INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT
Describe. Adjacent kitchen.
Ruth, Wanda, Hunter seated at the table. Closed photo album near empty bottle of red wine. Each with a near-empty glass.
RUTH: Is the wine alright, Hunter?
HUNTER: It's great. Barbara's parents live not so far away from this vineyard.
RUTH: Do they drink wine?
HUNTER: Oh yes. Probably semi-officially connoisseurs. They've got a pretty good collection.
RUTH: I've got a few bottles. We'll try something different tomorrow night.
HUNTER: Where do you shop?
RUTH: There's a store in Fredericksburg. And a few wineries in the area.
HUNTER: So I've heard.
RUTH: Maybe we can visit one when you're back.
HUNTER: It's a date.
WANDA: Are you a wine drinker?
HUNTER: I'll have a glass on occasion. Jackie and I have shared a couple bottles. I'm more a beer with dinner. guy.
Each sips.
RUTH: Foglost seems to have a little to do with drinking.
Hunter smiles.
HUNTER: It does. You've read it?
RUTH: Finished it night before last.
WANDA: I was going to start when Tom finished.
RUTH: Gil's almost done. We've all read everything you've written. That can be found, anyway. It sure is a vivid depiction of what drinking can do.
HUNTER: Personal experience probably helped in that regard.
RUTH: Where are you with drinking today? If you don't mind me asking.
HUNTER: To quote Tom, y'all can ask me anything ya want. Where I am today and have been for a few years is that dinner beer and the occasional glass of wine, like with Jackie or dinner with a friend. Did Tom drink?
Ruth and Wanda look at each other, Ruth nods.
WANDA: He did not, except an occasional beer when he was fishing with Gil or Clem. There was a time in his life in his early thirties he talked about.
Ruth nods.
RUTH: Whiskey. He and Gil would go to Mexico and, as Tom put it, "get a little lost and found."
HUNTER: Is that something Gil might be willing to talk about?
Ruth nods.
HUNTER (CONT.): Tom mentioned he was in Vietnam.
Wanda and Ruth nod.
WANDA: Did he talk about it?
HUNTER: No. It came up regarding his abbreviated rodeo career.. We were going to get back to it.
RUTH: I think Gil would be able and willing to tell you more about that, if that's something you'd be interested in..
HUNTER: I would of course. Was Gil there?
Ruth nods.
RUTH: I thought we'd leave around nine and have breakfast at Tom's favorite place for his Denver omelet.
Wanda smiles.
HUNTER: Sounds good. I'm on y'all's schedule.
Ruth smiles, Wanda's grows.
RUTH: Well my schedule's about bedtime.
WANDA: I'm right there with you.
Ruth and Wanda finish their wine, Hunter swirls and finishes his. All stand.
HUNTER: I reckon I'll call Chloe and catch her up per her orders.
RUTH: My goodness Hunter she seems so precious.
WANDA: Tom almost couldn't stop...
Wanda stops herself, tears in her eyes. Ruth puts an arm around her.
RUTH: Hunter...oh goodness, now watch me start.
Wanda laughs, puts an arm around Ruth.
RUTH (CONT.) I am going to stop because I will start but I just have to say all the photos y'all took...
WANDA: Priceless.
Ruth wipes tears away.
WANDA (CONT.) And I have to say, Hunter, that selfie your mother rook with Tom at Lake Tahoe.
RUTH: Oh my God.
WANDA: Rather, IN Lake Tahoe.
RUTH: She was exactly as Tom described but -
WANDA: But beyond beautiful.
RUTH: You've probably noticed Chloe's resemblance.
HUNTER: I have. And noticed Tom's to the detail recollection of what she was wearing and the perfume she wore.
RUTH: Tom has a photographic memory. Had.
WANDA: Lilac.
HUNTER: That's right. Funny, by the way.
WANDA/RUTH: What's that?
HUNTER: The smell of Tom's cologne permeates his room.
WANDA/RUTH: I just smelled it.
Silence. Ruth leads them to the kitchen, turns off the light, they enter kitchen.