West Virginia Stories (2015) - full transcript
- Get up.
- The alarm didn't
even go off.
- Internal clock.
Oh, man.
What?
- Get dressed.
♪
♪
- Here.
- Okay.
- Guess my internal clock's
on snooze.
♪
Are--are you--?
Hurry.
- Slowly!
- You just said "hurry."
- Shh. Faster.
When he gets into the clearing,
take the shot.
Safety off.
- I got it.
- Squeeze real soft.
Take it.
Shoot it.
Did I hit it?
Didn't look like it.
Well, there's your
bullet hole.
- I don't see any bullet.
Where's the bullet?
You know where the bullet is?
Where's the bullet?
- Inside the deer.
- How the heck
did I miss that?
I think I banged
my scope.
Ow. Scope must be broken.
Fucking deer.
Ow!
Damn.
You want the last
piece of bacon?
Doug?
Do you want the last
piece of bacon?
- No!
- Damn it!
I lost my game.
Man, I'm supposed
to call Sherry,
but I cannot get
any reception here.
- Doug!
- It's spotty.
- Huh?
- There is no reception.
- That's weird.
Does she know that?
- Uh-huh.
- Why would she ask me
to call her, then?
- Your wife has a sick
sense of humor.
- Yes, she does.
She screw with you
growing up?
- Constantly.
- I said, did she mess with you
growing up?
Huh?
Did she screw with you?
- What's up? You coming?
- I'm going to go hunt
a few hundred yards that way.
- Okay.
- Cover more ground.
- All right, well,
what if, uh...
what if I get something?
- I'll come to you.
- What if you get
something?
- Just stay put.
You might spook something
your way.
- Okay.
- Try not to miss.
- Yeah, thanks.
- Right over here...
- Come on,
it's right over here.
- Stay put.
- Oh, shit.
- Hey!
- Are there any more?
Ryan, are there more?
Goddamn it, Ryan,
is that the last of them?
- Yeah!
- Are you sure?
- Are you sure?
- No...
I... I don't see any more!
Oh, God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Jesus Christ.
I just killed him.
I killed him.
Doug? Doug, what
are you doing?
Where are you going? Doug, stop.
Just stop a minute, Doug.
We got to figure out
what to do here.
Doug, what are you doing?
We got to figure out
what to do here.
Just a minute--no, Doug!
Damn it!
Just a second!
Stop! Look...
we got to go to the police.
We have got to go
to the police.
We've got to figure out
what to do, okay?
Talk to me!
- What?
- "What"?
Did you just say "what"?
Jesus, Doug, we just fucking
killed three people,
and all you can say is "what"?
Yeah, you are fucking crazy
now man.
No, Doug. Doug!
No, wait, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it.
Doug, stop!
Doug, come on. Doug--
come on, Doug.
Wait. Don't--don't--
don't touch everything.
Just leave it all
as it is.
Let's just go to the police.
Would you stop...?
That's a lot of money.
If we take it
to the police now,
Pack it up, take it over,
it won't look suspicious.
But the longer we wait,
the worse it looks.
Come on, Doug.
Snap out of it. Please?
I can't do this by myself.
I mean, they--
somebody probably
heard those shots.
Imagine if the police
go out there
and find those
dead bodies.
Then they see us
with all this money.
I mean, we are in trouble,
buddy.
Doug!
- It's gun season.
- What?
- It's gun season.
No one's going to care
about gunshots.
Plus, there ain't nobody
out here anyway.
- Still, I--I think we need
to tell someone.
- John Brander.
Elliot Moody.
And Cooper Greene.
And the one they killed
just had these keys.
You know who they are?
- How the heck would I know
who they are?
- I don't know
who they are either.
I do know they're probably
not-so-nice people.
They got a quarter million
dollars buried in a hole.
Which makes me think
there's some other
not-so-nice people who will be
wanting that money back.
- Then that's all
the more reason
to go to the police.
- Then what?
- What do you mean,
"then what?"
- Then go to the police.
Turn all this money in.
And we're heroes for killing
a couple of bad guys?
What then?
You think those people
are going to be happy
about losing that money?
Huh?
You think they're just going
to let it go?
No.
And everybody, good and bad,
is going to know
just who the hell we are.
- If we're in trouble,
police won't use our names.
- We're--we're in a town
of 500 people, all right?
How anonymous
do you think we can be?
You know why I came out here,
don't you?
Why do you think?
- Be alone.
You wanted to get away
from everything, I guess.
- That's right.
Alone.
And then you show up.
And these guys.
And now you want
to invite the police
and the media
and God knows who else
out here?
And with my history,
you don't think they're going
to dig that up?
I mean, Christ,
I can just see the headlines.
- It's confidential,
isn't it?
- Not military, no.
- You're right.
It's my fault.
If I wasn't here,
none of this would have
happened.
If I wouldn't
have missed that deer,
none of this would have
happened.
We wouldn't be arguing
over piles of money.
Four dead guys out there.
- No, I'm not blaming you.
I'm not blaming anybody.
Shit happens.
It's as simple as that.
This is a fucked-up situation,
no matter what.
I know what you say
we should do
is by all means
the right thing to do.
I just don't see how it's going
to make things better for us.
And you didn't miss
when it mattered.
♪
Sorry!
- Goddamn it!
- I thought it was
the unlock button.
- Fuck!
- Fuck, it's not my keys.
Oh, wait, don't touch anything.
Fingerprints.
Okay.
"Joseph Anderson."
What?
Doug, what is it?
Jesus. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Fuck! Fuck!
Oh, my God.
Hey, Doug, listen...
we got to take the car...
and park it out there.
A few miles.
We leave it there,
and then we walk all the way
back to the cabin.
- Then what? Just dump it
on the side of the road?
- No.
We ditch it in the woods.
We ditch it
off in the woods.
We can't make a fucking car
disappear.
But if we leave it there...
they won't come looking
back here.
- Fucking cop.
- Yeah, fucking cop.
♪
- Can you pick
a station already?
- They're all fuzzy.
- Use the iPod.
- I want to hear
the local stations.
- There are--there are no
local stations. Zero.
Seriously, Hannah,
that's annoying.
- How much longer?
- Not too far.
- It's so pretty out here.
Feels like we're in
the middle of nowhere.
- We are.
- I mean, literally,
there's a road...
and a bunch of trees.
Talk to me!
- What about?
- Anything.
- We talked for two hours.
- Yeah, you haven't
said anything the last hour.
- You were asleep.
- Mm-hmm.
- So, what--
what am I supposed to say
when you're sleeping?
- Talk to me,
or I turn on this radio.
It's over.
- Okay, fine, I'll talk.
Stop.
Jesus, how old are you again?
- Eight.
- I was going to say six,
because it's always nicer to
tell a girl
she looks younger
than she is.
- Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
- Turn the radio back on.
- Okay.
♪
- Holy crap, it's cold.
- Watch your step.
- So this is it, huh?
- This is it.
- I didn't know places like this
still existed.
- You're a Republican
and you don't think
places like this
still exist?
- I love you.
- I love you too.
Let's go inside.
He's not going to know
what to do with that.
- You said he drinks.
- Not that.
- Dad?
- Hold on!
Y'all are early.
I didn't expect you
for a couple of hours.
- I called
and I left a message.
- I'm not checking
that damn thing.
This must be Hannah.
- Hi. It's nice
to finally meet you.
- Make yourself at home.
