Forgetting Christmas (2024) Movie Script
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[Marie] Looks cold out.
[Bill] Supposed to snow soon.
Might be a white Christmas.
Mm-hm. You're going to bring Tango in, right?
She can handle the winter. She's older now.
Dad, she can't handle that. It's too cold.
You get that horse in that barn,
them rats gonna spook her again.
Bill, don't kill the rats, please.
They're rats, Marie. Rats.
We don't kill what we don't eat.
Granddaddy's rules.
- Mm-hm.
- I know, baby.
We'll catch them, and I'll take them dancing.
You're such a fool. (coughing)
Bring me the water, bring me the water.
Hold on, hold on. There you go.
That good?
- Thank you.
- All right, sweetheart.
I got you something.
- We said no presents this year. We agreed.
- All right.
It's not a present, it's a tool.
Remember last time, we tried this with my phone
and, you know, people kept calling and messing it up.
It's a recorder, okay? Let me see your hand, come on.
Listen, see the red button? That's the record button.
- Get my glasses.
- There's red, see that?
All right, you press that to talk,
and it's going to start recording you, all right?
Look, fully charged.
It can run for hours, so don't worry about that.
Listen, baby, look. Take your time, all right?
Take your time with it.
Do I sound all right?
You sound beautiful, Mama.
- Come on, Daniel.
- No, you don't have to go.
All right.
We're just going to get the hot chocolate started.
We'll be right back, Ms. Marie.
Okay.
Well,
I hope you know this already,
but I'mma say it anyway,
so you never forget.
I love you so, so much.
Love you too, baby.
April, baby girl. (coughing)
I know you hate when I call you that.
No, Mama, it's okay.
Baby, you can run this farm
better than anyone.
No offense, Bill, but you know I gotta tell the truth.
None taken, and I agree.
I believe that you can be whatever you want to be.
But I'd be so honored
if you would just stick around.
Help keep things going, honey.
Can you do that, huh?
Yeah.
And Bill.
Oh, Bill.
There are no words.
Yeah.
[Marie] No words.
I'm going to check on that hot chocolate.
Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay, Mama.
- It's gonna be all right.
- Yeah.
It's selfish.
What's wrong?
Tell her.
Linette?
(Linette sighs)
I can't take this farm from your family.
No, no, Linette, we already talked about this.
It's what's best for everyone.
I don't think so.
Look, we have to sell the farm
to pay for Mama's medical expenses.
You're practically family anyway.
Practically ain't blood.
You know we ain't like that, Linette.
I don't even know if...
This all means so much to her.
She talks about legacy and family all the time.
I can't look at her in the eye.
- Not when she's like this.
- Okay, shh.
Um, I know this is probably the wrong time,
and I'm just trying to help, but we don't have to tell her.
We could just wait.
We don't kill what we don't eat, no lying,
and we stay together.
Granddaddy's rules.
- I know.
- My great-granddaddy.
Now, I can name two things
that Mama talks about more than family.
Honesty and hard work.
Now, it ain't gonna be easy,
but we're gonna tell her the truth, together.
(both sigh)
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Bill.
Yes, Marie?
I know you and April
have been trying to tell me
something for the longest...
Just say what you gotta say.
It's time.
You can do it, baby.
April found a way to pay for everything.
Oh!
It was a government grant.
We're going to be fine.
The land and the vineyard gonna be fine, yeah.
- Gonna be hard?
- Yeah.
Always is, but you be honest.
Stick together.
Granddaddy's rules.
Granddaddy...
Granddaddy.
Tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Marie. Come on, Marie.
(Bill sobbing)
Sleep in heavenly peace
- Daniel.
- I got it.
Sleep in heavenly peace
Are you sure about this?
I don't know if it's charged. I didn't listen to it, either.
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We'll be waiting outside.
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[Bill] You press that to talk,
and it's going to start recording you, all right?
Look, fully charged.
It can run for hours, so don't worry about that.
Listen, baby, look. Take your time, all right?
Take your time with it.
[Marie] Do I sound all right?
[April] You sound beautiful, Mama.
(engine rumbling)
Are we going to make it to the church?
Yes, indeed.
Am I smelling gas or oil burn?
A little bit of both.
Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
The smell is coming from out there.
[Marie] You can do it, baby.
[Bill] April found a way to pay for everything.
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It was a government grant. We're gonna be fine.
The land and the vineyard gonna be fine, yeah.
At some point, this vehicle will explode.
It's just a matter of time, okay,
and I, for one, still have some things
I would like to do with my life, and quite frankly,
I really don't appreciate the irony
of blowing up on the way to a funeral, okay?
I love you, I love you and I don't want to disrespect you,
Daniel, but I'm still going to have to drive myself.
Don't worry about that. I got this.
What's wrong?
We don't lie.
What happened?
You lied to Mama.
- April.
- And you brought me into it.
- Baby girl, listen.
- No. No, no, no.
You can never call me that again.
I would ask you why, but there ain't no good reason.
April, she was at a point-
- And I'm not standing around while you blame her for it.
Granddaddy's rules, hm? We don't lie to family, ever.
And you broke that!
And there ain't nothing we can do to fix it, Daddy!
Because she's gone!
April, wait. You can't leave like this.
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Thank you for taking care of my mama's land.
I've always trusted you and your family.
And now I trust them more than my own.
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(crowd cheering distantly)
(liquor pouring)
So, what'd you think?
You first. What have you learned?
I don't know, he's too normal.
Nobody's normal.
You say that to all your patients?
I tell my patients whatever they need to get better,
and none of them are around.
You're stalling.
All right, no wedding ring.
He's here for the fight.
I say he stays for the whole thing.
Really?
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What's he looking at now?
The bottom of his glass. What did you say to him?
I didn't say a word.
I merely gave him an opportunity
to speak to a beautiful woman.
If he were only here for the
fight, he would've ignored me,
or he would've noticed and enjoyed the view.
He may have said hello.
He's here to meet women.
He lacks the courage to act.
You can see it in his shoulders.
I give him 10 minutes, tops.
Yeah?
Well, he's leaving now.
- I'll be right back.
- Mm-hm.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
You can buy me another one.
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Hey! Look at you.
This is amazing. It's exactly like how I imagined it.
You pouring drinks, flipping bottles.
Big time city girl.
It's all right. It's a job.
Please, you got up with the sun your whole life.
Now you found a job working through the night,
meeting new people all the time.
It's only a few hours away,
but it's as far from farming as you can get.
I'm really happy that you're here,
but what's up?
Last year was really hard on him.
Who?
(April scoffs)
His pride wouldn't let him come work for us on the farm,
so he got a job at a store,
but a few weeks ago, he got fired.
Probably for lying, Linette.
I told you I don't want anything to do with him.
He's forgetting.
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But he...
He's not old enough for that.
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What happened?
One day last week, Daniel came and found me,
and he asked me if Mr. Bill
was supposed to be delivering stuff.
He said he was loading stuff up in the old barn.
- See? Right there.
- Morning.
Hey. Hey, y'all.
What's all this?
Well, a wise man once said
it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission,
so here I am doing what I shouldn't.
Do you need storage space or something?
I need a place.
I figured you would take down the fence
between your land and ours, and you did.
I also figured you wasn't using the barn much.
Looks like I was right about that, too.
I got enough canned food
to last me through the winter,
plenty matches, and once I'm done loading in,
I'll move my truck, you won't even know I'm out here.
If it's okay with Linette,
I can help you store that stuff in the back.
But matches?
We have plenty of room in the house.
Oh, no indeed. I will not be a burden.
This is your house, your land,
matter fact, I shouldn't even be here.
A wise man once said it's better
to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Wait, you already said...
Daniel, can you please help Mr. Bill with his things?
- I got it, Mr. Bill.
- Thank you.
We don't use this barn at all. It's all yours.
I mean, I'm not going to be here for long.
I just need to be back in the open air,
where the good lord meant me to be.
No, don't put it there. On that side.
There you go, thank you.
I'm going to pack a bag, and then I'll drive.
Okay.
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Can we all be free
Live freely
Growing love
Be free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
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Daddy.
Hey, baby g...
Hey.
What you doing?
I'm...
Rats still in there.
Can't kill them.
Scaring them ain't working.
Gotta catch them somehow.
This ain't your barn no more, Daddy.
Linette hire you for this?
Work's still gotta get done.
You sleeping out here?
Where I'm sleeping is none of your concern.
- It's winter.
- Yep.
It's almost Christmas.
I know what day it is, April.
Then why would you do something foolish
like stay out here in the barn?
You've already made it clear how you felt about me.
Keep feeling that way,
you don't have nothing to worry about.
- Fine.
- Fine.
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April, hey. Welcome back.
Hey, Daniel.
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, just a little headache.
Nothing to worry about, nothing at all.
What'd you catch?
A couple perch.
Ooh. Here, let me get it.
Whoa, no ma'am. You're a guest.
Here you go. There you go.
- Thank you.
- You are welcome.
So, did you talk to your pa?
There's nothing wrong with him, he's just stubborn.
Trying to catch those stupid rats.
Look, I hate to be the one to tell you,
but Linette ordered exterminators months ago.
There ain't no rats.
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So, you got a girlfriend yet?
- No time for it.
- You already know everybody.
That's exactly the problem. I work on everybody's farm.
Everybody's like family.
You'll find somebody.
Wait, did you bring somebody with you?
Empty your pockets, let me see.
Stop! (laughing)
You're not supposed to be working.
