1 00:00:28,362 --> 00:00:30,572 You sure you know where you're going? 2 00:00:31,323 --> 00:00:32,741 I ought to. 3 00:00:34,034 --> 00:00:37,204 My daddy says, "You should leave well enough alone." 4 00:00:38,413 --> 00:00:41,458 My daddy says, "Let the chips fall where they may." 5 00:00:42,292 --> 00:00:44,753 How can he say anything? He's dead. 6 00:00:49,591 --> 00:00:51,468 There it is. 7 00:00:52,302 --> 00:00:54,221 My old house. 8 00:00:56,557 --> 00:00:58,058 Come on. 9 00:01:25,627 --> 00:01:27,796 Sorry I said that about your daddy. 10 00:01:29,923 --> 00:01:31,717 Living room was over there. 11 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:34,636 Here's the kitchen. 12 00:01:37,181 --> 00:01:38,724 And over there... 13 00:01:41,685 --> 00:01:43,604 that was me and Merlyn's room. 14 00:01:48,442 --> 00:01:50,319 Now what are you looking for? 15 00:01:54,907 --> 00:01:58,327 Merly's doll. What do you know. 16 00:01:58,869 --> 00:02:00,579 I think we should go now. 17 00:02:03,332 --> 00:02:04,583 We should go. 18 00:02:12,007 --> 00:02:13,967 Caleb! Help me! 19 00:02:14,051 --> 00:02:15,427 Caleb! 20 00:02:20,015 --> 00:02:21,308 Help me, please! 21 00:02:22,184 --> 00:02:24,728 Caleb! Caleb! 22 00:03:07,104 --> 00:03:09,606 My editor's got a homicide he wants me to cover. 23 00:03:09,690 --> 00:03:13,026 It's got sex, violence, political intrigue, even a possible Mob hit. 24 00:03:13,527 --> 00:03:15,445 Sounds like a hell of a story. 25 00:03:15,529 --> 00:03:17,364 Yeah. It is. 26 00:03:17,447 --> 00:03:19,741 So why aren't you on your way to Charleston? 27 00:03:20,659 --> 00:03:22,286 That's a good question. 28 00:03:24,788 --> 00:03:26,582 Besides, Caleb needs me. 29 00:03:26,665 --> 00:03:28,500 Caleb's doing fine. 30 00:03:28,542 --> 00:03:31,253 Thanks a lot. I'm sure that he and I can find... 31 00:03:31,336 --> 00:03:35,257 another beautiful young reporter to keep us company at the old boarding house. 32 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:36,884 Stop it. 33 00:03:36,967 --> 00:03:39,344 Besides, I'm not finished with our friend yet. 34 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:42,139 Well, Lucas Buck will be here when you get back. 35 00:03:43,056 --> 00:03:44,349 Unfortunately. 36 00:03:44,725 --> 00:03:46,018 Yeah. Well. 37 00:03:46,101 --> 00:03:49,479 Whether I stay or I go, he's going to answer to my parents' death. 38 00:03:50,606 --> 00:03:52,107 Even if it kills me. 39 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:56,361 Miss Holt! Matt! 40 00:03:56,862 --> 00:03:59,406 Caleb? What... Honey, sit. 41 00:03:59,489 --> 00:04:01,074 He grabbed me. What? 42 00:04:01,158 --> 00:04:03,785 Boone was there and he was scared and he ran away. 43 00:04:03,869 --> 00:04:04,953 What did you do? 44 00:04:05,037 --> 00:04:07,122 I thought it was an animal, but it was a human. 45 00:04:07,206 --> 00:04:10,209 Something bit you? No, I fell in and he grabbed me. 46 00:04:11,752 --> 00:04:14,588 He was under some timbers where my house fell down. 47 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:19,384 Caleb, you ever hear of anyone buried under your house? 48 00:04:19,468 --> 00:04:20,886 No, sir. 49 00:04:21,428 --> 00:04:22,888 My daddy leased this land... 50 00:04:22,971 --> 00:04:25,307 so I can't rightly say who all used to live here. 51 00:04:41,823 --> 00:04:43,534 Anyway, he was under here. 52 00:04:43,784 --> 00:04:46,411 And I stepped on these boards and they broke... 53 00:04:46,578 --> 00:04:48,455 and my leg fell in his ribcage. 54 00:04:48,539 --> 00:04:50,582 And every time I'd shake, his mouth would just... 55 00:04:50,666 --> 00:04:52,668 chop up and down like he was eating. 56 00:04:55,879 --> 00:04:57,381 "Love forever." 57 00:05:05,347 --> 00:05:08,267 Selena. Forget your bathing suit? 58 00:05:08,475 --> 00:05:11,562 Fred. Forget that you're a married, middle-aged loser? 59 00:05:12,479 --> 00:05:14,106 I never gave it a thought. 60 00:05:14,648 --> 00:05:17,150 I just came by to get a key to the pool. 61 00:05:17,234 --> 00:05:18,986 I already gave you a key. 62 00:05:19,069 --> 00:05:20,779 I lost it. 63 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:22,531 Well, now that is tough. 64 00:05:24,491 --> 00:05:26,535 When I gave you a key to the pool area... 65 00:05:26,618 --> 00:05:27,786 I assumed that you and I might... 66 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:29,580 You assumed wrong. 67 00:05:29,913 --> 00:05:31,206 Did I? 68 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:36,837 You do bring it out in men, Selena. 69 00:05:37,045 --> 00:05:39,590 As you've pointed out before, it's my nature. 