Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Final Beats Act 2

Act 1

1. The Truck, Heeere's Jackie, intros and away.

2. Int. Rover. T re last time on a horse, Grand Canyon re T's uncle in Flagstaff re Ruth's ancestry site, White Sands, re taking pictures. Chloe takes selfie with Tom. Tom re send that to me re Ruth and Wanda. 

3. Wanda, with Daisy, gets the selfie.

4. Ruth at home places it, framed, on shelf in parlor with piano.

5. Sess and Claire, horses and kids, Rover arrive and intros. To the ponies.

6. Piney woods and woodpecker knocking. The riders on their horses enter, ride through and out of frame, fanned out search party.

7. Brian and Dad.    

8. Mountain meadow. Tom and Hunter, Chloe and Jackie, Sess and Claire.

9. John and Jan stare at Chloe/Tom selfie.

10. Barbara places it framed on desk in Chloe's bedroom.

11. Uphill horse trail single-track 'round a bend, Sierra Blanca view. Cuh-lip cuh-lop, Horses into, through and out of frame single-file. Birdsong.

12. Birdsong. Pinus ponderosa, foreign languages, re high school sports, Tom's youth rodeo, Vietnam. Re buckles and the one he has on. Lunch bell. Jackie, Sess and Claire re Tom's relationship to Hunter.

13. Gil with Dale, Dale's dog and The Boys (working) at Bandera VFW. Re Clem's passing. 

14. Horses at the creek. Tom and Hunter re fishing re Clem (trout) and Gil (bass). Tom shows a picture on his phone of the three of them deep sea fishing off Galveston. T Chloe takes their picture. 

16. Wanda and Daisy re biodegradable urn re Clem's ashes.

17. Ruth re added limb to Family Tree.

18. Back at the ranch. Re Tom, rodeo, tie-down ropin', honda knot, lassos mechanical bull, Chloe recording. Re coffee for the road. Claire takes selfie with Hunter.

20. White Sands at Sunset. Hunter, Jackie, Chloe and Tom, barefoot in the dunes, aimed at sunset on the San Andres range.

21. Night. Jackie leaving. Hunter re watching a movie, Tom will excuse himself to bed, "a little tuckered" and re all the pictures. Hunter, "speaking of which." 

22. Tom on the Tahoe selfie Olivia took. His photographic memory. He takes a picture of the selfie. Chloe "call mom," Hunter "notes on the day."

Final Beats Act 1

1. Night. Tom and Wanda, Foglost and Hawaii.

2. Sunrise. Tom leaves, truck WY, re Daisy.

3. CREDITS over Tom driving, Big West, enter Colorado, radio music.

4. Gil, Maria, the boys. Foglost, re Tom and Wanda move.

5. Sunset. Wanda and Daisy. Tom's ringtone, calling from ABQ motel room. Tom leave Ruth VM. Monsoon clouds and thunder, first drops of rain.

6. Sunrise. Tom to truck, drive away.

7. John, Jan, Barb, Chloe driving. Re Jackie and horse day.

8. Hunter home office, Organ Mountains, leaves room.

9. Tom driving, Hunter 'hood, Organ Mountains, GPS direction.

10. Hunter kitchen, calendar re Chloe, bag tie, leaves room.

11. Tom nears Hunter's - Rover in open garage - stops, idles, takes picture, just as Hunter enters garage from house. Tom drive away, Hunter's eyes follow, bag into bin at mailbox. Tom turns out of view behind house.

12. Tom U-turn.

13. Hunter foyer, doorbell, Tom, Howdy, Tom enters. H eyes truck.

14. Barbara, John and Jan, Hunter's call/ringtone. B re Tom Walker, spending night.

15. Wanda with Daisy, the WYO, Tom's call from Hunter's guest room. Tom calls Ruth with Gil in Fredericksburg for peaches. Híjole.

16. Hunter with Chloe.

17. Doc gets Hunter selfie with Tom.

18. Hunter and Chloe arrive, Tom smoking, Chloe re Marlboro Man, intros, Tom re how he found Hunter.

19. Sunset (at Pismo?). Barbara, with Brian, re the Tom and Olivia story. She gets selfie Chloe has sent, with Hunter and Tom.

20. Sunset. John and John get Barbara's forwarded Chloe selfie.

21. Night. H, C, T 'round the patio table, post dinner. Re the weather, monsoon season, rain an ABQ last night. How long T/W married, W's history re lost child, anniversary plans, re Hawaii, surfing. Tom excuses himself to bed after calling W and R. Chloe re Tom horse day, H call Jackie.