What, she held a knife to your throat or something?
April's been bossing me around her whole life.
She don't need no knife.
It's fine, I needed something else to do.
Well, it's good to see you again.
Hey, I'm heading to the Millers' if you don't need me.
We're fine, we'll see you tomorrow.
- How'd it go?
- Where are the papers?
April, can you...
(drawer thuds)
April, stop.
It's fine, I'm here, I can help.
You're supposed to be out there.
Can you get the gloves, please?
Thanks.
Oh, we use scalers now.
(engine rumbling)
Is that Daniel?
I swear, he's going to blow us all up.
It's probably all that smoke
that's giving him a headache.
Headache?
Yeah, I saw him taking some pills out by Tango.
If that's still her name.
Oh no.
It's fine if you change the horse's name, I just-
- No, Daniel's taking pills?
They're over the counter.
Okay, but in secret? Out by Tango?
We've got to get him out of that truck.
You try talking to him?
I tried.
Daniel is an open book about
everything except that truck.
I have no idea why.
Seems like everybody got secrets around here.
What?
You broke Great-Granddaddy's rule
and hired an exterminator?
Look, I bought this land,
and I'm taking care of it the best that I can.
I know, Linette, but you could've told me.
You left.
Plus, I told Mr. Bill when we were doing it.
I got his blessing.
Then why is he...
Talk to him.
I tried.
(faucet hissing)
(April sighs)
I need a drink.
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[Linette] We've got some of our red, white,
rum, and champagne.
Do you have orange juice?
Of course.
Pull out the champagne. Mimosas it is.
It's warm, and cheap.
It's fine, it's mimosas before bed.
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(cork pops)
It's almost Christmas.
Got any hot chocolate?
(April sighs)
How about that drink, hmm?
Oh, champagne first.
Hold on. 45 degrees.
It's warm.
A 45 degree angle. You get less bubbles.
Oh, okay.
Just halfway.
All right.
How about this?
You help me with Daniel, and I'll help you with Mr. Bill.
Linette, you got a deal.
Mm, mm.
This is a glass of sadness.
- It is so warm.
- I'm sorry.
- Did you heat it up?
- No, I... (laughing)
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(book thuds)
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(rat squeaking)
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(mugs clinking) (April sobbing)
(door creaking)
(gravel crunching)
Hey, you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine. How was the market?
We did okay.
You speak to Daniel?
Oh, he doesn't help at the market anymore.
I share a stall with the Millers, and we split fees.
Dang, did everything change?
Yes.
What's wrong, Linette?
Nothing. Did you make it out to the barn?
What am I supposed to say?
Even if he is... (sighs)
He's still stubborn as ever.
Didn't forget how to do that.
Do you remember my grandmother?
She wandered off one day.
We found her hours later, but she was never the same.
Alzheimer's. She died when we were little.
Anyway, I remember Mama and Daddy,
they couldn't talk any sense into her.
But she would listen to Mavis.
Your sister? (laughs)
Mama and Daddy were always trying
to make Grandma do stuff.
Mavis would sit with her.
She'd come her hair and they'd sing together.
Yeah, well, Daddy don't sing, so.
Well, what does he do, April?
I don't know.
Let's go find out.
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Ask him what he wants for Christmas.
Just...
(knocking) Daddy? I'm coming in.
(door sliding)
He's not in there.
Daddy?
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Mr. Bill?
I'll go check the house.
Daddy?
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You want to talk to me now?
What's up?
What's up? You're living in a barn, Daddy.
Ain't even no electricity out there.
Why?
I already told you why.
If you want to believe me, that's up to you.
Can't fix that. I can't...
I can't fix it, so you can go on back
to where you ran off to, let me do what I gotta do.
There ain't even no more rats in the barn, Daddy.
Linette got an exterminator.
Do you remember that?
Maybe you forgot.
I ain't forgot nothing. There's rats in there.
Your mother said it was, and I'mma get them out,
just like your great-granddaddy taught her.
Daddy.
Daddy!
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He's not in the house.
Is Daniel still at the Millers'?
I don't know.
Let's go see.
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What happened? Where was he?
Fishing.
Okay, that's good.
That's right, Linette. Everything is good.
Everything is exactly as it should be.
Hold on.
No!
I want to go home!
I want to help you with Daniel like I said I would,
but there's no helping Daddy,
so you don't have to worry about that.
He can't stay in the barn.
Can you open the door, please?
What am I supposed to do?
Ask Daniel.
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Wait, is that Daniel?
Daniel.
Evening, y'all.
Do you park here often?
I like to walk from time to time.
- To the Millers'?
- Uh-huh.
Near the Christmas barbecue?
Come on, let us at least give you a ride.
(door thuds)
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- Hey, y'all.
- It's Linette!
Just dropping off Daniel.
Well, merry almost Christmas. Make yourself at home.
Daniel's basically my brother,
so he can show you where everything is.
Girl, excuse me. Hey!
Hey. You must have missed the announcement.
I have reserved the right
to beat anybody with my cane for staring.
Hey, good to see you, man. Good to see you.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- How are you?
- Good.
And you must be Linette.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
So you take my place at the market,
you bring in your own inventory.
I should've left two years ago.
If you did, I might have gone with you.
And if you would've left too,
everything would've fell apart for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Daniel, how's old Sandy doing?
Fine.
Look, how about you tell me
about all those adventures in the big city?
Come on.
I got it, I got it.
- That's Maurice's truck.
- Sandy?
Daniel and Maurice were best friends.
They used to work on stuff together.
They worked on Maurice's brakes, screwed it up.
Maurice had the accident.
I never really got to see the truck,
but pretty sure it's Sandy.
Why would he keep it? Maurice seems okay with things.
[April] Not in Daniel's head. Come on, let's go.
Hey, hey. Hold on, hold on.
Can you do me a favor?
Can you try not to mention Sandy to Maurice?
You know he's living in the big city now,
and he really misses her a lot.
Yeah.
Oh, and I'll find a ride. See y'all.
Daniel feels guilty about what happened.
That's why he's in that truck, he's punishing himself.
There's nothing we can say. It has to come from Maurice.
He's going to hate me for telling.
For a while, but he'll get over it.
[Linette] What about your pa?
There's nothing we can say.
It's got to come from Mama.
Call the sheriff, tell him
there's a squatter in the barn.
I can't call the police on your daddy.
Take me to the bus station in the morning.
I'll call them.
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It's getting cold.
I got layers.
Your mama taught me way back when I first started
on the farm, dress in layers,
so you can strip off when you're working
and bundle up when you're resting.
She taught me a lot.
So did your great-granddaddy.
Taught me how to be a man.
Would they want you to be sleeping out here?
They would want us to still have the farm.
Great-Granddaddy would've done anything for Mama.
He would've done the same thing.
He would have found another way.
So what, now you're living out here?
I'll leave when I catch the
rats the way your mama wanted.
There ain't no more rats.
I hope that you have a really merry Christmas.
I'm leaving, Daddy.
Of course you are.
(April scoffs) (rats squeaking)
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(rat squeaking)
What? What happened?
Their exterminator sucks.
We're gonna catch some rats.
Granddaddy's rules.
(insects chirping)
(fire crackling)
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(rats squeaking)
You ain't gonna make this easy, are you?
(fire crackling)
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You hear that?
There's a wolf out there, howling.
Don't want it to scare the baby girl.
Don't worry, I won't hurt it.
I'll just chase it off or something.
D...
Bill?
Come lay by the fire.
We'll deal with the wolf later.
Come on.
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(phone buzzing)
(keys jingling)
Good morning. What's going on?
I'm okay. Did you go last night?
They need you back.
Your replacement doesn't
know how to read people at all.
I taught you too well.
What's wrong?
- My dad's acting strange.
- Strange how?
One minute he's hard-headed and normal,
and the next, he...
[Terry] I need a little more, sweetie.
For a second last night, he thought I was my mom.
Oh, April, I'm sorry.
I don't understand, he's only 65.
It's still possible, especially
if he had stress going on.
It's called early-onset Alzheimer's...
Can you come check on him?
I'm sure there's someone that's closer.
This a small town, Terry, all right?
Everybody knows everybody,
and I don't want him to be embarrassed if I'm wrong.
Send me your address.
I owe you so many drinks.
Okay, bye.
(engine rumbling)
- Morning.
- (coughing) Morning.
I see you went back and got her.
- Of course.
- (sighs) That's too bad.
I thought maybe you were gonna donate her to the wild.
You know, she'd make a lovely
home for a family of possums.
Don't you think?
I'd never do that to Sandy, not at all.
Listen, I need your help.
I want to surprise April and Mr. Bill.
Okay.
So, since it's their first Christmas
without, you know, Miss Marie,
they're probably not looking to do hot chocolate, so-
- They have to have hot chocolate.
- Right?
- Right.
But we don't have any in the house.
Well, I can just go get some.
Okay, yeah, wait, I need you to take my car.
Wait, what are you up to?
I'm just trying to surprise them.
Everybody on Earth just heard you pull up,
but if you take my car, then
they'll think I just told you
to get something without stinking it up, which I am.
So here, and give me yours.
Ain't no way.
So what are you going to do, Daniel, huh?
You're just going to walk into
the house with a grocery bag,
or just the box of hot chocolate
in your hand all obvious?
No, you gotta take the packets out
and put them in your pockets,
but if you had my keys and your keys in the pockets,
then you're going to poke a hole in something,
and then there goes the whole surprise!
