Potatoes?
Hey, sweetie.
Hey.
Okay.
You want some coffee?
Thanks.
Oh.
- Bang. - Got a pile of them at home.
Okay, super fan.
- She got a pile at home. - That's what's up.
Hey, Charley.
Sorry, niece.
Mabel, she's a real one.
I'm so sorry, sister.
She's in a better place now.
She's not dead yet, Cheese.
Oh. Good.
- I don't want to make...
Here you go.
What you want me to do with this?
Cook it up. Shit. It's organ-tic.
Oh-ho-ho-ho.
What's up, Big?
- How are you? - Are you for real?
What? Shit, there's no more seats around here. Look.
Brownie.
Ooh, look at this.
Oh-ho-ho...
Tradish, uncle.
Yeah, I brought the diet ones for you.
Hello.
She back here? I'll go say hi.
Cousin.
Is it possible that extraterrestrial intervention...
Look at that.
Fuckin' aliens were here way back then.
Think they were the ancestors.
The old ones.
I don't know. Why would they come here and create us?
Sex?
Oh, shit.
Teenie.
Yep. It's been a long time.
- Sure has. - Yep, let me take that for you.
Well, look who finally came home.
Cousin, look who's still here.
Are we good?
- Yeah, of course.
Oh!
Holy shit. You look just like her.
All grown up.
I'm Teenie.
Yeah, I know who you are.
Mmm.
Hey, smells good.
Bear, take these.
Yes.
Move, I'm your elder.
Enjoy that CD.
- Shitasses. - Okay.
What's up, Bev?
Hey, Cleo.
I'll watch Training Day all day.
- Jumbo! - Fuck, it's Brownie.
- Fuckin' weedar. - Smoke it up.
Hey!
Shitasses!
- What? - One of them has my earrings on.
One of them has a fake nail.
The fuck she doing here?
Not even gonna help.
Say hi.
Probably just needs to be invited.
Jackie. Come help?
You shouldn't have to ask her.
Um, I've never made frybread.
- City girl. - Watch it. I'm from the city.
I can make bread better than all you country-fides.
- What, like gluten-free?
Come. I'll teach you. Lift your sleeves up.
Take some dough.
Yeah, spread it all over.
Gonna have to touch up some of this polish before the night's out.
There you go, Ma.
At least she's going the right way.
- I don't have any. You want a drink? - No.
Just water. Thanks.
You ever get married, Big?
Shit, just to the law.
- Why, are you lookin'?
I come with too much baggage, you know that.
Sure, shove it in next to my baggage.
Have to make room, but it'll fit.
Where you going, Bear?
Hey, easy!
Grease propping when the frybread dropping
Smell it in the air Got everybody stoppin'
From the fairgrounds It ain't the same
Them other people like it but it's Indians complain
Give me the chili, beans, commodity cheese
Pile on...
Hey, everybody.
Uh...
I think we should say a prayer before we eat.
Cheese.
- Did you want to say the blessing? - Me?
Um...
Yeah, yeah, I'll say it.
Would everyone please stand?
Okay, bow your heads.
Okay, saying a prayer. O Lord, the Creator,
he, she, they. Whatever your pronouns may be.
We ask you to bless this food and the people that cooked it.
We know our friend Elora here is having a hard time right now,
as her grandma transcends into that place in the great beyond.
Amen.
In a galaxy far, far away.
In our grief, we come to you.
In your name, amen.
Okay, everybody.
Hey, Bear, could you take this out back?
Damn, that looks good.
Hey, why they give me such a small plate?
Are you trying to say something about my weight or what?
It's okay. You know, I'm actually losing weight because of these spirit plates.
What are you doing here?
Elora's grandma is dying.
Oh, I know, I know.
That's why I'm here.
I got to take her to orientation.
But... What are you doing here?
I have to be here for my friend.
A'ho!
Young warrior, that's good! You're here for your friend.
That's good.
Does she know that?
I mean, I assume so.
- I'm here. - Oh, yes.
That old Indian saying, "I'm here.
"That should be good enough.
"You should know exactly how I feel without me even saying anything."
Man...
Hey, listen up, little fucker.
I'm trying to give you some ancestor teachings here. Old ways.
Back in my day, when I was a young warrior on the plains,
I once had an engorged testicle.
Fucker was about the size of a cantaloupe.
And I didn't talk about my pain.
I swallowed it and it got worse and worse.
And my friends said nothing about it
because we didn't communicate with each other.
And then that testicle was the first part of me
to go on to the spirit world.
- Ew. - My point is, your friend in there,
she's got that testicle pain. That pain in her heart.
Her heart nard.
Okay, got it.
- Thanks. - A'ho.
Where the fuck did that horse go?
