♪ I'm fishing
♪ I Got my hook and bait
♪ Just fishing
♪ I'm fishing at the lake
♪ For some man who's true
♪ To wash all my blues away
♪ Just fishing
♪ For feeling in my life
♪ Just wishing
♪ To land me something fine
♪ I won't have to say
♪ That he got away
♪ From me
What's that?
Well, son, that's a tape recorder.
When this goes round like that,
there's music on the tape,
and the music plays and that's what you hear.
I can make it go really fast.
How do you like that?
♪ Got away
♪ I'm gonna make a brand new start
♪ Here me roar
♪ I'm feeling mean
♪ With hooks to the heart
♪ We'll never part
♪ I, I'm fishing
Jesus, Finner, I can't hear myself drink.
This is gonna cost us both another beer.
Sorry, Finner, not to be negative or anything,
but I really can't deal with this sexist music.
Anyway, Red Elbows?
You guys, we got, we got a classic here.
- This is good music. - Uh-huh.
It's like Beethoven and Mussolini and,
aw, you guys are so ignorant.
You know, I, okay, go ahead, tell me who it is?
Red Echozes live, Things Aren't What They Seem.
Things boring and never mentioned.
Oh listen to this, listen to this.
It builds into a great scream.
Right in
- here. - Yeah, that's great.
Well, well, he screams in here somewhere.
Just wait, just listen.
Is this like hippie music?
It makes me feel like I'm like full of chowder, man.
Like, how long do I have to suffer, huh?
Chill out.
I'm sorry, you have such
great musical taste.
Jeez, you guys are so cruel.
So Peter, what's the deal anyhow?
How come you inherited this place instead of your dad?
My dad wants even less to do with this place than I do.
In fact, ah, he's never been up here.
But when I was a little kid, you know,
they always used to send me up alone.
So how come you haven't been here in 17 years?
My family was so freaked out
about my granddad's disappearance.
It was a closed subject.
But, when I turned 21, the place became mine.
So the least I can do is check it out, huh?
Plus it's time for Peter to deal
with his guilt feelings about the place.
He's always been guilty for his grandfather's death.
At least since I've known him.
It's typical trauma Pete. Thank you.
- You've got to deal with it. - Thank you, Miss
psychology major.
You're welcome.
Oh, gross.
Where the hell is this supposed to be?
Say, we're looking for the campground?
Oh, that's around the lake a piece there.
It's about four miles now, yah.
Well can't you people put some signs up?
I mean, that's what tax money is all about.
Why don't you put up some good signs for crying out loud?
I want a diet soda.
- Ruthie. - Ah-hah.
Ah, I can draw a map for you folks.
It's no trouble at all, no. Ahmmm.
Gross.
You nit, it's a cicada, they're Hemiptaras.
I, ah, do urology
down in North Park. They can't bite.
All they do is produce this - Illinois.
Noise.
Put that down this instant.
Leave it for the loons.
Do you sell bait here?
Yeah, yeah, I sell bait here.
You betcha. I could use some minnows.
What's this old thing?
Hey, quit messing around Irv, will ya?
Put it down, c'mon.
Oh, that's my stud finder.
Yeah, say you got a wall there and you got nails in it,
and you wanna find 'em.
You, ah, just, ah,
well you just put it up there.
Jeepers.
See, and then you got your location of the stud.
Hey, Irv, will you put it down, huh?
How much do they cost?
Ah, take it it.
It's free.
Merry Christmas.
I don't seem to need it anyway.
I always seem to know where the nails are.
Gee, thanks, Mr. Leudke.
Hey, you got change for a $100?
Ah, here, the minnows are on me.
Welcome to the North Woods.
No charge for you folks.
I wanna soda.
Well, you can't get one here.
You're just gonna have to wait, young lady.
It's like I always say, fishing's okay,
but remember, the lake's not a playground.
We all have to treat the water with respect.
Oh, gotcha.
Will do.
Oh, my God.
I can't believe that.
Muskie Heaven.
Damn, where's my pole?
Muskie Heaven. ♪ Muskie reggae
♪ Muskie do
♪ Mu, mu, mu, love more muskie
Oh,
hello there.
Come on up.
You wanna take on the Muskie Maniac?
That's me, Denny Dobyns.
You've seen a fishing pole before, I'm sure,
but I bet you've never seen an expert caster.
♪ Ah, muskie reggae - Like this.
Ah.
♪ Muskie reggae - Like that.
Ah, it's a biggin.
♪ Ah, muskie reggae - Mm, mm.
You gonna take me on, sunshine?
♪ Muskie reggae
You get those off your tricycle, honey?
Is that where those tassles came from?
♪ Ah, muskie reggae
♪ Ah-Ah-Oh
Alright, Fin.
- Woo-hoo. - Hey, you can't
use that pole.
No tassles, uh-uh, sunshine.
Cheatin's one thing I don't tolerate.
You better remember that.
C'mon big guy.
You're next.
C'mon, c'mon.
- You give it a try. - No, thanks.
C'mon, Scarlett O'Hara.
Give it a go.
♪ Muskie reggae
♪ Ah-Ah-Oh
♪ Ah, muskie reggae
Fore.
Good shot.
♪ Ah-Ah-Oh
♪ Ah, muskie reggae
Welcome to the ah, good ole
Muskie Madness Fishing Contest.
On ah, 10 a.m. Saturday...
Congratulations, nice cast.
The contest doesn't start until tomorrow
but it's not everyday somebody beats Denny.
You can have this and this.
Thanks, Bev D.
A guy might never take it off. ♪ Muskie reggae
Nice pole.
♪ Ah-Ah-Oh - I like it.
Are these your friends? ♪ Muskie reggae
Yeah, yeah, they are.
Um, they're up from down south
a little ways. ♪ Muskie reggae
- Illinois. - Uh-Huh.
♪ Ah-Ah-Oh - Hi, you guys.
I'm Bev. ♪ Muskie reggae
Oh, ah-oh, I'm sorry, I'm the contest hostess.
$25 bucks for standing in the sun all day.
Not bad.
Beats working.
I like your hair, it's great.
Uh, I've been in the car all day.
Hey, man, what do you think you're doing?
Turn off the goddamn headache machine.
Nobody around here can stand to hear that kind of crap.
Hey, man, just don't rip me off, that's all.
