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EXT. OUTDOOR PEACH MARKET - DAY

RUTH, 70-something - running shoes, knee-length shorts, sunglasses hanging from collar of short-sleeve tie-dye KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD tee, sunhat - stands near a table under tree shade, bag of peaches and her purse on table, one of a A DOZEN SHOPPERS examining or purchasing peaches and their byproducts. A view to vehicles in the dirt parking area, all with Texas plates. 

Gil arrives, puts his bucket of peaches on table, Ruth gets phone from pocket, aims camera at Gil, records.  

RUTH: Guess who just called to say he's spending the night in Las Cruces in the guest room of a house on Motherlode Trail.

Gil processes this, clearly surprised.

GIL: Híjole

RUTH: I'll say.

Ruth stops recording, pockets phone.

GIL:  He did it.

RUTH: He'll leave in the morning. 

GIL: Another branch on the family tree. 

RUTH: This calls for a beer.

GIL: Vamos.

They get their peaches and walk out of frame.

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scene 13

INT. BEDROOM - DAY

A guest room. Bed aimed at big wall-mounted TV and dresser drawers below it. Remote on one of the nightstands on each side of the bed. Matching lamps on both. Art TBD on wall above bed. Tom's hat on rack near open door to hallway near closet.  

Desk at window to patio, yard, Organ Mountains. Lamp, unsolved Rubik's Cube, etch-a-sketch and pen and pencil on guest book on desk. Swivel chair under. Telescope in corner near desk, potted Bird of Paradise in another. Tom's suitcase on bed.

KNOCKING OF BOOTS ON HARDWOOD before Tom enters, sits at desk, stares out window, finally gets phone from shirt pocket, speaks into it. 

TOM: Ruth. 

You and Gil in Fredericksburg? 

Hunter's house. I'll be spendin' the night and leavin' in the mornin'.

You there?

Understandable. Wanda was a little thrown off too. 

Didn't have no plans other'n to take a picture.  We'll talk more when I call tonight. 

He's off to El Paso to pick up his daughter at the airport. I'm in his guest room.

Real nice. Gotta gym, theater, great view of the mountains. I took a few pictures I'll send. Wouldn't mind a picture of Gil's face when ya tell him.

K, more tonight.

Love you too.

(He pockets phone, opens suitcase, gets the grey hardcover book titled Foglost and written by H.C. Hardyn from its place atop his western style shirts. The book is marked with a ribbon indicating a book almost read. Tom puts on his hat, leaves room with it, BOOTS KNOCKING ON HARDWOOD fading then silent moments before he appears in window, sits at patio table, opens book, reads.)  

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scene 12 

EXT. ALBANY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY - LARAMIE, WY - DAY

Wanda and DAISY, 70-something, come out the front doors dressed similarly in tennis shoes, knee-length shorts, untucked long-sleeve blouses, purses slung over shoulders, walk to parking lot, in which each of several vehicles have Wyoming plates. They head toward a newish Subaru Outback parked under shade of tree.

WANDA: Oh. I know what I was going to tell you.  

DAISY: Bated breath.

WANDA: The Lincoln is having matinee showings of Last Picture show both Saturday and Sunday, if you're up for the drive to Cheyenne.

DAISY: I am absolutely up.

WANDA: I'll get tickets.  

DAISY: Brunch at Buttercup?

WANDA: Mind reader. Maybe a stop at Creekside for coffee before the drive home?

DAISY: Coffee and their lemon croissant.

Wanda opens purse for keys.

WANDA: I'll stick with the blueberry muffin.  

Wanda opens driver's door.

DAISY: By the way sort of, I was thinking Dragon for dinner tonight.

WANDA: It's a date.

Wanda unlocks passenger door, they get in.

INT. OUTBACK

Wanda puts key in ignition, Daisy props purse in lap, Wanda reaches to place hers under the well of the seat behind Daisy's, brings it back when her PHONE RINGTONES an instrumental of the Townes Van Zandt song, If I Needed You.  She answers.

WANDA (CONT.)  Hey hon'.  

Sitting with Daisy in the Subaru in the library parking lot after returning our books. Where are you?

(Her facial change expresses her utter surprise. Daisy takes note.)  

WANDA: I'm here. I can hear you. 

Well, call me tonight, okay?

And maybe, Tom, take a picture, or two, or three.

Okay.

I love you too.

I'll be waiting.

(She puts phone in purse, purse in back of Daisy's seat.)

DAISY: More bated breath. 

WANDA: Tom met someone he knows in Las Cruces. He's at his now and spending the night.

DAISY: Someone you know?

WANDA: Know of.

DAISY: You seem more than a little surprised.

WANDA: A little. Up for a drive to the lake?

Daisy nods, knowing Wanda's shaken. Wanda puts keys in ignition, starts engine, backs out of frame.