- I got you this.
I wasn't sure
what kind you liked.
- Tempranillo.
"Nillo."
- Huh?
- Tempranillo.
- A wine, huh?
Huh.
Well, thank you.
How's the drive?
- Uh, it was normal.
- Ice on the road?
- On the mountain, yeah.
- Well, have a seat.
I was going to clean up
before you all got here.
- Oh, it's fine.
I'm used to it.
- What are you,
feeding the whole town?
- Got a bunch of Thanksgiving
leftovers, y'all hungry.
- Oh, we had plenty
of turkey last week.
I thought we could
go out to eat.
- Well, how does pizza work?
- So, what's good here?
- Garlic pizza's
pretty famous.
- What's on the garlic pizza?
- A bunch of garlic.
- Right.
- So, Hannah, you work
with Mitch down at the EPA?
- Not exactly.
I'm with a different
organization.
But we often work
with environmental groups.
- Who's that?
- OPEC.
- Huh.
- How are you, Grant?
- I'm fine, darling.
How are you?
- Doing just fine. Hey, Mitch.
- Hey, Jordy.
- Can we get y'all
something to drink?
Beer for you, Grant?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Same for me is fine.
- Do you have a wine list?
- Yes. Red or white?
- Oh, let's do red.
- All right, I'll give y'all
a few more minutes
- to look at the menu.
- Thank you.
I take it you haven't fixed
the A/C in your truck yet.
- Who the hell needs A/C
in the middle of December?
- Well, it's been broke
for two years.
And I saw that they
repaved the streets.
But I thought--
you know, you said earlier
the town was short
on funds,
so how did that happen?
They found some.
- Y'all ready to order?
- Yeah. Can you tell me
about that garlic pizza?
Thank you.
- You ain't got GPS
on that phone.
- Why?
- Been a long time since you've
found your way back here.
- Yeah, it's been a while.
Hey, Joe.
- Joe, this is Hannah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hi, how are you?
- Joe's an old friend of mine,
and he ain't getting
no younger.
- Pizza tonight?
- No, no, just making rounds.
You people
have a nice evening.
- Good night, Joe.
- Good night.
Well...
I'm going to hit the hay.
I'll pull out the sofa bed
for y'all.
- Oh, we're staying at
the bed and breakfast, actually.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
We figured we'd be
out of your hair that way.
- You don't have to spend
your money on that.
- Oh, it's easy.
That way we can all
have our own space.
- All right.
- Y'all need anything else?
- No, I think we're good.
Thank you.
- I'll be in the other room.
If you need anything else,
just help yourself.
- Okay. Will do.
Good night.
- We paid in advance
for the other room, right?
- That's not the point.
Your dad wanted you
to stay here.
- He's going to sleep.
Who cares where we stay?
- He wants you close by.
- It's... the hotel's
across the street.
- Well, then you can
go stay there.
- Let's go get a drink.
- No.
- Are there any bars here?
- There's a bar, yeah.
- Well, then let's go
to a bar.
- I don't want to.
I'm tired.
Let's go to bed.
- You want the coverlet?
- What is this?
- That's a coverlet.
- What's a coverlet?
- It's just for decoration.
Just...
- All right, we're going
to sleep decorated.
- Okay.
- You still want that drink?
- Yup.
- Awesome.
- Oh, my goodness.
There's an open stool.
- Hey, there.
- Hi, Sherry.
- How have you been?
- I'm good. How have you been?
- So good to see you.
- Good to see you too.
- Oh, I figured
- you'd be here last week.
- I had to work.
- Oh. Well, at least
you made it now.
- Hi, I'm Sherry.
- Hi. Hannah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Me and Mitch used to date.
- Oh, okay.
Wow. We've known
each other forever.
- Mm-hmm.
- What can I get you two?
- Two Ambers, please.
- Coming right up.
- How are you?
How's business been?
- It's been good.
Hit and miss, really.
- Yeah?
- Is this your first time here?
- Yeah. I love it.
It's amazing.
- Great.
How's your dad been doing?
- Oh, he's good. Yeah.
- Well, we've all been
praying for him.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Thank you.
Thank you, Sherry.
- Wait, so you
actually thought
drinking and driving
was just drinking while driving?
No alcohol?
- I used to yell at my mom
for having soda in the car.
She probably thought
I was crazy.
- Wow.
- Oh, my gosh.
Thank you, Sherry.
- You're welcome. Enjoy.
- Okay.
- What's this?
- Try it.
- Okay.
- Cheers.
Oh!
- Oh, my God.
- Whoa.
- What is that?
- Oh, that is moonshine.
That's going to put
hair on your chest.
- You want me to have
hair on my chest?
You sound like Sling Blade.
- Oh.
- Oh, my goodness.
What have we here?
- I think you're trying
to take advantage of me.
- Don't do that.
- Great.
- Up we go.
- Stop. Stop.
Whoa. Sorry.
I'm sorry.
- Oh, I don't think
you did it.
What?
- Are you going to tell me
what's going on with your dad?
- What do you mean?
Oh, my God. Really?
Right now?
- Stop walking away
and talk to me.
- What?
- If something's wrong,
then I need to know.
- It doesn't affect you.
- Excuse me?
You've been avoiding
coming up here for months.
You've been acting weird
this entire time,
and now you're lying to me.
So either you tell me
what's going on right now,
or I'm getting in the car
and driving back to D.C.
- Oh, my God.
Don't be ridiculous, okay?
You're drunk.
I've been sending my dad money
for a while now.
- Money for what?
- And, uh...
I don't--he's just giving it
to people.
He's buying shit for them.
He's repaving the streets.
Um...
he won't even
fix his truck.
- You're giving him money
for a truck?
- Listen, I just...
it's late.
- For what?
- Medical bills, okay?
- What medical bills?
- Bills that don't exist.
Cancer. Lung cancer.
He refuses to do
anything about it,
and it's driving me absolutely
fucking insane.
- Does he smoke?
Is it from the mining?
- Well, I think both.
But he quit smoking.
So we don't... but...
My dad's dying.
And he won't even
try to fight it.
And I don't really want
to be around to watch it.
- How long have you known
about this?
- I guess a little bit
over a year.
- That's why you've been
avoiding me meeting him?
- Hey, listen,
he's going to be dead soon.
I don't see a point in you two
being best friends.
- How soon?
- A couple months.
Maybe less.
I didn't want to
concern you with it.
Why would I
concern you with it?
He was dying
before we even met.
- I could have
been there for you, and...
you should be
spending time with him.
- If he wanted to spend
more time with me,
he would try to fight it.
Right?
That's what my mom did.
If he wanted
to spend time with me,
he would try to fight it.
- You're being an asshole...
- I didn't even know
he was sick.
The only reason I knew
is because this town
can't keep their mouths shut.
He wants to up and die
without telling anybody.
And if he had his way,
that's what would have happened.
We wouldn't have even
known about it.
- Maybe that's what
he wanted.
- Well, if that's what he wants,
then that's pretty
fucking selfish to me.
- Mitch. Hey, how are you?
- Hi.
- I'm good, how are you?
- Good. How nice to see you.
- Just a second.
Oh, it's good to see you.
- It's good to see you too.
- Yeah.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Hi.
You don't have to get up.
Thank you.
- Aren't you bright-eyed
and bushy-tailed this morning.
- Yeah. I finally got
some good rest, so, yeah.
- Good, good, good.
