All About Steve Page #9

- This ground is unstable.

So she just dove in that hole, like a gopher.

No, dude, not like a gopher. Like a human being.

She was running after me,

and she fell in the hole.

[Dan On Phone] That's the way to get

your heads out of your asses.

That shot of Steve's girlfriend

falling into the pit is priceless.

We've got the inside advantage here,

so let's use it.

Get Steve ready to go on

and talk about his girlfriend...

as soon as we get the graphics together.

Fifteen minutes.

[Chuckling]

- [Man] Here he comes!

- You people are ruining the ferns!

Can you comment on the rumors that Mary's fall

into the mine was a suicide attempt?

Well-That's ridiculous. Not our Mary.

The word "depression" is not in her vocabulary.

All right, obviously it is in her vocabulary.

But no. No.

She-She never lets anything get her down.

Still living at home at her age-

clearly not a normal situation.

Not normal?

We-We love having her here.

[Woman]

Sir, I'd like to ask another question.

- Yes. Yes, we love having her here.

- Yes, we do.

Fumigation can't be rushed.

[Camera Shutters Clicking]

- [All Shouting]

- One more question!

[Vasquez]

Now, I don't wanna speculate here...

- but if the ground did collapse...

- [Animated Mary] Ow! Ow! Ow!

Could that not result in death...

or, at the absolute least,

horrible disfigurement?

I don't wanna speculate either,

but, yes, absolutely, it could.

And as we await the tragic fate of Mary Horowitz...

attention now on the boots she was wearing

when she slipped into the mine...

a story I couldn't tell

until I'd walked a mile in Mary's shoes.

Take a look.

It's hour one, and it's as if

my feet have been placed in vise grips.

We're at the two-hour mark,

and, actually, right now I feel pretty-

Oh! [Groans]

- [Object Clattering]

- [Mary] Light source.

"And God said, 'Let there be...

[Sighs]

Light."'

Oh. Voil. Yes.

Yes, it's perfect. Yes. This is per-

[Screams]

Ah! Oh!

Oh, my God. They forgot one.

You scared the crap out of me.

[Exhales]

Hi. I'm-I'm sorry.

Uh, can you, uh-

Can you- Can you hear me? I mean, at all?

Do you have sensory-neural hearing loss...

or do you have conductive?

Because if-if it-

She doesn't hear me. Okay.

You know, I understand

a little bit of sign language...

so if you wanna-you know? No? Okay.

Um, "Deaf people can do anything

except for hear."

Do you know who said that?

Dr. Jordan-

first deaf president at Gallaudet U.

Yeah. Maybe you'll go there one day.

[Murmuring]

If we both don't perish in here.

Hold on. I'll be right back.

You stay here, okay? Okay? Right.

Well, Paula, apparently they're gonna

keep it old-school and simple-

a piece of paper, a number two pencil.

This is Hartman Hughes reporting from the edge.

[Angus]

Cut. Corbitt wants you on next.

I told you I am not her boyfriend, Angus.

Yeah, but you're the one that encouraged her

to come here to begin with.

- You're the one that asked her

to come here, not me!

- Guys! Guys!

NNC has got their hands

on everything but her panty size.

- What?

- Our Mary?

- Yes.

- Son of a b*tch. Vasquez scooped us?

[Mutters]

Behold, notice of our imminent rescue.

Oh, okay. Okay.

This is good news. This is good news, okay?

They're going to tell us something wonderful.

And it says, "Mary, are you"-

Oh.

That's a good sign right there.

- [Crowd Chattering]

- Oh, God!

[Chuckles]

What's it say, son?

Millions of people are watching.

Um, okay.

"I think you mean, am I conscious?

Not, am I conscience?

[People Chuckling]

"'Conscious'means alert and awake.

"'Conscience' is your inner morality gauge...

"you know, the thing

that stops you from doing bad things...

e.g., killing, stealing,

harming helpless animals and whatnot."

- Can we leave her down there?

- [Laughs]

"To answer your question, yes, I am conscious.

- [Laughing, Crying]

- "My leg is bleeding, though I'll probably live.

- Yours truly, Mary Horowitz."

- Yes!

"P.S. Did anyone lose a little deaf girl?

I found one. She's fine,

other than not being able to hear, I mean."

[People Shouting]

They missed a child? Can't these people count?

Thank God for this woman Mary Horowitz.

Let's bring up that picture of her again.

Yesterday, Mary Horowitz.

Today, Mary Horowitz- hero.

- This just in-

- [Animated Mary] I'm coming to save you!

Speculation as to whether or not Mary

intentionally heaved herself into the mine...

to save the poor deaf child...

after rescuers ignored her

desperate, desperate pleas.

Paula, I'm here with Steve Muller.

Steve's girlfriend, Mary Horowitz...

struggling for her life

down in the abandoned mine, as we speak.

She's not my girlfriend, and I'm not

gonna say that just to get ratings. Okay?

Yeah, and the truth is

I don't really even wanna do this.

Mary Horowitz,

described as "freakishly intelligent."

These words also described

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

However, you never know about these people.

They're clean-cut-

But people deserve to know the truth about her.

I mean, she sees things that other people don't.

And she's kind, and-

and I think she means well...

even though, when she does things,

they're just a little unusual.

And she's smart. She's supersmart.

And not in a freakish way. In-

Like, she has a gift.

I mean, she knows everything...

everything but whom not to trust

and how not to get hurt and-

and how to survive us.

And she doesn't pretend to be

somebody that she's not.

And she certainly doesn't

deserve to be where she is now.

Maybe if I just do this, I can-

- [Heavy Objects Clattering]

- Uh-oh.

[Out Of Breath, Coughing]

Yeah. The tracks down there just-

just keep going and going down and-

- [Girl Coughing]

- If we just concentrate on this

and that and that, then we'Il-

But not to- not to worry.

I'Il- I'll get us out of here.

Hope that crane gets here soon.

I hope so too.

'Cause if there's carbon monoxide down there-

But the air's coming through the top.

Even at concentrations of five ppm,

they could suffocate.

[Coughing, Gasping]

I am so sorry.

[Muffled Groan]

- She has stolen a little piece of my heart.

- [Whimpers]

- What'd the site engineer say?

- The stress fractures are worsening by the minute.

The longer they're down there,

the greater the chance of collapse.

They thought the air quality was bad...

try a 50-foot span of rock and earth

dropping down there.

Oh, Jesus.

That's a bunch of horseshit.

She's gonna be fine.

Odds are she won't. We gotta go on.

What are we gonna say?

Say she's not gonna make it?

Her whole family is watching, Angus. Christ.

- I'll be back in a minute.

- Hughes.

All right, two minutes. That's it.

- [Sighs]

- Some blind date, huh?

Here's a candle.

Hi, Winston.

I think I'll feel better

if I pretend that it's Mary's surprise party.

I'm making an apple head for Mary

for when she gets out.

- And she's gonna get out.

- [Man] #And I don't know #

# Why life, it seems to be #

- This one's gonna work.

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