Christ at twilight... # 909 00:56:45,945 --> 00:56:48,405 CEDRIC: I know that the best thing... 910 00:56:49,490 --> 00:56:53,451 the only thing to honor that man's memory right now 911 00:56:53,536 --> 00:56:54,995 is to go to work... 912 00:56:55,871 --> 00:56:56,871 is to be a... 913 00:56:57,999 --> 00:56:58,873 a good cop... 914 00:57:00,626 --> 00:57:02,252 to walk in his shoes... 915 00:57:03,254 --> 00:57:05,213 and do what he did every day of his life. 916 00:57:05,298 --> 00:57:06,673 # Their job tonight... # 917 00:57:06,757 --> 00:57:07,674 Help people. 918 00:57:08,217 --> 00:57:09,259 (horn blares) 919 00:57:09,343 --> 00:57:11,219 (tires screech) 920 00:57:11,304 --> 00:57:13,013 # Re-write the bible # 921 00:57:14,015 --> 00:57:18,059 # For a whole new generation # 922 00:57:18,144 --> 00:57:21,438 # Of non-believers # 923 00:57:28,237 --> 00:57:32,699 # The pastor screams out to the crowd # 924 00:57:33,075 --> 00:57:37,495 # "There's evil that must be put down!" # 925 00:57:37,580 --> 00:57:39,831 # And it touches the soldier boy... # 926 00:57:39,915 --> 00:57:41,291 RED: What the hell's going on? 927 00:57:42,335 --> 00:57:46,421 # He heeds his master's voice # 928 00:57:46,505 --> 00:57:48,632 - # His life is calling... # - (spits) 929 00:57:48,716 --> 00:57:51,426 (Red breathing shakily) 930 00:57:52,178 --> 00:57:55,221 # Sweet soldier boy # 931 00:57:55,306 --> 00:57:58,725 # The speaker's bleeding... # 932 00:57:58,809 --> 00:58:01,019 - Where are you going, boy? - (Pamela screaming) 933 00:58:04,815 --> 00:58:05,899 (thuds) 934 00:58:05,983 --> 00:58:09,319 You fucking pig! What the fuck are you... 935 00:58:10,154 --> 00:58:11,488 - (thuds) - Shut up. 936 00:58:11,572 --> 00:58:14,658 # Calling # 937 00:58:14,742 --> 00:58:21,706 # Like the lady siren's call # 938 00:58:29,674 --> 00:58:32,634 # Sweet soldier quiet... # 939 00:58:32,718 --> 00:58:35,887 See, Red, I got issues with white folks too. 940 00:58:38,599 --> 00:58:42,936 # And he hears his master's voice... # 941 00:58:43,020 --> 00:58:44,229 Fuck you looking at? 942 00:58:44,313 --> 00:58:47,399 # He hears the call to war # 943 00:58:47,483 --> 00:58:50,318 # The siren's singing # 944 00:58:55,825 --> 00:58:57,325 (music plays over TV) 945 00:58:57,410 --> 00:59:00,245 FEMALE NEWS ANCHOR: Reports, sadly, have come in overnight, 946 00:59:00,329 --> 00:59:02,789 that Chief William Willoughby of Ebbing, Missouri, 947 00:59:02,873 --> 00:59:05,166 took his own life early this morning 948 00:59:05,251 --> 00:59:06,668 in the grounds of his home. 949 00:59:06,752 --> 00:59:09,462 This report just in from Gabriella Forrester. 950 00:59:09,755 --> 00:59:11,172 GABRIELLA: Tragedy came calling today 951 00:59:11,257 --> 00:59:14,509 upon this quiet family home outside Ebbing, Missouri. 952 00:59:14,593 --> 00:59:16,970 A home belonging to Chief William Willoughby, 953 00:59:17,263 --> 00:59:20,390 his wife, Anne, their two young daughters, Polly and Jane. 954 00:59:21,392 --> 00:59:23,685 What appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound 955 00:59:23,769 --> 00:59:25,937 brought life to an end for Chief Willoughby, 956 00:59:26,230 --> 00:59:28,064 a man highly-respected in Ebbing 957 00:59:28,149 --> 00:59:30,734 for his diligence and service to the community. 958 00:59:31,277 --> 00:59:32,694 What led him to take his life 959 00:59:32,778 --> 00:59:34,446 in the early hours of this morning, 960 00:59:34,530 --> 00:59:36,406 it is too early to speculate. 961 00:59:36,741 --> 00:59:38,032 There were rumors of illness. 962 00:59:38,367 --> 00:59:40,243 Could it simply have been the pressures of the job? 963 00:59:40,786 --> 00:59:43,079 Or could it have something to do with a story 964 00:59:43,289 --> 00:59:45,707 we ran here just two weeks ago 965 00:59:46,125 --> 00:59:50,336 of these billboards and the woman who put them there, Mildred Hayes? 966 00:59:50,421 --> 00:59:51,254 (clicks) 967 01:00:01,515 --> 01:00:02,640 Don't. Don't! 968 01:00:11,567 --> 01:00:12,400 Hi, there. 969 01:00:13,736 --> 01:00:15,987 - You know who threw that can? - What can? 970 01:00:17,406 --> 01:00:19,115 - (kicks) - (groans) 971 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,367 How about you, sweetheart? You know who threw that can? 972 01:00:21,452 --> 01:00:23,703 Uh, no, I didn't really... (groans) 973 01:00:32,671 --> 01:00:33,546 Thank you, Mom. 974 01:00:36,467 --> 01:00:38,551 - (engine revs) - (tires squeal) 975 01:00:41,555 --> 01:00:43,181 - (door opens) - (chattering) 976 01:00:44,767 --> 01:00:45,600 (door closes) 977 01:00:45,684 --> 01:00:48,061 CEDRIC: And what can I do for you today, sir? 978 01:00:48,145 --> 01:00:49,229 What's your name? 979 01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,484 Name's on my tag, man. You hard of reading? 980 01:00:55,236 --> 01:00:57,362 Hard of reading? No, no. 981 01:00:57,446 --> 01:00:58,655 That's good, "hard of reading." 982 01:00:58,739 --> 01:00:59,864 Kinda like "hard of hearing," 983 01:01:00,324 --> 01:01:02,116 but it's actually "hard of reading." 984 01:01:02,743 --> 01:01:04,202 Like a play on words or something, huh? 985 01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:07,163 What do you want? 986 01:01:07,248 --> 01:01:09,332 I've been sent down to take over from... 987 01:01:10,334 --> 01:01:12,710 Chief Willoughby in light of last night's unfortunate event. 988 01:01:12,795 --> 01:01:15,505 You have got to be fucking kidding me! 989 01:01:17,675 --> 01:01:20,927 CEDRIC: Do you have any documentation to prove that, sir? 990 01:01:22,137 --> 01:01:24,597 You really wanna see my documentation, fucker? 991 01:01:24,682 --> 01:01:28,476 Yeah, see his documentation! Make him show it to you. 992 01:01:30,855 --> 01:01:33,064 None of you cracker motherfuckers got no work to do? 993 01:01:37,027 --> 01:01:37,944 Ain't that racist? 994 01:01:43,409 --> 01:01:45,577 What happened to your hand, Officer Dixon? 995 01:01:45,870 --> 01:01:46,870 Oh, I just kinda... 996 01:01:48,122 --> 01:01:49,414 banged it up a little bit 997 01:01:49,498 --> 01:01:51,833 while I was throwing some guy out a fucking window. 998 01:01:51,917 --> 01:01:54,544 - (laughs) You know, the usual. - Oh yeah? 999 01:01:55,170 --> 01:01:57,338 They never taught me that one at the academy. 1000 01:01:57,506 --> 01:01:59,757 (laughs) Which fucking academy you go to? 1001 01:02:01,886 --> 01:02:04,554 ABERCROMBIE: How are things coming along on that Angela Hayes case? 1002 01:02:05,389 --> 01:02:08,224 How's things coming along on the mind-your-own-fucking-business case? 1003 01:02:08,309 --> 01:02:09,434 How are things coming along 1004 01:02:09,518 --> 01:02:11,895 on the hand me your gun and your badge? 1005 01:02:15,566 --> 01:02:16,441 What? Huh? 1006 01:02:16,525 --> 01:02:19,360 Hand me your gun and your badge. 