- Did you two go out
last night?
- Yeah, we went to the...
- Brew Pub.
- The Brew Pub. Right.
And I met Sherry,
Mitch's ex-girlfriend.
- Oh, you met Sherry.
- Hey.
- Susan glad to see you?
- Uh, yeah.
She said we could still
use the room from last night.
So I told her we'd bring our
stuff over after breakfast.
That bed just kills my back.
I can't do it.
- You didn't mention
your back hurting this morning.
- Well...
I'll be sure to notify you
next time.
- Well...
We were planning on going
on a hike today,
if you wanted to join.
- I got to run over
to Oakland.
Got to go to the hardware store.
- What for?
- Mrs. Rapp's
water heater broke.
She needs a new one.
- Can she afford a new one?
- No.
- Why don't you two
go to the hardware store?
I was thinking of going
for a run anyway.
- You wanted me to show you
the waterfall, I thought.
- Yeah, I changed my mind.
I'll be sure to notify you
next time.
- Hannah's a nice girl.
And she's smart too.
- Yup.
- All right,
that comes to $261.81.
- Let's see here.
Here, use this.
No, wait...
- Here, just take this.
I'm paying for it anyway.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
How come you'll do anything
anyone asks of you around here,
but you won't
do anything for me?
- What do you want me
to do for you?
- Forget it.
Look...
I seen too many people suffer
with what I've got.
And I've done almost everything
I wanted to do in this life.
I'd rather...
spend two months
being happy
than 10 years suffering.
I don't want to overstay
my welcome.
- Hi, Mrs. Rapp.
- Oh, my goodness!
Come on in here.
Oh, give me a hug here.
Oh, I swear, you get taller
every time I see you.
- How are you doing, sweetie?
- I'm good, I'm good.
- Got your water heater.
- Water heater?
I told you not to bother
with that.
I can take a shower
at my niece's.
- I had an extra one
laying around.
- Well, I hope you didn't
go out and buy one.
- Just need to get
that old one out
and get it
hooked up for you.
- Fine. Do what
you got to do.
Hey, you, come on
and sit down here.
- Oh, now.
Let's see.
You're in D.C. now,
aren't you?
- Yes. I'm in Adams Morgan.
- You know, I can't stand
most of those politicians.
We need a good fella
like you there.
Most of them other fellas
are just assholes.
- Yeah.
- How are you doing,
sweetie?
- Yeah, I'm good.
- You know, you ever need
anything, you can come to me.
- I know. Thank you.
- Yeah. Your father,
he's a good man.
I would have thought most things
would have killed him by now,
but he just keeps on going.
- Well, I don't think
this time,
because he won't
go to the doctor.
- Honey, he's ready to die.
That's more than I can say
about most people.
- Do you think
he's happy?
- Well, he seems to get
through the day all right.
I just know he's better
when you're here.
- Goddamn it!
Son of a bitch!
- I think you'd better
go help your father.
- Okay.
Hold that light
down here.
Uh, we need the...
I'm going to need
the pipe wrench.
- Mrs. Rapp looks good.
- That old woman
is gonna outlive you.
- You know, we should probably
talk legal stuff at some point.
- Hold the light still.
You want to talk?
- I didn't mean
right now.
- Well, what's wrong
with right now?
- I don't know what your will
currently says,
but I'm assuming you didn't make
any specific changes.
So all your assets are going
to be transferred to me.
The old house, the truck.
Your tools, whatnot.
- All right.
- But I don't want anything.
- I know.
- So, who do you want
to give that stuff to?
The house goes to you.
There's good tenants
in it right now.
- I said I don't want it.
- The truck and the tools
go to...
- I don't want the house.
- Well, then sell it.
- Well, it makes more sense
if you gave it to somebody
that could use it.
- There's people
using it right now.
- You know what I mean.
- When you're dying...
you decide who gets what.
Hold that damn light still.
- Hey.
- You stink.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you have
a good time?
- How was your day?
- I went for a hike.
Went into some
of the arts and crafts stores.
It's beautiful up here.
I wouldn't mind spending
a little more time here.
- Mmm.
- You have to teach me
how to snowboard, remember?
Are we still meeting
your dad for dinner?
- Uh, let's just grab
sandwiches.
I want to get to bed early and
get on the road in the morning.
- So we're not staying
another day then?
- I got a lot of work to do.
- Is it really
so bad up here?
- I don't... there's just nothing
here for me.
I don't know.
The older I get,
the more I feel
I can't relate to anyone.
It's just depressing.
- I met three
different people today
when I was walking
through town.
And when I told them
I was Mitch Reed's girlfriend,
they all asked
how you were doing
and said how much
they'd love to see you.
- Yeah.
- That doesn't sound
like nothing.
♪
- You got everything?
- Yeah, I think so.
I need to pee, though.
Can I--?
- Yeah, go on up.
How much gas you got?
- Oh, I got enough
to get to Virginia, at least.
- Yeah, well, it's cheaper
there, I imagine.
- I tried some of that
Tempranillo last night.
- And?
- It's different.
Added some whisky to it.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
- Well, you two drive safe.
- It's really great
meeting you.
- Come on back up.
- Okay. I'll see you soon.
- All right.
- I'll see how work looks.
- Yeah. All right.
It's always good
to see you.
Drive safe.
Mitch.
Come here.
Hey.
- Bye.
- Come on.
We got to go.
- What's your name?
- You know my name.
- I'm supposed to ask every
question as if I don't know.
- Joe Miller.
- Middle name?
- Walker.
- Age?
- Stopped counting.
- Best guess.
- Sixty-three or -four,
maybe?
- What's your occupation?
- Mayor.
- How long have you
worked here?
- My whole life.
- I mean, in your current
profession.
- Eight years.
- What's your previous
occupation?
- Retired.
- That's not
an occupation.
- Coal miner.
How many more questions
you got there?
- Lots.
- You getting in?
♪
- Is it clean?
- It'll do.
- How often do you check it?
- Whenever it needs it.
- What are you looking at?
- Just looking.
- Did you go to college?
- No.
- Did you go to high school?
- Yeah.
- What level of education
do you need to perform your job?
- None.
♪
- You hang out here.
I'll be back in a minute.
- Hey.
Tom.
- Morning, Joe.
- Y'all test the water?
- Yeah.
Emailed you the report
this morning.
Lab was out here
just the other day.
Nothing to be
concerned with.
- Which lab?
- Allegheny
Same one we always use.
- They sample
down by the creek?
- Well, I'm sure they did.
- How sure?
- I wasn't with them
every step, Joe,
but they have a protocol
they follow every month,
and that issue with lead,
it's not coming from here.
- Tom, you know as good as I do
there ain't no such thing
as no water contamination
at a coal mine.
And your tailing's piled
two miles upcreek
from my watering table.
- All I can say,
our water tests show
our pile's not leeching.
That creek, more than a thousand
feet from us.
So legally, not our
responsibility.
- Your responsibility
of your mine's causing it.
I want the problem fixed.
- I'm sure you do,
but I can't fix a problem
- I didn't create.
- Test the water again.
That's all I'm asking.
- Well, that's not happening.
Tested it two days ago.
I can't get authorization
for another water test,
just because you think
there might be a problem.
- All right.
- Have a good day, Joe.
- What'd you do
in there?
- Nothing important. Just had
to ask someone a question.
This is Joe.
Yeah.
Yeah, where at?
How long
they been there?
All right, all right.