70 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:42,843 Back to the showers, Fred. 71 00:05:45,304 --> 00:05:48,140 And the way you turn heads, I have to ask myself... 72 00:05:49,099 --> 00:05:52,394 where can all this lead to? Meaning what? 73 00:05:52,477 --> 00:05:54,813 I've had an extremely unpleasant morning... 74 00:05:54,855 --> 00:05:58,483 listening to Hack Weller's hysterical wife on the phone. 75 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:01,361 What's her problem? 76 00:06:01,445 --> 00:06:05,073 She says Hack's disappeared. She fears the worst. 77 00:06:05,157 --> 00:06:07,993 Really. Am I a suspect? 78 00:06:08,035 --> 00:06:10,287 I haven't thought it out that far. 79 00:06:10,370 --> 00:06:11,747 How thrilling. 80 00:06:12,623 --> 00:06:15,292 It's impressive to see you doing your job, Lucas. 81 00:06:15,375 --> 00:06:18,086 It's no secret Hack Weller had a thing for you. 82 00:06:19,046 --> 00:06:22,674 Well, so do you, when the mood strikes. You should be flattered. 83 00:06:23,550 --> 00:06:24,927 I make the effort. 84 00:06:27,554 --> 00:06:30,974 So when some man doesn't come home to his little wife... 85 00:06:31,058 --> 00:06:33,602 he must've been with me. Is that it? 86 00:06:33,685 --> 00:06:36,396 In a world of possibilities, it's a short reach. 87 00:06:37,856 --> 00:06:40,067 Well, then the next time that mood strikes... 88 00:06:40,150 --> 00:06:42,402 I suggest you reach for yourself. 89 00:06:51,328 --> 00:06:54,998 I usually deal with corpses, Miss Emory, not skeletons. 90 00:06:55,082 --> 00:06:57,543 Dr. Webb, why don't you just take a look at the bones... 91 00:06:57,584 --> 00:07:00,003 and see if you can determine a cause of death? 92 00:07:00,087 --> 00:07:03,382 I can check for poisons and such, but it may take a while. 93 00:07:03,465 --> 00:07:05,843 You take all the time you want, Curtis. 94 00:07:06,426 --> 00:07:08,220 I'll make sure no one disturbs you. 95 00:07:08,303 --> 00:07:11,014 You holding a press conference, Mr. Coroner? 96 00:07:11,139 --> 00:07:12,891 I was just... 97 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:16,270 explaining the situation, Lucas. Yeah? 98 00:07:18,146 --> 00:07:20,399 Maybe you'd like to explain it to me. 99 00:07:22,818 --> 00:07:27,114 Last night, a couple of kids were poking around at the old Temple place. 100 00:07:27,739 --> 00:07:29,950 What kids? Just some kids. 101 00:07:30,325 --> 00:07:32,911 Well, you tell them to stay off the old Temple place... 102 00:07:32,995 --> 00:07:34,830 because it's now the new Buck place. 103 00:07:34,913 --> 00:07:36,373 Since when? 104 00:07:36,456 --> 00:07:38,792 Caleb's daddy needed a loan, I took over the first... 105 00:07:38,876 --> 00:07:41,086 and now that sorry old farm's in my name. 106 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:44,173 Guess I'll have to put up a fence to keep the vandals out... 107 00:07:44,256 --> 00:07:46,216 while I build my dream house. 108 00:07:50,137 --> 00:07:52,014 Well, what's the big mystery? 109 00:07:58,312 --> 00:08:00,147 A bunch of old Indian bones? 110 00:08:01,315 --> 00:08:04,735 You into archeology now, Harvard? Or witch doctoring. 111 00:08:04,818 --> 00:08:07,279 These aren't old Indian bones, Sheriff. 112 00:08:07,362 --> 00:08:10,782 They're from someone recently deceased and dumped out at the old Temple place. 113 00:08:10,866 --> 00:08:12,951 Excuse me, the new Buck place. 114 00:08:13,327 --> 00:08:16,288 And who do you two geniuses think that someone is? 115 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:19,249 Here, Lucas. 116 00:08:22,794 --> 00:08:24,463 Read it and weep. 117 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:29,968 "Haskell and Betty. Love forever." 118 00:08:30,886 --> 00:08:32,304 Isn't that romantic. 119 00:08:33,263 --> 00:08:36,183 So what? It's Hack Weller, Lucas. 120 00:08:37,392 --> 00:08:39,728 Son of a gun used to start every day with a... 121 00:08:40,062 --> 00:08:42,773 couple of cherry colas and it shows. 122 00:08:43,398 --> 00:08:45,442 Look at them molars. 123 00:08:45,776 --> 00:08:48,946 So your official cause of death is tooth decay? 124 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:51,698 Good work, Curtis. 125 00:08:52,032 --> 00:08:55,536 These are Hack Weller's bones, Lucas. It's a conclusive ID. 126 00:08:56,161 --> 00:08:57,371 The problem is... 127 00:08:59,998 --> 00:09:02,459 I played golf with him Friday. 128 00:09:14,179 --> 00:09:15,764 You Buck? 129 00:09:20,853 --> 00:09:22,312 Do I know you? 130 00:09:22,729 --> 00:09:24,147 Name's Drey. 131 00:09:24,690 --> 00:09:27,150 Lt. Drey. That's with an "E." 132 00:09:28,026 --> 00:09:29,695 State Police. 133 00:09:30,904 --> 00:09:32,364 My sister called me. 134 00:09:33,031 --> 00:09:37,035 Your sister? Yeah, Mrs. Haskell Weller. 