INT. HORSE BARN - DAY
Sess, Claire, Jackie, Chloe, Tom and Hunter watch the teenagers team up to unsaddle the horses, place saddles in tack area and lead the horses to the hay in their respective feeders. A mechanical bull in a corner.
SESS: Straight back to Cruces?
JACKIE: Nope. Ice cream in Rui and a White Sands sunset.
SESS: Nice. Send a picture.
JACKIE: Will do.
ANGELO, one of the teens, walks to Claire and, keeping his eyes on Tom, whispers something to her.
CLAIRE: Tom, Angelo is wondering if you can make a reata and if you can would you mind showing him.
TOM: Well it's been awhile but I reckon it'd come back to me if I had enough rope in my hands.
Claire nods to Angelo, who hurries to the tack area and returns with a coil of rope he takes off a hook on a wall and hands to Tom.
TOM: Gracias, Angelo.
Angelo nods. All the other teens stop to watch and move in closer. Tom runs the rope through his hands as if habit.
TOM (CONT): Chloe, ya know what a reata is?
CHLOE: A lariat, or lasso, although I recall reading that lasso is closer to verb than noun but I'll defer to you on that.
Tom smiles. Chloe gets phone, aims at Tom, records. The teens do the same.
TOM: I've heard the same. I tend to call it a rope and ropin'. Ya know what the knot is called to make a lariat?
CHLOE: I do not know that knot.
TOM: It's called a Honda knot.
CHLOE: Why?
TOM: Thought you might ask. I couldn't tell ya with any certainty.
Quickly, almost suddenly, Tom makes the knot and lariat he widens to the loop he swings over his head as he approaches the mechanical bull. All follow as he gets to within fifteen feet of the bull, lets the rope fly. The loop lands perfectly around the bull's horns. Applause and a chorus of appreciation and approval. Tom removes the lariat from the horns, walks the rope to Angelo.
ANGELO: Muchas gracias, vaquero.
TOM: Por nada, amigo.
Tom drapes the loop over Angelo's head onto his shoulders. Claire comes in close for a picture of them. Tom drapes an arm over Angelo's shoulder. Angelo puts and arm around Tom's waist. Claire takes the picture.
