Dogville Page #8

- No.

"- Do you want me to leave?

- No, I was just resting."

"Awful lot to do here in Dogville,

considering nobody needs anything done."

Jason wants to sit on my lap all the time.

I think you're doing a wonderful job.

You give us all so much.

What Mr. McKay said...

right on the button..

right on the button.

He tried to put his hands on my knee today.

"Oh, he is blind, after all.

Probably an accident."

And Ma Ginger got angry at me

for running across the gravel path.

"Well good. She gets angry at me,"

which just means that you're one of us now.

"You can see through it all, can't you?"

"I'll tell you, I'm gonna be asleep

in two minutes."

What if I don't want you to go to sleep?

I don't think you have a choice tonight.

"I do love you, Grace."

"I'm glad you love me.

I love you, too. I really do."

"No, I mean, I yearn for you

when I am not with you."

I yearn for you even

when we're alone like this.

"I yearn to be even closer to you...

to touch you, the way that people..."

We have our whole lives ahead of us.

The thing that I love about you is

that you don't demand anything of me.

That we can just be together.

Yeah.

Yearning will only make it better.

"Thank you for your words,

your wise wise words."

You're welcome.

Do you want your shoes off?

"Jason, what are you doing here?

That's wrong."

The words have to be divided differently.

Stop it.

How's that for dividing the words?

This is not a good day.

Everybody should leave.

"Everybody except Jason.

Jason, I wanna talk to you alone."

What is it?

What's going on?

I can be very bad.

I bet my pa told you.

I don't think that.

I think there is another reason for this.

"I'd love to have you on my lap all the time,

but I can't, not with the others here."

"When somebody can't do all the things

they'd like to do for others,"

sometimes the people they promised get mad.

That's what Mrs. Henson says.

"Yes, that's true."

I suppose I know why you won't let

me sit in your lap anymore.

- Why?

- Because I've been mean lately.

"Oh, come on. I'm sure you have

your reasons for that."

"I have been mean to the others, too,

even baby Achilles."

And he's so tiny he can't put up a fight.

"- It's not right

- No, it's not."

"I got it coming to me, I know."

I deserve a spanking.

What? I should hit you?

I'm not gonna do that.

Your mother doesn't believe in

physical discipline. I'm not gonna hit you.

I know. She'd be awful mad

if she found out you whipped me.

"Oh, I just said I won't do that."

"It's good having ma on your side, right?

It'd be pretty serious if she turned against you."

"I am the way I am.

If people in this town don't like me,"

then there is nothing I can do about that.

I feel bad I need to be punished.

"The fact is, I wouldn't have any respect

for you if you don't give me a spanking."

I don't care how much fun you think it would be.

"I'm not gonna spank you, Jason."

"In that case, when Ma gets home

maybe I'll just have to tell her you hit me."

But I just said that I wouldn't!

I reckon Ma'll take my word for it.

"If you give me that spanking,

nobody's ever have to know."

Stop it. Get away from Achilles.

Stop it.

I gave his crib a shove.

It's not my fault it didn't tip over.

Don't you touch him.

Move away from the crib.

"Stop it, Jason. Stop it!"

All right. You want a spanking.

I'll give you a spanking...

Come here.

Come here!

- There! There we go.

- That wasn't hard.

It's gotta be hard or it isn't punishment.

- All right.

- Harder!

"Oh, this is... come on.

All right, that's enough."

That is enough punishment now.

Maybe I should go stand in the corner

and be ashamed?

I don't care.. Stand in the corner.

Do whatever you gotta do.

"Hey, there is Pa!"

He's early. I hope there is nothing wrong.

"[Narrator] Just as Dogville had done from

its open, frail shelf on the mountainside,

quite unprotected from any capricious storms,"

"Grace, too, had laid herself open."

And there she dangled from her frail stalk

like the apple in the Garden of Eden.

An apple so swollen that the juices almost ran.

And once again the police

had come to Dogville.

"I said I'd tell you, to save Martha

the confusion about the ringing. But I forgot."

They're already down by Canyon Road.

The fellow in the other car is from

the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

- You forgot!

- Yah.

"It is the busy time for the apples,

you know."

The FBI?

"They were most interested in hearing

what I'd seen in the past six months,"

anything related to that wanted poster.

They asked me if I'd seen any signs

in the woods of anyone camping out there.

God only knows

what that woman's capable of.

"You know, she is not capable of anything."

"Well, that's what you say.

But it sure didn't sound that way coming from the laws."

That's why I felt I had to tell 'em

what I knew.

What did you tell them?

"Well, I thought I'd seen something

in the woods recently."

An item of clothing to be exact.

It turned out that it was just

an old hat Tom had lost.

- But it could've been this.

- Chuck.. give me..

"Expensive, by the feel of it,

and your initials on it."

I imagine they'd draw the same conclusion

from this as anybody would.

I told the law it'd take me no time at all

to find this piece of clothing.

"I reckon we got us ten minutes, maybe fifteen,

'fore they start knocking on doors."

I wouldn't try to run away.

They are sure to see you.

"Why would I wanna run away, Chuck?"

"I wouldn't try to holler, either."

Why would I wanna do that?

It wasn't me who wanted you here.

You were far to beautiful and frail

for this place.

You tricked me into feeling that

I meant something to you.

"It's your own damn fault.

I need your respect, Grace."

- You have my respect.

- I want your respect.

Don't...!

This is wrong..

"If I can force the flowers to bloom

early in spring, I can force you..."

Please...

"Stop it!

Please.. Please... Please, don't!"

Please! Please...

"Please look at me, talk to me."

"We're friends, you and my family.."

Stop it!

Have you seen Grace?

She's at my place.

- Is she busy?

- Not anymore. Go right in.

[Narrator] Yet again Grace had made

a miraculous escape from her pursuers

with the aid of the people of Dogville.

"Everyone had covered up for her,

including Chuck, who had to admit"

that it was probably Tom's hat he'd

mistakenly considered so suspicious.

"That evening Tom had sensed at once

that something had taken place,"

but had to plead with Grace for ages

before she finally broke down

and unburdened herself.

- I have to confront him. I mean.

- No!

- I have no other choice.

- No.

- No one will accept what he did to you. No one.

- I don't want you to.

I came here with all these ideas

and these stupid prejudices.

"He is not strong, Tom."

"He looks strong, but he's not."

I'm gonna start looking for a way

to get you out of here.

[Narrator] The end of the summer had come.

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