DEAD LIKE ME 1X09: MONDAY MORNINGS Original air date in the USA: August 22, 2003 Written by: Stephen Godchaux and Bridget Carpenter Directed by: James Whitmore jr Transcripted by Moonfire (If there are any inconsistancies or mistakes please contact moonfire.elfin@btinternet.com) ========================== DISCLAIMER: ========================== "Dead Like Me" and other related entities are owned, (TM) and (c) by Bryan Fuller and MGM Television in association with Showtime. All Rights Reserved. This transcript was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement. Any reproduction, duplication or distribution of this material in any form is expressly prohibited. It is absolutely forbidden to use it for commercial gain, this is purely for fans. ========================== SUMMARY: ========================== After Mason saves a college girl named Charlotte from a date-rape he instantly falls for her. As she and George become fast friends we find out that Charlotte has a crush on George's grieving father ========================== A fridge opening, seeing lettuce, eggs, cheese and bacon (VO)The best memories don't have to chance. You keep them to the back them and every time you do, you cook them a little more Flashback. Young George and Clancy are in a waffle house, sitting at a table playing tiddly winks with YOUNG GEORGE: Do you want one of my blueberry pancakes when they come? Clancy: Yeah I'll tell you what Georgia, I'll trade you one of your blueberry pancakes for two pices of my bacon YOUNG GEORGE: It's a deal. But you could have the blueberry pancake for free.(young George flicks a dime, Clancy shouts "goal") Whoo(knocks over the glass by the side of her) (VO) After a while all you'll have leftis this tiny crispy fragment. (waitress brings over a plate of food) it's not like you even remember what happened anymore (they are pilling up little containers of jellies) It's more like the idea of what happened and Sunday mornings were the best Transition At Der Waffle Haus. Roxy, Daisy, George, Mason and Rube. George is pilling the jelly containers as before, they fall DAISY: Ketchup (George looks at Mason - he os cleaning his teeth, with what looks like a gold scrubber) DAISY: Georgia. The ketchup. George, the ketchup GEORGE: Oh, sorry DAISY: I know it's none of my business but you are a very internal little creature ROXY: You always say something that's none of your business, then you act like it is GEORGE: I'm not internal DAISY: You are, that's why you spend so much alone and why you don't have any freinds. Now, roxy here, she's as external as they get ROXY: You don't know me DAISY: I know your moods--grumpy, mean and grumpy, sleepy and grumpy GEORGE: Like the seven dwarves MASON: Daisy you were an actress, wern't you? Did you ever sleep with a dwarf? did you blow a dwarf DAISY: Don't be stupid, they're cartoons ROXY: I would love to see you do my job for one day DAISY: When there's a Broadway musical about your styless but fun shoes I will gladly walk a mile in them GEORGE: May I please have my assignment? RUBE: It's over at the college, parking is a nightmare GEORGE: I don't have a car RUBE: Parking is still a nightmare MASON: I'm going to come with you GEORGE: I like to do things on my own DAISY: I know what you're doing, youre trying to score some sweet young thing MASON: Oh, did it ever occur to you that being around that youthful energy might inspire me? ROXY: and you could steal a shitload of drugs (Mason looks up after, slurping hos coke) Transition The Lass's. Reggie is playing with cups. JD is by the side of her REGGIE: Round and round it goes, where does it stop, nobody knows (VO)You know that moment after you've been dead a while, (camera spins round to the door where Joy is standing there smiling) when you begin to suspect things might be coming back to normal in your family? Okay, maybe you don't.