Take from Me (2025)

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- I'm sorry, okay.

I'm sorry.

- And what you gonna do, huh?

What the f*ck are you

even gonna do then, huh?

- Oh f*ck you.

- Yeah, go get drunk

some more then.

- Jesus, John.

Slow down a little, would you?

- Where you at tonight, Teddy?

- I don't know, enough

to k*ll a teenage kid.

- Who would k*ll a college kid?

- I don't know.

I've never been there.

- f*ck off, Kenny.

You can't do that kind of sh*t anymore.

- Not gonna, me too, me,

darling.

- f*cking gross.

- How's it going, Johnny?

- How's your family, Ken?

- You got something to say?

- Oh knock it off, Ken.

I don't need your sh*t

in here, not tonight.

Not after last weekend.

- It was a f*cking joke.

- Yeah?

She's barely 21.

You know how these kids are today.

I don't need her filing a

workplace harassment suit

or whatever the hell it is on me.

So take your a*s home and cool off.

- f*ck this place.

- sh*t.

I'm gonna get my college

degree tonight, Teddy.

- You, my friend, are gonna get a PhD.

- Thank you, professor.

- Vanessa, you there?

- Some idiot take

a nap on the 123 again?

- We got a 10-2 on mile marker 136.

I need you to put a call into

the sheriff's office for me.

- Those lousy b*stards.

They can't even find their own dicks.

- Something's not right.

- Yeah, buyer's not even here yet.

I don't know what she planted

'cause all that f*cking garbage.

Jesus, f*cking Rambo, hold on.

Hey, can I help you?

Hey, listen, pal, this

is private property.

You can't be hunting here.

- Thought it was vacant.

- Yeah, well, not anymore so

you'll have to go somewhere else.

Buddy, did you hear me,

this isn't your property.

Run along now.

Thank you, thank you.

- What'd I say about

keeping a professional workplace, Nessa?

- Only person to come in

this week was Miss. Ivy.

Some Mormons came to her house again.

- What would you do if

someone important came in?

- That's not a very nice

thing to say about Miss Ivy.

Or the Mormons.

- Shut the door!

- I meant to tell you about that.

- You really gotta find

someplace else to take him.

- His dad was supposed to

come get him an hour ago.

- Do I have to arrest this m*therf*cker?

- Then you'd have to hire Eddie

because he'd be here full-time

and he ain't cheap, trust me.

- Can you meet just one nice guy?

- Have you f*cked a nice guy?

Oh yeah, the sheriff called earlier.

They ID'd the truck to a William Schopel.

- You need to start with that.

Instead of giving me the Mormon bullshit.

- That's not all they said.

He said to make sure and tell

the chief, and I'm quoting,

sir, "He ain't a g*dd*mn

investigator anymore,

so he better let us deal with it.

The last thing they need

is a f*ck up city policeman

sticking in his nose in some dog sh*t

that don't smell right."

You want me to keep going?

- What was that name

again, that missing person?

- William Schopel.

- Know that name I think.

Played football the next town over.

- You think he's dead?

- Lord, Vanessa.

- We haven't had a dead

person show up here in years.

- Yeah, let's keep it that way.

- You know Benjamin Miller, right?

- From Huntsville.

- His cousin went missing,

couple of towns over,

several months back.

They found him hanging in the

woods upside down and pale

like a piece of paper.

You know how they hang 'em

the way the hunters do?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it.

- They k*lled him and let him

bleed out there like that.

Just dripping blood from his eye sockets.

f*ck.

We don't get murders like that over here.

- You need Jesus.

Let me know when I get

my damn office back.

- What the hell do you want?

- Can I come inside, please?

- Mama, it's probably about Billy again.

- Jesus Christ, where'd you find him?

- We found his truck on

the side of Highway 123.

Just pulled over.

- He's a bit of a drinker.

- Among other things.

- You didn't report him missing.

- Billy's a big boy.

Sometimes he's here, sometimes he ain't.

- He had a date.

He was real excited about it

'cause he met the girl in real life.

- Where'd he meet her?

- At a bar, I think.

He was in over his head.

He was acting kind of like

people act when they're in love.

- He was acting f*cking stupid.

Billy always wanders home

when he wants a good licking.

- Well, when he does, you

should let me know, okay,

- I don't got your number.

