Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) Movie Script
1
(BIRD CALLING)
(GENTLE HARMONICA MUSIC
PLAYING)
(DUCKS QUACKING)
(PLEASANINSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(BIRD CALLING)
MAN: Oh, would you
look at that?
WOMAN: Yeah, pretty bird,
isn't she?
MAN: Yeah.
And she's got a baby.
A loonlet?
Nobody calls them that, Jules.
Well, I call them that.
(LOON CALLING)
WOMAN: My... My God,
did you hear that?
A loonlet!
Hear it? I see it.
-Jules, I see it.
-Quiet down.
You don't wanna scare her.
Where... Where is she?
Well, she's right...
right down near the shoreline.
No, right...
-Right there.
-(WOMAN GASPS)
MAN: All by herself.
(PLEASANT MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC FADES)
(VEHICLE APPROACHING
IN DISTANCE)
(TIRES SCREECH)
Come on, baby, get in.
MAN: Why don't you tuck it in?
You're late.
MAN: Why don't you
put it back on?
-Let the wind kind of ride it.
-WOMAN: Okay.
For good reason. Guess why.
Come on, Lu, guess.
No.
We did it, Lu.
-(LAUGHS)
-You're engaged?
Well,
I guess we skipped a step.
-We're husband and wife.
-She's my wife!
-Wife for life.
-(WOMAN LAUGHS)
-Legally?
-What are you, a lawyer now?
But, yeah, I got the papers
up here somewhere.
Oh, I almost forgot.
A little after-school snack.
MAN: (LAUGHS)
Mom of the year.
Yeah, I'm not hungry.
Try the cake, baby.
Adam made it.
(BOX OPENS)
-It's disgusting.
-Lu!
It's fine.
She don't mean anything.
You don't mean it.
It's carrot cake.
Ma hates carrot cake.
ADAM: Do you hate carrot cake?
-No, of course not.
-(SCOFFS)
WOMAN: Maybe I'll get some
of that fabric dye,
turn it blue or red
or something.
Get my money's worth.
(ADAM LAUGHS)
-Missed the turn.
-WOMAN: I think blue, maybe.
Match my eyes. And your eyes.
LU: There was a right turn
back there.
-Ma, tell him.
-We're not going home, baby.
What do you mean,
we're not going home?
Well, you are going
to Nan and Pop's.
We...
-Are you gonna tell me, hon?
-(ADAM INHALES)
He's taking me
on a surprise honeymoon.
Ain't I lucky?
I'm not going
to Nan and Pop's.
-It'll be fun, Lu.
-Why can't I just stay home?
-ADAM: And do what?
-What do you care?
Nan and Pop
are excited to see you.
They don't even know who I am.
Yes, they do.
And besides, it's gonna be
just like summer camp.
And you always wanted to go
to summer camp.
It will not be
like summer camp.
How would you know?
You've never been.
-Will you stay out of it?
-WOMAN: Louise!
(WOMAN MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY)
ADAM: Kids.
WOMAN: Did you like my veil?
ADAM: I did.
Maybe you should keep
that too.
WOMAN: I know.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
WOMAN: I love you.
I'll see you soon, Lu.
Two weeks.
ADAM: Only two weeks.
-(ENGINE STARTS)
-Maybe more.
WOMAN: Is there something
you're not telling me?
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(POP LAUGHS)
My goodness.
This is unexpected.
(CLATTERING)
(PLATES CLINKING)
(COFFEE MACHINE WHIRRING)
(PHONE DIALING TONE)
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
Leave a message.
(VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
(WATER RUNNING)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(PAN LID CLOSING)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
She looks like Jenny,
doesn't she?
Of course she does.
(EXHALES) There we go.
Thank you, dear.
Thank you.
I'm not hungry.
You're too skinny
to skip breakfast.
It's too early to eat it.
Suit yourself.
How old are you now, Louise?
-I'm 14.
-You don't look 14.
What do I look?
Oh...
Ten? Eleven, maybe.
Have you gone blind? She looks
like a real young woman.
Sixteen at least.
I'm 14.
How was the wedding?
I don't know.
POP: Nothing?
The carrot cake
wasn't very good.
Carrot cake?
Jenny hates carrot cake.
Yeah, I know.
Well, that's what she gets
for planning the wedding
in five minutes.
Damn second-rate carrot cake.
NAN: Bacon, please.
POP: Sorry, baby.
There you go.
Lu?
(POP SNIFFS, EXHALES)
(MELLOW STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEDSHEET RUSTLING)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(WATER RUNNING)
(GIRLS LAUGHING)
(TRAMPOLINE SPRINGS CREAKING)
(BOOK THUDS)
(WATER SPLASHING)
(POLE THUDS)
(TARPAULIN RUSTLING)
(POP SNORING)
(BOAT CLANKING)
(SPLASH ECHOES)
POP: Am I going blind,
or is she trying to steal
my Sunfish?
(CHUCKLES)
(POP SIGHS, MUTTERS)
POP: What are you doing?
Huh?
(STUTTERS) H... Hand me that.
Give me that.
(GRUNTS)
Do you think
you're tying a shoelace?
-Those knots will kill you.
-(MAST CLATTERS)
Lu? (SIGHS)
Lu.
Louise, come here. Come on.
Come.
Do you wanna sail?
Learn how to tie
a proper knot.
And eat the food
Nan feeds you.
Got it?
What's he looking at?
Hmm? Oh.
Birds.
(SHOUTS) Any loons?
POP: No, just mallards.
(SCOFFS) Mallards.
Ooh!
We saw a loonlet.
Can you believe it?
It's been a few years since
we've had chicks on the lake.
Usually the hawks eat the eggs
before they're hatched
or the muskies eat them after.
-Gross.
-Mmm.
POP: Hey, did you tell Lu
I spotted it first?
Pop spotted her first.
POP: Nan thought
it was a mallard!
(LAUGHS DERISIVELY)
(SCOFFS) No, not really!
(CHUCKLES) Just...
Just for a second. It...
She wasn't on mama's back!
What do you mean?
Mmm, piggybacks.
Keeps the little ones safe
from the muskies.
That's how
they usually get around.
But mama isn't real keen
on piggybacks, I guess.
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
-Leave a message.
-(VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
Leave a message.
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You...
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
-Leave a message.
-(VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
(LU CHUCKLES)
POP: All righty.
Get in.
-(LU SHRIEKS)
-Whoops!
(BOAT THUDDING)
POP: Do you know what this is?
A paddle.
It's a dagger board.
It keeps the boat steady.
Goes right in that slot there.
-Why don't you stick it in?
-(EXHALES)
There you go.
Attagirl.
There you go.
Now, don't ever get
in the boat without that.
Right?
Okay, get in there. Put...
Put your legs down in
the footwell, right in there.
Attagirl.
Okay, now, when you capsize,
and you will...
you grab the daggerboard
and with all your weight,
you pull, you pull,
you pull until that boat turns
right back upright, okay?
Now, keep one hand
on the sheet.
That's the sheet.
Other on the tiller.
That's the tiller.
Push it right to go left,
push it left
to go right, okay?
If you wanna go fast,
you keep the sail tight.
If you wanna slow down,
you loosen it up a little bit.
And watch out for the boom.
It's gonna swing around
when the wind changes.
And when it does, you gotta
duck down, get out of the way
and scoot
to the other side of the boat
and be real fast about it
or you'll get a big old goose
egg on your noggin.
You got it?
And always, always wear this.
Now you look like a sailor.
The lake is yours, dear.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SQUEALS)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
NAN: You want me
to toast that?
LU: Mmm-mmm.
-NAN: Jam?
-It's fine.
-Peanut butter?
-LU: Mmm-mmm.
(SAIL THUDS)
(BIRD CALLING)
(LOONLET CALLING)
Hmm. You found yourself
a little friend.
-(LU CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
-(NAN CHUCKLES)
(WATER RUNNING)
(LU MUMBLES)
-(SPLASHING)
-Come on.
-(INDIE MUSIC PLAYING)
-What's this?
POP: What's what?
Uh, to the top of the lake.
Inter... Interlochen?
POP: Ah, it's a camp.
-Summer camp?
-A rich kids' camp.
NAN: It's a music camp
for gifted children.
POP: That's what I said.
(WINDCHIMES TINKLING)
Hi. (GASPS)
You don't want it?
(LOON CALLING)
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
Excuse me.
She could've been eaten
by a muskie.
Do you know that?
(MELLOW MUSIC CONTINUES)
Did you think about her?
You're all she has.
(MELLOW MUSIC CONTINUES)
(WAVES LAPPING)
POP: It's not a root
and it's not beer.
-(NAN CHUCKLES)
-How come it's root beer?
Do you have an answer to that,
Louise?
-Absolutely not.
-Well, good.
-It's delicious, actually.
-(LU LAUGHS)
NAN: With vanilla ice cream.
Mmm.
POP: Well, now,
that's pretty. Look.
See that cloud right there?
Lit from underneath.
LU: Yes, they all move.
NAN: Yeah, what do you...
It almost looks like a shark.
What do you think?
LU: Mmm-hmm.
NAN: You see the eye?
-LU: I see that, yeah.
-You see the eye?
LU: Maybe not...
POP: Of course I do. I see...
LU: The eye right there, look.
NAN: Yeah.
And then the fin up top...
LU: Mmm-hmm.