IHS doctor said I had that Mary-Oko Aoki.
What the hell you say?
Mary-Oko Aoki.
That doesn't sound like a real thing.
Yeah, it's very real.
Suffer from it.
Lots more people have it than is reported.
Like, haven't you ever walked into a library and felt like you had to go?
So are you telling me you got to take a shit every time you walk into a library?
Yeah. Something about those old books gets me going.
Gotta take a big old shit.
I got sensitive bowels anyway.
Great.
I don't get it. She literally jumped you, bro.
- Yeah. - She's lucky this is a sacred time.
Be giving her my two-piece combo right now.
She's never even met Mabel.
So, once this all gets settled, we're back on the road, right?
- Cali. - Yep.
Yeah, for sure.
Hey, you guys snaggin' yet?
I'm 15.
I was a late bloomer too.
Shit, I was snagging when I was 12.
Church camp, group sex.
Jesus.
Serious. Baptist. He remembers.
It was always Teenie and Cookie. Double trouble.
We were so hungover that time in church.
I looked over at Cookie and her face was green.
I'm laughing at her, but basically I'm sweating out pure alcohol.
She tried to run out of the church, but she didn't make it.
She puked all over the aisle, right in front of the pastor.
Poor Mabel was so sweet.
You know, she just always saw the best in everyone.
She was so concerned that Cookie had caught this stomach bug.
It was damn Fixico who gave us away.
He started talking about the wine flu that was going around.
You shoulda seen Mabel's face drop.
Kicked Cookie right in the ass, right out of church.
But no matter how mad she was,
she still cured us with that big, greasy breakfast.
God damn. Her hash browns could bring you back from the dead.
- Fucking hash browns. - Right?
My grandma did that?
Yeah, girl. She changed after your mom died.
She took it really hard.
We all did.
Yeah, I just couldn't come back after Cookie.
Wotko.
I can sit with her, if you want to take a break.
Since when were you sweet?
Look at 'em.
Just like we used to do.
Used to?
What do you mean?
Some of us are still here doing it.
Pretty night.
It is.
It's always a strange thing.
Events like this, brings people together.
Seems like we all should have gotten together before something like death.
Why not death?
It's the best time to come together.
Yeah, I guess.
Gives closure.
Like, what if we all would have come together after Cookie died?
No one really hung on after that. Really ended everything.
But it would have been good to see you.
For me, anyway.
Now, here we are.
Mabel's going. I don't know. It's weird, huh?
It is.
It sure is.
I really don't know why I'm here, actually.
Not doing a lot.
Sure you do.
We're here for Elora.
You're right.
All right, boys. All right, boys.
- All right, boys. - What's up?
No, thanks.
I'm too short to get high.
- Ooh. - Ooh.
Thank you.
You're so fair and so good.
Hey, you want to come check out those
beaded medallions I was telling you about?
Can I take a raincheck?
You got any cake left in that box?
Sleeping with the enemy.
The fuck?
So who's single here? Trying to find me a hometown snag.
What about you? You got a snag?
- What? No. - No boyfriend?
No.
- No girlfriend? - Can't be tamed.
That's right. She doesn't need any of those shitasses.
Let her focus on school and she can deal with those idiots later.
Dang, Grandpa.
Has anyone told you about him when he was younger?
- Teenie. - No.
We used to call him... What did we used to... We used to call him...
- Haj dog. - Haj dog.
- Oh.
'Cause nobody could down as many beers as him.
All right, let's change the subject.
- This one time, he peed in a dryer.
All right, I'm outta here.
Sick! You did?
- I'm gone. - Oh!
Goodbye.
Hey, man, what's up? We're just getting started.
So what you gonna do with the house?
- Could use an update. - What do you mean?
Well, it's yours when she passes. You're the closest with her.
I am?
You could make it your own now. Fix it up.
Sell it, take the money, go to school.
Get the hell out of here.
When did you move away?
When your mama passed.
I left. I didn't know what the hell to do.
So I enlisted. I got to travel all over.
Got my degree out of it.
But I was here when you were born.
In that room.
Nobody could put you down.
You would just scream.
And poor Cookie was so tired, so I held you,
and rocked you for hours in that room while she slept.
I should have come back sooner.
Even just to see you, girl.
You don't like me, do you?
I don't.
Well, I'm not supposed to.
But life is short.
Maybe you're not as bad a person as we thought.
I mean, you're here.
I'm here because my aunt made me.
No, you're not.
It's time.
It's okay, Mabel.
Cookie's waiting for you.
I need air.
Hey, shitass!
I'm a spirit. Crazy, ennit?
- I just... - I just came to thank you.
That's all. You did good today.
What now?
Now I'm going to go.
Don't give away my blue willow dish set.
I'll haunt you.
Bye!