- Oh just dial 911,

it goes right to me.

- She was way out of his league,

and that ain't an understatement.

I told him it felt weird

but he didn't give a sh*t.

Guys are stupid like that.

She was excited about

some pretty young thing.

Like he ain't a hillbilly drunk.

- You remember what she looked like?

- She was white and skinny, pretty.

Probably no older than me.

- I'll be on the lookout

for pretty white girls then.

Thank you for your time.

- Well, hello there.

What can I do for you today, pretty lady?

- Oh, aren't you sweet?

I need some new curtains, drapes.

I don't feel secure in my own home.

- Well, it's not the greatest selection,

to tell you the truth,

but we can fix you up.

- That's what I like to hear.

- Are you local?

- Yeah, I just moved into

the old farmhouse off 123.

- Oh yes.

I heard that place finally sold.

You know, you look a little bit like the,

the last woman who lived there.

- Oh, I'm sure you get

your pretty girls mixed up

all the time.

- You don't see blue eyes

like that every day, Miss.

- sh*t.

Sorry about that, Alvin.

- Hey, John, I didn't see you over there.

- Yeah, well, I was getting

ready to head out for a job.

Kinda lost track of time.

- I'll hold it up front for you.

- Thank you, Alvin.

Yeah, that's, that'd be great, man.

- Now then.

Where were we?

- Oh, I just would love something that

blocks out all the light.

- Okay.

- Ugh, sh*t.

sh*t.

- Did you paint my trim?

- Excuse me?

- Why are you watching

me through my windows

and following me around town?

Are you a pervert?

- What the f*ck?

I'm not a f*cking pervert.

f*cking hell, that's a f*cking small town,

you can't be saying that kind of sh*t.

- So you were the one that

was working on the house, huh?

God, you know, I was trying to figure out

how it was in such good

shape just sitting out there

all by itself.

Now I know.

Who are you?

- I just used to work on it for a while.

Just didn't like seeing

it fall apart, you know.

Houses around here, nature

has a way of taking 'em back.

- Do you know who used to live there?

They left all their sh*t.

- Oh, guess it's all yours now, right?

- So you must live nearby, huh?

Bet you come by often.

Funny, I didn't, I didn't

notice your truck earlier.

- Listen, I'm sorry for spying.

It's just that that house has been empty

for a long damn time and you spooked me.

- You're a contractor?

- Yes, ma'am.

- How long did you work on it?

- Off and on for years.

- I have some things I

wanna do on the inside

if you're interested.

- Mm.

Well, I mean, why would

you wanna change anything?

I mean, it's 150-years-old, there's-

- Well, if you're not

interested in the work.

- Well, let me think about it.

Jesus, you just f*cking asked me.

- Okay, just don't think too long.

- Okay.

- Sure there's lots of other perverts

that would love the offer.

- The f*ck's this.

Yeah.

Good talk.

Good talk.

Oh, long night.

- What time is it?

- 6:00 p.m.

You hungover?

- Something we have in common.

- Huh.

I was, come see what you

needed done at the house.

- f*ck, right, okay.

Um, come in.

Come in.

- Yeah.

- What are you waiting for, John?

All right, let's get to work.

- What, now?

- I'm up.

- I shouldn't, while I work.

- Okay.

Whatever.

I can't even go in there,

the mirror is so ugly.

- What the hell's wrong with it?

- Oh, it's just not me, like at all.

- Where's the new one?

- Don't worry about it.

I'll get a new one once you take it down.

Okay?

- Sure thing.

Whatever you say.

I just gotta get my tools from the truck.

f*ck.

What are you doing here?

- Do you mind?

- It's your house.

- The last people who lived here

left this busted old record player,

but luckily I hoard a lot of old things.

- Yeah, I can see that.

- What were the last owners like?

- Ah, they were a young couple.

Like your age.

I don't remember much,

but they were happy.

Listened to a lot of

music, I remember that.

- Yeah, what did they listen to?

- Oldies.

Kind of like you.

- So you don't remember them much,

but you take care of their house still.

- Guess I should go see about that mirror.

Huh?

- What the hell is that?

Hey, did you hurt yourself

when you're moving?

Tub's all f*cked up.

- Did you think

this was my real hair color?

- Oh no, I just thought

you were naturally pretty.

- I am.

- All right.

