Mourning Becomes Electra Page #9

I mean the man who must have got

the poison for her.

Captain Brant.

You lie. She told me all your rotten lies

about following her to New York...

What a fool you are, Orin.

She kisses you and pretends

she loves you.

All she thinks about is Brant.

Stop, I won't stand...

All she's thinking right now

is how she can use you against me

so she can run off and marry him.

You lie.

I saw her in his arms kissing him.

Tell me you're lying or...

You know I'm not lying.

You're not insane.

You know what you're saying but...

you'll have to prove it, otherwise...

There is a chance to prove it.

And when I do will you help me punish

Father's murderers?

I'll kill him.

But it's only your word against hers.

She'll go to Brant

the first chance she gets.

Would you believe me

if you found them together?

Yes.

Just let me get my hands on him.

Orin.

I can't face her now.

Pretend you think I'm insane.

She wanted you to.

Orin.

Why don't you answer me?

Why have you locked me out?

Let me in.

Answer her.

Let her in.

All right, Mother.

I'm coming.

Wait.

Now open the door.

Orin.

Let me in.

Orin.

I got so afraid

when I found the door locked.

What made you afraid, Mother?

Why do you look at me like that?

You look so like your father.

I'm his son too, remember that.

Orin.

I suppose you've been telling him

your vile lies.

She's out of her mind, Mother.

I knew you'd say that.

I know she's plotting something, Orin.

Did she threaten to go to the police?

They might not realize she's crazy.

You won't let her do anything dreadful

like that, will you?

No, Mother.

No...

Remember your father wouldn't want

any scandal.

He mustn't be worried, he said.

He needs rest and peace.

You haven't changed, Ezra.

You were always dead to me.

I hate the sight of death.

Mother, be quiet!

Why did I come back to life

from my island of peace?

That's lost now.

You're my lost island,

aren't you, Mother?

Orin.

It was Brant who got you this medicine

to make you sleep, wasn't it?

No, no, no.

You're telling me it was. I knew it.

I wanted to make sure.

Vinnie.

Keep Orin out of this. He's changed.

He's grown hard and cruel.

Have mercy, Vinnie. Don't let Orin...

Ezra...

Don't let her harm Adam.

I am the only guilty one.

Don't let Orin...

I'm going to see Adam.

I've got to warn him.

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you

A-way my rolling river

Oh, Shenandoah, I can't get near you

Way-ay, I'm bound away

Across the wide Missouri.

Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter

A-way my lonely river

Like him, a coward.

Aye, it's the rotten Mannon blood in me.

Who's there?

Adam.

Christine.

Go to the gangway.

I'll meet you there.

Orin.

Don't be a fool. He'll kill you.

Oh, Adam.

I am so frightened.

Is something wrong?

What is it, Christine?

Vinnie knows.

What's she going to do?

I don't know.

How did you get away?

She followed you once before.

I thought I heard someone.

No, it's all right.

I made Orin believe she's

out of her head with grief, insane.

He decided that a change of scene

would bring her back to her senses.

He took her this morning to Blackridge

to visit their cousins.

I had to come and warn you.

Oh, Adam, we've got to plan.

There isn't much time.

Shhh.

We're fools to be talking out here.

I'll kill him now, in front of her.

Stop thinking of her.

Think of Father, think of the family,

of us.

Don't be crazy.

When he was dying he pointed at me

and told her I was guilty.

Then she found the poison.

For heaven's sake, why didn't...

I fainted before I could hide it.

How could I foresee she

would come in just at that moment?

And how could I know he would talk

to me the way he did?

I only wanted him to die

and leave me alone.

But he knew before he died

whose son I was.

Good!

Oh, I planned it so carefully.

But something made things happen.

I should have done as I wanted.

Fought with Ezra Mannon as two men

fight for the love of a woman.

I have my father's rotten blood in me,

I think.

It's too late for regrets now.

We have to think what to do.

I'm so terrified of Vinnie.

If she convinces Orin...

Oh, why can't we go away, Adam?

My ship won't be sailing for a month.

Can't we go on another ship?

Everyone in town would know

that you'd gone.

It would start suspicion.

No, Orin and Vinnie would lie to people.

They'd have to, for their own sakes.

Oh, Adam, if we don't get out of Vinnie's

reach right away

something horrible will happen.

Aye, I suppose it's the only way.

The Atlantis sails on Friday for China.

I'll arrange with the skipper to give us passage.

You'd better meet me here

Thursday night.

I'll write the owners

they'll have to find a new skipper

for the Flying Trades.

Poor Adam.

I know how it hurts you

to give up your ship.

There are plenty of ships.

There's only one you, Christine.

I brought you nothing but misfortune.

You brought love.

The rest is only the price.

It's worth it a million times.

You're all mine now anyway.

Try not to regret your ship

too much, Adam.

Let's not talk about it anymore.

I'll give up the sea.

I thinks it's through with me, anyway.

The sea hates a coward.

Don't talk like that.

We'll be happy once we're safe

on your blessed islands.

It's strange.

Orin was telling me of an island.

Aye, the blessed isles.

Maybe we can still find happiness

and forget.

I can see them now.

The warm earth in the moonlight...

The trade winds rustling the palms...

The surf on the barrier reef crooning

in your ears like a lullaby.

Aye, there's peace and forgetfulness

for us there.

If we can ever find those islands now.

We will find them.

We will.

I've got to go now.

Watch out for Vinnie.

If anything happened to you now...

Nothing will happen to me.

But you must be on your guard

in case Orin...

Oh, be careful, Adam.

I feel so strange.

So sad.

As if I'd never see you again.

Tell me we are going to be happy.

Of course we'll be happy.

Come now.

It's only a couple of days.

Let me go.

No. Be quiet.

Come to his cabin.

Death is too good for him.

He ought to be...

Orin, you promised not to lose your head.

Did you hear her warn him

against me?

And the island that I told her about.

She wants to go there with him.

Why did you stop me?

I'd have shot his guts out

in front of her.

Outside on deck where the shot

could be heard?

We'd be arrested.

I'd have to tell the truth to save you.

She'd be hanged

but even if we managed to get off

our lives would be ruined.

Father's name would be disgraced.

The only person to come off lucky

would be Brant.

He'd die happy knowing

he'd been revenged on all of us.

Is that what you want?

No.

Then don't act like a fool again.

He's coming.

Go, then. Go on.

So it's goodbye to you, Flying Trades.

I wasn't man enough for you.

Don't stand there.

Remember the plan.

Smash open everything in his stateroom.

Take everything valuable.

You've got to make it look

like the work of thieves, remember.

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