
A few minutes later, Claire is taking crystal meth with her friends when she gets David’s call. It’s David telling him that their father died. Still in the supply closet, the girl refuses to tell Nate her name. David finds her sitting on the floor and she tells him the bad news. She throws everything she can get her hands throughout the kitchen. Ruth gets a phone call informing her that her husband is dead. She says she has to go see a friend before she heads back home to – unwillingly – attend the family dinner. While supervising the viewing of one of the funeral home’s “clients”, David gets a phone call from his younger sister Claire. They end up making out in a janitor's closet. Nate says his father is picking him up but she replies she was not talking about that kind of ride. He gives her his cell number and she offers him to give him a ride. At this, David looks uncomfortable.Īt the airport, Nate is chatting with a woman he apparently met on the plane. Her other son David complains that buying a new hearse was a total waste of money, and Ruth replies she’d rather have her husband buy a fancy new hearse than leave her for another woman – or a man. He throws his cigarette through the open window and hangs up as he’s lighting another one he doesn’t see the bus coming from his right.īack in the kitchen Ruth – unaware of the accident – cuts her finger with a knife. She can tell he’s smoking and tells him to stop or else he will die a slow and painful death. It’s his wife Ruth, calling to ask him if he could stop somewhere to buy soy milk for their son Nate who is coming home for Christmas. Nathaniel Fisher Sr., owner of Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, is singing in his new hearse, smoking, when the phone rings. Prodigal elder son Nate returns home for the holidays to the shattering news of his father's death.