1007 01:02:39,048 --> 01:02:40,131 (whispers) Shit. 1008 01:02:51,101 --> 01:02:52,101 (shuffling) 1009 01:02:54,146 --> 01:02:55,396 In here somewhere. 1010 01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:57,607 (drawer opens, closes) 1011 01:03:03,155 --> 01:03:05,073 (whispers) Hey, listen, I can't find my badge. 1012 01:03:06,158 --> 01:03:07,617 No, seriously. Maybe I lost it. 1013 01:03:07,701 --> 01:03:10,119 You know, dropped it when I was doing that window guy. 1014 01:03:10,204 --> 01:03:12,956 Just get the fuck out of my station house, man. 1015 01:03:20,422 --> 01:03:21,547 (door opens) 1016 01:03:22,758 --> 01:03:23,758 (door shuts) 1017 01:03:27,721 --> 01:03:28,805 (sighs) 1018 01:03:38,065 --> 01:03:39,816 What's going on? (chuckling) 1019 01:03:41,151 --> 01:03:42,026 I think I... 1020 01:03:42,861 --> 01:03:44,195 I think I just got fired. 1021 01:03:45,406 --> 01:03:47,740 Fired or suspended, I'm not sure which. 1022 01:03:47,825 --> 01:03:48,825 Fired. 1023 01:04:08,679 --> 01:04:09,679 (exhales) 1024 01:04:11,306 --> 01:04:12,181 (truck door closes) 1025 01:04:19,815 --> 01:04:21,774 Anything I can help you with, just give me a holler. 1026 01:04:25,279 --> 01:04:28,072 Give Mildred Hayes... 1027 01:04:29,241 --> 01:04:30,241 a holler. 1028 01:04:32,703 --> 01:04:33,619 Okay. 1029 01:04:35,539 --> 01:04:36,456 You know me? 1030 01:04:36,999 --> 01:04:39,792 Only from the TV... and the radio. 1031 01:04:41,837 --> 01:04:43,004 (clattering) 1032 01:04:48,260 --> 01:04:50,845 How much these here "Welcome to Missouri" rabbits go for? 1033 01:04:51,805 --> 01:04:52,638 Seven bucks. 1034 01:04:53,182 --> 01:04:54,265 It's writ right on them. 1035 01:05:02,274 --> 01:05:03,900 Guess he ain't seven bucks now. 1036 01:05:06,570 --> 01:05:07,862 What you come in here for? 1037 01:05:08,238 --> 01:05:09,447 What I come in here for? 1038 01:05:10,866 --> 01:05:12,950 Well, maybe I'm a good friend of Willoughby's. How about that? 1039 01:05:14,286 --> 01:05:15,203 Are you? 1040 01:05:16,121 --> 01:05:16,996 Or, you know... 1041 01:05:19,708 --> 01:05:21,584 Maybe I was a friend of your daughter or something. 1042 01:05:23,253 --> 01:05:24,212 How about that? 1043 01:05:27,091 --> 01:05:27,965 Were you? 1044 01:05:31,386 --> 01:05:32,470 Or, uh... 1045 01:05:33,555 --> 01:05:35,098 (chuckles softly) 1046 01:05:35,182 --> 01:05:36,265 You know, maybe I was the one 1047 01:05:36,350 --> 01:05:37,767 who fucked her while she was dying. 1048 01:05:38,977 --> 01:05:40,061 How about that? 1049 01:05:43,398 --> 01:05:44,398 Were you? 1050 01:05:46,777 --> 01:05:47,777 No. 1051 01:05:49,446 --> 01:05:50,613 I would have liked to. 1052 01:05:52,491 --> 01:05:55,118 - I saw her picture in the paper there. - (door opens) 1053 01:05:58,163 --> 01:06:00,206 - Saved by the bell, huh? - (door closes) 1054 01:06:00,749 --> 01:06:03,042 You owe me seven fucking dollars for the rabbit. 1055 01:06:03,127 --> 01:06:04,168 (chuckles) 1056 01:06:04,753 --> 01:06:07,547 Guess you'll have to get it off me next time I'm passing through, huh, Mildred? 1057 01:06:07,631 --> 01:06:08,548 Guess I will. 1058 01:06:11,677 --> 01:06:13,094 (door opens) 1059 01:06:18,267 --> 01:06:20,476 (sighs) You don't know how glad I am to see you. 1060 01:06:21,436 --> 01:06:23,604 - What? - That guy was trying to scare me. 1061 01:06:24,106 --> 01:06:25,898 I wouldn't have said you scare easy. 1062 01:06:26,525 --> 01:06:27,567 I ain't the worst. 1063 01:06:29,528 --> 01:06:30,903 What can I do for you, ma'am? 1064 01:06:31,530 --> 01:06:32,780 My husband left this for you 1065 01:06:32,865 --> 01:06:35,032 before he shot himself in the head last night. 1066 01:06:37,703 --> 01:06:38,911 (sighs) 1067 01:06:39,621 --> 01:06:41,539 - I'm sorry, Mrs. Willoughby. I... - Are you? 1068 01:06:43,083 --> 01:06:44,834 - Are you really? - Sure, I am. 1069 01:06:44,918 --> 01:06:47,253 Well, surely this is the perfect ending for you, isn't it? 1070 01:06:47,629 --> 01:06:51,090 It's proof that they were successful, those billboards of yours, 1071 01:06:51,175 --> 01:06:52,592 isn't it? A dead policeman? 1072 01:06:52,843 --> 01:06:55,511 - It's quantifiable now. - Are you blaming this on me? 1073 01:06:55,596 --> 01:06:56,512 No. 1074 01:06:57,264 --> 01:06:58,556 (crying) I'm not blaming this on you. 1075 01:06:58,640 --> 01:06:59,974 I just came to give you the letter. 1076 01:07:01,685 --> 01:07:04,020 Now my little girls are out in the car, 1077 01:07:04,104 --> 01:07:05,730 so I'd better not stay and chat. 1078 01:07:07,858 --> 01:07:10,026 I'm not quite sure what we're gonna do for the rest of the day. 1079 01:07:12,112 --> 01:07:14,197 It's hard to know what to do 1080 01:07:14,281 --> 01:07:16,657 the day your husband kills himself. 1081 01:07:17,242 --> 01:07:18,534 It's hard to know what to do. 1082 01:07:20,454 --> 01:07:21,412 (door opens) 1083 01:07:39,598 --> 01:07:41,057 (car engine starts) 1084 01:07:48,815 --> 01:07:49,649 BILL: Dear Mildred... 1085 01:07:50,692 --> 01:07:52,026 Dead Man Willoughby here. 1086 01:07:52,736 --> 01:07:55,154 Firstly, I wanted to apologize for dying 1087 01:07:55,239 --> 01:07:57,240 without catching your daughter's killer. 1088 01:07:57,824 --> 01:07:59,533 It's a source of great pain to me, 1089 01:07:59,618 --> 01:08:01,118 and it would break my heart to think 1090 01:08:01,203 --> 01:08:03,871 you thought I didn't care, 'cause I did care. 1091 01:08:05,082 --> 01:08:06,499 There are just some cases... 1092 01:08:07,084 --> 01:08:08,626 where you never catch a break... 1093 01:08:09,461 --> 01:08:11,212 then five years down the line 1094 01:08:11,296 --> 01:08:13,381 some guy hears some other guy 1095 01:08:13,465 --> 01:08:16,676 bragging about it in a bar room or a jail cell 1096 01:08:17,302 --> 01:08:18,803 and the whole thing is wrapped up 1097 01:08:18,887 --> 01:08:20,388 through sheer stupidity. 1098 01:08:20,847 --> 01:08:23,724 I hope that might be true for Angela. I really do. 1099 01:08:24,434 --> 01:08:27,103 Second, I gotta admit, Mildred, 1100 01:08:27,229 --> 01:08:29,814 the billboards were a great fucking idea. 1101 01:08:30,607 --> 01:08:32,191 They were like a chess move. 1102 01:08:32,734 --> 01:08:34,652 And although they had absolutely nothing 1103 01:08:34,736 --> 01:08:36,070 to do with my dying... 1104 01:08:36,697 --> 01:08:38,197 I'm sure that everyone in town 1105 01:08:38,282 --> 01:08:39,657 will assume that they did, 1106 01:08:40,284 --> 01:08:42,576 which is why, for Willoughby's counter-move, 1107 01:08:42,744 --> 01:08:45,288 I decided to pay the next month's rent on 'em. 1108 01:08:45,664 --> 01:08:48,582 I thought it'd be funny, you having to defend 'em 1109 01:08:48,667 --> 01:08:51,752 a whole nother month after they've stuck me in the ground. 