(PHONE CLATTERING)
(INGYDAR BY ADRIANNE LENKER
PLAYING)
(LOONLET CALLING)
Fragilely, gradually
And surrounding
The horse lies naked
In the shed
Evergreen anodyne
Decompounding
Flies draw sugar
From his head
His eyes are blueberries
Video screens
Minneapolis schemes
And the dried flowers
From books half-read
The juice of dark cherries
Cover his skin
The dog walks in
And the crow lies
In his jaw like lead
Everything eats
And is eaten
Time is fed
Early evening
The pink ring swallows
The spherical
Marigold terrain
Sleepily
Venus sinks and hollows
The stationed headlight
Of a plane
You are as far from me
As memory
Which fixtures
Fracture varyingly
The juice of dark cherries
Cover my skin
Six years in, no baby
(CHILDREN SQUEALING, LAUGHING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Everything eats
And is eaten
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WOMAN: It's in the past.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
This isn't a vacation, Jun.
I know.
I booked you practice pod 25.
Every hour until placement.
-Thanks.
-Promise me you'll practice.
I always practice.
I'm missing quarterlies
for the showcase.
-You don't need to do that.
-But you know,
it's gonna be worth it.
Because I get to see you
in first chair.
-But it might not be me, Mom.
-What?
I said it might not be me.
It might not be you, Jun?
You're on track
to become principal of
the Chicago Symphony by 18.
Say it.
-Mom...
-Say it, Jun.
-(JUN SIGHS)
-Who are you?
Principal of
the Chicago Symphony.
And?
First chair of the orchestra.
I love you.
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GIRLS CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
(VIOLIN PLAYING)
(PLAYS MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN
CONCERTO IN E MINOR OPUS 64)
(EXHALES SOFTLY)
(EXHALES)
(EXHALES)
(EXHALES SOFTLY)
(PLAYS RAPIDLY)
BOY: ...can't get anybody
off the show, or, like...
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
GIRL: He, like, made it.
He was there for seven years.
BOY 2: Such a long time.
And it's like at
a certain point, career wise,
I understand why he...
I mean, seven is a long time.
I mean, it's not like going
after, like, four seasons.
Or, like, even, like, six.
BOY 2: Okay.
GIRL: Okay.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Uh, where... where are you
off to so fast?
Oh, practice.
GIRL: Ew, it's lunchtime.
Sit down.
Placement's tomorrow, Hol.
You should practice too.
-All of you.
-But that's no fun.
It's more fun
than second chair.
HOLLY: Boo. He's so serious.
GIRL 2:
I don't know why he bothers.
He's a shoe-in
for first chair.
HOLLY: What's wrong
with second?
(VIOLIN PLAYING)
(METRONOME CLICKING)
-(PEN SCRATCHING)
-(METRONOME CLICKING)
(METRONOME CLICKING)
(YELLS IN FRUSTRATION)
(YELLS)
(SOBBING)
(VELCRO RIPPING)
(BOY LAUGHS IN DISTANCE)
MAN: Jun Emmons.
(BOY LAUGHS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Is it true that,
like, at night,
they throw out all the donuts?
-Yeah.
-Do they give it to anybody?
We can take them
if we wanted them.
-Oh.
-We kind of change.
Are you sure you should have
that on the floor?
It's fine.
-Sorry!
-(BOY LAUGHS)
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
BOY: (LAUGHS) Okay.
JUN: Um, when... when are
they gonna post the seatings?
MAN: Two hours.
Kit Fan.
(DISTANT CHATTER)
-GIRL: Don't forget...
-(GIRL SQUEALS, LAUGHS)
(BOY LAUGHS)
HOLLY: That's it.
You're awful at this. I quit.
BOY: Come on,
we were just having fun.
HOLLY: Water up the nose
is not fun, Enzo.
It's a literal
torture technique.
But we can't play without you.
-I'll be on top this time.
-Fuck off!
GIRL: Now what?
ENZO: We'll find somebody.
BOY: Hey!
Hey!
Yeah, you. Come play with us!
-ENZO: Bro.
-What?
Why don't you take him?
BOY: I got Selma.
ENZO: You don't want to fight
a boy, right, Selma?
What, him?
Nah, I can take him.
Hey, come on!
Yeah.
ENZO: You know how to play,
uh, chicken fight?
Uh, yeah. Uh-huh.
ENZO: You guys ready?
SELMA: Yeah, let's do it.
-Ready?
-Yeah.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
ENZO: All right.
BOY: Come on, man.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-SELMA: Ready?
-(JUN GRUNTS)
-BOY: Come on.
Sorry. Sorry.
SELMA: It's all right,
let's go.
-BOY: You guys ready?
-Yeah.
BOY: Let's go, Selma. Get him.
(GRUNTING, LAUGHTER)
(SELMA YELPS)
ENZO: (LAUGHS)
There we go, man.
Hey, you wanna
switch partners yet?
-SELMA: Shut up.
-Oh, man. Selma's mad.
Come on.
Let's do this.
-ENZO: All right, let's go.
-Come on.
-(ENZO GRUNTS)
-(SELMA CHUCKLES)
BOY: Come on, Selma.
SELMA: No! (SQUEALS)
BOY: Come on!
(LAUGHTER)
SELMA: Are you kidding me?
BOY: What was that?
-Jesus Christ.
-All right, come on.
Nah, might as well
not even try.
SELMA: All right, let's go.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(LAUGHTER)
SELMA: Anthony, what are
you doing, just sitting there?
ANTHONY: No,
I'm trying to help you.
MAN: Placement is posted!
(HEAVY SPLASH)
JUN: Sorry.
Who the hell is Jun Emmons?
Who cares?
Let's go.
(SOLEMN STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC SPEEDS UP)
(PANTING)
(STALEMATE BY ANNA ASH
PLAYING ON RADIO)
You can write yourself
Into somebody's history
And claim memory
And importance
And how it should be
You were always
Kind of useless as a kid
And hot damn, looks like
We're growing out of it
Think about
How awful it once was
And you're still waiting
On a declaration
To finally wake you up
(GRUNTS) Okay.
Mom, we're here.
Hey!
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES)
I need tables 11, 23, 36
and 44 now!
And we need more mushrooms!
Come on, guys.
Whoa, whoa. Hey.
What are you doing here?
-I took Jessica's shift.
-You cannot change shifts
without running it by me,
Annie.
Her kid is sick,
she asked me to cover.
I can't keep paying you
overtime.
Do you want me to leave?
No, it's fine.
Do me a favor and go start
cleaning the bathrooms, now.
-All right.
-Now!
Uh, hey, restroom's closed.
(EXHALES)
I don't mind if you look.
(EXHALES)
(URINATING)
(MAN SIGHS)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING
FAINTLY ON SPEAKERS)
(POOL BALLS CLACKING)
-Hey, Stella.
-Oh, hey, can you take over?
Which table?
Party of three,
end of the bar. Bye.
MAN: There.
-That's where I saw it.
-A whale?
No. No, not a whale.
A fish the size of a whale.
MAN 2: Right. Excuse me.
A fish the size of a whale...
That makes way more sense.
How many fingers
am I holding up?
-(COUGHS)
-(MAN 2 LAUGHS)
MAN 1: Look, I saw it
and don't patronize me.
Another one!
I got 20:10 vision.
I almost went
into the Air Force.
Two hearted?
Yeah. You're good at that.
-What?
-Guessing my drink.
It wasn't a guess. You get
the same thing every time.
I'm not asking
for your permission.
I'm asking if you want to be
a part of discovering
something monumental.
Something that
they'll write about
and document in history books.
History books
have a chapter on fish?
Hey, man, why don't you just
send Ross out to go find it?
Ross couldn't find sand
in the desert.
Besides, I don't want him
taking all the credit.
Is there some sort of
prize money at least?
Look.
I could die tomorrow
and not a single person
would remember me.
But when I catch this fish,
I'm gonna name her after me.
She's gonna be my legacy.
(BOTH SNORTS AND LAUGHS)
-Your legacy? Like a...
-(LAUGHS)
Like a fish?
MAN 1: That's not funny.
MAN 2: Come on.
I'm just bustin' your balls,
man.
I said that's not funny!
Sorry.
Come... Come on, man.
I know what
you're going through, man,
but this is bat shit.
Why don't you go downstate,
go get a second opinion?
You talk like
I got time to kill.
Look, I need a vehicle.
Can I borrow yours?
I would, but mine's
a company truck.
I can't just be
lending it out.
MAN 2: Yeah, man, and look.
I gotta take my kids to school
and soccer practice and shit.
-Yeah, yeah, I get it.
-Or else I would.
Be all right otherwise.
Hey.
I've got a car.
(SEAGULLS CRYING)
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
(ENGINE SWITCHES OFF)
Hey, hold up! Don't get out.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
We gotta pick up
a couple of things.
Sure.
Oh, but don't smoke in my car.
(SLOW INDIE MUSIC PLAYING
ON CAR STEREO)
ANNIE: So you live in a boat?
Uh, yeah.
On and off.
I always wanted
to live in a boat.
Really?
So I'm living your dream?
I mean, I pictured more of
a big lavish yacht.
Right, a Benetti
or a Sunseeker, maybe?
A Catalina at least.
-The modest choice.
-(LAUGHS) Yeah.
(BELL JINGLES)
MAN: What do you think,
jigs or spinners?
ANNIE: Crank bait, maybe?
I don't know.
-Is it big enough?
-What was it, a catfish?
Bigger.
Pike? Muskie?
Sturgeon?
How do you know so much
about fish?
Wren's going through
a phase.
Last month it was dinosaurs,
this month it's fish.
She'll get over it.
I was supposed to
grow out of this?
Bigger than a sturgeon?
I swear.
Well, this isn't big enough.
ANNIE: Does anybody work here?
MAN: He's usually in the back.
-ANNIE: What's his name?
-Chip.
ANNIE: Chip?
(TV PLAYING)
Chip?
-Chip!
-Jesus fucking Christ!
Yeah, yeah.
(DOOR CLOSES)
She's not real sweet, is she?
(SIGHS)
We need the harpoon.
(SCOFFS) Oh, honey.
