:24:08
Can I ask you a favor,
Father?
:24:11
I need to clear
my conscience.
:24:13
Will you listen to me?
:24:16
Tracey... I am not
a reverend anymore.
:24:20
I haven't been
for six months.
:24:23
You know this.
:24:25
All this stuff on TV...
:24:27
two girls came in here
talking about the end
of the world...
:24:30
I'm just a little scared.
:24:33
Please, I need to clear
my conscience.
:24:44
I've got it figured.
:24:50
You do?
:24:51
I've had two separate
folks tell me
:24:53
there have been strangers
around these parts
last couple nights.
:24:56
Can't tell what they look like
:24:58
'cause they're staying
in the shadows... covertlike.
:25:02
Nobody's been hurt, mind you.
:25:04
And that's the giveaway.
:25:06
I see.
:25:07
It's called "probing".
:25:09
It's a military procedure.
:25:11
You send out a
reconnaissance group...
:25:13
very small...
to check things out.
:25:15
Not to engage but
to evaluate the situation...
:25:19
evaluate the level of danger,
:25:22
make sure things
are all clear.
:25:25
Clear for what?
:25:28
For the rest of them.
:25:34
Yeah?
:25:36
You got a pamphlet or
something I can read?
:25:39
Sure.
:25:42
Thanks.
:25:44
You didn't used to play
baseball, did ya?
:25:48
Shit, I know you.
You're Merrill Hess.
:25:51
I was there the day
you hit that 50 7-footer
:25:54
over the left-field wall...
set the record.
:25:57
Man, that thing had
a motor on it.
:25:59
It's still the record, right?