Easy does it.

- Oh.

- What the hell?

- f*ck!

Oh sh*t.

- I think I let my guard down

when you called me pretty.

- I think I let my guard down in general.

- Just when we were really hitting it off.

- We ain't having a party.

- I don't know.

Do you have friends coming over?

- No.

No, I'm kind of a loner.

- So no one knows you're here then.

- Hey.

- I'm 120 pounds wet, John.

You can't be afraid of me.

- Oh, I was married.

I assure you, I'm terrified of women.

They've got peas and

carrots in their freezer.

Cold cuts.

- And how do you feel

about cold cuts, John?

- Oh I, I don't think

I'm gonna remember sh*t

in the morning.

- Yeah, that's right, 'cause you've,

you've had a couple to

drink tonight, haven't you?

Knowing you, you're probably gonna go home

and have a few more.

- I'm thinking about

getting blackout drunk.

- Are you addicted to death?

Do you wanna die?

Or are you just a traditional alcoholic?

- I don't know how to answer that.

- Well, the way I see it, there

are two obsessions in life.

One is the obsession life,

and everything life brings.

And the other is death.

Death can be peaceful.

- So what are you addicted to?

- I'm fascinated with the living.

- Well, I think I'll have

a better answer for you

the next time you ask.

- I look forward to it.

- If you or your boyfriend

plan on k*lling me next,

maybe find some new hiding

spots for the bodies.

- What did you have in mind?

- There's a big f*cking

crawl space under the house.

No one will find me.

- As you wish.

John.

I don't have a boyfriend.

- Holy sh*t, holy f*cking sh*t.

f*ck, f*ck, f*ck!

Goddammit.

Okay, okay, okay.

sh*t!

f*ck, f*ck!

f*ck.

sh*t.

- Hey, John.

- Yeah, sorry about that, Abe,

I was zoned out back there.

- You were going over 25.

- Oh.

- Everything all right?

- Yeah, yeah.

Abe.

- You been drinking?

- No.

No, not tonight.

- Haven't seen you

around much, or in group.

- Ah well, you know, book's

always been too big for me.

- And here I thought you liked to read.

- Yeah, well, you know, it

depends on the source material.

Hey, what's that, what is

the passage of the Bible?

"The devil prowls at the roaring lion."

- They're only words if

you believe in the devil.

- Well, you see, that's all I believe.

- What lion is chasing you, friend?

- Oh.

They, eh, they sold the house.

- Sorry about that.

- Yeah.

- It was bound to happen.

- Yeah, that's what they keep telling me.

So are you gonna give me

a ticket or something?

- No, I don't think so.

Just take care of yourself, all right.

You got my number.

Call me if you need anything.

- Except a drink.

- Not tonight.

Come on, get outta here.

- Thanks, Abe.

Yeah.

- sh*t, man, you look

like you've seen a ghost.

- Hey, can I have another?

Just breathe.

- Dad?

- f*ck!

- Hello?

Anyone home?

Lilith.

Hi.

- Can I help you?

- Yeah, I got a closing gift for Lilith.

- Ah, Lilith.

Yeah, no, she's not in, so.

I, I can just leave it for her.

- Yeah, she told me to

come back this week.

Do I know you?

You look really familiar.

- I'm the plumber.

You know, we all look the same, so.

Ah, the gift.

I can just leave it in the

kitchen on my way out, so.

- Okay, hey, hey, do you mind if I just

use the bathroom real quick?

I mean, it was a long drive here.

I just, I'll be quick in and out.

- Yeah, right.

Whatever you want, huh?

- Thanks, man.

- Yeah.

- You sure we haven't met?

Did you work on one of my

houses in Lexington or Richmond?

Maybe the district?

- I don't think so.

Well, I gotta get to work.

- Yeah, yeah, sure.

Don't mind me.

- Police, where's the fire?

- Excuse me?

- Is this an emergency, sir?

- Yeah, could I get a wellness check

some time tonight or tomorrow?

- That's mostly

what we do out here.

Can I get the address?

- Sorry, fella, hey, don't flush.

I, I don't have all the

kinks worked out yet.

- Okay, yeah, just give me a second.

- Are you in,

are you in the bathroom?

- Will do.

I'll be downstairs.

- Okay.

Yeah, it's a long story.

Just send someone, please.

