Saturday, December 6, 2025

Fort Park in progress

EXT. ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE/ OAK WOODS - DAY

Gil at the wheel, Hunter passenger in the ATV parked at a view to surrounding forested hills.

HUNTER: Can you tell me anything about Tom and Vietnam?

GIL: Did he talk about it?

HUNTER: Only that he'd been. We were going to pick it up later. What branch?

GIL: Army. First Air Cav. Got our draft cards the same day.

HUNTER: You were there?

GIL: Marine.

DISTANT THUNDER.

HUNTER: Would you be willing to talk about it?

GIL: We can do that. How about when you're back.

HUNTER: It's a date. Thank you.

GIL: I have photographs.

HUNTER: I'd love to see them.

GIL: I'll introduce you to Dale, a good friend of ours. 

HUNTER: He knows about me?

GIL: He does not. Can't wait to see his face when you introduce yourself. Big buck at your three a clock.

Hunter slowly turns to the WHITETAIL DEER seeming to stare back at them from behind a tree.

HUNTER: Did Tom hunt?

GIL: He did. Got his first deer here. His thirteenth birthday. Us and our dads. Got pictures of that, too. You ever hunt, Hunter?

HUNTER: No. 

GIL: Fish?

HUNTER: Trout pond when I was a kid. I saw his Wyoming and Texas licenses in the glove compartment.


to be continued.