Scene 10: Lines Flashcards
ANNIE: Aw, gee.
Are you certain?
DRAKE: Mr. Warbucks, this has just come by special messanger from the F.B.I.
Ah, finally. Agent Gunderson has located the manufacturer of Annie’s locket in Utica, New York.
ANNIE: Oh boy!
Over ninety thousand were made and sold.
ANNIE: Aw, gee.
Annie, I’m afraid that the F.B.I don’t think that there’s a chance in a million of tracing your parents through the locket, I’m sorry.
ANNIE: That’s okay, you did your best. Anyway, I guess a kid can get along without folks. You didn’t turn out so bad.
Grace?
GRACE: Yes, sir?
Do you have those legal papers I gave you the other day?
GRACE: Right here!
Annie, I wanna adopt you.
ANNIE: Adopt me?
Yes or no?
ANNIE: If I can’t have my real mother and father, there’s no one in the world I’d rather have for a father than you, Mr. Warbucks!
Annie, this isn’t just going to be an adoption, it’s going to be a celebration! And you can have anyone in the world you want to come to it. Who would you like?
Well, I guess I’d like Miss Farrell here. And Mr. Drake. And Mrs. Pugh. And, well, everybody here.
Drake?
DRAKE: Yes, sir.
Tell the servants to get spiffed up! They’re going to be a guests at Annie’s adoption party.
ANNIE: Oh, and the kids.
It’ll be way past their bedtime now, but we can have them all over for a big Christmas party tomorrow.
ANNIE: Miss Hannigan, too?
Why not?
LILY: And you’re Annie Mudge.
Annie Mudge?
LILY: Oh thank God, Ralph, she’s our Annie.
Mr. Mudge, what about the money?
ROOSTER: Well, we ain’t got much, but we’d be glad to give you whatever…
You haven’t heard that we’re offering a certified check for fifty thousand dollars for anyone who can prove that they are Annie’s parents?
LILY: On the other hand, Ralph, remember that little pig farm out in New Jersey? With fifty thousand dollars, we could afford to bring Annie up right. In the country.
Would you mind if Annie stayed here until tomorrow… Christmas? Then you can come back to pick up Annie and the check.
[ROOSTER and LILY exit]
Well… This is…
GRACE: Wonderful news.
Drake. Champagne.
DRAKE: Yes, sir.
We must celebrate. Because we’ve had the most wonderful news. Annie has found her mother and father. I propose a toast.
To Annie Mudge.
GRACE: Annie!
I’ve lost her. I’ve lost Annie.
GRACE: Sir, I have the strongest feeling that I’ve seen that Mr. Mudge before, that he’s not who he says he is.
Then I won’t give her up until we’re certain.
GRACE: But how…?
I’ll find a way! I’ll go straight to the top! To the president of the United States! Even if he is a democrat.