I'll take a look.
I got to go by
the office first, though.
It ain't going nowhere.
All right.
Hey.
- Hey, Leah.
How are you, sweetie?
- I'm good.
- Tom said he emailed over
a water report?
- Put it on your desk.
Want something
to drink, Leah?
- I'm good, thank you.
What's a water report?
- Huh?
- What?
- You say something?
- What is that?
- Report from the coal mines.
- On what?
- Water quality
of their runoff.
Ground contamination
and whatnot.
- You having a good time
so far?
- Hey, Mary.
Get on the horn with DEP.
See if they'll rush me
a water test.
- What's that?
- Department of
Environmental Protection.
304...
295...
- Can I look?
- Yeah.
- Whose car is it?
- Don't know.
You got a piece of paper?
- Here.
There. What's your
email address?
- Why don't you hold on
to that.
- Looks like it's been here
a while.
- Yeah.
- Why do you think
it's here?
- I'm not sure.
- Do people leave their cars
out here much?
- No.
Once in a while.
- What are we going
to do with it?
- Tow it.
- How?
- Tow truck.
- What's your current
annual salary?
- Six hundred bucks.
- A month?
- You said annual.
- Six hundred a year?
- About 50 a month.
- That's insane.
- Well, they just do it
so they can say
they paid me something,
to tax me on it.
- Then why do it?
- I like it.
- But how do you
live on that?
- I live on retirement.
- So you're basically
a volunteer?
- Got to get elected
before I can be unpaid,
but yeah.
- How long do you plan
to do it?
- Till they stop
electing me.
Ain't about making
the money.
I serve as the mayor
and the sheriff
and the handyman for the town,
because I do it for the town.
I do it for the people.
My family's here.
Been here quite a few years.
Job of the politician
is to serve his community
because he loves his community.
At least it should be.
I'd be doing all this stuff
whether I was mayor or not.
But this way,
I get to play with
all these nice toys they get.
- So you can arrest people?
- Yeah.
- Do you carry a gun?
- Yeah.
- Where do you keep it?
- My pocket.
- Ever used it?
- Not yet.
♪
- Where are we going?
Whose house is this?
- A friend of mine.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Joe, right?
- Yeah.
So Mitch's car down there.
I didn't expect him
back in town.
- Oh, yeah, he's at
the dump right now.
There's a lot of trash
to get rid of in here.
Come in.
- Thank you.
What's your name?
- Leah.
- I'm Hannah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Is she your
granddaughter?
- Oh. No, she's...
doing a school project.
Following me around
for a day.
- Oh, yeah?
Why do you want
to follow Joe around?
- I want to be
a congresswoman.
- A congresswoman. Wow.
- So my mom said
I should follow a politician.
- Okay. That's exciting.
Seems like a good one
to follow.
He's okay.
- Mitch should
be back soon.
- Yeah.
Well, I got
some work to do.
And... just wanted
to drop by, say hi.
- Yeah.
Come in.
♪
- You and Grant
were close?
- Yeah. Yeah, we were close.
Known him a long time.
- He seemed like
a really great guy.
I mean, I didn't
know him, really.
- No, he was.
He was fond of you, too.
I think he knew
that Mitch would be all right.
Especially since
you were around.
I don't think he'd have gone
otherwise.
All right, you.
Back to work.
This meeting of the town
Waste Management Division
has come to order.
Y'all say "present"
when your name is called.
- Gary.
- Present.
- George.
- Present.
- Jan.
- Present.
- Joe.
- Present.
- Everybody's here.
- You sure?
- Oh! Leah.
- Present.
- There you go.
You gonna keep the minutes,
you better keep up.
First order of business.
Landfill manager
Scott Eickelburger.
- You should be
wearing gloves.
- Joe here.
Yeah.
Well, that figures.
All right.
Listen, call the governor's
office, huh?
304-206...
Yeah, all right.
- What'd they say?
- Can't test the water
for at least another week.
Sons of bitches.
- But I thought you said
the tests were fine.
- Well, I don't trust it.
- How come?
Why would they lie
about something like that?
- Lots of reasons.
Mines always have
some acid runoff.
That's the way it is.
It's their responsibility
to maintain those
at reasonable levels,
so as not to contaminate
the groundwater,
or the drinking water,
at any rate.
But it ain't cheap
to clean all that up.
Much cheaper to pay someone off
to falsify those reports,
and then continue with business
as usual.
- Do you think
they're doing that?
- I don't know.
I wouldn't put it
past them.
Money makes people do things
they don't normally do.
As much as I like to think
that people are honest...
when you're in a position
of responsibility...
can't take people
at their word.
Especially when that word
don't feel right.
We may be a small town here.
May not matter to people outside
what happens here,
make sure
people are safe and happy.
At least as much
as they can be.
♪
Here you go.
Make yourself useful.
Hold on. Hold on.
Here.
Give me the change
and the receipt.
- What are we doing?
- I told your mom
I'd feed you
before she picked you up.
Come on.
- You need
anything else, Leah?
- I'm good. Thank you.
- Dad?
- No.
- Hey. What's up, guys?
I didn't know
you'd be here.
Joe.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- What's going on, honey?
- It's career day.
She's following Dad
and has to write a report
about their day together.
- Oh.
I bet that's got to be
super interesting,
hanging out with Joe.
- Nice TV.
- Yeah, it's been a real good
few months of work.
We got a new client,
and he asked me to do,
on top of the website,
a commercial.
It's been big money.
Real good.
What--what did you
do today?
Career day?
- We delivered groceries.
- Yeah?
- And went to a meeting
at the dump.
And picked up garbage.
- Super cool.
- And found a car
out in the woods
- You found a car?
Huh. What--what kind of car?
- Black one.
Here, I took some pictures.
- Let me see.
Whoa, that is cool.
Super cool.
Oh, that's very cool.
It's crazy that somebody
just left a car,
a nice one like that,
out there all alone.
I bet somebody's going
to come claim it, probably.
- We should know soon.
Mary's running
the license plate.
- Really?
Hmm.
What else did you do?
- We fixed his truck.
- Huh?
- We fixed his truck.
- Oh. I--
I forgot. I--
I got to--I got to go.
I forgot,
I got to do something.
But I'm going to be out
five, ten minutes.
Anybody need anything?
No? Okay.
Here you go, sweetie.
Thank you.
I'll see you soon.
- Thank you.
- All right.
Hey, I want to see
that report when it's finished.
- Okay. Bye, Joe.
- The DEP called.
- What'd they want?
- Sending someone out
to test the water tomorrow.
- Huh!
Guess the governor
got on him, huh?
- Never got through
to the governor.
- Well...
whatever made them
change their mind,
I'll take it.
You get through to the DMV
about that car?
- They had me on hold
for over an hour.
I'll call them tomorrow.
Besides, been there all winter.
One more day won't hurt.
- Yeah.
- Oh, Mitch stopped by.
- When was that?
- A couple hours ago.
- Anything important?
- Just to chitchat.
I told him you were busy
dealing with the water
and the mine and whatnot.
Get some sleep, Joe.
- Hey, Dad.
- Hey.
Your mother see you?
- Not yet.
- Don't think she'd let you
leave if she did.
- How you been?
- I'm good.
Everything okay
down by the camp?
- I heard you found a car
out in the woods.
- Where you hear that?
- Ryan.
- And why would Ryan run
down there and tell you that?
