:05:00
I'll be fine, Tom.
:05:02
Any news from the freight industry?
:05:04
Is everything going to hell there too?
:05:06
Don't poke fun at the freight industry.
:05:14
[Narrator] It was seven o'clock precisely,
as Martha chimed the hour,
:05:18
and Tom was due to play checkers
with his childhood friend Bill Henson.
:05:23
Bill was dumb and knew it.
:05:26
Far too dumb to qualify as an engineer,
he was certainly sure of that.
:05:32
After listening for a while to the piledriver
down the valley that Ben insisted was working
on the foundation of a new penitentiary,
:05:39
Tom headed for the Henson home
in order to inflict upon Bill
:05:43
yet another humiliating defeat at checkers.
:05:48
Some folks might say the opportunity
to meet Bill's older sister, Liz, was more of a draw
than the checkerboard,
:05:55
and they might be right.
:05:57
It was a fact that in the Henson home
lay another horizon.
:06:02
A horizon just as alluring
as the one beyond the valley.
:06:07
A horizon bound by Liz Henson's
luscious curves.
:06:11
- No one's getting it?
- A sweet, painful, seductive abyss.
:06:16
- Hey, Liz.
- Hey, Tom.
:06:18
Must you come by every single day?
Huh!?
:06:22
It'd be a lot more fun if someone
interesting appeared for a change.
:06:25
You know I really am so lonesome in this town.
:06:29
The moment my fiancee writes
that he's gotten that job in Bolder, I'm off.
:06:33
Then the whole lot of you will
have to find some other girls' skirts to peek up.
:06:36
Is.. uh.. Bill in?
:06:39
Well, isn't he always?
:06:41
He studies and I help out with the glasses.
:06:44
Even though everybody knows
that I'm the clever one.
:06:47
- Hey, Mrs. Henson.
- Good evening, Tom.
:06:50
Checkers time, Bill ol' Buddy.
:06:55
Was that..??
:06:56
You didn't hear the bell?