scene 60

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INT./EXT. TOM'S TRUCK - DAY

In Ruth's puddled driveway, Hunter at the wheel, engine running, Wanda and Ruth at the window. Tom's hat is on his boots on Hunter's suitcase in the passenger well. Wet street and driveways but sunny sky.

RUTH: Will you take ten all the way.

HUNTER: I don't think so. I see a way north from Van Horn up to a road east to El Paso. Looks potentially interesting if a little remote.

WANDA: We've come and gone that way before. Fifty-four at Van Horn up to one-eighty and sixty-two.

HUNTER: That's the route. 

WANDA: It's remote alright. We called it our moon crossing. But real pretty in its own desolate way.

HUNTER: I'm thinking so. A change from the interstate, anyway.

WANDA: You'll cross a salt flat not long after you turn left at that junction.

RUTH: And if you were so inclined to turn right the Guadalupe Mountains aren't that far north.

HUNTER: I saw that and very likely will.

RUTH: And a few spots to pull over for a view.

HUNTER: I'll take and send a few pictures along the way and call every hour, unless that's a bother.

Wanda and Ruth smile, shake their heads.

WANDA: Not a bother.

RUTH: Thank you, Hunter. 

Ruth and Wanda lean in turn lean in to kiss Hunter's cheek. He returns the favor, winks and wave. They wave and watch him back to the street, stop, blow them a kiss they return, drive away out of view. They look to the sky. FAINT BIRDSONG.

RUTH: Sure nice to have blue sky but boy it is it going to be sticky day.

WANDA: My slip's already clinging. 

RUTH: Fortunately I have tickets to a matinee showing of Last Picture Show at the Arcadia I was going to surprise you and Tom with.

WANDA: You're brilliant.

RUTH: I thought we might call Mary Ward and see if she'd like to come along.

WANDA: That's a wonderful idea. How is she?

RUTH: Better, slowly but surely. You know, back to Tom's ashes.

She walks to the steps and porch toward the door, Wanda follows.

WANDA: Yes.

RUTH: Mary put some of Jerry's into a biodregradable urn in the form of a duck they put on their pond. 

WANDA: Hmm.

RUTH: That's what I thought.

WANDA: For further consideration.

They get to the door. 

RUTH: I thought we might call Daisy today and give her something for further consideration.

Wanda smiles, nods. Ruth opens the screen door, Wanda through, Ruth follows. door closes.