(Clancy comes to the door, he is smiling. He beckons the dog to come) Well I think that may have happened to my family, the weird part is tha my family never was normal before (Clancy is shaving in the bathoom) CLANCY: You know that Irish setter I had growing up? Freckles? JOY: Yeah, your mom showed me pictures CLANCY: She loathed that dog JOY: She told me that while she was showing me pictures CLANCY: Well one day, he took a crap in one of her shoes, That was all she wrote. So my dad, he can't bear to put the thing to sleep so he announces he's gonna drive freckes up Mount Tam, set him free JOY: In the woods? CLANCY: In the woods JOY: He should've done that with your mother (the laugh) CLANCY: He kept them both Transition Mason and George walking up to the college GEORGE: It only says seventh floor R.L Guggenhiem MASON: This is a dump GEORGE: Well, what were you expecting? MASON: I don't know, something more collegiate (something falls from the window and bursts onto the floor) GEORGE: Holy shit! MASON: Geez BOY: That was my bong, douche bag! MASON: It's nice (walking up the stairs) I could have gone to college, well up untill I hit my teacher on the head with a book or maybe or was a globe. I can't remember what I hit my teacher with GEORGE: When did this happen? MASON: uh...primary, so I guess I was seven or eight GEORGE: My mother was more excited about me going to college than I was. It was like "Hey, here a socially acceptable way to evict my daughter from our house" MASON: But you didn't go GEORGE: No I went, I just dropped out and she hated me for it (two boys with a shopping cart with a keg of beer in it) MASON: Well mission accomplished. Your father say much. GEORGE: He didn't say much really. We wern't really that close at that point MASON: Why? GEORGE: I don't know. When I was a kid we were really close, (cuts to diner)he used to let me drink coke at breakfast, I thought that was really cool YOUNG GEORGE: Dad do the straw trick (watching him do something) That never gets old Transition College. Pizza box (VO)College is two things, forget what they put in the latin around the seal--it is not about veritas or fraternitas. College is about stress-itas and binge-itas. Stress (girl sitting on her bed, crossed legged, holding a pillow and on the phone crying) Binge (peircing a can of beer and drinking it, with the freinds around him egging him on) cute boy: Has anyone seen a pink index card with calculus equations on it? (VO)Stress cute boy: Fuck! (VO)Binge (two girs kissing) (VO)I don't know what I was worried about--(boy kicking a bin over with maddened rage) I didn't have any papers due, I hadn't just broken up with my boyfriend, I didn't feel stupid and alone--but just being near all these people who did made me want to scream or cry MASON: Drugs? GEORGE: No, thank you MASON: Come on, anti depressants, amoxicillin, everyone's taking amoxicillin GEORGE: Well good for them MASON: Listen I have this theory, that all this elitist college crap is just a front for the bacteria. (George Looking arond) Now bacteria creates the colleges to have the perfect place to breed and evolve GEORGE: Let's just find the guy and get out of here GIRL: Like the waves make toward the pebbles shore, so do our munutes hasten to their end (a girl who is sitting in her dorm reading from a book) each changing with that which that goes before" (VO) Reading poetry to a good-looking guy in my dorm room?. This is something I'll never do BOY: Hey senorita, make way for boutros-boutros nitrous corn bubble (some guys go passed carrying the keg)Something else I'll never do MASON: What's going on? GEORGE: Nothing (Mason hears then sees the girl) GIRL: "And nothing stands but his syth to mow, and yest to times and hope, my verse shall stand, praising thy worth dispite his cruel hand" You get this? SCUM: Yeah, yeah, very moving. wanna beer? GIRL: No (Mason smiles to see her) SCUM: Just thought we could relax a little bit (get's himself cofortable on the sofa) Fuck! (gets back up to close the door) GIRL: Whoa, no, just leave the door open, okay? (George is looking at the floor - there are pink and yellow slips of paper) HALL BOY: Has anybody seen my pink index card? GEORGE: Is your name Rich Guggenheim? HALL BOY: Fuck, yes I am, thank you so much (comes running back to George) GEORGE: Big test huh? RICH: Yeah, well no. Who cares. I got the number of this girl on here. Her name is Jenny. Do you believe in fate? GEORGE: Kinda RICH: We met by the vending machines of the basement of the med library--they have yoohoo, whatever. She was singing that old Frankie goes to Hollywood song--Do you know the way to San Jose and I kazaaed that like the night before. I said to her "We should just get in the car and Drive to San Jose" You know? Fuck all this and she turns to me and she's almost cryingyou know with her yoo-hoo and shit and shay "I never been to California, let's do it after finals" and she wrote her number down, this is it. Jenny... I think we're really gonna go (George touches his hand and