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Film Transcript - Act 4 ON THE ROAD- MORNING |
| For a little while I get to be a wife and starting tomorrow I go back to long distance friendship.That's… you got to keep a separation. You got to keep a close friendship and a love going but I got to realize that I'm not a typical wife so I got to step out of that role for awhile. I only get to be a wife once a year. My kids are dealing with a phantom. They know they have a father. They have seen him before — they know he exists some where, they hear his voice every once in awhile. But that’s really kind of like a dream or a nightmare or something — something like when you dream you hear the voice — you see them. You wake up they’re gone. INTERIOR VAN My loving husband — it was so hard to leave that prison Wednesday — I cried all the way to the van and couldn’t drive right away. We stayed in the parking lot for a little while. It was like leaving you all over again and traveling home was a long hard painful trip. The last visit? Check the visiting room I’m sure I left my heart there — I could feel the strings being pulled as I left and further down the highway I drove the more I could feel those heartstrings being painfully stretched. My body is home in Georgia but my heart is in that prison in New Hampshire. TRAILER - PORCH BECKY: These the right keys? Here bring them back. Get smoky out! DONNIE: Smokey! JOSH: I’ll go start unloading the van — I’m gonna start unloading the van. BECKY: Get this stuff out of the van and on here on the porch so I can bring it in! JOSH: I need Donnie to help — I can’t do all this by myself — my mom’s mean. Visit up north is over and the summer is done — everything is over and done with. I get back into the mother, school, teacher routine and it’s school time again. TRAILER — LIVING ROOM — 1ST DAY OF SCHOOL I don’t have a right to complain ‘cos I chose this — but my kids didn’t and they didn’t deserve any of this. BECKY: Nail Polish remover to get that. JOSH: Where did you put my book bag? BECKY: Yes can you tell me what time school is starting? OK and are they serving breakfast this year? In the mornings. Are they serving breakfast this year in the morning? OK and does that start today? OK now my kids had free lunch last year are they automatically eligible again? OK I just wanted to make sure that they were at least eligible for today ‘cos I have no money and no way to give them any food today. OK great thank you very much. Bye. You can go to school — what time is it? DONNIE: It is 7:14. BECKY: 7:30 — you can go ahead into the cafeteria — tell the lunch lady your name. JOSH: What? DONNIE: Go! JOSH: I’m going on my own! BECKY: Your brother is walking you to the top of the driveway to make sure Randy’s not up there. JOSH: He’s not — he’s at school. BECKY: Joshua — turn around and move your butt and get going. Leave the door open so I can see you guys. It’s hard life but they still have a dad. To take their dad away completely and say OK that’s it — all the time your dad had with you, everything he did, all the memories we had — they ain’t worth nothing now. That’s doing worse than losing your dad — that’s saying lets take the history too. But I know that the boys needed him, I needed him. One way or another he’s gonna be in our lives and he’s gonna come out someday. TRAILER — LIVING ROOM - EVICTION NOTICE READING BECKY: Mrs. Raymond I asked you to clean up around the trailer and not to put the cord out the window for number 12. You have not done anything new. You are hereby notified to move. Any question come to the office and tell me. Rocky. That's my eviction notice. That's how my life goes. You don't ever depend on anything. There's little that you depend on so you just learn not to depend on anything. You learn to depend on your own self because at least most of the time I can depend on my self. Sometimes I can't even depend on my own self. But uh you just uh that's it you just learn not to depend. You learn to fight your own way. I gotta deal with that like I deal with Alan and uh the only way to deal with that is to realize that I got kids to take care of and everything behind me has to stay behind me. And I just have to move forward. Plan for the next catastrophe cause I know it's gonna happen. Always does. DODGE ROAD - OLD ABANDONED HOUSE BECKY: Watch for rocks. We’ll there’s the house we talked about buying when he came back, but it kind of fell apart. We wanted to try and buy it before he left but uh the job he had wasn’t really good enough to put a down payment on it. So we had looked at it but all this time he’s been gone — I don’t think it’s worth getting into anymore. But that’s what we wanted — who knows if it’s still standing when he gets home we might just still take it. It hasn’t been a happy marriage — it was tied together so that when he was in there he had a wedding band to hold onto and knew that he had something on the outside and not to give up. BECKY: I think probably the inside is still nice. Yeah it needs the work. JOSH: Mom the door’s open! BECKY: No it says no trespassing Josh. We’ll be able to get in there and fix it up and then we’ll have ourselves a house. Put the sink back in and a whole lot of new windows This is what our plan is — if we can’t get this house he wants to get a house something like this — he likes the old kind of country houses where you can put out in the middle of nowhere and nobody can bother you. When he comes home we're going to forget the other marriage. That was that marriage and that was to that man. That was to the one who… that was the inmate. I'm married to somebody else right now. When he comes home I'm going to marry the man I knew. You know, the man I fell in love with ten years ago. And we're gonna do it the way we planned on it. This is just a section of our life that we're gonna pick up and move aside and it's over and it's done with. BECKY: By the time he gets home I’m only going to be what 37! Evidentially that’s not too old to do anything with. We can get going — we can do this again. Have a house with grandkids. JOSH: Mom — can we cut this grass? BECKY: No we cannot cut this grass. JOSH: Why? BECKY: This isn’t my place. I’d like it to be but it ain’t. JOSH: You’d like to live here and fix it up? BECKY: Yup. Fix it all up; paint it… its got nice old-fashioned wrought iron beams on it. JOSH: The doors nice. BECKY: Yup. It’s just a nice place. I don’t why we’re attracted to it - but it’s one of those nice places. JOSH: We can paint it. BECKY: So lets just hope it’s still standing when daddy comes home. Then you can mow the grass. C’mon! |
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