INT. ROVER - DAY
Hunter driving two-lane road lined by woods.
TOM (to Chloe): When's the last time you were on a horse?
CHLOE: If a mule counts three years ago at the Grand Canyon.
TOM: I'd say a mule counts. Didja have a good time?
Chloe nods.
HUNTER: How 'bout you, Tom?
TOM: First week a May. We got up to Sheridan a couple times a year to see some friends with horses. You?
HUNTER: Same Grand Canyon mule ride.
TOM: Before that?
HUNTER: Pony ride at the county fair when I was a kid.
CHLOE: We're doing the dude ranch thing next year.
TOM: Whereabouts?
HUNTER: To be determined.
TOM: Well, I know a fella runs one outta Stanley, Idaho, if yer intrested. It's a drive from Boise but a pretty one.
HUNTER: We're interested. You've been there?
TOM: Yessir. Helped get it runnin'. Me and Wanda were out a few years ago. Heck, if ya decide to go that way, we'll join ya. Assumin' you'd be okay with that.
HUNTER: We'd be okay with that, wouldn't we?
Chloe nods. Chloe nods. A lull.
TOM: So Jackie, I guess you ride fairly regularly?
JACKIE: Luckily, yes. Once a month or so. So you've probably owned a horse or two, Tom.
TOM: Yes ma'am, a few. More accurate to say they owned me.
CHLOE: When's the last time?
TOM: Had a palomino who passed six year ago last month.
CHLOE: What was his or her name?
TOM: Her name was Butter.
CHLOE: How did she die, if you don't mind?
TOM: Old age. And like I said, I'll talk about what whatever y'all wanna hear about. And I'll talk Butter all day and night if ya let me.
CHLOE: How old was she?
TOM: A month away from twenty-nine.
CHLOE: How long did you have her?
TOM: All her life. Her father was a chestnut a rancher gave me my first foreman job.
HUNTER: Where were you?
TOM: Oregon. North a Bend, if ya know where that is.
Hunter nods.
CHLOE: Do you have pictures of Butter?
TOM: Oh yeah. Not on my phone but a whole album at home. And her ashes. Got her saddle in storage.
CHLOE: Will you ever have another horse?
TOM: Well Chloe, I'm thinkin' about it. There's a few stables in the area that me and Ruth'll look at. Thinkin' we can give a rescue a nice home.
CHLOE: Cool.
Tom nods to something in the woods.
TOM: What's cool is what's off to our two o'clock.
Chloe, Jackie and Hunter look and see five horses, stationary except for tail swish, seeming to stare back at them.
JACKIE: Finally a sighting.
CHLOE: Are those the wild horses you mentioned?.
JACKIE: Five of them anyway.
Chloe aims her phone out the window, takes a picture of the horses. As soon as she does, the horses trot deeper into the woods. Chloe turns to see Tom recording her with his phone. OVER TOM'S SHOULDER we see her smile and the horses leave view, Tom stops recording, pockets phone, winks at Chloe. Hunter sees this in the rearview mirror, smiles, looks at Jackie, who smiles.
