Saving Grace s01e02 Episode Script
Bring It On, Earl
He went toward the stream.
Oh, yeah! Nice shot.
The wind was blowing east.
He had to be headed west or we'd have been out ofluck.
[ Ham .]
Yeah.
- [ Gasps .]
- Oops.
Oh! Bird just shit all over you.
That's good luck.
But it smells like- [ Sniffs .]
tobacco.
[ Man .]
So pretty and, oh, so bold Got a heart full of gold on a lonely road - She said, ''I don't even think that God can save me'' - Save me Am I gaining ground Am I losing face Have I lost and found my saving grace Thankful for the gift my angels gave me You know, my first kill, I was nine.
I cried a couple days, and then I couldn't wait to get out again.
I was 1 2.
Didn't cry - but I had nightmares for weeks.
- [ Grunts .]
I got this big deer, bigger than a house with a sparkly hoof that squashed everyone in my family but me.
''Sparkly hoof'? But not pretty.
Like demon sparkles or somethin'.
- [ Chuckles .]
- What? - ''Sparkly hoof'? - It was huge! [ Growls .]
[ Cell Phone Ringing .]
[ Ham .]
Mm-mmm.
[ Ringing .]
Shit.
There goes our day off.
[ Groans .]
Come on.
Someone whacked him in the head with somethin'.
No wallet.
Just his cell phone, truck keys.
[ Grace.]
His watch is missing.
Look at the tan line.
- Time of death? - Last night.
How's your cat, Henry? How's Molly? Not doing too good.
Still eating though.
Still loves her treats.
- That's good.
How old is she? - Nineteen.
Still praying about what to do.
I figure as long as she's eating- You'll know when it's time.
We got an I.
D.
on this guy? Uh, yeah.
Bo Grady, 42, no record.
Truck's, uh, leased by Payne Grady Rigging.
They're one of the biggest rigging companies in the Southwest.
- What does, uh, crusty man have to say? - [ Chuckles .]
[ Bobby .]
Property foreman, found the body around 7.
:30 while he was making his rounds.
[ Ham .]
Looks like he's half in the bag.
Uh, says he's just tired.
Came in from an all-night poker party.
- Coffee? - Oh, thanks.
- Rig's been hit by vandals lately? - Twice in the last three months.
- What kind of damage was done? - Slashed cables, rocks in the gears.
Figure it's kids or these anti-oil varmints.
- You call the cops? - Yeah, but it's been going on for awhile.
A bunch of'em had this funeral for mother earth right down the road there.
- Called us ''dope pushers.
'' - [ Cell Phone Rings .]
This'll just take a minute.
Crusty have a record? Couple of drunk-driving beefs.
He's making sense though.
Bo could have stumbled across the varmints.
Decided to have a talk with 'em.
Yeah.
Gotta watch them varmints.
So why leave your shotgun in the truck? - What's with the Bubba Joe's? - Interesting, huh? Yeah.
So it looks like Bo Grady left his coffee in his truck.
- What's this? - [ Camera Shutter Snaps .]
- I think he's back.
- Who? Earl.
Will you test it? Wait, whoa, stop! You can't just tell me Earl's back and then walk away.
Did you see him? Did you talk to him? Did you get me a feather? - No.
- Grace, to examine the feather of an angel, do you understand? Yeah.
It's a religious experience.
He's not an angel.
- That is how we find out.
- Wouldn't you rather have his spit? - This is Earl's spit? - Unless there's a bird that shits tobacco.
Two years I've been carrying around glue and glitter and crap! You're dead! You're dead.
What's with the glitter on the deer hoof? - It's a sparkly hoof.
[ Laughing .]
- You're dead, you hear me? - [ Watch Beeps .]
- Yo, can we get back to work? - Who's gonna notify the wife? - Uh- Chickenshits.
[ Retching .]
- I'm- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
- [ Toilet Flushes .]
I'll, um- I'll get you a picture of his watch.
- Take your time.
Take your time.
- [ Crying .]
[ Panting .]
- What did you ask me? - Who might want to hurt Bo? No one.
You said he- he left last night to check on the pumps around 9:00.
The only people who don't like Bo, the ones against big oil.
He checks on the pumps a lot? - What? - Property foreman said he'd never seen Bo out there before.
He was upset about the vandalism.
Belle, did anyone ever threaten him directly? Phone calls? Letters? Just the company.
Someone threw blood on their sign.
And once this kid chained himself to their door.
What'd you think when Bo didn't come home last night? You call him? - Did I call him? - When he didn't come home last night.
I went to bed.
I thought- I didn't even know he wasn't home.
[ Sobbing .]
Belle Grady, I don't know.
There's something.
- Where are you guys? - I'm working his business.
Bobby and Butch are filling in the boss on the vandalism at the rigs.
- They pulled up D.
F.
I.
's.
- Wife said his company got hit.
You get that too? Yeah.
Might be a group of college kids- CAPA.
Stands for Crusade Against Petroleum Addiction.
Maybe that's why the shotgun's in the truck.
He was confronting kids.
- What about his cell phone? - No calls after 9:00 last night.
- Look, I gotta ask you something.
- What? You go hunting with Butch? A couple times, yeah.
- Check this out, bud.
- I'll see you later.
Ham? Ham? Nine oil rigs hit in the last year all over the city.
Calling card's an American flag soaked in oil.
Lieutenant Yukon, your baby girl's on line two.
I got it, Della Mae, in my office.
How many kids in this CAPA thing? Ten, maybe 1 5.
We need to track 'em down.
[ Engine Starts .]
[ Radio, Disco .]
Heaven Must be missing an angel - Missing one angel child - [ Beeps .]
Heaven - Heaven - Heaven - Heaven - Heaven Must be missing an angel Missing one angel child 'cause you're here with me Asshole.
Your love is heavenly Heavenly to me - Haven't heard about no watch.
- Lots of diamonds around it.
Worth about 25 grand.
Haven't heard about no watch.
Haven't heard about no killing.
Haven't heard about nothing.
- Come on, Pup.
Give me a little love.
- [ Scoffs .]
- Why you mad at me? - Hmph.
You go ahead and be mad, as long as you get the word out about this watch.
Where are my shoes? You promised me a new pair of shoes.
Pup, I'm sorry.
I- I forgot.
We can go right now.
No.
Now we're gonna do what we set out to do.
- You gonna buy me my shoes later.
- I'll get 'em.
I promise.
- What size I wear? - Eleven.
How somebody gonna promise somebody a new pair of shoes and just forget? - I don't think I'll ever understand.
- You want to keep fussing? Or you want your man, Captain Morgan? [ Soft Rock .]
I was just showing Rhetta pictures of Emma's birthday party.
Maggie's 1 5, the twins are eight, and Emma is three.
- I hope you're good to your wife, Bobby.
- I try.
I'll get you a beer.
We'll hook up with Butch and Ham.
Better sit down for this.
You said Earl looks like any other guy from Oklahoma, right? Yeah.
Normal guy.
The stain on your shirt was tobacco and saliva.
- But the saliva had no genetic material in it.
- What's that mean? It means that Earl has no human D.
N.
A.
, or plant, or animal cells.
- And what does that mean? - He's another form of life.
It means he's an angel, Grace.
Well, shit.
Bobby, get me a shot of bourbon too.
[ Butch .]
We got 1 2 CAPA members.
Eight of them were at an anti-oil rally last night.
- Local news has 'em on tape.
- [ Bobby .]
Leaves four.
One of them's in and out of town.
So we're checking three alibis.
- You hear from Henry? - He thinks the murder weapon's a tire iron.
Wound imprint on the skull is an octagon shape.
Probably at the bottom of the river by now.
- Game.
You owe me 20 bucks.
- Double or nothing.
No.
I'll take the money.
- You worried? -Just pay up, asshole.
Heard Grace had to take the shot this morning 'cause you got scared.
