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absolute popularity has corrupted absolutely.

Hmm, bet you're real proud of yourself thinking

that one up. You probably dated one of them.

- You cut Emily like a surgeon.

- Years working with the b*tch virus.

- No cure yet, huh?

- We continue to research and hope.

- You been to a lot of schools?

- Yeah.

- That must be nice. I've only ever lived here.

- Must be nice.

So where y'all lived?

Pretty much every state

that seceded from the Union.

Moved around since I was 4,

after my parents died.

I only have my dad, my morn died

last spring. How did it happen?

- Fire.

- Car accident.

[STAMMERS]

Ha, ha, that was a dead-end conversation

on a road going nowhere.

I must have missed the exit to "fascinating,"

heh.

You, uh...

Bukowski? He--? He any good?

Define "good."

[CHUCKLES]

ETHAN:
I can drive you to the house.

LENA:
This is fine.

ETHAN:
No, I don't mind.

- Look, I appreciate the ride...

...but I don't feel like being a haunted house

attraction today.

No, I-- Now, that's fairly rude

and not true at all.

Perhaps it's because

we haven't been properly introduced.

I'm Ethan Wate, by the way.

- You're Ethan Wate?

- Yeah.

Oh, my God, you mean

Ethan Wate drove me home?

- You've heard of me?

- No.

[ETHAN CHUCKLES]

I like your charm necklace.

And-- And your tat, too. I mean, uh, also.

Thanks.

[ETHAN CHUCKLES]

ETHAN".

"Some people never go crazy.

What truly horrible lives they must live.

Boring damned people. All over the Earth.

Propagating more boring damned people.

What a horror show.

The Earth swarmed with them."

This man is a god.

MRS. LINCOLN:
It is the name of our Lord

that brings salvation.

It is the name of Jesus

that gives us authority over evil spirits.

[CHATTERING]

- What's going on?

- Here, just wait for it.

MRS. LINCOLN:
Protect us from the devil,

as we feel him approaching.

As we feel him coming towards us...

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

- Been hitting the same spot every night.

- Since when?

EMILY:
Since Lena Duchannes came to town.

My mama heard she's from a mental institution.

She killed a boy

on the train tracks in Atlanta.

ETHAN:
Oh, bullshit.

LINK:
Bullshit.

Watch your tongue.

My mama said that her mother

killed her father and just left town like that.

Shut your mouth, Emily.

Ethan Wate,

may I speak with you for a moment?

Right now?

What is wrong with you?

I'm just sick of people in this town putting

down someone they just don't know.

[EMILY CHUCKLES]

And you know Lena Duchannes?

Is that what you're saying, Ethan?

Sorry, but I don't think I'm gonna be able

to go to the movies with you this weekend.

I think we need time apart.

And I'm sorry to hurt you.

Let's go.

Did I not say that to her

at the end of sophomore year?

Hey, some girls are just mad dogs, son.

You can either run or shoot.

[CHATTERING]

EMILY:

Ethan? Ethan.

Can I talk to you

about something real quick?

I want you to know something.

I still care deeply for you as a friend.

And I pray every night

that you don't go straight to hell.

Oh, I won't go straight to hell, Emily.

I wanna stop off in New York first.

[BELL RINGING]

MRS. HESTER:

Okay, everybody take your seats.

Hi, darling, good to see you again.

How's your mama?

Boys. Billy, get down.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Okay, you should have read this

over the summer.

We're gonna start by discussing

the character of Boo Radley.

The town shut-in with a mysterious past.

- You mean Macon Ravenwood?

MRS. HESTER:
Savannah.

EMILY:

Excuse me?

Um, my mama says I really

shouldn't be reading this book.

- This is one of the banned books.

MRS. HESTER:
Yes, well...

...I got permission from the school board

to try it for a semester.

Oh, I'm not reading anything

banned from our church.

SAVANNAH:
Me neither.

- My mama also says that...

...I shouldn't be in the same class

as a Ravenwood.

It ain't right that they get

to be with us Christian kids.

- Emily, shut up.

- My mama says the same thing.

Says her whole family are Satanists.

- They pray to Satan stark naked.

- Dear Lord...

What do you think you're doing?

You can't pray in class.

Dear Lord...

- Stop it.

-...l pray you protect us from all things evil.

MRS. HESTER:
I'm telling you, stop it now.

- There are unnatural things among us...

I don't know what you're thinking.

I'm gonna take you to the principal's office.

Save me from these evil--

[ALL SCREAM]

- She did it!

- It was her!

She broke the windows!

SAVANNAH:

Why would she do something like this?

You all right?

[STUDENTS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

What the hell was that?

[DOOR CREAKING]

Lena?

Hello?

What are you doing here?

Oh, I just came to see if you were okay.

What for?

I don't know.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- You can go now.

- Go away.

- No.

Yes.

- No.

- Go.

- No.

- Jerk.

Sorry about Emily.

She can be meaner than chickenshit.

Never understood that saying.

Yeah, me neither.

And I should know better by now.

They always hate me, no matter where I go.

Well, they're a mess of fools.

What do you care?

Never been on the outside looking in

your whole life, have you?

[ETHAN SIGHS]

Well, let me see if I can remember this.

It's Bukowski. Ahem.

"Some lose all soul.

- Some lose all mind...

- Heh.

...and become soul, insane.

Some lose all-- All...

...mind..."

Hold on. "Some lose all soul

and become mind."

[CHUCKLES]

"Some lose all mind and become soul."

Oh, man. I memorized this whole thing

to impress you. Damn.

- You can't help it.

- Heh. What?

Fitting in anywhere, drooling charm.

I never know whether

you're insulting me or not.

- I'm sorry, heh.

- No. Hey, I like it.

You know?

If it makes any difference, um...

...I like you.

You may not think so later.

Pfft, okay, uh, you can't complain

about not having any friends...

...and then make a guy work this hard

trying to be one.

Unless you actually do think I'm a jerk.

Then I'll just go.

Run tell your friends about the freak.

You really think I'm that guy?

No.

Okay.

I should get back.

You, uh, read those chapters

in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Yeah, I've read it twice before.

- Oh, it's good, isn't it?

- Yeah.

- You ever see the movie?

- No.

Oh, it's good too.

We should watch it, actually.

- You ever read any Vonnegut?

- No.

Kurt Vonnegut? No?

Slaughterhouse-Five?

He's great. He's banned too, actually.

LENA:
You only read banned books?

- Um, I don't only read banned books.

But, I don't know, I just--

All the books they let you read are,

like, pretty boring, I guess.

Thanks. I'm sorry I was--

Oh, it's okay. It's okay.

You should go. My uncle doesn't really

like people being around the house.

I know. I sort of, uh...

...went inside.

You went inside the house?

I didn't mean to. I just--

I get it.

People think he's scary,

but he's just Boo Radley shy, right?

Okay.

Hey, um...

I got you sort of a

"Welcome to Suckass Gatlin" gift, heh.

[LENA CHUCKLES]

I thought you could put it on your--

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