It's the old farmhouse

off of 123, you know it?

- There's like a

hundred people in this town, sir.

- Yeah, don't remind me.

She, she took down the mirror.

- Yeah.

Not her style, I guess.

She ordered a new one in town, so.

- Yeah, she really is

something, isn't she?

She had me map out where

the sun hits the atrium.

I must have spent four hours

drawing those diagrams for her.

- Girl could use a tan.

- Tried to talk her out of

buying this piece of sh*t.

It's a lot of house for someone like her.

- Well, I mean, this is a 19th

century farmhouse, you know,

one of the first ones built in the area.

I mean, look, at this mahogany

finishes and moldings,

I mean, she must have a good eye, huh?

- Right.

- Well, you take care, huh?

Drive safe out there.

- What a creep.

- Are you gonna take him out next?

- Is that what you think I am?

Some heartless m*rder*r

with a hair-trigger impulse.

No.

Besides, k*lling your

realtor, I'm not an idiot.

Did you come here to k*ll me?

- Oh, I haven't thought it through yet.

Were you gonna k*ll me?

- I was prepared to.

See, I followed you, and

when a dozen patrol cars

didn't break down my front door,

I kind of wanted to see

if you would come back.

- And I did.

- With a crossbow.

- You're real.

- Flesh and blood.

Ah, I mean, you know what I mean?

- How long will that body last

before you have to-

- Do it again?

Couple of weeks if I spread it out.

- I don't understand.

I saw you go outside.

- Well, dusk isn't so bad.

It's like turning the oven to 250.

- What about midday?

- It's the broiler.

- And the shipping crate.

- Oh, what, you were

hoping to see a coffin.

- I don't know.

- Yeah, I'm a side sleeper, so, yeah,

the crate just fits me better.

- I saw a picture of you in the bedroom.

- Did you know if you feed on somebody

who recently took LSD,

you get a body high.

God, I miss the '60s.

- Who's the, who's the man?

- My handler at the time.

And one of the many loves of my life.

He was very special to me.

There's one downside to never aging.

It's that everyone you

love eventually does.

Overnight, it seems.

He didn't wanna be like me.

He thought death was beautiful.

- No.

No.

Death is, um, death is brutal.

- I'm not what you think I am.

I've loved a lot of people in my life,

and I don't like feeding,

but I have to, okay?

It's a necessary instinct.

I have to live, John.

- Yeah.

If you've lived life

two times over, I mean,

why do you really need anything?

- Well, what else is there?

Besides, it's not like the

movies and the books, you know,

the folklore is mostly bullshit.

Garlic doesn't do anything,

silver is just a commodity,

and I don't feed on just anybody, okay.

I have a process.

- Sure, you do.

- I use bad people.

I help society, okay.

It's rapists and murderers

and creeps and addicts.

If only you normal people knew

how much cleaning up I do around here.

- Why haven't you k*lled me yet?

I mean, you joked about it.

I know where you live.

I know where you sleep.

I think I know what you are.

I'm a risk.

- Oh, I'm prepared to do anything.

- Now, Charlie has a

baseball game tomorrow night.

- So, where do you consider home?

- I've had a couple, I think

- Everybody has.

Where's that one then, huh?

Feels warm.

You look back and there's a memory there

that you can never forget.

- Well, um.

When I was a more traditional human,

I had a family with a husband,

and we owned several acres of land,

and we had a few kids that were

impossible to keep up with,

but that was another lifetime.

- Are you a grandmother?

I'm sorry.

I'm, I'm sorry I didn't,

we don't have to talk

about it or anything.

- My husband's first wife,

my husband's first wife came from a big

land-owning plantation style family.

She was a jealous b*tch,

she couldn't bear children.

That meant something at the time.

She watched over us

like a f*cking vulture.

She just hovered for

years and years and years,

until one day she finally cracked

and her and her brother swooped

in and set fire to our farm.

My husband managed to get me out,

but when he went back in for

the kids, he never came back.

Shortly after my kids were taken from me,

I was given a gift, this,

for vengeance, I suppose.

Now, even two centuries later,

I remember every detail of that night.

Every freckle on my kids'

faces stays with me.

So I came to see it as a gift,

because the longer that I'm

alive, somehow they are too.

- That's a beautiful memory.

