EXT: OUTSIDE DEL MAR APARTMENT: LANDING: RIVERTON: LATE
AFTERNOON: CONINUOUS: 1967:
ENNIS and JACK have pulled back from one another now and come
up the back stairs and stand in the little foyer. ALMA stands in the
kitchen.
ENNIS:
(glad for the dim light)
Alma, this is Jack Twist. Jack, my wife
Alma.
JACK
Howdy.
ALMA
(flat voice)
'lo.
ENNIS, his chest heaving, does not turn away from ALMA, but can still
smell Jack -- the intensely familiar odor of cigarettes, musky sweat, and
a faint sweetness like grass, and with it the rushing cold of the mountain.
ALMA has seen what she has seen, having aged years in the space of a
few moments: sees her husband's turmoil... and notices JACK'S trembling
hands.
Baby JENNY cries.
JACK
(trembles)
You got a kid?
ENNIS
Two little girls: Alma Jr., and Jenny.
ALMA is stone-faced.
JACK
(halting, very aware of Alma)
I got a boy. Eight months old. Smiles a
lot. I married the prettiest little gal in
Childress, Texas. Lureen.
ENNIS is eager to leave.
ENNIS
Jack and me is goin' out and get a drink.
Might not get back tonight, we get to
drinkin' and talkin'.
ALMA
Sure enough.
JACK
Pleased to meet you, ma'am.
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