(electronic music)
(saw buzzing)
(birds chirping)
(dramatic music)
(footsteps approaching)
- [Martin] Hi honey.
- Hi.
- Rough day huh?
- I don't want to lose this good thing that I've got
'cause if I do I will surely surely lose a lot
'cause his love is better than any love I know.
He's like thunder, lightning.
The way he loves me it's frightening.
I better knock on wood baby.
- Doesn't she ever shut up? - Never.
So can I go home now?
- I'll talk to somebody
about getting you a private room or something.
- I don't like it here, why can't I just go home?
- No. - Why not?
- 'Cause I can't afford the suits.
- I'm sorry about that.
- You are gonna have to stay here for a little while longer.
- Hello Mrs. Jarett, time for these.
Oh Mr. Jarett it's almost noon.
- Fine, I'm going.
- Thank you dear.
- Listen about the suits, it was just a thing, I'm fine now.
- Do you want anything, a magazine, something like that?
- Are you going now?
- You're gonna be out of it in about five minutes.
Want me to wait?
Want me to stay? - No.
- I'll wait.
- [Crazy Woman] I better knock on wood.
I better knock on...
(eerie music)
- A new house?
- 'Cause his love is better than any love I know.
- You're crazy, you're crazy.
I'll tell them you're mad, this woman is crazy.
Do you understand, she's mad, she's crazy.
Doctor!
Doctor, Doctor, this woman is insane.
She is crazy, she's crazy I'm telling you, she's nuts.
(laughing)
She's crazy.
- The doctor said you were free
to leave in a couple of days. - You can't be serious?
- That the peace and quiet could do you good.
- I'm free?
(eerie music)
- You're free.
- You're free Alice.
- [Alice] I'm free?
- You're free Alice.
You're free.
(chainsaw buzzing)
(screaming)
Well there's no point in being inactive,
just don't overdo it either.
Try to stay at home as much as possible.
- Good luck Alice. - Relax.
- I am relaxed.
- Well get more relaxed. (laughing)
- Okay.
- A house in the country is just what you need
to get you firmly on your feet.
- I am on my feet.
(laughing)
- Well get more on your feet.
Oh and don't forget, if you have trouble getting to sleep
take two of the tranquilizers or one even
if your dreams are troubling you.
- I'm sure I'll be fine.
- I'm sure you will too.
- Oh and I'm sure you'll take good care of her.
- I'm sure I will.
- And I don't want to see you back here again.
You'd have to be crazy to come back to a place like this.
(laughing)
(eerie music)
- [Barry] Mr. Jarett.
- It's beautiful.
- Honey.
Honey.
This Barry Farnsworth,
he's in charge of the renovations here.
- Hello. - A pleasure, a pleasure.
Well what do you think of it?
- It's beautiful, it's huge.
How are we going to pay for all of this?
- I got a paper route.
(eerie music)
Don't worry it'll warm up in a couple of weeks.
(eerie music)
(saw buzzing)
(power tool banging)
I'm sorry, it's my wife.
- It's okay I'm fine, I'm fine.
Look it just startled me. - What?
- It's fine.
(eerie music)
- [Alice] Oh it's beautiful.
- Hell of a place. - Hell of a place.
- It's so big.
- [Barry] Well it needs a lot of work still,
but still one hell of a place.
- [Martin] I practically have to sell my soul for it,
but when it's done it'll be a hell of a place.
- [Alice] It's just like heaven.
- [Man] Morning.
- Hi. - Hi.
(eerie music)
(insects buzzing)
- [Man] So we had a couple of drinks and that was it.
I left, you know.
- So you didn't-- - No I didn't, I told you,
the guy was there, she was there,
we both felt stupid, another time.
- Hey guys you want to give me a hand with scaffolding?
- You're an idiot. - Okay so I'm an idiot,
so great.
- So give me a goddamn cigarette idiot.
- Ah gee sorry, I only got 11 left.
- Only 11, nice guy.
Nice dickhead.
- Come on guys, back to work huh?
- Need a break boss.
- Listen you've been on a break for the last half hour.
It doesn't look good, come on.
- Hey one more smoke, huh?
- Back to work, come on, get going now, now.
(dog barking)
- [Martin] Taking yours?