135 00:09:38,412 --> 00:09:39,872 Ring a bell? 136 00:09:42,124 --> 00:09:43,792 Guess it does. 137 00:09:44,293 --> 00:09:47,171 Just a little concerned about a conflict of interest. 138 00:09:47,963 --> 00:09:49,381 What conflict? 139 00:09:49,798 --> 00:09:52,718 What interest? And get your feet off my desk. 140 00:09:55,429 --> 00:09:59,016 My sister believes that old Hack was having an affair with... 141 00:09:59,433 --> 00:10:01,018 your girlfriend. 142 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:02,519 I don't have a girlfriend. 143 00:10:07,482 --> 00:10:09,234 Selena Coombs. 144 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:13,071 School teacher and what, close personal friend? 145 00:10:13,614 --> 00:10:15,574 I've already talked to Miss Coombs. 146 00:10:15,866 --> 00:10:17,868 Well, then we're right in sync. 147 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,121 You just go about your business and I'll do mine... 148 00:10:21,371 --> 00:10:23,999 and together I'm sure we can get to the bottom of this. 149 00:10:25,125 --> 00:10:27,294 If your sister's anything like you... 150 00:10:27,461 --> 00:10:29,630 Hack probably ran off with his secretary. 151 00:10:32,633 --> 00:10:34,134 That could be. 152 00:10:36,345 --> 00:10:37,888 But if it's not... 153 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:40,557 and you're involved... 154 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:44,436 I'll end your very life here in Trinity... 155 00:10:45,854 --> 00:10:46,980 Buck. 156 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:01,161 Floyd! 157 00:11:05,541 --> 00:11:07,084 Yes, sir? 158 00:11:09,253 --> 00:11:10,629 Who am I, Floyd? 159 00:11:13,257 --> 00:11:15,175 Why, you're Lucas Buck, Lucas. 160 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:18,512 Have you ever doubted that? 161 00:11:20,722 --> 00:11:22,140 Never dared to, Sheriff. 162 00:12:39,009 --> 00:12:40,302 Hi. 163 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,096 Hi. 164 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:46,517 What's up? 165 00:12:47,434 --> 00:12:49,228 Just thinking. 166 00:12:54,233 --> 00:12:57,110 Our families have always been full of big thinkers. 167 00:12:59,071 --> 00:13:01,323 You got relatives you never heard of? 168 00:13:02,699 --> 00:13:04,284 Maybe. 169 00:13:04,952 --> 00:13:07,788 But if I haven't heard of them, I wouldn't know, right? 170 00:13:09,623 --> 00:13:10,999 Right. 171 00:13:12,709 --> 00:13:16,421 Why do you ask? I just need to know about my history. 172 00:13:18,924 --> 00:13:20,968 That's why you went back to the house. 173 00:13:21,802 --> 00:13:23,470 I need to know who I am. 174 00:13:24,721 --> 00:13:27,224 I know, Caleb. I do. 175 00:13:28,934 --> 00:13:31,061 That's why I came back here. 176 00:13:32,271 --> 00:13:34,273 To find out the truth about my family. 177 00:13:34,815 --> 00:13:37,776 Our family history. Well, that's right. 178 00:13:37,860 --> 00:13:41,530 That's why I need to know. Was I named after someone? 179 00:13:41,947 --> 00:13:43,991 Someone who died before? 180 00:13:44,533 --> 00:13:47,703 Are we talking about the skeleton? I'm talking about me. 181 00:13:47,786 --> 00:13:51,123 I can't say for sure, Caleb. But I don't think so. 182 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:52,916 There's got to be someone. 183 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,460 A Caleb Temple who's been here before, ain't there? 184 00:13:55,544 --> 00:13:58,589 Caleb, I... There's got to be someone come and gone. 185 00:13:58,672 --> 00:14:00,007 Come and gone. 186 00:14:25,532 --> 00:14:26,950 Selena Coombs. 187 00:14:29,453 --> 00:14:31,038 We spoke on the phone. 188 00:14:32,456 --> 00:14:33,957 I'm Lt. Drey. 189 00:14:35,083 --> 00:14:37,503 Are you gonna ask me about Hack Weller? 190 00:14:37,586 --> 00:14:40,172 Because the subject's already gotten boring. 191 00:14:40,672 --> 00:14:42,132 I'll try and keep it lively. 192 00:14:43,425 --> 00:14:44,760 You knew him? 193 00:14:45,511 --> 00:14:47,054 Basically. 194 00:14:48,222 --> 00:14:49,806 He had eyes for you? 195 00:14:52,518 --> 00:14:54,019 Whatever that means. 196 00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,566 Well? 197 00:15:00,108 --> 00:15:03,111 Well, what? Men hit on me. Sometimes I hit back. 198 00:15:03,362 --> 00:15:04,738 Hi, Selena. 199 00:15:06,698 --> 00:15:08,242 Hi, Ossie. 200 00:15:12,287 --> 00:15:13,705 Bye, Ossie. 201 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:24,716 You were saying? 202 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,803 Are you bored with your marriage, Lieutenant? 203 00:15:29,721 --> 00:15:32,057 I thought I was asking the questions. 