- There's some things
you need to know, Dad.
♪
- The alarm didn't
even go off.
- Internal clock.
Oh, man.
What?
- Get dressed.
♪
♪
- Here.
- Okay.
- Guess my internal clock's
on snooze.
♪
Are--are you--?
Hurry.
- Slowly!
- You just said "hurry."
- Shh. Faster.
When he gets into the clearing,
take the shot.
Safety off.
- I got it.
- Squeeze real soft.
Take it.
Shoot it.
Did I hit it?
Didn't look like it.
Well, there's your
bullet hole.
- I don't see any bullet.
Where's the bullet?
You know where the bullet is?
Where's the bullet?
- Inside the deer.
- How the heck
did I miss that?
I think I banged
my scope.
Ow. Scope must be broken.
Fucking deer.
Ow!
Damn.
You want the last
piece of bacon?
Doug?
Do you want the last
piece of bacon?
- No!
- Damn it!
I lost my game.
Man, I'm supposed
to call Sherry,
but I cannot get
any reception here.
- Doug!
- It's spotty.
- Huh?
- There is no reception.
- That's weird.
Does she know that?
- Uh-huh.
- Why would she ask me
to call her, then?
- Your wife has a sick
sense of humor.
- Yes, she does.
She screw with you
growing up?
- Constantly.
- I said, did she mess with you
growing up?
Huh?
Did she screw with you?
- What's up? You coming?
- I'm going to go hunt
a few hundred yards that way.
- Okay.
- Cover more ground.
- All right, well,
what if, uh...
what if I get something?
- I'll come to you.
- What if you get
something?
- Just stay put.
You might spook something
your way.
- Okay.
- Try not to miss.
- Yeah, thanks.
- Right over here...
- Come on,
it's right over here.
- Stay put.
- Oh, shit.
- Hey!
- Are there any more?
Ryan, are there more?
Goddamn it, Ryan,
is that the last of them?
- Yeah!
- Are you sure?
- Are you sure?
- No...
I... I don't see any more!
Oh, God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Jesus Christ.
I just killed him.
I killed him.
Doug? Doug, what
are you doing?
Where are you going? Doug, stop.
Just stop a minute, Doug.
We got to figure out
what to do here.
Doug, what are you doing?
We got to figure out
what to do here.
Just a minute--no, Doug!
Damn it!
Just a second!
Stop! Look...
we got to go to the police.
We have got to go
to the police.
We've got to figure out
what to do, okay?
Talk to me!
- What?
- "What"?
Did you just say "what"?
Jesus, Doug, we just fucking
killed three people,
and all you can say is "what"?
Yeah, you are fucking crazy
now man.
No, Doug. Doug!
No, wait, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it.
Doug, stop!
Doug, come on. Doug--
come on, Doug.
Wait. Don't--don't--
don't touch everything.
Just leave it all
as it is.
Let's just go to the police.
Would you stop...?
That's a lot of money.
If we take it
to the police now,
Pack it up, take it over,
it won't look suspicious.
But the longer we wait,
the worse it looks.
Come on, Doug.
Snap out of it. Please?
I can't do this by myself.
I mean, they--
somebody probably
heard those shots.
Imagine if the police
go out there
and find those
dead bodies.
Then they see us
with all this money.
I mean, we are in trouble,
buddy.
Doug!
- It's gun season.
- What?
- It's gun season.
No one's going to care
about gunshots.
Plus, there ain't nobody
out here anyway.
- Still, I--I think we need
to tell someone.
- John Brander.
Elliot Moody.
And Cooper Greene.
And the one they killed
just had these keys.
You know who they are?
- How the heck would I know
who they are?
- I don't know
who they are either.
I do know they're probably
not-so-nice people.
They got a quarter million
dollars buried in a hole.
Which makes me think
there's some other
not-so-nice people who will be
wanting that money back.
- Then that's all
the more reason
to go to the police.
- Then what?
- What do you mean,
"then what?"
- Then go to the police.
Turn all this money in.
And we're heroes for killing
a couple of bad guys?
What then?
You think those people
are going to be happy
about losing that money?
Huh?
You think they're just going
to let it go?
No.
And everybody, good and bad,
is going to know
just who the hell we are.
- If we're in trouble,
police won't use our names.
- We're--we're in a town
of 500 people, all right?
How anonymous
do you think we can be?
You know why I came out here,
don't you?
Why do you think?
- Be alone.
You wanted to get away
from everything, I guess.
- That's right.
Alone.
And then you show up.
And these guys.
And now you want
to invite the police
and the media
and God knows who else
out here?
And with my history,
you don't think they're going
to dig that up?
I mean, Christ,
I can just see the headlines.
- It's confidential,
isn't it?
- Not military, no.
- You're right.
It's my fault.
If I wasn't here,
none of this would have
happened.
If I wouldn't
have missed that deer,
none of this would have
happened.
We wouldn't be arguing
over piles of money.
Four dead guys out there.
- No, I'm not blaming you.
I'm not blaming anybody.
Shit happens.
It's as simple as that.
This is a fucked-up situation,
no matter what.
I know what you say
we should do
is by all means
the right thing to do.
I just don't see how it's going
to make things better for us.
And you didn't miss
when it mattered.
♪
Sorry!
- Goddamn it!
- I thought it was
the unlock button.
- Fuck!
- Fuck, it's not my keys.
Oh, wait, don't touch anything.
Fingerprints.
Okay.
"Joseph Anderson."
What?
Doug, what is it?
Jesus. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Fuck! Fuck!
Oh, my God.
Hey, Doug, listen...
we got to take the car...
and park it out there.
A few miles.
We leave it there,
and then we walk all the way
back to the cabin.
- Then what? Just dump it
on the side of the road?
- No.
We ditch it in the woods.
We ditch it
off in the woods.
We can't make a fucking car
disappear.
But if we leave it there...
they won't come looking
back here.
- Fucking cop.
- Yeah, fucking cop.
♪
- Can you pick
a station already?
- They're all fuzzy.
- Use the iPod.
- I want to hear
the local stations.
- There are--there are no
local stations. Zero.
Seriously, Hannah,
that's annoying.
- How much longer?
- Not too far.
- It's so pretty out here.
Feels like we're in
the middle of nowhere.
- We are.
- I mean, literally,
there's a road...
and a bunch of trees.
Talk to me!
- What about?
- Anything.
- We talked for two hours.
- Yeah, you haven't
said anything the last hour.
- You were asleep.
- Mm-hmm.
- So, what--
what am I supposed to say
when you're sleeping?
- Talk to me,
or I turn on this radio.
It's over.
- Okay, fine, I'll talk.
Stop.
Jesus, how old are you again?
- Eight.
- I was going to say six,
because it's always nicer to
tell a girl
she looks younger
than she is.
- Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet?
- Turn the radio back on.
- Okay.
♪
- Holy crap, it's cold.
- Watch your step.
- So this is it, huh?
- This is it.
- I didn't know places like this
still existed.
- You're a Republican
and you don't think
places like this
still exist?
- I love you.
- I love you too.
Let's go inside.
He's not going to know
what to do with that.
- You said he drinks.
- Not that.
- Dad?
- Hold on!
Y'all are early.
I didn't expect you
for a couple of hours.
- I called
and I left a message.
- I'm not checking
that damn thing.
This must be Hannah.
- Hi. It's nice
to finally meet you.
- Make yourself at home.
- I got you this.