- Good morning, Vanessa.

Did you have any sleep?

You look awful.

- Jesus.

I look awful, look in the mirror.

Just pulling up old police reports.

- Hey, I didn't authorize that.

- Look at this one.

Three years ago, outside Fayetteville,

man found hanging upside down,

blood drained from his body.

Lacerations at the neck and wrists

where the blood was drawn.

Back was picked apart by crows.

- Good God.

This has nothing to do

with our missing person.

- Okay, what about this one?

Tom Mallard, reported

missing outside township

10 miles away from Fayetteville.

Family said he was

meeting someone on a date.

- I'll put a call in to

the sheriff's office.

- Those lazy f*ck?

- Maybe you should get back to work

and drink some coffee or something.

- I'm wide awake.

Just let me keep digging through these.

You know there's something here.

- Legally, I can't allow you

to sift through this sh*t.

- f*ck the law.

I'm better at the computer stuff than you.

It's not your fault.

When you were growing up,

all you had was Oregon Trail.

- Hey, beat Oregon Trail, then we'll talk.

- Someone called yesterday

while you were in your meeting.

I don't know why they call

it anonymous, everyone knows.

- Keep it down.

- Wellness check.

- You have to start with this earlier,

like before all the personnel

files that you're pulling.

What's the address?

- The old mill place off the 123.

Guy was in the bathroom, it

was a whole f*cking thing.

- John's old place.

- The guy you sponsored?

- Yeah.

Something was off with him.

- I was serious about

helping you, you know.

I'm sick of f*cking creeps

getting away with stuff

all the time.

- We'll talk, I promise.

Do some work, actual work.

Please.

- Can I help you?

- Are you the homeowner?

- Yes.

There a problem, officer?

Do you have a warrant?

- Ma'am, there was a welfare check

called in for you yesterday.

I knocked but there was no answer,

and I saw your garage door was open.

- I was resting a migraine upstairs.

- Sorry.

I guess my imagination got the best of me.

You've got some worried neighbors.

You being out here all alone.

- I don't have any neighbors.

It's the whole point of

being out here all alone.

- Well, you worried somebody, Miss.

- Call me Elizabeth.

- Elizabeth.

Sorry for the intrusion.

- Can you shut the door on your way out?

I don't want any animals to get in.

- How did you find me?

- Same way I did last time.

Can I come in?

- Do I have to invite you in,

is, is that how it works or?

- I don't need to be invited.

It's just f*cking polite.

- Right, right.

- Oh, sh*t, what the

hell are you doing here?

- Well, I was hoping to find John.

- Yeah, well, he ain't been

in in a couple of days.

Let me get you something?

- Water.

Yeah, he hasn't been around

much of anywhere lately.

- Yeah, well, you'll know he's dead

when he don't turn up

here in a couple of days.

- Hey, you have any young

women come by lately?

Out-of-towners, maybe?

- Now you know very well I

do not like out-of-towners.

- You don't have to hide anything from me.

I'm not looking for prostit*tes.

I'm looking for a missing person.

- Think John's missing?

- Oh, well, I think he

may be into something.

I don't know what yet, so don't ask me.

- Kenny, another round.

- Yeah.

Hang on.

- Mm hmm.

- A cop came

by the house earlier.

- Oh.

- I found him in the garage.

He didn't see anything, but

he seemed like he was spooked.

- That's Abe.

- The one that pulled you over?

- Well, he's pretty much

the only cop in town.

Everybody knows him, yeah.

- Now that worries me.

- No, that's not necessary.

- You like him?

- Oh, he's good.

He means well.

He doesn't fit your rule book.

- There are exceptions

to the rule book, John.

- He's small time.

He's so bad at his job, the

union sent him out here.

I mean this,

that's the kind of people

that Alderson attracts.

f*ck ups.

- Ouch.

- No, no.

- I'm just f*cking tired.

- I have a surprise for you.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- A surprise.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

Hold on, hold on.

- Okay.

- Dun dun dun dun!

- John, what the f*ck?

- Well, I don't have the

little medical vials.

I don't, I don't know

where you get 'em from.

- This isn't from the morgue, is it?

- Just try it.

- Okay, please do not tell me

that you did something stupid.

- Will you please try it?

- f*cking dog food!

- No, it was a beautiful buck.

I mean, you should have seen him.