1110 01:08:52,879 --> 01:08:55,047 The joke is on you, Mildred, ha ha, 1111 01:08:55,132 --> 01:08:57,091 and I hope they do not kill you. 1112 01:08:58,510 --> 01:08:59,844 So good luck with all that, 1113 01:08:59,928 --> 01:09:01,887 and good luck with everything else too. 1114 01:09:03,724 --> 01:09:05,725 I hope and I pray that you get him. 1115 01:09:08,937 --> 01:09:10,938 (railroad crossing bell dinging) 1116 01:09:23,744 --> 01:09:26,746 Well, you want me to go down and talk to 'em? 1117 01:09:27,706 --> 01:09:29,623 No, I don't want you to go down and talk to 'em. 1118 01:09:30,667 --> 01:09:32,043 Somebody sending their goddamn mother 1119 01:09:32,127 --> 01:09:33,711 down to talk to the goddamn police? 1120 01:09:37,924 --> 01:09:39,008 To say what? 1121 01:09:39,092 --> 01:09:41,802 To say to give you your job back. 1122 01:09:42,054 --> 01:09:43,512 Get rid of that black guy. 1123 01:09:45,390 --> 01:09:46,807 Ain't gonna listen to some guy's mother 1124 01:09:46,892 --> 01:09:48,476 asking them to get rid of some black guy. 1125 01:09:50,020 --> 01:09:51,604 Things have moved on in the South. 1126 01:09:51,688 --> 01:09:52,897 Well, it shouldn't have! 1127 01:09:55,150 --> 01:09:58,986 Will they give you some money for being laid off and all? 1128 01:10:00,822 --> 01:10:03,032 I don't know what the compensation scheme is 1129 01:10:03,116 --> 01:10:04,950 for when you throw a guy out of a window, Ma. 1130 01:10:05,827 --> 01:10:07,411 Guess I should have looked into that beforehand. 1131 01:10:07,496 --> 01:10:08,537 Let me Google that. 1132 01:10:09,748 --> 01:10:11,374 A couple of grand, maybe? 1133 01:10:12,250 --> 01:10:13,834 You been there three years. 1134 01:10:14,336 --> 01:10:17,755 Not counting the five years at the academy. 1135 01:10:19,049 --> 01:10:19,924 Six... 1136 01:10:20,634 --> 01:10:22,635 if you count the year you were held back. 1137 01:10:25,305 --> 01:10:26,347 Where are you going? 1138 01:10:27,474 --> 01:10:28,557 None of your business. 1139 01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:31,310 Off to see your fancy woman? 1140 01:10:31,937 --> 01:10:35,773 - I don't got a fancy woman. - Yeah. I know. 1141 01:10:35,857 --> 01:10:38,484 Hey. You wanna watch yourself. 1142 01:10:38,568 --> 01:10:40,569 Or-or... or you'll do what? 1143 01:10:44,282 --> 01:10:46,700 I'll blow your goddamn head off, that's what. 1144 01:10:48,203 --> 01:10:49,703 (laughs) 1145 01:10:57,504 --> 01:10:58,629 ROBBIE: Oh, did you hear the news? 1146 01:10:58,713 --> 01:10:59,755 What news? 1147 01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:01,424 That Dixon guy threw that Welby guy 1148 01:11:01,508 --> 01:11:02,800 out of his window this morning. 1149 01:11:03,802 --> 01:11:05,052 You're shitting me. 1150 01:11:07,431 --> 01:11:08,556 (scoffs) 1151 01:11:10,517 --> 01:11:11,392 Is he okay? 1152 01:11:12,269 --> 01:11:13,310 Mmm-mmm. 1153 01:11:18,191 --> 01:11:19,817 - You're shitting me! - ROBBIE: Whoa! 1154 01:11:19,901 --> 01:11:22,778 - Holy shit! Holy shit! - (fire crackling) 1155 01:11:23,613 --> 01:11:24,905 Holy shit! 1156 01:11:26,158 --> 01:11:27,158 Fuck! 1157 01:11:30,579 --> 01:11:32,079 Go get the other one from the house. 1158 01:11:32,164 --> 01:11:33,914 Shouldn't I call the fire department? 1159 01:11:33,999 --> 01:11:36,417 Fuck the fire department. They probably started it. 1160 01:11:36,501 --> 01:11:37,751 ROBBIE: Don't do anything stupid! 1161 01:11:39,421 --> 01:11:40,588 Scumbags! 1162 01:11:40,672 --> 01:11:42,965 Fucking, fucking scumbags! 1163 01:12:16,541 --> 01:12:17,708 Shit! 1164 01:12:17,792 --> 01:12:19,251 All right! 1165 01:12:41,399 --> 01:12:42,733 ROBBIE: Are you kidding me? 1166 01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:49,823 Mom! What the hell are you doing? 1167 01:12:57,791 --> 01:13:01,043 - Yeah. Okay. All right. Good. Come on. - Leave it! Ma, please! 1168 01:13:01,127 --> 01:13:02,211 It's too late! 1169 01:13:05,173 --> 01:13:07,383 - Robbie. - Leave it! Please! 1170 01:13:07,467 --> 01:13:08,467 Robbie! 1171 01:13:30,949 --> 01:13:33,158 - (indistinct chatter) - (radio chatter) 1172 01:13:38,164 --> 01:13:39,415 How are those hands? 1173 01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:43,627 Give us a minute here. Thank you. 1174 01:13:47,299 --> 01:13:48,507 Can I ask you a couple of questions? 1175 01:13:49,175 --> 01:13:50,968 Can ask me all the questions you want, 1176 01:13:51,052 --> 01:13:52,177 you take me down and arrest me. 1177 01:13:53,179 --> 01:13:54,471 I'm not gonna arrest you, Mrs. Hayes. 1178 01:13:54,556 --> 01:13:55,931 I got nothing to arrest you for. 1179 01:13:58,435 --> 01:13:59,685 Not yet you ain't. 1180 01:14:06,067 --> 01:14:07,985 We ain't all the enemy, you know. 1181 01:14:26,004 --> 01:14:29,673 (crying) I'll crucify the motherfuckers. 1182 01:14:41,227 --> 01:14:42,811 (deep voice) What are you gonna do, Mildred? 1183 01:14:43,146 --> 01:14:44,396 You gonna crucify 'em? 1184 01:14:45,190 --> 01:14:47,358 (high-pitched voice) Yeah, I'm gonna crucify 'em. 1185 01:14:48,276 --> 01:14:49,652 (deep voice) Who you gonna crucify? 1186 01:14:50,278 --> 01:14:51,403 The motherfuckers? 1187 01:14:52,614 --> 01:14:56,116 (high-pitched voice) Yeah, I'm gonna crucify the motherfuckers. 1188 01:14:57,077 --> 01:14:58,827 (deep voice) Ooh, then those motherfuckers 1189 01:14:58,912 --> 01:15:01,246 better watch out, all right? 1190 01:15:01,956 --> 01:15:03,582 (chuckles) 1191 01:15:05,585 --> 01:15:06,543 (normal voice) Fucking A. 1192 01:15:10,882 --> 01:15:12,007 Oh, what's this shit? 1193 01:15:12,550 --> 01:15:14,009 GABRIELLA: And as sad as the spectacle 1194 01:15:14,094 --> 01:15:16,220 of these burned out billboards might be, 1195 01:15:16,513 --> 01:15:18,013 in light of the death of Chief Willoughby, 1196 01:15:18,306 --> 01:15:19,348 this reporter for one 1197 01:15:19,432 --> 01:15:21,100 wonders if this finally puts an end 1198 01:15:21,184 --> 01:15:23,686 to the strange saga of the three billboards outside... 1199 01:15:23,770 --> 01:15:25,979 This doesn't put an end to shit, you fucking retard! 1200 01:15:26,064 --> 01:15:27,564 This is just the fucking start! 1201 01:15:27,649 --> 01:15:29,608 Why don't you put that on your Good Morning Missouri 1202 01:15:29,693 --> 01:15:31,819 fucking Wake Up broadcast, bitch! 1203 01:15:31,903 --> 01:15:33,696 (engine revs) 1204 01:15:41,579 --> 01:15:44,081 I see on the TV there were a bunch of fires 1205 01:15:44,165 --> 01:15:46,166 lit outside of town last night. 1206 01:15:48,002 --> 01:15:49,253 Bunch of fires, huh? 1207 01:15:50,588 --> 01:15:52,381 Out at those billboards. 1208 01:15:54,676 --> 01:15:56,093 Yeah, well, back when I was a cop, 1209 01:15:56,177 --> 01:15:58,053 I would have been interested in who set those fires, 1210 01:15:58,138 --> 01:15:59,596 because, technically, that's arson. 