204 00:15:32,432 --> 00:15:35,102 Why is it you're supposed to stick it out forever... 205 00:15:35,185 --> 00:15:37,563 with some guy you picked up in a bar... 206 00:15:38,397 --> 00:15:40,983 just because you had one too many... 207 00:15:41,567 --> 00:15:44,194 or happened to like his green necktie? 208 00:15:45,445 --> 00:15:47,739 And then after you're married, you realize... 209 00:15:48,323 --> 00:15:50,200 oh, my God... 210 00:15:50,742 --> 00:15:54,872 it was the guy with the blue necktie that I really liked. 211 00:15:56,164 --> 00:15:57,624 Then it's too late. 212 00:16:00,919 --> 00:16:03,463 Your take on the sanctity of marriage is about the same as... 213 00:16:03,547 --> 00:16:05,382 my late brother-in-law's. 214 00:16:06,341 --> 00:16:10,846 Hack Weller used to waddle out of his way to see me on the street. 215 00:16:11,597 --> 00:16:13,974 The only thing I remember about him, frankly... 216 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:16,560 is how he'd flip that one long... 217 00:16:16,602 --> 00:16:19,146 strand of hair over his bald spot. 218 00:16:20,772 --> 00:16:23,233 A totally, utterly useless attempt. 219 00:16:23,859 --> 00:16:26,737 But still enough to cause a jealous boyfriend to kill him. 220 00:16:28,197 --> 00:16:29,823 I hate that word. 221 00:16:30,782 --> 00:16:33,410 Kill? Boyfriend. 222 00:16:34,703 --> 00:16:36,079 Another martini? 223 00:16:50,511 --> 00:16:52,095 Miss Emory. 224 00:16:52,346 --> 00:16:56,808 I am so pleased to finally have a reporter covering the museum. 225 00:16:58,101 --> 00:16:59,478 This season we are featuring... 226 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,023 I'm sorry, I think you misunderstood my message, Mrs. Constantine. 227 00:17:03,106 --> 00:17:04,316 How so? 228 00:17:04,608 --> 00:17:06,693 I want to ask you about Hack Weller. 229 00:17:08,487 --> 00:17:09,947 Mr. Weller. 230 00:17:10,197 --> 00:17:13,200 Well, he is a typical homo sapien... 231 00:17:13,283 --> 00:17:15,661 late 20th century North American. 232 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,790 But hardly of any real anthropological interest. 233 00:17:20,791 --> 00:17:23,502 I thought you would have heard by now. 234 00:17:24,503 --> 00:17:26,713 His remains were found in a shallow grave. 235 00:17:27,172 --> 00:17:28,882 No, I hadn't heard. 236 00:17:29,216 --> 00:17:31,885 Mr. Weller's body wasn't completely found. 237 00:17:32,636 --> 00:17:34,137 Just bones. 238 00:17:34,555 --> 00:17:36,515 No flesh. No skin. 239 00:17:36,598 --> 00:17:38,725 And he's only been dead three days. 240 00:17:39,768 --> 00:17:42,396 I know you're a paleontologist, and I was hoping that... 241 00:17:42,479 --> 00:17:46,316 maybe you could shed some light on how this could happen so quickly. 242 00:17:47,734 --> 00:17:49,027 This way. 243 00:17:50,237 --> 00:17:52,406 Let me try to explain. 244 00:17:53,866 --> 00:17:57,411 When an animal comes to us recently deceased... 245 00:17:57,494 --> 00:17:59,496 let us say, from the zoo... 246 00:17:59,580 --> 00:18:02,958 our flenser prepares the carcass for the Bug Chamber. 247 00:18:04,251 --> 00:18:05,627 The Bug Chamber. 248 00:18:07,379 --> 00:18:09,548 That's where our beetles do their work. 249 00:18:09,631 --> 00:18:11,842 They're remarkable creatures. 250 00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:13,886 In what way? 251 00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:17,306 Why, they can strip a carcass to the bone in a matter of hours. 252 00:18:17,389 --> 00:18:19,766 They're the piranhas of the insect family. 253 00:18:20,893 --> 00:18:22,394 Lovely. 254 00:18:22,728 --> 00:18:25,522 They hide from the light, Miss Emory. 255 00:18:26,231 --> 00:18:29,151 But I assure you they are in there. 256 00:18:30,611 --> 00:18:34,448 Thousands of dermestid beetles, munching away. 257 00:18:36,992 --> 00:18:40,037 Would you like to see them? No, thanks. 258 00:18:42,247 --> 00:18:44,249 Just one more question, Mrs. Constantine. 259 00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:47,002 Where are these beetles from? 260 00:18:47,628 --> 00:18:49,338 Why, they're local, dear. 261 00:18:49,755 --> 00:18:51,298 They're everywhere. 262 00:19:02,893 --> 00:19:04,269 Caleb. 263 00:19:05,604 --> 00:19:08,273 What are you looking for? Me. 264 00:19:09,608 --> 00:19:11,985 Well, you're right here, silly. No. 265 00:19:12,486 --> 00:19:15,906 I've seen my own grave, Merly. My name on the stone. 266 00:19:16,782 --> 00:19:19,743 You're going to be here for a long time to come, Caleb. 267 00:19:19,785 --> 00:19:20,994 How do you know? 268 00:19:21,078 --> 00:19:23,872 You can't see the future, you're living in the past. 269 00:19:24,665 --> 00:19:26,959 That doesn't sound like you, Caleb. 