:13:02
It all happened so fast.
:13:04
It was only eight months ago
that I came back.
:13:07
I came home.
:13:09
The Los Ángeles sun was shining,
the way it's always supposed to.
:13:12
The old trolley line looked the same...
the old street, the old houses.
:13:17
I was glad to be back.
:13:19
I'd been all over
the country.
:13:21
I connected with
a trucking outfit in Chicago.
:13:23
Did construction work down South.
Drifted around the Oklahoma oil fields.
:13:27
Jobs like that,
one after the other.
:13:29
Until finally I got her
out of my system.
:13:33
I didn't come back
on account ofher.
:13:35
It had nothing to do with it.
:13:37
I wasn't gonna go looking for her,:
I didn't expect to run into her.
:13:41
I didn't particularly
want to see her.
:13:43
I was sure of that
if I was sure of anything.
:13:46
But then from the start,
it all went one way.
:13:50
It was in the cards
or it was fate...
:13:52
or a jinx or whatever
you wanna call it.
:13:55
But right from the start.
:14:01
Attaboy!
:14:04
Ya glad to see me, Corky?
Huh? How are ya, huh?
:14:06
Where's Mom and Slade?
Mom go shoppin' again, or is she out
gabbin' with the neighbors?
:14:11
Which is it? Say something,
you funny-lookin' little mutt.
:14:14
Can't ya talk?
:14:17
All right. You stay here
and watch my bag.
:14:19
Stay here and watch it.
I'll be back later.
:14:21
Now watch it.
Watch it.
:14:23
Attaboy.
:14:25
I went down to the drugstore
to call up Ramirez.
:14:28
Pete Ramirez.
We grew up together.
He was an old friend.
:14:32
I thought I might drop over
and kill an hour.
:14:34
But it all went one way
that sunny afternoon.
:14:37
In the cards.
He was out.
:14:40
His wife told me
he was away somewhere,
working on thejob.
:14:43
Pete always had the night shift,
but this afternoon
he was on day duty.
:14:48
This particular afternoon.
:14:52
And then, somehow,
there I was, in the Round-Up.
:14:56
The old place.
The old hangout.