takes his soul) GEORGE: You should (VO)Jenny may get to california someday, but it won't be with him boy in background: Shit (Three boys have a cannister full of gas, they are pointing it to the window) (VO) Meanwhile the class clowns were fucking with the laws of physics Boy in background: It's okay (the cannister starts flying through the air towards the other side of the hall. Two people move out of the way but Rich doesn't) Did you see that? Dude? Dude GEORGE: (to Mason)I think it's time we go MASON: (passes thee door that he saw the girl in) She wanted that open(he picks the lock) GIRL: Stop it, get off of me scum: I suspect that youre saying no GIRL: get off me SCUM: But I think you're gonna change your mind GIRL: Stop it! (scum looks up, girl moves out the way) MASON: I just remember what I hit my teacher with(lifts up a fire extringisher) scum: Youve got like one second (whacks him and he goes down. Mason kicks him to see if he is out) In the campus parking yard GIRL: Was that kid in the hall really dead? (looks over to Rich sitting down on the bench trying to pick up his pink index card) GEORGE: Yeah, he was GIRL: God, I've never seen a real dead person before, have you? GEORGE: No MASON: No GIRL: Well most guys on campus are like you, they're normal and sweet, I don't even know why I was studying with this guy GEORGE: It looked pretty bad GIRL: Well that's he thing, I had pepper spray right on my keys, but I was just like, you know Is this really happening? GEORGE: You had brain freeze, I get them all the time GIRL: you know I just wish I could just, like be awake you know, in the moment wnen it's happening GEORGE: or have like a pause button or something so you can have some time to react GIRL: Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly. you know I'm such an expert on life after shit happens. God life is just too fast (VO)Is it wrong to decide someone ois such a great person because they're so much like you? Girl: Oh shoot. I've got some laudry at the coin-op MASON: I--I could give you a ride A ride in what? GIRL: You have a car? MASON: Yeah GIRL: Okay god this is going to sound so shallow but um, I llike to guess what people drive MASON: Yeah GEORGE: Yeah, I'm curious too GIRL: Okay, um... I think that you would rather walk than drive something that didn't suit you so... I'm going to go with classic Trans-am, red MASON: That's incredible GEORGE: Uncanny GIRL: Oh my god, I got it right? MASON: Yes! In fact I'm gonna go--and get it now. Red one? red one GIRL: Yeah MASON: Yeah(gets up) GEORGE: Um, Mason Dont forget our thing Oh yeah (whistles and Rich stands up to go to Mason) GIRL: He's kinda cute. Do you guys? Oh no,uh no So um, what's your major? oh my god that's so queer. What's your name? (VO)Rube says don't get too close to the living, just say on the periphery, don't tell her who you are, give her your undead name GEORGE: I'm Millie GIRL: Charlotte (puts her hand out to be shook)I know shaking hands is so weird GEORGE: Hey, you wanna get some coffee? I guess that's what you are supposed to say when someone is having a fucked up day GIRL: Is that what it said in girls who make bad decisions manual GEORGE: Page three GIRL: Um, is your freind going to be okay? GEORGE: Yeah he'll be fine (the sound of shattering glass and a car alarm sounds off. They get up to go) (VO) As you get older the change of making a really good new freind is probably about the same as being hit by a truck. And if you are hit by a truck--which is to say-dead (shows the alarm clock) the chances of making a new freind are even slimmer (George gets up out of bed) so when I remembered I had a lunch date with Charlotte, I felt something new since I died--I felt lucky Transition Mason sitting down in Der Waffle Haus surriptiuously reading a book "The sonnetts" by William Shakespeare (VO)Mason was feeling something new too. (putting a ticket onto a van) Meanwhile Roxy was just doing her job, working for the man when she ran into a bad one MAN: Alright take it back ROXY: Ticket's already been writen, they don't go back MAN: Oh, right. Oh okay. Then why don't you just shove those tickets where the sun don't shine, Miss? ROXY: Step aside sir, as I told you yesterday if you have a complaint there's a system in place MAN: Your system can suck my dick Miss. Okay? Now I ain't paying those fucking tickets, so just take your tickets, put them in your pocket and walk off ROXY: you need to step off MAN: Step off? (cricks his neck) Step off? okay, okay (shouts) Step off (starts recking the vehicle) ROXY: Sir, that is city property! MAN: youre not listening to me. I aint ever gonna pay those tickets, so you take 'em back. (Roxy moves back as if to say WTF)I don't cake about your goddamn fucking rules.