270 00:19:27,209 --> 00:19:28,544 It's true. 271 00:19:29,628 --> 00:19:32,130 You're dead, and now it's gonna be my turn. 272 00:19:33,298 --> 00:19:35,509 What's the matter with you, Caleb? 273 00:19:35,592 --> 00:19:38,637 What's the matter with our family? That's what I want to know. 274 00:19:39,388 --> 00:19:41,807 Everybody's dead and gone, Merly. 275 00:19:42,391 --> 00:19:44,643 That's not exactly my fault. 276 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:47,521 I didn't ask to be killed. 277 00:19:50,065 --> 00:19:51,650 Merly? 278 00:20:52,836 --> 00:20:54,213 Hello? 279 00:21:24,910 --> 00:21:26,078 God. 280 00:21:26,161 --> 00:21:29,706 Come on now, Selena, I'm just trying to check up on you. 281 00:21:29,790 --> 00:21:31,625 No harm, no foul, right? 282 00:21:31,708 --> 00:21:33,418 I came here to be alone. 283 00:21:33,585 --> 00:21:35,212 Well, we are alone. 284 00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:37,840 I thought you might like a swimming lesson. 285 00:21:38,090 --> 00:21:40,092 Not interested, Fred. 286 00:21:40,926 --> 00:21:43,428 Hey, now, you and the Sheriff, you're not so tight anymore. 287 00:21:43,470 --> 00:21:45,514 So if there's a void in... 288 00:21:45,597 --> 00:21:47,766 The void's between your ears. 289 00:21:48,642 --> 00:21:50,435 Go home to your wife. 290 00:21:53,647 --> 00:21:56,859 Now come on, Selena. What am I supposed to do here by myself? 291 00:21:57,234 --> 00:21:58,694 Stroke. 292 00:22:05,242 --> 00:22:07,828 I know you 293 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:10,747 I know you want me, baby 294 00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:14,293 'Cause I'm your 295 00:22:15,169 --> 00:22:16,545 baby 296 00:24:17,291 --> 00:24:18,667 Merly? 297 00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:23,463 Merly? 298 00:24:37,060 --> 00:24:38,729 I knew it was just a matter of time... 299 00:24:38,770 --> 00:24:40,814 before curiosity got the better of you. 300 00:24:45,527 --> 00:24:47,696 You're wondering what's in there, aren't you? 301 00:24:48,113 --> 00:24:49,865 Your past. Or your future. 302 00:24:50,282 --> 00:24:52,784 Ain't that why you're here? Yeah. 303 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:54,953 Well, I'll tell you, son. 304 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:58,498 This is what happens to a man who makes nothing of his life. 305 00:24:58,790 --> 00:25:01,251 He just ends up rotting and alone. 306 00:25:01,752 --> 00:25:03,837 And a boy like you with no family... 307 00:25:03,921 --> 00:25:05,547 no one to show him the finer things... 308 00:25:05,631 --> 00:25:08,091 you may be doomed to come back here, time and again. 309 00:25:09,468 --> 00:25:11,428 Till you decide to stay for good. 310 00:25:15,182 --> 00:25:16,975 Go on. Take a look. 311 00:25:17,184 --> 00:25:18,977 See what's in there. 312 00:25:26,151 --> 00:25:27,861 Well, look at that. 313 00:25:28,070 --> 00:25:31,782 Money. $30,000. Pick it up. 314 00:25:34,368 --> 00:25:36,453 Now, what do you think this means, Caleb? 315 00:25:37,162 --> 00:25:38,622 I don't know. 316 00:25:38,956 --> 00:25:40,791 Hell, it means you're rich, boy. 317 00:25:41,667 --> 00:25:43,460 It's mine? That's right. 318 00:25:43,752 --> 00:25:45,504 Little present from me to you. 319 00:25:45,754 --> 00:25:47,339 But in order to make it work... 320 00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:50,133 you gotta have the vision. 321 00:25:54,888 --> 00:25:56,348 Come on. 322 00:26:03,397 --> 00:26:05,941 Imagine a big old estate home, right here. 323 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:09,444 Filled with parlors and powder rooms... 324 00:26:09,528 --> 00:26:11,655 and staircases going every which way. 325 00:26:12,531 --> 00:26:14,074 Can you see it? 326 00:26:15,075 --> 00:26:16,869 Sort of. Look hard. 327 00:26:18,203 --> 00:26:20,789 It's got lawns that stretch all the way to the creek. 328 00:26:21,123 --> 00:26:23,542 With a whole staff of people mowing them for you. 329 00:26:24,710 --> 00:26:27,546 Mowing them for Mr. Temple. 330 00:26:28,964 --> 00:26:30,966 Me? That's right. 331 00:26:31,383 --> 00:26:34,011 You can't live in a boarding house all your life. 332 00:26:34,511 --> 00:26:36,889 That money's just the beginning. Little nest egg. 333 00:26:36,930 --> 00:26:40,350 And with me to advise you, the sky's the limit. 334 00:26:43,145 --> 00:26:44,688 Meet the future, son. 335 00:26:53,322 --> 00:26:54,907 Who am I, Floyd? 336 00:26:57,242 --> 00:26:59,244 You're Lucas Buck, Lucas. 337 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,458 Damn right. 338 00:27:16,345 --> 00:27:19,973 Can I get you two anything? Cocktails? Refreshments? 