1211 01:16:00,223 --> 01:16:02,182 But, as I'm no longer employed by those people, 1212 01:16:02,267 --> 01:16:04,268 I don't really give a good goddamn, now do I? 1213 01:16:04,644 --> 01:16:05,978 (telephone ringing) 1214 01:16:07,355 --> 01:16:08,272 I'll get it. 1215 01:16:11,484 --> 01:16:12,526 (sighs) 1216 01:16:14,195 --> 01:16:15,237 Dixon residence. 1217 01:16:15,697 --> 01:16:17,281 CEDRIC (on phone): Hey, Dixon, it's Cedric. 1218 01:16:17,532 --> 01:16:20,033 Oh, hey, Sarge. Got any news? 1219 01:16:20,952 --> 01:16:22,745 - CEDRIC: News about what? - I don't know. 1220 01:16:25,081 --> 01:16:26,457 (chuckles) About my job and stuff? 1221 01:16:27,751 --> 01:16:29,710 No. No. What? 1222 01:16:30,044 --> 01:16:31,086 No. Uh... 1223 01:16:31,671 --> 01:16:34,089 Anne Willoughby just dropped in a letter 1224 01:16:34,174 --> 01:16:36,675 that... Bill wrote you before he died. 1225 01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:38,010 What's it say? 1226 01:16:38,094 --> 01:16:40,345 Oh, I haven't read it, Dixon. It's not my letter. 1227 01:16:40,847 --> 01:16:42,598 Oh, well, listen, I'll... I'll come right down. 1228 01:16:42,682 --> 01:16:45,017 Um, I'll be there in like 15 minutes. 1229 01:16:45,101 --> 01:16:46,393 Well... Uh... 1230 01:16:47,353 --> 01:16:50,272 Yeah, I d... I don't think that'd be such a great idea, 1231 01:16:50,356 --> 01:16:52,566 things as they stand, Jason. 1232 01:16:52,859 --> 01:16:54,151 You... you still got your keys 1233 01:16:54,235 --> 01:16:56,153 to the station house, though, right? 1234 01:16:56,237 --> 01:16:57,237 Yeah. 1235 01:16:57,322 --> 01:16:59,782 CEDRIC: Well, why don't you come and pick it up 1236 01:16:59,866 --> 01:17:01,116 after everyone's gone home? 1237 01:17:02,202 --> 01:17:03,744 I can leave it on your desk for you. 1238 01:17:05,580 --> 01:17:06,580 Oh, okay. 1239 01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:08,373 Actually, yeah, then... 1240 01:17:09,292 --> 01:17:10,834 when you're done, you can... you can... 1241 01:17:12,045 --> 01:17:13,545 just leave the keys... 1242 01:17:14,714 --> 01:17:16,465 you know, save us picking 'em up later. 1243 01:17:19,761 --> 01:17:20,636 All right. 1244 01:17:21,763 --> 01:17:22,846 (phone clatters) 1245 01:17:41,741 --> 01:17:45,077 ("The Last Rose Of Summer" playing) 1246 01:17:48,790 --> 01:17:50,749 BILL: Jason, Willoughby here. 1247 01:17:50,834 --> 01:17:53,043 I'm dead now. Sorry about that. 1248 01:17:53,419 --> 01:17:55,003 There's something I wanted to say to you 1249 01:17:55,088 --> 01:17:57,339 that I never really said when I was alive. 1250 01:17:59,050 --> 01:18:00,509 I think you've got the makings 1251 01:18:00,593 --> 01:18:03,512 of being a really good cop, Jason. 1252 01:18:03,596 --> 01:18:04,596 And you know why? 1253 01:18:06,391 --> 01:18:09,810 Because deep down you're a decent man. 1254 01:18:10,353 --> 01:18:12,229 I know you don't think I think that, 1255 01:18:12,313 --> 01:18:14,064 but I do, dipshit. 1256 01:18:15,692 --> 01:18:17,276 (line ringing) 1257 01:18:19,737 --> 01:18:21,238 (phone buzzing) 1258 01:18:21,322 --> 01:18:23,657 BILL: I do think you're too angry, though. 1259 01:18:25,118 --> 01:18:26,118 (phone clatters) 1260 01:18:26,202 --> 01:18:28,412 BILL: And I know it's all since your dad died 1261 01:18:28,496 --> 01:18:30,914 and you had to go look after your mom and all. 1262 01:18:32,458 --> 01:18:33,584 - (bag unzips) - (bottles clink) 1263 01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:37,796 BILL: But as long as you hold on to so much hate, then I don't think 1264 01:18:37,881 --> 01:18:39,423 - you're ever gonna become... - (bottle thudding) 1265 01:18:40,091 --> 01:18:41,508 ...what I know you wanna become. 1266 01:18:41,593 --> 01:18:43,260 (bottle thuds) 1267 01:18:44,929 --> 01:18:46,054 A detective. 1268 01:18:46,139 --> 01:18:48,015 (exhales deeply) 1269 01:18:50,935 --> 01:18:52,144 (sighs) 1270 01:18:52,645 --> 01:18:54,271 - (phone buzzing) - Because you know what you need 1271 01:18:54,355 --> 01:18:55,522 to become a detective? 1272 01:18:56,649 --> 01:18:58,692 And I know you're gonna wince when I say this... 1273 01:18:58,776 --> 01:18:59,735 (phone clatters) 1274 01:19:01,112 --> 01:19:05,407 But what you need to become a detective... is love. 1275 01:19:07,035 --> 01:19:07,993 Fuck 'em. 1276 01:19:15,335 --> 01:19:18,086 BILL: Because through love comes calm, 1277 01:19:18,171 --> 01:19:20,213 and through calm comes thought. 1278 01:19:20,965 --> 01:19:24,468 And you need thought to detect stuff sometimes, Jason. 1279 01:19:29,974 --> 01:19:31,183 It's kinda all you need. 1280 01:19:32,060 --> 01:19:33,477 You don't even need a gun. 1281 01:19:33,853 --> 01:19:35,562 And you definitely don't need hate. 1282 01:19:36,356 --> 01:19:38,023 Hate never solved nothing. 1283 01:19:42,946 --> 01:19:45,614 - (fire crackling) - But calm did. And thought did. 1284 01:19:45,698 --> 01:19:48,408 Try it. Try it just for a change. 1285 01:19:50,036 --> 01:19:51,745 No one will think you're gay. 1286 01:19:51,829 --> 01:19:54,831 And if they do, arrest them for homophobia. 1287 01:19:55,124 --> 01:19:56,625 Won't they be surprised? 1288 01:19:58,127 --> 01:20:01,004 Good luck to you, Jason. You're a decent man. 1289 01:20:01,297 --> 01:20:03,507 And yeah, you've had a run of bad luck... 1290 01:20:05,218 --> 01:20:08,470 but things are gonna change for you. I can feel it. 1291 01:20:11,766 --> 01:20:14,267 # Where thy mates # 1292 01:20:14,352 --> 01:20:18,730 # Of the garden # 1293 01:20:18,940 --> 01:20:24,695 # Lie scentless # 1294 01:20:24,779 --> 01:20:28,115 # And dead # 1295 01:20:29,951 --> 01:20:32,577 # So soon # 1296 01:20:32,662 --> 01:20:38,000 # May I follow # 1297 01:20:38,710 --> 01:20:39,751 Calm. 1298 01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:41,920 Calm. 1299 01:20:43,506 --> 01:20:44,381 Calm. 1300 01:20:44,882 --> 01:20:47,092 # And from love's # 1301 01:20:47,176 --> 01:20:52,514 # Shining circle # 1302 01:20:53,016 --> 01:20:59,354 # The gems drop away # 1303 01:21:00,440 --> 01:21:05,110 # When true hearts # 1304 01:21:05,194 --> 01:21:07,904 # Lie withered # 1305 01:21:07,989 --> 01:21:12,868 # And fond ones # 1306 01:21:12,952 --> 01:21:19,916 # Are flown # 1307 01:21:22,837 --> 01:21:25,547 # Oh # 1308 01:21:25,631 --> 01:21:32,012 # Who would inhabit # 1309 01:21:32,096 --> 01:21:37,225 # This bleak world alone? # 1310 01:21:37,310 --> 01:21:41,688 (sirens approaching) 1311 01:21:41,773 --> 01:21:48,737 # Oh, who would inhabit # 1312 01:21:48,821 --> 01:21:55,786 # This bleak world # 1313 01:21:55,870 --> 01:22:02,250 # Alone? # 1314 01:22:05,546 --> 01:22:06,630 So, what'd you see? 1315 01:22:06,714 --> 01:22:08,882 Well, when we turned the corner from Spring, 1316 01:22:09,509 --> 01:22:10,801 the fire was already raging, 1317 01:22:11,219 --> 01:22:13,929 and about two seconds later the cop fella, 1318 01:22:14,013 --> 01:22:15,514 - he just jumps out of the window. - Wait. 1319 01:22:16,557 --> 01:22:18,850 The two of you turned the corner from Spring? 