The Scent of Rain & Lightning Page #2

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How hard is that?

[chuckles, sniffs]

Promise me you're gonna be

smart about all this, kay?

Yeah.

[dogs barking distantly]

[slowly building string music]

You disgusting pig.

This town ain't full of

chickenshits after all.

How refreshing.

Most folks happy just to put

a sign in the yard,

make an anonymous phone call.

I'm not scared of you.

[sniffs]

Mm.

Well, you should be.

Well, I'm not.

Yeah, I'll try

to remember that.

I'll write it down in my diary.

You have no idea who I am.

No.

You'll have to forgive me.

I've been gone a minute.

Jody Linder.

Little Jody Linder?

Jody Linder.

That's Hugh Jay's little girl.

[chuckling] Goddamn.

Why'd you do it?

- Hm.

- I want to know the truth.

[sniffs] You want the truth?

You're in the wrong

goddamn place for that.

[bottle shatters]

Wrong goddamn family too.

Billy.

I need to know

why you did it.

Why did I f***ing do it?

- Billy.

- F***ing murderer.

[mutters indistinctly]

Get the f*** out of my...

Billy, just... Billy.

Talking to me?

Goddamn it.

Scared now, ain't you?

- Why'd you do it?

- F***ing...

[gasping hoarsely]

Granddaddy made me

a murderer.

How's that feel, huh?

How's that f***ing feel?

Have a murderer all with

his hands all up on you, huh?

Huh?

Like that?

[dogs barking continuously]

[laughing]

[imitating barking dogs]

Run on home, now.

Run on home 'fore you get

yourself into some trouble...

in some real goddamn trouble.

Run on home.

[laughs, whoops]

You run home!

You run home

and tell granddaddy

all about what I did.

You tell him...

I meant what I said!

[unsettling

banjo and string music]

How many people don't think

Billy killed my folks?

Not many.

So some people

don't think he did?

[sighs shortly]

I don't know.

No, that's not fair.

That's not fair.

If I ask you how many

and you say "not many,"

then that means some don't.

Maybe a... handful.

You don't think he did it.

Jail's where

Billy Croyle belongs.

[thunder rumbles]

You know something.

You know something

and you're not telling me.

You're a Linder.

You tell me.

[thunder rumbling softly]

Senior wanted Billy in jail,

and that's what he got.

...sweet cheeks.

- Huh? What's your name, huh?

- All right, that's enough.

- You want another drink?

- You know what?

[thunder rumbling]

But don't...

don't miss my point here.

I'm...

Senior did it out of

honest-to-God grief and sorrow,

and... and he thought

he knew the truth.

I'm gonna kill every one

of you last f***ing losers!

Billy, go home, goddamn it!

Did my mom...

leave with Billy's hat on?

I don't know.

Billy, um...

Did my mom leave

with Billy's hat on?

Look, Billy deserved

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