I wasn't sure
what kind you liked.
- Tempranillo.
"Nillo."
- Huh?
- Tempranillo.
- A wine, huh?
Huh.
Well, thank you.
How's the drive?
- Uh, it was normal.
- Ice on the road?
- On the mountain, yeah.
- Well, have a seat.
I was going to clean up
before you all got here.
- Oh, it's fine.
I'm used to it.
- What are you,
feeding the whole town?
- Got a bunch of Thanksgiving
leftovers, y'all hungry.
- Oh, we had plenty
of turkey last week.
I thought we could
go out to eat.
- Well, how does pizza work?
- So, what's good here?
- Garlic pizza's
pretty famous.
- What's on the garlic pizza?
- A bunch of garlic.
- Right.
- So, Hannah, you work
with Mitch down at the EPA?
- Not exactly.
I'm with a different
organization.
But we often work
with environmental groups.
- Who's that?
- OPEC.
- Huh.
- How are you, Grant?
- I'm fine, darling.
How are you?
- Doing just fine. Hey, Mitch.
- Hey, Jordy.
- Can we get y'all
something to drink?
Beer for you, Grant?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Same for me is fine.
- Do you have a wine list?
- Yes. Red or white?
- Oh, let's do red.
- All right, I'll give y'all
a few more minutes
- to look at the menu.
- Thank you.
I take it you haven't fixed
the A/C in your truck yet.
- Who the hell needs A/C
in the middle of December?
- Well, it's been broke
for two years.
And I saw that they
repaved the streets.
But I thought--
you know, you said earlier
the town was short
on funds,
so how did that happen?
They found some.
- Y'all ready to order?
- Yeah. Can you tell me
about that garlic pizza?
Thank you.
- You ain't got GPS
on that phone.
- Why?
- Been a long time since you've
found your way back here.
- Yeah, it's been a while.
Hey, Joe.
- Joe, this is Hannah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hi, how are you?
- Joe's an old friend of mine,
and he ain't getting
no younger.
- Pizza tonight?
- No, no, just making rounds.
You people
have a nice evening.
- Good night, Joe.
- Good night.
Well...
I'm going to hit the hay.
I'll pull out the sofa bed
for y'all.
- Oh, we're staying at
the bed and breakfast, actually.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
We figured we'd be
out of your hair that way.
- You don't have to spend
your money on that.
- Oh, it's easy.
That way we can all
have our own space.
- All right.
- Y'all need anything else?
- No, I think we're good.
Thank you.
- I'll be in the other room.
If you need anything else,
just help yourself.
- Okay. Will do.
Good night.
- We paid in advance
for the other room, right?
- That's not the point.
Your dad wanted you
to stay here.
- He's going to sleep.
Who cares where we stay?
- He wants you close by.
- It's... the hotel's
across the street.
- Well, then you can
go stay there.
- Let's go get a drink.
- No.
- Are there any bars here?
- There's a bar, yeah.
- Well, then let's go
to a bar.
- I don't want to.
I'm tired.
Let's go to bed.
- You want the coverlet?
- What is this?
- That's a coverlet.
- What's a coverlet?
- It's just for decoration.
Just...
- All right, we're going
to sleep decorated.
- Okay.
- You still want that drink?
- Yup.
- Awesome.
- Oh, my goodness.
There's an open stool.
- Hey, there.
- Hi, Sherry.
- How have you been?
- I'm good. How have you been?
- So good to see you.
- Good to see you too.
- Oh, I figured
- you'd be here last week.
- I had to work.
- Oh. Well, at least
you made it now.
- Hi, I'm Sherry.
- Hi. Hannah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Me and Mitch used to date.
- Oh, okay.
Wow. We've known
each other forever.
- Mm-hmm.
- What can I get you two?
- Two Ambers, please.
- Coming right up.
- How are you?
How's business been?
- It's been good.
Hit and miss, really.
- Yeah?
- Is this your first time here?
- Yeah. I love it.
It's amazing.
- Great.
How's your dad been doing?
- Oh, he's good. Yeah.
- Well, we've all been
praying for him.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Thank you.
Thank you, Sherry.
- Wait, so you
actually thought
drinking and driving
was just drinking while driving?
No alcohol?
- I used to yell at my mom
for having soda in the car.
She probably thought
I was crazy.
- Wow.
- Oh, my gosh.
Thank you, Sherry.
- You're welcome. Enjoy.
- Okay.
- What's this?
- Try it.
- Okay.
- Cheers.
Oh!
- Oh, my God.
- Whoa.
- What is that?
- Oh, that is moonshine.
That's going to put
hair on your chest.
- You want me to have
hair on my chest?
You sound like Sling Blade.
- Oh.
- Oh, my goodness.
What have we here?
- I think you're trying
to take advantage of me.
- Don't do that.
- Great.
- Up we go.
- Stop. Stop.
Whoa. Sorry.
I'm sorry.
- Oh, I don't think
you did it.
What?
- Are you going to tell me
what's going on with your dad?
- What do you mean?
Oh, my God. Really?
Right now?
- Stop walking away
and talk to me.
- What?
- If something's wrong,
then I need to know.
- It doesn't affect you.
- Excuse me?
You've been avoiding
coming up here for months.
You've been acting weird
this entire time,
and now you're lying to me.
So either you tell me
what's going on right now,
or I'm getting in the car
and driving back to D.C.
- Oh, my God.
Don't be ridiculous, okay?
You're drunk.
I've been sending my dad money
for a while now.
- Money for what?
- And, uh...
I don't--he's just giving it
to people.
He's buying shit for them.
He's repaving the streets.
Um...
he won't even
fix his truck.
- You're giving him money
for a truck?
- Listen, I just...
it's late.
- For what?
- Medical bills, okay?
- What medical bills?
- Bills that don't exist.
Cancer. Lung cancer.
He refuses to do
anything about it,
and it's driving me absolutely
fucking insane.
- Does he smoke?
Is it from the mining?
- Well, I think both.
But he quit smoking.
So we don't... but...
My dad's dying.
And he won't even
try to fight it.
And I don't really want
to be around to watch it.
- How long have you known
about this?
- I guess a little bit
over a year.
- That's why you've been
avoiding me meeting him?
- Hey, listen,
he's going to be dead soon.
I don't see a point in you two
being best friends.
- How soon?
- A couple months.
Maybe less.
I didn't want to
concern you with it.
Why would I
concern you with it?
He was dying
before we even met.
- I could have
been there for you, and...
you should be
spending time with him.
- If he wanted to spend
more time with me,
he would try to fight it.
Right?
That's what my mom did.
If he wanted
to spend time with me,
he would try to fight it.
- You're being an asshole...
- I didn't even know
he was sick.
The only reason I knew
is because this town
can't keep their mouths shut.
He wants to up and die
without telling anybody.
And if he had his way,
that's what would have happened.
We wouldn't have even
known about it.
- Maybe that's what
he wanted.
- Well, if that's what he wants,
then that's pretty
fucking selfish to me.
- Mitch. Hey, how are you?
- Hi.
- I'm good, how are you?
- Good. How nice to see you.
- Just a second.
Oh, it's good to see you.
- It's good to see you too.
- Yeah.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- Hi.
You don't have to get up.
Thank you.
- Aren't you bright-eyed
and bushy-tailed this morning.
- Yeah. I finally got
some good rest, so, yeah.
- Good, good, good.
- Did you two go out
last night?