1320 01:22:20,103 --> 01:22:22,270 - Where were you before this? - Round... round my place. 1321 01:22:25,733 --> 01:22:27,109 You two boyfriend and girlfriend? 1322 01:22:27,860 --> 01:22:29,319 (chuckles) 1323 01:22:30,363 --> 01:22:31,863 Early stages, you know. 1324 01:22:33,533 --> 01:22:34,449 Is that right? 1325 01:22:35,034 --> 01:22:36,451 We had a couple dates. 1326 01:22:46,754 --> 01:22:48,463 You wanna go out to dinner with me next week? 1327 01:22:50,383 --> 01:22:52,217 MILDRED: Yeah, I'll go out to dinner with ya. 1328 01:22:55,054 --> 01:22:56,263 But I ain't gonna fuck ya. 1329 01:22:57,974 --> 01:23:00,100 Well, I... I ain't gonna fuck you neither. 1330 01:23:03,020 --> 01:23:03,937 I guess. 1331 01:23:19,036 --> 01:23:21,705 Burn victim. He's pretty heavily sedated. 1332 01:23:31,257 --> 01:23:32,090 Hey, man. 1333 01:23:32,925 --> 01:23:35,010 You doing okay? Jeez. 1334 01:23:35,928 --> 01:23:38,263 You got burned up pretty bad, huh? 1335 01:23:40,933 --> 01:23:42,100 You'll be okay though. 1336 01:23:43,769 --> 01:23:45,896 You, uh... you want a glass of orange juice? 1337 01:23:47,190 --> 01:23:49,274 - I got a straw somewhere. - (Dixon crying) 1338 01:23:50,109 --> 01:23:51,067 Hey, hey. 1339 01:23:52,612 --> 01:23:53,528 Don't cry. 1340 01:23:55,907 --> 01:23:57,240 You'll be... you'll be okay. 1341 01:24:00,536 --> 01:24:02,162 I... I'm sorry, Welby. 1342 01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,126 - You know me? - DIXON: I'm sorry. 1343 01:24:10,838 --> 01:24:12,505 You're sorry... sorry for what? 1344 01:24:14,634 --> 01:24:16,218 For throwing you out the window. 1345 01:24:24,101 --> 01:24:25,101 I'm sorry, man. 1346 01:24:25,186 --> 01:24:26,228 I don't care! 1347 01:24:27,438 --> 01:24:29,564 Stop fucking crying, God damn it! 1348 01:24:30,316 --> 01:24:32,108 The salt'll just fuck up your wounds. 1349 01:24:32,735 --> 01:24:35,195 I thought salt was supposed to be good for your wounds. 1350 01:24:35,613 --> 01:24:37,280 What am I, a fucking doctor? 1351 01:24:37,365 --> 01:24:38,615 (panting) 1352 01:24:53,172 --> 01:24:54,881 - (clicks) - (plastic cup clatters) 1353 01:24:54,966 --> 01:24:56,549 (liquid pouring) 1354 01:25:41,512 --> 01:25:42,470 (knocks) 1355 01:25:47,476 --> 01:25:48,310 MILDRED: Who is it? 1356 01:25:48,769 --> 01:25:50,103 Oh, you don't know me really. 1357 01:25:53,566 --> 01:25:54,649 Well, what do you want? 1358 01:25:55,776 --> 01:25:57,402 I come about the billboards. 1359 01:25:57,945 --> 01:26:00,405 - What about 'em? - They got burned up. 1360 01:26:00,781 --> 01:26:01,698 MILDRED: I know that. 1361 01:26:02,908 --> 01:26:05,118 I'm one of the guys who put 'em up in the first place. 1362 01:26:09,373 --> 01:26:10,248 Jerome. 1363 01:26:12,501 --> 01:26:13,543 What can I do for you, Jerome? 1364 01:26:14,420 --> 01:26:16,671 Well, when you put up a bunch of posters like that, 1365 01:26:16,756 --> 01:26:19,924 just in case any of them get screwed up or torn, they, uh... 1366 01:26:20,009 --> 01:26:22,260 give you a set of duplicates, you know? 1367 01:26:23,763 --> 01:26:25,138 No, I didn't know that. 1368 01:26:26,974 --> 01:26:29,017 (brushing) 1369 01:26:33,898 --> 01:26:36,483 Ladder's pretty steady as it is there, James. 1370 01:26:37,860 --> 01:26:40,653 Oh... oh, that's okay. I... I like holding ladders. 1371 01:26:40,988 --> 01:26:42,072 Takes me out of myself. 1372 01:26:47,453 --> 01:26:48,828 - Need a hand? - MILDRED: Hey! 1373 01:26:48,913 --> 01:26:49,913 (both laughing) 1374 01:26:49,997 --> 01:26:51,915 - MILDRED: When'd you get out? - An hour ago. 1375 01:26:52,541 --> 01:26:53,541 Judge threw it out. 1376 01:26:53,626 --> 01:26:55,210 Said the arrest report weren't filled out right. 1377 01:26:55,294 --> 01:26:56,211 Mmm. 1378 01:26:57,380 --> 01:26:58,213 Say, you... 1379 01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:04,844 Say, you didn't burn down the police station, did you? 1380 01:27:04,929 --> 01:27:06,471 No, she was with me the whole night. 1381 01:27:09,308 --> 01:27:10,892 - Why would... okay. - It's a long story. 1382 01:27:11,227 --> 01:27:12,352 JEROME: Hey. 1383 01:27:13,020 --> 01:27:13,937 Hey. 1384 01:27:15,022 --> 01:27:16,481 Still wanna put up the Willoughby one, 1385 01:27:16,565 --> 01:27:17,690 him being dead and all? 1386 01:27:18,067 --> 01:27:19,859 Why not? He paid for it. 1387 01:27:20,611 --> 01:27:21,611 JEROME: True. 1388 01:27:25,032 --> 01:27:28,201 # Just walk away, Renee # 1389 01:27:28,452 --> 01:27:32,914 # You won't see me follow you back home... # 1390 01:27:33,749 --> 01:27:35,291 Look at this fucking asshole. 1391 01:27:35,376 --> 01:27:41,089 # On my block are not the same # 1392 01:27:41,173 --> 01:27:45,218 # You're not to blame # 1393 01:27:48,222 --> 01:27:51,474 # From deep inside the tears # 1394 01:27:52,643 --> 01:27:55,520 # I'm forced to cry # 1395 01:27:56,522 --> 01:27:59,691 # From deep inside the pain # 1396 01:27:59,775 --> 01:28:03,987 # That I chose to hide # 1397 01:28:04,405 --> 01:28:07,615 # Just walk away, Renee # 1398 01:28:07,700 --> 01:28:11,578 # You won't see me follow you back home... # 1399 01:28:11,662 --> 01:28:12,704 - First round's on you? - Yeah. 1400 01:28:12,788 --> 01:28:15,915 # Now as the rain beats down # 1401 01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:20,420 # Upon my weary eyes # 1402 01:28:20,504 --> 01:28:24,257 # For me it cries # 1403 01:28:26,552 --> 01:28:29,762 - (piano music playing) - (people chattering) 1404 01:28:29,847 --> 01:28:31,055 Well, here we are. 1405 01:28:33,309 --> 01:28:34,350 Here we are. 1406 01:28:37,229 --> 01:28:38,730 I like cheesy things. 1407 01:28:38,814 --> 01:28:40,440 I'm gonna look for cheesy things. 1408 01:28:41,484 --> 01:28:42,358 All right. 1409 01:28:49,700 --> 01:28:50,575 Who's that? 1410 01:28:51,327 --> 01:28:52,577 My ex-husband. 1411 01:28:53,204 --> 01:28:55,038 And his 19-year-old girlfriend. 1412 01:28:58,501 --> 01:29:00,210 - You wanna leave? - No, no. 1413 01:29:01,086 --> 01:29:02,003 Deal's a deal. 1414 01:29:04,673 --> 01:29:05,924 MAN 1: It was fucking wild, man. 1415 01:29:06,091 --> 01:29:09,093 I think I was certifiably fucking insane for a while back there. 