- Gary Nicholson: Where is he? I want my son.
- Laura Hendricks: Leave us alone! Dear Lord, leave us alone!
- Gary Nicholson: Not until I find my...
- Josh Hendricks: No! Leave my mom alone!
- Gary Nicholson: Son.
- Josh Hendricks: You're not my daddy!
- Laura Hendricks: Josh, get out of here, quick!
- Josh Hendricks: Leave my mom alone! I hate you!
- Gary Nicholson: Son?
- Josh Hendricks: I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!
- Gary Nicholson: You don't hate me. A son doesn't hate his father!
- Josh Hendricks: You're not my daddy! Leave my mom alone, I hate you!
- [Laura grabs the pitchfork and pushes Gary. He falls screaming to his death into the combine harvester. Laura weeps]
- [Matt enters his house. He hear a noise]
- Matt Hendricks: Laura? Is that you?
- [Matt sees Gary sitting in his chair]
- Matt Hendricks: Laura? Who are you?
- Gary Nicholson: I'm a friend of Laura's.
- Matt Hendricks: How did you get in here? Where's Laura?
- Gary Nicholson: You don't need to worry about Laura anymore, Matt. I'm taking care of her now. I'm taking care of Josh too.
- Matt Hendricks: Look. I don't who you are or what you want, but I want you out of here.
- Gary Nicholson: That son of yours is a hell of a kid. But then you wouldn't know, would you? You've been too busy with your job, too busy screwing around.
- Matt Hendricks: I want you to leave, please.
- Gary Nicholson: A beautiful woman like Laura needs a real man. Somebody that she can count on, someone who appreciates her, someone like me.
- Matt Hendricks: You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
- Gary Nicholson: Oh no?
- [Gary gets up and approaches Matt threateningly. Matt recoils]
- Gary Nicholson: I made love to Laura last night. And one thing I can tell you, it was better than she ever got from you.
- Matt Hendricks: Okay, pal, get outta here.
- Gary Nicholson: Laura's mine now. She wants you out of her life for good starting right now, you got that?
- Matt Hendricks: What?
- Gary Nicholson: You heard me. I want you to leave this town. You're never gonna see Laura and Josh again.
- Matt Hendricks: [Matt don't agree with Gary. He's a liar] You're nuts. You stay away from my family.
- [Matt approaches the telephone]
- Matt Hendricks: Now, if you don't get the hell out of here in two seconds, I'm calling the police, you got that?
- [Matt starts dialing and call the police Gary draws a gun and points it at Matt]
- Gary Nicholson: Put it down, now.
- [Matt complies]
- Gary Nicholson: I-- I don't want to hurt you, Matt. You're Josh's dad, he's my little buddy, but-- you give me no choice.
- Matt Hendricks: Look, you don't wanna do anything right now. You don't wanna hurt Josh's dad, right?
- Gary Nicholson: [raises his voice angrily] You call yourself a dad? A dad is someone who's always there for his kids, somebody who teaches him how to throw a baseball, how to catch a fish. But you never had the time, did you? Did you?
- Matt Hendricks: Right, right, no, you're right.
- Gary Nicholson: That's why I'm taking over. That's why I have to do this.
- Matt Hendricks: Laura, get back, he's got a gun!
- [Matt struggles with Gary. Gary shoots, injuring Matt. Laura rushes to Matt, but Gary pulls her away]
- Gary Nicholson: No, get away from him. You don't need him anymore. I'm taking care of you now.
- Laura Hendricks: [yells] You bastard, you maniac!
- [Laura struggles and gets herself free. She rushes to Matt and kneels near him]
- Laura Hendricks: Matt? Matt?
- [Matt grunts]
- Laura Hendricks: Oh, my god, are you hurt, you've been shot, Matt.
- [Laura picks the phone and dials]
- Gary Nicholson: [mutters to himself] It's always the same, no matter what I do.
- Laura Hendricks: [on phone] I need an ambulance right away. My husband's been shot.
- Gary Nicholson: I took care of you, Laura.
- Laura Hendricks: [on phone] 9736 Elm Street.
- Gary Nicholson: I took care of you.
- [Laura turns her head toward Gary]
- Gary Nicholson: That dog, the mechanic, that teacher... I got rid of that teacher for you!
- Laura Hendricks: [shocked] Oh, no! Please, no.