Come on, it's alright.
They're, they're just trying to have some fun.
Jeez, what a sped. Hey, have you started
fishing yet?
The Muskie, king of freshwater fish
is best known for its audacious eating habits.
Imagine the fisherman's surprise,
when this 43 and half pound Wisconsin muskie
was found to have in its stomach,
the better part of a muskrat and an entire Piteville Green.
Finner, what the hell is a Piteville Green?
It's ah, a duck.
A whole duck in its stomach?
Bullshit, man.
This would make a great apartment, Fin.
Too many steps.
Whoa.
Heck yeah.
- Wow. - Wow is right.
Wow.
And we're going into the bonus round
and remember players, for each correct answer,
you get two dollars, ready now?
Name five things that you would
expect to find in the military?
Careful now.
Dolores?
Oh, my.
White linen?
Huh? Troy.
M-16, you morons.
M-16's,
M-32's.
The Thompson 45 Sub-Machine Gun.
Browning 30 Automatic.
All purpose canvass tent.
Mess kit, bazooka.
For God's sake, get on, fuckwads.
Napalm, choppers, Agent Orange.
I can except the first two, Fred,
but not the last one.
Dolores, can you give me another thing?
Not bad, little Peter,
If I might say so myself.
You can't stay, though. Let's have a big round
of applause for Peter's nice place, huh?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you.
I would like to know
who that Jarhead is in the chair?
Beer, guys.
Oh, great, like I'm really sure
I'm gonna get out and got shot by some madman.
Ah, he won't hurt us.
This is one hell of a nice facility
you got here, van Clease.
Hey, check out the bike.
My dad had one of these, bitchin.
Oh, shut up.
Like I'm sure I'm supposed to walk in these shoes.
God, I knew this place would make me twitchy.
Too many traumatic memories.
Okay, people.
Oh, Christ, here we go.
Yeah, baby.
Now we're talking.
Things Aren't What They Seem
by The Red Echozes, 19 and 72 Live.
Now we are talking.
Hi, I'm Finner.
Dig it, man.
Evelyn Duerst on this end.
These your friends?
Hey, don't ever listen to this show
they got outta Superior.
Hell, a baby could go on and answer
smarter than some of these morons
from Illinois in Winnebagos.
I was in the Army.
They trained me for electronics.
Satellite circuits.
Gave me this big hype job about
making a fortune in civilian life.
Well, try making a living up here on anything but a TV set.
More guys oughta work around here than West Virginia.
And most of us vets, crazy,
half-ass war vets with big problems.
I mean, we're all like time bombs waiting to go off.
Boom!
Tell him, Peter.
Ah, this is my house.
You're on van Clease property.
Don't try to push me around or I'll torch the place.
Jesus.
What's that racket?
Rodney, what are you doing?
You crazy?
Hell yes, he's crazy.
All a ya are crazy.
What are ya doing here?
Guess who, Pop, the van Clease kid.
Rodney, you can't go around
messing with other people's wood.
They got rules up here.
Peter van Clease.
Good thing your granddad's dead, fella.
Look, I apologize for my friend...
Granddad would be sick with anyone that acted like you.
Hey, my granddad wouldn't exactly be happy
with the way you let things get outta hand around here.
Can't you get him to do something about this mess?
He's crazy.
Whole world's gone crazy.
Hey, you're really working for me, you know?
And I'd appreciate it if...
I ain't working for you no more.
Your real van Clease left worth working for.
I'm resigning.
Sorry.
Great first impression, guys.
Hey, we gotta set some rules about
what's cool up here, alright?
Friendly neighborhood.
It's nice, I like it here.
Hey, this is great.
I think it's gonna do, you guys.
I like this, I'm staying.
Just a summer home, huh, Peter?
Glen Miller, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong.
Peter's granddad had an absolutely
incredible record collection.
Who's this Vicki Lee?
Fishing For Your Love.
♪ I'm fishing
♪ I got my hook and bait
Oh, sick.
They hang dead fish on the wall here?
It's taxidermy.
Stuffed shit.
Take it easy, Kiersten.
It's just a hobby.
Like your hair.
♪ To wash all my blues away
♪ Today
♪ Just fishing
♪ The worry in my life
♪ Just wishing
♪ You love something fine
♪ I won't have to say
♪ That you got away from me
♪ You'll stay
♪ I'll cast out
♪ My love through the wind
♪ I'm gonna make a brand new start
♪ I'll reel him in
♪ With hook to the heart
♪ We'll never part
♪ I'm fishing
♪ I've got my bait
♪ The dream will come true
Little Loon Lake Landing.
That's a lotta I's.
God, you guys, they think
we're so weird.
That bell's a B-flat.
D-Natural
We're embarrassing, Peter.
He always has to show off his perfect pitch
when he needs to make conversation.
It's not embarrassing, it's really in a D-Natural.
In fact, I wanna write a whole piece
of music with nothing but D-Naturals.
A bunch of guys blowing their noises?
Wait you guys, I just had a flash.
Peter is so incredibly foxy.
I really think we should make a video.
God, we can make a shit... Ah, that's not
why people make videos, Kiersten.
They do it for the art.
That's not art.
What is art, Finner?
Uh-Um, so Rodney, did you check
the score of the Cubs game?
- No, man, no. - Well?
I've got an idea.
Why don't you and I make some art together?
Thanks.
Hey, what do they got
on The Lunar Landing Lake Lodge jukebox here, anyway?
I am for some corrective surgery on that bugger.
God, look at that lady looking at Rodney?
She thinks he's from another planet or something.
I hate fish.
It smells like somebody's old, smelly feet.
It smells like you.
I hate it when you eat with your mouth open.
I hate it when you talk with your mouth open.
Hey, can it, kids.
Now, eat that fish, Ruthie.
There were so many loons today.
Where do they all come from?
Ooh-Ooh-Ah-Hoo.
I wish we could see On Golden Pond again.
I don't know what the world's
going to do without Peter Fonda.
Henry Fonda, Mom.
You got the wrong one.
Well, whatever.
The loon is a wonderful creature.
Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo.
I've been watching the loon - Hoo-Hoo.
All day long.
I like your hair.
Mini-concert, man.
Rod, what is that stuff?
You paid for Elvis Costello?
God, is that old.
My parents look like Elvis Costello.
It's not Elvis Costello.
