Sophie?
Woo!
Hey, darlin'.
Sophie --
Yeah?
-- always have to make
a grand entrance, don't you?
You were expecting less?
Not from you.
Wow, you sure look good.
You don't look so bad yourself, Mountain Man.
Yeah.
You do woodsy well.
It's all the fresh air
and clean living.
I hope all the fresh air
and clean living
haven't made peter
a dull boy.
I don't think so.
( Cell phone ringing )
Oh, please don't answer that.
I've got 125 kids back there, Soph, I have to.
peter here. Chloe? ( Whispering ) chloe? As in ex-wife and enabler? How are you? What do you mean you're here?
So how long has it been since you've seen the old ex? Five years, and she's not really that old. You and chloe together again. Now there's a crash site i don't want to miss.
So how was tibet?
Oh, so i see
chloe's not going to be
a topic of discussion
right now.
Okay, tibet is still in need
of a dalai lama.
Other than that, spectacular.
I'm glad you could find
your way back
to my little part
of the world.
Well, I'm glad you're glad.
Maybe you should
stay a while this time.
Should, could would,
the story of my life --
you know that, peter.
I've never been one
for dropping anchor or sinking roots.
Maybe it's time.
You think so, huh?
I do.
Something
brought you back here, Soph, as much as
I'd like to think it was me --
Oh, you're my rock, peter.
Yeah?
Yeah.
And lately I've just been feeling
this need to touch home base.
Last time
you touched home base,
I didn't see you
for three years.
( Frank )
so, did you get a hold of him?
Yeah, it was so good
to hear his voice.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Chloe,
he's a different man now.
You should know that.
Oh, I do.
His letters
over the past few years
are full of the new peter.
He, um...Peter's not
involved with anyone, is he?
You're gonna have
to ask him that
yourself.
Well, what i mean is
he's mentioned this woman
hannah a few times.
Right...
Ask him myself.
Hey, ezra,
um, I need a read
on these mushrooms.
Do they have
any hallucinatory promise?
Not unless death is
an hallucination.
These are
"autumn skull cap".
You eat one,
you turn green.
You eat two, you turn black.
What you need are
some of the glaniacybe species,
a/k/a
"Magic mushrooms".
Around here you could
probably get some
of the maricystis
species...
Pointy tops,
but these ain't them.
Well, then, I guess I'm glad
i talked
to my druggist.
You missed one.
Look.
Cool.
What is it?
It is what it is.
What it wants to be.
What it isn't is
biology homework.
Mitosis.
Please tell me my life will
never be reduced to mitosis.
Is that all we are,
a glump
of splitting cells?
Speaking of cellular activity.
Um, I'm supposed to go
to markasian's office.
Administration
building.
I can show you.
I'll get there.
Frank's office can only mean
one thing -- consequences.
You're about to be rewarded
for running off.
It won't be
too bad.
Ezra only got weeds
for falling
off the bridge.
That was hannah,
not frank.
And you were a runner.
Ezra was just a faller.
It's gonna be nasty.
Francisco can get really keen
on his consequences.
( Shelby ) Can?
always.
We call it "let's be frank about it."
I'll handle it, thanks.
I bet you can handle
a lot of things.
He doesn't like you.
The day's young.
You are going to be my
errand-boy for a while.
Okay.
I hear
you're
a pretty good athlete?
Yeah.
Track?
Some.
Football was my main sport.
You can run, right?
Yeah.
I want you to take this
signed voucher to mr. Valenti.
He's doing some repairs
at the girls' dorm.
You got three minutes
to get there and back.
You want me to run my tail off?
Or else.
Or else what?
Trust me, son, you don't want
to know the "or else".
Bet you can't wait
till he breaks a sweat, huh?
Looks like
the new meat's getting
his first horizon lesson.
Run, muchacho,
run.
Yee-hoo.
My, my, peter's got himself a motorcycle mama.
Chloe!
Peter, look at you --
you look great.
So do you,
as always.
Hello.
Chloe,
I've heard so much about you,
some of it even good.
And
you would be...Hannah?
