Madame Curie Page #5

Good night, my boy.

Good night. Good night.

Good night.

Quiet, please...

Chaplain. Quiet, please.

Now, look right here, please

and hold absolutely still until

I count to ten.

Still.

One and two and three

and four and five

and six and seven and eight

and nine and ten.

How I wish you happiness

Mme. Curie.

Oh, David. Thank you.

You're the first one

who's called me that.

Good bye, Mme. Curie

and bon voyage.

Thank you, mademoiselle.

Good bye, my dear Marie.

Oh, Father dear. Good bye.

Oh, congratulations, lad.

Thank you. Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you, David. Bye. Bye.

Excuse me.

Now, where can I put

this chicken?

Mother

we don't need anymore food.

We're not going at the jungle.

Good gracious

what's this, Pierre?

What do you want the science book

on your honeymoon?

We want to read them, Mother.

Well, this is the last straw.

Mother, we want those books.

The chicken will do you fine

I assure you.

Science books on your honeymoon!

My boy, good bye.

Good bye.

Ready, Marie? Here they go...

You're very lovely, Marie.

Thank you, Pierre.

Music is lovely, isn't it?

Yes. Thank you.

Pierre.

Yes.

Would you hate to get back?

In a way, although I have a lot

of work that I must do.

What should I work on, Pierre?

What subject should I choose for

my doctors degree?

Is there anything that

particularly interests you?

Oh, yes. Yes, a number of things

but...

What is it? Why did you stop?

Oh, nothing.

It's just an idea that

went through my mind.

Well, what was it?

Do you remember that

Professor Becquerel showed us that rock

The pitch blende and the plate he

exposed to it?

Yes.

You know, Pierre.

I can't get that out of my mind.

Really? Why?

I know it's true

that the rays give...

not by something

in the pitch blende

I can't get over the feeling

that there's more to it than that

that there's something else

something beyond

Becquerel's explanation.

I don't quite understand.

Well, what are these rays

that given off

and why are they being given off.

It's an accepted principle

in science

that nothing can go on forever

without running dull, isn't it?

Yes.

I mean, the clock will run dull

if it isn't wound.

Afire would burn out if it's not

replenished.

Life will die if it is inflate.

Yet in these rocks

which are embedded

in the middle of the earth

millions of years

never seen the sun

Rays are constantly given off

more all by themselves.

What is this energy?

Where does it come from?

I supposed

I'm being very foolish.

Some of the greatest achievements

in science

come to the same type

of foolishness.

When an explanation is given

of something

and every one believes it

there may be one person somewhere

who can't quite accept it,

who instinctively says

I'm not sure that

this is sufficient explanation.

Maybe something beyond this.

It's that

kind of foolishness, Marie.

Well, I'm not that person

I'm sure.

How do you know? Perhaps you are

Perhaps Dr. Becquerel has only

set the gate a jar.

Maybe a long

and unexplored road ahead

I wouldn't even know how to start

Pierre.

I wouldn't know what to do.

I'm very glad we're married

to each other, Pierre.

Darling.

Hello, Marie.

My class kept me the day

with the most stupid questions.

Thought I would never get away.

Just tonight

when we're having guests.

I have a terrible problem.

I hope I got the things

you wanted me to get.

I lost the slip that

I made the notes on

and I couldn't remember

whether there was turnips

or carrots, so I got both.

Mother likes carrots

and Father likes turnips.

And here's some flowers

for the cook.

Thank you, Pierre.

What's the matter, Marie?

Oh, Pierre. I'm so discouraged.

Looks like this method of mine

is all wrong.

I wonder if I'm trying something

beyond me.

What is it exactly that's wrong?

I don't know.

My measurements.

they don't mean anything.

I know I must be making mistakes

some where...

but I don't know where it is.

I checked them and

I rechecked them two hundred times.

Maybe the electrometer

is not working right.

That's what I'm afraid of.

I wish you'd examine it for me

Pierre

I'll go over it tomorrow.

Let's forget it tonight.

Let's not talk, not even

think the laboratory

Promise?

I promise.

Well, Pierre. What is it?

Marie, about those measurements.

Do you think

anything could have happened

to change the capacity

of the electrometer?

Weren't we suppose to forget

the laboratory tonight?

Oh. I forgot. I'm sorry.

No more... Im terribly sorry.

Here they are.

Where's my coat?

Here we are.

Hello, dear. Pierre.

Mother.

I smell turnips.

We got carrots for you.

Oh, how sweet of you.

Oh, I brought you

some of my new plum jelly.

Thank you, Mother.

She made it but I brought it.

Ah, thank you, Father.

Let me have your things.

Your coat, Father?

Yeah. You're not

treating her right, Pierre.

She looks pinkish.

Oh, it's silly.

Why you look lovely, dear.

Just the same, she's too thin.

And I say a woman without a child

is a parasite.

She feeds on life

but is not willing to

give life in return.

What is being her excuse

to have life.

Why would she ever born?

She's a blood sucker.

Now, don't call names, George.

Are you listening to me?

Of course.

A woman without a child

is a blood sucker.

We didn't mean you, my dear.

Oh, yes.

She's just the one I did mean.

But I'm going to have a child.

When?

Soon, I hope.

Oh, my dear. Marie.

Yes, dear.

Look who's going to say something

at last.

Are you sure the insulation is dry?

Yes, Pierre.

He's getting quite chatty lately

isn't he?

Don't bother them.

They're thinking of something.

I don't believe it.

Did you check

the ground connection?

I don't know.

I thought you gave it to me

in good order.

Well, sometimes it work loose

and you don't notice it.

Pierre, that could be possible

couldn't it?

Yes. Yes, of course.

The thing we must do is to check

that line completely

from one end to the other.

In that case

my measurements may be correct.

Yes.

Then all these months of work

couldn't have been wrong

after all.

That's right.

Pierre, that's it.

That must be it...

Yes, that must be it.

Alright. Alright.

Go ahead and check it.

Father, it's just that, well

Marie has so many setbacks

with her work.

That's alright.

Don't stop doing...

Please. Go ahead.

It's just that I've been

waiting for so many months.

It's alright, my dear.

I hope you won't mind

if I stay long enough

to finish my coffee.

Please do and we'll try to

get back before you go.

Thank you, my boy. Thank you.

Good bye.

You know, sometimes that son of

yours is not quite all right.

Nice having dinner with you.

You know, I'll never

come to this house

but for the sake...

It's Alright, George.

It happens every time.

Well?

It's alright.

Nothing wrong with it.

I was wrong.

I was sure we've found it.

Well...

I don't know. I'm sorry.

You tested all of the elements.

you're sure of that, Marie?

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