1416 01:29:09,970 --> 01:29:13,056 - When was this? - About nine, ten months ago. 1417 01:29:13,140 --> 01:29:14,390 MAN 2: Were you on your own or what? 1418 01:29:14,475 --> 01:29:15,850 MAN 1: I had a couple of buddies with me. 1419 01:29:16,185 --> 01:29:17,810 - Oh, yeah? - Yeah. 1420 01:29:18,187 --> 01:29:19,229 (whispers) They fuck her too? 1421 01:29:20,564 --> 01:29:23,107 MAN 1: I think they got their kicks just watching, you know? 1422 01:29:23,609 --> 01:29:25,610 - MAN 2 (chuckles): Oh, yeah? - MAN 1: Yeah. 1423 01:29:26,195 --> 01:29:27,153 Was she hot? 1424 01:29:27,488 --> 01:29:29,739 Once the gasoline kicked in she was hot. 1425 01:29:29,823 --> 01:29:30,823 (man 2 snickers) 1426 01:29:30,908 --> 01:29:33,201 MAN 1: I swear, I wanted to fuck her even more right then. 1427 01:29:33,285 --> 01:29:35,578 - (man 2 laughs) - (man 1 mumbles) 1428 01:29:35,871 --> 01:29:37,872 I don't know if I could get that out of my mind. 1429 01:29:37,957 --> 01:29:40,375 (men whispering) 1430 01:29:40,459 --> 01:29:42,335 (song playing) 1431 01:29:42,419 --> 01:29:45,296 # I took the train to Richmond that fell # 1432 01:29:45,381 --> 01:29:47,131 # It was a time # 1433 01:29:47,216 --> 01:29:52,804 # I remember, oh, so well # 1434 01:29:52,888 --> 01:29:58,226 # The night they drove old Dixie down # 1435 01:29:58,310 --> 01:30:00,812 # And all the bells were ringin' # 1436 01:30:00,896 --> 01:30:05,858 # The night they drove old Dixie down # 1437 01:30:05,943 --> 01:30:08,653 # And all the people were singin', They went # 1438 01:30:08,737 --> 01:30:12,031 # Na, na, na, na, na, na # 1439 01:30:12,116 --> 01:30:16,202 # Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na... # 1440 01:30:19,498 --> 01:30:20,957 (whispers) I ain't going down for that shit, 1441 01:30:21,041 --> 01:30:22,083 last fucking day down there. 1442 01:30:24,878 --> 01:30:28,339 # Back with my wife in Tennessee # 1443 01:30:28,424 --> 01:30:29,966 # And one day she said to me... # 1444 01:30:30,050 --> 01:30:32,760 - He been there the whole time? - Who? 1445 01:30:33,095 --> 01:30:35,638 Burnt face Jake. Keeps fucking walking up and down. 1446 01:30:36,473 --> 01:30:38,057 I don't know. I don't think so. 1447 01:30:39,977 --> 01:30:43,187 # Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood # 1448 01:30:43,272 --> 01:30:46,441 # And I don't care if the money's no good... # 1449 01:30:46,525 --> 01:30:47,775 - Another round? - Yeah. 1450 01:30:47,860 --> 01:30:50,486 # Just take what you need and leave the rest... # 1451 01:30:51,322 --> 01:30:52,488 Eight bucks. 1452 01:30:52,573 --> 01:30:58,036 # But they should never have taken the very best # 1453 01:30:58,162 --> 01:31:03,333 # The night they drove old Dixie down # 1454 01:31:03,417 --> 01:31:05,752 # And all the bells were ringin' # 1455 01:31:05,836 --> 01:31:10,798 # The night they drove old Dixie down # 1456 01:31:10,883 --> 01:31:13,885 # And all the people were singin', they went # 1457 01:31:13,969 --> 01:31:16,971 # Na, na, na, na, na, na # 1458 01:31:17,056 --> 01:31:22,226 # Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na # 1459 01:31:25,064 --> 01:31:26,022 Maestro. 1460 01:31:31,153 --> 01:31:32,570 Can I help you with something? 1461 01:31:32,738 --> 01:31:33,655 Excuse me? 1462 01:31:34,531 --> 01:31:36,032 You keep looking over here all fucking night. 1463 01:31:36,116 --> 01:31:37,950 Now, unless you've got something to say to me, 1464 01:31:38,035 --> 01:31:39,535 why don't you take your burnt fucking face 1465 01:31:39,620 --> 01:31:40,828 and get the fuck out of here, okay? 1466 01:31:41,664 --> 01:31:43,081 (chuckles) 1467 01:31:43,165 --> 01:31:45,500 - No, I... scoot over. - What are you doing? What are you doing? 1468 01:31:45,584 --> 01:31:47,835 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 1469 01:31:48,379 --> 01:31:49,629 Just trust me, okay? 1470 01:31:50,714 --> 01:31:51,756 You like magic? 1471 01:31:51,840 --> 01:31:55,259 # I swear by the blood below my feet... # 1472 01:31:55,344 --> 01:31:57,470 - DIXON: Just trust me. - Just do the fucking trick, man. 1473 01:31:59,973 --> 01:32:00,932 Okay. 1474 01:32:02,476 --> 01:32:04,560 (hisses, grunts) 1475 01:32:04,645 --> 01:32:06,771 (men grunting) 1476 01:32:07,815 --> 01:32:09,857 # And all the bells were ringin'... # 1477 01:32:09,942 --> 01:32:10,900 What the fuck! 1478 01:32:10,984 --> 01:32:13,861 # The night they drove old Dixie down... # 1479 01:32:13,946 --> 01:32:14,987 Hey. 1480 01:32:15,989 --> 01:32:16,823 Hey! 1481 01:32:17,366 --> 01:32:19,492 - Hey! That's enough now! - What's it to you, fucker? 1482 01:32:19,576 --> 01:32:20,785 The guy's a cop, man. He's a cop. 1483 01:32:20,869 --> 01:32:21,744 MAN 1: Oh, yeah? 1484 01:32:23,247 --> 01:32:24,414 He ain't wearing no badge. 1485 01:32:25,249 --> 01:32:26,457 I lost my badge. 1486 01:32:28,335 --> 01:32:29,961 Can't remember where I lost it. 1487 01:32:30,045 --> 01:32:33,214 Hey, you started this, man! I didn't do shit to you! 1488 01:32:33,882 --> 01:32:35,341 I know I started it. 1489 01:32:35,592 --> 01:32:37,927 I scratched you up like a bitch. 1490 01:32:38,011 --> 01:32:39,470 That's exactly fucking right. 1491 01:32:39,555 --> 01:32:40,555 (groans) 1492 01:32:41,682 --> 01:32:45,601 # And like my brother before me # 1493 01:32:45,686 --> 01:32:48,354 # I took a rebel stance # 1494 01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:51,691 # Well, he was just 18, proud and brave # 1495 01:32:51,775 --> 01:32:53,234 (truck engine starts) 1496 01:32:54,111 --> 01:32:55,778 (tires squeal) 1497 01:32:56,071 --> 01:32:58,239 - (piano music plays) - I'm gonna go use the little boy's room. 1498 01:33:00,743 --> 01:33:03,035 (people chattering) 1499 01:33:10,169 --> 01:33:11,294 You got something to say to me? 1500 01:33:11,378 --> 01:33:13,129 If I'd known, we could have double dated. 1501 01:33:13,213 --> 01:33:16,090 Doesn't shit girl have a curfew weeknights? 1502 01:33:16,383 --> 01:33:17,508 No. No. 1503 01:33:17,593 --> 01:33:20,511 In fact, I was actually gonna take her to the circus later, 1504 01:33:20,596 --> 01:33:22,930 but there's no need now. (whispers) Does he juggle? 1505 01:33:23,432 --> 01:33:26,476 Look, I'm having one dinner with the guy, 'cause he did me a favor, okay? 1506 01:33:26,935 --> 01:33:28,561 You don't have to explain yourself to me 1507 01:33:28,645 --> 01:33:30,313 'cause you're having dinner with a midget, Mildred. 1508 01:33:30,397 --> 01:33:32,023 I'm not explaining myself to you. 1509 01:33:32,107 --> 01:33:33,024 You kind of are. 1510 01:33:38,614 --> 01:33:40,990 Look, I didn't come over here to break your balls. 1511 01:33:41,074 --> 01:33:42,992 You can date as many midgets as you want. 1512 01:33:43,660 --> 01:33:44,535 No. 1513 01:33:45,120 --> 01:33:48,206 No, I came over to say I was sorry, actually. 1514 01:33:48,290 --> 01:33:49,457 Sorry for what? 1515 01:33:50,250 --> 01:33:52,210 Sorry about what happened to your billboards and all. 1516 01:33:52,294 --> 01:33:55,296 Yeah, well, it's all water under the bridge, I guess. 1517 01:33:55,380 --> 01:33:56,589 Good. 1518 01:33:56,757 --> 01:33:59,926 I'm glad. I was pretty drunk, but it still don't excuse it. 1519 01:34:02,679 --> 01:34:04,013 All this anger, man. 1520 01:34:05,390 --> 01:34:07,016 Penelope said to me the other day... 1521 01:34:08,227 --> 01:34:10,770 "It just begets greater anger." 1522 01:34:11,939 --> 01:34:12,772 You know? 1523 01:34:13,315 --> 01:34:14,398 It's true. 1524 01:34:17,152 --> 01:34:18,694 Penelope said, "Begets"? 1525 01:34:20,322 --> 01:34:21,239 Yeah. 1526 01:34:22,366 --> 01:34:24,367 "It begets greater anger." 1527 01:34:27,746 --> 01:34:28,621 Well... 1528 01:34:29,748 --> 01:34:32,333 You take care of this little lady, okay, sport? 1529 01:34:32,918 --> 01:34:35,211 Big lady compared to you, right? 1530 01:34:45,180 --> 01:34:47,306 - JAMES: You all right? - I think I wanna go home now. 1531 01:34:47,933 --> 01:34:49,100 Don't give me any shit, James. 1532 01:34:49,184 --> 01:34:50,560 We'll do it another night, all right? 1533 01:34:52,145 --> 01:34:53,980 Why would I want to do it another night? 1534 01:34:54,064 --> 01:34:54,897 You've been... 1535 01:34:55,691 --> 01:34:57,400 embarrassed to be here ever since we arrived. 1536 01:34:57,484 --> 01:34:58,734 Oh, for Christ sake. 1537 01:34:59,236 --> 01:35:01,279 I didn't force you to come on this date, all right? 1538 01:35:01,363 --> 01:35:02,572 You forced me. 1539 01:35:04,032 --> 01:35:05,908 F... forced you? 1540 01:35:07,286 --> 01:35:10,037 I asked you on a date. (laughs) Wow. 1541 01:35:10,706 --> 01:35:12,123 You know... (chuckles) 1542 01:35:12,207 --> 01:35:15,501 (clears throat) I know I'm not that much of a catch. 1543 01:35:16,295 --> 01:35:18,462 I know I'm a dwarf who sells used cars 1544 01:35:18,547 --> 01:35:20,298 and has a drinking problem. I know that. 1545 01:35:20,674 --> 01:35:22,091 But who the hell are you, man? 1546 01:35:22,634 --> 01:35:25,761 You're that billboard lady who never smiles, 1547 01:35:25,846 --> 01:35:27,763 never has a good word to say about anybody, 1548 01:35:28,140 --> 01:35:29,807 and who, in the evening times, 1549 01:35:29,892 --> 01:35:31,601 (loudly) sets fucking fire to police stations! 1550 01:35:31,685 --> 01:35:33,477 (chattering stops) 1551 01:35:33,562 --> 01:35:36,314 (normal voice) And I'm the one who's not a catch? 1552 01:35:36,398 --> 01:35:38,482 (chattering resumes) 1553 01:35:38,567 --> 01:35:39,483 Hey! 1554 01:35:41,445 --> 01:35:44,196 You know, I didn't have to come and hold your ladder. 1555 01:36:10,641 --> 01:36:11,849 Now, don't make a scene. 1556 01:36:13,060 --> 01:36:14,060 (clicks tongue) 1557 01:36:15,062 --> 01:36:17,855 Did you really tell him "Anger begets greater anger"? 1558 01:36:18,649 --> 01:36:20,691 Oh! Yes! I did. 1559 01:36:20,776 --> 01:36:22,026 I didn't make it up myself though. 1560 01:36:22,110 --> 01:36:23,486 I can't claim that. 1561 01:36:23,570 --> 01:36:25,529 No, I read it on a bookmark... 1562 01:36:27,449 --> 01:36:28,908 which was in a book I was reading... 1563 01:36:30,702 --> 01:36:31,827 about polio. 1564 01:36:33,455 --> 01:36:36,040 Polo. No. Which is the one with the horses? 1565 01:36:36,124 --> 01:36:37,124 Polio or polo? 1566 01:36:37,209 --> 01:36:38,250 - CHARLIE: Polo. - Polo. 1567 01:36:49,763 --> 01:36:51,305 Be nice to her, Charlie. 1568 01:36:53,433 --> 01:36:54,350 You got that? 1569 01:37:05,028 --> 01:37:06,028 (chuckles softly) 1570 01:37:08,156 --> 01:37:09,991 - Jason! - (clattering) 1571 01:37:10,075 --> 01:37:11,409 - Jason. Jason! - Don't look at me. 1572 01:37:11,493 --> 01:37:13,035 - Don't look at me! - What have they done to you? 1573 01:37:13,120 --> 01:37:14,704 - Leave me, Momma! - Are you... 1574 01:37:15,205 --> 01:37:16,455 No. No! Oh! 1575 01:37:16,581 --> 01:37:18,082 (sobbing) Oh, don't lock me... 1576 01:37:19,835 --> 01:37:21,293 Open up this door! 1577 01:37:22,087 --> 01:37:23,629 Please, Jason. 1578 01:37:24,506 --> 01:37:27,174 Let me help you. Please. 1579 01:37:29,970 --> 01:37:33,639 You're my baby boy. Open this door. 1580 01:37:34,599 --> 01:37:35,683 Please. 1581 01:37:37,602 --> 01:37:39,603 Jason, please. 1582 01:37:39,730 --> 01:37:41,605 (breathing heavily) 1583 01:37:42,899 --> 01:37:43,983 (sobbing) Please. 1584 01:37:44,985 --> 01:37:47,445 Please open the door. 1585 01:37:55,537 --> 01:37:56,787 Open up! 1586 01:37:58,832 --> 01:38:00,082 Jason! 1587 01:38:01,710 --> 01:38:02,918 I'm all right, Momma. 1588 01:38:03,712 --> 01:38:05,254 It's all gonna be all right. 1589 01:38:15,974 --> 01:38:17,224 (knock on door) 1590 01:38:29,738 --> 01:38:31,238 I don't wanna get your hopes up, all right, 1591 01:38:31,323 --> 01:38:32,865 but there is a guy, and I think 1592 01:38:32,949 --> 01:38:35,785 he might be the guy. I got his DNA. 1593 01:38:36,787 --> 01:38:37,953 Got a lot of it, actually. 1594 01:38:38,830 --> 01:38:40,748 They're making the checks as we speak. 1595 01:38:40,832 --> 01:38:41,832 He's in jail? 1596 01:38:42,876 --> 01:38:45,336 No, but he ain't gonna be hard to find. 1597 01:38:46,505 --> 01:38:47,797 Why do you think he's the guy? 1598 01:38:47,881 --> 01:38:49,173 I heard him talking about 1599 01:38:49,257 --> 01:38:50,925 something he did to a girl the middle of last year. 1600 01:38:52,052 --> 01:38:53,469 I couldn't hear all of it, but... 1601 01:38:55,347 --> 01:38:57,890 It sounded a lot like what happened to Angela. 1602 01:38:59,851 --> 01:39:01,310 And then he beat the crap out of me. 1603 01:39:01,812 --> 01:39:02,895 But because of that... (chuckles) 1604 01:39:03,480 --> 01:39:05,064 I got a bunch of his DNA. 1605 01:39:06,108 --> 01:39:07,358 So, I wanted to... 1606 01:39:08,735 --> 01:39:11,153 let you know sooner rather than later. 1607 01:39:11,238 --> 01:39:12,988 I didn't want you to give up hope, you know? 1608 01:39:14,533 --> 01:39:15,699 I've been trying not to. 1609 01:39:16,451 --> 01:39:17,368 Well... 1610 01:39:18,745 --> 01:39:20,037 all you can do is try. 1611 01:39:20,122 --> 01:39:21,539 As my momma says... 1612 01:39:22,415 --> 01:39:24,333 not so much about hope as about... 1613 01:39:26,294 --> 01:39:29,380 well, I didn't used to be very good at English at school. 1614 01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:31,340 So it was more "All you can do is try 1615 01:39:31,424 --> 01:39:33,884 "to not be so crap at English." 1616 01:39:36,847 --> 01:39:39,223 Because you need English, really, if you wanna be a cop. 1617 01:39:40,267 --> 01:39:42,476 If you wanna be anything, really. 1618 01:39:49,234 --> 01:39:51,068 Unless you live in Mexico or something. 1619 01:39:52,612 --> 01:39:54,155 Who wants that? 1620 01:39:54,823 --> 01:39:55,990 (chuckles) 1621 01:40:15,427 --> 01:40:16,385 Hey, Dixon? 1622 01:40:21,975 --> 01:40:22,892 Thank you. 1623 01:40:57,052 --> 01:40:58,302 You did good, Jason. 1624 01:40:59,429 --> 01:41:00,804 You did real good. 1625 01:41:05,727 --> 01:41:07,019 (sighs) 1626 01:41:09,856 --> 01:41:11,190 But he wasn't the guy. 1627 01:41:18,949 --> 01:41:19,782 What? 1628 01:41:20,325 --> 01:41:21,992 There was no match to the DNA. 1629 01:41:22,369 --> 01:41:24,954 No matches to any other crimes of this nature. 1630 01:41:25,288 --> 01:41:26,872 To any crimes at all, in fact. 1631 01:41:27,958 --> 01:41:29,416 And his record is clean. 1632 01:41:30,752 --> 01:41:32,002 Maybe he was just bragging. 