- This is not helpful to me.

- You know, you said that animals work.

- In desperation.

- Yeah, but you don't

have to k*ll anybody.

- John, I take out one lowlife

criminal every two months

so that I don't tear

apart the entire town.

Do you get that?

- Yeah.

- Imagine if you had

to drink piss every day

for eight weeks, and then

you have to walk up and down

the grocery aisle tempted by the,

by the promise of satisfaction.

It's only a matter of time

before you're gonna snap, isn't it?

Before you're gonna just start

taking things off the shelf

without even f*cking thinking.

- Sorry.

I was just, I was just trying to help.

Doesn't matter.

- Wait, wait, wait.

Thank you.

Thank you.

- Holy f*ck!

f*ck!

Dammit.

Ah, sh*t.

Hey, Lilith, I got most

of the padlocks up.

I kind of cut myself a little bit.

You have any gauze or anything?

Lilith?

I was thinking if we were.

You okay?

Lilith, you all right?

- Don't look at me, I'm sorry, I'm just.

I just, I just need to

sit down for a little bit.

Sorry you had to see that.

- I've seen worse in people.

Doesn't bother me.

- I don't like that version of myself.

You should.

I just think I've been

rationing too hard this time.

- Take from me.

- No, no, no, that's, no.

- Here, look.

Take from me.

- No, John, that's, no.

- I mean it, take from me.

I want you to.

- And what if I can't help myself?

Do you wanna die tonight?

Is that it?

- Just take it.

- Do I remind you of your ex-wife?

Is that why you're trying to help me?

Because I'm in your old house?

- No.

- Listen, I don't wanna hurt you, John.

It's about time you figured out

that there are some things you can't fix.

- Come on, f*ck.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, breathe,

breathe, hey, there we go.

Breathe.

What the f*ck, come on.

Oh f*ck.

Go down there.

That's what I'm gonna do,

I'm gonna go down there.

- What are you even gonna do?

- Oh, I don't know.

Maybe transfer our son to

Charlotte or DC or somewhere.

- He's home now, just

let him be home with me.

- He's dying here.

- I know!

He needs me, he needs his mom.

- Well, I'm not gonna sit around here

and just hold his hand and watch him fade,

I'm not gonna f*cking do it.

- Then what are you gonna do, huh?

What the f*ck are you

even gonna do then, huh?

- Oh, f*ck you.

- Yeah go get drunk some more then.

- You know, it wasn't

until I stopped praying

that God found me.

This, this is a true story, y'all.

This guy was having an

overdose right in front of me,

and kind of grabs my hand that moment

in that chair right there.

And he says to me, with all

the energy he can muster,

"Keep going, Danny."

Then he died.

He said that sh*t and he

died right in front of me.

So I started praying again.

And Abe helped me get right

and I've been six months sober.

- It's easy to help someone

who actually wants it.

- Listen, we don't make new people share.

And I'm not willing to ask

someone to do something

that I'm not willing to do myself.

You know, for everyone

who is seeking help,

seeking sobriety, you know,

there are countless others

who are still suffering.

You know?

That's why I come here

and I try to facilitate this group.

I was a detective in Pittsburgh.

Man, in my community,

your dad teaches you to

suck it up, you know?

That's what we gotta do, survive.

You know, everyone in

here understands that.

So what am I gonna do?

I sucked it up all my life.

Sucked it up after every dead

kid I had to investigate.

Every domestic violence case.

Women beaten to within

an inch of their lives.

I sucked it up.

And then I got piss drunk.

We were on this stakeout

for this real piece of

work, a serial r*pist.

And we were outside of a club

we thought he came around,

it was a real shot in the

dark, bullshit work really.

My partner and I, we decided

to crack a few in the car.

I had already had a few before on my shift

to steady the hand.

And then I saw him.

You know, I can't remember

how deep I was in the bag.

Like my, my partner had

already fallen asleep.

But, but this guy,

he was grabbing at her and

forcing himself on her.

I, I don't know what came over me, man.

In the dark, six drinks in,

all you white boys look alike.

I just shot him.

Then his girlfriend started screaming.

She was so angry.

And he was on the ground bleeding.

- It's a disease, Abe.

- And that's why I don't

investigate anymore.

My family's all I got now.

They saved me.

Anyone else?