You gettin' scared now? Anyone want a drink? I'm buyin'.
[ Together.]
I gotta take a piss.
- Go ahead.
Go on.
- You go on.
You guys can't go to the bathroom together? [ Pool Stick Clatters .]
[ Rhetta .]
You just have to accept the fact that God has given you an angel.
Granted he chews tobacco and likes disco.
But you've entered into the divine, Grace.
Into a celestial experience that is scientifically unexplainable.
You gotta use spiritual language to even begin a dialogue on this.
[ Urine Trickling .]
[ Sighs .]
So you went hunting with Grace? - Couple of years ago.
- You know I got a thing with her? Wasn't sure.
You bag anything beside a deer? Excuse me.
Sorry.
So how many times you sleep with Grace- 1 0, 20? - This isn't a good idea, buddy.
- You know about her nightmares.
You had to be pretty close.
You in love with her, man? - Had fun.
- Me too, Danny.
- I'll call you.
- How 'bout I call you? [ Door Opens, Closes .]
[ Objects Clattering .]
[ Barks .]
- [ Food Frying .]
- [ Object Banging .]
- Don't ever spit on me again.
- Morning.
- How do you like your eggs? - You don't think I'll shoot you? Go ahead.
Bullet goes straight through.
Not like you're the first one to have that idea.
[ Laughs .]
Look, this isn't gonna work.
- Well, sure it will.
- No, it won't.
Well, for your sake, Grace, I hope it does.
- So you just show up whenever you feel like it? - Well, pretty much.
- Then what? - Well, then I get to know you better.
- Figure out how I can help you.
- And I got no choice? Well, you had a choice, on that lonely road.
The night you killed a man.
The night you asked for God's help.
I'm not going to church.
[ Laughs .]
Who said anything about church? You can go to temple.
Go to a mosque.
Heck, Grace.
Go sit in a dang tree if it'll get you closer to God.
- You hungry? - No.
- Where are your wings? - Oh.
Don't like 'em out around the stove.
'Cause I think they're bullshit.
Yeah, bullshit.
All the times they popped open we were outside.
For all I know, some kid with a remote control was sitting across the street- - [ Whooshing .]
- [ Sighs .]
You're not ever gonna understand all this, Grace.
Ain't like God's some crime you can solve.
But why me? Well, I know sometimes God goes alphabetically.
But, uh- I don't know.
I have some stuff I want to go over.
I got a couple questions.
God gave me the dossier, but them's just the highlights.
I'm- I'm thinking we need to take this in smaller steps.
A little ''ham,'' maybe? [ Man .]
I wanted to hire security.
Bo wanted to kick some ass.
You want something to drink? We got coffee, soda, hot chocolate.
- Uh, water.
- So, uh, he was pretty pissed off about the vandalism? He just didn't want anyone messing with our equipment is all.
It was personal with Bo.
I told him it was a write-off.
Who cares? - How long you guys known each other? - Twenty years.
It's a long time.
- You met through business? - No.
- It was the emergency room.
Hospital.
- Oh.
He was there 'cause his dad had a heart attack.
I was there 'cause my girlfriend had a wreck.
We just started talkin'.
Hit it off.
Gotta ask you where you were last night.
Home, watching the game.
In bed by 1 0:00.
Look, I didn't kill Bo.
Take my fingerprints, give me a lie-detector test, whatever you want.
I didn't kill my best friend.
[ Door Opens, Closes .]
What's up? Earl cooked me breakfast this morning.
- He cooked you breakfast? - He's gonna be a huge pain in the ass.
Grace, God has chosen you.
God has chosen you.
For whatever reason, he's given you an angel and you're calling him a pain in the ass.
- Do you wanna get struck by lightning? - What if I'm crazy? And somehow I've made you crazy too? And we've both had mental breakdowns but we don't know it? You'd rather be crazy than accept this, wouldn't you? Your feather.
Earl's feather? Oh.
Oh, my God.
- Got you that angel book.
- Shit.
He wants me to talk to Ham.
- About what? - About what we're doing.
Working together? - What'd he say? - A whole bunch of crap.
A whole bunch of questions about my life, my family.
- He wanted to know who Danny was.
- Who's Danny? He even wants me to pray.
Well, he's an angel, Grace.
He's gonna want you to pray.
- What'd you get off that Bubba Joe's Java cup? - Mmm, nothin'.
Except it had hot chocolate in it.
I gave Ham the report.
Yeah? Guess what his wife offered me yesterday when I talked to her.
- Hot chocolate? - Kinda interesting.
Not as interesting as this.
- This one of the CAPA crew? - No.
Alibi for one of'em.
Kid name of Lee Burke, 22.
Arrested six times for civil disobedience.
She's his girlfriend.
We talked to him this morning.
- [ Percy .]
What did you get out of the girl? - Didn't corroborate his alibi.
He said he went home around She said he spent the night.
- Shut it.
- I think you'd look cute on a moped.
- What? - Kid gave me a lecture about my truck and gas mileage.
Seems I'm personally responsible for global warming.
Little aqua bike, cute little helmet.
- You like this Lee Burke? - He definitely got a hate for big oil.
Enough to slam a tire iron into Bo Grady's skull? Lieutenant Yukon,you're gonna have to leave if you're gonna make your lunch meetin'.
Bring him in in your big, bad truck.
[ Chuckles .]
We got shit on this case evidence-wise, man.
- We need this watch.
- Pup gonna show up? We're early.
Relax.
Tell me what you got on the victim.
God-fearing, good guy, down to earth.
- Millions.
You'd never know it.
It's freakin'stolen.
- Oh,yeah? Yeah, his house is nice.
Nothing fancy.
Nothing like that kind of money.
- It all goes to his wife? - Yeah.
- What about his partner? - He's slick.
I don't know.
I want to look into him.
Why didn't you tell me you used to date Butch? Why would I tell you anybody I used to date? I've been sleeping on my brother's couch for a week.
My wife knows something's going on.
You don't give a shit, do you? You're welcome! [ Ham .]
Hey.
What's up, Pup? - How's it going? Those my shoes? - Size 1 1 .
- Yeah, nice.
This is Otis.
- This the watch you saw on the guy? Yeah.
I just got his first name.
- We'll put you with a sketch artist.
Can you describe him? - How much is it worth to you? - Up to my boss.
- I want 500 bucks.
- Fine with me.
Let's go.
- No, I'll wait here.
- I gotta talk to my boss.
- I said I'll wait here.
No, you're coming with us.
Come on.
Hey! Get back here! Stop that- Hey! Get down! Lay down, asshole.
Give me your arm! What the hell was that? You know something about this watch you don't want to tell us? Here.
Otis Yukon.
Otis Yukon? Shit.
He's the boss's brother.
Take a seat over here, all right? Why you always around stolen watches? - Hi, Percy.
- How deep you mixed up in this? - I saw a guy with a watch.
That's it.
- You give us a sketch.
- It checks out, you get 50 bucks.
- How 'bout I give you shit, man? - Dead white guy.
What do I care? - It's enough for a party.
No, I'm clean now.
Three months, 1 6 days.
No booze, no drugs.
Right.
Fifty bucks, your call.
Ham, check out his alibi.
What you gonna do when I get my shit together, bro? You're gonna have to find someone else to piss on.
- Get the hell out of my office.
- We got him.
- We'll get him out ofhere.
- Sketch artist is downstairs.
In there.
- Want something to drink? - Hot chocolate.
- Yukon's brother in this now? - Yeah.
Showed up out of nowhere on the watch.
- Who's the army jacket? - Lee Burke.
He's one of the CAPA crew.
I heard you're selling your truck for a little moped.
They can take my truck when they pry the keys from my cold, dead fingers.
Sounds like fun.
We went to the store.
We got beer.
- Then what? - We drank it.
- What time did you get home? - You already asked me that.
