Nostalgia: 2010

Master Work

The transcript, very useful depending on where you come from:

OUTSIDE

        Gary slams his door shut and the other man plants his shovel

        in the snow.

MAN

               How ya doin'?

                                GARY

               Mr. Mohra?

MAN

               Yah.

                                GARY

               Officer Olson.

MAN

               Yah, right-o.

        The two men caucus the driveway without shaking hands and

        without standing particularly close.  They stand stiffly,

        arms down at their sides and breath streaming out of their

        parka hoods.  Each has an awkward leaning-away posture, head

        drawn slightly back and chin tucked in, to keep his face

        from protruding into the cold.

MAN

               ...  So, I'm tendin' bar there at

               Ecklund && Swedlin's last Tuesday

               and this little guy's drinkin'

               and he says, 'So where can a guy

               find some action - I'm goin' crazy

               down there at the lake.'  And I

               says, 'What kinda action?' and he

               says, 'Woman action, what do I

               look like,'  And I says 'Well,

               what do I look like, I don't

               arrange that kinda thing,' and he

               says, 'I'm goin' crazy out there

               at the lake' and I says, 'Well,

               this ain't that kinda place.'

                                GARY

               Uh-huh.

MAN

               So he says, 'So I get it, so you

               think I'm some kinda jerk for

               askin',' only he doesn't use the

               word jerk.

                                GARY

               I unnerstand.

MAN

               And then he calls me a jerk and

               says the last guy who thought he

               was a jerk was dead now.  So I

               don't say nothin' and he says, 'What

               do ya think about that?'  So I

               says, 'Well, that don't sound like

               too good a deal for him then.'

                               GARY

               Ya got that right.

MAN

               And he says, 'Yah, that guy's dead

               and I don't mean a old age.'  And

               then he says, 'Geez, I'm goin'

               crazy out there at the lake.'

                                GARY

               White Bear Lake?

MAN

               Well, Ecklund && Swedlin's, that's

               closer ta Moose Lake, so I made

               that assumption.

                                GARY

               Oh sure.

MAN

               So, ya know, he's drinkin', so I

               don't think a whole great deal of

               it, but Mrs. Mohra heard about the

               homicides out here and she thought

               I should call it in, so I called

               it in.  End a story.

                                GARY

               What'd this guy look like anyways?

MAN

               Oh, he was a little guy, kinda

               funny-lookin'.

                               GARY

               Uh-huh - in what way?

MAN

               Just a general way.

                               GARY

               Okay, well, thanks a bunch, Mr.

               Mohra.  You're right, it's probably

               nothin', but thanks for callin'

               her in.

MAN

               Oh sure.  They say she's gonna

               turn cold tomorrow.

                                GARY

               Yah, got a front movin' in.

MAN

               Ya got that right.

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