339 00:27:21,308 --> 00:27:23,685 We needed some privacy. I can see that. 340 00:27:25,437 --> 00:27:28,273 Don't mind me. I'll just find myself another private office. 341 00:27:28,357 --> 00:27:30,442 Lucas. Having a nice chat? 342 00:27:31,610 --> 00:27:33,529 Coach Bender's missing. 343 00:27:35,447 --> 00:27:37,407 Is that a plus or a minus? 344 00:27:37,449 --> 00:27:38,951 He didn't come home last night. 345 00:27:38,992 --> 00:27:41,995 Well, Lieutenant, maybe I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box here... 346 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:46,041 but if I had to give a nickel for every man that didn't come home to his wife... 347 00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:48,085 I'd be minting them. 348 00:27:49,044 --> 00:27:50,337 So where do you suppose he is? 349 00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:52,798 He's probably sleeping it off somewhere. 350 00:27:53,549 --> 00:27:55,592 Lounging around the old swimming pool. 351 00:27:55,884 --> 00:27:58,387 I understand you gave him a bit of a... 352 00:27:59,054 --> 00:28:00,973 choke hold yesterday... 353 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,767 around the old swimming pool. 354 00:28:03,892 --> 00:28:06,061 Yeah. It was quite a choke hold. 355 00:28:06,186 --> 00:28:07,938 The mother of all choke holds. 356 00:28:09,231 --> 00:28:11,275 Your witness tell you that? 357 00:28:11,316 --> 00:28:13,443 Miss Coombs isn't a witness. 358 00:28:14,945 --> 00:28:17,281 She's in my protective custody, matter of fact. 359 00:28:17,865 --> 00:28:20,075 She does enjoy her handcuffs. 360 00:28:22,494 --> 00:28:24,705 Bender approached Miss Coombs last night. 361 00:28:25,372 --> 00:28:27,416 She was the last person to see him. 362 00:28:27,791 --> 00:28:29,209 Well. 363 00:28:29,293 --> 00:28:31,336 Surprise, surprise. 364 00:28:32,004 --> 00:28:33,839 Hack Weller's after her. 365 00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:35,966 And bang, he's a drumstick. 366 00:28:36,175 --> 00:28:37,801 Coach makes a pass... 367 00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:40,053 now he's missing in action. 368 00:28:40,137 --> 00:28:42,097 Do I smell a trend here? 369 00:28:42,639 --> 00:28:46,268 Could we be looking at a woman with a serious man problem? 370 00:28:49,646 --> 00:28:51,523 I've had enough of you. 371 00:28:52,024 --> 00:28:53,358 That mean I'm next? 372 00:28:53,442 --> 00:28:56,695 She's not a suspect, Sheriff. But you are. 373 00:28:58,614 --> 00:29:00,324 You got a warrant to that effect? 374 00:29:00,365 --> 00:29:04,453 There's a warrant on your desk granting me access to your property. 375 00:29:05,954 --> 00:29:07,372 Miss Coombs? 376 00:29:28,894 --> 00:29:30,020 Merly? 377 00:29:33,774 --> 00:29:36,360 Merly, how would you like a new house of our own? 378 00:29:38,654 --> 00:29:39,821 A real home. 379 00:29:42,574 --> 00:29:44,368 Sheriff Buck says we can have... 380 00:29:44,785 --> 00:29:47,538 acres of lawn with a whole army of men... 381 00:29:47,579 --> 00:29:49,498 on riding mowers. 382 00:29:50,624 --> 00:29:54,628 Says we wouldn't have nothing to do except swing in the hammock and swap stories. 383 00:29:55,546 --> 00:29:57,256 Sound good to you, Merly? 384 00:30:00,425 --> 00:30:01,552 Merly? 385 00:30:14,565 --> 00:30:15,941 Miss Coombs? 386 00:30:19,403 --> 00:30:20,696 Miss Coombs? 387 00:30:21,572 --> 00:30:23,031 Hello? 388 00:30:31,540 --> 00:30:32,541 Hello? 389 00:30:35,878 --> 00:30:37,963 Miss Coombs, it's Gail Emory. 390 00:31:22,257 --> 00:31:25,802 You wouldn't take Miss Coombs for a big dried-flower arranger, would you? 391 00:31:26,595 --> 00:31:29,640 Who are you? Lt. Drey. State Police. 392 00:31:32,017 --> 00:31:33,727 You a friend of Miss Coombs? 393 00:31:35,437 --> 00:31:38,941 Not really. Then what are you doing? 394 00:31:39,775 --> 00:31:41,276 Just leaving. 395 00:31:48,534 --> 00:31:51,703 What are you doing here? I came to pick her up. 396 00:31:54,248 --> 00:31:55,874 Well, good luck. 397 00:32:04,299 --> 00:32:05,968 Poor Coach Bender. 398 00:32:06,468 --> 00:32:08,387 He had a chance to go to Gainesville... 399 00:32:08,428 --> 00:32:10,138 as an assistant coach to the Gators. 400 00:32:10,556 --> 00:32:12,349 But he elected to stay here. 401 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:14,810 Ordinarily a wise decision, Miss Coombs. 402 00:32:14,893 --> 00:32:17,729 But nowadays, seems people aren't safe anywhere. 403 00:32:18,063 --> 00:32:19,690 Even in Trinity. 404 00:32:21,108 --> 00:32:23,777 You always disturb evidence with such impunity, Buck? 405 00:32:25,070 --> 00:32:27,698 You always go around barking up the wrong tree, Drey? 406 00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:31,076 We've already been through this, Buck. You're a suspect. 