It's The Dead Dentist.
My parents listened to Muzak.
Yeah, they have it pumped into their house, you know?
It's like a musical, 1984, Big Brother, you know?
Shut up, they do not.
I've been to your house before.
And now for a nature note on the owl.
The owl, a nocturnal creature,
is best known for his wisdom and eating up small rodents.
They live by themselves in the woods.
Pff.
Hey, Finner, don't hurt anybody.
God, isn't Finner a little weird.
He needs to learn to communicate,
or someday he's really gonna freak out
and do something negative.
D, Don't worry about, Finner.
He just needs a girlfriend.
Huh, bad.
You guys want another beer?
Katherine Hepburn never put up with what I have to.
Not even with Spencer Tracy.
Peter Fonda wouldn't treat me the way you do, Roger.
Henry Fonda, Mom.
That white hair says, I'll be a son of a bitch
while he's having his heart attack.
Yeah, well, ah, you know what
you can do about it, don't ya?
You can go right on up to you sister's.
I came up here to catch fish.
To catch fish.
Well, I just will go on up to Helen's.
I'm going to call a cab right now.
A cab could be a long distance phone call, Mom.
The nearest taxi's in Green Bay.
Now you did it, Pop.
She's P.O.'d.
Ah, she's just baiting me.
Come on, eat your fish, you two.
Hoo-Hoo-Hoo.
Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo.
Hoo-Hoo-Hoo.
Thank you.
Oh.
Peter, what happened?
I just saw something really weird.
Where?
At the bar?
No.
On the water.
Ah, you better make sure he's not driving tonight.
Oh, I'm fine, I guess I, I don't know.
Are you sure you're not internalizing
someone else's trauma?
The only thing
he's internalizing is beer, baby.
Oh, sweetheart, I hate to do it ya,
but I just can't help myself.
Doh.
Come here, ah, let me, let me
feel that beautiful white belly.
You're gonna be my meal ticket, sweetheart.
Denny's little sweetheart.
Isn't this pretty?
Huh, isn't that pretty?
Guess what?
You weigh three more pounds than your sisters.
That's why Denny wants you to wear this for him.
So when the time comes, Denny'll know where to find ya.
Oh, and tell you apart from the rest of your sisters.
And nobody'll know a thing.
Nobody'll know you spent your whole life in a tank.
Growing that beautiful body.
And you won't feel a thing.
Just a little knock on the head.
Then we put ya on a scale
and watch those bastards drool.
Now you stay put.
Goddamn, son of a bitchin, cheatin' bastard.
We'll see who drools.
Uh.
Yeah-ah.
Son of a bitch.
No shit, I'm gonna enter that muskie contest
and walk away with their $5,000 bucks.
No problem.
Okay, go ahead, Houdini.
Easy, ravioli.
Kind of rank, though.
They'd be ready to kill me if I won.
Some outsider taking first place.
Hey, Peter, you wanna do a little nighttime muskie fishing?
It's the best time.
What do you say?
God, am I fired up.
Maybe later.
Hey guys, do me a favor and don't mess
with my grandfather's fishing stuff, okay?
It's pretty valuable.
Sure, no problem.
So how about you, Rod?
Wanna go fishing?
We can share my pole.
No way, man.
That's bourgeoisie leisure crap.
That's a waste of people's resources, man.
That's ah, like alphabet soup.
Shut up, you booger.
You peaked.
Listen, dink.
Muskie fishing is mean and violent,
and it makes you do real crazy things.
It gets in your head and you can't get it out.
C'mon, what do ya say?
Muskies, muskies.
Muskies - Muskies.
- Muskies. - Muskies.
Uh.
Shut up.
Uh.
Listen, I gotta go back to the restaurant
in the morning and look around.
Wanna come with me?
Sure, I'll go.
Look, I do understand what you're going through,
but the basic problem here is that you're feeling guilty.
I mean, you wanna do something
for your grandfather but you can't.
Come on, Ann, it's not that complicated.
It's just that my granddad was the kind
of guy that inspired loyalty.
Christ, old man, Duerst.
I told you the story about him and Duerst.
Duerst loved the guy.
I loved him, too.
I guess that's why I'm getting so worked up.
Well, that's positive.
It doesn't feel positive.
Well, it's not positive to obsess
to the point of hallucination.
Peter, I'm trying to be supportive,
but if you believe you actually saw something,
I mean, you wouldn't be afraid to tell somebody.
I did see something.
Then why don't you tell somebody?
Why don't you tell that sheriff we met this morning?
What's the point?
Yeah, you're losing it.
The point is you believe you saw something,
but you won't do anything about it.
So you might as well not believe it in the first place.
Just like you believe you're a musician
but you won't do anything about it.
You won't make any music.
What I'm saying is that you're afraid
to make noise, you're...
Goddamn it, Ann.
But I'm basically right,
aren't I?
So, you really wanna get into music?
Sure.
Me, too, Peter.
I mean, I really wanna get back into music myself.
I mean, well, you know what I mean.
Hmm.
Last beer of the night.
No way, man, it's the first beer of the day.
Hey, Finner, show me that alligator again.
Damn.
Goddamn,
Stan.
Kiss my ass.
Well, since he's dead now,
I guess I can take that tag off without losing an arm.
Wonder what it's there for?
Hey, get with it, Finner.
This is the 80's man.
Everybody's doing it, wearing cool shit.
Even fish, man.
God, I just have to catch one of those
or I'm just gonna die.
Finner, I'm not kidding, man.
This shit gets into your head
and makes you into a maniac, man.
Muskie madness.
Come on, come on.
Feels like sex, all this waiting around.
Finner, this is so uncool.
This is so like incredibly uncool
that it's like the coolest thing we could do.
Shit, it's obvious.
Hey, man, cool it.
What's the matter, you can't swim?
That's right.
No shit.
What?
You?
Finner?
Man, there's a lot of weird shit
we don't know about you, man.
Really, you can't even swim?
I really can't swim.
Maybe I'll practice while we're up here.
Hey alright, Rodney, pull the boat up.
Hey, Bev D?
Are you crazy man,
we can't go chasing after women now,
this is the best time to fish.
Take a cast, man, hurry up.
Hey, you guys, wow, way to go.
You're Tom Finnigan, right?
Uh-huh.
What'd you catch her on?
My earring.
Rodney, right?