- What?
- Tranquilizers.
- No I don't need any.
- They help you sleep, just like sleeping pills.
- [Alice] It's so quiet here
I really don't think they're necessary.
- I can't seem to nod off without mine,
especially when it's quiet.
- [Alice] Why do you have so much trouble sleeping anyway?
- I'm a vampire.
- Goodnight.
(clock ticking)
(handsaw scraping)
(clanging)
Martin.
Martin do you hear that?
(hammer pounding)
(power tool buzzing) (suspenseful music)
(hammer pounding)
What are you doing?
- Just getting the job done ma'am.
- Now?
Do you have any idea what time it is?
- Well a job ain't done till it's done huh?
(rat squeaking)
(nail gun popping)
(rat screeching)
Oh it's a nail gun.
You know I'd rather use a hammer,
but these things just rip the heck out of the rats.
- [Alice] I can see that.
- [Ed] I'd best set some traps,
that'd probably be a lot cleaner.
- I guess so.
Look this work, do you have to do it now?
- Well it ain't done, and yeah it's gotta be done.
- Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
At least someone's working around here.
(musical whistling)
(hammer pounding)
Martin.
- [Martin] Hmm?
- I was thinking of doing some shopping.
Maybe find some wallpaper.
- Let's get everything else finished first
and then we'll talk about wallpaper later.
What's your big hurry?
- Yeah but I'd like to take a look around
and well if I see anything do you have any money?
- We'll have to talk about this some other time.
I'm late as it is.
Bye bye honey, have a nice day.
(power tools buzzing) (hammering)
(engine starting)
- Hello?
Hello?
(hammer pounding)
- What the hell's going on around here guys?
- What are you talking about?
- Have you seen the basement?
- No.
- Well I went down there last night before going home
and there was nothing done.
I go in this morning and it's almost finished.
- Get out of here. - Yeah it's true.
- Barns probably did it himself and then he forgot.
(laughing) - Hey fuck you.
Look basement walls don't dress themselves alright?
- Well then who did them? - It's scabs.
It's scabs for sure, while we could all use the overtime.
- It's students, he's got
fucking students coming in at night.
- Students. - Yeah maybe.
I don't know though.
Hey you got a smoke? - Huh?
- Do you have a cigarette?
- Hey Barns, phone for you.
- I really can't say Alice, probably late.
Well you know these meetings can go on and on.
Soon as I can.
I promise.
Yes, fine.
- Hi.
- So looks like you're on your own tonight huh?
Yeah I hate eating alone, hate it.
Course you know we could have dinner together huh?
- I don't think so.
- Yeah sure have a little dinner, a couple of drinks,
maybe have a bit of a time of it you know?
Well what do you say huh?
- One aspect worthy of careful note
is the pronounced masculinity factor in Paul Bunyan,
as a matter of fact it can be said
that Paul embodies in the extremes of course
every masculinity trait
that was valued at the time of his conception.
Slide.
Now Paul was a woodcutter, an occupation
obviously associated with robust masculinity,
but he was also a giant.
He was exaggerated, made immense.
Slide please.
Now the man's companion was a big blue ox,
a bull of sorts, a super animal
with obvious male implication,
but the threat of modern technological lifestyle
took Paul Bunyan's brand of masculinity--
(bell ringing)
Alright we'll pick it up next time.
Do the readings, don't forget.
Michelson, chapter four and five.
(moaning)
- So there we were about to do it, right,
and she says to me, "so have a rubber?"
So I look at her and I say "no aren't you okay?"
So she says "if I don't got one then we can't do it."
So I think to myself now there's a girl with class,
if I don't got it then she won't do it,
now that's class if you ask me.
- You call that class?
- [Barns] Yeah that's what I just said.
- Guys you want to talk about class,
let's talk about that Jarett woman okay?
Now there is a woman with class.
- Maybe a little too much class for you.
- Very wrong buddy.
Just so happens I'm supposed to go see her tonight.
Her place, husband away.
- You're full of shit.
- You don't believe it? - No I don't.
- So what do I care?
Anyways that's what I'm doing.
I don't know I'm feeling kind of sensitive.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- You're going home, you're gonna watch some TV.
- Look guys believe what you want okay?