407 00:32:31,118 --> 00:32:33,120 This is a crime scene. I could arrest you. 408 00:32:33,453 --> 00:32:37,082 Go ahead. You got yourself in the middle of a big whodunit, Lieutenant... 409 00:32:37,165 --> 00:32:40,794 and I'm the last one to want to piss on your hydrant. So go ahead, do your thing. 410 00:32:40,878 --> 00:32:42,254 Here. 411 00:32:42,588 --> 00:32:44,214 Here's some evidence for you. 412 00:32:46,967 --> 00:32:49,011 What's the matter with you, man? 413 00:32:50,179 --> 00:32:51,388 Nothing. 414 00:32:52,681 --> 00:32:54,391 Well, I'll tell you what... 415 00:32:55,893 --> 00:32:58,187 in the spirit of mutual cooperation... 416 00:32:58,270 --> 00:33:00,731 between our law enforcement agencies... 417 00:33:02,149 --> 00:33:03,609 let me give you a... 418 00:33:04,651 --> 00:33:06,195 solid lead. 419 00:33:23,003 --> 00:33:24,755 Mrs. Constantine? 420 00:33:36,642 --> 00:33:39,394 Because of the constant threat of predators... 421 00:33:39,478 --> 00:33:42,105 most herbivores of the woodlands are protected by... 422 00:33:42,189 --> 00:33:44,983 Lt. Drey, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. 423 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:48,195 Welcome to the Trinity Museum of Natural History. 424 00:33:48,362 --> 00:33:50,906 What, there's a museum of unnatural history? 425 00:33:51,281 --> 00:33:55,160 Lieutenant, only when dealing with the human element. 426 00:33:56,370 --> 00:33:59,831 So what makes you think that my museum is connected to a murder? 427 00:34:00,165 --> 00:34:03,669 Just some goofy notion of mine. And it's two murders. 428 00:34:04,503 --> 00:34:05,963 Sheriff Buck told me quite a bit... 429 00:34:06,046 --> 00:34:08,715 about your experience with skeletal remains, so naturally... 430 00:34:08,799 --> 00:34:12,594 You'll want to go right through that door to the Flensing Room. 431 00:34:13,929 --> 00:34:15,180 Thank you. 432 00:34:15,264 --> 00:34:17,349 Scientists have noted that a predator will return... 433 00:34:17,432 --> 00:34:19,351 to its original hunting ground... 434 00:34:19,434 --> 00:34:20,686 Excuse me... 435 00:34:20,769 --> 00:34:23,814 ...its prey have grown to a level that supports hunting. 436 00:34:24,022 --> 00:34:27,276 Ground-based predators usually hunt in a smaller area than birds of prey... 437 00:34:27,359 --> 00:34:28,610 What the hell's a Flensing Room? 438 00:34:28,694 --> 00:34:32,197 ...or other flight based predators. Consequently, ground-based... 439 00:35:08,734 --> 00:35:11,028 I need to see Sheriff Buck. 440 00:35:11,528 --> 00:35:14,031 He ain't in, ma'am. So where is he? 441 00:35:14,573 --> 00:35:17,910 Sheriff Buck doesn't exactly sign in and out. 442 00:35:18,202 --> 00:35:20,704 He went into the field. The field? 443 00:35:20,829 --> 00:35:24,249 Yes, ma'am. To assist Lt. Drey in his investigation. 444 00:35:24,333 --> 00:35:25,709 So where's Drey? 445 00:35:25,751 --> 00:35:28,462 I believe he went over to the museum... 446 00:35:28,545 --> 00:35:30,380 on official business. 447 00:35:50,192 --> 00:35:51,485 Lt. Drey? 448 00:36:14,341 --> 00:36:15,551 Hello? 449 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:12,858 My God. 450 00:38:15,838 --> 00:38:18,590 Please, let me help you. 451 00:38:21,051 --> 00:38:24,054 You're Ossie Spichtig. 452 00:38:25,097 --> 00:38:26,348 Yes. 453 00:38:27,057 --> 00:38:28,517 Director of Flensing Services. 454 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,727 I'm sorry about this... 455 00:38:32,145 --> 00:38:33,355 situation. 456 00:38:34,773 --> 00:38:36,608 But he had it coming. 457 00:38:36,942 --> 00:38:40,779 I hated the thought of them touching her. I know. 458 00:38:45,492 --> 00:38:47,786 You have such fine features. 459 00:38:49,413 --> 00:38:51,415 Not as soft as Selena's... 460 00:38:52,165 --> 00:38:54,001 but beautiful all the same. 461 00:38:54,751 --> 00:38:55,919 Thanks. 462 00:39:01,550 --> 00:39:03,468 You're wondering... 463 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,638 if you open that lid, if he can save you. 464 00:39:08,098 --> 00:39:09,766 Or if you can save him. 465 00:39:11,894 --> 00:39:14,730 But you're afraid of what you're going to see, aren't you? 466 00:39:16,857 --> 00:39:18,150 Don't be. 467 00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:23,322 I couldn't let them soil her with their lascivious little come-ons. 468 00:39:24,448 --> 00:39:26,450 Cheating on their wives. 469 00:39:26,783 --> 00:39:28,911 Their locker-room jokes and innuendoes. 470 00:39:28,994 --> 00:39:31,330 That's no reason to kill somebody. 471 00:39:32,122 --> 00:39:35,334 I mean, come on. Let the poor guy go. 472 00:39:37,127 --> 00:39:39,087 I'm not gonna tell Sheriff Buck. 473 00:39:39,838 --> 00:39:41,173 Buck! 474 00:39:44,134 --> 00:39:46,136 It's me he wants, ain't that right, Ossie? 