Yeah, you've already asked me all of these profound questions- Just answer the question.
- I went home around 1 0:00.
- That's interesting, Lee.
Because your girlfriend, she says you spent the night.
[ Scoffs .]
And now you think I've told a big, bad lie.
- Maybe, yeah.
- You a one-cause man? All evil comes from big oil, or are you save the whales too? I care about my world.
Do you? - I do.
- What kind of car do you drive? - Hybrid.
Forty-four miles to the gallon.
- Well, see? We did that, we could stop the war.
We could stop the blood-for-oil campaign.
People don't get it, do they? That our guys are getting blown up and killed every day for oil profits? No.
Hell, no.
I mean, they might as well just be filling up their S.
U.
V.
's with blood.
Otis gave me the first name Larry.
He played poker with him a couple nights ago.
Oh, wow.
Everybody's lying.
Belle Grady didn't know her husband didn't come home.
Bullshit.
Lee Burke said he left at 1 0:00.
Girlfriend says he spent the night.
I hope Otis is telling the truth.
Ham working his alibi? Yeah.
Listen, don't talk to Ham anymore about us, okay? He asked me a question.
He's my friend.
I'm not gonna lie to him.
You don't talk about it, you don't have to lie.
- Hey, Larry.
- You know what time it is? Don't have a watch.
What's going on? This is bad, Larry.
Now Detective Ada's gonna have to check your truck, see if there's a tire iron.
- Bo was dead when I found him.
- Sure.
He was! Look, I took his wallet and his watch, but I didn't kill him.
- Maybe you were so drunk you don't know what you did.
- I wasn't that drunk.
I swear.
Look, I know I shouldn't have taken his stuff.
But there's no way I killed him.
You dumb enough to keep the murder weapon? Check the back.
Initials.
- ''D.
P.
'' - [ Belle.]
Dudley Payne.
It was Dudley's watch.
Bo won it from him playing tennis.
- Or golf.
Something.
- They were competitive? They bet on the temperature, high and low, every day.
After Bo won the watch, Dudley had to go out and get one twice as expensive.
- Where's your diamond watch? - We don't, uh, care about that stuff.
As you can probably tell.
Not even a wedding ring? I must have, uh, taken it off.
You weren't wearing it yesterday either.
That's Bo's.
Oh, my God.
- You and Bo sleep in the same bed? - Yes.
My husband, most of the time I know when he rolls over, let alone comes home.
You gotta explain that to me, Belle.
I take a sleeping pill.
It knocks me out.
Mmm.
How long were you married? Almost 1 0 years.
How'd you meet? First time in an emergency room.
But, um, we didn't start dating right away though.
Five or six years.
The three of you look like you had fun together.
- Where's Ham? - Talking to Otis.
Check this out.
Eleven months ago Check this out.
Eleven months ago Lee Burke was arrested for chaining himself to the doors of Payne Grady Rigging.
Heard about it.
Didn't know it was the same kid.
And there's a Bubba Joe's Java two blocks from his house.
Well, that's the kind of shit I like to hear.
He's got something personal with the war, man.
Is he a veteran? No.
I'll check his family.
What are you looking for? Ham's notes on Dudley Payne.
Where's Crusty? - Butch is booking him for robbery charges.
- He got an alibi? He's got a story.
We'll see if it's true.
I was working.
I got off at midnight.
Talk to my boss.
She said it's a big place.
They can't keep track of you every minute.
They got security cameras all over.
Check the footage.
And then shove it up my brother's ass.
You know, I've got three brothers.
We're all so different, man.
My oldest lives in Austin.
He plays the guitar in a cowboy band.
My next oldest lives here.
He's gay.
And my baby brother, he's in Iraq.
He's a marine with a wife, three kids, another one on the way.
- Can I go now? - We've been having fights since we could walk.
We still do.
It doesn't mean we don't love each other.
[ Laughs .]
I drop dead, Percy steps right over me.
And I'll do the same to him.
- We may have a love triangle.
- [ Drawer Banging .]
Bo, wife, business partner.
Yeah.
Dudley Payne? Didn't he offer to take a lie-detector test? Until the moment he decided to lawyer up.
Ham said something about an emergency room.
That's where Dudley and Bo met.
And where Belle first met Bo she told me.
Here it is.
''Bo's dad had a heart attack.
Dudley's girlfriend was in a car wreck.
'' I think his girlfriend was Belle.
She dated Dudley, married Bo? Somethin' like that.
There's nothing more important than family.
You've got to let the past go.
You want to talk about the past, huh? You want to talk about family? You want to talk about him dumping me in jail when I was 1 2 years old? - Otis, you gotta talk to him.
- No! First time in 30 years I'm staying clean.
Today I see that punk bitch! Now all I can think about is getting high! [ Shouting .]
You happy, Percy? - Otis.
- [ Shouts .]
I got some good suspects, Gus.
- [ Barks .]
- Remember that beagle Sally who couldn't decide between you and that goofy rottweiler? - You wanted to kill him, didn't you? - [ Barks .]
[ Laughs .]
I know, I know, I know.
Beagles are dumb.
What? You need to go wee-wee? I think he's barking at me.
[ Groans .]
You can't keep doing this, man.
- Hey, Gus.
Hey, buddy.
Hi.
- I'm busy, Earl.
I know.
You guys are always busy.
- What do you want? - Oh, I'm just checking in.
Seeing how the new life's going.
- Why do you eat if you're not human? - That's a job perk.
I was in Saudi Arabia this afternoon.
Had some of the best sushi I've ever eaten.
- In Saudi Arabia.
- Is that where you got the T-shirt? - You had on a different one this morning.
- Cool, huh? Picked this up in Pakistan.
Got a real hornet's nest over there, man.
- Over there with Allah? - Ah, you say ''tamato.
'' I say ''tomato.
'' So you've been in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Oklahoma City today? And London, Lubbock, New Orleans Cleveland, Bombay- ooh- and France.
I'm gonna be spending a lot of time in France.
[ Thunder Rumbling .]
- This any good? - You tell me.
You first.
How'd it go with Ham? - You guys have a talk? - [ Scoffs .]
Nothing to talk about.
We're having sex.
That's it.
Well, there's his marriage, his wife, his conscience,your conscience God, and how he feels about the whole mess.
God cares if I'm sleeping with a married man? AI DS in Africa, the Middle East, Grace and Ham, we was just talkin' about it this mornin'.
- You ever had sex, Earl? - No.
You eat our food, wear our clothes, why not? Well, uh, wings would get in the way.
- Hey.
- You got a big mouth.
Can you back it up? You start a fight with me, there ain't but one way it's gonna end, girl.
- Yeah.
I kick your ass.
- No.
You surrender.
- Never.
- First one to pin the other for 1 0 seconds? Bring it on, Earl.
Uh, wait.
I think we're gonna need more room.
- Shit, man.
- Better? - Where are we? - Athens.
- Olympic wrestling.
- Athens? Like a crap load of years ago? - No.
Cell phone tower, see? - Whatever.
- You ready? - You betcha.
[ Groans, Grunts .]
[ Screams .]
[ Screams .]
- Ow! My nose! - [ Screams .]
[ Grunts, Groans .]
Ow! [ Groans .]
- Time.
You getting tired? - Are you? - You want to rest for awhile? - Sure.
- You're gonna fight me every step of the way, ain't you? - Yeah.
- Well, why? - 'Cause I don't think there's a God who cares if I'm screwing a married man.
What about you caring, Grace? Let's start there.
You care enough to talk to the guy? That's all.
- Come on.
Get up.
- I've had about enough of this, Grace.
- You giving up? - I give up, I lose my job.
Then come on.
Get up,you old man angel.
Get up.
Okay.
Ow! Ow! [ Grunts, Groans .]
What the hell? [ Panting .]
Where's my arm? You just stole my arm.
[ Groans .]
