Criss Cross Page #3

Man's wife got sick.

I understand that,

but a phone call.

Steve, i really think

maybe we oughta check it.

We got a schedule

to make.

Yes.

But there's supposed

to be three of us

on the truck.

With a load

like we got today...

what do you want me to do?

Find a phone booth someplace

and stop and call the office?

Anything you say.

No, go on, drive.

We'd be late.

Relax. Everything's

gonna be all right.

[Sighs]

I don't know, steve.

I guess you're right.

I guess i'm just

kinda nervous lately.

Sure. Take it easy.

You got a long ride

ahead of you.

It's a 40-minute run

to san rafelo.

Yeah, that's right.

[Anna's voice]

After it's done, after it's

all over and we're safe,

it'll bejust you and me.

You and me,

the way it should've been

all along from the start.

[Thinking]

From the start.

The beginning.

[Steve narrating]

It all happened so fast.

It was only eight months ago

that i came back.

I came home.

The los angeles sun was shining,

the way it's always supposed to.

The old trolley line looked the same...

the old street, the old houses.

I was glad to be back.

[Trolley bell ringing]

I'd been all over

the country.

I connected with

a trucking outfit in chicago.

Did construction workdown south.

Drifted around the oklahoma oil fields.

Jobs like that,

one after the other.

Until finally i got her

out of my system.

I didn't come back

on account ofher.

It had nothing to do with it.

I wasn't gonna go looking for her, ;

i didn't expect to run into her.

I didn't particularly

want to see her.

I was sure of that

if i was sure of anything.

But then from the start,

it all went one way.

It was in the cards

or it was fate...

or a jinx or whatever

you wanna call it.

- but right from the start.

- [Barking]

[Barking]

Attaboy!

Ya glad to see me, corky?

Huh? How are ya, huh?

Where's mom and slade?

Mom go shoppin' again, or is she out

gabbin' with the neighbors?

Which is it? Say something,

you funny-lookin' little mutt.

Can't ya talk?

All right. You stay here

and watch my bag.

Stay here and watch it.

I'll be back later.

Now watch it.

Watch it.

[Fierce barking]

Attaboy.

[Steve]

I went down to the drugstore

to call up ramirez.

Pete ramirez.

We grew up together.

He was an old friend.

I thought i might drop over

and kill an hour.

But it all went one way

that sunny afternoon.

In the cards.

He was out.

His wife told me

he was away somewhere,

working on thejob.

Pete always had the night shift,

but this afternoon

he was on day duty.

This particular afternoon.

And then, somehow,

there i was, in the round-up.

The old place.

The old hangout.

There i was, all right,

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