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.