No, hannah's in Seattle with her husband.
This is
sophie becker.
Listen,
I've got some stuff to do.
Want me
to show you around?
Uh, yeah, I'd love
to go change first. I feel a little out of place.
No problem.
Where are you staying?
I was hoping
with you.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Um,
I don't mind,
but sophie's there too.
It's all right.
I'm sure
I can find another place.
Oh, please,
No, I could do that.
No, it's all right.
It's a small place, but there's plenty of
room for everyone.
Listen,
I've got to go supervise
the ropes course.
You guys
want to come with me?
(Chloe)
Rain check?
(Sophie)
Love to.
Mr. Markasian told me
to report to you.
He told you to run?
All right, go put this on.
Jules,
help him out.
All right, everybody, I want you to top and back down again. Okay? Shelby? I heard you. All right, nothing to be afraid of. Just pace yourself. Who's gonna be first? That's me. Augg', come on, step up. I'll show the newbie how it's done, huh? You do that, muchacho. Okay, auggie, go for it.
Come on, auggie.
Go, auggie.
( Cheering )
almost there, yeah.
Woo!
Yeah.
All right, who's next? Scott? All set.
Go, scott. Go, man, go. All right. Good job. Not bad, meat. Alpha males. Okay, guys, good job. All right. Who's next? Ezra? Go on. ( Cheering ) whoa!
You can do it, ezra.
You too.
I didn't ask you to be my cheerleader, okay?
shelby.
Shelby!
Peter, let me go.
Hey, shelby, wait up. Shelby. What? You've got an old soul. Wow, gee, groovy. Hard shell, too. Always a good feature in a woman. Do you work here or are you just giving this out for free? I'm just a visitor. From what planet?
See for yourself.
Shelby's intake file.
I've met a lot of tough kids in my life,
but shelby?
Man,
she's hard
as concrete.
Reinforced concrete.
She's been here eight weeks.
Nothing's changed.
Keep chipping away
at that wall, only to
find another one
right behind it.
What, this is it?
Habitual runaway?
Yeah.
About a dozen times
since she was 13.
Her mother brought her here after she found her
living on the streets for a couple of months.
Street kid -- that will
toughen a girl up real fast.
Wait, she's never tried
running from here.
No, I doubt
she'll ever try.
Horizon's her sanctuary.
She probably feels safer here
than anyplace else.
Well, what about home,
family, school?
All apparently normal,
whatever that means.
But her feelings of alienation,
abandonment, her anger,
that just doesn't
make sense.
Whatever her demons,
she knows what they are, soph.
Hopefully,
she'll find a way
to tell us some day.
And in the meantime?
What, her demons just
shadow her everywhere?
Got a cigarette?
You can't just
walk away, shel.
So I can't
scale the heights.
We all have
our little phobias.
So you're afraid of heights --
that's your excuse?
You tell me -- you're the one
with the answers, remember?
All I know is that walking away
gets you nowhere fast.
I want a thousand-word essay
by tomorrow.
What's the topic?
"Me and my shadow."
( Car horn honking )
good afternoon,
ladies.
Good afternoon.
Who's watching
the finest eating
establishment in the whole town of Agnes?
You mean the only eating establishment.
It's closed for the day --
gone fishing.
You want me to show you
a good fishing hole, huh?
Well, actually,
I was hoping you'd give us directions
to the wild flower field on the south face.
We're going to have a little mother-daughter camp out.
Here,
let me show you on the map.
All right.
I think this is
the right map.
What you want
to do
is drive up to south
down the road right here and then you'll see a little tree...
What are you
thinking about?
you know
anything about shadows?
They're dark,
hide things...Secrets.
You have secrets?
That's my secret.
Is this yours?
No, it's peter's.
Do you ride?
Well, not for a long time.
Do you think
peter would mind
if i sat on it?
I don't think so.
( Engine running )
Let me see if I remember.
This is the ignition, right?
Yep.
The brake?
No.
That's the clutch.
Brakes are here
and down there.
Right.
And this is
the throttle.
It's a bit sticky -- i'm trying to fix it for him.
