1. Next day, sunrise, John and Jan, found them. Re Roy Rogers boots and Rachel.
2. Meet the truck, and Jackie.
3. Gil, Maria, boys, Foglost, Tom's Las Cruces layover.
4. Rover, Hunter driving, Tom re last time on a horse into Grand Canyon mule ride, Tom's uncle in Flagstaff, re Ruth's ancestry website. Chloe re her aunt Rachel - "my grandfather's sister" - also keeping an online family tree. Chloe takes a selfie with Tom, on the contingency that she send it to him so he can forward to sis and wife. Jackie - "speaking of pictures" - hopes it's okay with everyone to be in the video her cousin's girlfriend would like to shoot. All in.
5. Wanda with Daisy gets the picture Chloe took. Speechless.
6. Ruth, teary, places same, framed, in her reading room on a floating shelf with Hunter's books, Trabuco, Isleton, and Scatterseeds: short stories. Foglost is on a lampstand near a chair she sits in, opens to marked page. WHIR OF CICADAS.
7. Sess, Claire, trailer, barn, horses. Arrive Rover, intros, Claire re her video and yes it will be online. Claire is particular re Hunter because she knows who he is, "my dad's a huge fan," but she wants to be sure re Hunter's privacy. Hunter all in. To the horses and saddling up. Chloe asks for a pointer, Tom provides and shows. The rest follow, ride into the forest.
8. Piney woods, WOODPECKER silenced by the cuh-lip cuh-lop of the horses as the riders enter and pass through frame, fanned out as if a search party. Resume WOODPECKER.
9. John and Jan on floats in pool.
JAN: Are we going to be possessive?
JOHN: Aren't we already?
JAN: We'll learn to be less so.
JOHN: Won't we.
JAN: Yes we will. There will be more pictures.
JOHN: I hope so, with trepidation.
JAN: Same.
JOHN: He's handsome, isn't he?
JAN: The Marlboro man in winter. I see kind eyes.
JOHN: A little sad?
JAN: Yes. Gut feeling.
JOHN: Optimism. That it's a good thing. Maybe a very good thing. Probably.
JAN: Hopefully.
JOHN: You?
JAN: Same.
They hold hands.
10. Mountain Meadow.
11. Rachel tells Cedric what she knows about the new branch on Chloe's limb on the family tree.
12. Pinus ponderosa. Chloe asks about Tom's buckle, Tom tells her poker game in Laredo story, remembers the hands at play. Chloe asks how many buckles he has, into the "couple junior rodeo buckles in a box at my sister's," into not doing pro rodeo because uncle Sam had a different plan.
HUNTER: Vietnam.
TOM: Yessir.
TRIANGLE BELL from the picnic table.
HUNTER: Maybe more on that another time?
Tom nods, leads toward the picnic table.
Jackie, Sess, Claire with lunch at the table. They watch Tom, Hunter, Chloe approach.
SESS: So how do Hunter and Tom know each other?
JACKIE: They don't. Just met yesterday. More later.
SESS: Okay.
13. Chloe's room, San Luis Obispo, enter Barbara with framed photo of Tom, Hunter and Chloe she places on desk, leaves.
14. Horses and creek. Hunter and Tom re fishing. Jackie and Chloe observe, Claire with Sess records.
15. Wanda, Daisy, Ruth facetime.
16. Barn, horses and hay, Tom and a Honda knot.
17. Claire's dad (in Ardmore, OK per the water tank framed by window, finishes Foglost, gets Claire selfie with Hunter.
18. White Sands sunset. Black sand beaches. Jackie's Iceland honeymoon. "Oh."
19. Night. Jackie leaves Hunter's. Starry sky and a shooting star burning out. Hunter re a movie, Tom's a "little tuckered, gonna call my wife and sister, get 'em caught up and onto bed." Hunter about a selfie, into house, garage close.
20. Tom's Tahoe story, Olivia's selfie.