Honey, this is hard
for a man to handle. Okay?
How about one of those cute
little poles, sweetheart?
(ANNIE CHUCKLES)
How about you take
one of those poles,
shove it up your ass and
sell me the damn harpoon?
How about you get the hell
out of my store?
-How about that?
-Hey.
There's nowhere
to buy a harpoon
within 100 miles of here.
You should've thought about
that before you let your girl
open her pretty little mouth.
-Excuse me?
-Hey, she's not buying.
-I'm buying.
-Nobody's buying.
All right, I want you
out of my store. Both of you.
Here,
a little sweetener on it.
Did I not make myself
crystal clear?
Get... No, no! No!
No, gimme that! No!
-Stop it! No! No!
-(YELLS)
-God damn it! Ow!
-(OBJECTS CLATTERING)
-Shit! (GROANS)
-Run.
-What?
-Run!
Son of a bitch.
Hey, I'm gonna call the cops!
I'm calling the cops!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(MAN GRUNTS)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
(MAN COUGHS)
(MAN BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MAN LAUGHS)
(BOTH LAUGHING)
REPORTER: (OVER RADIO)
...news just in.
We got some
breaking news today.
Two armed
and dangerous fugitives
in possession
of a stolen spear gun
are at large
in Green Lake County.
Last seen headed west on I-9
in a black...
-We should just go.
-No, don't.
You got a better idea?
I'm not getting locked up
for a fish. Neither are you.
The female suspect
has yet to be identified.
If you have any information
regarding the whereabouts
of the two suspects,
please call...
-Why do you have binoculars?
-I don't know.
You'd think he'd find
a winning ticket by now.
Ross can't even find sand
in the desert.
How'd you know that?
-Give me two minutes.
-Wait a minute.
ANNIE: (INHALES SHARPLY)
Excuse me.
This is embarrassing.
I... I was wearing earrings
when I went for a swim
this morning.
And I think they fell out
'cause I can't find them
anywhere.
Um, maybe you didn't
put 'em in?
I never take them out.
They were, uh, big...
diamond... rock... earring...
Well, okay, uh...
Where did you say
you were swimming, exactly?
(IMPERCEPTIBLE)
MAN: What the hell
is she doing?
(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
-How the hell did you do that?
-Let's go.
ANNIE: I admire
that you've got a goal.
No one around here's got any.
It's depressing.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
What's your goal?
I was supposed
to go to college.
Yeah?
But this lake, it's...
It's like a black hole.
Once you're in it,
you can't ever get out of it.
I guess I never really tried.
Wren's only three years old
and she's already
too big for this town.
(CHUCKLES)
That's impossible.
(CHUCKLES)
(TUTS)
I'm dying.
I mean, we're all dying
but I'm... really dying.
I knew better than to start
with these and, uh...
I guess maybe
that was the whole point.
(MAN SIGHS)
Do you believe in God?
Oh, Annie, not you too?
-What?
-(EXHALES)
Everybody wants
to save my soul
once they find out I'm dying.
I'm not trying to convert you.
Does that get you extra points
in heaven
to bring in recruits?
I bet it does.
-I'll take it you don't, then.
-I'll take it you do.
I just... like to believe
that everything happens
for a reason.
Otherwise my whole life
is just...
I don't know.
Not what I pictured.
What did you picture?
More.
(SIREN WAILING)
Yep. That's their vehicle!
Ross!
What the hell are you doing?
What the hell are you doing?
Get... Get your damn boat!
They're getting away!
Get your damn boat!
-Oh!
-ROSS: Yes, sir!
Unbelievable.
Thumb twiddling laggard.
-Yes, sir, yes, sir!
-Come on!
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Come on!
Is it cold? It looks cold.
It's not cold.
-It's a little cold.
-(SPLASH)
ANNIE: (YELPS)
It's freezing!
(LAUGHS)
(BOTH LAUGH)
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
(BOTH LAUGH)
(MUSIC STOPS)
Annie.
-(GASPS)
-Annie.
God, it's real!
-God, it's real. I saw it!
-Annie, we got to go.
Got to go.
They're coming for us.
-I saw the fish.
-What?
I saw your fish!
-You saw my fish?
-I saw it! Get the harpoon.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING OVERHEAD)
(DISTANT SIREN BLARING)
(SIREN WHOOPS)
(OFFICER ON BOASHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(SIREN WHOOPING)
(OVER MEGAPHONE)
Put your hands in the air!
There!
OFFICER:
I said put your hands...
(HARPOON FIRES)
Put your hands in the air!
(LINE WHIRRING)
(OFFICER
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
Drop the weapon
and put your hands in the air!
I'm sorry I roped you
into this.
Are you kidding?
This is the most exciting
thing that's happened to me
in my entire life.
OFFICER:
Put your hands in the air!
(SWEEPING MUSIC PLAYING)
(LINE WHIRRING)
-(LINE CLICKS)
-(GRUNTS)
ANNIE: Finn?
Finn? Finn?
Finn!
Finn!
Finn!
Finn!
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
Morning, Dad.
DAD: Goodnight, Birds.
(GIRL GRUNTS SLEEPILY)
-Wake up.
-Mmm-hmm.
-Wake up.
-Mmm-hmm.
-You awake?
-Mmm.
Yeah.
Ow, Blue.
Blue, why do you always
have to go this way?
It's the easiest way.
It's definitely not. You could
just go off your side.
(BALL BOUNCING)
-(LAUGHTER)
-(GRUNTS)
You okay?
Alley-oop! No.
-(BALL THUDS)
-Yay!
YOUNG WOMAN: No.
-No.
-That's a tricky little...
-No.
-All right.
Done.
(REPORTER SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO)
(FEET THUDDING)
YOUNG WOMAN: Hey, stop that.
I'm serious, stop.
You're gonna wake Dad.
BLUE: Dad could sleep
through the Second Coming.
You'll wake Marianne.
(THUDDING STOPS)
BLUE: When do you think
the Cali will get here?
Robin?
The Californians?
Do you hear nothing I say?
I told them to come
before 7:00
if they want to eat with us.
(INHALES)
BLUE: They made a real mistake
booking this summer
instead of last.
(SCOFFS) You'll be fine, Blue.
BLUE: Can't you please
just stay through the season?
ROBIN: I've already skipped
Orientation.
If I miss class on Monday,
they'll drop me.
There you go.
And then just a splash.
And then whisk.
(POP MUSIC
PLAYING OVER STEREO)
ROBIN: Okay.
Add a little oil.
There you go.
Yeah.
(PAN SIZZLING)
Hey, low heat. Low heat.
Hey, no. Don't push.
Just...
Just fold.
Like that.
-Oh.
-Mmm-hmm.
(SCRAPING PAN)
Tragic.
(CHUCKLES)
You'll get the hang of it.
(DOOR SLAMS)
-BOTH: Not it!
-(SHOWER TURNS ON)
(ROBIN CHUCKLES)
(IN SING-SONG VOICE)
Don't let her see you.
Blah!
(SHOWER RUNNING)
(SHOWER TURNS OFF)
She wears a wig.
She does not.
She does. I saw it.
(GIGGLES)
Oh! Wait.
So you're telling me
that she could have
any hair in the world
and she chose that...
Chose that atrocious
opossum of a piece. Yeah.
-Imagine if it got wet.
-Wow.
It would look like
a limp little wet rat.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Ew.
(EXHALES) I don't think
I want that in my head.
BLUE: Oh, God!
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
BLUE: I don't know
what you think
you've got to learn
at culinary school.
ROBIN: Lots of things.
BLUE: These muffins
are the best I've ever had.
Just you wait
until I've got a real oven.
(BOTH SNICKERING)
-(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
-(LAUGHS)
ROBIN: Mmm-hmm.
Mmm-hmm.
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
(TROLLEY WHEELS RATTLING)
What?
Always buy organic
for out of state guests.
(SCANNER BEEPS)
So it's true, then.
What?
About your new boarder.
I hear
he's a Hollywood movie man.
Um, yeah. I don't know.
It's none of my business
to know what he does
outside the lake.
Well, I hear he's here
to write a movie.
Is he married?
(CASHIER CHUCKLES)
'Cause, uh, I could use
a Hollywood movie man.
And I'm sure he's thinking,
"Oh, I could just go
for a high school dropout
"grocery bagger."
Quiet, Blue.
Well, maybe
I'll just stop on by, then.
Please don't.
$34.50 is your total.
There's $40.
Let me take this one.
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
Bye.
Careful, or he'll write
something about you.
-If we're lucky.
-CASHIER: Hmm.
ROBIN:
Did you wash the chicken?
Yep.
Good.
Would you like some guts
with that?
Wait, I thought
you had the day off.
I had to pick up a shift
last second.
Don't worry,
I'll be back in good time.
It's not about the time.
You need to sleep, Dad.
If I get tired, you can drive,
yeah?
-(GROANS)
-ROBIN: Keys.
T minus 36 hours.
I'm excited for ya.
-Bye, birds.
-ROBIN: Bye.
(KNIFE SLICING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BATHTUB BY BABEHOVEN PLAYING)
I scored something
Close to her
Did you ever think
I'm worth it?
They're here, they're here,
they're here.
They're here!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE)
This... This is luxury.
WOMAN: Not sure
what you mean, John.
JOHN: The air, Caroline.
Fresh fucking air.
Smell that.
It's the same air.
There's no walls between us.
Your perspective never fails
to confound me.
-(CAROLINE CHUCKLES)
-What's the door code?
CAROLINE:
Uh, I think Henry has it.
JOHN: Henry, get your lazy ass
out here.
CAROLINE: Oh, no, I remember.
Of course. Grab the suitcases.
Oh, my God, he saw me.
