1. about the truck, heere’s jackie.
2. kate and cedric foglost. re hunter drinking, chloe’s visit, john ringtone, tom walker from texas.
3 jan and john, laramie street view. cheyenne epa lit.
4. rover, last time on a horse.
5. wanda and daisy. re chloe and family. ruth’s ancestry tree.
6. ruth and gil.
7. sess and claire.
OAK MOTTE UNDER GREY SKY.
We’ve seen the view the oaks and land through the Great Room window.
This view from Fort Park is to the hills of The Hill Country. Hunter and Gil in ATV, each with a bottled water. Parked near what seems the beginning of a trail leading down.
Ricardo and Roberto shooting arrows at bullseye, ATV nearby.
Lean-to, fire pit, horseshoe area, rudimentary tree house, tire swing.
HUNTER: Is that a trail.
GIL: To the creek.
HUNTER: Water?
GIL: A little. Enough to reach the river after this storm.
HUNTER: What river.
GIL: North prong of the Medina. (He lists the river’s path to the Gulf.)
HUNTER (BEAT): Gulf of what?
Gil smiles. DISTANT THUNDER.
GIL: Here it comes.
HUNTER: How long have you been here?
Gil tells the story re fatber and uncle using G.I. bills to start construction company near San Antonio, the purchase of the land, the building of the house, purchase of adjacent parcel, that they’re on.
1. About the truck, Jackie arrives, selfie sticks.
2. Kate and Cedric, John’s call re Tom Walker from Texas. Cedric re Bandera.
3. Wanda and Daisy, re Chloe, San Augustin Pass selfie.
4. Barbara and Brian, San Augustin Pass, forward to John/Jan.
5. John and Jan, the pic, cowboy boots story.
6. Rover. Last time on a horse. Cheyenne Days VFW.
7. Ruth places San Augustin Pass photo, framed, with Hunter’s books.
8. Sess, Claire, Rover arrive. To the horses.
I'm a little bogged down in allegiance to old form tin need of change.
re the last of rubik's cubing and a passive-ish approach to letting form (from Jackie arrive at Hunter's) find itself, as i find myself forcing a bit, holding on to previous iterations that no longer fit.
for the record this blog is.
EXT, MOUNTAIN MEADOW - DAY
Hunter and Tom, side by side on horseback, behind Jackie and Chloe, behind Sess and Claire.
HUNTER: Do you mind a few questions to introduce further discussion later about your time in Vietnam?
TOM: Like I said, Hunter, you can ask me anything anytime.
HUNTER: Enlist or drafted?
TOM: I was drafted.
HUNTER: Branch?
TOM: Army was the plan but the Marine Corps had a different one for me when I got to the recruiting depot. Two tours.
HUNTER: Did you fight?
TOM: Yessir. Bumped to lance corporal not long after bein' there.
HUNTER: You didn't tell my mother.
TOM: Never came up.
HUNTER: Do you have a uniform?
TOM: Got a couple in the closet.
HUNTER: Your dad?
TOM: Army, Dubya two, Europe.
HUNTER: My grandfather was Navy in the Solomon Islands.
TOM: Alright.
HUNTER: U-S-S Helena. Have you ever heard of the battle of Kula Gulf?
TOM: Yessir. He was there?
HUNTER: Yes.
TOM: Did he come home?
HUNTER: Yes.
TOM: Ever talk about it?
HUNTER: Not much. A little, once, when I asked him why he never went in the ocean past knee-high when we'd go to the beach.
TOM: Hard to not come home a little rearranged. But somethin' to be said for comin' home.
CUH-LIP CUH LOP.
[WITH JACKIE AND CHLOE.]
EXT. PINE FOREST - DAY
Tom, Chloe and Hunter walk amongst the trees some distance from Sess, Claire and Jack prepping meal at picnic table. Horses hitched to rudimentary post.
SONG OF MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE.
TOM: Either y'all happen to know why they're called Ponderosa pines?
CHLOE: Pinus ponderosa. Ponderous, or heavy, basically. But I have a feeling you know that.
TOM: Well it rings a bell but my memory ain't what it used to be. You speak any other languages besides English and Latin.
CHLOE: I'm going into fourth year Spanish and I do not speak Latin other than the few phrases I remember.
TOM: You must remember a few more than a few in Spanish with that much under your belt.
CHLOE: A little. How about you?
TOM (IN SPANISH): Enough to get in trouble.
CHLOE (IN SPANISH): Has speaking Spanish ever got you in trouble?
TOM: (SPANISH) It has, and then got me out of it.
CHLOE (SPANISH): When do we get to hear that story, if it's one you can share?
TOM (SPANISH): I can. Maybe on the way home?
Chloe nods.
HUNTER (SPANISH): Translacion, por favor.
CHLOE: Traducción. Tom speaks enough Spanish to get in and then out of trouble and has a story about it he's going to share on the way home.
HUNTER: Bueno.
TOM: How about you, Hunter.
HUNTER: High school French my first two years.
TOM: Any particular reason?
HUNTER: Yes. Charlotte Charbonneau.
TOM: A story you'd be willing to share?
We see Jackie raise and RING A TRIANGLE DINNER BELL.
HUNTER: Saved by the bell.
Chloe inquires re Tom's buckle, re rodeo buckles in a shoebox at Ruth’s.
PICNIC TABLE
Jackie, Sess, Claire re Tom's relationship to Hunter.
INT. HORSE BARN - DAY
Kids racking saddles in the tack area and the others overseeing the feeding of hay to the horses in their stalls. Grooming and hay storage areas, mechanical bull in a corner. Hunter, Tom, Chloe, Jackie, Sess and Claire tightly circled in conversation, framed by the doorway view to corral and woods.