- Yeah, we went to the...
- Brew Pub.
- The Brew Pub. Right.
And I met Sherry,
Mitch's ex-girlfriend.
- Oh, you met Sherry.
- Hey.
- Susan glad to see you?
- Uh, yeah.
She said we could still
use the room from last night.
So I told her we'd bring our
stuff over after breakfast.
That bed just kills my back.
I can't do it.
- You didn't mention
your back hurting this morning.
- Well...
I'll be sure to notify you
next time.
- Well...
We were planning on going
on a hike today,
if you wanted to join.
- I got to run over
to Oakland.
Got to go to the hardware store.
- What for?
- Mrs. Rapp's
water heater broke.
She needs a new one.
- Can she afford a new one?
- No.
- Why don't you two
go to the hardware store?
I was thinking of going
for a run anyway.
- You wanted me to show you
the waterfall, I thought.
- Yeah, I changed my mind.
I'll be sure to notify you
next time.
- Hannah's a nice girl.
And she's smart too.
- Yup.
- All right,
that comes to $261.81.
- Let's see here.
Here, use this.
No, wait...
- Here, just take this.
I'm paying for it anyway.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
How come you'll do anything
anyone asks of you around here,
but you won't
do anything for me?
- What do you want me
to do for you?
- Forget it.
Look...
I seen too many people suffer
with what I've got.
And I've done almost everything
I wanted to do in this life.
I'd rather...
spend two months
being happy
than 10 years suffering.
I don't want to overstay
my welcome.
- Hi, Mrs. Rapp.
- Oh, my goodness!
Come on in here.
Oh, give me a hug here.
Oh, I swear, you get taller
every time I see you.
- How are you doing, sweetie?
- I'm good, I'm good.
- Got your water heater.
- Water heater?
I told you not to bother
with that.
I can take a shower
at my niece's.
- I had an extra one
laying around.
- Well, I hope you didn't
go out and buy one.
- Just need to get
that old one out
and get it
hooked up for you.
- Fine. Do what
you got to do.
Hey, you, come on
and sit down here.
- Oh, now.
Let's see.
You're in D.C. now,
aren't you?
- Yes. I'm in Adams Morgan.
- You know, I can't stand
most of those politicians.
We need a good fella
like you there.
Most of them other fellas
are just assholes.
- Yeah.
- How are you doing,
sweetie?
- Yeah, I'm good.
- You know, you ever need
anything, you can come to me.
- I know. Thank you.
- Yeah. Your father,
he's a good man.
I would have thought most things
would have killed him by now,
but he just keeps on going.
- Well, I don't think
this time,
because he won't
go to the doctor.
- Honey, he's ready to die.
That's more than I can say
about most people.
- Do you think
he's happy?
- Well, he seems to get
through the day all right.
I just know he's better
when you're here.
- Goddamn it!
Son of a bitch!
- I think you'd better
go help your father.
- Okay.
Hold that light
down here.
Uh, we need the...
I'm going to need
the pipe wrench.
- Mrs. Rapp looks good.
- That old woman
is gonna outlive you.
- You know, we should probably
talk legal stuff at some point.
- Hold the light still.
You want to talk?
- I didn't mean
right now.
- Well, what's wrong
with right now?
- I don't know what your will
currently says,
but I'm assuming you didn't make
any specific changes.
So all your assets are going
to be transferred to me.
The old house, the truck.
Your tools, whatnot.
- All right.
- But I don't want anything.
- I know.
- So, who do you want
to give that stuff to?
The house goes to you.
There's good tenants
in it right now.
- I said I don't want it.
- The truck and the tools
go to...
- I don't want the house.
- Well, then sell it.
- Well, it makes more sense
if you gave it to somebody
that could use it.
- There's people
using it right now.
- You know what I mean.
- When you're dying...
you decide who gets what.
Hold that damn light still.
- Hey.
- You stink.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you have
a good time?
- How was your day?
- I went for a hike.
Went into some
of the arts and crafts stores.
It's beautiful up here.
I wouldn't mind spending
a little more time here.
- Mmm.
- You have to teach me
how to snowboard, remember?
Are we still meeting
your dad for dinner?
- Uh, let's just grab
sandwiches.
I want to get to bed early and
get on the road in the morning.
- So we're not staying
another day then?
- I got a lot of work to do.
- Is it really
so bad up here?
- I don't... there's just nothing
here for me.
I don't know.
The older I get,
the more I feel
I can't relate to anyone.
It's just depressing.
- I met three
different people today
when I was walking
through town.
And when I told them
I was Mitch Reed's girlfriend,
they all asked
how you were doing
and said how much
they'd love to see you.
- Yeah.
- That doesn't sound
like nothing.
♪
- You got everything?
- Yeah, I think so.
I need to pee, though.
Can I--?
- Yeah, go on up.
How much gas you got?
- Oh, I got enough
to get to Virginia, at least.
- Yeah, well, it's cheaper
there, I imagine.
- I tried some of that
Tempranillo last night.
- And?
- It's different.
Added some whisky to it.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
- Well, you two drive safe.
- It's really great
meeting you.
- Come on back up.
- Okay. I'll see you soon.
- All right.
- I'll see how work looks.
- Yeah. All right.
It's always good
to see you.
Drive safe.
Mitch.
Come here.
Hey.
- Bye.
- Come on.
We got to go.
- What's your name?
- You know my name.
- I'm supposed to ask every
question as if I don't know.
- Joe Miller.
- Middle name?
- Walker.
- Age?
- Stopped counting.
- Best guess.
- Sixty-three or -four,
maybe?
- What's your occupation?
- Mayor.
- How long have you
worked here?
- My whole life.
- I mean, in your current
profession.
- Eight years.
- What's your previous
occupation?
- Retired.
- That's not
an occupation.
- Coal miner.
How many more questions
you got there?
- Lots.
- You getting in?
♪
- Is it clean?
- It'll do.
- How often do you check it?
- Whenever it needs it.
- What are you looking at?
- Just looking.
- Did you go to college?
- No.
- Did you go to high school?
- Yeah.
- What level of education
do you need to perform your job?
- None.
♪
- You hang out here.
I'll be back in a minute.
- Hey.
Tom.
- Morning, Joe.
- Y'all test the water?
- Yeah.
Emailed you the report
this morning.
Lab was out here
just the other day.
Nothing to be
concerned with.
- Which lab?
- Allegheny
Same one we always use.
- They sample
down by the creek?
- Well, I'm sure they did.
- How sure?
- I wasn't with them
every step, Joe,
but they have a protocol
they follow every month,
and that issue with lead,
it's not coming from here.
- Tom, you know as good as I do
there ain't no such thing
as no water contamination
at a coal mine.
And your tailing's piled
two miles upcreek
from my watering table.
- All I can say,
our water tests show
our pile's not leeching.
That creek, more than a thousand
feet from us.
So legally, not our
responsibility.
- Your responsibility
of your mine's causing it.
I want the problem fixed.
- I'm sure you do,
but I can't fix a problem
- I didn't create.
- Test the water again.
That's all I'm asking.
- Well, that's not happening.
Tested it two days ago.
I can't get authorization
for another water test,
just because you think
there might be a problem.
- All right.
- Have a good day, Joe.
- What'd you do
in there?
- Nothing important. Just had
to ask someone a question.
This is Joe.
Yeah.
Yeah, where at?
How long
they been there?
All right, all right.
I'll take a look.
