:50:00
You got my check?
:50:01
Yeah, thanks.
:50:04
I called my mom to tell her about it.
:50:07
How'd she take it?
:50:09
Changed the subject.
:50:11
Well, he was who he was.
:50:15
Died in bed, man.
:50:16
I always figured he'd freeze to death in
the parking lot outside of some joint.
:50:21
You know the laundromat at Wrangell?
Where there's a shower?
:50:24
The guys coming off the boats?
:50:26
About three years ago, I was in there.
:50:30
Got my soap, got my towel and back
in the steam, I see this old guy.
:50:36
I say, "That is one
beat-to-hell human being."
:50:39
The guy looks up and it's the old man.
:50:43
That's the last time I saw him.
:50:45
The Old Salt. The Old Prospector.
:50:49
I tell my clients stories
about the old man.
:50:52
Colourful shit.
The tour guide part of the job.
:50:54
How he lost those fingers, and how he,
you know, survived the earthquake...
:50:59
...and all those tidal waves
on that tender.
:51:04
You heard them all.
:51:07
The guy I was scared of
when I was little--
:51:10
Nobody wants to hear about him.
:51:12
Nope.
:51:15
I gotta ask you a favour.
:51:19
Me?
:51:20
-Have I ever asked you for anything?
-What is it?
:51:23
Well, I got a situation.
:51:25
It's a finesse thing with a client.
I gotta pick him up at Skagway.
:51:29
I need somebody to crew for me.
:51:31
You always run your operation
on your own.
:51:35
It's just for appearances.
It's a business deal, see?
:51:38
I gotta impress the guy, so I gotta
look less like a captain and more....
:51:42
Like an admiral.
:51:43
Exactly. It's a milk run, and
since you're on the water again....
:51:47
I've only gone out once.
:51:49
Well, I can trust you.
:51:51
I mean, this deal, this business deal,
it's sensitive. Word can't get out.
:51:57
When would we go?
:51:58
Day after tomorrow. I just gotta
put a couple things in motion.