Ordinary People Page #19

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RAY HANLEY:

Hold, hold it. Wait a minute.

That's not the problem.

Where are you?

CALVIN:

What?

RAY HANLEY:

I've been losing you these days.

CALVIN:

Oh, I'm sorry.

RAY HANLEY:

That's okay. That's okay. You off

the track?

CALVIN:

Huh?

They laugh.

RAY HANLEY:

Come on. I've known you for twenty

years. You think I can't tell when

something's wrong? How's Connie?

CALVIN:

Connie's all right. He is. He's

okay.

RAY HANLEY:

Look, I am sorry, it's none of my

business, but I think you worry too

much. You've been on the rack about

him long enough. You're making it a

habit. You've gotta let him go

sometime.

CALVIN:

I'm not on the rack about him.

RAY HANLEY:

The thing about it is, in a year

he'll be gone. Off to Michigan or

Harvard or wherever in the hell he

gets it in his head he wants to go.

Maybe he'll decide to take a tour

of Europe for a year and not even

go to school at all. Who knows?

CALVIN:

I can't argue with "Who knows."

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RAY HANLEY:

I'm just try giving you the benefit

of my experience.

CALVIN:

Thanks.

RAY HANLEY:

With Valerie, it's more than her

living away from home... She's

gone. Got her own friends, her own

life. She breezes in ...for a couple

of days on vacations, but... I don't

know, maybe girls are different.

Or maybe she was too aware of what

was happening between Nance and me.

But they leave... And all that

worrying doesn't amount to a hill

of crap. It's just wasted energy.

Calvin is troubled.

58 INT. COMMUTER TRAIN ­ NIGHT 58

Going home on the commuter, Calvin is thoughtful. He

remembers his sons when they were kids.

59 INT. JARRETT'S DINING ROOM - DAY 59

YOUNG CONRAD:

Give me back my sweater! Come on,

it's my sweater!

YOUNG BUCK:

Possession is nine tenths...

CALVIN:

Hang on!

YOUNG BUCK:

Dad, what's possession?

YOUNG CONRAD:

Give it to me!

YOUNG BUCK:

I can't, it's already on me.

CALVIN:

Wait, hang on! Whose sweater is it?

YOUNG CONRAD:

It's my sweater!

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YOUNG BUCK:

OK! Alright! I'll give it back to

you... as long as you give me back

my hockey stick and my skis.

YOUNG CONRAD:

All right.

Calvin laughs

CALVIN:

That's fair!

In the commuter train Calvin also remembers...

60 INT. JARRETT'S HOME. LANDING ­ NIGHT 60

Calvin knocks violently on Conrad's bedroom door

CALVIN:

Conrad! Conrad!

BETH:

What is it?

61 EXT. JARRETT'S HOME. STREET ­ NIGHT 61

Conrad is taken away on a stretcher into an ambulance.

AMBULANCE MAN:

Watch your back. Cuts are vertical.

He really meant business.

WS on Beth, hand on mouth, astonished. Beth and Conrad have

overheard.

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