I like that.
You should be proud of yourself.
Looks like almost, I don't know, almost 40 pounds.
Probably win the contest.
Yeah, Jesus, that'd be sweet.
Really. Hey, ole fishing buddy,
what are you gonna do with that five grand, huh?
I don't know, I'll figure out something.
Well, I know what I'd do with it.
So, aren't you guys hungry?
Wanna have breakfast at my house?
Um, but better bring that muskie
down to contest headquarters, though.
Leave it in the boat, somebody will swipe it.
Muskie madness, right?
What if a guy just brought it along?
Yeah, we're hungry.
Whatever.
Sure, but I can't slow down too much.
My coach is waiting for me.
Um, huh.
So it's not like I neglect him.
But, oh, he has a different opinion.
Don't ya, Dickie?
How is it going? Huh.
So when you leave the little guy alone out there,
aren't you scared he's gonna
get eaten by a bear or something?
Well, he might.
I make sure he doesn't have any sweets before.
Bears can pick up the scent.
The thing is, his momma's gotta be happy, too.
Sometimes it's the only chance that I get to workout.
Especially since beer for brains left.
Say, is anyone gonna die
if I like go check out the disc selection over here?
Of course nobody's gonna die.
I like that.
So how often do you get a chance to run?
Not enough.
We should go sometime.
Do about a half dozen miles.
Yeah, yeah, that would,
yeah, we should definitely do that.
Huh, great.
Hey, Fin fuck.
I mean, Finner, you won't believe this, man.
Red Echozes, Things Aren't What They Seem
recorded live in Budokan.
Oh, you gotta hear this.
This is my favorite album.
Um, that's my husband's record.
You know, he's hot already.
I'm gonna take him for a swim to quiet him down.
A-ha, Daddy, a-ha.
Shut the door, okay you guys?
Thanks for coming.
Come on, there's nothing here, Peter.
- Oh, great. - What?
They didn't find anything
when my grandfather disappeared either.
Let's get back.
I've gotta meditate at 10:20.
At 10:20?
Yes.
Okay, c'mon sexy, I'll row my arms off.
30.
One.
Seven.
43.
44.
46.
47.
Eight.
He's bleeding.
There you are.
God, I've been looking all over for ya.
Hey, I was wondering if I could borrow some fishing gear?
You know, just some junk for a couple of days?
Why don't you rip off van Cleases's gear?
Or Leroy Leudke's?
I wasn't ripping anything off.
Really, Mr. Duerst, there's nothing that weird about me.
Just think of me as a normal guy in a costume.
Like a clown.
God, you know what, you wouldn't have believed it.
This morning me and my buddy, Finner,
we caught about a 40 pound muskie.
Yeah, at least 40 pounds.
God, you know, this is the life up here.
I really feel like I fit in up here.
You come up from the city.
Like the acid rain.
It's killing our lakes.
It might as well kill us, too.
Okay,
man, that's crystal cool.
You said, ah, Leroy Leudke?
Yeah, I think I'll go over to Leudke's.
Wow, Mr. Leudke, you got even
more stuff here than Mr. Duerst, man.
I bet you guys used to be spuds, huh?
Buddies, you know?
Ah, yeah, we was friends long time ago.
Somebody got hosed, eh?
You guys have a fight?
You know.
Ah, no, no, it wasn't like that.
Ah, he's a fine fella, that Wayne Duerst was.
Well, he just don't have much to say to me
since I caught that big fish back in 1955.
This bullet's outta a gun, ain't it?
Shoot the muskie and then yank her in the boat, huh?
Ha-Hoo.
Well, no, don't keep no guns around here.
No, no
guns.
Besides, they ain't safe in a boat.
Yeah, we had an incident around here a few years back,
where one fella shoot another, ah,
landing a big muskie, there.
I was alone.
It was Duerst from over there
and van Clease from up there at the place.
Yeah, them two had a lucky bullet
they used time and time again to land a big muskie.
Van Clease, he'd dig it right outta that muskie's head,
put it right back in the pistol.
Yeah, it must have been 30,
they took with that lucky slug.
Little copper slug, it was.
That was a big mistake on Wayne's part there,
but
the bullet went right into his spine, there.
And van Clease, he wouldn't let 'em operate.
Ah, he forgave Wayne good enough,
but ah, nah, he wouldn't let 'em operate.
He said they're gonna have to grind him up
to get that bullet outta him.
Yeah, that bullet then went right into the spine, there.
Van Clease, he's a tough old bird, yeah.
Decent story, man.
You know, you could make an excellent movie
with a story like that, man.
Yeah, well.
Ah, you don't wanna use those bullets.
They'd blow you right outta the boat.
Huh.
Duerst boy, used one.
He left those up here.
M16
rifle shells.
Oh, he can talk now, that boy.
You know, though, these suckers
would make great earrings, wouldn't they?
Yeah, well, ah, like I say, be my guest.
Say, I tell you what you do.
You go down there and you fish
among those stumps down by the point.
But that's my secret fishing spot,
so don't let Dobyns catch you there.
Hey, thanks, buddy.
Alright.
So, what do you think about when you meditate?
Nothing, everything.
I'm sure I can never think about just nothing.
I mean, how boring?
Oh, sick.
That weird guy, Evelyn.
He thinks I don't know he's watching me.
Open your eyes, Ann, so you can see him.
Uh, God, what a way to get your rocks off.
It kills me.
There is like nothing happening on this lake.
So what are you meditating about?
Why Peter's being so antisocial?
I mean, I thought he hated fishing?
Fishing is rude.
I mean, you have to get
your hands in all that snotty crap and scales.
Number one, Kiersten, Peter is troubled
by something, very, very private and very, very, traumatic.
Number two, he's reacting in a perfectly normal way
by refusing to be normal and socialize.
Number three,
casting
is a symbol of Peter's trying to fathom
the very deep waters of his trauma.
I thought he was
trying to catch a fish?
Finner?
Great, great, this is great.
Fine, you promised me you were gonna go fishing
and then you just slump me off, man.
I'll go all by myself, I guess.
I guess he ain't a dedicated fisherman like me, though.
That's some kind of buddy I got.
Fine, I'll go all by myself.
Woo-hoo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo.
Goddam, you punk.
Ah, I lost her.
Damn.
- No, more, I can't. - Oh.
C'mon.
