Lewis Is your name Griner?
G Griner
Whaddya wanna know for?
Lewis I was wondering if you and your brother could take a couple of trucks down to Aintry for us. We'll be there about Sunday noon.
G Griner
Take 'em down there for what?
Lewis Me and my buddy here are taking a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee.
Lewis That's right, a canoe trip.
G Griner
What the hell you wanna go **** around with that river for?
Lewis Because it's there.
G Griner
It's there alright and you get in it and can't git out, you gonna wish it wasn't.
[lowly]
Maybe we should just go home and play golf this weekend.
Lewis I'll give you thirty bucks to take those vehicles down to Aintry for us.
G Griner
I'll take fifty.
Lewis Fifty my ass.
[whispering]
Lewis, don't play games with these people.
G Griner
[stepping forward]
What did you say?
Lewis I said fifty my ass!
G Griner
I'll do it fer forty.
Lewis O.K. [to Ed] You good for ten?
Which way are we goin', this way or that?
Lewis I think, uh, downstream would be a good idea, don't you? Drew - you and Bobby see some rocks, you yell out now, right?...
Lewis, is this the way you get your rocks off?
Lewis Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game - survive.
Well, the system's done all right by me.
Lewis Oh yeah. You gotta nice job, you gotta a nice house, a nice wife, a nice kid.
You make that sound rather shitty, Lewis.
Lewis Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?
Lewis Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?
You know, sometimes I wonder about that.
Lewis What are we gonna do with him?
There's not but one thing to do. Take the body down to Aintry. Turn it over to the Highway Patrol. Tell 'em what happened.
Lewis Tell 'em what exactly?
Just what happened. This is justifiable homicide if anything is. They were sexually assaulting two members of our party at gunpoint. Like you said, there was nothin' else we could do.
Lewis Not now. Well, let's get our heads together. [To vengeful Bobby] Come on now, let's not do anything foolish. Does anybody know anything about the law?
Look, I-I was on jury duty once. It wasn't a murder trial.
Lewis A murder trial? Well, I don't know the technical word for it, Drew, but I know this. You take this man down out of the mountains and turn him over to the Sheriff, there's gonna be a trial all right, a trial by jury.
Lewis We killed a man, Drew. Shot him in the back - a mountain man, a cracker. It gives us somethin' to consider.
All right, consider it, we're listenin'.
Lewis Shit, all these people are related. I'd be god-damned if I'm gonna come back up here and stand trial with this man's aunt and his uncle, maybe his momma and his daddy sittin' in the jury box. What do you think, Bobby? [Bobby rushes at the corpse, but is restrained] How about you, Ed?
I don't know. I really don't know.
Now you listen, Lewis. I don't know what you got in mind, but if you try to conceal this body, you're settin' yourself up for a murder charge. Now that much law I do know! This ain't one of your ****in' games. You killed somebody. There he is!
Lewis I see him, Drew. That's right, I killed somebody. But you're wrong if you don't see this as a game...Dammit, we can get out of this thing without any questions asked. We get connected up with that body and the law, this thing gonna be hangin' over us the rest of our lives. We gotta get rid of that guy!...Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere.
How do you know that other guy hasn't already gone for the police?
Lewis And what in the hell is he gonna tell 'em, Drew, what he did to Bobby?
Now why couldn't he go get some other mountain men? Now why isn't he gonna do that? You look around you, Lewis. He could be out there anywhere, watchin' us right now. We ain't gonna be so god-damned hard to follow draggin' a corpse.
Lewis You let me worry about that, Drew. You let me take care of that. You know what's gonna be here? Right here? A lake - as far as you can see hundreds of feet deep. Hundreds of feet deep. Did you ever look out over a lake, think about something buried underneath it? Buried underneath it. Man, that's about as buried as you can get.
Well, I am tellin' you, Lewis, I don't want any part of it.
Lewis Well, you are part of it!
IT IS A MATTER OF THE LAW!
Lewis The law? Ha! The law?! What law?! Where's the law, Drew? Huh? You believe in democracy, don't ya?
Lewis Well then, we'll take a vote. I'll stand by it and so will you.
