The Scent of Rain & Lightning Page #3

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to be in jail.

You tell me what you think

happened that night!

I-I don't know, I...

I don't know.

I don't know.

And that's

the God's honest truth.

I don't, okay?

[sniffs]

Maybe you should

go ask Senior

about what Doc saw that day.

[car door clicks open]

[thunder rumbling softly]

[thunder slowly building]

Hold on!

Would have been

in trouble without this.

Isn't she getting

just a little old for that?

Aw, she gets to decide when

she doesn't need it anymore.

- Give me a kiss.

- Bye.

- Laurie? Laurie.

- Yeah?

You two know you have

a sitter in me.

Oh, sure do

appreciate the help.

- You girls have fun.

- Bye, love you.

- Love you.

- Bye.

[shower running,

thunder rumbling]

[knob squeaks, water stops]

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's good for me.

[chuckles]

Yeah, I'll bet.

Okay, bye.

[water lapping]

Did Billy have a fair trial?

I'm looking for the...

- Here you go.

- Thank you, hon.

He got a fair trial.

Ah... you ask me,

he's lucky folks didn't

string him up in the square.

[sighs]

Some people think

he's innocent.

The last way

I'd describe him.

Bailey didn't think

he did it.

Well, he's been listening to

too much damn bar gossip.

He told me to ask you about

what Doc saw...

the night my folks were killed.

Right, well,

of course he did.

Downright "Matlock" of him.

If he spent as much time

trying to make a dollar

as he did sticking his nose

where it don't belong,

he'd be a rich man.

There's not much

to tell about that.

He...

Doc said he saw Hugh Jay

get into it

with a couple toughs

from out of town.

Said that they...

it looked like...

could be trouble.

Doc and I talked about it,

decided whether

we should tell Don or not,

and decided

it wasn't important.

Wasn't important?

They weren't from

around here.

They... they never could

have found his place.

They wouldn't have.

It would have just muddied

the whole situation

if we brought that up.

So you didn't

tell anyone about it?

I didn't,

but it's a small town.

[mysterious music]

[suspenseful string chords]

Jody, um, you play out here

for a while, okay?

- I'll see if your mom is up.

- But I'm hungry.

Yeah, I know, sweetie.

We're gonna go get some.

Just... play out here

for Mimi, okay?

Laurie?

Laurie?

[ominous music]

Laurie, are you home?

Laurie?

[eerie string music]

Dad.

- Sweetie, no.

- [sobbing] Dad.

[weakly] Oh, my God.

[footsteps, floor creaking]

Oh, my God.

Oh, Jesus. [sobs]

[cows mooing]

Hey-oh, hey-oh, hey-oh.

Get.

Get.

Hup, hup, hup, hup.

[cows mooing continuously]

- Get on down there.

- Hup, hup, hup, hup, hup.

Get on down.

Get.

Come on now.

Come on.

Get on down there.

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