INT. ROVER - DAY
White Sands area.
Hunter driving, Jackie front passenger. Tom behind Hunter, Chloe behind Jackie.
TOM: When's the last time you were on a horse?
CHLOE: A Santa Barbara beach ride with my mom a couple years ago. And, if a mule counts, two years before that at Grand Canyon.
TOM: I'd say a mule counts. Good time?.
Chloe nods.
CHLOE: Have you been?
TOM: I have. Had an aunt and uncle who lived in Flagstaff. We went out for a week one summer.
CHLOE: We being whom?
TOM: Mom, dad, me and Ruthie.
CHLOE: How old were you twelve. The day we drove to the canyon was Ruthie's tenth birthday.
HUNTER: How did you get to Flaqstaff?
TOM: Drove.
HUNTER: In what?
TOM: Sixty-one Chrysler three-hundred. Mom's car.
HUNTER: What was dad's car?
TOM: Fifty-nine Chevy Apache pickup.
HUNTER: What was your first car?
TOM: Sixty-four Pontiac G-T-O.
HUNTER: Original muscle.
TOM: Yessir. My dad and both grandfathers gave it to me on my sixteenth birthday. Much to the concern of mom and both grandmothers.
HUNTER: Three eighty-nine?
TOM: Yep.
HUNTER: Transmission?
TOM: Four-speed manual.
HUNTER: That's a lot of car for a seventeen-year-old.
TOM: It was. I didn't drive it a whole lot. It was made clear to me it might be worth some money someday. So while it was technically mine I always considered it to be the family's. An investment.
HUNTER: What became of it?
TOM: Put it in the garage when I went to Vietnam, crashed it in Mexico a few months after I got back.
HUNTER: A story you'd be willing to share sometime?
TOM (beat): Sure.
A pause.
CHLOE: Selfie with me, Tom.
TOM: Long as ya send it to me.
CHLOE: Deal.
Chloe scoots close to Tom, aims phone to take selfie.
[CUT TO
TBD looking at selfie.]