Crimes act 2 Flashcards

1
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Yeah livers got it and vitamin pills

A

hello

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2
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hi meg

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here’s your paper

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3
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babe: scissors
lenny: drawer
babe: okay

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All right I lied! I lied! I couldn’t help it. These stories just came pouring out of my mouth! When I saw how tired and sick old granddaddy’s gotten- They just flew out! all I wanted was to see him smiling and happy I just wasn’t going to sit there and look at him all miserable and sick and sad I just wasn’t

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4
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oh meg he is sick isn’t he

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why he’s gotten all white and milky he almost evaporated

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5
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But you still shouldn’t have lied! it was wrong of you to tell such lies

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Well I know that! Don’t you think I know that. I hat myself when I lie for that old man. I do. I feel so weak. and then I have to go and do at least three or four things that I know he’d despise just to get over that miserable old bossy man!

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6
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………all he ever wanted was the best for us that’s all he ever wanted

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Well I guess it was but sometimes I wonder what we wanted

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7
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I don’t know I just like to keep an accurate record I suppose. there look here’s a picture of me when I got married

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lets see

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8
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I was just eighteen

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You’re smiling babe, were you happy then?

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9
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yes you are you are beautiful

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oh stop im not

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10
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look megs starting to cry
oh meg

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Im not–

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11
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why its Daddy

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Where’d you get that picture babe I thought she burned them all

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12
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well will you look at that smile

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Jesus those white teeth turn the page will yo. we can’t do any worse than this!

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13
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that old yellow cat you know I bet if she hadn’t of hung that old cat along with her she wouldn’t have gotten all that national coverage

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Why are we talking about this?

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14
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We used up one whole big box of Kleenex’s

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And then old grandaddy came in and said he was gonna take us out to breakfast. Remember, he told us not to cry anymore cause he was gonna take us out to get banana splits for breakfast

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15
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That’s right banana splits for breakfast

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Why Lenny was fourteen years old and he thought that would make it all better

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16
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oh I remember he said for us to eat all we wanted I think I ate 5. he kept shoving them down us.

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god we were so sick!

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17
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oh we were

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Lenny’s face turned green (Laughing)

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18
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oh she was

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the thing about old granddaddy is he keeps trying to make us happy and we end up getting stomach aches and throwing up in the flower arrangements

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19
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oh lenny oh meg

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oh babe oh lenny its so good to be home!

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20
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lets play cards
oh lets do it

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All right!

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21
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I know ill fix us some popcorn and hot chocolate

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Her let me get out that old black popcorn pot

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22
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are hearts good or bad

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bad, I think. aren’t they, Lenny?

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23
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that’s right hearts are bad but the black sister is worst of all

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oh that’s right and the black sister is the queen of spades!

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24
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that’s right and spades are the black cards that aren’t the puppy dog feet

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right and she counts a lot of points

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25
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and points are bad?

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right, here, ill get some paper so we can keep score

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26
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oh here they are

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ill get it

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27
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oh let me see

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Hello…no this is meg magrath… doc. How are you?…. Well good…. You’re where…….well sure come on over
that was doc porter He’s down the street at Al’s grill. He’s gonna come over

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28
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he is?

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he said he wanted to come see me

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29
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oh well do you still wanna play?

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no I don’t think so

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30
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all right you know its really not much fun playing hearts with only two people

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I’m sorry maybe after doc leaves ill join you

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31
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I know maybe doc’ll wanna play then we can have a game of bridge

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I don’t think so doc never liked cards maybe well just go out somewhere

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32
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meg

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what

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33
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well docs married now

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I know you told me

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34
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oh well as long as you know that as long as you know that

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yes I know she made the pot

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35
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ah meg could I could I ask you something?

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What?

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36
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I just wanted to ask you

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what

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37
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well just why did you take one little bite out of each piece of candy in this box and then just put it back in?

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oh well I was looking for the ones with nuts

38
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the ones with nuts

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yeah

39
Q

but there are none with nuts its a box of assorted cremes all it has are cremes.

A

oh

40
Q

Why couldn’t you just read the box its says right here assorted cremes not nuts besides this was a birthday present my one and only birthday present my only one

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im sorry ill get you another box

41
Q

I don’t want another box that’s not the point

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what is the point

42
Q

….. why remember how you has layers and layers of jungle bells sewed into your petticoat while babe and I only has three a piece

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Oh god she’s starting up about those stupid jingle bells

43
Q

well its an example a specific example of how you always got what you wanted

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oh come on lenny your just upset cause doc called

44
Q

….. why ive long given up on worrying about you and all your men

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Look I know ive had too many men. Believe me I know. But its not my fault you haven’t had any.. or maybe just that one from Memphis

45
Q

what one from Memphis

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the one babe told me about from the club

46
Q

Why’d you have to open up your big mouth

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(overlapp) How am I supposed to know you never said not to tell

47
Q

ill just never never never be able to trust you again

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oh for heavens sake lenny we were just worried about you! We wanted to find a way to make you happy!