- I gotta get back to Cleveland.
- But you cheated.
What the hell kind of an angel are you? A tired one.
Plumb dang tired.
Patty in Cleveland's always happy when I show up.
And Etienne in- in France well, we have tea and play chess and talk about the great mysteries of the universe.
Why are you the only one I ever had to wrestle? [ Grunts .]
- Earl.
Earl! - [ Whooshing .]
Earl! [ Sighs .]
Earl wears different T-shirts? Never noticed.
So where do you see him? Your cell? - You just turn around and he's- he's there? - Yeah.
Sometimes in the exercise cage.
- What's he look like to you? - Normal guy.
What color's his hair? Is it long? Is it short? How tall is he? Good.
You can't remember either.
I've seen him 50 times.
Can't tell you shit about what he looks like.
- He black or white? - This is crazy.
I-I remember everything he says to me.
He's white.
Yeah, I think so too.
- But you believe he's an angel? - I know he's my angel.
And he's got my ticket out ofhere.
Your ticket out of here's a syringe, man.
What you did to that prison guard, needle's too easy.
What's Earl got on you? Must be some heavy shit you need a last-chance angel.
He put you on the side of the road the night I ran you over, right? - But to you it was a dream? - That was a bad one.
- They're usually good.
- Like what? You want to know about Earl? - I want to know why you need a last-chance angel.
- I killed an inmate once.
But I'm not dead.
What else? - You're not gonna tell me? - Uh-uh.
I got two years, six months, and nine days in case you change your mind.
- Next time bring me some cigarettes! - [ Door Closes .]
Otis was at work all night.
His alibi checks out.
- That's good.
- I didn't know you smoked, boss.
-Just a couple a day.
- Is it okay to give him the 50 bucks? So he can put it up his arm? You know why I put him in the system when he was 1 2 years old? It was our mom's birthday.
I was 1 8.
Dad long gone.
I gave her flowers.
Otis gave her a stolen watch.
My mom made him take it back.
Otis didn't like that.
So he strangled our cat.
Shit.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you got your arm back.
But I can't believe you washed your clothes.
I wasn't thinking.
I just threw 'em in the washer.
It's important, Grace.
I started an Earl file.
An Earl file? Every time he takes you someplace, I want you to bring me something back.
Some kind of evidence.
I'll document and analyze it.
Are you gonna prove the existence of God? Who knew he'd start out with a pigeon feather? Unless you're screwin' with me.
More like he's screwing with me.
How come you believe me? I tell you I wrestled with an angel all night and you just accept it.
I'm smart enough to know I can't figure out God.
But I see him workin' in you.
- Whatever this is, and it's a good thing.
- Why? Because I want you to believe in God.
I think he can help you.
Help me what? Get your shit together.
I mean, this right here is evidence of a miracle.
- You and me talkin' about God.
- [ Laughs .]
That hasn't happened since catechism in second grade.
- Pretty soon I'll be dragging your ass to mass.
- Don't count on it.
- Mmm.
- I gotta go.
- You get anything off of Crusty's tire iron? - Nothing but dust.
Crusty was playing poker at the time of the murder.
- I got four guys with pretty much the same story.
- And Otis is clean.
- What about the CAPA crew? Lee Burke? - Lee Burke is interesting.
He and his girlfriend can't get the story straight.
But love triangles, man, they can be tough.
And these guys were competitive over everything, starting with Belle.
- Both guys in love with her, she picked Bo.
- Maybe she always loved Dudley.
You know for sure Belle and Dudley had a thing going? She threw up right after I asked her who might want to hurt Bo, not when I told her he was dead.
- Think Dudley Payne has it in him? - [ Sighs .]
He gave all the right answers.
He's got no record.
Well-respected.
But put a woman between two men and who knows? You were right, Grace.
Lee Burke's brother was killed in Iraq two years ago.
- Shit.
- We gotta stay on him.
Yeah.
I'll know if it's Dudley Payne as soon as we track him down.
Come on.
I got a plan.
Let's have some fun.
What does that mean? - God only knows with her.
- Good luck, man.
I'll say a prayer for you.
[ Grunts .]
[ Air Hissing .]
Come on.
[ Chuckles .]
Bubba Joe's Java cup sitting right in his cup holder.
- Doesn't prove shit.
- I know.
- You know, Dudley could be over here as a friend.
- Yeah.
We'll find out.
Want to talk? - Talk? - Yeah.
About what? Think we got a shot at the national championship this year? - Gotta find a quarterback first.
- Hear the kid from Sapulpa's pretty good.
Yeah, here we go.
Here we go.
- Dudley, this is Detective Hanadarko.
- What happened, man? - Uh, flat tire.
- Hey, you got a tire iron? - Can change that for you in five minutes.
- I'll just call Triple-A.
- Anything on the investigation? - Think we're getting pretty close.
- Seriously, man, it'll take me five minutes.
- I pay my dues.
Might as well get my money's worth.
-You guys checking out those anti-oil nuts? -Tire iron's inside here, right? - I have no idea.
Never used it.
- Okay if I look? - How's Belle doing? - We're just trying to figure out the arrangements.
What's going on? Mind coming downtown with us, Dudley? Just go over a couple of things? Uh, whatever you need.
But I told you everything I know.
Brand-new truck? No tire iron? Come on, man.
What happened? You and Bo get in a scuffle? He must have said something sent you over the edge.
Your offer still good for that lie-detector test? - My attorney says it's okay I got no problem with it.
- Come on.
Let's go ask him.
- Dudley, what's going on? - Nothing.
Just go back in the house.
We gotta talk to him about killing Bo.
Oh, God.
He said if it was anyone else, he'd just give you the divorce.
And I just- I don't know what happened.
[ Ham .]
Come on.
You wanna talk? Belle and Dudley had been having an affair on and off the whole marriage.
- Bo Grady knew about it? - Found out the night he was killed.
He and Belle had a huge fight.
He left.
- Went out to check the pumps.
- How does Dudley come into it? Belle calls him after the fight.
He comes over.
She wants a divorce.
- They want to be together.
- After all these years? So Dudley goes to talk to Bo.
Puts his Bubba Joe's on the hood of Bo's truck.
- How do you know that? - Good guess? Go on.
Now we got a reason why Bo left his shotgun in the truck.
He was gonna talk to his friend.
- D.
A.
gonna cut him a deal? - Yeah.
But he'll do some time.
He's gotta live with killin' his best friend.
- [ Watch Beeping .]
- His attorney show up yet? - Yeah.
They're talking.
- What's with your watch beeping every day at noon? Just this thing I got going with, uh, my church.
- Your church? - Yeah.
Yeah, World War II, some guy in Churchill's cabinet asked everyone in England to pray every day at noon for the bombing to stop.
Pretty soon after they started praying, the war ended.
Bunch of churches here got the same thing going on for Iraq.
- Here in the city? - All over the country.
- You think it's stupid, right? - Hey, I want your brother to come home safe too.
We okay? - What? - You and me.
Yeah.
Good.
I think I'm, uh, gonna move back home.
[ Chuckles .]
It's better than a couch I guess.
Yeah.
[ Chuckles .]
Dudley Payne's flat tire, how'd it happen? Picked up a nail? - [ Laughs .]
- [ Laughs .]
I want my goddamn money.
I want my money, Percy.
We haven't convicted anybody yet.
I knew you were gonna try to pull some kind of shit.
Why you always gotta step on me, huh? Why? - Get him outta here.
- Come on, man.
Let's go.
- [ Gunshot .]
- [ Gasps, Screams .]
[ Man .]
Get his gunI Get his gunI [ Panicked Shouting .]
Somebody call an ambulance! [ Man .]
This can't be real I seem to feel you If I ever turn and walk away I know I'll stop just to hear you say Say That everything we feel That everything we feel If I ever turn and walk away I know I'll stop just to hear you say Say That everything we feel is This can't be real I seem to feel you
Oh, yeah! Nice shot.