1633 01:41:33,171 --> 01:41:36,090 - He wasn't just bragging. - Well, that's as may be. 1634 01:41:36,174 --> 01:41:37,841 But at the time of Angela's death... 1635 01:41:38,635 --> 01:41:40,010 he wasn't even in the country. 1636 01:41:40,679 --> 01:41:41,595 Where was he? 1637 01:41:42,430 --> 01:41:45,182 Well, I've seen his records of entry and exit to the States, 1638 01:41:45,267 --> 01:41:47,226 and I've spoken to his commanding officer. 1639 01:41:48,395 --> 01:41:51,355 He wasn't in the country, Dixon. He ain't our guy. 1640 01:41:52,107 --> 01:41:53,607 Uh, no, he... 1641 01:41:56,319 --> 01:41:57,820 He... he might not be our guy, 1642 01:41:57,904 --> 01:41:59,530 but he still done something shitty. 1643 01:41:59,614 --> 01:42:00,656 I know he did. 1644 01:42:00,740 --> 01:42:02,199 Not in Missouri he didn't. 1645 01:42:02,951 --> 01:42:03,951 Where was he? 1646 01:42:04,452 --> 01:42:06,829 (sighs) That's classified information. 1647 01:42:06,913 --> 01:42:08,372 Oh, come on, man. 1648 01:42:08,957 --> 01:42:11,041 If the guy has a commanding officer, 1649 01:42:11,626 --> 01:42:14,336 and if the guy got back to the country nine months ago, 1650 01:42:14,421 --> 01:42:17,506 and if the country where he was is classified, 1651 01:42:17,590 --> 01:42:19,341 which country do you think he was in? 1652 01:42:21,303 --> 01:42:22,553 Hey, you know... 1653 01:42:25,098 --> 01:42:26,140 I'll give you a clue. 1654 01:42:28,310 --> 01:42:29,435 It was sandy. 1655 01:42:34,065 --> 01:42:35,691 That doesn't really narrow it down. 1656 01:42:38,528 --> 01:42:40,487 All you need to know is that 1657 01:42:40,572 --> 01:42:42,489 he didn't do nothing to Angela Hayes, 1658 01:42:42,574 --> 01:42:44,491 so... we're gonna keep looking. 1659 01:42:50,957 --> 01:42:51,832 All right? 1660 01:43:03,053 --> 01:43:04,845 I found my badge after all. 1661 01:43:10,226 --> 01:43:12,561 - (momma snoring) - (footsteps) 1662 01:43:31,539 --> 01:43:32,539 (exhales) 1663 01:43:48,473 --> 01:43:49,473 (beeping) 1664 01:44:03,655 --> 01:44:04,947 (cell phone ringing) 1665 01:44:12,831 --> 01:44:13,705 Hello? 1666 01:44:14,541 --> 01:44:15,541 (on phone) It's Dixon. 1667 01:44:21,047 --> 01:44:21,922 Tell me. 1668 01:44:25,135 --> 01:44:26,427 He wasn't the guy. 1669 01:44:26,803 --> 01:44:28,011 (sighs) 1670 01:44:40,984 --> 01:44:42,651 (Mildred crying) 1671 01:44:42,735 --> 01:44:43,652 Mildred? 1672 01:44:54,330 --> 01:44:55,539 Are you sure? 1673 01:44:57,750 --> 01:45:00,919 He... he wasn't even in the country when it happened. 1674 01:45:03,047 --> 01:45:04,298 So, whatever he did... 1675 01:45:06,134 --> 01:45:07,593 he didn't do it round here. 1676 01:45:09,387 --> 01:45:11,180 I'm sorry I got your hopes up. 1677 01:45:12,182 --> 01:45:13,765 Well, that's all right. That's all right. 1678 01:45:15,518 --> 01:45:16,810 (sighs deeply) 1679 01:45:16,895 --> 01:45:18,270 At least I had a day of hoping, 1680 01:45:18,354 --> 01:45:20,063 and that's more than I've had for a while. 1681 01:45:27,405 --> 01:45:28,405 I gotta go. 1682 01:45:32,368 --> 01:45:33,619 There was, uh... 1683 01:45:35,330 --> 01:45:37,164 There was one thing I was thinking. 1684 01:45:40,251 --> 01:45:41,376 MILDRED: What's that? 1685 01:45:42,420 --> 01:45:44,087 I know he ain't your rapist. 1686 01:45:45,673 --> 01:45:49,426 He is a rapist, though. I'm sure of that. 1687 01:45:58,061 --> 01:45:59,186 What are you saying to me? 1688 01:46:01,814 --> 01:46:03,315 Got his license plate. 1689 01:46:06,569 --> 01:46:07,986 I know where he lives. 1690 01:46:11,282 --> 01:46:12,366 Where's he live? 1691 01:46:14,702 --> 01:46:15,953 He lives in Idaho. 1692 01:46:22,460 --> 01:46:23,502 That's funny. 1693 01:46:27,048 --> 01:46:28,840 I'm driving to Idaho in the morning. 1694 01:46:34,847 --> 01:46:36,056 Want some company? 1695 01:46:41,896 --> 01:46:42,813 Sure. 1696 01:46:59,956 --> 01:47:02,916 ("Buckskin Stallion Blues" playing) 1697 01:47:10,842 --> 01:47:14,970 # I heard you sing in tongues of silver # 1698 01:47:15,054 --> 01:47:20,225 # I heard you cry on a summer storm # 1699 01:47:20,310 --> 01:47:25,105 # I loved you, but you did not know it # 1700 01:47:25,189 --> 01:47:30,068 # So I don't think about you anymore # 1701 01:47:30,737 --> 01:47:35,073 # Now you're gone, I can't believe it # 1702 01:47:35,575 --> 01:47:40,037 # So I don't think about you anymore # 1703 01:47:40,580 --> 01:47:45,584 # If three and four was seven only # 1704 01:47:45,668 --> 01:47:50,172 # Where would that leave one and two? # 1705 01:47:50,256 --> 01:47:55,844 # If love can be and still be lonely # 1706 01:47:56,012 --> 01:48:00,849 # Where does that leave me and you? # 1707 01:48:00,933 --> 01:48:06,021 # Time there was, and time there will be # 1708 01:48:06,105 --> 01:48:10,817 # Where does that leave me and you? # 1709 01:48:11,694 --> 01:48:16,448 # If I had a buckskin stallion # 1710 01:48:16,532 --> 01:48:21,495 # I'd tame him down and ride away. # 1711 01:48:21,579 --> 01:48:26,208 # If I had a flyin' schooner, # 1712 01:48:26,751 --> 01:48:31,505 # Sail into the light of day # 1713 01:48:32,090 --> 01:48:36,968 # If I had your love forever # 1714 01:48:37,053 --> 01:48:42,140 # Sail into the light of day # 1715 01:48:52,777 --> 01:48:57,698 # Pretty songs and pretty places # 1716 01:48:57,782 --> 01:49:02,285 # Places that I've never seen # 1717 01:49:02,912 --> 01:49:07,624 # Pretty songs and pretty faces # 1718 01:49:07,709 --> 01:49:12,587 # Tell me what their laughter means # 1719 01:49:12,672 --> 01:49:17,843 # Some look like they'll cry forever # 1720 01:49:17,927 --> 01:49:22,681 # Tell me what their laughter means... # 1721 01:49:25,143 --> 01:49:27,269 - Hey, Dixon? - Yeah? 1722 01:49:28,604 --> 01:49:29,855 I need to tell you something. 1723 01:49:32,525 --> 01:49:34,526 It was me that burned down the police station. 1724 01:49:37,780 --> 01:49:39,448 Why, who the hell else would it have been? 1725 01:49:42,994 --> 01:49:44,578 (laughs) 1726 01:49:52,086 --> 01:49:53,128 Dixon? 1727 01:49:53,921 --> 01:49:54,921 Yup? 1728 01:49:55,715 --> 01:49:59,342 - Are you sure about this? - About killing this guy? 1729 01:50:01,888 --> 01:50:03,805 Not really. You? 1730 01:50:07,351 --> 01:50:08,351 Not really. 1731 01:50:11,522 --> 01:50:13,190 I guess we can decide along the way. 1732 01:50:23,576 --> 01:50:28,455 # Pretty songs and pretty places # 1733 01:50:28,539 --> 01:50:33,293 # Places that I've never seen # 1734 01:50:33,795 --> 01:50:38,507 # Pretty songs and pretty faces # 1735 01:50:38,591 --> 01:50:43,220 # Tell me what their laughter means # 1736 01:50:43,304 --> 01:50:48,558 # Some look like they'll cry forever # 1737 01:50:48,643 --> 01:50:53,438 # Tell me what their laughter means # 1738 01:51:02,281 --> 01:51:05,242 (classical score plays) 1739 01:53:05,321 --> 01:53:08,698 (classical score plays)