- Hey, if you're

trying to get Kenny,

you dialed the right number.

Just leave a message,

man, I'll call you back.

- Just f*cking answer.

- What the f*ck, you wanna f*ck me?

- You aint my type, Ken.

- Bullshit.

- Yeah.

Have one more, Teddy.

- You driving?

- Oh, you know me, Teddy.

Big walker.

- Hmm.

Yeah, Abe was in the other day.

- Get the f*ck out of here.

Did he get a drink?

- No.

Was asking about you.

I didn't say nothing, but you

have some kind of trouble?

- Oh, sh*t.

- How'd you like

looking at dicks, Johnny.

- Ah, you know, Teddy.

I'm always in some kind of trouble.

- You like boys, John?

- Oh, well, I mean, it's 2023.

I just figure all you f*cking h*m*

had tiny little dicks, you know.

I just had to take a little peek, huh?

That pretty baby mama

of yours, man, come on.

Just had to get a look.

- f*ck you and your dead kid.

- Oh, oh sh*t.

Ah, oh, f*ck.

- Put that on it before it swells.

You're your own worst

enemy, you know that.

But I guess Kenny can't k*ll you

if you decide to do it first, right?

- I think you might be onto something.

- f*cking knew it.

g*dd*mn Thursday.

Lacey.

- Yeah, f*cking got him.

- Thank you so much.

- You gotta take

him back to court, hon.

I grew up with Ken and he ain't changing.

- He's been bringing him down

to the bar and I just, I-

- I got him.

Eddie's always good here, all right?

- Jesus, I

need to call you back.

- Kenny!

- Stop!

I work for the f*cking police,

as*h*le, so stop hitting him.

- This is between him and me.

Go on home, you didn't see nothing.

- I, I'm gonna call the

police chief or an ambulance.

It's your choice.

- Hang on, I recognize you.

You're his ex-wife, right?

His kid's mom.

- Get away from me.

- He would hurt one of you eventually.

I'm doing you a favor.

- You know what, guys like

you are the f*cking problem,

with your toxic serial k*ller bullshit.

You're f*cking done, man.

- She was one of the good guys.

- I knew you couldn't leave it alone.

What if I wasn't here, huh?

You didn't f*cking think

this through, John.

- They had a kid.

She didn't fit your f*cking rule book.

- Yeah, you know what?

I didn't wanna f*cking do that,

but she was gonna call that f*cking cop.

Now, we need to go.

This is exactly why I

didn't want you involved.

- Yeah, what did you expect me to do, huh?

You needed help, you were sick.

- I don't need help from a f*cking drunk.

I'm 200-years-old.

Do you think this is my

first time being sick?

- Yeah, but you let me live.

Why, huh?

Why, if you don't need help.

- Oh, I don't need anyone,

all right, I wanted you.

Because being like this, what I am,

you need little things and

small people to keep you busy.

- Oh, that's what you think of me.

- Yeah, that's it.

- That's what you-

- That's right, John.

You're useless.

It's pathetic.

You're just my little play

thing is all it really is.

Don't you get it?

I felt sorry for you.

- Yeah, well, it's no wonder that

nobody wants to live with

you for all of eternity.

You're f*cking insufferable.

- f*ck you!

- Well, there you go.

Happy Thanksgiving.

- I'm sorry for what I said.

I was upset.

- I know.

- I need to make her go away,

and you need to get rid of him.

- Where am I supposed to go?

- He's a suspect now.

It's, I don't know, a

m*rder suicide situation.

And then come back in the morning

and clear out the freezer,

'cause we can't keep

anything here anymore.

- They had a little boy.

- This is about survival now, John.

That's all that matters.

- Bullshit.

We took that kid's parents away from him.

You're just like a f*cking shadow.

All you do is just roam

from town to f*cking town.

Who's keeping you here?

- I don't know.

But I do know that you made

a pretty big f*cking mess.

I don't wanna have to hurt you

any more than I already have, John.

So how about you finish what you started,

because I don't think this

is gonna work anymore.

- Okay.

Okay.

- Abe, you a*s, how

often do I call you at home?

Got some serious sh*t

going on at the bar, man.

That contractor guy is

getting into it with Kenny.

Oh sh*t.

- Lilith!

Elizabeth!

Can we talk?

- f*ck.

- John is that you?

