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The phone rings: "TRÍÍMMM!", "TRÍÍMMM" ...
"Uvalde Police ..." Attends Jane Preston" Well, Madam (listening) ... Stay where you are, I will send a car (hearing a breathless voice) ... Okay, okay. Umhum! (listening attentively and writing) ... Near the entrance to Rancho Makenze (voice continues) ... I'm going to start an ambulance (still listening) ... hamham ... stay calm! (hears hang-up sound) ... "You didn't tell me your name"! Okay. (Getting up) _ Jane reaches out, with the notes on the note in her hand to the boys at the table with the chess board, saying:
"Entrance to Rancho Makenze! A serious accident with a pick up, with a man attached to the hardware!"
The two men, Marc and Jones, get up immediately and take the paper from Jane's hand:
"Let's go! ..." He reads the note, scratches his head and asks puzzled: "Where did the person call from ?!" Jones with his hand on his chin thoughtfully. Marc takes the paper and says:
"Good
7:21 am somewhere in the Texas desert... Black Dodge is on asphalt. "Someone" directing sings a song. Or at least is trying to: "If you're happy clap your hands! If you're happy clap your foot!... If you're happy!"...Yeah Ted Karanzza is at the wheel trying to pass a little of his... "joy", when he forgets majestically the letter! He taps the steering wheel trying to get the rhythm, and: "Oh, never mind!... "Old Macdonald had a farm Ee I ee I o!!!" "Oh no!!" Malcon Ramirez mutters!, and Fernandes Sanches vents: "20 minutes!, the same 'song'!" (pulling his hat and covering his ears) But the driver: "Come on, guys?! My teacher loved to sing that song!" (gestures, taking his hand off the wheel with a cigarette between his fingers) Malcon Ramirez counters: "The 'little teacher' must have known how to sing! And you sure as hell weren't inside a car breathing smoke! Cóf! Cóf! (Cough) ... and maybe she was beautiful!
The black Dodge affectionately dubbed by Ted Karanzza as "the dark," is still on the road, that sunny Saturday morning in the Texas desert. But, what about the police? A few miles back... The snakes are still in the front seats of the vehicle undisturbed, until: "I found a stick, Sheriff!" Sheriff Brawn is sitting on a rock, fanning himself with his hat... "Okay boy. Let's get this over with..." Jeremy approaches the car and stands three feet from the snakes, stretching out his arm with the stick. And the Sheriff alerts him: "Watch out Jeremy, we're a long way from the hospital! One sting and that's it!" Jeremy hooks the stick through the middle of the snake, half tremolo, and throws it out of the vehicle... Sheriff Brawn draws his gun! "BANG!" The bullet almost splits the snake in half... "YEEHUUU! On the fly!" Vibrates Jeremy. "Take the other one, I want to hit the head... Be careful!"' The boy
1976, 8hrs on a sunny morning in Brackttville in Kinney County, Texas, United States of America. A young blonde woman in her bedroom lying on her bed. She is surrounded by bloodstained bandages. Her peaceful countenance of someone who really needed a break is undone by her brows furrowing against the morning light now on her face. She opens her eyes slowly. Still lying down, her mind takes her back to the night before into the early morning hours. A few memory arrows begin: blood-stained claws "pass" quickly! It is barely hit in the face! And those red eyes! Horns with yellowish tips. Leather wings with "anemic" edges! The thing or demon attacks it without stopping with its hands, or wings with claws! She looks hungry for blood! It's tireless! It deviates in the last milliseconds! The memory arrows are now confused between the creature's many successful onslaughts and well-known human faces. Sounds of shotgun fire and revolving between screams mingle. A final
