


We're left with Richard leaving town and a voice-over from Mary: "y'know, everyone thinks I should be afraid of you. The sheriff drops Richard off at his burnt-out trailer, a mother walking with her son quickly pulls him in close and covers his eyes. Cut to the townspeople burning down Richard's trailer, and a quick scene of Mary. "Didn't date her? She made you jealous didn't she?" replies the sheriff, who gets cut off by another official: "all righty sheriff, what's the point?" "This is the point!" the sheriff pulls out the scarf in an evidence bag. He runs away as the house burns and we cut to the police interrogation-"I didn't date her" he tells them. Young Richard saw his mother cheating and burns down the house (this also indicates that Richard has issues with people cheating ). As Richard "thinks about his life gone by and how it's done me wrong" we see his father leaving with another woman due to Richard's mother's affaire. Scenes of police investigating led to a pull-back on the scarf-it's underwater and around Mary's neck.

We see a close-up of Richard's scarf in the water, then him at home being arrested.

Cut to Richard alone in his trailer watching TV, then to an approach on Mary from behind (still by the river), then back to Richard in obvious anguish, then back to Mary again as she turns around-she's been crying and seems surprised to see *someone*. The sheriff arrives and turns a searchlight on Richard who runs and leaves his scarf behind, caught on a shrub. Cut to night and Richard is walking-perhaps by the river, though it's not shown-and discovers Mary making out with another man (this triggers the flashbacks to his mother cheating). or is it? We see the sheriff standing atop a bridge spying on Richard and Mary and taking pictures these photos come up again later when the sheriff drives by Mary while she's walking. As Dave in Wales pointed out this can be ambiguous. Video 1: we learn that Richard's mother "came to Hazard" when he was seven years old. Song Meaningguys remember that there are two videos about this song. Here was I surrounded by a thousand fingers suddenly Man with a badge came knocking next morning No one cared until the night she went out walking alone "My mother came to Hazard when I was just sevenĮven then the folks in town said with prejudiced eyesįirst time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies
