Pennies from Heaven Page #5

She was dead at 45.

We only got one life, Arthur.

And I was content with mine.

I didn't even think about it,

just accepted it.

But you changed all that.

You killed off my old life.

That's right, blame me.

No, no.

I'm glad you did.

When you made love to me...

...I saw things differently.

I had to get away.

I had to see something else...

...something more.

I want nice things, Arthur.

You'll have them, honey.

I don't want to wait.

There isn't time.

-Don't say that.

-No, there isn't.

I know there isn't.

Don't ask me how, I just know.

What's happening?

Where are you going?

Are the seams on my stockings straight?

You got terrific legs, baby.

Let's hope so.

-Hey, what are you gonna do?

-Get some dough.

Eileen!

Look, will you listen to me?

There's enough to get an indictment.

His shoe fits the print made at the scene.

His fingerprints are on the cigarette pack

found at the scene.

He said he had seen a message that night,

and he's on the run with this....

This tramp.

I'd like that baby one day.

I'd like to have that baby, and then--

And then what?

I don't know.

No, come on,

what were you gonna say?

I don't know, except--

Hey, you're not gonna cry, are you?

There's gotta be something

on the other side of the rainbow.

There always is.

-Always the same.

-What is?

Come out of the movies, the goddamn

world has changed. Goddamn rain.

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I'll take a paper, boy.

You don't think I did it?

No, you couldn't.

What am I gonna do?

-Go to the police?

-Are you crazy?

-You're innocent.

-They'll hang me.

I know what to do.

I'm gonna get out of here.

Where to?

I'll think of something.

God, a cat!

Goddamn, it was a cat!

It was a black cat!

Goddamn, it was a black cat.

I didn't see it.

Maybe it was a rat.

I'm scared, Eileen.

See you, big boy.

I always knew something terrible

was gonna happen to me.

All my life, I've been waiting.

Eileen.

Are you running out on me?

Well, it's no fun, is it? No laughs.

But don't you love me?

-That question....

-What about it?

What would you like me to say?

Do you, Eileen?

Not when you are so scared.

You mean, you'll stick by me

if I just keep smiling?

Even with the rope around my neck?

We've only got one life, Arthur.

We both know we made a mess of ours.

It doesn't seem to matter much

how it ends, does it?

Doesn't it?

No.

I love you.

Yes.

I want you.

I want you now.

What, here?

It's the only way I can keep going.

Besides, we ain't never done it in a car,

have we?

We must be crazy.

Come on.

Come on.

"Bargain," he said.

"Best car on the lot," he said.

I tell you, Eileen,

salesmen got no goddamn morals!

You have any idea where we are?

We're in the middle of nothing,

just where I always wanted to be.

We'll just have to stay here.

Just stay here till they find us.

Goddamn car!

Kick it again, Arthur.

It didn't hear you.

-Halt! Halt!

-Arthur! Arthur, don't!

Halt!

-One move and you're dead.

-I didn't do it!

Swear to God, I didn't do it!

I'm innocent!

I'm innocent! I wouldn't hurt a fly.

Arthur Parker...

...do you have anything to say?

A long time ago...

...a million years B.C...

...the best things in life

was absolutely free.

But no one appreciated a sky

that was always blue.

And no one congratulated a moon

that was always new.

So it was planned

that they would vanish now and then.

And you must pay

before you get them back again.

And that's what storms are made for.

And you shouldn't be afraid.

For....

Eileen! Eileen! Wait!

Eileen! Wait! Eileen!

Arthur.

Arthur, what are you doing here?

Whoever said you could stop a dream?

We couldn't go through all that

without a happy ending.

Songs ain't like that, are they?

No.

No, they're not.

I'm Arthur.

And I love you.

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