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Jesus Christ, Pop, let's go home. I got waylaid. Sorry.
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What on earth is happening to you? Why are you acting this way?
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It's my tooth! My fucking tooth! I can't even think anymore because of it.
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I heard you talking. You got fired this morning, didn't you?
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Look, that's temporary, believe me. There's so much shit gonna hit the fan the next few days, my getting fired by LaRiviere and Merritt won't matter a bit.
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Going somewhere, Margie?
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I'm just cleaning out some of this stuff that's built up. For the rummage sale. And some things for the cleaners. And the laundromat.
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Don't lie to me. You're leaving me, I can see that.
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Don't be silly. Hi, Jill.
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Are you okay, Wade? What was wrong? Why were you holding everyone up?
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Did you see that sonofabitch in the BMW? He could've killed somebody.
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Did you get his number?
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I know who it is.
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Good. Who?
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Mel Gordon.
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I still don't understand
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From Boston. Evan Twombley's sonin law he was driving. I know where they're headed. Up the lake, Agaway. The old man's out deer hunting with Jack Hewitt, so they probably got some big weekend party planned.
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Lillian!
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Where's Jill?
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Me and Jill, we just had a little spat. She felt kind of left out, I guess, from not knowing some of the new kids
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Where is she now? Is she in the truck with your friends?
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While you went off for a few beers with your friends? Is that Hettie Rodgers there, with whatzizname?
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Yeah.
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She's grown up some, hasn't she?
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Oh, Jesus, lay off, will you? It looks like you've won this fucking round already, so lay off a little, for Christ's sake.
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I don't want her to go, Lillian.
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Don't cause a scene. No one's trying to win any 'rounds'. Don't make it any worse.
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I'm not making it any worse. You are. Me and Jill could've worked this thing out. It's normal, it's even normal for me to get a little touchy about it. Believe it or not. How do you think this makes me look, treating her like some tragic victim or something?
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You ever come to your father's grave anymore?
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No, not anymore. It's too... it's too far.
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We should talk.
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We've done all our talking, Wade.
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It's just...
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Let the past be. I'm sorry about your mother. I liked her. You never know how much women like that suffer. It's like they live their lives with the sound turned off and then they're gone.
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Wait there. She'll be right out. Is there snow on the ground up in Lawford?
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Yeah, lots.
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See. Get your boots.
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Hi honey.
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No problem. Look, I...
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You make me sick. I can't believe you've sunk so low.
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Low as what? What have I done? It's bad to want to see your own daughter?
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You know what I'm talking about. For what you're doing to me and to the child you say you love so much. Love. You won't get away with it.
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We're looking for the funniest costume! And the scariest! And the most imaginative! And the best costume of all!
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Got here just in time. Go ahead. Jump in line. Maybe you'll win a prize.
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Tomorrow, Gordon.
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Watch this snow. It's coming down tonight.
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Told you the snow was coming down. Take the grader.
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Where's the plow?
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Jimmy took it. Jack's out hunting with Evan Twombley.
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His soninlaw damn near killed me.
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Huh?
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At the school crossing. In his BMW. Coulda hurt some kids. I'm gonna bust his ass.
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Don't go playing policeman.
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What am I a security guard? You hired me, you and your Selectman friends.
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You don't want the extra police pay?
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I'm not saying that.
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Get the grader. Go out 29 past Toby's. Don't let Lillian get to you. She didn't belong here. That's why she left.
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Fuck you.
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That's what I love about a small town. You know everybody.
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What's the hurry?
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A hunting accident. Jack and Twombley.
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Huh?
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I figured you already heard.
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Twombley, Jesus. We got to get moving: I got to get up there. How would I know? C'mon, you drive. We'll take my truck.
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Fuck. Turn it off. All you heard was there was some kinda accident?
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Twombley's shot. I heard that. Not Jack. He's okay, I assume.
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Fuck. You don't know how bad or anything?
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You mean Twombley?
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Yes, Wade, I mean Twombley. Put out that cigarette. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
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He more than likely just shot himself in the foot or something. That's what usually happens.
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I shoulda sent you instead of Jack.
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I wish you had. I'd rather be deer hunting instead of freezing my ass on that fucking grader.
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You ain't the hunter Jack is. And he can't drive the grader worth shit.
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Like hell.
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That must've been Twombley. Jesus. I bet that was Twombley.
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You want me to follow them to Littleton?
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Let's get to the top and talk to Jack first. He'll know what happened. He fucking better. If this coulda been avoided, I'll put that kid's ass in a sling.
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What the fuck. My day's already ruined. Give me the keys. You can go back with Jack. You still got a shitload of plowing to do.
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It ain't done, if that's what you mean.
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Something bugging you?
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Yeah. A few things.
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Well, right now we're not too interested. Finish up what you gotta do, then you can get bugged on your own time.
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How you holding up, Wade?
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I'm fine, fine.
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You Rolfe? I remember you from high school. You're a teacher now? Harvard?
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Sorry about the long lunch. My clutch is going out again.
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You ever think of getting a new car, Wade?
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On what you pay me?
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Elaine! Call Chub Meritt and have him pick up Wade's car, fix the clutch.
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What do I have to do for it?
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Nothing, Wade, I've been thinking. You don't get enough appreciation around here and it's time we changed things a little.
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I saw Mel Gordon in here this morning.
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So?
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He say anything about the summons I tried to give him? Sonofabitch wouldn't accept it.
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Wade, that wasn't smart. Going out right after the man's fatherinlaw shot himself. Let it go. Call it a favor to me.
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You? Why?
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Mel's doing some business with me. It's nice to do favors for people you do business with. He was in a hurry. No big deal.
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That was before Twombley was shot. Before he knew.
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What's the difference? Take my truck, take a rest stop worrying about Mel Gordon. Have you decided what to do with your old man's place he going to stay there?
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Want to buy?
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