Watch your foot there.
That's the gear-shift.
Which one?
Ahh!
Get out of the way!
Ahh!
Chloe, hit the brakes.
Get out of the way!
Hit the
brake! Brake!
Not the lake!
They'll both dry out.
Be good as new.
Ladies,
dinner is served.
I'm really sorry
about your motorbike.
That's okay.
It'll dry out, maybe.
I told you
the throttle was sticking.
You could have told me
a little more firmly.
It's okay, ladies, nobody got hurt.
Everything's fine.
I'll see what I can do with the carburetor in the morning.
I guess you two have been
friends a long time, huh?
Seems like forever.
How, um, how did you meet?
I'm sorry.
If it's too personal...
No, no, it's, uh...
It was in seattle, not long
after I left new york.
I was in the hospital
after I bottomed out
from a drug overdose,
and, uh... I felt like
somebody was patting me down
for cigarettes.
It was sophie.
She was in there
with a broken leg
because of
a motocross race or...
Anyway,
I told her,
"i don't smoke".
And she said, "neither do I.
I was checking out your pecs."
Oh, come on.
It wasn't exactly like that way.
Oh, no? Then
I'd love to hear
your version.
Well, maybe someday
i'll tell you.
Umm.
Uh, anybody want some salad?
I can't believe
you have
matching sets of linen.
Only because
you taught me
the finer points of hospitality.
Mmm.
How long you here for?
A day...
Maybe more.
I was in seattle.
You were close by.
I felt reckless.
Do you feel reckless, peter?
( Birds hooting,
wings flapping )
shadows.
[ radio announcer ] We'll get a lot of sunshine through the day with seasonable temperatures.
We should reach our normal high
of about 82 degrees by this afternoon.
Clear skies tonight...
( Shower running )
soph!
What? Come on.
I got to get in there.
I'm going to be late.
Okay,
just a sec'.
"Just a sec'."
Come on, soph, please.
Coming.
Easy...
Easy there, big guy. Oh, come on.
Don't tell me
you've never waited to get in
your own bathroom before.
What's that supposed to mean?
Well, you know, the way you talk about this Hannah,
I just figured...You know.
Oh, no, no, no, no
I'm not falling
for that one, Sweetheart.
Besides,
she's married.
Ever heard of that?
Just curious about the mating
habits of the wild peter.
Yeah, don't be,
because...
Chloe?
Just a sec'.
"Just a sec'"?
Just a sec'?
An hour...A year.
Okay,
it's all yours.
I know it's all mine.
It's always been all mine.
Like you've never waited
for your bathroom
before.
Now, what is that
supposed to mean?
Nothing, it's just
the way you talk
about sophie, I just thought...
Well, actually,
it's none
of your business what....
( Bathroom door slamming )
there can't be three of you.
No, no.
Sophie?
Gracie? Gracie? Gracie? Gracie! Gracie? Gracie?
Water?
It's empty.
I've never done that before.
Thanks.
I got to go.
Freakin', um... Friedkin. Uh, yeah, describe to me again those magic 'shrooms. Points...? Oh, pointy tops. They...they got sort of pointy tops. Oh, and you were telng me that they grow around here? Abundantly. Excellent.
What are you
writing?
One of peter's learning tools
for not climbing
the stupid rope towers again.
What's it about?
Me and my shadow.
What's it about?
( Mocking tone )
me and my shadow.
You know what
Peter Pan did? He had wendy sew
his shadow back on him.
You shouldn't chew your food so fast. Markasian only gave me two minutes to eat. I don't have time to chew. I guess when you're as big a guy as you you don't have to chew as much, huh?
What did i say? I already told you -- he doesn't like you.
Gracie?
Gracie?
God. But
where is she?
What?
I think we're gonna need some help.
Jeff, Annie's daughter Gracie, she's lost someplace on the south face. You want me to call search and rescue? No, I've already called. They're busy fighting a forest fire in hamilton. It gonna be hours before they can shake loose a squad. So I want you to get together three groups of kids. I want the trackers, the cliffhangers, and the ridge-runners. Take them up there ASAP. Got it. Thanks.