Wait, hold on. Wait, slow slow slow.
You sure are talking fast.
- Hey, Linette?
- Huh?
All right.
- Hey, Daniel.
- What's up?
Hey, can I borrow your car?
I wanted to get some two-by-fours for the rat trap.
Oh no, we got plenty of that.
Yeah, we had a few repairs,
so there's a bunch out by the chickens, so yeah.
- Ow!
- Just go with it.
I think I have to!
Okay, I'll give you the keys when you get here.
Thanks, Maurice.
Mm!
Right there.
What'd you say you're making again?
A non-lethal rat trap.
I heard them last night. Daddy was right.
Really? Well, I got one of those.
Yeah, you know, I went on YouTube
and found a bunch of those do it yourself videos.
None of them worked, and then I ordered this thing.
Still nothing, so that's why I got the exterminator.
I tried.
Thank you.
Well, I was going to build a wooden cage
and rig it up on a stick
like they used to do in the cartoons.
(Linette laughs)
It's stupid. No, no, no, it's stupid.
You're good.
How about you do that, build that,
and you set this one up and, you know,
two bad ideas has got to equal one good one, right?
I guess?
Do you regret staying?
I didn't really have a choice.
- Yes, you did.
- No, I didn't.
My sisters took their
inheritance and went to the city.
And what'd you do with yours?
You bought the farm, Linette?
Don't. Don't say it like that.
Well, why?
One, I was helping out a really good friend
in a really bad situation.
And two, I didn't think I'd be doing it alone.
Linette!
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Daddy? (knocking) You there?
Washing up. Give me a sec.
Oh, you're sticking around?
Yeah. Linette had a non-lethal rat trap.
Just need some bait.
Is it safe?
It is so safe, it didn't even work.
But it's worth a try.
You know, I was thinking,
maybe we could build a trap together.
- Build a trap?
- Mm-hm.
You want to build a trap with me?
Yes, Daddy.
Okay.
Okay.
We're gonna be all right
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
Keep your head up
It's gonna get better
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
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Hey, Daddy, why don't we switch?
You measure and drill and I'll saw.
No, you're the brains of this operation.
I'll do the grunt work.
It's okay, Dad. Let me help you out.
- I got it.
- You taught me how to saw.
No!
I'm sorry.
Just frustrated.
Should've got the circular saw when I had a discount.
At your job?
(saw rasping)
You know, it's been a year.
We could catch up.
I got a job as a waitress.
They said if I was really good at my customer service,
they'd move me up to bartender.
So, I made a new friend, and she's a...
Who taught me how to get people to like me.
Been there for a while now.
Daddy, please.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing!
Just bruised it somewhere.
Do you remember how?
Stop treating me like I'm a crazy person.
And let me work, please.
(melancholy music continues)
I'll be right back, Daddy.
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
Linette, look, I really need your help.
Shh.
Daniel's back.
(somber music) (Linette sighs)
I really hope this works.
- Well?
- This is good.
Is that gas or oil I'm smelling?
It's a little bit of both.
He's never going to talk to me again.
Yes he is, stop it.
After Christmas, you can just go back to the big city,
and I'll take care of Sandy, okay?
That's how you see it?
It's fine, they're just talking.
Wait, what're you doing? Get off me!
April, this is not going well.
Yes, it is.
Maurice, stop it. You're going to fall.
And you're going to give
yourself lung cancer or a tumor!
All because of a mistake we both made!
(glass shatters)
We both messed up. I walk with a limp, leave it there.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- You see?
- Okay.
That's it, all right? Gosh, you did the right thing.
I'm never going to get all that glass up.
[April] You helped Daniel, right?
You can deal with the glass later.
Hey, do you remember Terry from the bar?
Your friend? Yeah. (phone ringing)
Yeah, I called her to come and help with Daddy.
Okay.
She's a therapist.
Psychologist.
Did you see something?
[Terry] Hello?
Hey, you on your way?
I sure am. What's up?
How...
How are we gonna know for sure?
[Terry] Well, we need to get him to a doctor.
Oh no, Daddy don't do doctors.
Ah, okay.
Look up the 10 early signs
and symptoms of Alzheimer's.
You're going to need to talk to somebody
that's been around him a lot lately,
like a friend or a coworker.
I'm going to go get changed first.
Okay.
(door sliding)
April, you should sit.
No, I'm going to fall asleep.
Yeah, sit. I'll keep a lookout and let you know if she...
Is that her? Excuse me, Ms. Simmons?
Hi, I'm April Jesup, Bill's daughter.
Okay. Is he all right?
What would make you ask that?
It's not my business. I don't gossip, I'm sorry.
No, Ms. Simmons, please.
Did he show signs of disorientation,
poor judgment, trouble socializing?
Look, your father's a good man. It just didn't work out.
But why?
I'm sure if you ask him yourself, he can tell you.
Ms. Simmons, if I asked him, would he remember?
He got a little unfriendly with a customer.
And once, he got lost in the store.
When he quit, I thought he'd get help.
Can you do one thing for me?
(door thuds)
Is that sangria? Did you make that?
After I gave you those rat traps,
I started thinking about those do it yourself traps
that I got off YouTube, and then I was like,
maybe I can find one to maybe help me make mimosas.
A 30 minute rabbit hole led me to sangria.
I was like, you can't run a vineyard
and not know how to make sangria.
Oh, I used our Home Sweet Home red.
I already had the oranges, so I just needed to add
some strawberries, brandy, a little maple syrup,
and a secret ingredient which shall not be named.
Tell me more about working in the city in a bar.
It's fine. Not as exciting as you think.
Do you get to meet new people?
It's more about the regulars
and, like, a social experience.
It's like a performance.
How is that not exciting?
It's kind of fake.
It's a performance, it's art.
It's getting paid to lie.
But out here, everything's exactly as it should be.
Simple, honest.
Boring.
Get some rest.
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(chair thuds)
Where is it?
Where is it?
Daddy.
Daddy!
- Where? Where is it?
- Daddy!
You move something?
I just woke up.
(door creaking)
- You move my stuff?
- I don't think so.
[Bill] What do you mean, you don't think so?
You either did or you didn't.
- Daddy, just calm down.
- I will not!
You don't disrespect a man's things like that.
You just don't do that.
I put something behind that
door because I needed it to...
To charge, because I don't have the...
I don't have plugs in the barn, and now it's gone.
And I remember doing it.
Y'all better stop with this and tell me where it is.
Do you remember what you plugged up?
It don't matter!
It was mine,
and somebody moved it without saying nothing to me.
You just don't do that. You just don't do that.
Ain't that right, Daniel?
Yes, sir.
I've been on this farm since I was 14 years old.
I have never disrespected nobody like that
and moved something without telling them first.
You just don't do that to somebody.
Look, let us help you find it.
I don't need your help!
Check the barn for the recorder.
I need whoever took it to
bring it back, plain and simple.
I would never do that to your granddaddy.
Great-granddaddy. April, I would never do that.
Never have and never will.
How long you been working here, Daniel?
Since I was 15 or so, something like that.
Something like that? Didn't I show you the ropes, hm?
Didn't I train you up for the Millers?
[Daniel] Yes, sir.
Or wherever you wanted to work, right?
- You did.
- Right.
I did right by you, right?
Yeah, I mean, I tried.
As God as my witness, I tried.
Showed you how to drive a tractor,
how to run it down in the
farrow and level the plow, right?
It's here. I got it.
I'm sorry, Mr. Bill.
I almost tripped over it by the door,
and I went to bring it out to you,
but you weren't there, so I just left it.
Next time, just let me know.
(door clattering)
(April sighs)
(door clattering)
(somber music continues)
How often, hm?
How often do you listen to it?
Every day?
Why?
The same reason you left.
We are who we are.
Okay.
Who are you, hm?
Are you going to get the help you need,
or are you going to stay in there
and torture yourself until you die?
[Marie] Do I sound all right?
You sound beautiful, Mama.
No, I don't want to hear that.
Listen!
[Marie] Granddaddy's rules.
Granddaddy.
You hear it?
There wasn't a day that went by
that I didn't hear Granddaddy's rules, okay?
No, no. Did you hear the last thing she said?
The way she said it.
She saw your great-granddaddy.
She saw heaven open, and he was bringing her in.
He was there.
If you would just step aside-
- Daddy, look, I talked to Ms. Simmons, all right?
I saw the vitamins.
You don't have to worry about that.
I'm here!
I'm here, and I'm worrying!
(somber music continues)
I'm not a man that quotes the Bible.
But I saw your mother
looking straight into heaven.
I hear it happen every morning.
(somber music continues)
To get into heaven,
you've got to believe.
You've got to believe with your mind.
What happens
when you lose your mind?
(somber music continues)
(engine rumbling)
Never seen that car before. Who is that?
I don't know.
Oh, that's April's friend.
Hey.
- Hey. Linette, right?
- Yes, welcome.
- Thank you.
- This is Daniel.
- Hi, I'm Daniel.
- Terry.
Nice to meet you, Terry. Beautiful name.
- Thank you.
- Beautiful Terry.
Do you need help getting your bags inside?
Not really, I'm fine. Just a place to freshen up.
- Okay, absolutely. Follow me.
- Thank you.
(leaves rustling)
April, your friend is here.
Go on. Got to get a fire going.
(melancholy music continues)
April, if it is what we think it is,
there are treatments to slow the progression,
but there is no cure.
Now, you see, if somebody
says something like that to him,
he's going to dig his heels in
even harder and fight harder.
