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(her voice breaks)
She was so sorry. And she would
miss you very much.
Amelia nods and leans against her mother.
INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
Cam enters with two pillowcases stuffed with clothes. Two
sleeping bags sit on the sofa. As Cam picks up a teddy bear
and stuffs it in one of the pillowcases:
CAM:
Sleeping bags, pajamas, stuffed
animals, books, changes of clothes,
what am I forgetting?
MAGGIE (O.S.)
Toothbrushes?
Maggie enters from the kitchen with a tray. On it is a
teapot and tea cups and buttered toast on a plate. She puts
it on the table and pours it out, handing him a cup.
CAM:
I bought toothbrushes they can keep
at my apartment. And I took two
big cardboard boxes and set them up
like little beds. They’re going to
flip.
MAGGIE:
They’re so excited.
26.
CAM:
And during the day they can turn
them over and use them as puppet
theaters.
MAGGIE:
You’re going to have fun.
CAM:
Now that I have my own place,
Maggie, I’d be happy to pick them
up any day and have them stay over.
There’s room for you too...
Beat. Maggie doesn’t reciprocate.
CAM:
Just kidding. Not until you’re
ready.
MAGGIE:
Cam, I got into business school.
Cam reacts, impressed.
CAM:
Maggie Stuart, you are some
punkins. I wish I had some of that
bourgeois midwestern can-do.
MAGGIE:
I got a scholarship. To Columbia.
Cam is thrown.
CAM:
Wait. You can’t take the girls to
New York.
MAGGIE:
No. I can’t even afford a studio
apartment in New York. Jenny said
her mother has a small room she can
rent me.
CAM:
So what about the girls?
MAGGIE:
Here’s my proposal. I can get my
degree in eighteen months if I do
the summer session. So I go to New
York. You move in here and take
care of the girls.
27.
He looks at her for a long beat. Then:
CAM:
...Me?
He takes out a cigarette.
MAGGIE:
Yes. You. You miss them. And
they miss you so much. It’s just
eighteen months. When I get my
MBA, I’ll get a job in Boston and
move back in here.
(gripping his arm)
I know it sounds crazy, Cam, but
you can do it. I know you can.
Cam walks away from her, considering.
CAM:
I suppose it might be good for me
to have a purpose --
MAGGIE:
A routine. The doctor thinks
that’s exactly what you need.
CAM:
Yes. A routine. Getting meals on
the table. Taking them to school
every morning, putting them to bed
every night, making sure they brush
their hair and their teeth... the
laundry.
He looks exhausted.
CAM:
That sounds like a lot.
MAGGIE:
It is a lot. But we’re sinking
deeper and deeper into a hole and I
have to do something.
CAM:
The new school does feel a bit like
a reformatory.
MAGGIE:
It’s grim. You and I went to good
schools, we had piano lessons -
28.
CAM:
I never had any lessons.
MAGGIE:
But you learned how to fence and
ski and sail and speak French...
CAM:
But I never took lessons. My
family taught me those things.
MAGGIE:
The point is we both got a good
education. And I want that for our
children.
CAM:
Well, I want that too. But
eighteen months is a lot of
routine.
MAGGIE:
You can do it.
CAM:
I can?
MAGGIE:
I will come back every weekend and
help you.
Cam looks at her.
CAM:
Every weekend? And stay here with
us?
MAGGIE:
Yes.
CAM:
So it would be like we were a
family again?
She nods. Cam looks off into the distance, a determined look
on his face. He feels the importance of his mission.
CAM:
29.
INT. RESTAURANT. DAY
Maggie sits across from MURRAY and PAULINE STUART, Cam’s
parents. Murray wears a corduroy jacket with a pipe tucked
into the pocket. Pauline wears a red turtleneck with a
large, elaborate jade necklace over it.
PAULINE:
I’m afraid we need to intervene on
our son’s behalf and say: no. He’s
just not up to the task.
MAGGIE:
I know he can do it.
MURRAY:
And what if he can’t? It’s a
recipe for disaster.
Reveal that Cam is also at the table. He takes umbrage at
his father’s remark as he lights his mother’s cigarette.
CAM:
You don’t seem to think I can do
anything.
PAULINE:
We just don’t want you to tax
yourself, darling boy.
MAGGIE:
We met with Dr. Wendell. He said
Cam has made an excellent recovery
from his breakdown and he felt he
could do this.
CAM:
He thinks I need more
responsibility, not less.
Murray looks mystified.
MURRAY:
But you’re a man. Even if you
could do it, why would you want to?
MAGGIE:
He loves to cook. He loves to tell
stories and play games. He’s a
good father. I would never ask him
if I didn’t believe he could do it.
Cam smiles at her gratefully. He puts his hand on hers.
30.
PAULINE:
We believe in him too, but what if
he has a breakdown?
MAGGIE:
He won’t. Because we’re all going
to support him and make sure he
takes his lithium. I’ll check in
every day on the phone and I’ll be
there on the weekends.
PAULINE:
That sounds exhausting.
MURRAY:
Is this because of Feminism?
MAGGIE:
We’re living at the poverty level.
The girls are at a terrible school.
MURRAY:
Our children went to the best
schools and I’ll tell you, it
didn’t add up to much.
PAULINE:
(turning on him)
Our children are delightful!
MURRAY:
Absolutely. But not one of them is
self-supporting.
PAULINE:
Well, Murray, lest you forget:
neither are we.
Annoyed, Murray pulls the pipe out of his pocket and starts
to pack it.
CAM:
I think what Maggie is doing is
quite admirable.
MURRAY:
I agree. Very commendable.
PAULINE:
But how did it get to this? I
thought Gaga was paying the rent on
your little apartment.
31.
MAGGIE:
She is.
PAULINE:
It isn’t enough?
MAGGIE:
No.
PAULINE:
(to Murray)
Don’t we have some crystal or some
silver we could sell?
MURRAY:
That won’t even pay for this meal.
PAULINE:
(forcefully)
No no no. Maggie Stuart, you
cannot leave your family.
MAGGIE:
Pauline, I’m desperate. Utterly
and completely desperate. We have
no money.
Pauline looks like she just ate something terrible.
PAULINE:
Pauline always says the word “money” with extreme distaste.
MURRAY:
Then let’s drop it.
PAULINE:
(leaning in)
I wish we could help but we’re
barely getting by on the dollops of
cash Gaga doles out to us...
MURRAY:
Pauline, please!
Murray turns his back on the table and aggressively puffs on
his pipe. This is uncomfortable for him.
MAGGIE:
Cam is a trust fund baby with no
trust fund. My parents have done
all they can. One of us is going
to have to earn a living.
32.
Pauline looks very sad. She pats Maggie’s hand with genuine
emotion.
PAULINE:
Oh, my dear, it all just sounds so
dreary!
EXT. PARKING LOT. DAY
Cam, wearing jade swimming trunks and a bright green shirt,
is organizing Maggie’s suitcases in the back of a small U-
Haul. A nervous, skinny man in his 40s looks on, biting his
fingernails. He is PETER.
PETER:
Why does he keep re-arranging
everything? It was fine before.
We need to go, Maggie. We’re
heading into miserable traffic.
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