That's what I'm doing.
Would you all excuse me, I'm a little bit busy tonight.
- Have a good time Roland. - Take it easy sport.
(laughing)
(chattering)
(whooping) - He's gone.
(howling)
(bottle clanging)
(knocking on door)
(classical music)
- Mrs. Jarett I'm sorry. - What are you doing here?
- I'm sorry, I realize this is very unannounced.
I just, can I come in? - No.
- See this is the thing Mrs. Jarett
I just couldn't stand the thought of you all alone
in this empty old house. - My husband's home.
- I've come to keep you company.
- Would you please leave? - How about nightcap huh?
And a clever conversation.
Get to know one another, come on what do you say?
- Could you please leave?
- I think we got a lot in common.
Do you read?
Well I don't much but I like you.
I like you a lot so, you like me?
Oh okay don't answer that.
I've seen you.
- Would you please leave now?
- I'd say your life's pretty good isn't it huh?
Yeah.
Busy, active, challenging.
The country life isn't too bad either.
- Could you please go now?
- Of course I'm not gonna be here forever.
- Could you please leave? - No.
Work up a stink and I'm gone.
I'm kind of a city boy myself.
Mind if I join you?
- Would you please go away? - Great thanks.
Look why don't we just crack this open right now huh?
You know Mrs. Jarett I love wine.
I love it, don't know too much about it though you know.
But I know what the hell I like and I like you.
That I do so let's just ease up huh?
Well I do.
(yelling)
- No, no! - Relax.
- [Alice] No!
No.
- [Roland] Come on relax.
- [Alice] No.
(hammer pounding)
- What is that?
Is that what I think it is, huh?
Fucking students.
It's those goddamn fucking scab students.
Well we're just gonna have to have a little chitchat huh?
Yeah?
A little chitty chit chat.
(power tool buzzing)
- And you know you're just gonna have to learn
to keep your hands to yourself aren't you son, huh?
(yelling) (saw buzzing)
(classical music)
Best get some rest, I'll manage things.
(classical music)
(groaning)
(thudding)
(rustling)
(suspenseful music)
- [Alice] What time did you get in last night?
- I don't know, one, 1:30, I don't know.
You were out of it. - I guess so.
- You think you should be taking wine with your medication?
- I'm not taking medication.
- Really, well do you think you should?
- You have a lot to say
about what I should be doing don't you?
- I think you should be taking some medication
before you go to bed I mean.
It could help you with your dreams.
- My dreams are just fine, thank you.
(eerie music)
- What are you looking for?
- I think this house needs a total cleaning, top to bottom.
Everything, floors, ceilings.
- Don't be ridiculous, that would take days.
What's for breakfast?
(dramatic music)
(drum sticks tapping)
- Yes?
Any retail experience at all?
- No, but I'm very good with people.
- Good.
What's your education, do you have any chemistry?
Paint is chemistry, you know that?
- Yes.
Liberal arts mostly. - Liberal arts.
- [Alice] Mm-hm.
- You are aware that we deal in house paints,
not art paints, you are aware of that.
- Well yes.
I'm about to paint my own house.
- Good.
What about health problems?
Anything that we should know?
- Well I recently recovered from a nervous breakdown
that had me in the hospital for several weeks
and sometimes I see things that can't really be happening,
but I know that so I don't think it's really anything
that will interfere with my job.
- Fine, I think you'll do.
When can you start?
(chattering)
(laughing)
- Excuse me Mr. Jarett
could I have a bit of a word with you?
- Yes what is it?
- Well not much, not much, just a little labor problem.
Seems as though we lost our window man.
Roland, he's just disappeared.
- What do you mean disappeared?
- Can't be found is what I mean.
You see some of these guys here, you know, good guys,
but they haven't got the cleanest past.
- I don't think I want to know about this.
- Well, you know, and every now and again
one of them is gonna take off,
but that's why we get them so cheap.
- That is absolutely fabulous Farnsworth.
What you're telling me is I'm going
to have a beautiful house that won't have any windows.
- No that's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is there's gonna be delay,
that's what I'm saying.
- Same price? - Same price.
- So what you are telling me
is that you can get rid of this guy
and yet get the job done for the same price.
- [Barry] Yes, well--
- Well let's start by tightening
things up around here like those two, get rid of them.
Farnsworth I don't want to see slackers here.
- Now listen those guys are just--
- Farnsworth I don't want to see them here anymore.
Get rid of them.
Do it.
(machine rattling)
- So how's your boss?
- He's okay.
He's nervous, he's really nervous.
It makes me nervous.
- What's he so nervous about?
- I don't know.
I never know if he's mad about something
or if he's just nervous.
- Introduce me to him.
- Right now? - Mm-hm.
I'll make him happy. - Rachel.
- How's business girls? - Fine Mr. Mort, fine
Mr. Mort I'd like you to meet my sister Rachel.
- Your sister, well hello, hello.
- How do you do?
- Didn't know you had a sister.
Well sisters are nice.
Nice to have somebody to talk to,
but talking sisters don't sell paint
and we're here to sell paint aren't we Alice?
- Yes Mr. Mort--
- [Rachel] Mr. Mort I'm an interior designer
and I work with one of the largest firms in the state.
Here's my card.
Perhaps you and I can do some business.
- What kind of contract are we talking about here?
- I'd say maybe 40 gallons a month.
- I hope you mean that
because jokes like that make me very nervous
so if you don't mean it just say so.
- I mean it Mr. Mort, I certainly do.
Perhaps we can draw a contract up this week.
So how's my little sister doing at the job?
- Very nicely, very very nicely.
Good head on this girl's shoulders. (laughing)
(dramatic music)
(power tool buzzing)
(humming musically)
- [Alice] Hi.
- Evening ma'am.
- Nice night.
- Nice enough.
- You work pretty hard don't you?
- Well hard work builds the world.
- Yeah, but you work really hard.
Don't you ever take a break?
- Oh not much.
You can lose your momentum that way.
(hammer pounding)
That's the thing about hard work
is you can't lose your momentum.
It's just like music.
(hammer pounding)
- That's a nice thought.
- Well that's just the way it is you know,
once you get it going, once you get the rhythm
it takes on a life of its own
and the moment you stop it.
(clanging)
You kill the rhythm.
- But you've gotta stop sometime.
- Not until the job's done.
- Well then don't let me interfere.
- Oh ma'am you don't break the rhythm at all,
as a matter of fact you fit right in.
- I've got a job too now.
- Well that's fine.
I mean that's real fine.
Yeah I understand that these days
that's a lady's privilege.
- Hard work builds the world. - Yes ma'am.
(musical whistling) (saw scraping)
(power tool buzzing)
(musical whistling)
- Jesus Christ.
- [Man] Jesus Christ.
(musical whistling)
- Hey Farnsworth what the hell is this?
- Listen I'd like to talk to you two guys.
Come here for a second.
Hey guys.
- Yes massa, yes we's a coming,
we's a coming. - Shut up, come on.
- Loosen up.
(horn honking)
- Say I'm gonna have to let you two guys go.
- Yeah right.
- [Barry] Well it's not my choice, understand that.
- What the fuck you talking about?
- Well Jarett saw you horsing around the other day and--
- So?
- Well he doesn't want you on the site.
- Well Jarett's an asshole.
- Well maybe Jarett's an asshole,
but you know my hands are tied.
- You're full of shit Farnsworth.
- Hey take it easy, you know,
you should've kept your nose to the grindstone.
You're fired.
- Yeah, fuck it right?
- Take the rest of the day paid.
(dramatic music)
(hammers pounding)
- [Man] Coffee break.
Coffee break.
(shouting)
(laughing)
(dramatic music)
(vehicle approaching)
(saw buzzing)
(knocking on door)
- Yes?
- Mrs. Jarett? - Yes.
- Johnna Johnston, call me JJ.
As acting sheriff in this community
I just want to welcome both you and your husband
to the town of Earnscliffe.
- Thank you very much.
Would you like to come in?
- Well I don't mind if I do, thank you.
- [Alice] Strong or weak?
- Any way's the right way.
Beautiful house you have here.
- [Alice] Thank you.
- Yeah.
Fascinating history in this house. (laughing)
- [Alice] How's that?
- Funny kind of story.
First heard of it when I was a kid.
- [Alice] Well what is it?
- Well the way it happened was
this guy bought a bit of land to build a house on.
This house.
A guy named Ed Burton.
Mm.
And Ed was a carpenter by trade, small time but good.
Everyone pretty much agreed that Ed
was a nice enough guy except he had a bit of a temper.
A wild temper.
(fly buzzing)
(banging)
So Ed started taking out all these loans all over the place,
for material, rentals, that kind of thing,
and he gets to building his house.
Wouldn't hire nobody to help with it or nothing,
wanted to do it all by himself.
May I?
- Please do. - Thank you.
I love the sugar ones.
Anyway this house got to be a bit of an obsession
with good old Ed. (laughing)
He worked long, long hours.
Wanted to make everything perfect.
- Excuse me. - Oh sure.
Since he was only working on the house
he wasn't bringing in any other money.
A year later the house still wasn't finished
so his creditors came down, repossessed what they could
since it didn't look like Ed was gonna pay up.
And then Ed went a bit nuts about then.
Couldn't deal with the place not being finished.
And that temper of his. (laughing)
(timer ticking)
Started killing a few repo men.
Started killing them in the most
disgusting hideous ways you can imagine.
Killed himself six or seven before they could nail him.
You hear that?
It's the screams of a repo man who lost his head.
A man ripped to pieces and killed without mercy.
A man tore asunder.
(timer bell dinging)
That'll be the tea.
(laughing)
- So what happened to him?
- Went to the chair.
Never did get to finish the place properly.
In fact no one's finished it properly till now.
- That's terrible.
It's so sad.
He sounds like such a nice man.
- Well that's a funny way
to look at psychotic mass murderer.
(laughing)
(power tool buzzing)
(rock music)
- Look, let's just forget it huh, it's only a job.
- [Barns] No I'm not gonna forget this.
This is bullshit, they're gonna pay for this.
We'll screw up the whole fucking job.
It'll be great.
- They're not even Jarett's tools.
They're Farnsworth's.
Jarett couldn't care less.
- Well Farnsworth's got his head up his ass alright?
I mean he could've stood up for us.
Now they both deserve something and I want those tools.
- Forget it.
I'm not doing it.
- Hey come on, we could set ourselves up
with all that hardware, go into business for ourselves.
So are you coming or what?
- [Man] No, I'm not interested.
- But I'll bet you're coming though.
- [Man] No.
(glass shattering)
(shushing)
- Come here.
Hold this.
(shushing)
Hey look if the window didn't wake them up nothing will.
(shushing)
Shut up.
- And there's more in the basement.
- [Man] We have enough.
- Look I'll tell you when we've had enough.
Alright, there's a brand new sander down there
and I'm gonna get it.
- Forget the sander, let's go.
- Just wait.
- Hurry up for Christ's sake.
(scraping on wall)
(suspenseful music)
* San Fran bring me a dream
(power tool buzzing) (screaming)
Jesus Christ, you idiot.
Come on let's go.
(screaming)
- You know it's really not your fault,
just been hanging around the wrong crowd right?
(power tool buzzing)
(humming musically) (power tool buzzing)
- You really should do something
about that temper of yours Ed.
- Mrs. Jarett. - Call me Alice.
- Oh, good evening.
- Do you really think that's necessary?
- Oh I don't like to leave things half done.
I mean if you're gonna do it you might as well do it right.
- It's a bit messy don't you think?
- Oh no don't worry about this, I'll fix it up.
- I love the job you did on the house.
It's quality work.
- Well thank you.
You know if you do something right it stays right.
- Well you certainly did something right.
- Yeah that's the trouble these days,
people do not take the time to do something right.
I mean they're always looking for the fastest way
or the cheapest way and what you end up with then
is shoddy workmanship
and people living in little cardboard boxes.
- Well people have different things on their minds.
It's a modern world Ed.
- Modern world, aluminum siding ma'am.
I mean there used be a time
when a man took pride in what he did.
And now all you got is a bunch of smart ass--
Oh I'm sorry pardon my language.
- Oh it's quite alright.
- You see nowadays you don't have craftsmen,
people are lazy, people are soft,
people are scared of work.
I mean take a look at this guy, watch this, see.
(power tool buzzing)
You see what I mean?
