INT. ENTRYWAY - DAY
High-end blinds closed on window near door. Door rug over stone floor; window above potted plant(s); hat/coat tree; tapestry TBD on wall above console table with lamp, wooden bowl, stone FOUNTAIN GURGLING and candle; tribal masks on wall above leather bench seat; mirror on wall above a piano and bench; closed door; opening into hallways in opposite directions.
Hunter enters from one hall, crosses into the other a beat after DOORBELL CHIMES. Three beats befpre he re-enters, slowly walks tp front door, looks through peephole, draws back, furrowed brow, looks again.
EXT. HUNTER'S FRONT PORCH
Describe. Cactus garden.
Tom stands near the door under shade of covering, hat on. Sunglasses peek from shirt pocket. Truck parked on street near bin. He waits, turns to leave just as the door opens wide enough for Hunter to peek through. over the security chain. Tom turns back to door. Hunter sizes him up.
TOM: Howdy. My name is Tom Walker.
HUNTER: Tom Walker who was in Reno, Nevada in late November nineteen seventy-six.
TOM: I was there the twenty-first through the twenty-fourth.
HUNTER: What's my mother's name?
TOM: Olivia. If I got the right Hunter Hardyn.
HUNTER: How did you find my address?
TOM: Paid a little bit for an online search.
HUNTER: Just happen to be in the neighborhood?
TOM: Sorta. On my way to Texas.
HUNTER: From where?
TOM: Laramie, Wyomin', where I live.
HUNTER: I'm leaving to the airport.
TOM: Yessir.
HUNTER: You'll be coming back through on your way home?
TOM: Yessir. I reckon in about a week or so.
HUNTER: I won't be here.
TOM: Yessir.
\Hunter surveys Tom, unlatches the security chain, opens the door wider, gestures for Tom to enter. Tom removes hat, enters, leaves view. Hunter stares at the truck, finally closes door.
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