The wind was blowing east.
He had to be headed west or we'd have been out ofluck.
[ Ham .]
Yeah.
- [ Gasps .]
- Oops.
Oh! Bird just shit all over you.
That's good luck.
But it smells like- [ Sniffs .]
tobacco.
[ Man .]
So pretty and, oh, so bold Got a heart full of gold on a lonely road - She said, ''I don't even think that God can save me'' - Save me Am I gaining ground Am I losing face Have I lost and found my saving grace Thankful for the gift my angels gave me You know, my first kill, I was nine.
I cried a couple days, and then I couldn't wait to get out again.
I was 1 2.
Didn't cry - but I had nightmares for weeks.
- [ Grunts .]
I got this big deer, bigger than a house with a sparkly hoof that squashed everyone in my family but me.
''Sparkly hoof'? But not pretty.
Like demon sparkles or somethin'.
- [ Chuckles .]
- What? - ''Sparkly hoof'? - It was huge! [ Growls .]
[ Cell Phone Ringing .]
[ Ham .]
Mm-mmm.
[ Ringing .]
Shit.
There goes our day off.
[ Groans .]
Come on.
Someone whacked him in the head with somethin'.
No wallet.
Just his cell phone, truck keys.
[ Grace.]
His watch is missing.
Look at the tan line.
- Time of death? - Last night.
How's your cat, Henry? How's Molly? Not doing too good.
Still eating though.
Still loves her treats.
- That's good.
How old is she? - Nineteen.
Still praying about what to do.
I figure as long as she's eating- You'll know when it's time.
We got an I.
D.
on this guy? Uh, yeah.
Bo Grady, 42, no record.
Truck's, uh, leased by Payne Grady Rigging.
They're one of the biggest rigging companies in the Southwest.
- What does, uh, crusty man have to say? - [ Chuckles .]
[ Bobby .]
Property foreman, found the body around 7.
:30 while he was making his rounds.
[ Ham .]
Looks like he's half in the bag.
Uh, says he's just tired.
Came in from an all-night poker party.
- Coffee? - Oh, thanks.
- Rig's been hit by vandals lately? - Twice in the last three months.
- What kind of damage was done? - Slashed cables, rocks in the gears.
Figure it's kids or these anti-oil varmints.
- You call the cops? - Yeah, but it's been going on for awhile.
A bunch of'em had this funeral for mother earth right down the road there.
- Called us ''dope pushers.
'' - [ Cell Phone Rings .]
This'll just take a minute.
Crusty have a record? Couple of drunk-driving beefs.
He's making sense though.
Bo could have stumbled across the varmints.
Decided to have a talk with 'em.
Yeah.
Gotta watch them varmints.
So why leave your shotgun in the truck? - What's with the Bubba Joe's? - Interesting, huh? Yeah.
So it looks like Bo Grady left his coffee in his truck.
- What's this? - [ Camera Shutter Snaps .]
- I think he's back.
- Who? Earl.
Will you test it? Wait, whoa, stop! You can't just tell me Earl's back and then walk away.
Did you see him? Did you talk to him? Did you get me a feather? - No.
- Grace, to examine the feather of an angel, do you understand? Yeah.
It's a religious experience.
He's not an angel.
- That is how we find out.
- Wouldn't you rather have his spit? - This is Earl's spit? - Unless there's a bird that shits tobacco.
Two years I've been carrying around glue and glitter and crap! You're dead! You're dead.
What's with the glitter on the deer hoof? - It's a sparkly hoof.
[ Laughing .]
- You're dead, you hear me? - [ Watch Beeps .]
- Yo, can we get back to work? - Who's gonna notify the wife? - Uh- Chickenshits.
[ Retching .]
- I'm- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
- I'm sorry.
- [ Toilet Flushes .]
I'll, um- I'll get you a picture of his watch.
- Take your time.
Take your time.
- [ Crying .]
[ Panting .]
- What did you ask me? - Who might want to hurt Bo? No one.
You said he- he left last night to check on the pumps around 9:00.
The only people who don't like Bo, the ones against big oil.
He checks on the pumps a lot? - What? - Property foreman said he'd never seen Bo out there before.
He was upset about the vandalism.
Belle, did anyone ever threaten him directly? Phone calls? Letters? Just the company.
Someone threw blood on their sign.
And once this kid chained himself to their door.
What'd you think when Bo didn't come home last night? You call him? - Did I call him? - When he didn't come home last night.
I went to bed.
I thought- I didn't even know he wasn't home.
[ Sobbing .]
Belle Grady, I don't know.
There's something.
- Where are you guys? - I'm working his business.
Bobby and Butch are filling in the boss on the vandalism at the rigs.
- They pulled up D.
F.
I.
's.
- Wife said his company got hit.
You get that too? Yeah.
Might be a group of college kids- CAPA.
Stands for Crusade Against Petroleum Addiction.
Maybe that's why the shotgun's in the truck.
He was confronting kids.
- What about his cell phone? - No calls after 9:00 last night.
- Look, I gotta ask you something.
- What? You go hunting with Butch? A couple times, yeah.
- Check this out, bud.
- I'll see you later.
Ham? Ham? Nine oil rigs hit in the last year all over the city.
Calling card's an American flag soaked in oil.
Lieutenant Yukon, your baby girl's on line two.
I got it, Della Mae, in my office.
How many kids in this CAPA thing? Ten, maybe 1 5.
We need to track 'em down.
[ Engine Starts .]
[ Radio, Disco .]
Heaven Must be missing an angel - Missing one angel child - [ Beeps .]
Heaven - Heaven - Heaven - Heaven - Heaven Must be missing an angel Missing one angel child 'cause you're here with me Asshole.
Your love is heavenly Heavenly to me - Haven't heard about no watch.
- Lots of diamonds around it.
Worth about 25 grand.
Haven't heard about no watch.
Haven't heard about no killing.
Haven't heard about nothing.
- Come on, Pup.
Give me a little love.
- [ Scoffs .]
- Why you mad at me? - Hmph.
You go ahead and be mad, as long as you get the word out about this watch.
Where are my shoes? You promised me a new pair of shoes.
Pup, I'm sorry.
I- I forgot.
We can go right now.
No.
Now we're gonna do what we set out to do.
- You gonna buy me my shoes later.
- I'll get 'em.
I promise.
- What size I wear? - Eleven.
How somebody gonna promise somebody a new pair of shoes and just forget? - I don't think I'll ever understand.
- You want to keep fussing? Or you want your man, Captain Morgan? [ Soft Rock .]
I was just showing Rhetta pictures of Emma's birthday party.
Maggie's 1 5, the twins are eight, and Emma is three.
- I hope you're good to your wife, Bobby.
- I try.
I'll get you a beer.
We'll hook up with Butch and Ham.
Better sit down for this.
You said Earl looks like any other guy from Oklahoma, right? Yeah.
Normal guy.
The stain on your shirt was tobacco and saliva.
- But the saliva had no genetic material in it.
- What's that mean? It means that Earl has no human D.
N.
A.
, or plant, or animal cells.
- And what does that mean? - He's another form of life.
It means he's an angel, Grace.
Well, shit.
Bobby, get me a shot of bourbon too.
[ Butch .]
We got 1 2 CAPA members.
Eight of them were at an anti-oil rally last night.
- Local news has 'em on tape.
- [ Bobby .]
Leaves four.
One of them's in and out of town.
So we're checking three alibis.
- You hear from Henry? - He thinks the murder weapon's a tire iron.
Wound imprint on the skull is an octagon shape.
Probably at the bottom of the river by now.
- Game.
You owe me 20 bucks.
- Double or nothing.
No.
I'll take the money.
- You worried? -Just pay up, asshole.
Heard Grace had to take the shot this morning 'cause you got scared.
You gettin' scared now? Anyone want a drink? I'm buyin'.
[ Together.]
I gotta take a piss.
- Go ahead.
Go on.
- You go on.
You guys can't go to the bathroom together? [ Pool Stick Clatters .]
[ Rhetta .]
You just have to accept the fact that God has given you an angel.
Granted he chews tobacco and likes disco.
But you've entered into the divine, Grace.
Into a celestial experience that is scientifically unexplainable.
You gotta use spiritual language to even begin a dialogue on this.
[ Urine Trickling .]
[ Sighs .]
So you went hunting with Grace? - Couple of years ago.
- You know I got a thing with her? Wasn't sure.
You bag anything beside a deer? Excuse me.
Sorry.
So how many times you sleep with Grace- 1 0, 20? - This isn't a good idea, buddy.
- You know about her nightmares.
You had to be pretty close.
You in love with her, man? - Had fun.
- Me too, Danny.
- I'll call you.
- How 'bout I call you? [ Door Opens, Closes .]
[ Objects Clattering .]
[ Barks .]
- [ Food Frying .]
- [ Object Banging .]
- Don't ever spit on me again.
- Morning.
- How do you like your eggs? - You don't think I'll shoot you? Go ahead.
Bullet goes straight through.
Not like you're the first one to have that idea.
[ Laughs .]
Look, this isn't gonna work.
- Well, sure it will.
- No, it won't.
Well, for your sake, Grace, I hope it does.
- So you just show up whenever you feel like it? - Well, pretty much.
- Then what? - Well, then I get to know you better.
- Figure out how I can help you.
- And I got no choice? Well, you had a choice, on that lonely road.
The night you killed a man.
The night you asked for God's help.
I'm not going to church.
[ Laughs .]
Who said anything about church? You can go to temple.
Go to a mosque.
Heck, Grace.
Go sit in a dang tree if it'll get you closer to God.
- You hungry? - No.
- Where are your wings? - Oh.
Don't like 'em out around the stove.
'Cause I think they're bullshit.
Yeah, bullshit.
All the times they popped open we were outside.
For all I know, some kid with a remote control was sitting across the street- - [ Whooshing .]
- [ Sighs .]
You're not ever gonna understand all this, Grace.
Ain't like God's some crime you can solve.
But why me? Well, I know sometimes God goes alphabetically.
But, uh- I don't know.
I have some stuff I want to go over.
I got a couple questions.
God gave me the dossier, but them's just the highlights.
I'm- I'm thinking we need to take this in smaller steps.
A little ''ham,'' maybe? [ Man .]
I wanted to hire security.
Bo wanted to kick some ass.
You want something to drink? We got coffee, soda, hot chocolate.
- Uh, water.
- So, uh, he was pretty pissed off about the vandalism? He just didn't want anyone messing with our equipment is all.
It was personal with Bo.
I told him it was a write-off.
Who cares? - How long you guys known each other? - Twenty years.
It's a long time.
- You met through business? - No.
- It was the emergency room.
Hospital.
- Oh.
He was there 'cause his dad had a heart attack.
I was there 'cause my girlfriend had a wreck.
We just started talkin'.
Hit it off.
Gotta ask you where you were last night.
Home, watching the game.
In bed by 1 0:00.
Look, I didn't kill Bo.
Take my fingerprints, give me a lie-detector test, whatever you want.
I didn't kill my best friend.
[ Door Opens, Closes .]
What's up? Earl cooked me breakfast this morning.
- He cooked you breakfast? - He's gonna be a huge pain in the ass.
Grace, God has chosen you.
God has chosen you.
For whatever reason, he's given you an angel and you're calling him a pain in the ass.
- Do you wanna get struck by lightning? - What if I'm crazy? And somehow I've made you crazy too? And we've both had mental breakdowns but we don't know it? You'd rather be crazy than accept this, wouldn't you? Your feather.
Earl's feather? Oh.
Oh, my God.
- Got you that angel book.
- Shit.
He wants me to talk to Ham.
- About what? - About what we're doing.
Working together? - What'd he say? - A whole bunch of crap.
A whole bunch of questions about my life, my family.
- He wanted to know who Danny was.
- Who's Danny? He even wants me to pray.
Well, he's an angel, Grace.
He's gonna want you to pray.
- What'd you get off that Bubba Joe's Java cup? - Mmm, nothin'.
Except it had hot chocolate in it.
I gave Ham the report.
Yeah? Guess what his wife offered me yesterday when I talked to her.
- Hot chocolate? - Kinda interesting.
Not as interesting as this.
- This one of the CAPA crew? - No.
Alibi for one of'em.
Kid name of Lee Burke, 22.
Arrested six times for civil disobedience.
She's his girlfriend.
We talked to him this morning.
- [ Percy .]
What did you get out of the girl? - Didn't corroborate his alibi.
He said he went home around She said he spent the night.
- Shut it.
- I think you'd look cute on a moped.
- What? - Kid gave me a lecture about my truck and gas mileage.
Seems I'm personally responsible for global warming.
Little aqua bike, cute little helmet.
- You like this Lee Burke? - He definitely got a hate for big oil.
Enough to slam a tire iron into Bo Grady's skull? Lieutenant Yukon,you're gonna have to leave if you're gonna make your lunch meetin'.
Bring him in in your big, bad truck.
[ Chuckles .]
We got shit on this case evidence-wise, man.
- We need this watch.
- Pup gonna show up? We're early.
Relax.
Tell me what you got on the victim.
God-fearing, good guy, down to earth.
- Millions.
You'd never know it.
It's freakin'stolen.
- Oh,yeah? Yeah, his house is nice.
Nothing fancy.
Nothing like that kind of money.
- It all goes to his wife? - Yeah.
- What about his partner? - He's slick.
I don't know.
I want to look into him.
Why didn't you tell me you used to date Butch? Why would I tell you anybody I used to date? I've been sleeping on my brother's couch for a week.
My wife knows something's going on.
You don't give a shit, do you? You're welcome! [ Ham .]
Hey.
What's up, Pup? - How's it going? Those my shoes? - Size 1 1 .
- Yeah, nice.
This is Otis.
- This the watch you saw on the guy? Yeah.
I just got his first name.
- We'll put you with a sketch artist.
Can you describe him? - How much is it worth to you? - Up to my boss.
- I want 500 bucks.
- Fine with me.
Let's go.
- No, I'll wait here.
- I gotta talk to my boss.
- I said I'll wait here.
No, you're coming with us.
Come on.
Hey! Get back here! Stop that- Hey! Get down! Lay down, asshole.
Give me your arm! What the hell was that? You know something about this watch you don't want to tell us? Here.
Otis Yukon.
Otis Yukon? Shit.
He's the boss's brother.
Take a seat over here, all right? Why you always around stolen watches? - Hi, Percy.
- How deep you mixed up in this? - I saw a guy with a watch.
That's it.
- You give us a sketch.
- It checks out, you get 50 bucks.
- How 'bout I give you shit, man? - Dead white guy.
What do I care? - It's enough for a party.
No, I'm clean now.
Three months, 1 6 days.
No booze, no drugs.
Right.
Fifty bucks, your call.
Ham, check out his alibi.
What you gonna do when I get my shit together, bro? You're gonna have to find someone else to piss on.
- Get the hell out of my office.
- We got him.
- We'll get him out ofhere.
- Sketch artist is downstairs.
In there.
- Want something to drink? - Hot chocolate.
- Yukon's brother in this now? - Yeah.
Showed up out of nowhere on the watch.
- Who's the army jacket? - Lee Burke.
He's one of the CAPA crew.
I heard you're selling your truck for a little moped.
They can take my truck when they pry the keys from my cold, dead fingers.
Sounds like fun.
We went to the store.
We got beer.
- Then what? - We drank it.
- What time did you get home? - You already asked me that.
Yeah, you've already asked me all of these profound questions- Just answer the question.
