Backgammon Page #5

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I'm so stupid.

[Birds chirping]

I can't believe

how beautiful this place is.

Why don't you guys

have chairs out here?

Gerald preferred the patio.

With the trees, the ferns.

- The moist...

- Green shadows...

I think that Gerald is dead.

Why do you say that?

A quiet feeling of liberation

has come over me.

What happened out there?

I mean...

Nothing. I fell.

Let's go swimming.

[Laughs]

Come on.

Come on, let's go.

Let's go into the water.

- Are you... you wet-Kent momma.

- No.

This is Maine,

the water's probably freezing.

Come on.

Let's get undressed.

Let's go.

[Giggles]

Are you coming?

- If we're gonna do this...

- Uh-huh.

- We're not even gonna think about it.

- No.

- We're just gonna go.

- Let's go.

Okay.

[Giggles]

I can feel the cold...

[Screams]

Come on.

This was your idea.

Why is it so...

It's so cold

that I can feel my skeleton.

[Laughs]

- Okay.

- Let's go.

[Shrieks]

[Shivers] Wait, you have a

little leaf in your hair.

Right" okay.

[Laughs]

Oh boy.

[Gasps]

Hey.

Where are all

Gerald's paintings?

Well, my paintings.

[Shivers]

I mean... I mean,

where are all

the small ones that were there,

and the...

And those over there.

And where's his paintbrush?

I don't know.

I can't see them anywhere.

He must have taken them

with him.

Taken them with him?

What's he playing at?

I mean, you told me he was gone.

- Right?

- Yeah.

Whoa.

He must have taken him

a while to do this.

I mean, this painting,

it's quite different now.

It's...

It's not only purple, it's...

It's red.

It's red.

It almost looks like it's dry.

Hey! Don't touch it.

Sorry.

Hey, wait.

What the hell is going on?

Hey, wait.

Why don't you

just look up all the doors

I guess you'll have to hear him

- come in.

- Hmm.

I don't lock the doors.

I guess he'd have

his own key anyway.

[Faucet creaks]

But you saw him leave, right?

[Miranda] He hit me and

I fell to the ground.

And then I hit him,

I didn't see where he went.

Maybe he simply came back.

I'm gonna go warm myself up.

Okay.

Oh, hey.

Hey, I was thinking...

Why didn't you just run away?

I mean, the bastard hit you,

what were you gonna do?

My plan was simple,

I was going to kill him.

Fair enough.

That means he probably

in the house with us now.

Listening to us, no doubt.

He's such an idiot!

I want him to be gone.

Why don't you

just tell him that?

Our relationship was convenient

in lots of ways.

All the best ones are.

Love has never come

into marriage.

At least not happy marriages.

You need to find

the right partner

for practical,

not romantic reasons.

Romance exists

outside marriage, right?

I wouldn't know.

People who are together

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