My Sister's Keeper Page #7

[DOG BARKING]

Mr. Alexander,

does your dog have to go to the bathroom?

No, Your Honor, but I may need a recess.

I'm afraid that's out of the question.

I wanna finish today. Next witness, please.

The court calls Anna Fitzgerald.

[DOG WHIMPERING AND BARKING]

I mean it. If you can't control your animal,

I'll have him removed.

- Quiet, Judge.

- Excuse me?

No, no, I was speaking to the dog.

The dog's name is Judge.

I don't care what his name is,

I want him quiet.

BAILIFF:

Raise your hand.

Do you swear to tell the truth,

whole truth, nothing but the truth?

- Yup.

- Please state your name for the record.

Anna Fitzgerald.

- Hey, Mom.

- Hi, sweetheart.

You wanna tell us why we're here?

Why you're doing this?

For medical emancipation.

SARA:

That's not what I mean.

You love your sister, right?

You know she's sick.

Why won't you help her?

[PHIL X'S "KILL ME"

PLAYING O VER SPEAKERS]

What are you doing in there?

[THUDDING AND CLATTERING]

Come on, Kate, just let me in!

What's going on?

It smells like booze in here.

- Having a little party.

- A party?

Yeah, a going-away party.

See you, Mom!

Goodbye, f***ing hospital!

Damn!

What are you doing?

I'm going to see Taylor.

What? No! No!

No!

So you're here for medical emancipation?

Right.

Yes.

Is that it?

- Is that the only reason?

- That's the only reason.

Are you sure?

Hold, please. Mr. Fitzgerald,

is there something you wanted to say?

I don't know, is there?

BRIAN:

Hey.

[DOG BARKING]

Okay. All right, that is the last time.

If you do not control him, I'm going to

have the bailiff remove him. I mean it.

CAMPBELL:
Your Honor...

DE SALVO:
Not another word, counselor.

Proceed, please.

- I just want to be in charge of

my own body. JESSE: No, you don't.

Down.

- You want me to do something about this?

- No, leave it. It's kind of interesting.

Okay, so you want to be in charge.

Yeah. It's my body, I want to be able

to make my own decisions...

...about what to do with it.

No. No, I know you, Anna Fitzgerald,

and that's not it.

It doesn't add up.

For a week now

you've been avoiding the question.

"I can't tell you. " "I'm sorry. "

"I don't wanna talk about it. "

You've been walking around

like nothing's wrong...

...while your sister rots in that hospital!

- I don't wanna do it anymore.

- I don't believe you.

- You are hiding something, Anna.

- I'm not.

People give their kidneys

to total strangers.

- You'd better start talking right now.

ANNA:
I'm talking!

- You start telling me the truth.

- I am!

You're not.

Because if you are, I don't know you.

- Jesus Christ, Anna, just tell them.

- You shut up!

- Tell them!

- You promised me you wouldn't do this!

JESSE:

Tell them!

- God, you people are so stupid!

ANNA:
You promised!

- Kate wants to die!

ANNA:
Stop it!

She's making Anna do all this

because she knows she's not gonna survive.

- That's a lie, Jesse!

- Oh, no, it's not!

Kate's dying and everybody knows it.

You just love her so much

that you don't want to let her go.

Your Honor?

But it's time, Mom. Kate's ready.

That's not true.

Kate would have told me.

- Your Honor, I...

- Mom, she did tell you.

BRIAN:

She did.

She told you a million times.

You didn't wanna hear it.

Mr. Alexander.

Mr. Alexander.

ANNA:

Right then, I understood the real reason...

...why Campbell Alexander

took on my case.

It wasn't for the notoriety.

He was an epileptic.

He knew what it was like

to not have control over his own body.

KATE:

Anna?

Sissy.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

KATE:

Don't worry.

It's just the new medicine

getting ready for the kidney.

You in pain?

Pain?

My whole life is a pain.

This is the end, sissy.

It just gets scarier from here on out.

Mom's gonna chop me and cut me...

...till I'm a vegetable.

Two cells in a Petri dish

that she shocks with an electric cord.

You'll be all right.

It's over.

Time to go.

I need you to do me a favor, sissy.

What favor?

You can release me.

Are you certain you don't wanna

take the rest of the day off?

Oh, no, Your Honor. I'm fine.

Anything for a recess, right?

So, Anna, for the record.

Did you tell Kate you would stop

being a donor so that she could die?

- Yeah.

- And what did she say?

ANNA:

Mom and Dad are gonna kill me.

What am I supposed to tell them?

KATE:

Tell them you're important too.

Tell them you wanna play soccer.

Tell them you wanna cheerlead.

They'll never believe me.

Yeah, they will.

And you wanna know why?

Because it's the truth.

ANNA:
Oh, boy.

- I know.

ANNA:

You scared?

No. I know I'll be okay.

What do you think happens?

I mean, where do you go?

I don't know, baby.

But who knows?

Wherever it is, maybe I'll run into Taylor.

Will you wait for me?

What?

If you go anywhere crazy, will you wait?

I mean, how will I know

how to find you?

If you're ever lost or scared...

...go to Montana.

- Montana?

- Yeah.

That's where I'll be.

ANNA:

Okay.

What did she say, Anna?

She said, "Thanks. "

All right,

I think I have enough information...

...but before I make my decision,

I'd like to visit Kate, if that's all right.

It's hard to say. It takes from anywhere

between 24 and 48 hours or so.

WOMAN [O VER SPEAKERS]:

Radiology therapist to Room 231.

Radiology therapist to Room 231.

PERVIS:
Hey, sweetheart. How you feeling?

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Hi, sweetie.

- Hi. Hey, you look good. You do.

- Hi.

Look, I got you this book, okay?

It's full of guided meditations,

visualizations, healing stuff.

- Really good for you, okay?

- Okay.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Keep fighting.

- Okay.

A lot of living to do, okay?

- All right, promise me?

- Promise.

- Promise?

- Promise.

Hey, you let the cat out of the bag,

you naughty boy.

I didn't know what else to do.

- I'm sorry.

- Hey.

Hey, you know what you did?

You know how brave you are?

- How about some pizza?

- I'm up for that.

- Definitely. Definitely.

PERVIS:
Yeah.

TOMMY'S WIFE:
Good timing.

- I'll get the pizza.

ELLEN:
Yeah, Anna wants a slice.

KELLY:
I'm just gonna pass it out.

- There's cheese...

TOMMY:
There's an idea.

KELLY:

And pepperoni and everything.

TOMMY'S WIFE:

You guys want cheese, right?

SARA:
Anna wants a piece.

TOMMY'S WIFE:
Of cheese, pepperoni?

ANNA:
I want pizza and 7UP.

Thank you.

You've just gotta tell yourself

you're gonna get better.

Tell your brain to heal yourself

and work on it while you're sleeping.

- Okay.

- I'm not kidding.

- No, I will. I promise.

- Okay.

Subconscious mind

is a really powerful thing.

Yeah, you know,

it's like this lady I saw on TV.

She would talk to her cancer cells

and ask them to go away.

And eventually they did.

I did not make this up, this is true.

- "Go away, cancer cells. "

TOMMY'S WIFE:
Yeah, like that.

- "Out. "

- Speaking more sincerely than that.

TOMMY:
What about that prisoner story?

Prisoners are in there for 10 years...

...and practicing their invisible golf swing.

They practice, and see it in their mind...

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