He's soft.
- Everyone has their weaknesses, their soft spots.
- Have you had a chance to take a walk in the woods yet?
- No I haven't had time.
- Oh it is so beautiful.
We should do that sometime when I'm not so busy.
- Sounds like fun, I'd love to.
- [Ed] Alright.
- Anyway I'll let you get back to your work.
- Alright.
It's a pleasure talking with you Alice.
- The pleasure's all mine Ed, goodnight.
- Goodnight.
(saw buzzing)
- Things are starting to look pretty tight here.
Glad to see it.
- I got rid of those two guys
if that's what you're talking about.
- Glad to see it, nice tight little team here.
You know with a tight little team like this
we should be able to polish things off
a lot quicker don't you?
Save a buck or two.
- Well we're a little short handed, I wouldn't count on it.
- [Alice] Martin, telephone!
- Yeah.
Yes.
Oh hi there.
No, no not at all.
Yes I'm fine, how are you?
Mm-hm, good.
So well what can I do for you?
Mm-hm.
Yes that is a bit of a problem isn't it?
Yeah.
Mm-hm.
Oh.
Well, yes I understand.
Mm-hm.
Well I probably do.
(dramatic music)
Listen we've discussed this before,
you cannot call me here.
Well god knows I've already made enough concessions for you,
you cannot call me here at any time.
I've got a wife, don't you think she wonders?
Well maybe you don't give a damn, but I do alright?
Well yes.
Well of course.
Yes.
Alright.
Okay.
Bye bye.
Well I'm here.
- [Laura] 3:30 snack.
- Of course, I've got an alarm clock between my legs.
Oh.
- Before you get too excited
there's something I want to talk to you about.
- [Martin] Yeah, so talk.
- No this is serious Martin.
- Well not too serious I hope.
I'm feeling a bit of the piss and vinegar right now.
- I'm pregnant Martin.
(dramatic music)
(classical music)
(happily shouting)
(laughing)
- How long can you stay?
- Until Martin throws me out.
- Oh god you can stay longer than that.
- So all I wanted to do was join the circus,
you know ride the elephant. (laughing)
Be shot out of a cannon or walk on the tightrope
with everyone looking up my skirt.
- They hated that, god they freaked out.
- Remember they grounded me
for just wanting to shovel tiger shit.
And now it's just Tupperware parties
and wallpaper conventions.
So have you thought about
what kind of colors you want upstairs?
- What did they used to paint these houses?
Like a long time ago when they first built them?
- Sky blue was often considered a--
- You can always stick to beige.
I would stick to the somber colors.
Maybe peach for the kitchen. - I like that, I like that.
- Actually I was thinking that a nice yellow
for the kitchen might be more cheerful.
- Do you remember that guy, Nelson something?
The guy who used to take his pants down near the schoolyard?
- [Alice] The schoolyard right.
- Do you remember the day that he came with a garden hose
around his neck and he was running around
telling everyone he was gonna hang himself
- And everyone said please Nelson, please do it,
put yourself out of your misery.
- [Rachel] We were mean, we were sick of that man.
- Girl talk, such music.
- Oh go to hell Martin. (laughing)
I'm just kidding.
I am kidding, I'm sorry. - She's just kidding.
- I am, I'm just kidding, I'm sorry, I'm just kidding.
(classical music)
- What do you think you're doing?
- [Alice] Having a barbecue, what does it look like?
- [Martin] Have you any idea what time it is?
- I'm not finished yet and I really want to finish this.
- It's four o'clock in the morning Alice.
- A job isn't done till it's done Martin
and anyway I'm not tired.
- [Martin] Can I get you a glass of milk or something?
- Thanks Martin that would be really sweet.
(eerie music)
- Promise me one thing. - What?
- Promise me that as soon as you feel a little tired
you're gonna come right up to bed.
- I will. - Promise.
- I promise.
- Good, see you soon then.
- Thank you.
(muffled old timey music in a foreign language)
- Good evening Alice.
- Hi Ed.
- I was hoping you might bless me with a dance
and maybe a glass of wine?
- I'd love to.
- Yeah.
- The music's lovely.
- Well nowhere near as lovely as you are.
God Alice you're such a woman.
- What do you mean?