♪ My love is calling you.
♪ My aim is to adore you
♪ My mind's confused
♪ You should love me too
♪ Oh
Hey, Kiersten?
That siren makes a perfect four.
That's what you call the distance between those two tones.
Like these two notes,
♪ Here comes the bride
What can I say, a perfect four.
You go a half-step higher,
you've got something they used to call the Devil's Tritone,
mm-hmm,
mm-hmm.
In Bach's time, that was thought to drive people crazy.
Strange, huh?
God, Peter, you have the most amazing ears.
I mean, like, maybe I can do that someday.
I mean, when I get back into music and all.
Kiersten, when were you ever in music?
Ah.
Somebody found her drifting.
My diver's can't locate a body.
It maybe nothing.
A body?
Yeah, what happened?
Where's Rodney?
Isn't he with you guys?
He must have gone back out.
You Peter van Clease?
Yeah.
What time you figure your buddy went out?
Sometime in the middle of the morning.
It must have been while we were running.
There's some kind of blood in here.
You run on a test on it yet?
You're gonna run a test, right?
Yes, we took a blood sample.
Now stay outta the boat.
Bev, I'm a little shorthanded right now.
You wanna run this up to dispatch?
Tell Mike to send it up to the lab.
Hey, what about these?
I asked you not to go in the boat.
There's blood and bullets,
and my friend has just been killed,
and you're filling out a form?
I understand why you're worried, Peter,
but we don't know that anyone's been killed.
We need a body.
Okay, what kind of bullet's are these?
.223.
M16
rifle.
Okay, okay, I know who killed Rodney.
So, who dunnit?
Evelyn Duerst with his M16.
I doubt it
I can prove it.
Look, I'm a little busy with your boat right now.
Forget my boat.
I saw Evelyn with his M16 yesterday,
and he's always talking about blowing somebody away.
Hey, I think you should do something about it.
Alright, let's make this quick.
I'll take care of this.
You're under arrest, Evelyn,
and the sheriff's here.
Throw out the M16.
Here's your M16.
Left.
Right.
Go straight, Dad.
Left, left.
Go right, Dad.
Turn it.
Hey, stop, you crazy bastard.
Ah, stuff it, Mr. Green Genes.
Right, just go straight down 77 about a mile and a half,
take a right on Peninsula Road.
Get you right there. Okay, thanks a lot.
You're welcome, have a good time.
Hey, sheriff, I'd like to apologize,
and I'd also like to talk about this murder.
Look, Peter, before you start,
let me tell ya where I'm coming from.
This is the biggest event in town this year.
I'm not gonna go around upsetting people
with talk about murder.
But, look, if you listen... I've got four deputies
to cover a county the size of Delaware.
There's 30,000 people in town
this weekend for the Muskie Festival.
The mayor wants foot patrols in the city.
What I gotta be telling myself right now
is there hasn't been a murder up here in 17 years.
Yeah, my grandfather's, dammit.
And nobody raised a finger about that either,
except to fill out some forms.
No, no, it was a couple of fishermen from Illinois
that got ripped up out on the lake.
Your grandfather's case is in the books as a disappearance.
Peter, another time of year
and I'd make this a full investigation.
Yeah, right, but you're too busy
filling out your forms, right?
C'mon, you guys, let's get outta here.
He's too busy filling out his forms
to worry about Rodney getting killed.
It's not helping
to baby a distressed person during...
I guess I can't take it here, Ann.
I guess you want me to go.
Kiersten's always fishing for your sympathy.
C'mon, Ann, we're on Main Street.
So, why the hell don't you get off Main Street, asshole?
43 pound muskie, my ass.
What's a matter with you?
Where'd you get it, anyway?
You really like to watch us poor bastards drool.
Don't ya, huh?
Up here we do things fair and square.
You alright?
Old blankety-blank.
Ah, that crazy, old Dobyns.
He gotta pacemaker in.
He turns it up every year for the contest.
Yeah, it doesn't make him any easier to deal with.
Yeah, it's the pacemaker.
Jesus, what did I do?
Well, he just doesn't like outsiders, that's all.
I'm not exactly an outsider.
My grandfather helped build this place
Hampton van Clease.
- Oh, yeah. - I'm Peter,
The grandson.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Leroy Leudke. - Hi.
I got the bait shop right down the road.
I don't love him.
Yeah, I liked him.
I liked him a lot.
Everyone said this was gonna be so much fun.
Really would.
I can't believe this is happening to me.
I mean, it's not fair.
I keep fighting, it's not like anyone understands me
or gives a shit what I think.
♪ I think of washing clean
♪ Whenever when I dream
♪ My love's all around
♪ To break your doors to see
♪ Yeah
♪ My hearts been calling
♪ And you may get to love me
♪ Flying all around
Hoh, ah.
Goddamnit.
(bag rustles.
Ah.
Finally got that bitch.
Hey, guys?
Hey, Finner, where - Hey, Finner,
- you been, man? - What's up?
We still got no sign of Rodney.
Did you guys hear? Somebody almost hooked
Bev's little kid on the lake today.
Ah, wow, that's what that was.
Yeah, Evelyn thinks it was some guy casting,
but Bev didn't see anybody.
Is that all she said, what do you mean?
The crazy guy was accusing me of it.
Peter, try to think about something else for awhile.
You're obsessed.
If you wanna do something for your granddad,
have a good time.
That's what he'd want you to do.
It's not an obsession, okay?
Prove it.
Okay.
So Finner, who's this Bev?
- Yeah. - Ah, you know.
Tell us, c'mon, tell us. The girl who gave me
- the cap. - That Bev?
Uh-Huh, that's great, - Oh, Yeah.
Finner.
Outdoors type, huh?
Yeah, well.
Hey, Fin, bring her over.
Oh, I don't know, you guys.
I don't wanna rush into it.
It seems like I'm always blowing things.
Ah, come on.
Finner, everything is gonna work out fine.
Well, I gotta stop in at Muskie Madness HQ
and find out about my muskie.
See if I can quit fishing.
Hey, did you guys get any beer?
No, just a little wine.
Oh, well wine's good, sure.
Okay.
You won't believe it, huh.
I finally got that hog.
It'd be 46 and a half.
Okay, we have a new leader, Wayne Duerst.
Ah. 46 and a half pounds.
Ah,
well goody.