That's probably what happened.
He probably went to go see some doctor who told him
that there's no cure for it, and now he's out there
with memory vitamins and yoga books trying to fix it.
Dementia can be caused by
other things than Alzheimer's.
Treatable things. We need to be sure.
And if he's a fighter, we need him on our side.
It's going to take time,
and it's getting colder outside.
There's something else.
He freaked out over something
he did, something he lost.
My grandma used to get mad when she got confused.
It was scary, and she wasn't as strong.
You called the sheriff.
- Oh no.
- It's all right.
I kind of told her to.
I don't mean to alarm you,
but unless things are different out here,
police don't have a very good track record
with mental illness.
Can we call them back?
The sheriff will still come.
They'll do a wellness check just to make sure
nobody forced you to call it off.
Well, we need to get him on our side,
and we need to do it fast.
I think I've got an idea.
I got you something, Daddy.
Thank you so much.
I wrapped in in your favorite color, like I always do.
For your birthday.
Wow, circular saw.
How did you know?
- How did I know, Daddy?
- Thank you.
No, Daddy, how did I know that you wanted a circular saw?
Do you remember?
There's Daniel with the hot chocolates.
But I just mentioned your birthday.
Is it February or December?
Do you remember what today is, Daddy?
(paper rustling)
(paper rustling)
(somber music continues)
(tray crashing)
(door creaking)
Stall.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
- Are you okay?
- I'm so sorry.
- The sheriff's here.
- I'll go.
No, no, no. Daniel's stalling.
[Daniel] Evening, officer.
I'm responding to a call about a squatter in a barn.
Really?
Call came from a Ms. Linette Lewis.
Yeah, she's the owner of this property.
Wait, Junior?
Daniel?
[Terry] What else did he say?
He got upset about a recorder.
Why?
Linette didn't tell him that she moved it.
April, I didn't move anything.
You said... I lied.
Linette!
How do you think that would've ended if I didn't?
Tell me more about the recorder.
It has her mother's last words on it.
Oh.
Has he talked about it?
April, we don't have much time.
He's doing it for my mama.
He's worried that if he can't believe,
then he won't be able to get into heaven or something.
Okay, we can work with that.
I don't know enough about that.
I know enough to...
No.
No, we are not lying to Daddy.
We need to give him whatever he needs to get better.
Can you pull up those videos?
Of the sangria?
No, no, the ones with the non-lethal rat traps.
April!
Please, Linette!
(somber music)
(pills rattling)
(saw rasping)
(saw rasping)
- Man, nobody got past you.
- You know that's right.
I'm big and light on my feet, best D-end in the county.
I don't know about all that.
(laughing)
Well, everything seems all right.
Yeah.
(ominous music)
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Junior. Wait, wait, wait.
- This ain't football, Daniel.
- It's her pa.
This is easy. It's perfect.
Can you get the bucket with
some peanuts, like in the video?
- I can help.
- Help by getting the bucket!
(saw rasping)
Stop sawing in the dark, Daddy!
Watch me.
(paper rustling)
Did you see that?
You know I saw it.
Good.
(door knocking)
(door thuds)
The rat's gonna to climb up the ramp.
It's gonna climb through
the tube to get to the peanuts,
and its own body weight is
gonna drop him into the bucket.
Do you understand?
Of course I understand. Why...
Now do it.
If the yoga and the vitamins are working for you,
build the trap.
I don't have to prove nothing to nobody.
Especially not to me, Daddy. Right?
You don't care nothing
about what I think no more, that's fine.
But prove it to yourself.
Build the trap, Daddy.
(somber music)
It's real simple.
Come on, Daddy.
Build the trap.
Come on now. It's easy.
- I can't.
- Yes, you can.
- You can do it.
- No!
Hey, please, just give us another minute.
- Move out of the way, ma'am.
- Please!
- Move out of the way, ma'am!
- I called you!
Okay? Please, just...
Just one more minute.
There was an older guy that came into the store.
I was restocking something, and he asked me
where the drill bits were.
Just like that, I didn't remember nothing.
Been working in this store for all these months.
Knew the store, every inch of it, and just then, nothing.
I sent him to the next aisle.
He came back mad at me, because I made him walk around.
We get into a shouting match.
I still can't remember.
I'm hearing animals that ain't there.
I'm doing things over and over.
I'm going crazy.
No.
No, Daddy.
I thought if I'd come back to the farm,
if I get back outside, if I do something for Marie...
I can't even saw no more.
[Junior] Sir, this is the police.
I need you to come out now.
Daddy?
If I die crazy, I won't make it into heaven.
And even if I did, and I see Marie,
I may not remember enough
to let her know how sorry I am.
Daddy.
But right now,
I'm here.
My mind is here.
- Yes.
- Right now.
Daddy?
Daddy!
(ominous music)
Sir, I need you to put down the saw.
Stop!
If I come at you with this-
- Daddy!
Suicide is an unforgivable sin.
At least, that's what I was taught.
Do I know her?
No, no, Terry's my friend from the city.
She's a doctor.
Of theology.
I called her to help.
It's not suicide if he does it.
God knows your heart.
He also knows how much you loved your wife,
and what you gave up to try to help her.
There could be help, Daddy.
Don't lie!
Drop the saw!
You see what's happening?
Yeah, I see what's happening.
He's approaching an officer with a weapon!
He needs help.
There are curable causes of dementia.
Not common, but worth checking.
I need my mind to get into heaven.
I need to apologize.
The disease is in your brain, not your mind.
When you die, you are absent from the body.
You leave the brain behind.
You sure know a whole lot about dementia
to be a doctor of theology.
I had a double major in school.
And God wouldn't punish you for a sickness.
Then why did he give it to me?
Why Marie?
Even if there was an answer for that,
it wouldn't make you feel any better.
You have to decide to fight.
Fight, Daddy.
Come on, Mr. Bill.
We're all here for you.
Daddy?
Daddy?
(rat squeaking) Wait!
Wait!
Don't you do it.
[Daniel] Wait, Junior. Come on, Junior.
Someone caught a rat.
Daddy?
I didn't bait the trap.
Did anyone bait the trap?
No, ma'am.
I think you remembered.
You caught him, just the way Mama wanted.
Granddaddy's rules.
There's a rat in there.
Yeah.
He's a cute little fella.
I'm not crazy.
No.
But I am forgetting.
Yes.
I know you want to fight, Daddy.
And you got good genes. Let me fight with you.
- You don't have to do that.
- No, no, no.
After all this, I'm gonna fight something.
And it might as well be for you.
My baby girl.
Yes, Daddy.
(melancholy music continues)
(uplifting music)
(both laughing)
(indistinct talking)
You know.
(indistinct talking)
Ta-da!
Hey!
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
[Daniel] I know you've got to leave,
but we're going to miss you around here for sure.
Oh, for sure? Okay, everybody?
I mean, I will.
Ugh!
Daniel would like your phone number
so he can plan a trip to the big city
and try to convince you that small town living
is better than whatever amazing things
you have going on in your life, if that's okay?
Sure.
- Really?
- Give me your phone.
Really?
No lock. So trusting.
I am.
Thank you. Is Daddy still resting?
Yeah, he's doing good. Doctor's appointment on Monday.
Tough times ahead.
You'll at least come visit, right?
- You're staying?
- Wait, what?
I didn't say that.
- I love you, sis.
- I love you, too.
See you, girl. Daniel, walk me to my car?
Absolutely.
Maybe you can help me pick out a new truck.
[Terry] I could do that.
(April sighs)
Was she right?
I can't leave Daddy like this.
I was hoping maybe we could
stay here. I'd pull my weight.
Of course, as long as you'd like.
I was also thinking, I left for all the wrong reasons.
You stayed for all the wrong reasons.
Let's switch.
I can't just... Yes, you can.
Okay, but what about the... I can do it.
I don't even know how... I can teach you.
I mean, you already know
how to make a better sangria than me.
I do.
(laughing)
And you'd still own the place.
I'd be able to look after Daddy.
You didn't even change anything in the house,
except for the kitchen.
Come on.
(uplifting music continues)
How about this?
How about you teach me all those fancy city drinks,
and I'll help you with Mr. Bill?
I can take care of Daddy.
It's okay, I'll go when the time is right.
But I'm not going to leave you.
Plus, you don't know where nothing is in that kitchen.
(uplifting music continues)
[Marie] It's gonna be hard.
It always is, but you be honest.
Stick together.
Granddaddy's rules.
I love you so, so much.
(melancholy music)
(melancholy music continues)
How long
How long ago did we play in the snow
Tell me how far
Did we ride that one time
It's been slipping my mind
Take my hand
I may fall
And it feels like I'm losing it all
Help me to find this piece of myself
Help me to hang on to whatever's left
At the end of the day when all time is spent
Here's a moment I'll never forget
And it's right now, so be with me now
Hold me right now
Sing with me now
Every laughter that we shared
Every good time when no one else was there
Tell a friend and let them see
Remind the family who I used to be
But right now, I need you right now
Hold me right now
Sing with me now
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
[Marie] Looks cold out.
[Bill] Supposed to snow soon.
Might be a white Christmas.
Mm-hm. You're going to bring Tango in, right?
She can handle the winter. She's older now.
Dad, she can't handle that. It's too cold.
You get that horse in that barn,
them rats gonna spook her again.
Bill, don't kill the rats, please.
They're rats, Marie. Rats.
We don't kill what we don't eat.