- I mean that you're beautiful and you're sensitive,
you're bright, you're funny.
And you know what's what.
You do, you know what's what.
What's what is you could do a whole lot better for yourself.
And better than him you know?
Don't you want better than that?
- Things turn out a certain way and you stick with it.
I don't know.
I just don't think about it very much.
- Alice you gotta think about it,
you gotta keep thinking about it.
I'll tell you what, I'll give you something to think about.
Okay you just think about us
and together right here in this house, just us, okay?
Yeah?
Well.
(old timey music in a foreign language)
I'll tell you Alice we're gonna close off the whole world.
- It might be a bit hard to do.
- I know, but it'd be worth the effort wouldn't it?
I mean nobody would get in between us and spoil anything.
- No one?
- Just us.
The house and the woods
and a love that would just grow with time.
- And a well?
- I'd dig you a well.
- With a bucket?
- I'll make you a bucket. (laughing)
Alice you know what there's always this.
(power tool buzzing) (screaming)
(gasping)
(dramatic music)
(crying)
- No.
(birds chirping)
- Morning. - Morning.
- Rachel. - What?
- Nothing.
You don't like me do you?
- No Martin to tell you the truth I don't.
- Yeah I noticed that.
I noticed that a lot.
Why not?
- Well perhaps it's because you treat my sister like shit.
- Well you and I could've been very happy together
if you played your cards right.
- [Alice] I think he's having an affair.
- Do you know I'm not surprised.
So what are you gonna do about it?
- Nothing, doesn't really matter anyway does it?
- Well you gotta do something.
- It's not that simple.
You see there's somebody else. - There is?
Well that's great, who is he, who?
- A carpenter. - Carpenter?
What do you mean one of these kids that works on the house?
- He's not one of them.
- Well who is he?
- Well he comes to see me at night
and he works and we talk.
And he does things around the house.
I don't know, he fixes things
and when I have problems he takes care of them.
I don't know, he makes me feel good.
We were talking in a dream last night
and we made plans and he makes me feel like a lady.
I don't know, you'd really like him.
He's real nice. - That's good.
- We understand each other.
I guess we're involved.
- That's really good, I'm glad.
I'm happy for you.
But you gotta do something about you and Martin okay?
This is serious, something very real.
- Real?
- Are you going home? - No.
So I'll see you in school.
- No I'm not going that way.
- So I'll see you on Thursday.
- Hmm? - Same time?
(dramatic music)
(machine rattling)
(dog barking)
- Mrs. Jarett? - Yes.
- My name is Laura Bell.
I'd like to have a talk with you if I may?
- Right now?
- Yes.
- Come on in.
Would you like some tea or coffee or something,
something to get along?
- No thanks, I'm not too excited to be here.
- No, I know.
Have a seat.
Funny thing about a day like today,
the way the clouds are.
First it's really sunny
and then all the sudden bang it starts to rain.
Funny weather.
- Funny weather.
Even funnier though is I'm pregnant with Martin's child.
- You think I'm stupid don't you?
You really think I'm stupid.
Do you think I don't know that Martin
screws the hell out of little kindergarten girls like you?
I know.
You want to hear something even funnier?
I don't even care.
Have Martin.
- Well if you don't care why don't you just give him up?
- Well for you to come into my house
and to drag your dirty little filth into my clean house
now that I care about.
Your smart ass little filth into my clean house.
So please get out 'cause it's not funny.
- You're crazy. - Get out of my house.
- [Laura] You're out of your fucking mind.
- Get out of my house.
- [Laura] I came here to tell you what's what
and you're just out of your goddamn mind.
No wonder Martin sleeps around.
- Good I'm crazy.
- Who cares what goes straying into this house?
Your stupid shack of shit.
- Get out! - Alright.
- Hmm, wait a minute, here.
(nail gun banging)
(dog barking)
You know I'd rather use a hammer,
but it just tears the hell out of the rats.
(suspenseful music)
- Oh shit.
What is this?
- It's your girlfriend.
- You're crazy, you're fucking nuts.
- I've heard that before.
In fact I've heard it a lot before.
It's not me that's crazy Martin it's you.
- Oh shut up Alice. - It's you that's crazy.
It's you that's twisted, it's you that's sick.