(He moves over to his van and takes the tickets off) So you take these goddamn tickets back! ROXY: Ho-ho-hold up now. Now I can tolerate you cursing me out, screaming at me, disrespecting my vehicle but don't you [i]ever[i/] put your hands on me (throws the tickets on the floor and pokes her other shoulder) (VO) and that was when Roxy decided she didn't care about breaking the rules either (he touches her nose.she gets inside his chest and takes his soul, that gives him an out of body expeirence) (Angels singing) ROXY: let me tell you something, I am trying to do my job--(Guy is looking at hinmself in total awe) which is definitely my day job--if you keep fucking with me there are other skills I can employ that will give your life a turn for the strange and painful, Do you understand me?(nods his head - she puts him back - he is in shock and she leaves him) Transition Mason is sitting in Der Waffle Haus, Daisy joins him, she has a paper DAISY: Shakespeare sonnets? What an elegant slender volume why Mason is your coffee table uneven? Wait... is there a girl? someone special you want to "shag"? MASON: I don't want to shag her Daisy. I--I do want to shag her but not in the usual way. I like her DAISY: Oh my MASON: She's different, she's sweet, she's sophisticated, she's a college girl DAISY: A college girl? hmm MASON: Um, what is that supposed to mean?(reads the paper, brings it down again) What does that mean? DAISY: Nothing. How did you meet? MASON: Uh, I hit some bloke on the head who was trying to date-rape her DAISY: mmm, a story to tell the grandkids MASON: Yeah, but forget it DAISY: Mason, come on. It's a bit strange seeing you this way MASON: She's different DAISY: I get that MASON: Not too different DAISY: Oh no no no it'll be fine. you'll sweep her off her feet,show her there's more to life than book learning. She'll teach you about salad forks, the romanytic poets and you'll teach her about car theft and amphetamines (he closes the book) MASON: Fuck you Daisy DAISY: I'm sorry, I hope that it all works out, honey Transition At Happy Time DELORES: Feel like a little lunch Millie? MILLIE: Actually I have plans today? DELORES: Really? MILIE: Yeah, its kind of like a... lunch date DELORES: Oh MILLIE: I mean not a [i]date[/i] date (Delores looks puzzled and leaves, she comes back with a chair and sits down next to Millie) DELORES: Millie... I hope you don't feel uncomfortable saying no to me it--it doesn't have to be awkward, you don't have to lie MILLIE: I'm not DELORES: I'm not angry MILLIE: okay DELORES: There'll be plenty lunches MILLIE: uh-huh DELORES: So don't worry about having "plans" MILLIE: But I really do have a lunch date DELORES: Okay. It's just your honesty is important and I think you sometinmes forget i have been where you are, I have been young and alone. I will simply say this--as you grow, being a loner stops being something you are ashamed of and becomes something you treasure CHARLOTTE: Hi Millie, um, sorry I'm late(Delores realises what she is saying) Are you ready? MILLIE: Yeah(to Delores) Okay bye Transition Millie and Charlotte walking in the park CHARLOTTE: So do you like to shop? MILLIE: It's okay, I mean I'm not like a freak about it or anything CHARLOTTE: Well I know it sounds girly, but, I love clothes MILLIE: Two words I've never heard before--"cute top" CHARLOTTE: Well unless unlike you I get all my self-esteem from my appearance MILLIE: two words Ive also never heard before. You want to know a secret? CHARLOTTE: Absolutely, I love secrets MILLIE: I've never had a manicure CHARLOTTE: Jesus, je--okay, no. Too much, too soon (looks at her nails) Oh my god MILLIE: Hey, have you ever heard from that asshole? CHARLOTTE: No I haven't seen him but I filed a report with the capus police. You know what I was thinking about?You know what totally sucked about the whole thing? MILLIE: That he tried to rape you? CHARLOTTE: Yeah, besides that MILLIE: The sonnets. I love the sonnets and he tainted them for me (VO)This is where I felt it the first time. The universe was cocking the fuck-with-me gun Flashback Clancy at the diner CLANCY: "That time of year thou mayest in me behold, when