- Ah, f*ck.

- John!

What you doing out here, man?

- She's onto you, Abe.

It's over.

- Hey, hey, don't move.

I'm gonna have to ask you to

come in with me, old friend.

- Get the f*ck outta here, Abe.

- What did you do?

- I f*cked up, Abe.

- I can help you.

Look, I know you got yourself

into some weird sh*t,

but something's not right, I can see that.

Put the bow down.

Put the bow down.

This is your last warning.

- f*cking get out the way!

- No John, don't, don't, don't!

f*ck!

Why did you, why did you sh**t that arrow?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Why didn't you listen, why

didn't you f*cking listen!

- Abe, be careful.

- What are you saying?

- Be careful.

She's dangerous.

- Who's dangerous, who John?

Hey, hey, keep pressure on this.

I need to go find help.

Hold tight.

- Abe, no.

- Dad?

You believe in heaven, right?

- I do.

I don't know what heaven is

exactly, but I think it's real.

But you don't need to be

thinking about that, okay?

We're doing all right, huh?

You feel good, right?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Keep pressure on it, go

on, keep pressure on it.

- Look at his eyes.

He's fading, he's fading.

- Stay with me,

stay with me.

- Russ, he's about to code.

Come on, we gotta get.

- Why on earth we stopping?

- I got some jackass

parked in the road up here.

- Come on, Russ, let's

get the f*ck on, man.

- I'm gonna go check it out.

One of you guys come out with me.

- I'll go check, okay.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Let's go, let's go.

- Make sure this

m*therf*cker don't die.

Ma'am.

Everything all right?

- Try not to die on me.

- I want you to carve your

initials on this tree right here.

- Why?

- Look.

If we're lucky, this tree

will live to be 300-years-old.

But no matter how old it gets,

if we carve our mark

deep enough in the bark

then it can last centuries.

- But even trees don't last forever.

- Well, I mean, nothing does, but.

- Oh my God, I'm so sorry,

this is all my fault.

You've lost a lot of blood,

you're not gonna make it.

Now listen, the last time

I asked you this question,

I didn't know if I could trust you.

But now I really need you to decide.

Do you still wanna die?

- No.

- Okay.

Okay.

- Definitely a lot of work, but.

There's a good part.

There's lots of good parts, overall.

- Honey, you home?

- Hey.

We have a new neighbor.

- Hi.

So sorry to just drop in, but, well,

Lisa was nice enough to

invite me in for coffee.

I'm new to the neighborhood,

so it's taken me some time

to get around to introducing

myself, I'm terribly shy.

Elizabeth, hi.

- Honey.

- Sorry.

Abe.

Can I get a glass of

water, please, sweetie?

It's been a long day.

- Yeah, sure.

- Have a seat.

You have a beautiful home, Abe,

and your kids are adorable.

I had the pleasure of meeting them both.

- Yeah, right?

You hear that?

That is why I had to send them upstairs.

Excuse me for a minute.

You guys better not be fighting up there.

- Were you drinking tonight, officer?

- I don't drink.

- Be our little secret.

- Why are you here?

- I heard that you were a good

man with a beautiful family.

- You lay one hand on them.

- That's not my intention.

- I know what you are.

- Then you know not to

f*ck around, Abraham.

- Are you threatening me?

- Oh, please.

By the time you pull out that g*n,

I'll have broken your neck

in two different places

and drained all of the blood

from your pathetic fat cadaver.

And then your wife or your kids

are gonna have to walk in

here and see you like that,

and I'll have to off them one by one,

and I really don't want

to have to do that.

I've got a family I love too.

I get it.

- You are the f*cking devil.

- No.

The devil's much worse, trust me.

Kenny was a troubled man in a lot of pain.

I think I heard around town

that he was beating his missing wife.

Poor kid, having to learn about

both of his parents that way.

It just, it was that terrible

accident on the roadway.

- What accident?

- Maybe you missed a couple

of calls on your bender.

- What do you want me to say?

- Whatever it takes to

protect your family.

- All right, it's your turn.

- I just realized it's getting so late.

I, I should really be going.

- Oh, you've barely finished your coffee.

- Oh no, it's just too late for me.

Well, next time you two

should come over to my place.

We'd be happy to have you.

Maybe I'll make brunch.

- I'll walk you out.