It's you that's a sick pervert.
It's you that's a fornicating animal.
- [Martin] Shut up Alice.
- Kind of hard to fuck her now.
(thwacking) (gasping)
- Mister that is a lady you're smacking around.
(screaming)
Stop.
(shushing)
(screaming)
Jesus Christ you guys never shut up do you?
Well that's the trouble with guys like you,
smart asses like you, you don't ever shut up do you?
You know what I mean Alice?
Smart asses like this they make me sick,
always have, always will.
(screaming)
Oh yeah you got your smart ass bullets,
you got your smart ass theories.
(cracking)
But you don't know the value of a hard day's work do you?
Smart asses like you, all you know is how to use your head
and not your hands and you got your big brain ideas
and your big brain smart asses,
but you know if you had to use your hands
you wouldn't live a day would you?
And you know how to stop a hard working man
with your smart ass accountants
and your smart ass legal bunk.
Well I've been putting up with smart asses like you
all my life, I've been-- (banging)
Ah damn.
(shower running)
(dog barking)
(suspenseful music)
- Alice!
Alice!
Alice?
Oh god what the hell happened?
What happened?
Answer me, what happened to you?
- Martin and Ed had a bit of a tussle.
I think I've been fired, it's been a bad day.
- What?
No will you listen to me, this is serious.
This is serious, you tell me what happened.
- It's just a bit of a mess.
I guess there's gonna be trouble huh?
- We need to get out of here.
- No no no, there doesn't have to be no trouble.
Unless of course somebody can always make trouble right?
And like you say there's a bit of a mess but hell
I'm the one who's got to clean it up.
- Who in the fuck are you?
- Well I'm just a carpenter.
If you don't mind me saying language like that
does not sit well on a lady's tongue.
Anyway I'm sure a woman like yourself
can see that a guy like that deserves
what he gets from a guy like me.
And if he gets it, bingo he got it.
What are you gonna do huh? (laughing)
Right? - Right.
You're absolutely right.
Now you just stay here okay?
Because we're gonna go.
- No no no I'm sorry.
You know I just can't do that.
I tell you what if you want to go you go,
but Alice and me we got this, we got plans.
- We're gonna go.
You just stay back.
- We're not gonna go now, 'kay?
And I wish you'd quit repeating yourself to me.
Not to me.
I'll take the lady.
Excuse us.
Alice-- - Leave her alone.
- No! (thudding)
- [Alice] Rachel no!
- Alice I didn't have a choice.
If she'd give me a choice, but she left me no choice.
- Get away from us, you're an asshole.
You're just like Martin, you're an asshole, you're a pig!
- Stop that.
- Stop what you asshole?
- Alice.
Alice.
It's not like that Alice.
I was something real special.
I was pretty damn good you know?
Look at me, look at me.
What am I supposed to do huh?
What was I supposed to do?
It's the house.
It's the goddamn house.
- It's not the house it's you!
This is my house.
(screaming)
- Alice, Alice!
(screaming)
Alice!
Stop that, stop it!
That would be enough of that young lady.
(screaming)
(hammer thumping)
This is a tool, it is not a toy.
(suspenseful music)
You know I really tried.
I really tried to be reasonable, but enough's enough.
Courting is done.
Besides you ain't married no more are you?
(clanging)
What else is there left to do huh?
Nothing.
Don't you think it's time you gave out?
- Disgusting.
You make me sick.
You're filthy and you're dead and you smell bad.
- Come on Alice give it out, huh?
Look I am sick and tired of your game.
Now you and I we got plans.
Now come on give it out.
- Get away from me.
(thudding) (groaning)
Get away! (groaning)
- Hey Mr. Fix It.
- Not him, the house. (groaning)
(pounding)
(groaning) (pounding)
- Alice no.
Alice don't!
Alice.
(groaning)
Alice!
(screaming)
(flames crackling) (suspenseful music)
Don't run!
Alice!
Come back here!
Alice!
Hold on Alice.
We had plans damn it.
Don't do this.
It should've been us Alice.
Don't go, I love you Alice.
Don't go, please Alice.
Alice.
Don't do this.
- You should've been more of a gentlemen Ed.
(electronic music)
(musical whistling)