Johnny Handsome Page #2

Now, if you'd excuse me,

I have work to do.

Goddamn. Thanks, doc.

There's a theory, John...

...that surgical rehabilitation can be

a deterrent to criminal recidivism.

Like any theory, it needs to be

validated with facts...

...statistical evidence.

You won't be the first, John.

But if you say yes,

you will not be the last.

Granted, it'll take me a while...

...but you could end up

looking almost normal.

Maybe even better than that.

The point is, I need your consent.

You know the prison rules

as well as I know the prison rules.

But let me assure you, I'm not talking

about experimenting on you.

These operations

are not experiments.

Do you know that they started doing

these procedures on children...

...with massive cranial disfigurements

some 15 years ago?

These operations work, John.

Now, I know that your childhood

operations ended in failure...

...but this is entirely different.

This will be fine surgeons...

...doing procedures that haven't been

available for the last several years.

Anyway, this is not

an abstraction for you.

You can come out of this

with a normal life.

This experiment is all bullshit.

I'm still gonna be

Johnny Handsome.

I will give you a new name.

I will give you a new face.

I will give you new identification

and a chance at a new life.

They do that for witnesses.

I can do that for you.

If you do that...

...you got my face.

This guy's deader than a week

of Sundays. Told you I'd nail that geek.

Yeah, ain't that just like you, baby.

When you want something done right...

...you just pay someone else

to do it for you.

Keep up the sh*t, I'll ship you back

to that oil-riggers' bar in east Texas...

...where I found you.

I think you mean where I found you...

...knocking off gas stations

for beer money.

Come on, we're doing good here.

We're gonna do real good at Mikey's.

Sure thing, sugar.

Whatever you say.

We'll just wait

and see what happens, huh?

You wanna enhance that a little bit?

Okay, the anterior portion

is 5 centimetres to the left.

Got it.

Okay, and is he

fully intubated, nurse?

- Yes, doctor.

- That's good.

Then why don't you just remove

a little tracheal pressure.

- Removing.

- Okay.

Let's just make sure all of these lines

are clear of the breathing circuit.

Good.

How you feeling

this morning, John? Good?

Okay.

I know the last three weeks

have been very painful for you.

And you probably think that you're

gonna look completely different...

...but that's not gonna happen

right away.

Not for a long time.

All right?

Let's do it.

Can you open, John?

Can you open?

That's beautiful in there.

Take a breath.

That feel different inside there?

- Yes, it does.

- Much better resonance.

Thanks to the operation,

you've got the equipment now.

We'll have to see

if you can learn to use it.

John Sedley, Sister Luke.

Our speech pathologist.

Hi.

Mama made some lemon jam.

Mama made some lemon jam.

Now let's concentrate

on controlling your airflow.

Remember, the words are carried

on air going out of the mouth.

Now take a breath in.

Hold it.

Let it out.

Mama made some lemon... Oh, sh*t.

You know it's not easy

to change the habits of a lifetime.

I know how hard it is for you...

...but it can be done.

It takes work, and it takes will.

And if you work hard...

...someday you will speak

just about as well as anyone.

Mama made some lemon jam.

Good.

Mama made some lemon jam.

Very good!

Real piece a work, ain't it?

Piece of work, Mr. Sedley.

Piece of work.

All right.

What about your mother?

Please, Sedley. You're making

this difficult for both of us.

I'm trying to fill in background

for your character profile.

Our records are

very sketchy on you.

Other than a few biographical facts...

...we don't know much

about your mother.

We know that she died

when you were 13.

Do you remember liking her?

I didn't know her real good.

She came some weekends

to the state home...

...where they kept me

at St. Brendan's.

Your father?

Did you know who he was?

No.

Your mother never

discussed him to you?

She didn't talk about it.

Hey, I just think

she was embarrassed.

About your father?

About him. About me.

You know, I wasn't exactly

her dream come true, you know.

Do you remember anything special

about school, John?

Yeah. Carlisle.

Who's Carlisle?

Carlisle was this fat kid

at St. Brendan's.

And we all used to make fun of him,

you know, because of his name.

- And you wanna hear about this?

- Yeah, go ahead.

At Halloween, we all dressed up

in costumes...

...and Carlisle, he comes over

to me and he...

I had this jack-o'- lantern mask on,

and he rips it off...

...and he starts screaming:

"Johnny don't need no mask.

Johnny don't need no mask. "

And all the other kids start laughing.

They were all laughing.

And then?

I beat the sh*t out of him.

You can write it down.

No, I think that will be all

for today, John.

Thank you.

All right, John, here we go.

You just relax.

Think about pleasant thoughts.

It will be over before you know it.

Everything's gonna be all right.

Let's start counting backwards

from 100.

Ninety-nine...

...98...

Johnny don't need no mask.

Now, I know you're doing this

for me.

You ain't never been

much of sh*t to look at.

Put a bag on his head.

I know you're doing this for me.

Sounds lik e he's already got

a bag over his head.

A scumbag.

Johnny Handsome.

Go look for yourself.

Well...

...what do you think, John?

You people did a terrific job.

But I still feel like

I'm wearing a mask.

If you need to see me

about something...

...I have an office.

You can make an appointment.

Relax, doc. I'm here to see a patient.

But you're leaning on my car,

lieutenant. My car.

How is our star?

His prognosis is good. Very good.

I think that you'll be very surprised

at who John Sedley is right now.

Yeah, well, maybe.

But I tell you what I won't be

surprised about:

He saying he put one

over on you.

Are you trying

to destroy my program?

Are you trying to make him fail?

Look, why don't you just get off his ass

and give him a break?

Think, lieutenant. Point number one:

His mother was a prostitute

and a drug addict...

...died when he was 13 years of age.

Point number two:

Thanks to a genetic abnormality...

...probably attributable

to his mother's addiction...

...he was born with defects

that 99 percent of all humanity...

...consider totally disgusting.

Now...

...he has finally given himself

a chance at a new life.

And what does he get for that?

You, just crawling all over him.

Well, damn, doc, that's...

That's a real sad story.

Yes, it is.

- Sedley?

- Three ten.

Well, bless my ass.

Look at you.

Look at you.

If that don't beat all...

That's amazing.

That's f***ing amazing.

Got all that lank-ass hair now.

Guess next you'll be wearing

a ponytail and a f***ing earring, huh?

I wouldn't have made you

on the street.

Can you beat that?

Pretty hard to believe, ain't it?

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