Jimmy P. Page #6

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the father of the child to come.

After the trial, Jane still

asked me to marry her.

I asking you to marry me. And if you

change your mind and propose to me,

I want you to know, I will say yes.

All I know is what

I saw at the dance.

What did you see?

You're just an idiot,

you're just a plain idiot.

My mother turned on me,

called me many names.

Spring time came.

Her family had to move on.

Later, I heard that

Jane had had a girl.

A year later,

I came across the guy who

was behind the haystack.

His name was Allan.

Jimmy, this is funny.

I thought sure you and

Jane would get married.

Remember the ball?

I was with Jane when she saw

you go out with that other girl.

Oh, she got mad.

I tried to calm her down.

She asked me to go outside.

We were looking for you in the cold.

She could have ripped you to shreds.

Then there was the army...

my accident...

And my divorce with Lily.

If Jane had not told her daughter,

Mary Lou would have not

known I was her father.

I'm begging with you,

please just slow down.

Then one day, we

saw each other again.

Hey soldier! They said

you were back in town.

So many years...

I was another man I guess,

but Jane still wanted me.

You've been

all over the world!

- Is your husband here?

- No.

He stayed in Spokane.

He couldn't get off work.

- Is that her?

- Yes.

I named her Mary Lou.

She has heard about you.

We were together all

that afternoon and night.

I let her go.

She told me she was just

having some gallstones removed.

Tomorrow I have to

go to the hospital.

They're going to operate on me.

I would rather have you there

beside me than my husband.

That night I prayed

she would outlive me.

I mean I drank a lot

back in those days.

Thinking of my dying

made me peaceful.

I was supposed to meet

Jane, after the operation.

So I grabbed some

money from the bank...

At the station there was this girl,

a friend of Jane I knew from school.

- What are you doing in town?

- I'm taking this dream liner

to go see Jane.

I asked her why she was crying.

She said that afternoon a telegram

had come that Jane had died.

I'm so sorry, Jimmy!

That's how it was...

It was Tuesday.

Jane must have died on a Sunday.

They buried her there.

How could someone die of gallstone?

I don't know.

That is the worst thing

I ever did in my life.

I never robbed a bank,

never killed anybody.

She had written to me

before the operation.

But I got the letter after she died.

My love,

I wish I weren't married, so

I can marry you over and over.

My heart belongs to you.

You're the only man who ever counted.

If anything happens to me,

take care of our daughter.

Jane.

See you tomorrow.

My family wanted me to

marry a good Indian girl

who doesn't sleep with

her first boy she meets.

Gayle thought Jane was stupid.

And Lily?

Lily she was...

Lily she made it work.

But she was slippery.

How much longer do

I have to stay here?

How long does it take

to prep runaway horses?

No one could tell.

Perhaps it is time for this

procedure we spoke of.

And what exactly

will they do to me?

- They'll blow air into your brain.

- How?

Through the spinal cord.

They'll see if all the parts of your

brain are joined together properly.

Has anyone died from it?

None that I know of.

We called you here

to let you know that I was ill.

Why is camping here

for if you are ill?

Why not stay home?

And what's the hanging

missionary for?

We're almost through.

If you look far,

you'll see that there's still

one acre left to skive.

As soon as they're finish,

they go home.

I have to get back.

I have a curfew.

Picard, you must move out!

Everyone is leaving.

How so?

Jimmy is sad because

we will soon be parting.

How do you know when analysis is over?

There's are no rules.

You put...

the soul

in the heart.

The heart in the mind.

And mind...

in the body.

And the body...

in the person.

Wah lah!

- Hello!

- Yes

I'm just here to

check about my patient.

We are still waiting for

the oxy-encephalogram

and he is starting to get anxious.

Well, I put it in my

report quite a while ago.

I can't inject gas into the

spinal column of a drunk.

Jimmy hasn't been drinking.

Are you kidding...

Thank you.

Your Indian went on a little

jaunt the other night.

We had to pick him up,

carry him back to his room.

You'd never make such

a fuss about a white man!

This is a gross misconduct!

I demand the oxy-encephalogram

for my patient.

And I demand a radio as well!

The Palace of Theseus

Go, Filostrato

Stir up the Athenian youth to marriages.

Awake hurt and ...

Last night, I went to a show.

Little people worked with fingers.

Every time an act was over...

the bright lights came on and they

gave me a sharp pain in the head.

Remember the rules.

Don't try to think, just let it happen.

I can't think what it could be.

It will come.

Once you're able to stand it.

It is possible that I saw something

that might have triggered the pain?

It's possible.

Well, that play made me mad!

How now Spirit!

With a wandering...

There were two guys

arguing over a woman.

There was a fairy.

There was a guy with a donkey head!

Honestly, I didn't get a

damn thing about that play!

It's rare that you don't

understand something?

What did I see last night?

Two men fighting over a woman.

What does that mean?

You know sometimes we

have scars on our body

and we don't know where

they come from anymore.

There are such scars in the mind too.

It is twelve.

We should stop now.

When I was looking at that show.

There were the puppets.

And there was the guy

who makes them move, right?

Well, one of them stood crooked.

Its legs were folded up.

And I thought :

That's exactly what the doctor says.

I'm not standing on my own feet.

If that little guy

used his own strength

he'd be fine.

I hated comparing

myself to the puppet.

I was over-powered.

Everything I do is wrong.

As though the man above is to blame.

You're a person of dignity and worth.

No one is pulling your strings here.

When we first talked,

why did you bring up religion?

The way I recall it,

you asked about my religion.

No, no.

In one night, you turned me away

from all religions.

Now, my mind is turned

away from all religions

for the rest of my life.

The only advice I ever gave you,

was to be your own master.

You know I was Catholic.

There are lots of

Catholics in this country!

Why you try to cut us down?

You know I have

nothing against the Indians.

So now you imagine I have

something against your church.

I think you're wrong.

Okay.

Explain to me why I am wrong.

Well... when I first started out,

I was as green as that ashtray.

Then you quit talking to me

and I had to figure

it out all by myself.

Religions are courage

builders, right?

Well, I know a guy back home.

He doesn't believe in anything.

Not in the Indian religion,

not in the Christian religion.

And he's the biggest

drunk that ever walked.

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