Granddaddy's rules.
- Mm-hm.
- I know, baby.
We'll catch them, and I'll take them dancing.
You're such a fool. (coughing)
Bring me the water, bring me the water.
Hold on, hold on. There you go.
That good?
- Thank you.
- All right, sweetheart.
I got you something.
- We said no presents this year. We agreed.
- All right.
It's not a present, it's a tool.
Remember last time, we tried this with my phone
and, you know, people kept calling and messing it up.
It's a recorder, okay? Let me see your hand, come on.
Listen, see the red button? That's the record button.
- Get my glasses.
- There's red, see that?
All right, you press that to talk,
and it's going to start recording you, all right?
Look, fully charged.
It can run for hours, so don't worry about that.
Listen, baby, look. Take your time, all right?
Take your time with it.
Do I sound all right?
You sound beautiful, Mama.
- Come on, Daniel.
- No, you don't have to go.
All right.
We're just going to get the hot chocolate started.
We'll be right back, Ms. Marie.
Okay.
Well,
I hope you know this already,
but I'mma say it anyway,
so you never forget.
I love you so, so much.
Love you too, baby.
April, baby girl. (coughing)
I know you hate when I call you that.
No, Mama, it's okay.
Baby, you can run this farm
better than anyone.
No offense, Bill, but you know I gotta tell the truth.
None taken, and I agree.
I believe that you can be whatever you want to be.
But I'd be so honored
if you would just stick around.
Help keep things going, honey.
Can you do that, huh?
Yeah.
And Bill.
Oh, Bill.
There are no words.
Yeah.
[Marie] No words.
I'm going to check on that hot chocolate.
Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay, Mama.
- It's gonna be all right.
- Yeah.
It's selfish.
What's wrong?
Tell her.
Linette?
(Linette sighs)
I can't take this farm from your family.
No, no, Linette, we already talked about this.
It's what's best for everyone.
I don't think so.
Look, we have to sell the farm
to pay for Mama's medical expenses.
You're practically family anyway.
Practically ain't blood.
You know we ain't like that, Linette.
I don't even know if...
This all means so much to her.
She talks about legacy and family all the time.
I can't look at her in the eye.
- Not when she's like this.
- Okay, shh.
Um, I know this is probably the wrong time,
and I'm just trying to help, but we don't have to tell her.
We could just wait.
We don't kill what we don't eat, no lying,
and we stay together.
Granddaddy's rules.
- I know.
- My great-granddaddy.
Now, I can name two things
that Mama talks about more than family.
Honesty and hard work.
Now, it ain't gonna be easy,
but we're gonna tell her the truth, together.
(both sigh)
(melancholy music)
Bill.
Yes, Marie?
I know you and April
have been trying to tell me
something for the longest...
Just say what you gotta say.
It's time.
You can do it, baby.
April found a way to pay for everything.
Oh!
It was a government grant.
We're going to be fine.
The land and the vineyard gonna be fine, yeah.
- Gonna be hard?
- Yeah.
Always is, but you be honest.
Stick together.
Granddaddy's rules.
Granddaddy...
Granddaddy.
Tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Marie. Come on, Marie.
(Bill sobbing)
Sleep in heavenly peace
- Daniel.
- I got it.
Sleep in heavenly peace
Are you sure about this?
I don't know if it's charged. I didn't listen to it, either.
(somber music)
We'll be waiting outside.
(somber music continues)
[Bill] You press that to talk,
and it's going to start recording you, all right?
Look, fully charged.
It can run for hours, so don't worry about that.
Listen, baby, look. Take your time, all right?
Take your time with it.
[Marie] Do I sound all right?
[April] You sound beautiful, Mama.
(engine rumbling)
Are we going to make it to the church?
Yes, indeed.
Am I smelling gas or oil burn?
A little bit of both.
Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
The smell is coming from out there.
[Marie] You can do it, baby.
[Bill] April found a way to pay for everything.
(somber music)
It was a government grant. We're gonna be fine.
The land and the vineyard gonna be fine, yeah.
At some point, this vehicle will explode.
It's just a matter of time, okay,
and I, for one, still have some things
I would like to do with my life, and quite frankly,
I really don't appreciate the irony
of blowing up on the way to a funeral, okay?
I love you, I love you and I don't want to disrespect you,
Daniel, but I'm still going to have to drive myself.
Don't worry about that. I got this.
What's wrong?
We don't lie.
What happened?
You lied to Mama.
- April.
- And you brought me into it.
- Baby girl, listen.
- No. No, no, no.
You can never call me that again.
I would ask you why, but there ain't no good reason.
April, she was at a point-
- And I'm not standing around while you blame her for it.
Granddaddy's rules, hm? We don't lie to family, ever.
And you broke that!
And there ain't nothing we can do to fix it, Daddy!
Because she's gone!
April, wait. You can't leave like this.
(somber music continues)
Thank you for taking care of my mama's land.
I've always trusted you and your family.
And now I trust them more than my own.
(somber music continues)
(crowd cheering distantly)
(liquor pouring)
So, what'd you think?
You first. What have you learned?
I don't know, he's too normal.
Nobody's normal.
You say that to all your patients?
I tell my patients whatever they need to get better,
and none of them are around.
You're stalling.
All right, no wedding ring.
He's here for the fight.
I say he stays for the whole thing.
Really?
(cheering continues)
(cheering continues)
What's he looking at now?
The bottom of his glass. What did you say to him?
I didn't say a word.
I merely gave him an opportunity
to speak to a beautiful woman.
If he were only here for the
fight, he would've ignored me,
or he would've noticed and enjoyed the view.
He may have said hello.
He's here to meet women.
He lacks the courage to act.
You can see it in his shoulders.
I give him 10 minutes, tops.
Yeah?
Well, he's leaving now.
- I'll be right back.
- Mm-hm.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
You can buy me another one.
(upbeat music)
Hey! Look at you.
This is amazing. It's exactly like how I imagined it.
You pouring drinks, flipping bottles.
Big time city girl.
It's all right. It's a job.
Please, you got up with the sun your whole life.
Now you found a job working through the night,
meeting new people all the time.
It's only a few hours away,
but it's as far from farming as you can get.
I'm really happy that you're here,
but what's up?
Last year was really hard on him.
Who?
(April scoffs)
His pride wouldn't let him come work for us on the farm,
so he got a job at a store,
but a few weeks ago, he got fired.
Probably for lying, Linette.
I told you I don't want anything to do with him.
He's forgetting.
(somber music)
But he...
He's not old enough for that.
(somber music continues)
What happened?
One day last week, Daniel came and found me,
and he asked me if Mr. Bill
was supposed to be delivering stuff.
He said he was loading stuff up in the old barn.
- See? Right there.
- Morning.
Hey. Hey, y'all.
What's all this?
Well, a wise man once said
it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission,
so here I am doing what I shouldn't.
Do you need storage space or something?
I need a place.
I figured you would take down the fence
between your land and ours, and you did.
I also figured you wasn't using the barn much.
Looks like I was right about that, too.
I got enough canned food
to last me through the winter,
plenty matches, and once I'm done loading in,
I'll move my truck, you won't even know I'm out here.
If it's okay with Linette,
I can help you store that stuff in the back.
But matches?
We have plenty of room in the house.
Oh, no indeed. I will not be a burden.
This is your house, your land,
matter fact, I shouldn't even be here.
A wise man once said it's better
to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Wait, you already said...
Daniel, can you please help Mr. Bill with his things?
- I got it, Mr. Bill.
- Thank you.
We don't use this barn at all. It's all yours.
I mean, I'm not going to be here for long.
I just need to be back in the open air,
where the good lord meant me to be.
No, don't put it there. On that side.
There you go, thank you.
I'm going to pack a bag, and then I'll drive.
Okay.
(melancholy music)
Can we all be free
Live freely
Growing love
Be free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
(birds chirping)
(chirping continues)
(melancholy music)
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Daddy.
Hey, baby g...
Hey.
What you doing?
I'm...
Rats still in there.
Can't kill them.
Scaring them ain't working.
Gotta catch them somehow.
This ain't your barn no more, Daddy.
Linette hire you for this?
Work's still gotta get done.
You sleeping out here?
Where I'm sleeping is none of your concern.
- It's winter.
- Yep.
It's almost Christmas.
I know what day it is, April.
Then why would you do something foolish
like stay out here in the barn?
You've already made it clear how you felt about me.
Keep feeling that way,
you don't have nothing to worry about.
- Fine.
- Fine.
(melancholy music)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
April, hey. Welcome back.
Hey, Daniel.
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, just a little headache.
Nothing to worry about, nothing at all.
What'd you catch?
A couple perch.
Ooh. Here, let me get it.
Whoa, no ma'am. You're a guest.
Here you go. There you go.
- Thank you.
- You are welcome.
So, did you talk to your pa?
There's nothing wrong with him, he's just stubborn.
Trying to catch those stupid rats.
Look, I hate to be the one to tell you,
but Linette ordered exterminators months ago.
There ain't no rats.
(somber music)
So, you got a girlfriend yet?
- No time for it.
- You already know everybody.
That's exactly the problem. I work on everybody's farm.
Everybody's like family.
You'll find somebody.
Wait, did you bring somebody with you?
Empty your pockets, let me see.
Stop! (laughing)
You're not supposed to be working.
What, she held a knife to your throat or something?
April's been bossing me around her whole life.
She don't need no knife.
It's fine, I needed something else to do.
Well, it's good to see you again.