SESS: Straight home?
JACKIE: No. Tamales in Tulie and the sands for sunset.
SESS: Take and send a picture.
JACKIE: Will do. Speaking of which, I'm going to post in my blog about today so I'm officially soliciting photographs for inclusion. Send to Jackie for forwarding.
CLAIRE: Speaking of which sort of, Hunter, I wonder if you would be in a selfie take and send to myb dad, whose a huge fan of yours.
HUNTER: Really?
CLAIRE: He would absolutely flip, but I understand if you'd rather not.
HUNTER: Claire, I'm touched. Absolutely of course we can do that.
He moves close to Claire, Claire gets her phone, Sess gets hers and aims the camera at Claire taking the selfie with Hunter, both smiling.
CLAIRE: Thank you so much.
HUNTER: I'm very happy to, and thank you, and you, Sess for a wonderful and unforgettable - for me, anyway - day.
He hugs Sess and Claire.
CLAIRE: I wish I could see his face when he sees it.
SESS: Oh boy. I can see his jaw drop.
A pause.
JACKIE: Well, down the hill.
SESS: See you at the airport?
JACKIE: Yep.
SESS: Coffee for the road?
Jackie looks to Hunter.
HUNTER: Yes. Any chance of making it iced?
SESS: That I can do.
JACKIE: Make that two.
SESS: Order coming up.
Sess leads to the door, two steps before:
CHLOE: Sess and Claire, might there be a rope around that tie-down rider could turn into a lasso.
Hunter looks at Tom, who looks at him. Claire walks to the tack area.
SESS: Yes, we do. Might there be a tie-down rider who could do that?
Chloe's eyes lead all others to Tom.
CHLOE: Tom, might there be?
Claire gets the coiled rope from its hook, walks to Tom.
TOM: Well. Been awhile but I reckon it might come back if I could run handle that rope for a minute while my hands try to remember.
Claire hands Tom the rope.
TOM (CONT.) Thank you, Claire.
CLAIRE: Thank you, Tom.
Tom takes rope in hands, all others get their phones, aim cameras at Tom working the rope as if for feel. The kids notice, stop what they're doing, approach the action, aim their phone cameras.
TOM: So, I have a feelin' a few of y'all already know that the knot I'm gonna use to make my rope, also referred to, like Chloe said, as a lasso or lariat, is what's called a honda knot, which at least a couple of ya already know. If ya know why it's called that let me know 'cause i never heard a reason that ever convinced me. I do know that lasso, by the way, and which ya also already know, can be a verb. To lasso, to state the obvious. So I'm just gonna do this without sayin' how I'm doin' it, then y'all can look at it slow-motion later and see the step-by-step.
Tom suddenly and quickly fashions a lariat.
TOM (CONT.) And there's your loop.
CHORUS OF APPROVAL from the group. Tom widens the loop enough to lay on Chloe's shoulders.
CHLOE: Thank you very much, Tom.
TOM: My pleasure, Chloe.
CHLOE: Here's where I ask too much.
She lifts lasso off shoulders, hands to Tom, points to the mechanical bull, pulling all eyes to it, and phone cameras when Tom, after winking at Chloe, walks the lariat toward the bull. He widens the lariat, raises it up above his head, swings it like a cowboy. The group follows him to within a dozenish feet of the bull, Tom swings the loop, lets it fly, lassos the bull by the horns.
LOUD CHORUS OF APPROVAL AND APPLAUSE as Tom walk to the bulL gets the lariat, walks it to Claire, who points to Chloe. Tom places the lasso on her shoulders, winks. Chloe winks. Hunter and Jackie exchange pleased expressions.
[CUT TO CLAIRE'S DAD reading Foglost gets Claire/Hunter selfie.]
1. Sess and Claire, Rover arrive, intros, re Tom rodeo, to the horses.
2. Riders fanned out through pines.
3. Riders single file uphill around bend, Sierra Blanca view, pause for pic.
4. Mountain Meadow. Tom and Hunter, Chloe and Jackie, Sess and Claire.
5. Pinus Ponderosa, Latin, Spanish, Hunter's H.S. French re Charlotte Charbonneau, about Tom's buckle, Ruth's family tree-keeping, Chloe re Kate's.
6. Jackie, Sess, Claire picnic/table as H, Ch, T approach.
7. Horse barn Honda Knot.
Park City, not Wilson WY.
On deck, Cedric reading Foglost, Kate typing at laptop. Table between them.
CEDRIC: Do we know whether Hunter drinks or drank?
Kate looks up, smiling.
KATE: Cedric. Your first do we know.
He winks.
CEDRIC: Like crossing a threshold.
KATE: Yes, actually.
They squeeze hands.
CEDRIC: And another when I use it on John and Jan.
KATE: That will be greatly appreciated. We do know that Hunter did drink, a significant factor in the divorce. We know that he no longer does, other than an occasional glass of wine or beer, per Barb at Thanksgiving. He looked great at John’s birthday. I think he has a home gym. And I’m just now remembering Chloe is there for the rest of her summer. I think she gets there today.
CEDRIC: Will I meet him?
KATE: Well, at her graduation, if not her birthday. Why the question about the drinking unless it gives away too much.
CEDRIC: No, since you already Duane is an alcoholic.
KATE: Right.
CEDRIC: It’s the nuance, I guess. Certainly familiarity with the dynamics of a spiral. Anyway.
KATE: Apparently it’s going to be a movie.
CEDRIC: Really?
KATE: That’s the rumor until some solidifying of details is taken care of. Stay tuned.
CEDRIC: I will.
JOHN’S THWACK “Fooooore” RINGTONE. Cedric smiles, Kate picks up.