yellow leaves or none or few do hang upon those boughs, which shake against the cold, (Young George looking bored) bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang" CHARLOTTE: So I'm taking this amazing seminar, the profressor is a total trip, you should come (VO)Bang Transition In lecture, George looking bored CLANCY: "That time of year thou mayest in me behold, when yellow leaves or none or few do hang upon those boughs, which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang" Shakespere is trying to paint that emotional moment of a lost love. I know, I know, It's so old school--A tree in winter, boughs skaking against the cold Blah, blah blah. It's so familiar (Charlotte is smiling) but... let me ask you a question who here has had their heart broken?( a few people put their hands up, so does George) Yeah okay. Now we know who the dramatic ones are( a few laugh in the class) but here's my point--when youre suffering and I mean truely suffering, it's the cliches that heal you. When I'm sad give me George Jones or willie Nelson, that's the brilliance of these sonnets--they state the obvious. Cliches are cliches because they are the things that have stuck to the wall.Our greatest arrogance is to believe that we are all special because the truth is we are all unbelievably the same (VO) Watching this man entertaining his students be sweet and insightful and touching I was truck with one question--who was this guy and what had he doe with my father? (class is finished) CHARLOTTE: Um excuse me Professor Lass CLANCY: Hi um...Sandy CHARLOTTE: Charlotte CLANCY: Why do I even try? CHARLOTTE: Um I just wanted my freind to meet you. I love your class CLANCY: Thank you. Hi MILLIE: Hi CLANCY: I'm teaching the comedies next semester, it's a little lighter fare, you know? MILLIE: I loved that poem, it was really helpful especially about the part about not being alone (VO) And that's when I knew I had never met Clancy Lass before. I don't know if anyone in my family had Flashback young george standing in a doorway, on the other side ther is Joy, Clancy and Reggie (VO)I brought home a stray cat once... CLANCY: You know youre not a baby Georgia, I think that you are old enough to see our side of this JOY: Were going to have to take him to an animal shelter, sweetie GEORGE: They'll kill him! CLANCY: They won't kill him JOY: No they're gonna find some nice family that can take care of him GEORGE: I don't want him to end up with some nice family, I want him in [i]this[/i] family CLANCY: There is a baby in this house now, It's not a debateI've made up my mind GEORGE: This sucks, you just do what you want JOY: Georgia GEORGE: Youre the worst dad ever CLANCY: Go to your room I wanted a kitty cat and I got a little sister instead (cuts to the diner)and as simple as that, that was the end of something between me and my dad . I started sleeping in on sunday mornings. It never occurred to me that he hadn't changed that it was my fault, Id just become a teenager. I wonder if he still has a coke for breakfast when I wasn't there Transition Guy under the bridge with his van. Music playing. Roxy pulls up in her van. There are candles all over the van and a cross.She gets out of the van and looks over the truck. A hand grabs her shoulder ROXY: Oh Shit MAN: I knew you'd come back ROXY: I have to give you a ticket MAN: Thank you. I wrote you something, too. I realised that when you did that thing that you did that there were no words in the English language to describe it, (fixes her hat) so I came up with some words that would help othere people to understand "Haggleblass" the arguement with god, that's what happened between you and me. "Stubblerud", the moment in the haggleblass, when there's is no turning back, that's when a human needs to be taught a lesson and that's when... ROXY: Hold on , hold on sir MAN: No don't call me "sir", I am nothing but a whispernaut, an unworthy one in your presence ROXY: (She is dumbfounded) Jesus MAN: Are you Jesus? ROXY: No, I'm not Jesus. Well, What's your name anyway? MAN: Before the Haggleblass, uh call me Chuck ROXY: Okay Chuck. Now I think what happened to you before was something you imagined, maybe you had a stroke or something CHUCK: When you separed my soul from my body... ROXY: that didn't happen CHUCK: (looks up to the sky) You cured me of all my anger, in one moment you gave me all the answers ROXY: Nothing happened CHUCK: Everything happened. everything