Hey, I'm heading to the Millers' if you don't need me.
We're fine, we'll see you tomorrow.
- How'd it go?
- Where are the papers?
April, can you...
(drawer thuds)
April, stop.
It's fine, I'm here, I can help.
You're supposed to be out there.
Can you get the gloves, please?
Thanks.
Oh, we use scalers now.
(engine rumbling)
Is that Daniel?
I swear, he's going to blow us all up.
It's probably all that smoke
that's giving him a headache.
Headache?
Yeah, I saw him taking some pills out by Tango.
If that's still her name.
Oh no.
It's fine if you change the horse's name, I just-
- No, Daniel's taking pills?
They're over the counter.
Okay, but in secret? Out by Tango?
We've got to get him out of that truck.
You try talking to him?
I tried.
Daniel is an open book about
everything except that truck.
I have no idea why.
Seems like everybody got secrets around here.
What?
You broke Great-Granddaddy's rule
and hired an exterminator?
Look, I bought this land,
and I'm taking care of it the best that I can.
I know, Linette, but you could've told me.
You left.
Plus, I told Mr. Bill when we were doing it.
I got his blessing.
Then why is he...
Talk to him.
I tried.
(faucet hissing)
(April sighs)
I need a drink.
(somber music)
[Linette] We've got some of our red, white,
rum, and champagne.
Do you have orange juice?
Of course.
Pull out the champagne. Mimosas it is.
It's warm, and cheap.
It's fine, it's mimosas before bed.
(somber music continues)
(somber music continues)
(cork pops)
It's almost Christmas.
Got any hot chocolate?
(April sighs)
How about that drink, hmm?
Oh, champagne first.
Hold on. 45 degrees.
It's warm.
A 45 degree angle. You get less bubbles.
Oh, okay.
Just halfway.
All right.
How about this?
You help me with Daniel, and I'll help you with Mr. Bill.
Linette, you got a deal.
Mm, mm.
This is a glass of sadness.
- It is so warm.
- I'm sorry.
- Did you heat it up?
- No, I... (laughing)
(paper rustling)
(paper rustling)
(book thuds)
(somber music) (wolf howling)
(rat squeaking)
(somber music continues)
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(mugs clinking) (April sobbing)
(door creaking)
(gravel crunching)
Hey, you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine. How was the market?
We did okay.
You speak to Daniel?
Oh, he doesn't help at the market anymore.
I share a stall with the Millers, and we split fees.
Dang, did everything change?
Yes.
What's wrong, Linette?
Nothing. Did you make it out to the barn?
What am I supposed to say?
Even if he is... (sighs)
He's still stubborn as ever.
Didn't forget how to do that.
Do you remember my grandmother?
She wandered off one day.
We found her hours later, but she was never the same.
Alzheimer's. She died when we were little.
Anyway, I remember Mama and Daddy,
they couldn't talk any sense into her.
But she would listen to Mavis.
Your sister? (laughs)
Mama and Daddy were always trying
to make Grandma do stuff.
Mavis would sit with her.
She'd come her hair and they'd sing together.
Yeah, well, Daddy don't sing, so.
Well, what does he do, April?
I don't know.
Let's go find out.
(somber music continues)
Ask him what he wants for Christmas.
Just...
(knocking) Daddy? I'm coming in.
(door sliding)
He's not in there.
Daddy?
(ominous music)
Mr. Bill?
I'll go check the house.
Daddy?
(ominous music continues)
(melancholy music)
You want to talk to me now?
What's up?
What's up? You're living in a barn, Daddy.
Ain't even no electricity out there.
Why?
I already told you why.
If you want to believe me, that's up to you.
Can't fix that. I can't...
I can't fix it, so you can go on back
to where you ran off to, let me do what I gotta do.
There ain't even no more rats in the barn, Daddy.
Linette got an exterminator.
Do you remember that?
Maybe you forgot.
I ain't forgot nothing. There's rats in there.
Your mother said it was, and I'mma get them out,
just like your great-granddaddy taught her.
Daddy.
Daddy!
(somber music continues)
He's not in the house.
Is Daniel still at the Millers'?
I don't know.
Let's go see.
(somber music continues)
What happened? Where was he?
Fishing.
Okay, that's good.
That's right, Linette. Everything is good.
Everything is exactly as it should be.
Hold on.
No!
I want to go home!
I want to help you with Daniel like I said I would,
but there's no helping Daddy,
so you don't have to worry about that.
He can't stay in the barn.
Can you open the door, please?
What am I supposed to do?
Ask Daniel.
(somber music continues)
Wait, is that Daniel?
Daniel.
Evening, y'all.
Do you park here often?
I like to walk from time to time.
- To the Millers'?
- Uh-huh.
Near the Christmas barbecue?
Come on, let us at least give you a ride.
(door thuds)
(somber music) (fire crackling)
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(cheerful music)
- Hey, y'all.
- It's Linette!
Just dropping off Daniel.
Well, merry almost Christmas. Make yourself at home.
Daniel's basically my brother,
so he can show you where everything is.
Girl, excuse me. Hey!
Hey. You must have missed the announcement.
I have reserved the right
to beat anybody with my cane for staring.
Hey, good to see you, man. Good to see you.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- How are you?
- Good.
And you must be Linette.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
So you take my place at the market,
you bring in your own inventory.
I should've left two years ago.
If you did, I might have gone with you.
And if you would've left too,
everything would've fell apart for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Daniel, how's old Sandy doing?
Fine.
Look, how about you tell me
about all those adventures in the big city?
Come on.
I got it, I got it.
- That's Maurice's truck.
- Sandy?
Daniel and Maurice were best friends.
They used to work on stuff together.
They worked on Maurice's brakes, screwed it up.
Maurice had the accident.
I never really got to see the truck,
but pretty sure it's Sandy.
Why would he keep it? Maurice seems okay with things.
[April] Not in Daniel's head. Come on, let's go.
Hey, hey. Hold on, hold on.
Can you do me a favor?
Can you try not to mention Sandy to Maurice?
You know he's living in the big city now,
and he really misses her a lot.
Yeah.
Oh, and I'll find a ride. See y'all.
Daniel feels guilty about what happened.
That's why he's in that truck, he's punishing himself.
There's nothing we can say. It has to come from Maurice.
He's going to hate me for telling.
For a while, but he'll get over it.
[Linette] What about your pa?
There's nothing we can say.
It's got to come from Mama.
Call the sheriff, tell him
there's a squatter in the barn.
I can't call the police on your daddy.
Take me to the bus station in the morning.
I'll call them.
(somber music continues)
It's getting cold.
I got layers.
Your mama taught me way back when I first started
on the farm, dress in layers,
so you can strip off when you're working
and bundle up when you're resting.
She taught me a lot.
So did your great-granddaddy.
Taught me how to be a man.
Would they want you to be sleeping out here?
They would want us to still have the farm.
Great-Granddaddy would've done anything for Mama.
He would've done the same thing.
He would have found another way.
So what, now you're living out here?
I'll leave when I catch the
rats the way your mama wanted.
There ain't no more rats.
I hope that you have a really merry Christmas.
I'm leaving, Daddy.
Of course you are.
(April scoffs) (rats squeaking)
(somber music continues)
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(rat squeaking)
What? What happened?
Their exterminator sucks.
We're gonna catch some rats.
Granddaddy's rules.
(insects chirping)
(fire crackling)
(chirping continues)
(chirping continues)
(rats squeaking)
You ain't gonna make this easy, are you?
(fire crackling)
(somber music)
You hear that?
There's a wolf out there, howling.
Don't want it to scare the baby girl.
Don't worry, I won't hurt it.
I'll just chase it off or something.
D...
Bill?
Come lay by the fire.
We'll deal with the wolf later.
Come on.
(somber music continues)
(phone buzzing)
(keys jingling)
Good morning. What's going on?
I'm okay. Did you go last night?
They need you back.
Your replacement doesn't
know how to read people at all.
I taught you too well.
What's wrong?
- My dad's acting strange.
- Strange how?
One minute he's hard-headed and normal,
and the next, he...
[Terry] I need a little more, sweetie.
For a second last night, he thought I was my mom.
Oh, April, I'm sorry.
I don't understand, he's only 65.
It's still possible, especially
if he had stress going on.
It's called early-onset Alzheimer's...
Can you come check on him?
I'm sure there's someone that's closer.
This a small town, Terry, all right?
Everybody knows everybody,
and I don't want him to be embarrassed if I'm wrong.
Send me your address.
I owe you so many drinks.
Okay, bye.
(engine rumbling)
- Morning.
- (coughing) Morning.
I see you went back and got her.
- Of course.
- (sighs) That's too bad.
I thought maybe you were gonna donate her to the wild.
You know, she'd make a lovely
home for a family of possums.
Don't you think?
I'd never do that to Sandy, not at all.
Listen, I need your help.
I want to surprise April and Mr. Bill.
Okay.
So, since it's their first Christmas
without, you know, Miss Marie,
they're probably not looking to do hot chocolate, so-
- They have to have hot chocolate.
- Right?
- Right.
But we don't have any in the house.
Well, I can just go get some.
Okay, yeah, wait, I need you to take my car.
Wait, what are you up to?
I'm just trying to surprise them.
Everybody on Earth just heard you pull up,
but if you take my car, then
they'll think I just told you
to get something without stinking it up, which I am.
So here, and give me yours.
Ain't no way.
So what are you going to do, Daniel, huh?