-(ROBIN CHUCKLES)
-It's not funny!
ROBIN: (IN SING-SONG VOICE)
Blue's got a crush.
-Shut up!
-Blue's got a crush.
-Shut it!
-(ROBIN LAUGHS)
(DISHES CLINKING)
ROBIN: Are you sure
you don't want any?
Oh, you know, I would
but we ate at 6:00.
We had peanuts on an airplane.
CAROLINE:
And, unlike the boys here,
I have been cursed
with a catastrophically
slow metabolism.
(LAUGHS)
It's like a whole thing.
Actually, do you girls have
a boat that I could borrow?
ROBIN: Uh, we've got some
kayaks down by the lake.
That should work.
Mmm. Hey, honey.
You promised you wouldn't
go down there.
-Hey, honey.
-Yeah.
I promised you wouldn't
go down there.
-(CAROLINE CHUCKLES)
-I love you.
CAROLINE: I love you.
ROBIN: Because of
the missing fisherman?
No, the whole theory's bogus.
Lived here my whole life and
never seen anything like it.
Me neither.
See? Thank you.
-Eaten by the big fish.
-(ALL CHUCKLE)
-Happy we can put that to bed.
-CAROLINE: Thank you.
JOHN: Why don't you get
another blueberry, sweetie?
You're doing the pouty thing.
You're doing the pouty thing!
CAROLINE: I thought that
you said you were staying
at a lake house.
JOHN: This is a lake house.
Literally a house on the lake.
CAROLINE: I was picturing,
I don't know, Tahoe?
JOHN: I never said...
You pictured the wrong thing,
-I never said Lake Tahoe.
-CAROLINE: You want to know
-what you never said?
-What?
CAROLINE: Bunk beds.
Dinner was great, Robbie.
CAROLINE: I didn't pack any
of the right clothes, John.
I was picturing, I don't know,
beach side villa,
-not fifth grade summer camp!
-(DISHES CLINKING)
She's rather rude, isn't she?
HENRY: Hey, Mom, do you want
top or bottom bunk?
CAROLINE: Christ!
Henry, I'm sorry.
Not right now.
Mommy needs a second.
-(MOUTHS) Mommy.
-(BOTH SNICKERING)
JOHN: Do you have a swimsuit?
CAROLINE: Yeah,
-I have a swimsuit.
-JOHN: Lake house.
Do you have something warm?
Lake house. Do you have...
CAROLINE: It's not the right
kind of warm, John!
JOHN: This is what you wear
on a lake house!
CAROLINE:
I brought fancy dresses.
I can't wear them with
the dirt and the mosquitoes.
There's no white
marble flooring.
JOHN: I'm sorry the water
and everything
isn't as clear
and crystal diamond blue...
(JOHN CHUCKLES)
Wow, listen to this.
"After days of searching,
"they still have
not located the body
"and Sheriff Ward speculates,
and I quote,
"'He must have been swallowed
"'by the giant fish.'"
End quote.
(CHUCKLES)
CAROLINE:
It's not funny, John.
JOHN: Uh, that's incredible.
I can't make this shit up.
(LAUGHS)
-Hey, Hen.
-Huh? What?
-Go join 'em.
-CAROLINE: No.
Don't, you're gonna get
swimmer's itch.
For fuck's sake, Caroline.
(WHISPERS) Therapist said
not to use that phrase.
-He's gonna be fine.
-CAROLINE: A fish ate a guy.
JOHN: He's a young adult.
This is a made-up story.
-What are you talking about?
-It's fine.
CAROLINE: It's a grown man
in that story.
I'll just read.
JOHN: Now he's just gonna
be a reader.
CAROLINE: What's wrong
with that?
JOHN: He's gonna do nothing
with his life but read.
-Do you understand that?
-He'll be brilliant.
ROBIN: You're drooling.
I am not.
(CHUCKLES)
Where are you going?
Oh, just to invite him
to play euchre.
-Wait, Robin.
-(CHUCKLES)
Robin, don't, it's an
extremely complicated game.
He'll never get it.
Well, then, we'll whup his ass
and it'll be a lot of fun.
It's a four-player game.
There's only three of us,
not enough.
-Oh, that's true.
-Bummer.
I guess we're just gonna have
to invite his mom
-to play, then.
-No.
Robin, I would rather die!
Robin.
ROBIN: Okay, highest card
is jack of the trump suit.
BLUE: The right bower.
-CAROLINE: The what?
-Bower.
What is bower?
BLUE: I don't know.
Well, I thought that
you invented this game.
No.
Okay, well,
I've never heard of that.
Okay, it... it doesn't matter.
The name of the card
doesn't matter.
It's just the highest card.
-Okay.
-Right.
And so the second-highest card
is the jack of the other suit
-of the same color.
-The left...
(MOUTHS) Bower.
So the jack of spades is
higher than the ace of clubs?
Yes, but only if...
Clubs is the trump suit.
-Mmm-hmm.
-Quick learner.
Good job, Hen Hen.
-Mom!
-What?
JOHN: You're embarrassing him.
Dad!
(LAUGHTER)
And who's my partner?
ROBIN: Well,
partners sit opposite
so that would be Blue.
Well, I guess
it's a stacked game, then.
Hey, I'll have you know
that I'm a great...
In our favor.
BLUE: Yeah,
and then discard low card...
-(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
-(ROBIN HUMMING)
JOHN: It was
amazing out there.
BLUE: Did you get wet?
JOHN: No.
What are we playing?
BLUE: Euchre.
JOHN: Euchre? What's euchre?
CAROLINE:
Just watch and learn.
(LAUGHTER)
ROBIN: I think I won that one.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
ROBIN: Okay.
I'm going to pack.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
BLUE: He likes the lake.
(SCOFFS) Does he?
He said that he'd never seen
fresh water before.
Does it look different
than salt water?
In your hair it does.
He said that salt water
makes your hair
feel crunchy and weird.
He said that if he lived
by a lake and not an ocean,
he'd never
take a shower again.
-That's gross.
-Is it?
I mean,
if the lake were gross,
we wouldn't call it
fresh water, now, would we?
Uh, I don't think that's
why we call it fresh, Blue.
From this angle,
it almost looks like
you're unpacking those boxes.
ROBIN: Oh, does it?
No.
Hey.
Hey!
-This is mine.
-Since when?
-Since always.
-I always wear that.
Just 'cause
I let you borrow it once
doesn't automatically
make it yours, you know.
I have never
seen you wear that.
Of course not, you must have
been too busy baking muffins
-from freaking scratch.
-Okay, please calm down.
You know, Betty Crocker makes
box mix for a reason.
It's honestly
a toss up which I prefer...
I am leaving you an entire
closet full of clothes,
-I just really like that one.
-Yours have fresh blueberries
but Betty's
aren't pretentious.
You are being selfish, Blue.
This is my sweater
and you can't have it.
-Hey.
-Hi.
Sorry, I was just looking
for a snack.
Yeah, come on. It's that way.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
BLUE: So... bread.
I don't think
we have anything for Chex.
BLUE: Do you need help
tying that?
HENRY: Uh, yeah.
-Vanilla. I'll get the oats.
-Teaspoon of vanilla extract.
(BLUE GIGGLES)
No, we need... Yeah. We need,
like, two or three scoops...
-Woah! That's a lot of sugar.
-More, more, more.
-More?
-More. (LAUGHS)
-More?
-More!
This feels very...
Should we put in
baking powder?
(GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(BLUE LAUGHS)
BLUE: Taste test?
HENRY: Yeah.
All right.
Those are actually
really good.
HENRY: Mmm.
HENRY: Come on.
BLUE:
You don't ever touch the pan.
HENRY: I'm about to touch
the cookies on the pan...
What's the difference?
BLUE: Well...
HENRY: You can have some.
ROBIN: Yum. Yes, please.
ROBIN: Nice. Cheers.
HENRY: Cheers.
ALL: Mmm. Hot.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
ROBIN: Good job.
HENRY: It's good.
BLUE: Thank you.
ROBIN: Mmm-hmm.
Where's Chicago?
Chicago is here.
Mmm. So...
Do you think it's walkable?
-ROBIN: From here?
-Yeah.
ROBIN: No.
BLUE: Bikeable?
ROBIN: Dad'll teach you
to drive soon.
-Hey.
-Hmm.
Don't fall asleep.
But, Blue, I'm tired.
I know, but if we fall asleep
it'll be morning.
(MAP RUSTLING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BOXES THUDDING)
(BOX THUDS)
Is that everything?
Yeah. Can you put this
in the car?
(TRUCK TAILGATE SQUEAKING)
-(SOBS)
-(ROBIN SIGHS)
(BLUE CONTINUES SOBBING)
You're gonna be okay.
I love you.
(BLUE SOBS)
Okay. (SNIFFLES, CHUCKLES)
(TEARFULLY) Robin, wait.
(CHUCKLES)
It's not a gift, it's a loan.
So I want it back.
Well, it looks
way better on me.
(BREATH TREMBLES)
Bring it back.
Promise.
(TRUCK ENGINE STARTS)
See you in the summer,
Blue Jay!
(BLUE BELL
BY GOLDEN DAZE PLAYING)
Maybe I should
Stick around
Swore that I was leaving
Maybe
I just hit the ground
Try my luck another season
How's it feel when you fall
For the first time?
How's it feel
Getting younger as days go by?
Autumn leaves
Are staying 'round
Watch the day
Turn into evening
All the pain
We carry 'round
I can swear
We see it leaving
And it feels like I fall
For the first time
And I feel so much younger
As days go by
And it feels like I fall
For the first time
And I feel so much younger
As days go by
(SONG FADES)
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(BIRD CALLING)
(GENTLE HARMONICA MUSIC
PLAYING)
(DUCKS QUACKING)
(PLEASANINSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(BIRD CALLING)
MAN: Oh, would you
look at that?
