Act 2 Scene 4 Flashcards
You’re not supposed to be controlling us!
We were just trying to protect our side.
Why the hell would we want to engineer the destruction of our own lives?
I’m a teacher! I will never work again, anywhere, do you understand that? Do you even care?
The group is considering some sort of public demonstration (cut)
No! Norma, I forbid it!
Regardless of the gender of the participants, good sex is not easily found, and always worth fighting for.
God. You’re fabulous.
Jim!
Look at her.
Yes, protect Jimmy. Since Paul Patridge didn’t want your protection, or Sam Hudson before him.
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Jimmy. It would be my pleasure if you’d join us. You have much more to offer the world than he’ll ever allow.
If I leave, it won’t be with you. I wouldn’t be any less manipulated.
… please Jesus Christ Jim will you say something?!
Norma! I’ll give you a baby.
That’s low Jimmy. That’s really low.
I mean it, Norma. Stay, and you can have a child. You won’t have to move to New York. You can leave the State Department, raise the baby at home with Millie. Bob and I will support you.
And then what? How will you support your child? Work during the day, and hope a neighbour is available?
Pray that Millie gets a good waitressing job someplace?
If that’s what you want, I will help you find assistance. We all will.
Sure, I’ll bet Barbara Grant’s unemployable friends would be thrilled to take a break from their social cause to finance your concerns. And what a wonderful way to start out life too. The bastard child of an unknown father and a lesbian divorcee.
No! We’re trying to give you the life you dreamed of. We’re youir family. We want the life you deserve.
Stay. Have a baby. In a year or two, if you and Millie want to start over elsewhere, you can. You can be a widow, Millie can be your sister who moved with you to raise the child. No one would ask a single question. And you can have a life together, alone. But not now, please. Not when leaving would be ruinous to all of us. We need you. And you need us.
We’ll stay for a few years, set aside some money, and do it right, later. It’s a concession. A compromise.
And we’ll support that. We can raise the baby properly, as our contribution to the future. Bringing a child up to treat people better than we’ve been treated.
… Sometimes things just don’t work out.
Your clothes, your things (cut)
Well. I guess the show’s over.
Yes, Bob. It is. / Say something that’ll keep me from walking out the door.
