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Wanda and Daisy 1 basic form

EXT. LARAMIE RIVER GREENBELT TRAIL - SUNSET

Wanda and Daisy on a bench near the trail, within view of the Laramie River Historic Bridge. Light trail traffic behind them.. 

DAISY: You're going to miss our balmy winters.

Wanda smiles.

WANDA: The summers have plenty of balmy. A hundred and nine yesterday.

DAISY: At least it's a dry heat.

WANDA: Seventy-five percent humidity dry.

DAISY: Sticky. How cold will it get? 

WANDA: Record low is seven below and it can get cold but usually mid-twenties.

DAISY: I'll take that for a winter low.

WANDA: Move down. Sell. Buy in Kerrville.

Daisy stops them in front of The Wyo. 

DAISY: Wanda?   

WANDA: Seriously. Start thinking about it, Daisy Dawn.

Wanda gets PHONE from purse when it RINGTONES instrumental TVZ's If I Needed You.

WANDA (CONT.): You in A-B-Q?

Monsoon started?

On the bench on the river down from the bridge about to go for supper at the soup and salad. I just introduced the notion of Daisy moving to Kerrville.

I will.

DAISY: Hi, Tom.

WANDA: Daisy says hi.

Tom says do it.

I love you too.

Talk to you then.

(She puts phone in purse.)

Shall we?

DAISY: Let's.

They stand, walk to the trail, their voices fainter as they walk away.  

DAISY (CONT.) A hundred and three, huh?

WANDA: That and you run the A-C, or thirty-below with wind, snow and ice and your heater always on. 

DAISY: It got a little cold last night.

WANDA: Yes it did. 

DAISY: What's the hospital?

WANDA: A very highly rated regional medical center. I have the website bookmarked. Tom says he'll keep an eye out for two bed two bath in brick.

DAISY: Now you're really planting the seed.

WANDA; And will continue watering and adding sunshine as needed.

Wanda crooks Daisy's elbow in her own. They turn out of view.

Last Time on a Horse talkinamyself

TOM: When's the last time you were on a horse?

CHLOE: If a mule counts hen two years ago at Grand Canyon?

TOM: I'd say a mule counts. Good time?

Chloe nods.

CHLOE: Have you been?

TOM: When I was a kid.

CHLOE: How old were you?

TOM: Oh, eight or nine. I had an uncle, aunt and two cousins who lived in Flagstaff. Uncle Len worked for the Forest Service. My mom's older brother. He and Lois and their kids Tammy and Donny.  We drove out for Christmas. 

CHLOE: Drove from Bandera?

TOM: Yes ma'am. Spent the night in El Paso.

HUNTER: Drove out in what?

TOM: Mom's car. Fifty-seven Bel Air convertible. 

Chloe pulls up an image.

CHLOE: Sweet ride. What color?

TOM tells her.

HUNTER: What was your dad's car?

TOM: Fifty-five F one-hundred.

HUNTER: Always a pickup?

TOM: No. Bought himself a new Corvette for his fiftieth birthday. 

HUNTER: What became of that?

TOM: It's in Ruth's garage.  Speakin' a Ruth, if y'all're interested she tends to the family tree on an ancestry website.

CHLOE/HUNTER: Really?

TOM:  Goes back quite a ways. I'll getcha the website if you're interested.

Chloe nods.

CHLOE: My aunt Kate does that. 

TOM: And where's your aunt Kate?

CHLOE: Tucson. My grampa's sister. And her husband Cedric. Are Tammy and Donny alive?

TOM: They are not. But their kids and their kid's kids are.

Re White Sands out the window re sunset.

Kate and Cedric 1 basics talkinamyself

Cedric inquires re Hunter's drinking re Foglost protagonist. Kate confirms, re Hunter's and Barbara's marriage and divorce. What does the protagonist drink? Vodka. That was Hunter's choice. According to John he's in negotiations regarding making it a movie. That's exciting. And probably lucrative. I also hear he'll  be leaving Las Cruces. I presume I'll meet at Chloe's graduation. Safe presumption. Re staying in Morro. John's ringtone. Kate listens. Funny you'd ask about Hunter. The father he's never met just arrived at his house. And Chloe on the way from airport.

final beats A3

A2

final as if, but still:

1. Hunter wake, Tom reveal, tell Chloe.

2. Wanda with Daisy gets Hunter's call.

3. Ruth gets Wanda's call.

4. Gil gets Ruth's call.

5. Barbara with John, Jan and Brian gets Hunter's call.

6. Hunter and Chloe watch Medical Examiner van drive away.

7. Doc and Hunter. What's next.  

8. Wands, Ruth, Gil (driving), Daisy staying with niece. What do the boys know about Hunter? 

9. Next day. Hunter leaves in truck.

10. Barbara, Jan and John, boat in Lake Nacimiento cove, Chloe on floatie. What do we know about Ruth, and Chloe's going back when Hunter returns with Tom's ashes. Re Kate.

11. Kate and Cedric.

12. Ruth and Wanda, rockers on porch. Whir of cicadas. Wind chimes re storm and rain tomorrow.  Truck engine stirs them, Hunter arrives, into house.

13. Hunter, Ruth and Wanda, dining room table, night. bottle and glasses of wine. Photo albums. Wine re Paso Robles re San Luis Obsipo re Chloe. Re Ruth and Wanda having been to a wedding in Santa Barbara. To bed.

14. Chloe's room. Chloe working on Horse Day project. Hunter's facetime from Ruth's guest room. Re seeing Tom's best friend tomorrow, in the hills outside Medina.  

15. Next day. Gil on deck, truck engine, truvk arrive. M and boys watch intros. He looks like the man who writes grampa's books. 

16. Barbara and Brian. 

17. Chloe, Jan and John. Re college re Vietnam.

18. Fort Park. Thunder.

19. W, R, M in kitchen with Tamales. Re Daisy.

20. Ruth, Wanda, Hunter back porch, night, rain, Ruth's peach ice cream. 

21. Gil, den, tequila and tattoo, Vietnam photos include a Bangkok page, Tom and Gil at 19. Triumph motorcycles, escorts in alleyway, temple, etc. Enter the boys.

22. Next day. Hunter leaves in truck.

23. Hunter driving and flat. The manual and fishing licenses, etc.

24. John and Jan. Foglost bestseller. I'm going to call him. John calls Hunter, having fixed flat. Tom doppelganger arrive on motorcycle.  

25. Doc and Hunter.

26. Hawaii.

27. EPILOGUE Gil and Hunter fishing. 

Final Beats A2

A1

1. About the truck, heeere's Jackie, away they go.

2. Kate and Cedric (reading Foglost), John's ringtone. 

3. John and Jan, Laramie street view, EPA Cheyenne lit/depo and Plains Hotel mid-January.

4. Sess and Claire, Rover arrive, intros. Sess re Tom's first rodeo. Been to a couple.

5. Wanda and Daisy, photo of Chloe.

6. Ruth at home, places same photo, framed.

7. Riders in the woods.

8. Gil, Foglost, Maria - knock knock Ida - and the boys, Hunter's Las Cruces layover and Hunter's author blurb re Organ Mountains and "speaking of Las Cruces."

9 Riders in the woods.

10. Claire's dad, Foglost, Ardmore water tower, enter mom, Claire selfie with Hunter.

11. Mountain Meadow.

12. Doc and another Hunter selfie.

13. Pinus Ponderosa, Spanish and French. Cowbell. Speaking of trees re Ruth, re Kate  Jackie, Claire, Sess. So who's the cowboy. Hunter's father.     

13. Kate and Cedric. Tom retired ranch foreman.

14. Creek crossing.

14. Barbara and Brian.

15. Horse barn and Honda Knot.

16. White Sands Sunset, black sand beach re Jackie's honeymoon.

17. Jackie leaves Hunter's, shooting star, re a movie. Tom's "a little tuckered," call Wanda and Ruth and get on to bed. Hunter about a photograph.

18. Tom's Tahoe tale, that Chloe records.

19. Tom and Chloe facetime Ruth, Wanda and Daisy.

20. Hunter's dream.

silly interlude re God's challenge re finishing Honda Knot

 

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Other titles: Settled, Mission Accomplished, Tasks Completed

Final Beats A1

Final My Ass, but still:

1. Night. Tom and Wanda in bed, pajamas. Tom reading Foglost, Wanda Michener's Hawaii. 

2. Sunrise. Truck, Wyoming plates, double-wide, Tom leaving. Wester Meadowlark and wind chimes.

3. Gil and Dale, Bandera VFW, re Tom and Wanda's move re Ruth.

4. Wanda and Daisy WYO Laramie, balmy winters re fireplace and brick. Tom's ringtone, calling from ABQ motel room, monsoon sunset. Leaves Ruth VM.

5. Tom leaves ABQ motel at sunrise. Radio TBD.

6. John, Jan, Barbara and Chloe in the Cayenne, John driving, Hwy 101 Agri-land. Re Jackie and NMSU, Horse Day Ruidoso area.

7. Tom driving, Talavera and Organ Mountains. GPS and Aviators.   

8. Hunter home office, Organ Mountains, Chloe photos and screensaver. Enter Hunter, leaves. Hunter kitchen/dining, patio and xeriscape, enter Hunter, leaves with recycle bag.

9. Tom arrives Hunter's house. Open garage door, Range Rover and motorcycle. Stops, idles, phone camera, Hunter enters garage from house, looks up, sees Tom, Tom drives away, Hunter walks bag to curb, eyes on truck turning and out of view behind house. Walks back to house.

10. Tom idling, U-turn.  

11. Hunter, foyer, doorbell, Tom, Howdy, re Reno and Olivia. Enter Tom.

12. John, Jan, Barbara, Moss Landing, Hunter's ringtone, Tom Walker from Texas. John re middle name.

13. Wanda with Daisy, Mirror Lake, Tom's call from Hunter's guest room. Tom calls Ruth with Gil at Fredericksburg peach market. Hijole. Tom, guest book, he leaves, framed by window, cigarette.

14. Hunter and Chloe, El Paso airport. Do we know. Horse Day still on. Re Doc, buckle up.

15. Rover arrive, Tom's truck in driveway. Garage talk.

16. Intros and Inquiry. Chloe takes pic.

17. Barbara tells Brian about Tom and Olivia re Reno, Tahoe, Carson City.

18. John and Jan at home, Lake Nacimiento Sunset. And We Were Nervous About Brian. Re Kate.

19. Doc gets Hunter selfie.

20.. Hunter, Chloe, Tom patio at night. Re Wanda and 25th anniversary re Hawaii, re Chloe surfing. How Tom and Wanda met at Boise A-A meeting. Tom excuses himself, Chloe re another horse. Hunter calls Jackie.