ROXY: Damn (she walks away) Everything(looks up, camera pans out) Transition Mason walking into Der Waffle Haus. George is sitting down reading a magazine MASON: Hello Georgie GEORGE: I don't know where she is MASON: Give me her number GEORGE: She's not interested in you, if she qwas interested in you she would have mentioned you. she didn't mention you MASON: (pleads)Ask her about me. (meany)no don't ask her about me because you'll tell her things about me, you'll stress the nagative(pleads) as her about me Georgie (Daisy walks in and sits down) GEORGE: I'll ask her about you MASON: What, with that expression on your face? Well fuck it, fuck you (George brings her hand down for him to be quiet) MASON: I'll show you both, we'll be like Romeo and Julliet, we will GEORGE: You do know how that story ended, don't you? DAISY: If Romeo had just masturbated a couple of times a week he would have saved both those nice families a heap of trouble (Mason hits Daisy on the leg,to get her to see Charlotte, she hits him back because she can) CHARLOTTE: Hey GEORGE: Charlotte, um, what time is it? you were supposed to meet me out front CHARLOTTE: I'm early, I know DAISY: Daisy Adair, Ive heard so much about you,I feel I know you already GEORGE: uh and you already know Mason CHARLOTTE: Of course, my hero GEORGE: Well we better be going (Rube and Roxy turn up) GEORGE: uh Hi RUBE: Hello GEORGE: This is my freind Charlotte, Charlotte this is my... step dead and his wife. Uh, we weally have to go RUBE: Nice to meet you Charlotte. Honey... GEORGE: Huh? RUBE: Can you run an errand for me, sweetheart? It's just a few blocks away. Do it for your step-dad? (SHEtakes the post-it) GEORGE: Sure, no problem RUBE: You might wanna hurry (E.Dienes, Marina Promanade E.T.D 1:37pm. goes to the cookoo clock that reads 20 past 1) Transition CHARLOTTE: Oh my god, did you see that? GEORGE: Yeah (a guy juggling) GEORGE: Now that looks a little more interesting JUGGLER: And now for his next trick, the great Etienne will juggle...knives CHARLOTTE: This is the errant you are running? GEORGE: I think it is CHARLOTTE: Your step-dad needs a juggler? GEORGE: He's throwing a birthday party for his wife, he needs, you know entertainment (boyfreind and girlfreind are talking) EDDIE: That is so awesome ANN: Eddie Dienes, Do not give that man money, you're encoraging stupidity (she walks off) EDDIE: Stupid needs to make a living, too (George touches his chest and takes his soul) GEORGE: Im sorry, uh, do you know that guys name? EDDIE: Uh I don't know. It's something French or equally fucked up (puts some money in the hat) GEORGE: Let's go get some lunch CHARLOTTE: What about the juggler your step-dad's party? GEORGE: Too dangerous CHARLOTTE: I don't see anyone...die. What's wrong? GEORGE: Jugglers just freak me out (they move away. A graveling comes out of the hat, goes back in and flicks the coin out, which goes rolling down the hill, where a young boy sees it, who tries to pick it up, who gets in the way of a skateboarder) Watch out dude (who jumps over the boy, who falls off his skateboard, Eddie then puts his foot on the skateboard which careers him towards the edge of the promenade and goes over EDDIE: Whoa! (thud) Man: Oh my god CHARLOTTE: What was that? GEORGE: I have no idea Transition Rube and Roxy sitting down outside Der Waffle Haus ROXY: I didn't know you smoked a pipe RUBE: You need to fix it ROXY: He put his hands on me RUBE: last time I checked being pissed off wasn't enough of a reason to remove a person's soul from thier body. Don't do that again ROXY: I didn't, He'd turn into a nutball RUBE: Well how would you have responded, Roxy? God appereared to the man ROXY: I wouldn't be making up words and shit RUBE: He's creating a mythology to take back to his people. Joseph Smith had the same thing happen to him now the mormons have a monopoly on the hotel industry ROXY: This is nothing RUBE: Hundred years from now people will have little plasic meter maidswith bobbing heads hanging from their rearview mirrors ROXY: Well what do you want me to do? RUBE: It's about restoring the status quo, the guy was'nt supposed to get enlightened, he was supposed to get a parking ticket. you got to turn him back into a prick. If you ever take someone's soul again, without first having a post-it, I'm gonna break this pipe off in your ass Transition In the park GEORGE: Youre right they do look like chickens CHARLOTTE: Somehow you just can't see it