46 and a half pounds?
I've been after that hog for years.
Sure beats me.
Sorry, kid.
Hate to compete with a friend of the van Clease family,
but I've been after that hog for years.
Where's the coach?
Oh, Eve's got him.
He actually volunteered to babysit him.
Ah, that's great.
Sit up time.
- Oh. - Hold my ankles.
One.
- Two. - Two.
- Three. - Three.
Ooh, I like that.
I hope you understand.
It's just, I have some stuff to do.
Yeah, that's alright.
So you gonna be around later or not?
Maybe.
Why, where are you going?
You gonna go back out fishing?
Yeah.
Muskie madness.
I'm gonna beat old Duerst if it kills me.
Hmm.
So ah, if you're gonna be around later,
I can come back.
♪ Muskie reggae
You know, I really like you Finner.
Maybe about midnight.
Sure.
God, what happened to Kiersten?
You miss her?
God, the cicada whatever's are giving me a headache.
I mean, what's weird is how they stop and then they start,
and then they just shut and you never know
if they're gonna start up again.
It drives you crazy.
Maybe I better call the sheriff.
Shit, it's not hooked up.
Fuckin' A
the phone's out.
Vibrations, man.
Goddamn military's got the whole North Woods
strung up like a D battery, man.
Sending out weird vibrations.
Messing with the phones and people's brains, man.
You ever put a pitchfork in the ground and wiggle it?
Worms come up.
Vibrations, right?
Look at this gut on me.
We're talking extremely low frequency radiation,
sucking the Agent Orange out of the cells.
I'm not square dancing with you people.
Look at me, we're talking...
Evel.
Shut up.
None of that's got a thing to do with why you're a bum.
More than one guy around here's fought in a war.
He's got something wrong with him
that you didn't even know about.
He just don't complain about it.
Why didn't you tell me about old man van Clease now?
Go ahead, tell me your tough guy story again.
You piss me off, you know that?
And don't sneak up on me.
You know, I, uh
gave up a job the other day that meant an awful lot to me.
Ain't never known a man you could shoot in the back
and he'd give you a job for your troubles.
We were fishing, see.
Just like everyday.
And this muskie we got reared up.
Somehow got outta control.
I tried to kill it.
I couldn't hold steady.
Shot your granddad.
He had his back to me, see, and I got him in the hip.
A little copper slug.
But he wouldn't let them take it out.
I said I'd pay for the doctors, but
instead he,
he gives me a job.
And we yapped about it.
He just gave me a job.
Great story.
That's something he'll never forget.
Well, it's a hell of a lot to live up to.
What's he want me to do?
He doesn't know.
I don't either.
Yeah, I floated over here by myself.
It was really fun.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
How come you don't have many lights in here?
Oh, I like it pretty quiet.
Lights don't make any noise.
Yeah, they do.
A little.
Yeah, go ahead and look all you want.
I got that in Korea.
Yeah, Harry Truman sent me there in 1951.
Huh, you catching anything in there?
No, no way.
Hey, it's 10 o'clock, ain't it?
Time for a little muskie like you to be home in bed?
Nah, my dad don't care.
He's out fishing.
Yeah, but like I say, let me give you
a ride back in the boat.
Yeah, I better.
Lot of things can happen out there on that lake.
This is great.
Ah, this is just great.
God, duh.
God.
90 horse powers and not one of them can swim.
A $10,000 dollar weekend.
Jeez.
Great.
Don't, God, Eve.
What do you like?
Hmm, I like that laugh.
I like that.
Pff.
Okay, I've been thinking about the jealousy stuff.
Uh-Oh.
No, it's fine.
I mean, I think I understand where I'm coming from better.
Well, how Kiersten acts with you scares me, is all.
Is all?
No, not really.
I just want us to stay together.
Can't you respond to that?
I am responding.
It's just that sometimes I feel cornered.
I don't know about music school.
You just assumed I'd be good at music.
And you will be.
You are already.
I don't know about us, either.
I can't really explain this,
but it's like the harder you push me,
the less I feel like making a,
huh, I can't even say the word.
Commitment.
And I guess,
well,
I love you.
Shut the fuck up you stupid bastard,
or I'll shut you up myself.
What am I doing out here?
This
is great.
I mean, this is just great.
Dad, I don't wanna stay in that house.
Well.
This is just.
Why did I let 'em talk me into this?
Anybody out here?
Hey.
I'll be here all night, for God's sake.
Okay, alright, I'll stay out here.
See if I care.
Mosquito madness, baby.
You need a man around here to fix those screens.
How come I can't stay?
Evelyn, just go.
Go.
Finner.
What about Finner?
How come everybody's getting nailed
on the water like my granddad got nailed?
How could that be when nobody even knows how it happened?
Like the sheriff says, except me, right?
And crazy ass, Finner.
Peter, how could Finner have killed your granddaddy?
He was just a kid.
I'm not saying he killed anybody.
But don't you tell me all the time
that Finner's manic depressive or whatever?
I'm just asking, look at the evidence.
Look, I told ya, I feel like a total asshole.
I'm sure he's over at Bev's house.
Look, why don't we just pop in
on him like it's no big deal, okay/
Okay.
♪ Well I'll just call you
♪ I lay down to adore you
♪ My mind's confused
♪ That you don't love me too
♪ Oh
60 pounds.
Oh, they're trying to cheat me.
It's bogus, this muskie's bogus.
It has metal inside of it.
It's a bar.
A metal bar?
Hey, they're setting me up.
I'm an honest man.
The juror's stand, look at all the rest of them.
They're just jealous.
That's all.
They're, they're trying to take my place away from me.
C'mon Denny.
If there's any metal in there,
Take care of him, would ya? I don't know about it.
I didn't put it in there.
Okay, that's, that's it for the excitement.
Alright, just, ah, go on home, okay?
Thank you very much.
Kids, ah, look, we found your dad's boat,
but we can't find him.
Have you kids seen your dad?
Okay, where's your mom?
Mom's up at Aunt Helen's.
Ruthie's been looking all over the place for Dad.
He was gonna come home and have a pizza.
I think something's gone wrong around here.
I think something's very fishy.
Okay, okay, you kids take it easy.
This ain't no square dance, people.
I can guarantee that upfront.
This is a combat zone.
Evelyn, what's this?
Do you recognize this?
