Joy Page #4

I don't think we should let

her sleep on the stairs.

Let's just put her here on the couch,

okay?

Seventeen years... Think

about it, we've been hiding,

for 17 years.

Seventeen years...

we used to make things.

Seventeen years ago... and that all stopped!

What HAPPENED?

When you're hiding, you're safe,

because people can't see you.

But the funny thing about hiding...

you're even hidden from yourself.

Baby, what's the matter?

Tony, you need to move out of basement,

you need to get your own home.

What? Why?

Because I go out at night

and sing at Angela's club?

No, because we've been

divorced two years.

We need to move on.

You need to move out.

- Rudy, you need to move out, too.

- WHAT?

There's more room in

the basement for me now.

And another thing, Rudy, tomorrow I would like to

have a meeting with you and Trudy at your office

to discuss her investing in

manufacturing of my new idea.

No, I'm still getting to know her, I'm falling

in love, I can't do that, I won't do that.

And what manufacturing

idea, what are you talking about?

I have always been there for you.

No matter what.

I didn't go away to school,

I stayed to help you

and Mom through the divorce

and do your accounting.

I let you live here whenever you want,

no matter what it is.

I am RESPECTFULLY asking for

the favor that you owe me.

If you look into your heart,

you'll know that I'm right.

Christie...

I need to use your crayons,

and your colored pencils and your paper.

Let's go to my room.

You're not gonna believe this,

you know that plumber that you recommended?

- Yes, Toussaint.

- Well, I hired him.

Terry freaks out, completely...

she hasn't had a man in her room for 8 years.

Then Rudy makes me

hang a drop cloth.

The way I look at it,

is that this is an opportunity

for you to invest in a new business...

that'll mean more money for you.

Tell Rico die number 5's gotta go off.

Rico, number 5, no, off!

Turn it off! Thank you.

It is a standard handle, 53 inches,

the sleeve connects to the mop head.

And this is where

it gets complicated.

There's a clip that

connects the sleeve to the...

I don't even know

what to call it...

the cup,

which is connected to the mop head.

So, when you pull up on the sleeve,

the mop head stretches,

so you can wring it without ever

touching it with your hands.

The only thing we see is this...

crayon drawings.

- We can't make heads or tails.

- We don't know what is.

So the mop doesn't hang loose,

like hair, like a string?

It hangs, but not on loose. open ends,

like hair, it's one continuous loop.

- I do not get it.

- I do not get it.

- I do not get it. What's he doing here?

- What's he doing here?

He is the father of our children,

and my friend, and he looks out for me.

- We are doing an invention.

- Cheers.

Hi.

Yes, we are, Christie.

It is very serious.

- It's priority.

- Yes, it is.

- And I'm helping.

- Yes, you are.

It's crazy like that in Haiti.

Toussaint is teaching

me how to speak French.

And the word for industrious is...

Worker.

At first I thought maybe something scary

would happen like what happed to Danica.

While she was

kidnapped by a man who,

turned out to be hiding from

a royal family in Switzerland

and then, she moved to Switzerland.

Of course,

she befriended that man, and more.

Don't ever try to limit me,

Joy.

And let me know if you want

some of this Chacalaca.

Chaka... say "Chaka"

- Chaka.

- It's very good.

Be seeing you.

No more.

Hey, Rodney, hey, Tom.

- Hey, Tito.

- Hey.

I wanna show

you something.

Maybe you help me

figure this out.

I know that has to be welded,

and this part is supposed to twist.

One, 2,

- 3, 4, 5, 6,

- 4, 5, 6,

- What are you doing?

- 17, 18,

34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.

All right,

all right, Dad, come over here and grab this,

grab it right in the middle.

Okay, there,

you go up, and down.

- You see it?

- Not yet.

All right.

- How about now?

- No.

Well, you're going to.

I don't see it yet,

I mean...

- You ready?

- Yeah.

- Oh!

- Ah!

Three hundred feet of continuous

cotton loops... that's what I drew.

This is why I would like to

ask you for your investment, Trudy.

Maurice worked 50 years to

earn his fortune, Joy.

Before he passed on to the next world,

he made me promise, on his deathbed...

that I would never be

neglectful with one dollar...

of the money that he

so carefully earned.

Therefore, you have to answer Maurice's

four questions of financial worthiness.

Are you ready?

I think so, yes.

Question number 1.

- Where did you go to high school?

- Pinefield Public High.

Question number 2.

Who were you in high school?

I was valedictorian.

The smartest student

in the school.

That's good, right?

Perhaps.

Joy might be a BRILLIANT,

unrealized creator of commerce.

But, on the other hand, it's equally possible

that she is a fatally flawed underachiever,

doomed to a lifetime of failure,

disappointment... unfulfilled expectations.

You must admit, Joy, that your life to date

makes a stronger case for... disappointment.

I don't care about any of this.

it's not only risky, but,

it's fiscally irresponsible and

doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Joy's never run a

business in her life,

I've been running my father's

garage for the last 10 years.

OUR father.

I have ventures that I'm planning to launch,

here, at this EXISTING business.

You've never mentioned any of this until

I came to Trudy and asked for investment.

What's Morris' third question.

Are you prepared,

within six months of commencing

this venture, to show adequate returns?

- I accept your terms.

- Don't do it, Joy.

What is the fourth question?

You are in a room and

there is a gun on the table,

and the only other person in the

room is an adversary in commerce.

Only one of you can prevail.

Yet, you have protected your

business and Maurice's money.

Do you pick up the gun,

Joy?

That's a very strange question.

There is nothing strange

about this question at all.

This is money.

Do you pick up the gun?

- I pick up the gun.

- Good.

I'm going to remember

that you said that...

when I speak to my lawyer.

What did Trudy's lawyer say?

- He did a World-Wide patent search.

- What's a patent?

A patent is like a law that

you get to protect your idea.

A lot of people PATENT their ideas, but only

a FEW of them actually get their ideas made.

So, Trudy just wanted to be careful.

Joy, I just wanted to let you know that

Toussaint has almost finished his work.

And, uh... yeah, we really need

to find some more work for him.

You want more

work in the house?

- I have another b*tch I'll have to go to.

- What?

- Yes.

- But we have real issues here.

We don't have money for that work,

Mom.

Okay.

Joy.

- What is happening to you, Mother?

- I don't know what's going on.

- Are you in love with Toussaint?

- I... I am, I WAS feeling alone,

and I didn't even realize it,

ya know, and then...

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