The Indian Runner Page #6

gonna eat a message.

Since when do you...

Wait a minute!

Oh, I get it.

I get it.

I know you think that way.

What way?

What way?

I still love you.

Dad finally did something you respect.

Pop should have been

an Indian runner.

This place looked better

when I had it.

I'll bet it did.

You know why?

Because you had the fire in you.

People now don't even live

on the land they work.

Ain't got no fire. Never had it!

The fire?

The fire's out now! So what?

Between the cradle and now

you happened.

- You burned, brother!

- So...

What do I have to show for it?

What you got, Farmer Joe,

is knowing...

...knowing you once was.

On fire!

Sh*t. Sh*t. Sh*t!

Man!

I burned!

- The land was churned.

- I burned.

- Soil was turned.

- I burned.

They took what you earned.

A lesson learned.

Meeting adjourned.

I've missed this, Frankie.

I've missed having a laugh with you.

Me too.

What did you do that for?

Come on.

Okay, big bear!

I'm an Indian runner!

I'm a message.

And the message is...

...bet you can't find me!

I'll get you.

Ready to give up?

Goddamn it.

All right.

All right, you win!

You're a message. You win.

- Oh, Joseph!

- Oh, Joey!

The message is...

...never trust a bear.

I thought you were a tough guy.

Frank worked hard...

...every shift he could get on...

...and Dorothy tended the house,

got the old place looking new.

Me...

...I wanted to burn again.

- How much longer do I have to do this?

- Forty seconds.

I don't think this is

good for the baby.

Shh! Thirty-five seconds.

Frank?

Why do I have to do this?

I gotta know. 25.

Gotta know what?

Shh! 20.

Ten, nine...

...eight, seven...

...six, five, four...

...three, two, one.

Okay, good.

I'll marry you if you want.

Did you say you'd marry me?

If you want.

Oh God, I'm gonna be your wife!

Go, Frankie, go!

Good, little sister!

It's kicking! Frankie, it's kicking!

Let me see.

There?

That's a punch!

That's the last wild son.

Is that right, what your papa said?

You gonna be a big, strong dude...

What about me?

I got some mosquito bites

that need scratching.

How about you and me go

fiddle with the hydraulics?

Frank. Don't talk like that!

Frank, why are you

looking at me like that?

Come on, Frankie, you're scaring me.

Frank, you're scaring me.

Did I say the wrong thing?

Is it you don't know when

I say something nice?

Don't.

Don't know good things from bad?

That it?

Is it that we're strangers?

- We're not strangers!

- What are you talking about?

Frankie? Let's eat.

You eat!

You eat!

Stop it.

Wait. Where are you going?

It's okay, baby. Shh, it's okay.

He's just restless, that's all.

You go put your hands on him,

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