Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Final Beats A3

A3

1. Sunrise, Hunter enter kitchen, start coffee, Tom reveal.

2. Hunter tells Chloe.

3. Wanda with Daisy gets Hunter's call.

4. Ruth gets Wanda's call.

5. Gil gets Ruth's call.

6. Barbara, with Brian, Jan and John, gets Hunter's call.

7. Hunter and Chloe watch Medical Examiner truck drive away.

8. Daisy, Wanda Laramie airport.

9. Gil arrive Ruth's. 

10. Hunter with Doc. What now?

11. Jackie at home, phone with Sess re Tom. Hunter arrive.

Final Beats A2

A1

1. Next day, sunrise, Jan and Jan powerwalk, rural Paso Robles. John has "found them" and street view of their house through Tom's middle name Travis. John's reference to having been in Cheyenne for EPA litigation. Jan's segue into Jackson ski trip and John calling Kate (his sister.) Arrive handsome home, uphill steps alongside driveway.  

2. Hunter's driveway, about the truck, heeere's Jackie, away they go.

3. Wanda with Daisy gets San Augustin Pass photo.

4. Ruth places same pic, framed, near Hunter's books on floating shelf.      

5. Int. Rover. Last time on a horse, into Grand Canyon mule ride, into Tom's uncle - "my mom's brother" - re Flagstaff Forest Service, into Ruth keeps ancestry website. Chloe re so does her aunt Kate, her "grampa's sister." 

4. Kate with Cedric (reading Foglost) - Chicago high-rise view to lake - gets John's call. Kate re family tree, limb, new branch.

5. Doc gets Hunter pic.

6. Sess, Claire, horses, Rover arrive, saddle up, ride toward forest.

7. WOODPECKER. Horses/riders through the pines.

8. Barbara arrives home - SLO cul-de-sac, Cerro del SLO - gets pic she forwards to John and Jan.

8. Alpine meadow.

9. Wanda, Daisy facetime Ruth.  

10. Pinus ponderosa. Tom and Chloe's Spanish, Hunter's high school French (because of Charlotte Charboneau). Chloe asks about Tom's buckle, Tom tells her, re more from junior rodeo in a box at Ruth's. Rodeo interrupted by Uncle Sam's call to Vietnam. Triangle bell from picnic table where Jackie, Sess and Claire have lunch prepared. Query re Hunter's relation to the cowboy, Jackie's cryptic response. 

11. Barbara places framed photo in Chloe's bedroom.

12. Creek crossing. 

13. Gil finishes Foglost, Maria present, Gil gets Tom pic with Hunter. Maria notes resemblance to H.C. Hardyn.

14. Horse barn, a Honda knot.

15. White Sands sunset.

16. Night. Jackie leaves Hunter's, shooting star. Tom sees coyote in shadows.

17. Tom's Tahoe tale. Hunter re signing guest book, Tom re Hunter signing Foglost.

18. Tom facetime Wanda and Ruth. Guest book. 

Final Beats A1

1. Tom and Wanda in bed at night. Tom reading Foglost, Wanda reading Michener's HAWAII, etc.

2. Sunrise next day. Tom leaves in truck, WYOMING plates.

3. Gil and Dale, Bandera American Legion post, TEXAS plates, re Maria and Boys on the way up. Tom's Huey selfie.

4. Wanda and Daisy, Laramie River/bridge, Tom's call from ABQ motel room, monsoon clouds. Leaves Ruth VM, starts bath.

5. Sunrise next day, Tom into truck motel parking lot, leaves. 

6. Chloe, Barbara, Jan and John, driving, re Jackie and Horse Day.

7. Hunter home office, Organ Mountains, Chloe pics, enter Hunter enters, powers down computer, leaves into kitchen. Trash bag.

8. Tom in Hunter's 'hood, nearing, stops, idles, Hunter out, Tom drives away, Hunter into house.

9. Tom's U-turn.

10. Hunter greeting area, doorbell, Tom, Howdy, Tom into house.

11. Barbara, Jan, John, Hunter's call re "Tom Walker from Texas" at Hunter's, spending night. John wants a middle name.

12. Wanda with Daisy gets call from Tom in Hunter's guest room. Tom calls Ruth, with Gil re peaches in Fredericksburg. "Híjole." Tom notes guest book, leaves, boots on hardwood. He arrives in xeriscape backyard, framed by window over desk. Takes selfie.

13. Hunter, Chloe, El Paso airport. "And I was nervous about meeting Jackie."

14. Hunter, Chloe arrive Hunter's, truck in driveway.

15. H, C enter kitchen, Tom on patio. Out they go, intros. 

16. Gil, Maria, The Boys, Maria re calendar re Tom/Wanda arrival, Gil re Tom's Las Cruces layover.

17. Sunset. Barbara with Brian, re Tom and Olivia.

18. Patio, night. Tom, Hunter, Chloe. Re retired ranch foreman. Chloe re Horse Day. Hunter, phone, "Jackie."

Ruth paints

So yes to the painting we see in scene one, above Tom and Wanda's headboard. Ruth also painted the still life in her dining room. There'll be another in her guest room.

Pardon my presumptuous but:



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scene a day linear mode re Final

 


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