Dark Odyssey Page #5

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by the bridge, okay?

Yes.

I must run ahead.

Please,

it's important.

Hey,

where ya goin'?

Good-bye!

Yianni, wait!

Wait for me!

(panting)

Yianni!

(no sound

from buzzer)

(no sound

from buzzer)

(man)

Come on, Coupas!

Hurry up,

let's go!

Yianni,

what's the matter?

I just missed

Coupas.

Yianni,

what is it?

What do you want

from Mr. Coupas?

Nothing.

I can't tell you.

Come, I'll take

you home.

All right, if that's

what you want.

Let's meet Helen.

Okay, but for a couple

minutes, that's all.

All right.

Here they come now.

Where have you been?

We've been

waiting for you.

I'm sorry, Jack,

about what happened before.

Well, that's

all right.

What happened?

It's been

a long day.

We'll talk

about it later.

Good-bye, Jack.

He's coming up with us,

we've decided.

I've decided.

I'm glad.

I'll charm the family

with my magic smile.

He's calmed down.

(dripping)

(door opens)

I'll take

your coat.

Now, just

be natural.

Hello, mother.

This is

Jack Fields.

You remember,

I told you about him.

We both work in the

same office together.

How do you do?

Hello.

How are you?

Sit down, please.

We had a wonderful

day today.

Wasn't it fun?

Yes.

It's getting

chilly out.

Maybe the boys

would like some brandy.

Jack's in the accounting

department in Helen's office.

I'll get

the cognac.

Accounting?

Accounting,

yes.

We keep a record

of all the money

that comes in and

goes out of the office.

A funny thing

happened last week.

Did Helen tell

you about it?

Well, this fella

in the office, Jim Kelly,

put down the date

as the figure

for the accounts

receivable

and was $15,000 short

in his accounts.

(Jack and Helen laugh)

Well, a toast, to the

accounting department

and the Greek

Merchant Marine.

Excuse me.

I have to go

in the kitchen.

I'll play some American jazz

records for you, Yianni.

What's the matter,

mama?

I'm afraid of

this boy.

Afraid of him?

Why?

He's hiding

something.

Jack?

No, not Jack.

The other one.

What do you

mean, Mama?

(papa)

Oh, boy.

I'll remember the baptism of

this little one for a long time.

Look,

blisters almost.

The groceries, the olive oil,

the olives,

cheese,

some sardines.

Hey, your relatives

eat even more than mine.

Hey, Maria.

This Jack

is a big boy.

I forgot,

George will be late.

I want-- I want

to talk to you.

(doorbell jingles)

(woman)

Hello.

(Nike)

Hello. How are you?

Hello,

Uncle Peter.

(woman)

Hello, Nike.

How are you?

(overlapping greetings)

(papa)

Hello, hello...

(overlapping conversations)

Hi.

(overlapping

conversations)

Are you looking

for this?

It was

my father's.

Take it and go.

He gave it to me

before he died.

Guns have

no place in our home.

(Nike)

Yianni?

Hey, this is the boy who

just arrived from Greece.

My cousin, Jim.

What did you

say to him?

I told him

to leave.

(papa)

Nike!

(Nike)

Yianni, wait.

I have to go.

I must talk

to you.

No, I have

to go.

Yianni, I know what

you're going to do.

I know you're going

to kill Pano Coupas.

He deserves to die.

That's insane,

Yianni.

I don't know why you want

to do this, but you can't.

I don't think you can

understand these things.

You better go

back inside.

I can't let you

do this.

Why are you

so stub--

He must pay for

the death of my sister.

Coupas was born in

a village next to ours.

He left when he was a boy

and came to America.

When he was rich and fat

he came back to find a wife.

So my sister asked my father's

permission to court her.

My father didn't want to at

first, but we are very poor,

and he thought

if Coupas married her

she would have a good

life, so he agreed.

I don't

understand.

She couldn't face

the disgrace.

Disgrace?

He dishonored her.

He never intended to marry her,

just to satisfy his lust.

Yianni.

My sister couldn't look

into her mirror again.

She knew where my

father's gun was kept.

She knew

how to use it.

No.

One night after we had

gone to sleep,

my sister took the gun

and went to the kitchen.

I saw many horrible things

during the war,

but nothing like what we

found after we heard the shot.

Awful.

How would

you know?

Well, Yianni...

You can't go out

and kill this man.

You don't

understand.

You can't

judge him.

I do not

judge him.

Any man would

do the same.

Listen to me, Yianni.

I know what you feel,

but you mustn't do this thing.

Why are you so

concerned with Coupas?

I'm not.

I'm worried

about you.

Now it's you

who doesn't understand.

Yianni.

It happened

to you too.

So many things have

happened all at once.

What's happened to us

is what's important.

I wish...

You'd be throwing

your life away.

I cannot live unless

I do this thing.

I cannot stand

by my father's grave.

You do not know

what honor means!

Yianni.

Leave me alone!

You don't have to

do this.

How can you kiss me and

go out and shoot this Coupas?

Are you some kind

of a monster?

You're afraid to

give up this idea.

You can see things

only one way.

You belong to your

village and to your gun.

You're not

your own man.

(slap, Nike gasps)

Andros!

You fool-- what do

you think you're doing?

How did you

find me?

You didn't stay

on your watch.

What are you

doing here?

Jimmy had to

take your place.

You better

go away.

Leave me alone.

You know, on a ship you're

supposed to do your job.

It wasn't my turn.

You told our captain

to put me on.

I had to

do something.

You're muddling in something

that doesn't concern you.

You're going in there to kill a

man and it doesn't concern me?

Nobody will stop me.

You can get away with

that in your mountains

but here they got

laws and police.

In my village,

I will be safe.

My people understand

what has to be done.

You'll never

get back there.

Life is not just one big

thing, like your vendetta.

It's a lot of

little things.

Like having a home and

a wife to share it with you.

Love... kids to

carry on your name.

It's a lot of thing you

never even tasted, Yianni.

My father would

have done it this way.

So would mine.

But our fathers never traveled

20 miles from their villages.

Sometimes you gotta

change the rules.

Let's go back

to the ship.

I'm all mixed up.

You can

think there.

Coupas will be here if you

still wanna come back.

Come on.

Wait a minute.

There are some people

I want to say good-bye to.

They were very

nice to me.

You wanna bother?

Yes...

there's a girl.

All right.

(overlapping

conversations)

(doorbell jingles)

I would like to

speak to Nike.

Nike?

Nike?

This is

George Andros.

We're shipmates.

How do you do?

I want to

say good-bye.

I've decided to go

back to my ship.

Please stay.

I'm glad you've

come back.

You are

a seaman?

This is my

first trip.

He's been trying

to see Pano Coupas.

Coupas?

Oh, Coupas.

He'll be in

church tomorrow.

He, with his

candles.

(laughs)

I met him

on the street.

Had a little talk

with him.

Thank you.

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