Lilith Page #5

I just can't think of everything.

I've got more important things

on my mind than that garbage.

- Been real nice meeting you.

- Yeah.

Come back real soon,

we'll have a real chat.

Thank you.

Can you imagine that, Vincent?

Me drinking?

Please have one.

Vincent, how did you happen

to stop by tonight?

You never got that clock fixed.

Isn't that funny,

the things you remember?

I thought you'd forgotten

all about me.

You see, I wasn't sure how you felt

after Norman and I got married.

I even thought you might be

holding it against me.

Why would I do that?

I've been thinking about you.

I happened to see you passing by the

other day. I suppose that's the reason.

You were with

a very pretty blond girl.

That's one of the patients.

I'm sure you'll make a great success

of your work, Vincent.

I always hoped you'd

find yourself someday.

Vincent, what's the matter?

- I'll be running along.

- Vincent.

Do you remember when I said...

...l'd never really let you make love

to me untiI I was married?

Well, I am married now.

I'm not allowed

to go across the street.

If this was my hoop, I'd put ribbons

in the rim, with little bells.

That would be a good idea, lady,

but would it cost a lot?

Then I'd have to give you

some money.

We still have some money, don't we,

Vincent? From my allowance?

- How much?

- A dollar.

There you are.

Don't forget, it's just for the bells.

Yes, ma'am, and thank you.

I'll come back and see you in a couple

of days. When, Vincent? Thursday?

- What's your name?

- David.

Ma'am, I wanna buy this aquarium.

There he goes again.

He screamed like that all night. Who is

it that screams like that above me?

It's our friend Mr. Davis, isn't it?

Why don't they do something for him?

You don't know how terrible it is.

- What do you want them to do?

- Kill him.

They're not supposed to kill people

here. They're supposed to cure them.

Are they?

Do you think they can cure Lilith?

Do you know what she wants?

Do you think they can cure this fire?

Do you know

what they have to cure?

She wants to leave the mark of her

desire on every creature in the world.

If she were Caesar,

she'd do it with a sword.

If she were a poet,

she'd do it with words.

But she's Lilith.

She has to do it with her body.

Your hands are cold.

They feel like death.

Why did you steal my doll?

- What doll?

- You know.

I don't know

what you're talking about.

You're lying.

You say you love me, and you lie.

How can there be trust between us...

...when you lie to me?

- Wait a minute. Wait a minute!

- I didn't steal your doll.

- Liar! Liar!

Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!

Liar!

Liar.

I took it because I love you.

Did I show you my paintbox?

My new one?

Don't you think it's beautiful?

It was a gift from Ronnie.

Ronnie? Who's Ronnie?

My brother.

Your brother's dead.

Is he?

He used to give me things.

Flowers.

There was a rose

in his hand that day.

All the petals

blew away like little flowers.

What did you ever bring me,

Vincent?

I want you to take us out together.

His hands are warm...

...not cold and dead like yours.

He makes lovely things for me.

He's very sweet.

I've been very cruel to him.

Tell me more about your brother.

My brother?

There's nothing to tell.

He's dead.

He asked Miss Brice

to bring it for me.

Who asked Miss Brice?

Steven.

Steven Evshevsky.

He made it for me for my birthday.

Don't you think that's touching?

You will take us walking tomorrow,

won't you?

You will take us walking.

Won't you?

Good evening.

Won't you sit down?

The music's beautiful, isn't it?

You saw Miss Arthur today.

I wonder if she mentioned

the gift that I sent her.

Yes, she did.

She did? Well, was she...?

Did she seem pleased with it?

She showed it to me.

She showed it to you?

Then she must have been

pleased with it.

You know, I really think she's

beginning to have a feeling for me.

Don't you?

Of all the people here, I think you are

the only one who understands us.

How beautiful everything is.

Only last night, this very tree

terrified me.

Do you know I was just

about to destroy this leaf?

To kill it...

...just out of happiness.

How careless joy can make us,

and yet how wonderful.

One feels a kind of

heightened sensitivity.

You hear things that

you've never heard before.

You see things that

you've never seen before.

You can feel colors.

That must be what she feels when

she catches the sunlight in her prisms.

How wonderful I feel

when I'm happy.

Do you think that insanity...

...could be so simple a thing

as unhappiness?

Maybe it's the other way around.

I don't understand that.

What do you mean?

I don't know what I mean.

Sometimes I just say things.

You shouldn't trust me.

But I do.

Just as I trust the way I feel.

You say she showed you my gift.

Did she say anything about it?

Did she like it?

Did she talk about me?

I'd like permission to live

on the grounds.

He got a kitchen knife

from someone.

Held it against his chest and

then fell full-length onto the floor.

- When?

- It must have been about sunrise.

Greta came over to check

when he didn't show at breakfast.

Tell him to cover up his hands.

He didn't like people

to see his fingers.

What is it? Mother here?

I saw the ambulance.

I was watching from my window.

They came to get my brother,

didn't they? They've taken him away.

I saw them. I saw the ambulance.

They took him out on a stretcher,

covered with a white blanket.

It was Steven.

Steven?

- You're lying to me.

- No.

- Why are you always lying to me?

- I'm not lying.

You mean that gentleman

with the lovely hands...

...who made me my paintbox?

Have I shown you

my paintbox?

And you were going

to take us walking.

- No.

- You said in a couple days...

...we could go walking.

You don't know what I've done.

He killed himself.

He's dead.

No, I don't know what you're saying.

I don't understand

what you're saying.

You shouldn't say

such terrible things.

You're lying if you say those things.

I did the right thing.

You wanted me to do that.

Say that.

That isn't why they die.

Just say I did the right thing.

Tell me that.

Say you wanted me to do it.

I don't kill the things I love.

I didn't kill my brother.

He jumped.

He jumped because he

didn't dare to love me.

And I wanted him to.

I wanted him to.

What else you wanna know,

doctor?

You always want me to tell you things.

Don't you know enough, doctor?

I'm Vincent.

Vincent?

Leave me alone, please.

Leave me alone. Please.

Vincent?

Vincent?

Vincent?

Hi.

- Drinking?

- Sure.

Only it's on me.

I owe you a binge.

Scotch, water on the side.

Scotch, blood on the side.

If you're in a rocket ship,

you can shoot right back at them.

They disintegrate.

You're gonna be alone

in space, you know.

Space, all alone.

I don't know which is right.

Yellow hair, yellow ribbon.

This one's for you, b*tch.

Help me.

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