475 00:39:46,178 --> 00:39:49,723 You wanted me chewed clean like Hack Weller and Coach Bender. 476 00:39:50,307 --> 00:39:52,059 Like I said, they deserved it. 477 00:39:52,267 --> 00:39:54,394 You've probably got enough for your story, Miss Emory. 478 00:39:54,478 --> 00:39:57,940 Why don't you run along and I'll give you some good quotes later on? 479 00:40:06,406 --> 00:40:08,116 You're bugging me. 480 00:40:13,455 --> 00:40:14,873 He bugging you? 481 00:40:29,930 --> 00:40:32,391 I do believe I owe you an apology. 482 00:40:34,059 --> 00:40:35,769 On several counts. 483 00:40:37,855 --> 00:40:39,940 I didn't know there was more than one. 484 00:40:40,566 --> 00:40:43,569 You tried to set me up on all those terrible crimes. 485 00:40:45,696 --> 00:40:47,698 You had me going, darling. 486 00:40:48,574 --> 00:40:52,035 I asked myself, is sweet Selena really capable of it? 487 00:40:53,245 --> 00:40:57,040 Well, tell the truth, I was disappointed that State policeman didn't... 488 00:40:57,416 --> 00:40:59,751 take me seriously as a suspect. 489 00:41:00,878 --> 00:41:02,504 I certainly did. 490 00:41:03,297 --> 00:41:06,550 The only thing those men had in common was an infatuation with you. 491 00:41:07,301 --> 00:41:08,677 That's another thing. 492 00:41:09,136 --> 00:41:12,431 Just because I'm free with you doesn't make me easy. 493 00:41:12,806 --> 00:41:17,269 I did question your conduct with Hack Weller, which was brutally insensitive of me. 494 00:41:18,770 --> 00:41:20,606 I was deeply offended. 495 00:41:21,231 --> 00:41:23,233 Some retribution was only fair. 496 00:41:24,193 --> 00:41:27,905 And it was amusing how you let me twist in the wind with old Drey there. 497 00:41:27,946 --> 00:41:30,073 By God, he thought he had me. 498 00:41:30,616 --> 00:41:33,619 And you just let my suspicious nature go on and... 499 00:41:34,244 --> 00:41:37,122 cloud my thinking, letting Drey come onto you and all. 500 00:41:38,415 --> 00:41:40,918 It was good sport, I will say that. 501 00:41:41,627 --> 00:41:43,170 Then... 502 00:41:45,130 --> 00:41:46,632 let's make up. 503 00:42:43,021 --> 00:42:44,523 My congratulations. 504 00:42:47,359 --> 00:42:48,652 For what? 505 00:42:49,444 --> 00:42:51,363 For pursuing the truth, Miss Emory. 506 00:42:52,364 --> 00:42:54,825 Isn't that why you were looking for me last night? 507 00:42:55,158 --> 00:42:57,786 Or did you have a more social activity in mind? 508 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,873 Now, the only social activity that I'd have in mind... 509 00:43:00,914 --> 00:43:03,500 is to testify against you at the grand jury. 510 00:43:04,459 --> 00:43:07,087 Well, maybe someday, Miss Emory. 511 00:43:08,297 --> 00:43:09,715 But... 512 00:43:10,424 --> 00:43:12,676 just keep something in mind, will you? 513 00:43:12,718 --> 00:43:14,219 What's that? 514 00:43:15,846 --> 00:43:17,848 The illusion of free will. 515 00:43:18,557 --> 00:43:20,517 And what's that supposed to mean? 516 00:43:20,809 --> 00:43:24,354 Whether you stay here in Trinity, or scoot on back to Charleston... 517 00:43:25,397 --> 00:43:26,773 makes no difference. 518 00:43:27,733 --> 00:43:29,568 You only think it's your decision. 519 00:43:30,694 --> 00:43:33,071 You're dreaming. Am I? 520 00:43:33,864 --> 00:43:36,491 Seems to me, you're the one who's troubled by dreams. 521 00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:40,370 Are you Sheriff Buck? 522 00:43:45,876 --> 00:43:48,045 I'm Betty Weller, Hack's widow. 523 00:43:50,088 --> 00:43:51,632 I'm so sorry. 524 00:43:57,596 --> 00:44:01,308 I just wanted to thank you personally. For what? 525 00:44:02,184 --> 00:44:05,979 For being so generous, to have given each one of us... 526 00:44:06,438 --> 00:44:10,609 Coach Bender's wife and myself, $15,000 apiece. 527 00:44:11,944 --> 00:44:14,112 Why, you have no idea what that means. 528 00:44:16,532 --> 00:44:18,075 I believe I do. 529 00:44:22,538 --> 00:44:24,998 Now I lay me down to sleep. 530 00:44:25,874 --> 00:44:28,877 I pray the Lord my soul to keep. 531 00:44:30,128 --> 00:44:31,588 If I die... 532 00:44:38,804 --> 00:44:40,973 If I die before I wake... 533 00:44:43,392 --> 00:44:44,560 Merly? 534 00:44:48,772 --> 00:44:50,941 I thought if I gave that money away... 535 00:44:51,692 --> 00:44:53,569 everything would be okay. 536 00:44:58,949 --> 00:45:01,326 I'm sorry the way I doubted you. 537 00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:05,539 Sorry I trusted Sheriff Buck. 538 00:45:08,417 --> 00:45:10,002 I'm sorry, Merly. 539 00:45:11,086 --> 00:45:12,671 I'm sorry. 540 00:45:14,173 --> 00:45:15,883 I'm sorry, Merly.