WOMAN: Yeah, pretty bird,
isn't she?
MAN: Yeah.
And she's got a baby.
A loonlet?
Nobody calls them that, Jules.
Well, I call them that.
(LOON CALLING)
WOMAN: My... My God,
did you hear that?
A loonlet!
Hear it? I see it.
-Jules, I see it.
-Quiet down.
You don't wanna scare her.
Where... Where is she?
Well, she's right...
right down near the shoreline.
No, right...
-Right there.
-(WOMAN GASPS)
MAN: All by herself.
(PLEASANT MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC FADES)
(VEHICLE APPROACHING
IN DISTANCE)
(TIRES SCREECH)
Come on, baby, get in.
MAN: Why don't you tuck it in?
You're late.
MAN: Why don't you
put it back on?
-Let the wind kind of ride it.
-WOMAN: Okay.
For good reason. Guess why.
Come on, Lu, guess.
No.
We did it, Lu.
-(LAUGHS)
-You're engaged?
Well,
I guess we skipped a step.
-We're husband and wife.
-She's my wife!
-Wife for life.
-(WOMAN LAUGHS)
-Legally?
-What are you, a lawyer now?
But, yeah, I got the papers
up here somewhere.
Oh, I almost forgot.
A little after-school snack.
MAN: (LAUGHS)
Mom of the year.
Yeah, I'm not hungry.
Try the cake, baby.
Adam made it.
(BOX OPENS)
-It's disgusting.
-Lu!
It's fine.
She don't mean anything.
You don't mean it.
It's carrot cake.
Ma hates carrot cake.
ADAM: Do you hate carrot cake?
-No, of course not.
-(SCOFFS)
WOMAN: Maybe I'll get some
of that fabric dye,
turn it blue or red
or something.
Get my money's worth.
(ADAM LAUGHS)
-Missed the turn.
-WOMAN: I think blue, maybe.
Match my eyes. And your eyes.
LU: There was a right turn
back there.
-Ma, tell him.
-We're not going home, baby.
What do you mean,
we're not going home?
Well, you are going
to Nan and Pop's.
We...
-Are you gonna tell me, hon?
-(ADAM INHALES)
He's taking me
on a surprise honeymoon.
Ain't I lucky?
I'm not going
to Nan and Pop's.
-It'll be fun, Lu.
-Why can't I just stay home?
-ADAM: And do what?
-What do you care?
Nan and Pop
are excited to see you.
They don't even know who I am.
Yes, they do.
And besides, it's gonna be
just like summer camp.
And you always wanted to go
to summer camp.
It will not be
like summer camp.
How would you know?
You've never been.
-Will you stay out of it?
-WOMAN: Louise!
(WOMAN MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY)
ADAM: Kids.
WOMAN: Did you like my veil?
ADAM: I did.
Maybe you should keep
that too.
WOMAN: I know.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
WOMAN: I love you.
I'll see you soon, Lu.
Two weeks.
ADAM: Only two weeks.
-(ENGINE STARTS)
-Maybe more.
WOMAN: Is there something
you're not telling me?
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(POP LAUGHS)
My goodness.
This is unexpected.
(CLATTERING)
(PLATES CLINKING)
(COFFEE MACHINE WHIRRING)
(PHONE DIALING TONE)
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
Leave a message.
(VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
(WATER RUNNING)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(PAN LID CLOSING)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
She looks like Jenny,
doesn't she?
Of course she does.
(EXHALES) There we go.
Thank you, dear.
Thank you.
I'm not hungry.
You're too skinny
to skip breakfast.
It's too early to eat it.
Suit yourself.
How old are you now, Louise?
-I'm 14.
-You don't look 14.
What do I look?
Oh...
Ten? Eleven, maybe.
Have you gone blind? She looks
like a real young woman.
Sixteen at least.
I'm 14.
How was the wedding?
I don't know.
POP: Nothing?
The carrot cake
wasn't very good.
Carrot cake?
Jenny hates carrot cake.
Yeah, I know.
Well, that's what she gets
for planning the wedding
in five minutes.
Damn second-rate carrot cake.
NAN: Bacon, please.
POP: Sorry, baby.
There you go.
Lu?
(POP SNIFFS, EXHALES)
(MELLOW STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
(BEDSHEET RUSTLING)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(DISHES CLINKING)
(WATER RUNNING)
(GIRLS LAUGHING)
(TRAMPOLINE SPRINGS CREAKING)
(BOOK THUDS)
(WATER SPLASHING)
(POLE THUDS)
(TARPAULIN RUSTLING)
(POP SNORING)
(BOAT CLANKING)
(SPLASH ECHOES)
POP: Am I going blind,
or is she trying to steal
my Sunfish?
(CHUCKLES)
(POP SIGHS, MUTTERS)
POP: What are you doing?
Huh?
(STUTTERS) H... Hand me that.
Give me that.
(GRUNTS)
Do you think
you're tying a shoelace?
-Those knots will kill you.
-(MAST CLATTERS)
Lu? (SIGHS)
Lu.
Louise, come here. Come on.
Come.
Do you wanna sail?
Learn how to tie
a proper knot.
And eat the food
Nan feeds you.
Got it?
What's he looking at?
Hmm? Oh.
Birds.
(SHOUTS) Any loons?
POP: No, just mallards.
(SCOFFS) Mallards.
Ooh!
We saw a loonlet.
Can you believe it?
It's been a few years since
we've had chicks on the lake.
Usually the hawks eat the eggs
before they're hatched
or the muskies eat them after.
-Gross.
-Mmm.
POP: Hey, did you tell Lu
I spotted it first?
Pop spotted her first.
POP: Nan thought
it was a mallard!
(LAUGHS DERISIVELY)
(SCOFFS) No, not really!
(CHUCKLES) Just...
Just for a second. It...
She wasn't on mama's back!
What do you mean?
Mmm, piggybacks.
Keeps the little ones safe
from the muskies.
That's how
they usually get around.
But mama isn't real keen
on piggybacks, I guess.
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
-Leave a message.
-(VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
Leave a message.
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You...
(LINE RINGING)
VOICEMAIL: Hey, this is Jen.
You missed me.
-Leave a message.
-(VOICEMAIL BEEPS)
(LU CHUCKLES)
POP: All righty.
Get in.
-(LU SHRIEKS)
-Whoops!
(BOAT THUDDING)
POP: Do you know what this is?
A paddle.
It's a dagger board.
It keeps the boat steady.
Goes right in that slot there.
-Why don't you stick it in?
-(EXHALES)
There you go.
Attagirl.
There you go.
Now, don't ever get
in the boat without that.
Right?
Okay, get in there. Put...
Put your legs down in
the footwell, right in there.
Attagirl.
Okay, now, when you capsize,
and you will...
you grab the daggerboard
and with all your weight,
you pull, you pull,
you pull until that boat turns
right back upright, okay?
Now, keep one hand
on the sheet.
That's the sheet.
Other on the tiller.
That's the tiller.
Push it right to go left,
push it left
to go right, okay?
If you wanna go fast,
you keep the sail tight.
If you wanna slow down,
you loosen it up a little bit.
And watch out for the boom.
It's gonna swing around
when the wind changes.
And when it does, you gotta
duck down, get out of the way
and scoot
to the other side of the boat
and be real fast about it
or you'll get a big old goose
egg on your noggin.
You got it?
And always, always wear this.
Now you look like a sailor.
The lake is yours, dear.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SQUEALS)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
NAN: You want me
to toast that?
LU: Mmm-mmm.
-NAN: Jam?
-It's fine.
-Peanut butter?
-LU: Mmm-mmm.
(SAIL THUDS)
(BIRD CALLING)
(LOONLET CALLING)
Hmm. You found yourself
a little friend.
-(LU CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
-(NAN CHUCKLES)
(WATER RUNNING)
(LU MUMBLES)
-(SPLASHING)
-Come on.
-(INDIE MUSIC PLAYING)
-What's this?
POP: What's what?
Uh, to the top of the lake.
Inter... Interlochen?
POP: Ah, it's a camp.
-Summer camp?
-A rich kids' camp.
NAN: It's a music camp
for gifted children.
POP: That's what I said.
(WINDCHIMES TINKLING)
Hi. (GASPS)
You don't want it?
(LOON CALLING)
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
Excuse me.
She could've been eaten
by a muskie.
Do you know that?
(MELLOW MUSIC CONTINUES)
Did you think about her?
You're all she has.
(MELLOW MUSIC CONTINUES)
(WAVES LAPPING)
POP: It's not a root
and it's not beer.
-(NAN CHUCKLES)
-How come it's root beer?
Do you have an answer to that,
Louise?
-Absolutely not.
-Well, good.
-It's delicious, actually.
-(LU LAUGHS)
NAN: With vanilla ice cream.
Mmm.
POP: Well, now,
that's pretty. Look.
See that cloud right there?
Lit from underneath.
LU: Yes, they all move.
NAN: Yeah, what do you...
It almost looks like a shark.
What do you think?
LU: Mmm-hmm.
NAN: You see the eye?
-LU: I see that, yeah.
-You see the eye?
LU: Maybe not...
POP: Of course I do. I see...
LU: The eye right there, look.
NAN: Yeah.
And then the fin up top...
LU: Mmm-hmm.
