[country banjo music]
[engine spluttering]
♪ And it's one step forward, baby Two steps back ♪
[continues on radio] ♪ Two steps forward, baby ♪
♪ Three steps back ♪ [wind howls]
[steam hissing]
Well?
Dead as our sales were last week.
- Deader. - [chuckles] Great.
- Just fucking great. - Huh! Yeah, shit happens.
But somebody'll come along and give us a lift.
Nobody's gonna come down this cutoff.
Nobody, except idiots like us.
We never should have taken this road.
[sighs]
Radiator's done for.
Did you happen to check the water back in Phoenix like I asked?
- Yes, and it was fine. - Well, if it was fine in Phoenix,
then it wouldn't be dead now.
No, no, no, don't try and put this on me, old man.
You're all, "There's no stretch of this land I haven't been to, son."
Yeah, you're a real American explorer.
Shouldn't you be putting that in the radiator?
It's dead, son. There's no coming back from dead.
- Not even for a Plymouth. - Right.
So, what do we do?
[groans] We can rest the night here.
And just before dawn, when the weather's cooler,
we start walking.
Walking?
All the way back to the last station?
Yep.
That's great. [sighs]
That's just... [shouting] fucking great!
♪ Down ♪
♪ Don't you lay your body down ♪
♪ Don't you lay your body ♪
♪ Down ♪
♪ Mm-hmm. ♪
[clatter] [wind howling]
[sighs]
I'm sorry about earlier. It wasn't your fault.
I just get bitter sometimes.
The days of the door-to-door salesman are fadin' fast.
[chuckling] Come on. You know what I think?
It's all in the attitude. The right attitude can sell anything.
Well, you certainly got plenty of that.
[wind howls] [music]
Reminds me of the sea.
Never seen the ocean. Have to take your word for it.
Did you know that millions of years ago, this desert was a sea bottom?
All of this was water, full of fantastical creatures.
The world's an old place.
And for a long time, it was nothing but sea.
Nights like this, it gets me wonderin':
If the ghosts of people can haunt a house,
well, why can't the ghosts of creatures haunt where they once lived?
[laughs] I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
[yawns] I'm gonna sleep in the back seat.
You can take the front.
It must have been nice back then.
Just swimming around without a care in the world.
[electrical buzz]
[radio static]
[whale singing]
What?
[gasps]
- [whispering] Wake up. - What?
Shhhh. Look.
[younger man] Holy shit!
[laughs] Wow!
- You ever seen anything like this? - Never.
[younger man laughs]
[music]
[younger man] It's...
It's beautiful.
It must be something like you said.
Ghosts of an older world.
Boo!
[laughs] Did you see that?
- Hey. - Oh, my God! [laughs]
I can feel them!
[laughs]
- This is so cool. - Hey, hold on a second, boy... Oh.
[laughs]
What are you doing?
[laughs]
[shouts] I'm going up there!
[shouts] Don't be crazy!
[younger man shouts] I wanna swim! [laughs]
[chuckles]
Hey, come back down here!
What?
[dramatic music]
[older man shouts] Hey! Hey! Hey!
Look, behind you! Look!
Hey! Look! Goddamn fool!
Look out!
Behind you! Look!
[gasps]
[music]