I found this in the bushes back there.
It's Finner's.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, you found what?
I will now proceed to blow the motherfucker away.
I will blow that mother away.
Peter, you can't leave me here with him.
You got a problem with me, woman?
You think I'm crazy?
Then shut your face.
Go ahead.
Sheriff, Peter van Clease.
Get that blood test back yet?
Ah, haven't had a chance to talk to the lab.
Well I've got something else for you.
Bev's missing.
We're out at her place.
Okay, I'll report it.
Raymond, get those people back.
What?
You could do a lot more than report it.
I know who the killer is.
Listen, I practically got a riot downtown.
Dobyns just turned in a
and people are going mad.
Killer of who?
Bev, Kiersten Kanutzen, my friend Rodney.
It's Tom Finnegan.
Who?
Tom Finnegan, Finner, my friend who came up here with me.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, look, ah, you've given me Evelyn Duerst,
now you're giving me your friend,
but ah, you haven't even given me a body.
Okay, I'll report it and I'll tell dispatch
and report Bev missing,
but for all I know, she's down here at contest headquarters.
Peter, that's all I can say.
I am sorry.
Who cares?
Who the fuck cares what I do?
♪ The muskie swim
♪ In the bottom of the lake, man
♪ The lake full of muskie
♪ In the water around here, man
♪ They swim up to your boat
♪ And they steal all your beers, man
♪ You gotta have a
♪ Muskie or you'll
♪ I will follow around
♪ To send you on the street
♪ Yeah
Ah.
Shit.
Uh.
Duh.
My.
Ah.
Huh.
Uh.
Ah.
Oh.
Your woman's been drinking.
Pressures getting to her.
I've seen it happen in the military.
Walking wounded.
Pressures getting to your buddy Finner, too.
We gotta put a stop to that dude fast.
Blow that motherfucker right outta the water.
Walking wounded, man.
Peter, help me.
Please, help me.
I was out swimming and I was sitting in an inner tube,
and this was big, tall fisherman saw me
and he was trying to catch me, he was trying to kill me.
And I just kept swimming.
I didn't know what to do.
I just kept swimming.
Who tried to kill you?
Finner, did you see Finner?
No, and I kept swimming.
And I got to shore and it got dark,
and I didn't know where I was,
and I found this boat.
It had Finner's stuff in it,
and there's blood everywhere.
And I didn't know what to do.
And then I kept driving this boat around.
I didn't know where I was.
God, Peter, you have to call the police.
Listen to me, Kiersten. Please, please call
- the police. - Can you make it up
to the house, okay?
I wanna look through Finner's stuff first.
Yes.
Finner.
You poor bastard.
Listen man, I'm for going after the dude.
Don't matter if he is your buddy.
Man's a mass killer.
You won't have to look far.
Finner didn't kill anybody.
Somebody killed him.
Can't gross me out.
I seen lots worse.
Tore it clean off.
♪ Just fishing
♪ To land me something fine
♪ I won't have to say
♪ That he got away at last
♪ And we say
♪ How can I
♪ My love to the wind
♪ I'm gonna make a brand new start
♪ If he moves
♪ I'll reel him in
♪ With hook to the heart
♪ We'll never part
The cicadas.
Evelyn, the cicadas, I remember hearing the cicadas.
Just like this.
And then the singer hit that high B-flat.
Man, what are you
talking about?
This, it's the Devil's Tritone.
The Diablas Musica.
Classical music outlawed it for centuries
because it made people crazy.
So what did Bev and Kiersten
and Finner and Rodney all have in common?
Finner's music.
Finner's damned music.
♪ Makes me want to scream
Then you add the cicadas down here.
Man, that is the stupidest shit I've ever heard.
This ain't no Japanese monster movie.
Evelyn, the cicadas are loud,
and they've got an incredible resonance.
Listen to them make the air vibrate.
Some combination of frequencies must set off the killer.
Shit, I could have told you that.
Some dudes get shortwave on their braces and hip pins.
Over in Nam, you could hear stuff
in the air that wasn't normal, man.
Hell, I knew this dude in Cleveland with a steel pelvis,
got a hard on every time the train went by.
Evelyn, you know what?
You just maybe right.
Damn right I'm right.
Frequencies.
Vibrations.
Damn right, college boy.
I think they're in here.
Sheriff told me you know something
about people disappearing?
That's it, man.
Listen, you little people wanna know
what happened to your folks?
It's the Devil's Trilogy, man,
messing with some guy's head and making him freakout.
Devil's Trilogy, man.
Yeah, Evel, they're messing with who's head?
It doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother you.
Don't ask me, I ain't no Houdini.
What about all you theories
with brainwaves and vibrations and all that stuff?
And vets with weird experimental stuff in their bodies?
What vets you talking about?
It's Leudke.
Something weird about his head.
It's got metal inside of it.
You know that for sure?
I took a stud finder reading.
Also he's got a war helmet with the top blown out of it.
What trouble you people got with Leudke?
Murder.
Five murders.
Your granddad would slap you
in the snot box talkin' like that.
Including his murder.
Ah, you're flapping your gills again.
You've got to have evidence to talk like that.
You're all fishing in waters you know nothing about.
You're all full of crap.
He's got metal in his head.
That's standard.
They slap a metal plate in some guy's head
and say, have a nice life, sucker.
I got research on that.
An Ibeam lobotomy, standard procedure out of the Korean War.
Metal plates, craniectomy.
Some guys pick up vibrations and it makes 'em freakout.
Call the sheriff.
Forget the sheriff.
He wants bodies.
"There hasn't been a murder up here in 17 years."
Shit.
Well that makes sense.
Cicadas appear every 17 years, right?
Right.
And 17 years ago, the cicadas plus Vicki Lee's high note,
causes Leudke to go temporarily insane
and nail my grandfather.
Dude came up here in '54 with an Ibeam lobotomy.
Okay, he comes home from Korea in 1954.
Runs amok in '68 when the cicadas come out.
Then lives 17 more years without any problem,
and now this tape of Finner's,
just the right note cranked up real load, plus the cicadas,
and he starts up killing people again.
So Irving, your folks must have been out
on the water making noise.
Nah, sheriff won't ouch Leudke.
Then we have to.
Lock and load.
Shut up.
♪ I'm fishing
♪ I got my hook and bait
♪ Just fishing
♪ To meet you I can wait
Shit, look at this.