Judy Vegas is in the kitchen of her home cutting some pieces of fish that Jack caught with his 10-year-old son, Jesse. She raises her head, sees them from the window, and gives a proud smile to her husband teaching his son, as she always did on Saturdays, after fishing ... "BANG!" Jack demonstrates with his rifle, hitting a can:"Your turn. Remember the important thing ...""It's not getting it right in the beginning, but evolving with each shot! I already know, dad!" Jesse completes his father's speech, eager to take the next shot. He reloads his shotgun, already with the skill of an adult, while Jack watches him carefully, feeling proud of his son:"Very well ..." Jack lets out a slight attentive smile for Jesse to make his aim focused on the target ... BANG!"THAT'S IT! ..." Celebrate! While Jesse is still looking at that can, as if to say; "I'll get you soon!" He turns to his father and asks:"You liked it?" Finally the boy smiled at his
...The powerful engine barely heats up and they arrive in Brackettville...Families from all the surrounding regions are crowding the place. The Willams Vegas couple are unmistakable and are already noticed even before leaving the vehicle by the closest old friends. And someone comes forward and says:"Hey! Look who's here! If it's not old Jack 'and family'! (cheerful tone)" One of the men is ready and will receive the friend who has already left the veícle:"Hello, Jack!""Hello Carlson! Everything in sacred peace? ..." The two greet each other, while some boys surround Jesse ... One of the boys is Jhony, who seems to be the leader, despite being the smallest in the class, he is also the most active and seems to be the most intelligent. He shakes Jesse's hand by shaking his arm, saying:"Now, I want to see Michael win us over!" Putting his arm around his friend's neck and the other boys agree, vibrant: "IIÉÉÉ&Eacu
Judy and Jack come home ... The couple has just entered the house. Jack is with Jesse in a deep sleep in his arms towards the boy's room, while Judy hurries to pass in front of her husband and opens the bedroom door. Jack puts the boy to bed while his wife quickly takes off Jesse's boots; she speaks softly as she takes off one of her boots: "My God, these boots are already getting tight !!" "É ... The big boy is growing fast!" (To smile) "Not long ago it was just a 'calf' Very small!" Covering him with a sheet ... While Jack kisses his son's forehead, and then Judy repeats the ritual; also kissing the sleeper's cheeks. Judy turns on the lamp on the nightstand and Jack turns off the light in the room ... and then goes to the door and holds the doorknob while Judy goes through the door and the man smells the woman's good smell more closely ... "Ah! What a perfume!" (Thinks Jack) ... The man "throws himself" on that neck, passing his free
In the distance, it is possible to hear the sounds of roosters announcing the rising of the sun ... Until the nearest roosters also start to sing ...Finally Sunday ...Judy opens her eyes and keeps her eyes fixed on the ceiling thinking about what happened before dawn ... With a slight smile forming, she is still trying to understand. She asks herself thinking: "What was that? I don't know if I dreamed or if I somehow tried that hunt ... 'Hunting ?!'" _ She gets up very fast! And without wasting time, she goes to the kitchen ... she arrives in front of the sink and takes the deer thigh ... she turns towards the kitchen door, opens it and ... looks at Jack!"Good morning darling! Did you get up ?! I thought I was going to sleep some more today." The husband takes a lock of Judy's disheveled hair that covered his face and gives him a "kiss" ... Judy takes the opportunity to "pass" the "piece" back, hiding it from Jack, thinks: "He doesn't saw it! "and then:
Later ... 13: 00hThe family man goes through the kitchen door and goes to the small sheep pen. He yawns ... with eyes heavy with sleep. Jack's tiredness is notorious. He takes a special pair of scissors to prune the sheep. He then walks to the stable and leans against the entrance with his forearm and sees the work that Judy has already done:"Have you done all these?!" Judy is sitting on a small bench tying the legs of another sheep. She raises her head, moves her hair away which covered her sweaty face:"Ah! Woke up, honey ?!""You should have woken me ..." crouching and starting to take the ball of wool."You've been working all week ... I preferred not to mess with you on that couch ..." The woman gets up and goes to the playpen, which is right there in the stable, opens the gate ... Jack I warned:"But Judy, you are close to having the baby ... you shouldn't try so hard anymore! I know you like to work ... but it is dangerous!"