You're just going to walk into
the house with a grocery bag,
or just the box of hot chocolate
in your hand all obvious?
No, you gotta take the packets out
and put them in your pockets,
but if you had my keys and your keys in the pockets,
then you're going to poke a hole in something,
and then there goes the whole surprise!
Wait, hold on. Wait, slow slow slow.
You sure are talking fast.
- Hey, Linette?
- Huh?
All right.
- Hey, Daniel.
- What's up?
Hey, can I borrow your car?
I wanted to get some two-by-fours for the rat trap.
Oh no, we got plenty of that.
Yeah, we had a few repairs,
so there's a bunch out by the chickens, so yeah.
- Ow!
- Just go with it.
I think I have to!
Okay, I'll give you the keys when you get here.
Thanks, Maurice.
Mm!
Right there.
What'd you say you're making again?
A non-lethal rat trap.
I heard them last night. Daddy was right.
Really? Well, I got one of those.
Yeah, you know, I went on YouTube
and found a bunch of those do it yourself videos.
None of them worked, and then I ordered this thing.
Still nothing, so that's why I got the exterminator.
I tried.
Thank you.
Well, I was going to build a wooden cage
and rig it up on a stick
like they used to do in the cartoons.
(Linette laughs)
It's stupid. No, no, no, it's stupid.
You're good.
How about you do that, build that,
and you set this one up and, you know,
two bad ideas has got to equal one good one, right?
I guess?
Do you regret staying?
I didn't really have a choice.
- Yes, you did.
- No, I didn't.
My sisters took their
inheritance and went to the city.
And what'd you do with yours?
You bought the farm, Linette?
Don't. Don't say it like that.
Well, why?
One, I was helping out a really good friend
in a really bad situation.
And two, I didn't think I'd be doing it alone.
Linette!
(somber music continues)
Daddy? (knocking) You there?
Washing up. Give me a sec.
Oh, you're sticking around?
Yeah. Linette had a non-lethal rat trap.
Just need some bait.
Is it safe?
It is so safe, it didn't even work.
But it's worth a try.
You know, I was thinking,
maybe we could build a trap together.
- Build a trap?
- Mm-hm.
You want to build a trap with me?
Yes, Daddy.
Okay.
Okay.
We're gonna be all right
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
Keep your head up
It's gonna get better
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
We're gonna, we're gonna be all right
(melancholy music)
(melancholy music continues)
Hey, Daddy, why don't we switch?
You measure and drill and I'll saw.
No, you're the brains of this operation.
I'll do the grunt work.
It's okay, Dad. Let me help you out.
- I got it.
- You taught me how to saw.
No!
I'm sorry.
Just frustrated.
Should've got the circular saw when I had a discount.
At your job?
(saw rasping)
You know, it's been a year.
We could catch up.
I got a job as a waitress.
They said if I was really good at my customer service,
they'd move me up to bartender.
So, I made a new friend, and she's a...
Who taught me how to get people to like me.
Been there for a while now.
Daddy, please.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing!
Just bruised it somewhere.
Do you remember how?
Stop treating me like I'm a crazy person.
And let me work, please.
(melancholy music continues)
I'll be right back, Daddy.
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
Linette, look, I really need your help.
Shh.
Daniel's back.
(somber music) (Linette sighs)
I really hope this works.
- Well?
- This is good.
Is that gas or oil I'm smelling?
It's a little bit of both.
He's never going to talk to me again.
Yes he is, stop it.
After Christmas, you can just go back to the big city,
and I'll take care of Sandy, okay?
That's how you see it?
It's fine, they're just talking.
Wait, what're you doing? Get off me!
April, this is not going well.
Yes, it is.
Maurice, stop it. You're going to fall.
And you're going to give
yourself lung cancer or a tumor!
All because of a mistake we both made!
(glass shatters)
We both messed up. I walk with a limp, leave it there.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- You see?
- Okay.
That's it, all right? Gosh, you did the right thing.
I'm never going to get all that glass up.
[April] You helped Daniel, right?
You can deal with the glass later.
Hey, do you remember Terry from the bar?
Your friend? Yeah. (phone ringing)
Yeah, I called her to come and help with Daddy.
Okay.
She's a therapist.
Psychologist.
Did you see something?
[Terry] Hello?
Hey, you on your way?
I sure am. What's up?
How...
How are we gonna know for sure?
[Terry] Well, we need to get him to a doctor.
Oh no, Daddy don't do doctors.
Ah, okay.
Look up the 10 early signs
and symptoms of Alzheimer's.
You're going to need to talk to somebody
that's been around him a lot lately,
like a friend or a coworker.
I'm going to go get changed first.
Okay.
(door sliding)
April, you should sit.
No, I'm going to fall asleep.
Yeah, sit. I'll keep a lookout and let you know if she...
Is that her? Excuse me, Ms. Simmons?
Hi, I'm April Jesup, Bill's daughter.
Okay. Is he all right?
What would make you ask that?
It's not my business. I don't gossip, I'm sorry.
No, Ms. Simmons, please.
Did he show signs of disorientation,
poor judgment, trouble socializing?
Look, your father's a good man. It just didn't work out.
But why?
I'm sure if you ask him yourself, he can tell you.
Ms. Simmons, if I asked him, would he remember?
He got a little unfriendly with a customer.
And once, he got lost in the store.
When he quit, I thought he'd get help.
Can you do one thing for me?
(door thuds)
Is that sangria? Did you make that?
After I gave you those rat traps,
I started thinking about those do it yourself traps
that I got off YouTube, and then I was like,
maybe I can find one to maybe help me make mimosas.
A 30 minute rabbit hole led me to sangria.
I was like, you can't run a vineyard
and not know how to make sangria.
Oh, I used our Home Sweet Home red.
I already had the oranges, so I just needed to add
some strawberries, brandy, a little maple syrup,
and a secret ingredient which shall not be named.
Tell me more about working in the city in a bar.
It's fine. Not as exciting as you think.
Do you get to meet new people?
It's more about the regulars
and, like, a social experience.
It's like a performance.
How is that not exciting?
It's kind of fake.
It's a performance, it's art.
It's getting paid to lie.
But out here, everything's exactly as it should be.
Simple, honest.
Boring.
Get some rest.
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(melancholy music continues)
(chair thuds)
Where is it?
Where is it?
Daddy.
Daddy!
- Where? Where is it?
- Daddy!
You move something?
I just woke up.
(door creaking)
- You move my stuff?
- I don't think so.
[Bill] What do you mean, you don't think so?
You either did or you didn't.
- Daddy, just calm down.
- I will not!
You don't disrespect a man's things like that.
You just don't do that.
I put something behind that
door because I needed it to...
To charge, because I don't have the...
I don't have plugs in the barn, and now it's gone.
And I remember doing it.
Y'all better stop with this and tell me where it is.
Do you remember what you plugged up?
It don't matter!
It was mine,
and somebody moved it without saying nothing to me.
You just don't do that. You just don't do that.
Ain't that right, Daniel?
Yes, sir.
I've been on this farm since I was 14 years old.
I have never disrespected nobody like that
and moved something without telling them first.
You just don't do that to somebody.
Look, let us help you find it.
I don't need your help!
Check the barn for the recorder.
I need whoever took it to
bring it back, plain and simple.
I would never do that to your granddaddy.
Great-granddaddy. April, I would never do that.
Never have and never will.
How long you been working here, Daniel?
Since I was 15 or so, something like that.
Something like that? Didn't I show you the ropes, hm?
Didn't I train you up for the Millers?
[Daniel] Yes, sir.
Or wherever you wanted to work, right?
- You did.
- Right.
I did right by you, right?
Yeah, I mean, I tried.
As God as my witness, I tried.
Showed you how to drive a tractor,
how to run it down in the
farrow and level the plow, right?
It's here. I got it.
I'm sorry, Mr. Bill.
I almost tripped over it by the door,
and I went to bring it out to you,
but you weren't there, so I just left it.
Next time, just let me know.
(door clattering)
(April sighs)
(door clattering)
(somber music continues)
How often, hm?
How often do you listen to it?
Every day?
Why?
The same reason you left.
We are who we are.
Okay.
Who are you, hm?
Are you going to get the help you need,
or are you going to stay in there
and torture yourself until you die?
[Marie] Do I sound all right?
You sound beautiful, Mama.
No, I don't want to hear that.
Listen!
[Marie] Granddaddy's rules.
Granddaddy.
You hear it?
There wasn't a day that went by
that I didn't hear Granddaddy's rules, okay?
No, no. Did you hear the last thing she said?
The way she said it.
She saw your great-granddaddy.
She saw heaven open, and he was bringing her in.
He was there.
If you would just step aside-
- Daddy, look, I talked to Ms. Simmons, all right?
I saw the vitamins.
You don't have to worry about that.
I'm here!
I'm here, and I'm worrying!
(somber music continues)
I'm not a man that quotes the Bible.
But I saw your mother
looking straight into heaven.
I hear it happen every morning.
(somber music continues)
To get into heaven,
you've got to believe.
You've got to believe with your mind.
What happens
when you lose your mind?
(somber music continues)
(engine rumbling)
Never seen that car before. Who is that?
I don't know.
Oh, that's April's friend.
Hey.
- Hey. Linette, right?
- Yes, welcome.
- Thank you.
- This is Daniel.
- Hi, I'm Daniel.
- Terry.
Nice to meet you, Terry. Beautiful name.
- Thank you.
- Beautiful Terry.