- Gary Nicholson: I love you. Why isn't that enough? I spun straw into gold for you. I spun straw into gold.
- [Gary leaves, dropping the gun at the doorway]
- [after the police interrogation, Laura heads back home. She starts unlocking the door, but suddenly Gary has arrived]
- Gary Nicholson: I've been waiting for you.
- Laura Hendricks: Oh!
- Gary Nicholson: I heard what happened.
- Laura Hendricks: Nick, I...
- Gary Nicholson: Those cops are idiots, how could they suspect you?
- Laura Hendricks: They think I have a motive.
- Gary Nicholson: They don't know you. Not like I do. They don't... they don't understand. Listen, don't worry. I'll get you out of this, I'll take care of it.
- Laura Hendricks: It's okay. My husband's handling everything. I'm meeting him in his office in a half an hour.
- Gary Nicholson: [stunned] I thought it was over between you and Matt. I thought, after last night, I thought that...
- [Laura turns her back to Gary and is about enter her house, but Gary grabs her and turns her to face him]
- Laura Hendricks: I-- I don't know. I-- I can't think straight.
- Gary Nicholson: That's why you need me. Please, I don't want you to see Matt anymore.
- Laura Hendricks: Matt is an attorney, Nick. And right now, I need him more than I need anybody else. I'll call you, okay?
- [Laura enters the and closes the door]
- Gary Nicholson: Don't you see? He's using this to get you back!
- Gary Nicholson: It's nice talking to you, too, Laura. Okay, bye.
- [Gary hangs up the phone]
- Prison Librarian Jenkins: So, what's she like, huh?
- Gary Nicholson: She's really nice. She sounded kind of lovely though, you know? She wants me to write to her.
- Prison Librarian Jenkins: Well, there are a lot of lonely people, I guess. And they're not all in the joint neither.
- [Laura, experiencing a nightmare, wakes up as the phone rings]
- Laura Hendricks: Hello?
- Gary Nicholson: Hi, Laura, how are you?
- Laura Hendricks: [confused] Who is this?
- Gary Nicholson: We haven't actually met, but... my name is Gary Nicholson.
- Laura Hendricks: It's four in the morning!
- Gary Nicholson: Oh, God. That's right, it's three hours early where you are, I'm sorry, I forgot. Please forgive me. I just wanted to tell you how much I like your book, Rumpelstiltskin. And... you don't mind I call, do you?
- Laura Hendricks: [chuckles] Well, I've never gotten a fan letter before or fan phone call either.
- Gary Nicholson: You mean I'm the first, then? Listen, I just want to say I think you are a great artist. I feel so much when I look at your pictures.
- Laura Hendricks: Huh!
- [Laura looks at her fabulous drawing picture]
- Laura Hendricks: Thanks.
- Gary Nicholson: [buzzing from prison] Listen, Laura, I gotta go. If I wrote to you about your book, do you think that maybe you could write me back?
- Laura Hendricks: Well, I--I don't know that.
- Gary Nicholson: It's kind of hard for me to get to a phone.
- Laura Hendricks: Why, where do you live?
- [in Attica State Prison, Jenkins the librarian summons Gary that the time is up]
- Gary Nicholson: I'm in Attica, in a prison.
- Laura Hendricks: What?
- Gary Nicholson: Yeah. Oh, I really like the picture of you in the back too with your son. How come your husband isn't in it? Is he...
- Laura Hendricks: [frightened] Hey, I've got to hang up now. Please, don't ever call here again, okay?
- [Laura hangs up]
- Gary Nicholson: [smiles] Uh-huh.
- [Laura checks her son Josh. He is sleeping]
- [Jenkins is lying in bed at the prison hospital, his head is bandaged. Vince Slade, the brother of the prison officer Gary killed during the riot, interrogates him]
- Vince Slade: [about Gary] Do you know what he was in for? He burned down his house and he killed his wife and his own kid.
- Prison Librarian Jenkins: You don't understand. His wife was cheating on him, and he didn't know the boy was in the house.
- Vince Slade: So it wasn't his fault, that's what you're saying? Huh? He was misunderstood, kinda like you, huh, Jenkins? I mean, in my heart I know you didn't really poison your own mother, did you?
- Prison Librarian Jenkins: [tearfully] Get out of here! Just get out of here!
- [Vince leaves]