right-side-up both of them lying down looking at people walkin past upside-down (both laugh and tun the right way up) Do you think he looks sad? who? Professor Lass I don't know I guess not, huh? well, you do know his story, right? what story? His daughter was the girl that was killed with the falling toilet seat no shit?That was his daughter? yeah and I think his relationship with his wife is like totally fucked up How do you know all this? I don't know, he gives away clues in class. People talk Does he talk about it? His wife? His daughter, the one that... he doesn't really say anything I guess he doesn't really think about it No, no, it's there. In how he talks about the poems. I don't know, you can tell his heart...he's suffered, you know? So stupid, but I had this one sonnet framed and, I don't know, I thought it might help him. I never gave it to him though What was it? I memorized it, I know, I'm such a geek "No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it for I love you so, that your sweet thoughts I'd be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe" You know, move on Sh'd want it that way I think that's a mistake Well, I just thought that maybe, you know. it would give him some comfort. I don't know he seems ready to move on, I don't know yes that's right you don't know. You know I didn't realise what time it is. I gotta go hey,uh (VO) Charlotte had hurt me so I told her I never wanted to see her again, the best way I know how MILLIE: I'll call you (she walks off) (camera to outside the Lass household) (VO) one of the few silver linings of dying is watchig the people that you love really lose their shit because they miss you so much. I was having a little trouble seeing it here, (cut to Clancy in the diner slurping his cocacola) I had to wonder--maybe the reason it was so easy for my dad to say good-bye to me two months agowas because he had already said good-bye to me a long time before that(change scene) ( daisy chanting) (there is a knock on the door)(more chanting from Daisy in the bathroom) GEORGE: Someones knocking at the door (chanting) (knocking) Millie opens the door CHARLOTTE: I'm not gonna let you break up with me (chanting in the background) CHARLOTTE: Okay, I'm here to apologize, this is for you (hands her a small pink bag) MILIE: Oh you didn't do anything wrong, Charlotte. I'm just... screwed up CHARLOTTE: Look, this is the part in our freindship whee we start to admit that we're not perfect (chanting - George gets out a top from the bag) CHARLOTTE: What is that noise? DAISY: Cute top CHARLOTTE: So um, do you wanna go do something? (chanting) MILLIE: Sure (Mason slinks round the corner with a shirt and tie on) MILLIE: No MASON: I was passing by, I'm going out for the evening and I thought I'd stop by and see some old friends (Daisy comes to the door) DAISY: Mason, you look stunning (straightens himself out)Wait--I'm getting the image of, uh, a naked Jehovah's witness bleeding by a dumpster somewhere MASON: Oh, Charlotte MILLIE: Yeah. Oh well, this is a pleasant surprise CHARLOTTE: Hello Mason MILLIE: We're going out MASON: Really? I--i'd love--I would love to join you MILLIE: Well it'd girl's night out, we're going out to lesbian bars to drink Jack Daniels and make out with big women. You can't come MASON: um... CHARLOTTE: Uh, bye MASON: (groans) DAISY: Oh, give it up MASON: I like her DAISY: Sweetie, that young woman is going to give her heart to a nice young man who has reading glasses and a tweed jacket and who never done blow off the belly of a dead prositute MASON: I like her DAISY: I know. She doesn't like you (closes the door on him) Transition Millie and Charlotte on a roof drinking alcohol CHARLOTTE: I can't believe I was carded (Millie grabs the bottle and takes a swig) MILLIE: You do look like you're ten years old CHARLOTTE: Shut up I look at least 14 MILLIE: And the giggling didn't help much (laugh) I'm sorry I freaked out on you today CHARLOTTE: You know I was actually thinking about that um I shouldn't give Professor Lass the poem MILLIE: I don't know. Maybe it's not so crazy after all CHARLOTTE: It doesn't mean anything coming from me. I have never lost anything in my whole life. Ive had this completly shallow, safe existance MILLIE: Well, don't knock it CHARLOTTE: I'm a virgin(looks at her) Yeah, I'm in college and I'm a virgin MILLIE: loser CHARLOTTE: ah, you too? MILLIE: Well it depends on your definition CHARLOTTE: um, ever been