- I went home around 1 0:00.
- That's interesting, Lee.
Because your girlfriend, she says you spent the night.
[ Scoffs .]
And now you think I've told a big, bad lie.
- Maybe, yeah.
- You a one-cause man? All evil comes from big oil, or are you save the whales too? I care about my world.
Do you? - I do.
- What kind of car do you drive? - Hybrid.
Forty-four miles to the gallon.
- Well, see? We did that, we could stop the war.
We could stop the blood-for-oil campaign.
People don't get it, do they? That our guys are getting blown up and killed every day for oil profits? No.
Hell, no.
I mean, they might as well just be filling up their S.
U.
V.
's with blood.
Otis gave me the first name Larry.
He played poker with him a couple nights ago.
Oh, wow.
Everybody's lying.
Belle Grady didn't know her husband didn't come home.
Bullshit.
Lee Burke said he left at 1 0:00.
Girlfriend says he spent the night.
I hope Otis is telling the truth.
Ham working his alibi? Yeah.
Listen, don't talk to Ham anymore about us, okay? He asked me a question.
He's my friend.
I'm not gonna lie to him.
You don't talk about it, you don't have to lie.
- Hey, Larry.
- You know what time it is? Don't have a watch.
What's going on? This is bad, Larry.
Now Detective Ada's gonna have to check your truck, see if there's a tire iron.
- Bo was dead when I found him.
- Sure.
He was! Look, I took his wallet and his watch, but I didn't kill him.
- Maybe you were so drunk you don't know what you did.
- I wasn't that drunk.
I swear.
Look, I know I shouldn't have taken his stuff.
But there's no way I killed him.
You dumb enough to keep the murder weapon? Check the back.
Initials.
- ''D.
P.
'' - [ Belle.]
Dudley Payne.
It was Dudley's watch.
Bo won it from him playing tennis.
- Or golf.
Something.
- They were competitive? They bet on the temperature, high and low, every day.
After Bo won the watch, Dudley had to go out and get one twice as expensive.
- Where's your diamond watch? - We don't, uh, care about that stuff.
As you can probably tell.
Not even a wedding ring? I must have, uh, taken it off.
You weren't wearing it yesterday either.
That's Bo's.
Oh, my God.
- You and Bo sleep in the same bed? - Yes.
My husband, most of the time I know when he rolls over, let alone comes home.
You gotta explain that to me, Belle.
I take a sleeping pill.
It knocks me out.
Mmm.
How long were you married? Almost 1 0 years.
How'd you meet? First time in an emergency room.
But, um, we didn't start dating right away though.
Five or six years.
The three of you look like you had fun together.
- Where's Ham? - Talking to Otis.
Check this out.
Eleven months ago Check this out.
Eleven months ago Lee Burke was arrested for chaining himself to the doors of Payne Grady Rigging.
Heard about it.
Didn't know it was the same kid.
And there's a Bubba Joe's Java two blocks from his house.
Well, that's the kind of shit I like to hear.
He's got something personal with the war, man.
Is he a veteran? No.
I'll check his family.
What are you looking for? Ham's notes on Dudley Payne.
Where's Crusty? - Butch is booking him for robbery charges.
- He got an alibi? He's got a story.
We'll see if it's true.
I was working.
I got off at midnight.
Talk to my boss.
She said it's a big place.
They can't keep track of you every minute.
They got security cameras all over.
Check the footage.
And then shove it up my brother's ass.
You know, I've got three brothers.
We're all so different, man.
My oldest lives in Austin.
He plays the guitar in a cowboy band.
My next oldest lives here.
He's gay.
And my baby brother, he's in Iraq.
He's a marine with a wife, three kids, another one on the way.
- Can I go now? - We've been having fights since we could walk.
We still do.
It doesn't mean we don't love each other.
[ Laughs .]
I drop dead, Percy steps right over me.
And I'll do the same to him.
- We may have a love triangle.
- [ Drawer Banging .]
Bo, wife, business partner.
Yeah.
Dudley Payne? Didn't he offer to take a lie-detector test? Until the moment he decided to lawyer up.
Ham said something about an emergency room.
That's where Dudley and Bo met.
And where Belle first met Bo she told me.
Here it is.
''Bo's dad had a heart attack.
Dudley's girlfriend was in a car wreck.
'' I think his girlfriend was Belle.
She dated Dudley, married Bo? Somethin' like that.
There's nothing more important than family.
You've got to let the past go.
You want to talk about the past, huh? You want to talk about family? You want to talk about him dumping me in jail when I was 1 2 years old? - Otis, you gotta talk to him.
- No! First time in 30 years I'm staying clean.
Today I see that punk bitch! Now all I can think about is getting high! [ Shouting .]
You happy, Percy? - Otis.
- [ Shouts .]
I got some good suspects, Gus.
- [ Barks .]
- Remember that beagle Sally who couldn't decide between you and that goofy rottweiler? - You wanted to kill him, didn't you? - [ Barks .]
[ Laughs .]
I know, I know, I know.
Beagles are dumb.
What? You need to go wee-wee? I think he's barking at me.
[ Groans .]
You can't keep doing this, man.
- Hey, Gus.
Hey, buddy.
Hi.
- I'm busy, Earl.
I know.
You guys are always busy.
- What do you want? - Oh, I'm just checking in.
Seeing how the new life's going.
- Why do you eat if you're not human? - That's a job perk.
I was in Saudi Arabia this afternoon.
Had some of the best sushi I've ever eaten.
- In Saudi Arabia.
- Is that where you got the T-shirt? - You had on a different one this morning.
- Cool, huh? Picked this up in Pakistan.
Got a real hornet's nest over there, man.
- Over there with Allah? - Ah, you say ''tamato.
'' I say ''tomato.
'' So you've been in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Oklahoma City today? And London, Lubbock, New Orleans Cleveland, Bombay- ooh- and France.
I'm gonna be spending a lot of time in France.
[ Thunder Rumbling .]
- This any good? - You tell me.
You first.
How'd it go with Ham? - You guys have a talk? - [ Scoffs .]
Nothing to talk about.
We're having sex.
That's it.
Well, there's his marriage, his wife, his conscience,your conscience God, and how he feels about the whole mess.
God cares if I'm sleeping with a married man? AI DS in Africa, the Middle East, Grace and Ham, we was just talkin' about it this mornin'.
- You ever had sex, Earl? - No.
You eat our food, wear our clothes, why not? Well, uh, wings would get in the way.
- Hey.
- You got a big mouth.
Can you back it up? You start a fight with me, there ain't but one way it's gonna end, girl.
- Yeah.
I kick your ass.
- No.
You surrender.
- Never.
- First one to pin the other for 1 0 seconds? Bring it on, Earl.
Uh, wait.
I think we're gonna need more room.
- Shit, man.
- Better? - Where are we? - Athens.
- Olympic wrestling.
- Athens? Like a crap load of years ago? - No.
Cell phone tower, see? - Whatever.
- You ready? - You betcha.
[ Groans, Grunts .]
[ Screams .]
[ Screams .]
- Ow! My nose! - [ Screams .]
[ Grunts, Groans .]
Ow! [ Groans .]
- Time.
You getting tired? - Are you? - You want to rest for awhile? - Sure.
- You're gonna fight me every step of the way, ain't you? - Yeah.
- Well, why? - 'Cause I don't think there's a God who cares if I'm screwing a married man.
What about you caring, Grace? Let's start there.
You care enough to talk to the guy? That's all.
- Come on.
Get up.
- I've had about enough of this, Grace.
- You giving up? - I give up, I lose my job.
Then come on.
Get up,you old man angel.
Get up.
Okay.
Ow! Ow! [ Grunts, Groans .]
What the hell? [ Panting .]
Where's my arm? You just stole my arm.
[ Groans .]
- I gotta get back to Cleveland.