Sophie, need some help. We've got a lost girl. We're heading out right now to try to find her. You got it. What about me? Peter, it's a little girl. All right, come on.
Mommy,
mommy.
All right, everybody, listen up. Scott, auggie, you're going with me. Jeff, you take jules and shelby. Ezra, kat, you go with curtis. The rest of you, fan out. Soph, can you take care of chloe. Sure. "Take chloe"? What, am I a kid? You've all got your gear, your whistles. Blow them loud if you see anything. And be careful, come on.
It's so sad,
isn't it?
She's just another lost kid.
There's millions of them.
What's one more or less?
Wow,
that's cold. Yeah, well
at least we're looking for her.
That's more
than anyone did for me.
Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. [ screaming] Ahh!
Gracie!
Anything?
Nada.
What happened
to you?
I got into water
up to my knees.
( Auggie )
dipstick.
Did you check
the top knot?
You know, I think I did
but, in case you haven't noticed, I'm not exactly
an expert on top knots.
Right over there.
You see that big bump?
How'd you like a big bump?
Would you two
just back off each other?
Come on.
We got more
important things
to do right now.
So this is what we do here?
Look for lost kids?
When necessary.
Scott, tell me the difference
between nature and human nature.
I don't know.
Augg?
You got me, man.
Nature goes on without you.
Human nature goes on
within you.
At horizon we try to find the lost,
because every kid is lost one way or the other,
every single one.
Come on, let's keep looking.
You.
What? Oh,
you were preparing your
"queen of the rescue" speech?
What are you looking for?
Getting my hands on some natural wonders,
narco-'shrooms
friedkin told me about.
You're going to eat something
you found on the ground?
And I'm going to say
"yum-yum" when i do.
She's lost.
That little girl
is lost.
Think if it was you.
I was.
Now I plan on finding some 'shrooms
and getting good and lost again.
You're disgusting.
Look, princess,
these aren't just for me.
I plan
on sharing these
with scott, who happens to share
my fondness for getting wasted.
He's not gonna be with you because of a bribe?
oh, really?
What are you two arguing about? Flora and fauna identification. Very good, shelby, but this isn't the time. Let's fan out.
Gracie!
Gracie!
( Yelling in chinese )
she's still here.
I know that.
She's quick.
She could have wandered off
quite a ways.
What are you saying? Just
that she might have
made it this far out. Yeah, well,
of course she did,
or else we'd have
found her by now.
Maybe she's just hiding.
Hiding?
What, you think she's playing some sort of trick or something?
No, I didn't mean that she was playing -- Look,
do not tell me
we won't find her!
Do not tell me that!
How long are we going to look for her? As long as it takes. Hey. What? I hope we find her. Me too. Gracie!
( Laughing )
hey, nice kicks,
meat. What,
do you think
this is the street?
Man, they hauled me
out of my house in these.
I wasn't planning on going
mountain climbing.
So ou're looking
for some slack, huh?
Fine, just remember --
playing newbie gets old real fast.
Wow, did you think
that up yourself?
Do you know what i think?
What i think is that up here,
for the first time,
somebody like you just
might need somebody like me.
I don't believe you. There's a lost little girl out here somewhere and instead of looking for her, you're looking for toadstools. It's not every day we get out on our own to shop.
It's a nurse log.
What?
A nurse log.
Note how it's decomposing,
providing a moist,
elevated pile of fertilizer
on which
other plants love to grow.
In some ecological systems
they provide the only place
where new plants are able to start.
Like, um,
mushrooms?
That being
a perfectly good example.
Well, I got to go.
You know, number one.
Oh, then I'll leave you.
I'll also leave you
with a thought --
that the mushrooms you've been
so diligently searching for
are easily misidentified.
And should you find and eat
the wrong species,
you will become violently,
gut-wrenchingly ill.
You might suffer paralysis,
might even die.
Just, um, food for thought.
Guess I'll just get
high on life.
This moss means
we're still heading north.
Not necessarily.
Oh?
