Born Guilty Page #10

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He ain't gonna be out

for at least three days.

- You said he's fine.

Why is it gonna take three days?

- Don't ask me.

That's just the way they've

always done things around here.

( CALM MUSIC)

- Mom?

It's me, it's Marty, you here?

Mom!

F***.

Hey, Larry.

- Hey, Marty, man.

What are you doing in town?

It's not even the holidays.

- Yeah, I'm surprising my

mom, but she's not home yet.

Do you know where she is?

- Well, let me see.

She was in this morning bitching

about the Staverson

Senior Center.

They're employing

unlicensed nurses.

- Alright, Staverson.

Thanks, Larry.

Take care.

- Alice.

Do you like the nurses?

- What?

- The nurses, do

you like the nurses?

- Are the nurses

treating you alright?

Do you like the nurses?

- No, they yell too much.

- Hi everybody, how's it going?

Just wanted to know how the

staff is treating everyone.

- Hey, what do you expect?

These days, young

people are a disgrace.

- Now, Herb, there's nothing

wrong with kids these days.

- I'm a little

concerned about him.

What's going on?

- He's taking Percocet.

- I think they're

overmedicating him.

I don't think this is good.

- Mom.

Mom.

- Oh my god.

Marty?

Oh my god!

Everybody, this is my son

Marty, Marty from California!

- I need to talk to you.

- What are you doing here?

- I need to talk to you.

I need to talk to you

about your new boyfriend.

- What?

Is everything okay?

Marty, what's going on?

What?

- I paid him.

I paid him to see you.

- Excuse me?

- Your boyfriend, Rawl.

He's an old buddy of mine.

He needed the cash, so

So I got him to romance you.

- So you're saying that

you paid Rawl to see me?

- All I knew was just that

you were suffocating me,

you know?

I needed your

misery off my back!

- You ungrateful,

rotten, spoiled bastard.

- What's so ungrateful?

The best thing my son ever

gave me was a dishwasher.

- Shut up!

How dare you manipulate

my life like this?

- Benny, Benny, Benny, wake up.

- They serving Jello?

- You want my misery off of your back?

- No, this kid just sent

a whore to seduce his mom.

- I have made so many

sacrifices for you.

I have fed you, I

have clothed you,

I'm still paying off

your f***ing education.

How dare you manipulate

my life like this!

- You punish me!

You punish me for being born!

- You are out of your mind!

- You just said it.

Look what you said,

after all the sacrifices

you made for me.

- That's not what I meant.

You're making me so

angry and confused!

- But that's what

it feels like to me!

You understand?

I mean, maybe that's why you

blanket me with all your sh*t,

constantly complaining

about problems,

problems I can't solve.

I mean, whenever I have

moments of happiness,

it just turns into guilt

because I know you're

f***ing miserable.

- I am not trying to

sabotage your life.

Who am I supposed to

talk to if not my son?

- But that's it, you

see, just you turn to me.

You turn to me with

problems that I can't solve

and you don't want solutions.

- Of course I want solutions!

- No, you don't!

No, you don't, because at

some point in your life,

you decided that life is

one big f***ing problem.

All my life, you

played the victim,

from blaming your dad

for not doing enough

to blaming my father, my

father for screwing you over.

Right?

It's always the world

that sh*t on you.

I was just so sick

of sharing your pain.

So yeah, yeah, I sent you a

man, I sent you a good man,

a man of compassion just

to show you a little joy

and what do you do?

You just kick him

right out of your life.

What was it this time, right?

Not pretty enough?

Too old?

It's the government's fault?

We live in a sad, brutal

f***ing world, right, Mom?

- I don't have to

listen to this!

- Well, I don't have

to live it anymore!

It's killing me!

You forget you have a son!

You have a son!

( CALM MUSIC)

- Hey.

- You're smiling.

I can't believe you're

smiling, you're in jail.

It's my fault.

- Marty, I once spent three

weeks in a ditch in Damascus.

By comparison, this place is

pretty much a boutique hotel.

- I selfishly used you.

How can you be okay with that?

- I've transcended.

- You've got cappuccino

in your cell?

(LAUGHS)

- Marty, I've spent

the last nine years

as a traveling nomad,

seeking to find myself.

I can feel this.

I've done everything,

everything you can imagine,

from Zen to acid.

I thought I'd changed, but

I haven't, not really.

My needs weren't met.

Until Judith.

- You need my mom?

- Yeah.

But not anymore.

It's thanks to your setup.

You know, I felt safe in it

because I knew the

connection wasn't real.

I'd nothing to lose.

I could finally let my walls

down after all these years.

And then it became real.

With me, not Judith, but

Then I finally survived my

fear of what would happen

if I exposed myself and

then I was left alone.

- But I

I conned you, man

- Wait, buddy.

- You were hurt badly,

you flipped out,

and you're in jail, and

you could have died.

- I've never felt more alive!

I don't fear love, I

don't fear losing it.

I have courage now.

Marty, all these years I

thought the key to happiness

was freedom.

So I traveled, I left, I spent

years bumming around rootless.

It felt good.

I felt good a lot of the

time, but real happiness,

Marty, real happiness

was eluding me till now.

Now I know the key to freedom.

It's courage.

I have courage

now, thanks to you.

- Jesus, man.

If you were so

scared of intimacy,

why didn't you

just use a condom?

(LAUGHS)

- Oh.

Time to go.

I'm teaching yoga in

here at the moment.

- It's great.

- Yoga?

- See ya, bye.

- Hey, when do we

get to go to Peru?

They have this shaman there

that can read your future

by the rings around your anus.

- (LAUGHS) That's good.

- Are you sure you

want to take that

to be your business partner?

- You kidding me?

He's got more drive than a tank.

- Woohoo, world, here I come!

(LAUGHS)

- Great, planetary

Herpes for all.

- You ever traveled this

long by yourself before?

- No, never.

But I'm taking a bus to LA,

I'm gonna get my

thoughts together,

and I'm doing it, man.

You know, I want to

thank you, Marty.

Being used never felt so good.

- You think maybe it's

getting laid after 10 years

that felt good, you a**hole?

- You freed me in more

ways than you'll ever know.

- Just stick to the decaf, okay?

- You're late!

- They were just all being

maintained, the subway system.

Okay, I may have

left a little late.

- How'd you know I'd be here?

- I called her.

- All I know is that you

made too much damn sense

the other day for me

not to give you a hug.

(KISSES)

- Mom.

- I love you honey.

- I just want you to be happy.

- I know.

I'm so proud of the man

that you have become.

- Hey, you son of a b*tch,

you got a bus to catch.

- Alright.

- Don't forget to

send a postcard.

- You know, I've

never written one.

- It's easy.

Just write about why

you are where you are.

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