- But you cheated.
What the hell kind of an angel are you? A tired one.
Plumb dang tired.
Patty in Cleveland's always happy when I show up.
And Etienne in- in France well, we have tea and play chess and talk about the great mysteries of the universe.
Why are you the only one I ever had to wrestle? [ Grunts .]
- Earl.
Earl! - [ Whooshing .]
Earl! [ Sighs .]
Earl wears different T-shirts? Never noticed.
So where do you see him? Your cell? - You just turn around and he's- he's there? - Yeah.
Sometimes in the exercise cage.
- What's he look like to you? - Normal guy.
What color's his hair? Is it long? Is it short? How tall is he? Good.
You can't remember either.
I've seen him 50 times.
Can't tell you shit about what he looks like.
- He black or white? - This is crazy.
I-I remember everything he says to me.
He's white.
Yeah, I think so too.
- But you believe he's an angel? - I know he's my angel.
And he's got my ticket out ofhere.
Your ticket out of here's a syringe, man.
What you did to that prison guard, needle's too easy.
What's Earl got on you? Must be some heavy shit you need a last-chance angel.
He put you on the side of the road the night I ran you over, right? - But to you it was a dream? - That was a bad one.
- They're usually good.
- Like what? You want to know about Earl? - I want to know why you need a last-chance angel.
- I killed an inmate once.
But I'm not dead.
What else? - You're not gonna tell me? - Uh-uh.
I got two years, six months, and nine days in case you change your mind.
- Next time bring me some cigarettes! - [ Door Closes .]
Otis was at work all night.
His alibi checks out.
- That's good.
- I didn't know you smoked, boss.
-Just a couple a day.
- Is it okay to give him the 50 bucks? So he can put it up his arm? You know why I put him in the system when he was 1 2 years old? It was our mom's birthday.
I was 1 8.
Dad long gone.
I gave her flowers.
Otis gave her a stolen watch.
My mom made him take it back.
Otis didn't like that.
So he strangled our cat.
Shit.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you got your arm back.
But I can't believe you washed your clothes.
I wasn't thinking.
I just threw 'em in the washer.
It's important, Grace.
I started an Earl file.
An Earl file? Every time he takes you someplace, I want you to bring me something back.
Some kind of evidence.
I'll document and analyze it.
Are you gonna prove the existence of God? Who knew he'd start out with a pigeon feather? Unless you're screwin' with me.
More like he's screwing with me.
How come you believe me? I tell you I wrestled with an angel all night and you just accept it.
I'm smart enough to know I can't figure out God.
But I see him workin' in you.
- Whatever this is, and it's a good thing.
- Why? Because I want you to believe in God.
I think he can help you.
Help me what? Get your shit together.
I mean, this right here is evidence of a miracle.
- You and me talkin' about God.
- [ Laughs .]
That hasn't happened since catechism in second grade.
- Pretty soon I'll be dragging your ass to mass.
- Don't count on it.
- Mmm.
- I gotta go.
- You get anything off of Crusty's tire iron? - Nothing but dust.
Crusty was playing poker at the time of the murder.
- I got four guys with pretty much the same story.
- And Otis is clean.
- What about the CAPA crew? Lee Burke? - Lee Burke is interesting.
He and his girlfriend can't get the story straight.
But love triangles, man, they can be tough.
And these guys were competitive over everything, starting with Belle.
- Both guys in love with her, she picked Bo.
- Maybe she always loved Dudley.
You know for sure Belle and Dudley had a thing going? She threw up right after I asked her who might want to hurt Bo, not when I told her he was dead.
- Think Dudley Payne has it in him? - [ Sighs .]
He gave all the right answers.
He's got no record.
Well-respected.
But put a woman between two men and who knows? You were right, Grace.
Lee Burke's brother was killed in Iraq two years ago.
- Shit.
- We gotta stay on him.
Yeah.
I'll know if it's Dudley Payne as soon as we track him down.
Come on.
I got a plan.
Let's have some fun.
What does that mean? - God only knows with her.
- Good luck, man.
I'll say a prayer for you.
[ Grunts .]
[ Air Hissing .]
Come on.
[ Chuckles .]
Bubba Joe's Java cup sitting right in his cup holder.
- Doesn't prove shit.
- I know.
- You know, Dudley could be over here as a friend.
- Yeah.
We'll find out.
Want to talk? - Talk? - Yeah.
About what? Think we got a shot at the national championship this year? - Gotta find a quarterback first.
- Hear the kid from Sapulpa's pretty good.
Yeah, here we go.
Here we go.
- Dudley, this is Detective Hanadarko.
- What happened, man? - Uh, flat tire.
- Hey, you got a tire iron? - Can change that for you in five minutes.
- I'll just call Triple-A.
- Anything on the investigation? - Think we're getting pretty close.
- Seriously, man, it'll take me five minutes.
- I pay my dues.
Might as well get my money's worth.
-You guys checking out those anti-oil nuts? -Tire iron's inside here, right? - I have no idea.
Never used it.
- Okay if I look? - How's Belle doing? - We're just trying to figure out the arrangements.
What's going on? Mind coming downtown with us, Dudley? Just go over a couple of things? Uh, whatever you need.
But I told you everything I know.
Brand-new truck? No tire iron? Come on, man.
What happened? You and Bo get in a scuffle? He must have said something sent you over the edge.
Your offer still good for that lie-detector test? - My attorney says it's okay I got no problem with it.
- Come on.
Let's go ask him.
- Dudley, what's going on? - Nothing.
Just go back in the house.
We gotta talk to him about killing Bo.
Oh, God.
He said if it was anyone else, he'd just give you the divorce.
And I just- I don't know what happened.
[ Ham .]
Come on.
You wanna talk? Belle and Dudley had been having an affair on and off the whole marriage.
- Bo Grady knew about it? - Found out the night he was killed.
He and Belle had a huge fight.
He left.
- Went out to check the pumps.
- How does Dudley come into it? Belle calls him after the fight.
He comes over.
She wants a divorce.
- They want to be together.
- After all these years? So Dudley goes to talk to Bo.
Puts his Bubba Joe's on the hood of Bo's truck.
- How do you know that? - Good guess? Go on.
Now we got a reason why Bo left his shotgun in the truck.
He was gonna talk to his friend.
- D.
A.
gonna cut him a deal? - Yeah.
But he'll do some time.
He's gotta live with killin' his best friend.
- [ Watch Beeping .]
- His attorney show up yet? - Yeah.
They're talking.
- What's with your watch beeping every day at noon? Just this thing I got going with, uh, my church.
- Your church? - Yeah.
Yeah, World War II, some guy in Churchill's cabinet asked everyone in England to pray every day at noon for the bombing to stop.
Pretty soon after they started praying, the war ended.
Bunch of churches here got the same thing going on for Iraq.
- Here in the city? - All over the country.
- You think it's stupid, right? - Hey, I want your brother to come home safe too.
We okay? - What? - You and me.
Yeah.
Good.
I think I'm, uh, gonna move back home.
[ Chuckles .]
It's better than a couch I guess.
Yeah.
[ Chuckles .]
Dudley Payne's flat tire, how'd it happen? Picked up a nail? - [ Laughs .]
- [ Laughs .]
I want my goddamn money.
I want my money, Percy.
We haven't convicted anybody yet.
I knew you were gonna try to pull some kind of shit.
Why you always gotta step on me, huh? Why? - Get him outta here.
- Come on, man.
Let's go.
- [ Gunshot .]
- [ Gasps, Screams .]
[ Man .]
Get his gunI Get his gunI [ Panicked Shouting .]
Somebody call an ambulance! [ Man .]
This can't be real I seem to feel you If I ever turn and walk away I know I'll stop just to hear you say Say That everything we feel That everything we feel If I ever turn and walk away I know I'll stop just to hear you say Say That everything we feel is This can't be real I seem to feel you