Paper Man Page #6

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in the truck.

- Oh, great

Start bringing them in.

Horton r

[knocking at door]

- Richard, Richard,

for the Iove of God,

don't do this please.

Listen to me.

You're making a huge mistake.

You're going for it

- lt's Abby.

My name.

Oh, you got rid of the couch.

- Yeah, the couch was a problem.

- [chuckles]

Um...

This is for you.

- Oh.

lt's...

it's a fish.

A dead fish.

A whole dead fish.

- Yeah.

My dad fishes, like,

for a living.

lt's a fluke.

- ln what sense?

- lt's called a fluke.

lt'sthe water around here

is swimming with them.

- Ah, yeah.

So it's edible?

- Yeah.

- A fluke.

That's great

Thanks.

- So l read that book you wrote.

l hope that's okay.

- Reading my book?

Of course.

You may be one of the few.

- So are you going out tonight?

Out on the town?

- Uh, l don't know.

What do the people of Montauk

do on a Friday night?

- The Yardarm's totally dead.

So you'd probably like that

lt's down by the harbor.

You can't miss it

- What did you think

of the book?

- l don't know.

What did you think of it?

- Me?

Oh, l

you know,

it's got its strengths,

got its moments.

l hate it

- You should probably

put that fish in the fridge,

'cause it'll stink up

the whole house.

Trust me.

I know.

What?

- Soup ingredients.

You know, if you feel like it

- You bought me a rutabaga.

- [chuckles]

- You're making this

too easy on me.

- Well, like l said, you know,

if you feel like it

No pressure.

- Your book was cool, actually.

lt kind of blew me away.

[bass-heavy rock music]

- You planning on having

something to eat?

- Thanks, no.

l've got soup at home:

homemade.

- Can't beat that

Another beer?

- Sure.

- So what brings you down

to the South Shore, then?

- A book.

A bird.

A book about a bird.

Research work, you know.

- My wife makes

a good chowder.

Not so much a clam chowder

Iike you'd expect,

more of a corn chowder.

- My Lorraine, she can shuck

a dozen oysters

in a minute and a half.

- Local Malpeque oyster?

- That's the one.

- My wife invented and patented

a Iifesaving poIymer shunt

- Shunt, you say?

- Shunt

So there's our heath hen,

hunkered down at Camp Hero.

- Just down the road here?

- Yep.

As game warden

- The Alfred guy.

- Yeah, correct

Alfred is his actual name.

In the book, I am going

to call him Horton or Morton.

Anyway, so he's brought

his flock of heath hens

back from the brink

of extinction.

- Awesome.

- l mean, he was down to 1 1

of them.

1 1, you know, but now with care,

and dare I say, Iove,

and incubators,

he's got 200.

And it's like the hen is saved.

- Safe, thank God.

- But because our story

is a tragedy,

you know what happens?

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