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A MAN sits alone on the porch. Stares out at nothing. If one can look past the sunburn and sadness etched into his face, one would call him handsome. But it is impossible to look past the sadness. His name is SHEA BRENNAN(45) ... His powerful shoulders are slumped forward. His thick neck drops, exhales heavy breaths then sucks emotion deep inside him -- never to return. He stands and walks in the house. INT. FARM HOUSE -- SEGUIN, TEXAS -- 1881. Shea walks down a hallway. Comes to a door. Takes a moment to find the strength to open it. Finds it, pushes open the door. INT. BEDROOM -- CONT. He walks into the room, stares at a bed and the form of a girl. She lays on her side, knees tucked to her chest. Blonde hair peaks from blankets. Shea walks to the bed, stares down ... The blanket is pulled over her head. Shea exhales rapid breaths -- seeking more strength, then scoops the girl up, blanket and all ... INT. FARM HOUSE -- BRENHAM, TEXAS -- 1881. Shea carries the blanketed girl up a flight of stairs and disappears from view. CAMERA stares at an empty staircase as his footsteps echo, then silence ... INT. UPSTAIRS BEDROOM -- SEGUIN FARMHOUSE -- MOMENT LATER. Bedroom door opens. Shea stands at the threshold, cradling the blanketed girl. Walks toward another bed, lays the girl down beside another body bundled in blankets ... Shea walks around the bed, looks down -- The lifeless eyes of a woman stare up at the ceiling. Her skin is littered with pustules -- looks like a thousand ticks have burrowed into her face and feasted to the point of bursting. Shea pulls the girl’s pustule-covered hand from beneath the blanket and places it over the woman’s heart.
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