48
Q

Happy happy ill never be happy

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well not if you keep living your life as old grandaddy’s nurse maid

49
Q

Meg shut up

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I can’t help it! I just know that the only reason you stopped seeing this man from Memphis was because of old grandaddy

50
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what babe didn’t tell you the rest of the story

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oh she said it was something about your shrunken ovary

51
Q

I just mentioned it!

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But I don’t believe a word of that story!

52
Q

…….so what man can love me what mans gonna love me

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A lot of men

53
Q

yeah a lot a whole lot

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old granddaddy’s the only one who seems to think otherwise

54
Q

cause he doesn’t want to see me hurt he doesnt want me rejected and humiliated

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oh come on now Lenny, don’t be so pathetic! God, you make me so angry when you stand there looking so pathetic! just tell me did you really ask the man from Memphis? Did you actually ask the man from Memphis all about that!?

55
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no I didn’t I didn’t because I just didn’t want him to not want me

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Lenny–

56
Q

Don’t talk to me anymore Don’t talk to me! I think im gonna vomit I just hope all this doesnt cause me to vomit

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See! See! She didn’t even ask him about her stupid ovary! She just broke it all off cause of old grandaddy what a jackass fool!

57
Q

…..I just hat it when you make lenny cry! lenny oh lenny!

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I feel hell

58
Q

hello meggy

A

well doc well its doc

59
Q

you’re home meggy

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Yeah ive come home ive come home to see about babe

60
Q

and how’s babe

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oh fine well fair hey do u want a drink

61
Q

whatcha got?

A

bourbon

62
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oh don’t tell me Lennys stocking bourbon

A

well no I’ve been to the store, so how’s your wife?

63
Q

she’s fine

A

I hear ya got two kids

64
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yeah yeah I got two kids

A

a boy and a girl

65
Q

that’s right meggy a boy and a girl

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that’s what you always said you wanted wasn’t it? a boy and a girl?

66
Q

Is that what I said

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I don’t know I thought that’s what you said

67
Q

whose cot?

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Lennys she’s taken to sleeping in the kitchen

68
Q

ah where is lenny

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she’s in the upstairs room. I made her cry. babes up there seeing to her

69
Q

how’d you make her cry

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I don’t know eating her birthday candy talking on about her boyfriend from Memphis idont know. Im upset about it. she’s got a lot on her. Why can’t I keep my mouth shut?

70
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idk meggy maybe its just cause you don’t want to

A

maybe

71
Q

well its been a long time

A

it has been a long time

72
Q

lets see when was the last time we saw each other

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I can’t quite recall

73
Q

wasn’t it in Biloxi

A

ah Biloxi I believes so

74
Q

and wasn’t there a hurricane going on at the time

A

was there?

75
Q

yes there was one hell of a hurricane. hurricane Camille I believe they called it. hurricane Camille

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yes now I remember it was a beautiful hurricane

76
Q

we had a time down there. we had quite a time. Drinking vodka, eating oysters on the half shell, dancing all night long and the wind was blowing

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oh god was it blowing

77
Q

goddamn it was blowing

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there never has been such a wind blowing

78
Q

oh god meggy oh god

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I know doc it was my fault to leave you I was crazy I thought I was choking I felt choked

79
Q

I felt like a fool

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no

80
Q

I just kept on wondering why

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I don’t know why cause I didn’t want to care I don’t know I did care tho I did

81
Q

ah hell are you still singing those sad songs

A

no

82
Q

why not

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I don’t know doc things got worse for me. after a while, I just couldn’t sing anymore. I tell you I had one hell of a time one Christmas

83
Q

what do you mean

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I went nuts, I went insane. Ended up in LA county hospital. Psychiatric ward

84
Q

hell ah hell Meggy what happened

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I don’t really know
I couldn’t sing anymore
so I lost my job and I had a bad toothache
I had this incredibly painful toothache.
for days I had it but I wouldn’t do anything about it
I just stayed inside my apartment
all I could do was sit around in chairs chewing my fingers
Then one afternoon I ran screaminfout of the apartment with all my money and jewelry and valuables and tried to stuff it all into one of those march of dimes collection boxes
that was when they nabbed me
sad story meg goes mad

85
Q

there’s a moon out

A

is there?

86
Q

wanna go take a ride in my truck and look out at the moon

A

I don’t know doc I don’t wanna start so it’ll be so hard if we start up

87
Q

for one night just you and I are gonna go for a ride and look at the moon

A

one night?

88
Q

Right

A

look out at the moon

89
Q

you got it

A

well all right

90
Q

better take your coat and the bottle forget the glasses

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yeah forget the glasses forget the goddamn glasses