Passion Fish Page #8

- The other one.

- When I had the whole day to f ace...

- You're getting stronger.

It I ask heR for a drink now, she won't

give it to me, like she's the boss.

You think it's something

you can handle on your own?

How's your bowel tunction?

Fine, it I eat

at the same time every day.

I almost feel like

we could be friends.

Only there's so much garbage

in between us.

Any shortness ot breath?

- Pain in the lungs?

- Mm-mmm.

- So what do you think?

- I'm not done yet.

I mean about her... Chantelle.

I'm a physical therapist, May-Alice,

not a marriage counselor.

- Right.

- You've been doing your standing?

- Doc?

- Don't call me Doc. Call me Louise.

Did you ever tall in love

with a married man?

I gotta go!

Sugar!

Oh, hi.

I'm Chantelle.

I remember.

Sugar said that you

were at the track.

Albertine, when your parents broke up

and Sugar wasn't around...

were you mad at him?

Both ot them.

Did you stay mad long?

I figured they're just people.

They got their problems, I got mine.

- You got problems at your age?

- I'm workin' on some.

Chantelle?

- ChAntelle!

- Yeah?

Could we drive on the right side

ot the road for a minute?

Sorry. I spaced out.

So what did you do

while I was with Louise?

just killed time.

Hello.

I'm calling for Chantelle.

This is her fatheR speaking.

It's 5:
00 on Thursday.

Denita and I would like

to visit you this weekend.

Please give me a call.

Denita?

My daughter.

Chantelle is such a wonder

in the kitchen.

I wasn't much ot a cook to begin with,

and then with my mistortune, well...

- You like that, darlin'?

- It's got Rice in it.

That's what makes it boudin.

We've never had someone

in the tamily work as a cook.

Oh, we do share the cooking.

Mine just doesn't taste like much.

It's just so nice to tinally

have you here in person.

Chantelle talks about you so much...

I teel Like I already know you.

You ever do any gardening,

Dr. Blades?

- Can't say that I have.

- Me neither.

Don't think my tamily ever put anything

in the ground that wasn't a drill pipe.

My grandf ather was a tarmer.

Yeah?

sharecropper. Alabama.

He must have had some stories.

None that he cared to pass on.

Do you think you'll continue

to employ my daughter?

As long as she'll have me.

Did she tell you I have

legal custody ot Denita?

She never got into the details.

The court gave her to me when...

when Chantelle was unfit

to be a mother.

Right.

Denita's got some school left this year,

but tor her vacation...

I was wondering...

A house, a place tor her

to run around.

Well, I'm not going anywheres.

- Real alligators?

- Yeah, real ones.

There's a man that's a triend ot ours

who knows all about where they live.

Maybe sometime he'll take you out

to see all that.

- How big is it?

- The lake?

This one spreads

all the way out to the ocean.

You've never seen the ocean,

have you?

That's something we'IL have to do.

I have been missing you so much.

I messed up.

I got caught...

in something bad.

And I lost you, Denita.

You didn't forget about me?

Do you remember what Mommy

was like when she was sick?

Yes.

You're not ever gonna see me

like that again. I promise.

Went on down to New Orleans

Just to see the zydeco queen

From La Rie'ge to the Thibodaux

Everybody, we're doin' the zydeco

I went on down to New Orleans

Just to see the mighty black queen

When I got there

I didn't know

That kings would live

to do the zydeco

Devil's music.

I love it.

Last time I saw you, betore you

went north, was at one ot these.

Yeah?

I must have sneaked over

with Darcell Moutant.

- My daddy didn't approve.

- Yeah.

And I never got the nerve up

to ask you to dance.

Right.

And then I heard

you had gone away tor good.

Well, my dancing days are over.

How's your tamily?

They're fine.

Yeah?

You don't have to have a job to do

or something to fix...

to come over and visit.

Yeah?

Maybe I'll do that, then.

Do it soon, okay?

You're being entertained

by john De Latorest and the Split Boys.

You're being entertained

by john De Latorest and the Split Boys.

We're gonna do a little somethlng

called "The Poor Man's Two-Step."

Excuse me, young lady.

May I have this dance?

This is the part

that's like magic.

OkAy.

Cute guy.

Did you get his phone number?

You got pictures ot alligators?

No. I'm gonna get me some.

They make great subjects.

They'll hold still for hours

if they're not hungry.

- It's nice, isn't it?

- Mm-hmm.

Ot course, it's easier to get a smile

out ot an alligator...

than it is to get one

trom your mother.

But I'm tine now.

I really am.

I'll be calling you and your lady

at the end ot the school year.

Can't I come up?

I don't think you should

be back in Chicago.

- You're not the damN parole board.

- I am Denita's legal guArdian...

for as long as I think

it's necessary.

This seems like

a good place for you.

You show me you can hold on here,

we'll make some plans tor Denita.

Good-bye.

Bye-bye, Daddy.

Thanks for bringing her down.

Excuse me.

Where can I tind Lake Arthur?

It's right under my nose, huh?

Actually, I'm looking for somebody.

May-Alice Culhane.

We do a big blitz about

in response to the flood of mail...

May-Alice Culhane

is returning to daytime.

What about Nlna?

she's been gone for weeks.

We sent scarlet to the Mayo Clinic.

We have hatched a great plan

to bring you back in.

We tound a scene from betore where you

leave Rhonda in the living room set...

and you actually walk

over to the door.

- So we shoot a couch scene on the set.

- Right!

You're back from the clinic,

no improvement.

Then we cut to the tape oF you

actually walking to the door.

You go outside, we cut back to her,

watching from the doorway.

And I still have amnesia,

and I'm pregnant?

Bear with me a second.

We hold on Rhonda,

then there is the sound...

Ot screeching brakes.

Edna called you.

No, I'm just guessing.

Go on.

There was a screech ot brakes,

Rhonda screams.

Cut.

Monday's show:
tirst thing,

you're on a stretcher...

lights tlashing around you.

The driver ot the car

that hit you steps torward.

- Guess who it is.

- Max.

- Edna did call you.

- No, really. Go on.

Max ran me over, and...

And he says, "scarlet, my God."

But I don't recognize him

because ot the amnesia.

No, you recognize his voice...

because the impact ot the car

cured the amnesia.

- A traumatic blow like that...

- Can reverse the effects...

oF what happened when I was pushed

down the elevator shatt.

Exactly. So Max is there.

And I remember him,

but now I'm paralyzed.

Right. That and...

Well, Edna had to

go beyond that.

Go beyond?

See, they're doing a wheelchair thing

with Brenda st. Clair on Santa Fe.

So we thought,

you've lost the amnesia...

and you recognize Max's voice, but...

I'm blind.

see, it worKs As a metaphor

tor scarlet's...

I'm paralyzed

and I'm f***ing blind.

- It opens up so many possiiLities.

- Sure.

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