laid? MILLIE: Then technically I am a virgin CHARLOTTE: Aha, thank you MILLIE: look, I know youve been though some stuff. I don't know, I can just sense it. You know, you kinda remind me of him the way he talks about love...and loss his eyes. You know what I'm just going to give it to him. I'm going to give him the sonnet, right? Cheers (bang their bottles together) Transition Roxy underneath the bridge, driving up in her van. Chuck is sitting down painting. There is a painting above his head showing the haggleblass. Chuck is humming. Roxy stands in front of him ROXY: I had your car towed, it's going to cost you $375 to get it back, plus all the tickets and they busted your door trying to get in so you can kiss your car radio good-bye CHUCK: (smiles up at her) Youre a vengful god ROXY: I can appreciate that you think you had some kind of revelation but I am just a meter maid and you are just a dumb-ass redneck, that's who we are. So we can forget all this bullshit and just get on with it (A guy behind Roxy is carrying a post) Who is this? CHUCK: This is Jason. Um Told Jason about the haggleblass and um he's begun his conversion, haven't you buddy?(Jason nods) ROXY: Can you give us a minute Jason? CHUCK: go on ROXY: fuck off, okay? CHUCK: I know you do this just to make me stronger. I know it ROXY: Chucky...I want you to listen to me, okay?God made a mistake, he wants you to go back to the way you were, god wants you to be an asshole, so you can forget all this hagelblassen, okay?he wants you to be your old jackass self again (he quckly stands up and looks to the sky) CHUCK: This is a test, (shouts up)there's nothing that you could do--(to Roxy) Theres nothing that you can do to make me go back to my old self, theree's nothing. nothing,nothing, nothing (she grabs his balls and starts crushing them) No!(His face contorts ) Aah! Fuck ROXY: That's what I'm talking about CHUCK: ARRRGGG!!!!! ROXY: What's my name? CHUCK: Fat ass bitch ROXY: That's right. That's who you are, baby. That's who you are CHUCK: Fuck! ARRRGGG!!! Transition Millie sipping water, Charlotte and Clancy sipping water in a diner (VO) So here I was opposite my father, my friend about to give him a poem encouraging him to let go of me forever and I thought things were twisted enough when I was alive CHARLOTTE: So I didn't mean for the message to be so dramatic CLANCY: I like drama MILLIE: I hope we're not pulling you away from your family CLANCY: It's okay, what did you want to talk about? (VO) Charlotte wanted to give him a poem and I wanted to ask him about this oldest daughter. I wanted to know if he thought about me MILLIE: So, the comedies next semester. fun huh? CHARLOTTE: Uh, we just wanted to take you out to lunch, what you sat in clas really makes us think about stuff and we just wanted to say thank you (VO) Charlotte was chickening out. I should've too( takes a sip of her drink) but I was the only dead girl I knew who could get an answer MILLIE: So do you miss your daughter? CLANCY: you know... I think that poets do the world a favour by turning themselves inside out. I teach poetry, that's close enough CHARLOTTE: you don't have to CLANCY: When, um, when she was younger we had been very close. I thought it was this bond that could never be broken, but it was--almost effortlessly. I knew that she had to grow and grow apart from me. I had faith that if I just didn't meddle if I let her fly away, eventually she would come back to me. I didn't know that was all the time we'd have (charltte gets all weepy and flustered and accidentally knocks ver the glass of water) CHARLOTTE: Geez! god, I am sorry MILLIE: Okay, hang on (Millie goes to get a cloth) Can I get a towel or something? (she wipes her self down - Charlotte goes and sits next to him and comforts him by rubbing his back) (VO)And that's how my dad moved on--with a little help with his friends. (Mason walks in with his same suit and a some paper in his hand) My dad was right--human beings are simple predictable cliches, broken hearts, betrayal It's all been done a billion times before, looks up from his paper) the problem is, every time still hurts like the first (camera change to the Lass's garden where Reggie is playing with JD and joy is pruing the roses) and if youre lucky enough to recover, you vccan be sure that just as you finish filling in the cracks in your life the next one is starting to open(Joy looks at her watch, then looks at the back door) END CREDITS