Do you need help getting your bags inside?
Not really, I'm fine. Just a place to freshen up.
- Okay, absolutely. Follow me.
- Thank you.
(leaves rustling)
April, your friend is here.
Go on. Got to get a fire going.
(melancholy music continues)
April, if it is what we think it is,
there are treatments to slow the progression,
but there is no cure.
Now, you see, if somebody
says something like that to him,
he's going to dig his heels in
even harder and fight harder.
That's probably what happened.
He probably went to go see some doctor who told him
that there's no cure for it, and now he's out there
with memory vitamins and yoga books trying to fix it.
Dementia can be caused by
other things than Alzheimer's.
Treatable things. We need to be sure.
And if he's a fighter, we need him on our side.
It's going to take time,
and it's getting colder outside.
There's something else.
He freaked out over something
he did, something he lost.
My grandma used to get mad when she got confused.
It was scary, and she wasn't as strong.
You called the sheriff.
- Oh no.
- It's all right.
I kind of told her to.
I don't mean to alarm you,
but unless things are different out here,
police don't have a very good track record
with mental illness.
Can we call them back?
The sheriff will still come.
They'll do a wellness check just to make sure
nobody forced you to call it off.
Well, we need to get him on our side,
and we need to do it fast.
I think I've got an idea.
I got you something, Daddy.
Thank you so much.
I wrapped in in your favorite color, like I always do.
For your birthday.
Wow, circular saw.
How did you know?
- How did I know, Daddy?
- Thank you.
No, Daddy, how did I know that you wanted a circular saw?
Do you remember?
There's Daniel with the hot chocolates.
But I just mentioned your birthday.
Is it February or December?
Do you remember what today is, Daddy?
(paper rustling)
(paper rustling)
(somber music continues)
(tray crashing)
(door creaking)
Stall.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
- Are you okay?
- I'm so sorry.
- The sheriff's here.
- I'll go.
No, no, no. Daniel's stalling.
[Daniel] Evening, officer.
I'm responding to a call about a squatter in a barn.
Really?
Call came from a Ms. Linette Lewis.
Yeah, she's the owner of this property.
Wait, Junior?
Daniel?
[Terry] What else did he say?
He got upset about a recorder.
Why?
Linette didn't tell him that she moved it.
April, I didn't move anything.
You said... I lied.
Linette!
How do you think that would've ended if I didn't?
Tell me more about the recorder.
It has her mother's last words on it.
Oh.
Has he talked about it?
April, we don't have much time.
He's doing it for my mama.
He's worried that if he can't believe,
then he won't be able to get into heaven or something.
Okay, we can work with that.
I don't know enough about that.
I know enough to...
No.
No, we are not lying to Daddy.
We need to give him whatever he needs to get better.
Can you pull up those videos?
Of the sangria?
No, no, the ones with the non-lethal rat traps.
April!
Please, Linette!
(somber music)
(pills rattling)
(saw rasping)
(saw rasping)
- Man, nobody got past you.
- You know that's right.
I'm big and light on my feet, best D-end in the county.
I don't know about all that.
(laughing)
Well, everything seems all right.
Yeah.
(ominous music)
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Junior. Wait, wait, wait.
- This ain't football, Daniel.
- It's her pa.
This is easy. It's perfect.
Can you get the bucket with
some peanuts, like in the video?
- I can help.
- Help by getting the bucket!
(saw rasping)
Stop sawing in the dark, Daddy!
Watch me.
(paper rustling)
Did you see that?
You know I saw it.
Good.
(door knocking)
(door thuds)
The rat's gonna to climb up the ramp.
It's gonna climb through
the tube to get to the peanuts,
and its own body weight is
gonna drop him into the bucket.
Do you understand?
Of course I understand. Why...
Now do it.
If the yoga and the vitamins are working for you,
build the trap.
I don't have to prove nothing to nobody.
Especially not to me, Daddy. Right?
You don't care nothing
about what I think no more, that's fine.
But prove it to yourself.
Build the trap, Daddy.
(somber music)
It's real simple.
Come on, Daddy.
Build the trap.
Come on now. It's easy.
- I can't.
- Yes, you can.
- You can do it.
- No!
Hey, please, just give us another minute.
- Move out of the way, ma'am.
- Please!
- Move out of the way, ma'am!
- I called you!
Okay? Please, just...
Just one more minute.
There was an older guy that came into the store.
I was restocking something, and he asked me
where the drill bits were.
Just like that, I didn't remember nothing.
Been working in this store for all these months.
Knew the store, every inch of it, and just then, nothing.
I sent him to the next aisle.
He came back mad at me, because I made him walk around.
We get into a shouting match.
I still can't remember.
I'm hearing animals that ain't there.
I'm doing things over and over.
I'm going crazy.
No.
No, Daddy.
I thought if I'd come back to the farm,
if I get back outside, if I do something for Marie...
I can't even saw no more.
[Junior] Sir, this is the police.
I need you to come out now.
Daddy?
If I die crazy, I won't make it into heaven.
And even if I did, and I see Marie,
I may not remember enough
to let her know how sorry I am.
Daddy.
But right now,
I'm here.
My mind is here.
- Yes.
- Right now.
Daddy?
Daddy!
(ominous music)
Sir, I need you to put down the saw.
Stop!
If I come at you with this-
- Daddy!
Suicide is an unforgivable sin.
At least, that's what I was taught.
Do I know her?
No, no, Terry's my friend from the city.
She's a doctor.
Of theology.
I called her to help.
It's not suicide if he does it.
God knows your heart.
He also knows how much you loved your wife,
and what you gave up to try to help her.
There could be help, Daddy.
Don't lie!
Drop the saw!
You see what's happening?
Yeah, I see what's happening.
He's approaching an officer with a weapon!
He needs help.
There are curable causes of dementia.
Not common, but worth checking.
I need my mind to get into heaven.
I need to apologize.
The disease is in your brain, not your mind.
When you die, you are absent from the body.
You leave the brain behind.
You sure know a whole lot about dementia
to be a doctor of theology.
I had a double major in school.
And God wouldn't punish you for a sickness.
Then why did he give it to me?
Why Marie?
Even if there was an answer for that,
it wouldn't make you feel any better.
You have to decide to fight.
Fight, Daddy.
Come on, Mr. Bill.
We're all here for you.
Daddy?
Daddy?
(rat squeaking) Wait!
Wait!
Don't you do it.
[Daniel] Wait, Junior. Come on, Junior.
Someone caught a rat.
Daddy?
I didn't bait the trap.
Did anyone bait the trap?
No, ma'am.
I think you remembered.
You caught him, just the way Mama wanted.
Granddaddy's rules.
There's a rat in there.
Yeah.
He's a cute little fella.
I'm not crazy.
No.
But I am forgetting.
Yes.
I know you want to fight, Daddy.
And you got good genes. Let me fight with you.
- You don't have to do that.
- No, no, no.
After all this, I'm gonna fight something.
And it might as well be for you.
My baby girl.
Yes, Daddy.
(melancholy music continues)
(uplifting music)
(both laughing)
(indistinct talking)
You know.
(indistinct talking)
Ta-da!
Hey!
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
[Daniel] I know you've got to leave,
but we're going to miss you around here for sure.
Oh, for sure? Okay, everybody?
I mean, I will.
Ugh!
Daniel would like your phone number
so he can plan a trip to the big city
and try to convince you that small town living
is better than whatever amazing things
you have going on in your life, if that's okay?
Sure.
- Really?
- Give me your phone.
Really?
No lock. So trusting.
I am.
Thank you. Is Daddy still resting?
Yeah, he's doing good. Doctor's appointment on Monday.
Tough times ahead.
You'll at least come visit, right?
- You're staying?
- Wait, what?
I didn't say that.
- I love you, sis.
- I love you, too.
See you, girl. Daniel, walk me to my car?
Absolutely.
Maybe you can help me pick out a new truck.
[Terry] I could do that.
(April sighs)
Was she right?
I can't leave Daddy like this.
I was hoping maybe we could
stay here. I'd pull my weight.
Of course, as long as you'd like.
I was also thinking, I left for all the wrong reasons.
You stayed for all the wrong reasons.
Let's switch.
I can't just... Yes, you can.
Okay, but what about the... I can do it.
I don't even know how... I can teach you.
I mean, you already know
how to make a better sangria than me.
I do.
(laughing)
And you'd still own the place.
I'd be able to look after Daddy.
You didn't even change anything in the house,
except for the kitchen.
Come on.
(uplifting music continues)
How about this?
How about you teach me all those fancy city drinks,
and I'll help you with Mr. Bill?
I can take care of Daddy.
It's okay, I'll go when the time is right.
But I'm not going to leave you.
Plus, you don't know where nothing is in that kitchen.
(uplifting music continues)
[Marie] It's gonna be hard.
It always is, but you be honest.
Stick together.
Granddaddy's rules.
I love you so, so much.
(melancholy music)
(melancholy music continues)
How long
How long ago did we play in the snow
Tell me how far
Did we ride that one time
It's been slipping my mind
Take my hand
I may fall
And it feels like I'm losing it all
Help me to find this piece of myself
Help me to hang on to whatever's left
At the end of the day when all time is spent
Here's a moment I'll never forget
And it's right now, so be with me now
Hold me right now
Sing with me now
Every laughter that we shared
Every good time when no one else was there
Tell a friend and let them see
Remind the family who I used to be
But right now, I need you right now
Hold me right now
Sing with me now