It's Bev's wedding ring.
Oh, God.
There's your friends, man.
The sheriff won't buy it.
No bodies.
Ah.
Christ.
♪ I'm gonna make a brand new start
♪ With hook to the heart
♪ We'll never part
Shit.
Ah.
C'mon.
God, c'mon.
Hurry, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.
Hurry.
Shit, it's Leudke.
You move your ass, man.
Ann?
♪ With hook to the heart
♪ We'll never part
Slow down, man, what's happening?
Leudke, the bastards got Ann.
Let me go, I'm going down there and blowing him away.
Let me go, dammit.
He's got Ann.
Knock it off or I'll mess you up good.
You're not thinking straight.
You storm Leudke's now and he'll kill your woman flat out.
Okay, dammit, let me go.
We gotta use proper tactics.
We gotta smoke 'em out.
He's got a hostage.
What's all the racket?
Leroy Leudke ain't killed nobody.
Nothing wrong with Leroy.
Like hell there ain't.
Man goes crazy, kills people out on the lake.
Grinds 'em up, feeds 'em to his minnows.
We seen everything.
He's the one who killed your old buddy van Clease.
He killed my Bev.
The man's picking up vibrations in his head.
Ah, that's just your mouth again, Evelyn.
Bullshit old man.
Talk about the walking wounded.
That's all I hear about.
Talk about van Clease
and the lucky goddamn bullet for 20 years.
Time you did some talking about Leudke.
What are you trying to hide?
Dude got a plate in his head or not?
Yes, Leroy's got a plate in his head from Korea,
but you ain't got any kind of evidence for nothing.
Bullshit again old man.
Here's the ring you helped me get for Bev.
Found in the man's bait tank.
Don't prove nothing.
Could have come in off the lake.
I got the lucky bullet.
Where did you get this?
At Leudke's.
And copper, son.
He cut it out of van Clease.
We used to go out for muskies together.
He's been topping me out with the big ones for 30 years.
We catch him with bait.
What kind of bait?
Bait.
You turn yourself into bait and it's simple to lure 'em out.
Somebody's gotta take a hell of a chance but it'll work.
All you do is get Eve here out on the lake.
With your music and wait for the cicadas.
Then when Leudke comes after him,
you and I go for the girl.
Ah, hell, Pop, that won't work.
You could sit out there all night.
Ah, you know it'll work, Evelyn.
It's a question of guts.
You, you owe anything to your grandfather?
Your lady friend?
What if the sounds sets off Leudke inside the bait shop?
He'll kill Ann.
Forget it, it won't work.
You have a better idea or are you just talkin' too?
I'll go after him myself.
Alright, alright.
You got your bait.
We'll be waiting on the road.
It was an accident, wasn't it Leroy?
Can I call ya, Leroy?
I mean, it was an accident killing all those people.
I know you didn't really mean to do it or anything.
But well, hey,
look, Leroy, accidents are normal.
It's a question of guts.
So I might ask yourself if you're really in touch
with your feelings about all this.
I, I mean your real feelings about killing me.
Do you really feel you have to kill me,
or is just some sort of a smokescreen
for a bigger emotional problem?
Because Leroy, you may not want to admit
this to yourself since it is pretty heavy,
but I don't think you really want to kill me.
Or we can talk about it if you'd like.
Ah.
You don't have to be afraid of being honest with yourself,
and another thing is, I'd be more than glad
to give you the space to work things out.
But okay, well, Leroy.
If you feel comfortable killing me, that's fine.
I'm an adult.
I can live with it.
Leroy?
What I'm saying is you're afraid to make noise.
That's it, Pop.
He didn't do it.
Leudke's going out fishing.
The dude's woman is history.
Goddamn disgrace.
I'll go after him myself.
Good morning.
Goddamn it.
You son of a bitch, I'll kill you.
Well, there you people, what more can I say?
The amazing Leroy Luedke does it again.
Right in under the time limit
with a 50 pound fish to take first place.
Leroy, Leroy Leudke, tell us how you do it?
It's him, it's him, he's doing it.
Now, Cameron, give me my gun.
Wayne, I'm gonna have to arrest you if you don't ease up.
You always got next year, now take it easy.
This is a friendly contest.
Nothing friendly about murder.
Sorry about that little bit
of muskie madness folks.
Let's have a big round of applause
for the new champion, Leroy Leudke.
Alright, Leroy.
It's Leudke.
He killed van Clease.
And Eve's little Beverly.
Some of those kids, bastard's up there drawing cheers.
I don't know whether to believe you Wayne or not.
Really, I don't.
Leudke's a hero around here.
He's a friend of mine, too, you know, eh?
But he's a rival though, Wayne, too, now isn't he?
See.
C'mon, nobody's really dead around here, Wayne.
Are they, c'mon.
Go home and stay there.
I have got to get things under control.
Do me a favor, Wayne.
I'll be out later.
This night was a goddamn disgrace.
Want things done right around, you gotta do them yourself.
Your grandfather did.
Fight for what you love.
That's exactly what I'm doing.
Teach me to cast this thing as good as my grandfather.
I'm going after Leudke.
There are better ways to do that, son.
Your granddad was no fool.
He was no big talker, neither.
You just gonna talk or teach me to cast?
You can't beat Leudke at his own game, son.
Now you take my piece here
and do what you should have done last night.
You want things perfect, don't ya?
You want the perfect revenge on the man.
You wanna take him like he took the rest.
You wanna take him with a treble hook at night.
Don't ya?
Don't ya, van Clease?
Not yet.
Don't call me van Clease, yet.
I've gotta fight for it.
Okay, I'll make some noise.
♪ You may used to love me yeah
Uh.
Ah.
10-02.
Edwards Street, we got a call in on one.
74?
1374.
I could use your help, Wayne.
You know these woods better than anybody.
He can't last long bleeding like he is.
Not better than he does, I don't know these woods.
Will ya help me, Wayne?
The best I can.
♪ I'm fishing
♪ I got my hook and bate
♪ Just fishing
♪ I'm patient, I can wait
♪ For some man who's true
♪ To wash all my blues away
♪ Today
♪ Just fishing
♪ A feeling in my life
♪ Just wishing
♪ To land me something fine
♪ I won't have to say
♪ That he got away
♪ From me