(PHONE CLATTERING)
(INGYDAR BY ADRIANNE LENKER
PLAYING)
(LOONLET CALLING)
Fragilely, gradually
And surrounding
The horse lies naked
In the shed
Evergreen anodyne
Decompounding
Flies draw sugar
From his head
His eyes are blueberries
Video screens
Minneapolis schemes
And the dried flowers
From books half-read
The juice of dark cherries
Cover his skin
The dog walks in
And the crow lies
In his jaw like lead
Everything eats
And is eaten
Time is fed
Early evening
The pink ring swallows
The spherical
Marigold terrain
Sleepily
Venus sinks and hollows
The stationed headlight
Of a plane
You are as far from me
As memory
Which fixtures
Fracture varyingly
The juice of dark cherries
Cover my skin
Six years in, no baby
(CHILDREN SQUEALING, LAUGHING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Everything eats
And is eaten
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
WOMAN: It's in the past.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
This isn't a vacation, Jun.
I know.
I booked you practice pod 25.
Every hour until placement.
-Thanks.
-Promise me you'll practice.
I always practice.
I'm missing quarterlies
for the showcase.
-You don't need to do that.
-But you know,
it's gonna be worth it.
Because I get to see you
in first chair.
-But it might not be me, Mom.
-What?
I said it might not be me.
It might not be you, Jun?
You're on track
to become principal of
the Chicago Symphony by 18.
Say it.
-Mom...
-Say it, Jun.
-(JUN SIGHS)
-Who are you?
Principal of
the Chicago Symphony.
And?
First chair of the orchestra.
I love you.
(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GIRLS CHATTING INDISTINCTLY)
(VIOLIN PLAYING)
(PLAYS MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN
CONCERTO IN E MINOR OPUS 64)
(EXHALES SOFTLY)
(EXHALES)
(EXHALES)
(EXHALES SOFTLY)
(PLAYS RAPIDLY)
BOY: ...can't get anybody
off the show, or, like...
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
GIRL: He, like, made it.
He was there for seven years.
BOY 2: Such a long time.
And it's like at
a certain point, career wise,
I understand why he...
I mean, seven is a long time.
I mean, it's not like going
after, like, four seasons.
Or, like, even, like, six.
BOY 2: Okay.
GIRL: Okay.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Uh, where... where are you
off to so fast?
Oh, practice.
GIRL: Ew, it's lunchtime.
Sit down.
Placement's tomorrow, Hol.
You should practice too.
-All of you.
-But that's no fun.
It's more fun
than second chair.
HOLLY: Boo. He's so serious.
GIRL 2:
I don't know why he bothers.
He's a shoe-in
for first chair.
HOLLY: What's wrong
with second?
(VIOLIN PLAYING)
(METRONOME CLICKING)
-(PEN SCRATCHING)
-(METRONOME CLICKING)
(METRONOME CLICKING)
(YELLS IN FRUSTRATION)
(YELLS)
(SOBBING)
(VELCRO RIPPING)
(BOY LAUGHS IN DISTANCE)
MAN: Jun Emmons.
(BOY LAUGHS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Is it true that,
like, at night,
they throw out all the donuts?
-Yeah.
-Do they give it to anybody?
We can take them
if we wanted them.
-Oh.
-We kind of change.
Are you sure you should have
that on the floor?
It's fine.
-Sorry!
-(BOY LAUGHS)
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
BOY: (LAUGHS) Okay.
JUN: Um, when... when are
they gonna post the seatings?
MAN: Two hours.
Kit Fan.
(DISTANT CHATTER)
-GIRL: Don't forget...
-(GIRL SQUEALS, LAUGHS)
(BOY LAUGHS)
HOLLY: That's it.
You're awful at this. I quit.
BOY: Come on,
we were just having fun.
HOLLY: Water up the nose
is not fun, Enzo.
It's a literal
torture technique.
But we can't play without you.
-I'll be on top this time.
-Fuck off!
GIRL: Now what?
ENZO: We'll find somebody.
BOY: Hey!
Hey!
Yeah, you. Come play with us!
-ENZO: Bro.
-What?
Why don't you take him?
BOY: I got Selma.
ENZO: You don't want to fight
a boy, right, Selma?
What, him?
Nah, I can take him.
Hey, come on!
Yeah.
ENZO: You know how to play,
uh, chicken fight?
Uh, yeah. Uh-huh.
ENZO: You guys ready?
SELMA: Yeah, let's do it.
-Ready?
-Yeah.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
ENZO: All right.
BOY: Come on, man.
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-SELMA: Ready?
-(JUN GRUNTS)
-BOY: Come on.
Sorry. Sorry.
SELMA: It's all right,
let's go.
-BOY: You guys ready?
-Yeah.
BOY: Let's go, Selma. Get him.
(GRUNTING, LAUGHTER)
(SELMA YELPS)
ENZO: (LAUGHS)
There we go, man.
Hey, you wanna
switch partners yet?
-SELMA: Shut up.
-Oh, man. Selma's mad.
Come on.
Let's do this.
-ENZO: All right, let's go.
-Come on.
-(ENZO GRUNTS)
-(SELMA CHUCKLES)
BOY: Come on, Selma.
SELMA: No! (SQUEALS)
BOY: Come on!
(LAUGHTER)
SELMA: Are you kidding me?
BOY: What was that?
-Jesus Christ.
-All right, come on.
Nah, might as well
not even try.
SELMA: All right, let's go.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
(LAUGHTER)
SELMA: Anthony, what are
you doing, just sitting there?
ANTHONY: No,
I'm trying to help you.
MAN: Placement is posted!
(HEAVY SPLASH)
JUN: Sorry.
Who the hell is Jun Emmons?
Who cares?
Let's go.
(SOLEMN STRING MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC SPEEDS UP)
(PANTING)
(STALEMATE BY ANNA ASH
PLAYING ON RADIO)
You can write yourself
Into somebody's history
And claim memory
And importance
And how it should be
You were always
Kind of useless as a kid
And hot damn, looks like
We're growing out of it
Think about
How awful it once was
And you're still waiting
On a declaration
To finally wake you up
(GRUNTS) Okay.
Mom, we're here.
Hey!
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES)
I need tables 11, 23, 36
and 44 now!
And we need more mushrooms!
Come on, guys.
Whoa, whoa. Hey.
What are you doing here?
-I took Jessica's shift.
-You cannot change shifts
without running it by me,
Annie.
Her kid is sick,
she asked me to cover.
I can't keep paying you
overtime.
Do you want me to leave?
No, it's fine.
Do me a favor and go start
cleaning the bathrooms, now.
-All right.
-Now!
Uh, hey, restroom's closed.
(EXHALES)
I don't mind if you look.
(EXHALES)
(URINATING)
(MAN SIGHS)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING
FAINTLY ON SPEAKERS)
(POOL BALLS CLACKING)
-Hey, Stella.
-Oh, hey, can you take over?
Which table?
Party of three,
end of the bar. Bye.
MAN: There.
-That's where I saw it.
-A whale?
No. No, not a whale.
A fish the size of a whale.
MAN 2: Right. Excuse me.
A fish the size of a whale...
That makes way more sense.
How many fingers
am I holding up?
-(COUGHS)
-(MAN 2 LAUGHS)
MAN 1: Look, I saw it
and don't patronize me.
Another one!
I got 20:10 vision.
I almost went
into the Air Force.
Two hearted?
Yeah. You're good at that.
-What?
-Guessing my drink.
It wasn't a guess. You get
the same thing every time.
I'm not asking
for your permission.
I'm asking if you want to be
a part of discovering
something monumental.
Something that
they'll write about
and document in history books.
History books
have a chapter on fish?
Hey, man, why don't you just
send Ross out to go find it?
Ross couldn't find sand
in the desert.
Besides, I don't want him
taking all the credit.
Is there some sort of
prize money at least?
Look.
I could die tomorrow
and not a single person
would remember me.
But when I catch this fish,
I'm gonna name her after me.
She's gonna be my legacy.
(BOTH SNORTS AND LAUGHS)
-Your legacy? Like a...
-(LAUGHS)
Like a fish?
MAN 1: That's not funny.
MAN 2: Come on.
I'm just bustin' your balls,
man.
I said that's not funny!
Sorry.
Come... Come on, man.
I know what
you're going through, man,
but this is bat shit.
Why don't you go downstate,
go get a second opinion?
You talk like
I got time to kill.
Look, I need a vehicle.
Can I borrow yours?
I would, but mine's
a company truck.
I can't just be
lending it out.
MAN 2: Yeah, man, and look.
I gotta take my kids to school
and soccer practice and shit.
-Yeah, yeah, I get it.
-Or else I would.
Be all right otherwise.
Hey.
I've got a car.
(SEAGULLS CRYING)
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
(ENGINE SWITCHES OFF)
Hey, hold up! Don't get out.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
We gotta pick up
a couple of things.
Sure.
Oh, but don't smoke in my car.
(SLOW INDIE MUSIC PLAYING
ON CAR STEREO)
ANNIE: So you live in a boat?
Uh, yeah.
On and off.
I always wanted
to live in a boat.
Really?
So I'm living your dream?
I mean, I pictured more of
a big lavish yacht.
Right, a Benetti
or a Sunseeker, maybe?
A Catalina at least.
-The modest choice.
-(LAUGHS) Yeah.
(BELL JINGLES)
MAN: What do you think,
jigs or spinners?
ANNIE: Crank bait, maybe?
I don't know.
-Is it big enough?
-What was it, a catfish?
Bigger.
Pike? Muskie?
Sturgeon?
How do you know so much
about fish?
Wren's going through
a phase.
Last month it was dinosaurs,
this month it's fish.
She'll get over it.
I was supposed to
grow out of this?
Bigger than a sturgeon?
I swear.
Well, this isn't big enough.
ANNIE: Does anybody work here?
MAN: He's usually in the back.
-ANNIE: What's his name?
-Chip.
ANNIE: Chip?
(TV PLAYING)
Chip?
-Chip!
-Jesus fucking Christ!
Yeah, yeah.
(DOOR CLOSES)
She's not real sweet, is she?