I got to go by
the office first, though.
It ain't going nowhere.
All right.
Hey.
- Hey, Leah.
How are you, sweetie?
- I'm good.
- Tom said he emailed over
a water report?
- Put it on your desk.
Want something
to drink, Leah?
- I'm good, thank you.
What's a water report?
- Huh?
- What?
- You say something?
- What is that?
- Report from the coal mines.
- On what?
- Water quality
of their runoff.
Ground contamination
and whatnot.
- You having a good time
so far?
- Hey, Mary.
Get on the horn with DEP.
See if they'll rush me
a water test.
- What's that?
- Department of
Environmental Protection.
304...
295...
- Can I look?
- Yeah.
- Whose car is it?
- Don't know.
You got a piece of paper?
- Here.
There. What's your
email address?
- Why don't you hold on
to that.
- Looks like it's been here
a while.
- Yeah.
- Why do you think
it's here?
- I'm not sure.
- Do people leave their cars
out here much?
- No.
Once in a while.
- What are we going
to do with it?
- Tow it.
- How?
- Tow truck.
- What's your current
annual salary?
- Six hundred bucks.
- A month?
- You said annual.
- Six hundred a year?
- About 50 a month.
- That's insane.
- Well, they just do it
so they can say
they paid me something,
to tax me on it.
- Then why do it?
- I like it.
- But how do you
live on that?
- I live on retirement.
- So you're basically
a volunteer?
- Got to get elected
before I can be unpaid,
but yeah.
- How long do you plan
to do it?
- Till they stop
electing me.
Ain't about making
the money.
I serve as the mayor
and the sheriff
and the handyman for the town,
because I do it for the town.
I do it for the people.
My family's here.
Been here quite a few years.
Job of the politician
is to serve his community
because he loves his community.
At least it should be.
I'd be doing all this stuff
whether I was mayor or not.
But this way,
I get to play with
all these nice toys they get.
- So you can arrest people?
- Yeah.
- Do you carry a gun?
- Yeah.
- Where do you keep it?
- My pocket.
- Ever used it?
- Not yet.
♪
- Where are we going?
Whose house is this?
- A friend of mine.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Joe, right?
- Yeah.
So Mitch's car down there.
I didn't expect him
back in town.
- Oh, yeah, he's at
the dump right now.
There's a lot of trash
to get rid of in here.
Come in.
- Thank you.
What's your name?
- Leah.
- I'm Hannah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Is she your
granddaughter?
- Oh. No, she's...
doing a school project.
Following me around
for a day.
- Oh, yeah?
Why do you want
to follow Joe around?
- I want to be
a congresswoman.
- A congresswoman. Wow.
- So my mom said
I should follow a politician.
- Okay. That's exciting.
Seems like a good one
to follow.
He's okay.
- Mitch should
be back soon.
- Yeah.
Well, I got
some work to do.
And... just wanted
to drop by, say hi.
- Yeah.
Come in.
♪
- You and Grant
were close?
- Yeah. Yeah, we were close.
Known him a long time.
- He seemed like
a really great guy.
I mean, I didn't
know him, really.
- No, he was.
He was fond of you, too.
I think he knew
that Mitch would be all right.
Especially since
you were around.
I don't think he'd have gone
otherwise.
All right, you.
Back to work.
This meeting of the town
Waste Management Division
has come to order.
Y'all say "present"
when your name is called.
- Gary.
- Present.
- George.
- Present.
- Jan.
- Present.
- Joe.
- Present.
- Everybody's here.
- You sure?
- Oh! Leah.
- Present.
- There you go.
You gonna keep the minutes,
you better keep up.
First order of business.
Landfill manager
Scott Eickelburger.
- You should be
wearing gloves.
- Joe here.
Yeah.
Well, that figures.
All right.
Listen, call the governor's
office, huh?
304-206...
Yeah, all right.
- What'd they say?
- Can't test the water
for at least another week.
Sons of bitches.
- But I thought you said
the tests were fine.
- Well, I don't trust it.
- How come?
Why would they lie
about something like that?
- Lots of reasons.
Mines always have
some acid runoff.
That's the way it is.
It's their responsibility
to maintain those
at reasonable levels,
so as not to contaminate
the groundwater,
or the drinking water,
at any rate.
But it ain't cheap
to clean all that up.
Much cheaper to pay someone off
to falsify those reports,
and then continue with business
as usual.
- Do you think
they're doing that?
- I don't know.
I wouldn't put it
past them.
Money makes people do things
they don't normally do.
As much as I like to think
that people are honest...
when you're in a position
of responsibility...
can't take people
at their word.
Especially when that word
don't feel right.
We may be a small town here.
May not matter to people outside
what happens here,
make sure
people are safe and happy.
At least as much
as they can be.
♪
Here you go.
Make yourself useful.
Hold on. Hold on.
Here.
Give me the change
and the receipt.
- What are we doing?
- I told your mom
I'd feed you
before she picked you up.
Come on.
- You need
anything else, Leah?
- I'm good. Thank you.
- Dad?
- No.
- Hey. What's up, guys?
I didn't know
you'd be here.
Joe.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- What's going on, honey?
- It's career day.
She's following Dad
and has to write a report
about their day together.
- Oh.
I bet that's got to be
super interesting,
hanging out with Joe.
- Nice TV.
- Yeah, it's been a real good
few months of work.
We got a new client,
and he asked me to do,
on top of the website,
a commercial.
It's been big money.
Real good.
What--what did you
do today?
Career day?
- We delivered groceries.
- Yeah?
- And went to a meeting
at the dump.
And picked up garbage.
- Super cool.
- And found a car
out in the woods
- You found a car?
Huh. What--what kind of car?
- Black one.
Here, I took some pictures.
- Let me see.
Whoa, that is cool.
Super cool.
Oh, that's very cool.
It's crazy that somebody
just left a car,
a nice one like that,
out there all alone.
I bet somebody's going
to come claim it, probably.
- We should know soon.
Mary's running
the license plate.
- Really?
Hmm.
What else did you do?
- We fixed his truck.
- Huh?
- We fixed his truck.
- Oh. I--
I forgot. I--
I got to--I got to go.
I forgot,
I got to do something.
But I'm going to be out
five, ten minutes.
Anybody need anything?
No? Okay.
Here you go, sweetie.
Thank you.
I'll see you soon.
- Thank you.
- All right.
Hey, I want to see
that report when it's finished.
- Okay. Bye, Joe.
- The DEP called.
- What'd they want?
- Sending someone out
to test the water tomorrow.
- Huh!
Guess the governor
got on him, huh?
- Never got through
to the governor.
- Well...
whatever made them
change their mind,
I'll take it.
You get through to the DMV
about that car?
- They had me on hold
for over an hour.
I'll call them tomorrow.
Besides, been there all winter.
One more day won't hurt.
- Yeah.
- Oh, Mitch stopped by.
- When was that?
- A couple hours ago.
- Anything important?
- Just to chitchat.
I told him you were busy
dealing with the water
and the mine and whatnot.
Get some sleep, Joe.
- Hey, Dad.
- Hey.
Your mother see you?
- Not yet.
- Don't think she'd let you
leave if she did.
- How you been?
- I'm good.
Everything okay
down by the camp?
- I heard you found a car
out in the woods.
- Where you hear that?
- Ryan.
- And why would Ryan run
down there and tell you that?
- There's some things
you need to know, Dad.
♪