Bombay Beach Page #4

- Yeah, baby.

- You can't play right.

man:
I bet you you can't roll

a quarter off your nose.

You can't suck my dick

until I cum.

I'll bet you can't roll

a quarter off your nose.

Whoopsie.

F*** this.

That was nothing.

Whoa, are you okay?

Pamela:
Babe, look.

man:
Well, did that hurt you,

really?

man:
Yeah, he's f***ed up,

he's bleeding.

He's got a laceration,

he needs-- he needs towels.

- Michael:
He is fine, dumb-ass.

- Pamela:
Shut up.

Don't you talk to me

that way!

He's f***ing bleeding.

I just wanna be beat up so bad

that I'm bleeding

and my lips are swollen

and my eyes are--

man:
Why?

I just wanna get

beat the f*** up.

- Why ?

- Because I like it.

Why?

Because my family shouldn't have

been put through

what I put 'em through.

- And it's your fault?

- Yes.

I never blamed you,

nobody's ever blamed you.

You're blaming yourself.

- It's not your fault.

- It is.

I tried to do what I could,

and I let sh*t go, yes.

But I was learning,

and you know what?

I have a dirty house.

man:
I know.

Michael:
But I've been through

sh*t that you will never,

ever, ever, ever be through.

Michael:
I tried to

go to the military,

but they wouldn't take me

because I didn't graduate

high school.

So we built our own camp.

They're making us look like

we were pieces of sh*t.

But we were never

ever pieces of sh*t.

Every bunker, every

f***ing foxhole,

you know we

did that for fun,

it keeps you busy.

Not because we were building

a f***ing militia.

I'm screwed now.

I can't get a good job

because I'm a felon.

I would've took the whole

f***ing rap.

My wife shouldn't

have been in there.

She didn't even know some

of the sh*t I had.

man:
Oh, Mikey, Mikey.

Pamela:
How were you born?

Well, when two people really,

really love each other,

they have sex.

Do you know what it means?

No.

You know it means something

but you don't know what.

Me and your Dad met

when we were real young.

I was 13...

when I met your father.

And I didn't graduate.

- You still didn't?

- No.

You see, that's another thing

I didn't wanna tell you,

'cause when I got

pregnant with you,

I was 15.

I finally know what age

you were.

I know, you've been asking and

I've been telling you different.

But that was only

for one reason.

You were saying 17, 18, 19...

- Mm-hmm.

- 51.

But you know why

I told you that?

Mm-hmm.

I just didn't

want you to think,

"Oh, well, Mom got pregnant

when she was 15,

so I'll get pregnant

while I'm 15."

Mm-mm.

Because I don't want you

to end up like that.

Not that I would change it.

I love you guys and I wouldn't

change a thing.

And I love your father.

But if I had a choice,

and I could still have the same

three children and everything,

I might have waited

a little bit longer.

You know what I mean?

I know, I'm getting

my grades up.

I'm doing what I gotta do.

All right.

Yeah.

I'll get it.

Benjamin:
I've got something

serious to tell you.

I was in jail for 100 years.

Even Mom was in jail, too.

Me and Michael

get ripped apart.

And I'd be alone with

someone else.

But Sarah wasn't even there.

There was no TV,

no cereal, no food.

There was no chairs,

no beds, no house.

No anything.

We had to sleep on the ground

where scorpions are.

Bad people are in there.

They kill kids.

There was a rope tied up

on the wood.

They put--

They made a little hole,

they put on your head

right here.

And they tell you,

"Jump off,"

and you'll die.

And you can't breathe, either,

if you do that.

I didn't even die.

They didn't even kill me.

Michael, is that a big old

blue wave coming at us?

See that blue stuff?

- What was that?

- A stick.

You finished your

ice cream already?

- Yeah.

- No.

You're gonna kill

all the fish.

I hope that

fish doesn't die.

I think I caught something.

Can I go in the water?

You didn't ask Mom.

Dang it,

I wanna go swimming.

So I can be happy.

He put his keys in the door,

and then he must've fallen.

We found the first mark

right here,

'cause this is

where he hurt his head.

This area, the ashtray was down,

the ashes were here.

From there

he crawled to the chair,

pulled himself into the chair

and bent over like this

and that's how we found him.

# If today was a knotty

crooked highway #

# If tonight was

a knotty crooked tree #

# If tomorrow wasn't

such a long time #

# And lonesome would mean

nothing to you at all #

# Yes and only if

my one true love is waiting #

# If I could hear her heart

softly pounding #

# Yes and only if

she was lying by me #

# I'd lie in my bed once again #

# Yes and only if my one true

love is waiting #

# If I could only hear

her heart is softly pounding #

# Yes and only if she was

lying by me #

# And I'd lie

in my bed once again ##

Is one of the side effects

from the Resveratrol,

does it cause, like,

sleeplessness?

- Not sleeplessness--

- No? It keeps you up?

Not keeps-- keeps you up.

- It makes drowsy.

- Okay, makes drowsy, okay.

'Cause he's just been getting

like black circles

around his eyes and stuff.

- Not getting any sleep?

- Yeah.

Why's your face

got chocolate on it?

I think that he's taking, uh,

Ritalin too, right?

Yeah.

- That's causes, yeah.

- That's-- Okay.

That's keeping him awake.

So we went to the doctor and we

had his medicine changed

and he changed him to Lithium.

I know that Lithium

is for bipolar,

but I don't know

all the side effects,

or what its-- really does.

I wasn't really

explained that.

Well, after two weeks,

I was told to up the dose,

so that's 600 milligrams

a day.

And then on the third day,

he went to get a drink

from the fridge.

His hand was shaking real bad,

and he dropped his drink.

I asked him if he was okay, but

he couldn't get the words out.

They were broken words.

There's no hospital in Bombay

Beach, there's no doctor.

There's nothing.

I had to carry him

because he couldn't walk.

And he just had one really big

rapid movement

and he hit his

head on the sink.

It was just really,

really scary.

I was terrified.

- Hello, Benjamin, how are you?

- Pamela:
Hi.

Is he, um, fine?

No more episodes?

I haven't noticed any.

But he's still taking

the Lithium,

the one I think

gave him the seizure.

Or, if it was a seizure,

I don't know if it was.

Well, I have good news,

okay?

The EEG is completely normal.

Okay--

The CAT Scan

is completely normal.

Really, oh.

So, he's clear neurologically

for now.

- Okay.

- Until a next episode comes.

What should I do if

that happens again?

Because we live in

Bombay Beach, 'cause--

How far is the next town with

a hospital, with a doctor?

Um, that would be Brawley.

And that would be

maybe an hour.

- To Pioneers Hospital?

- Yeah, to Pioneers.

Well, if he has another episode

you have to--

Just take him?

Immediately bring him

to Pioneers.

Should he continue

that medicine?

- Which one?

- The Lithium.

Well, you'd have to ask the...

- The other doctor.

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