(SIGHS)
We need the harpoon.
(SCOFFS) Oh, honey.
Honey, this is hard
for a man to handle. Okay?
How about one of those cute
little poles, sweetheart?
(ANNIE CHUCKLES)
How about you take
one of those poles,
shove it up your ass and
sell me the damn harpoon?
How about you get the hell
out of my store?
-How about that?
-Hey.
There's nowhere
to buy a harpoon
within 100 miles of here.
You should've thought about
that before you let your girl
open her pretty little mouth.
-Excuse me?
-Hey, she's not buying.
-I'm buying.
-Nobody's buying.
All right, I want you
out of my store. Both of you.
Here,
a little sweetener on it.
Did I not make myself
crystal clear?
Get... No, no! No!
No, gimme that! No!
-Stop it! No! No!
-(YELLS)
-God damn it! Ow!
-(OBJECTS CLATTERING)
-Shit! (GROANS)
-Run.
-What?
-Run!
Son of a bitch.
Hey, I'm gonna call the cops!
I'm calling the cops!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(MAN GRUNTS)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
(MAN COUGHS)
(MAN BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MAN LAUGHS)
(BOTH LAUGHING)
REPORTER: (OVER RADIO)
...news just in.
We got some
breaking news today.
Two armed
and dangerous fugitives
in possession
of a stolen spear gun
are at large
in Green Lake County.
Last seen headed west on I-9
in a black...
-We should just go.
-No, don't.
You got a better idea?
I'm not getting locked up
for a fish. Neither are you.
The female suspect
has yet to be identified.
If you have any information
regarding the whereabouts
of the two suspects,
please call...
-Why do you have binoculars?
-I don't know.
You'd think he'd find
a winning ticket by now.
Ross can't even find sand
in the desert.
How'd you know that?
-Give me two minutes.
-Wait a minute.
ANNIE: (INHALES SHARPLY)
Excuse me.
This is embarrassing.
I... I was wearing earrings
when I went for a swim
this morning.
And I think they fell out
'cause I can't find them
anywhere.
Um, maybe you didn't
put 'em in?
I never take them out.
They were, uh, big...
diamond... rock... earring...
Well, okay, uh...
Where did you say
you were swimming, exactly?
(IMPERCEPTIBLE)
MAN: What the hell
is she doing?
(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
-How the hell did you do that?
-Let's go.
ANNIE: I admire
that you've got a goal.
No one around here's got any.
It's depressing.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
What's your goal?
I was supposed
to go to college.
Yeah?
But this lake, it's...
It's like a black hole.
Once you're in it,
you can't ever get out of it.
I guess I never really tried.
Wren's only three years old
and she's already
too big for this town.
(CHUCKLES)
That's impossible.
(CHUCKLES)
(TUTS)
I'm dying.
I mean, we're all dying
but I'm... really dying.
I knew better than to start
with these and, uh...
I guess maybe
that was the whole point.
(MAN SIGHS)
Do you believe in God?
Oh, Annie, not you too?
-What?
-(EXHALES)
Everybody wants
to save my soul
once they find out I'm dying.
I'm not trying to convert you.
Does that get you extra points
in heaven
to bring in recruits?
I bet it does.
-I'll take it you don't, then.
-I'll take it you do.
I just... like to believe
that everything happens
for a reason.
Otherwise my whole life
is just...
I don't know.
Not what I pictured.
What did you picture?
More.
(SIREN WAILING)
Yep. That's their vehicle!
Ross!
What the hell are you doing?
What the hell are you doing?
Get... Get your damn boat!
They're getting away!
Get your damn boat!
-Oh!
-ROSS: Yes, sir!
Unbelievable.
Thumb twiddling laggard.
-Yes, sir, yes, sir!
-Come on!
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Come on!
Is it cold? It looks cold.
It's not cold.
-It's a little cold.
-(SPLASH)
ANNIE: (YELPS)
It's freezing!
(LAUGHS)
(BOTH LAUGH)
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
(BOTH LAUGH)
(MUSIC STOPS)
Annie.
-(GASPS)
-Annie.
God, it's real!
-God, it's real. I saw it!
-Annie, we got to go.
Got to go.
They're coming for us.
-I saw the fish.
-What?
I saw your fish!
-You saw my fish?
-I saw it! Get the harpoon.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING OVERHEAD)
(DISTANT SIREN BLARING)
(SIREN WHOOPS)
(OFFICER ON BOASHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(SIREN WHOOPING)
(OVER MEGAPHONE)
Put your hands in the air!
There!
OFFICER:
I said put your hands...
(HARPOON FIRES)
Put your hands in the air!
(LINE WHIRRING)
(OFFICER
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
Drop the weapon
and put your hands in the air!
I'm sorry I roped you
into this.
Are you kidding?
This is the most exciting
thing that's happened to me
in my entire life.
OFFICER:
Put your hands in the air!
(SWEEPING MUSIC PLAYING)
(LINE WHIRRING)
-(LINE CLICKS)
-(GRUNTS)
ANNIE: Finn?
Finn? Finn?
Finn!
Finn!
Finn!
Finn!
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
Morning, Dad.
DAD: Goodnight, Birds.
(GIRL GRUNTS SLEEPILY)
-Wake up.
-Mmm-hmm.
-Wake up.
-Mmm-hmm.
-You awake?
-Mmm.
Yeah.
Ow, Blue.
Blue, why do you always
have to go this way?
It's the easiest way.
It's definitely not. You could
just go off your side.
(BALL BOUNCING)
-(LAUGHTER)
-(GRUNTS)
You okay?
Alley-oop! No.
-(BALL THUDS)
-Yay!
YOUNG WOMAN: No.
-No.
-That's a tricky little...
-No.
-All right.
Done.
(REPORTER SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO)
(FEET THUDDING)
YOUNG WOMAN: Hey, stop that.
I'm serious, stop.
You're gonna wake Dad.
BLUE: Dad could sleep
through the Second Coming.
You'll wake Marianne.
(THUDDING STOPS)
BLUE: When do you think
the Cali will get here?
Robin?
The Californians?
Do you hear nothing I say?
I told them to come
before 7:00
if they want to eat with us.
(INHALES)
BLUE: They made a real mistake
booking this summer
instead of last.
(SCOFFS) You'll be fine, Blue.
BLUE: Can't you please
just stay through the season?
ROBIN: I've already skipped
Orientation.
If I miss class on Monday,
they'll drop me.
There you go.
And then just a splash.
And then whisk.
(POP MUSIC
PLAYING OVER STEREO)
ROBIN: Okay.
Add a little oil.
There you go.
Yeah.
(PAN SIZZLING)
Hey, low heat. Low heat.
Hey, no. Don't push.
Just...
Just fold.
Like that.
-Oh.
-Mmm-hmm.
(SCRAPING PAN)
Tragic.
(CHUCKLES)
You'll get the hang of it.
(DOOR SLAMS)
-BOTH: Not it!
-(SHOWER TURNS ON)
(ROBIN CHUCKLES)
(IN SING-SONG VOICE)
Don't let her see you.
Blah!
(SHOWER RUNNING)
(SHOWER TURNS OFF)
She wears a wig.
She does not.
She does. I saw it.
(GIGGLES)
Oh! Wait.
So you're telling me
that she could have
any hair in the world
and she chose that...
Chose that atrocious
opossum of a piece. Yeah.
-Imagine if it got wet.
-Wow.
It would look like
a limp little wet rat.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Ew.
(EXHALES) I don't think
I want that in my head.
BLUE: Oh, God!
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
BLUE: I don't know
what you think
you've got to learn
at culinary school.
ROBIN: Lots of things.
BLUE: These muffins
are the best I've ever had.
Just you wait
until I've got a real oven.
(BOTH SNICKERING)
-(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
-(LAUGHS)
ROBIN: Mmm-hmm.
Mmm-hmm.
(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
(TROLLEY WHEELS RATTLING)
What?
Always buy organic
for out of state guests.
(SCANNER BEEPS)
So it's true, then.
What?
About your new boarder.
I hear
he's a Hollywood movie man.
Um, yeah. I don't know.
It's none of my business
to know what he does
outside the lake.
Well, I hear he's here
to write a movie.
Is he married?
(CASHIER CHUCKLES)
'Cause, uh, I could use
a Hollywood movie man.
And I'm sure he's thinking,
"Oh, I could just go
for a high school dropout
"grocery bagger."
Quiet, Blue.
Well, maybe
I'll just stop on by, then.
Please don't.
$34.50 is your total.
There's $40.
Let me take this one.
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
Bye.
Careful, or he'll write
something about you.
-If we're lucky.
-CASHIER: Hmm.
ROBIN:
Did you wash the chicken?
Yep.
Good.
Would you like some guts
with that?
Wait, I thought
you had the day off.
I had to pick up a shift
last second.
Don't worry,
I'll be back in good time.
It's not about the time.
You need to sleep, Dad.
If I get tired, you can drive,
yeah?
-(GROANS)
-ROBIN: Keys.
T minus 36 hours.
I'm excited for ya.
-Bye, birds.
-ROBIN: Bye.
(KNIFE SLICING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BATHTUB BY BABEHOVEN PLAYING)
I scored something
Close to her
Did you ever think
I'm worth it?
They're here, they're here,
they're here.
They're here!
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE)
This... This is luxury.
WOMAN: Not sure
what you mean, John.
JOHN: The air, Caroline.
Fresh fucking air.
Smell that.
It's the same air.
There's no walls between us.
Your perspective never fails
to confound me.
-(CAROLINE CHUCKLES)
-What's the door code?
CAROLINE:
Uh, I think Henry has it.
JOHN: Henry, get your lazy ass
out here.
CAROLINE: Oh, no, I remember.
Of course. Grab the suitcases.