No, it depends
on temperate conditions
and of course which hemisphere
you're in.
You're a real renaissance girl,
aren't you?
"Been there, done that,"
"ain't no mountain
high enough" kind of gal?
Is there something
you want to say?
An agenda you want covered?
Get something off your chest?
Peter...I want to know
about you and peter.
We have history
and that's about it.
It's just that
when he left new york
before our divorce was final -- when
I was still trying
to make it work out --
I heard about another woman
he was seeing out here.
I wanted to ask him about it
but I never could.
Were you sleeping
with him?
Look, call me old-fashioned,
but I never discuss
my relationships.
Help! Mommy! Mommy.
Wouldn't you know it. Had to be me.
I'm afraid. I know you are. Who's not? Just hang on. I'll get some help. Jeff! Juliette! Son of a mother.
I'm sorry, annie,
but it's -- it's gonna be dark soon and
I've got to get
the kids off there.
No, no, no, please, peter, no
we can't give up, no.
We have to keep looking.
Jeff! Juliette! I'm falling. Don't, don't fall, okay? Just don't fall. All right. Okay. Okay, we're going down. I -- I can't. Look, I came all the way up here, didn't I? Now don't give me a hard time. Okay, look, let's not get carried away, okay? Come on. Hold on tight.
What?
You, you're such a fraud.
It's all an act.
I want my mommy.
Just take her to her mommy.
What?
Me?
Just tell them you found her.
And if you so much as breathe
a word of this to anyone,
you'll beg for death.
The search and rescue guys from hamilton are on their way here. We'll find her, annie. I promise you, we'll find her.
Mommy, mommy. Oh, gracie, gracie! ( Speaking chinese )
way to go, ezra.
Where was she?
Way to go, e-z.
Nice going, son.
Something wrong?
I know just how she feels.
Annie?
Gracie.
Did you come here
because you're lost, Chlo'
or 'cause you want to be found?
I was taking stock, peter,
of my life.
And what i charted was
one long string
of bad emotional
investments.
Starting with me -- I know.
No, I sold you short.
You were the blue chip, peter,
and I didn't see it.
So,
here i am...
wanting to see you,
needing
to touch you...
Again.
There's no life for me
in new york anymore, chlo'.
I'm not sure there ever was.
I see that now.
I do.
But, if you're ever in town
and in need of an old friend,
I'm still there.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Chloe asleep?
The second her head
hit the pillow.
She's not used to
all this fresh air
and exercise.
She's really very nice, smart, and
very pretty too.
I can see what attracted
you to her.
I never said
she's not without
her good points. Just said
she's part
of my last life,
not this one.
I think
she knows that.
But do you?
Is this conversation going
where I think it's going?
If you think it's going to where
I ask you to stay, yeah.
I can't, Peter, i'm not ready.
Besides,
my ticket
to nairobi is non-refundable.
Nairobi-shmobi, soph'.
What are you running from?
Boredom.
Not commitment?
Maybe a little of that too.
But not to you, peter.
I told you,
you'll always be my touchstone.
Does that mean
i'm not gonna see you
for another three years?
Come here.
Is that supposed to last me
for three years?
How about three months?
When i get back, maybe...Maybe
i'll take you up on your offer.
I think I'd like
working here...With you.
It means making
a real commitment.
Not -- not with me -- to the kids.
Well, who says I can't do both?
I would like that.
I would like that a lot.
[ singing ] So tired of the straight line...
( Gracie ) Do you have secrets?
[singing]
And everywhere you turn
there's vultures
and thieves at your back
the storm keeps on twisting,
keep on building the lies
that you make up
for all that you lack.
it don't make no difference,
escaping one last time.
it's easier to believe
in this sweet madness,
oh, this glorious sadness
that brings me to my knees.
in the arms of the angel, fly away...
[ Shelby ] oh, son of a mother.
[ singing ] ...From here, from this dark cold hotel room and the endlessness that you fear. you are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie.
In the arms of the angel
may you find...some comfort here.
You're in the arms of the angel, may you find... some comfort here....
[fade to black]