Oh, my God, he saw me.
-(ROBIN CHUCKLES)
-It's not funny!
ROBIN: (IN SING-SONG VOICE)
Blue's got a crush.
-Shut up!
-Blue's got a crush.
-Shut it!
-(ROBIN LAUGHS)
(DISHES CLINKING)
ROBIN: Are you sure
you don't want any?
Oh, you know, I would
but we ate at 6:00.
We had peanuts on an airplane.
CAROLINE:
And, unlike the boys here,
I have been cursed
with a catastrophically
slow metabolism.
(LAUGHS)
It's like a whole thing.
Actually, do you girls have
a boat that I could borrow?
ROBIN: Uh, we've got some
kayaks down by the lake.
That should work.
Mmm. Hey, honey.
You promised you wouldn't
go down there.
-Hey, honey.
-Yeah.
I promised you wouldn't
go down there.
-(CAROLINE CHUCKLES)
-I love you.
CAROLINE: I love you.
ROBIN: Because of
the missing fisherman?
No, the whole theory's bogus.
Lived here my whole life and
never seen anything like it.
Me neither.
See? Thank you.
-Eaten by the big fish.
-(ALL CHUCKLE)
-Happy we can put that to bed.
-CAROLINE: Thank you.
JOHN: Why don't you get
another blueberry, sweetie?
You're doing the pouty thing.
You're doing the pouty thing!
CAROLINE: I thought that
you said you were staying
at a lake house.
JOHN: This is a lake house.
Literally a house on the lake.
CAROLINE: I was picturing,
I don't know, Tahoe?
JOHN: I never said...
You pictured the wrong thing,
-I never said Lake Tahoe.
-CAROLINE: You want to know
-what you never said?
-What?
CAROLINE: Bunk beds.
Dinner was great, Robbie.
CAROLINE: I didn't pack any
of the right clothes, John.
I was picturing, I don't know,
beach side villa,
-not fifth grade summer camp!
-(DISHES CLINKING)
She's rather rude, isn't she?
HENRY: Hey, Mom, do you want
top or bottom bunk?
CAROLINE: Christ!
Henry, I'm sorry.
Not right now.
Mommy needs a second.
-(MOUTHS) Mommy.
-(BOTH SNICKERING)
JOHN: Do you have a swimsuit?
CAROLINE: Yeah,
-I have a swimsuit.
-JOHN: Lake house.
Do you have something warm?
Lake house. Do you have...
CAROLINE: It's not the right
kind of warm, John!
JOHN: This is what you wear
on a lake house!
CAROLINE:
I brought fancy dresses.
I can't wear them with
the dirt and the mosquitoes.
There's no white
marble flooring.
JOHN: I'm sorry the water
and everything
isn't as clear
and crystal diamond blue...
(JOHN CHUCKLES)
Wow, listen to this.
"After days of searching,
"they still have
not located the body
"and Sheriff Ward speculates,
and I quote,
"'He must have been swallowed
"'by the giant fish.'"
End quote.
(CHUCKLES)
CAROLINE:
It's not funny, John.
JOHN: Uh, that's incredible.
I can't make this shit up.
(LAUGHS)
-Hey, Hen.
-Huh? What?
-Go join 'em.
-CAROLINE: No.
Don't, you're gonna get
swimmer's itch.
For fuck's sake, Caroline.
(WHISPERS) Therapist said
not to use that phrase.
-He's gonna be fine.
-CAROLINE: A fish ate a guy.
JOHN: He's a young adult.
This is a made-up story.
-What are you talking about?
-It's fine.
CAROLINE: It's a grown man
in that story.
I'll just read.
JOHN: Now he's just gonna
be a reader.
CAROLINE: What's wrong
with that?
JOHN: He's gonna do nothing
with his life but read.
-Do you understand that?
-He'll be brilliant.
ROBIN: You're drooling.
I am not.
(CHUCKLES)
Where are you going?
Oh, just to invite him
to play euchre.
-Wait, Robin.
-(CHUCKLES)
Robin, don't, it's an
extremely complicated game.
He'll never get it.
Well, then, we'll whup his ass
and it'll be a lot of fun.
It's a four-player game.
There's only three of us,
not enough.
-Oh, that's true.
-Bummer.
I guess we're just gonna have
to invite his mom
-to play, then.
-No.
Robin, I would rather die!
Robin.
ROBIN: Okay, highest card
is jack of the trump suit.
BLUE: The right bower.
-CAROLINE: The what?
-Bower.
What is bower?
BLUE: I don't know.
Well, I thought that
you invented this game.
No.
Okay, well,
I've never heard of that.
Okay, it... it doesn't matter.
The name of the card
doesn't matter.
It's just the highest card.
-Okay.
-Right.
And so the second-highest card
is the jack of the other suit
-of the same color.
-The left...
(MOUTHS) Bower.
So the jack of spades is
higher than the ace of clubs?
Yes, but only if...
Clubs is the trump suit.
-Mmm-hmm.
-Quick learner.
Good job, Hen Hen.
-Mom!
-What?
JOHN: You're embarrassing him.
Dad!
(LAUGHTER)
And who's my partner?
ROBIN: Well,
partners sit opposite
so that would be Blue.
Well, I guess
it's a stacked game, then.
Hey, I'll have you know
that I'm a great...
In our favor.
BLUE: Yeah,
and then discard low card...
-(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
-(ROBIN HUMMING)
JOHN: It was
amazing out there.
BLUE: Did you get wet?
JOHN: No.
What are we playing?
BLUE: Euchre.
JOHN: Euchre? What's euchre?
CAROLINE:
Just watch and learn.
(LAUGHTER)
ROBIN: I think I won that one.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
ROBIN: Okay.
I'm going to pack.
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES
INDISTINCTLY)
BLUE: He likes the lake.
(SCOFFS) Does he?
He said that he'd never seen
fresh water before.
Does it look different
than salt water?
In your hair it does.
He said that salt water
makes your hair
feel crunchy and weird.
He said that if he lived
by a lake and not an ocean,
he'd never
take a shower again.
-That's gross.
-Is it?
I mean,
if the lake were gross,
we wouldn't call it
fresh water, now, would we?
Uh, I don't think that's
why we call it fresh, Blue.
From this angle,
it almost looks like
you're unpacking those boxes.
ROBIN: Oh, does it?
No.
Hey.
Hey!
-This is mine.
-Since when?
-Since always.
-I always wear that.
Just 'cause
I let you borrow it once
doesn't automatically
make it yours, you know.
I have never
seen you wear that.
Of course not, you must have
been too busy baking muffins
-from freaking scratch.
-Okay, please calm down.
You know, Betty Crocker makes
box mix for a reason.
It's honestly
a toss up which I prefer...
I am leaving you an entire
closet full of clothes,
-I just really like that one.
-Yours have fresh blueberries
but Betty's
aren't pretentious.
You are being selfish, Blue.
This is my sweater
and you can't have it.
-Hey.
-Hi.
Sorry, I was just looking
for a snack.
Yeah, come on. It's that way.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
BLUE: So... bread.
I don't think
we have anything for Chex.
BLUE: Do you need help
tying that?
HENRY: Uh, yeah.
-Vanilla. I'll get the oats.
-Teaspoon of vanilla extract.
(BLUE GIGGLES)
No, we need... Yeah. We need,
like, two or three scoops...
-Woah! That's a lot of sugar.
-More, more, more.
-More?
-More. (LAUGHS)
-More?
-More!
This feels very...
Should we put in
baking powder?
(GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(BLUE LAUGHS)
BLUE: Taste test?
HENRY: Yeah.
All right.
Those are actually
really good.
HENRY: Mmm.
HENRY: Come on.
BLUE:
You don't ever touch the pan.
HENRY: I'm about to touch
the cookies on the pan...
What's the difference?
BLUE: Well...
HENRY: You can have some.
ROBIN: Yum. Yes, please.
ROBIN: Nice. Cheers.
HENRY: Cheers.
ALL: Mmm. Hot.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
ROBIN: Good job.
HENRY: It's good.
BLUE: Thank you.
ROBIN: Mmm-hmm.
Where's Chicago?
Chicago is here.
Mmm. So...
Do you think it's walkable?
-ROBIN: From here?
-Yeah.
ROBIN: No.
BLUE: Bikeable?
ROBIN: Dad'll teach you
to drive soon.
-Hey.
-Hmm.
Don't fall asleep.
But, Blue, I'm tired.
I know, but if we fall asleep
it'll be morning.
(MAP RUSTLING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BOXES THUDDING)
(BOX THUDS)
Is that everything?
Yeah. Can you put this
in the car?
(TRUCK TAILGATE SQUEAKING)
-(SOBS)
-(ROBIN SIGHS)
(BLUE CONTINUES SOBBING)
You're gonna be okay.
I love you.
(BLUE SOBS)
Okay. (SNIFFLES, CHUCKLES)
(TEARFULLY) Robin, wait.
(CHUCKLES)
It's not a gift, it's a loan.
So I want it back.
Well, it looks
way better on me.
(BREATH TREMBLES)
Bring it back.
Promise.
(TRUCK ENGINE STARTS)
See you in the summer,
Blue Jay!
(BLUE BELL
BY GOLDEN DAZE PLAYING)
Maybe I should
Stick around
Swore that I was leaving
Maybe
I just hit the ground
Try my luck another season
How's it feel when you fall
For the first time?
How's it feel
Getting younger as days go by?
Autumn leaves
Are staying 'round
Watch the day
Turn into evening
All the pain
We carry 'round
I can swear
We see it leaving
And it feels like I fall
For the first time
And I feel so much younger
As days go by
And it feels like I fall
For the first time
And I feel so much younger
As days go by
(SONG FADES)
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC FADES)