Pickman's Muse Page #3

PlCKMAN:
My rent is paid in full.

PlCKMAN:
l don 't have to put up with these

disturbances anymore.

LANDLADY:
At the end of the month, you 're out!

PlCKMAN:
Well, l have a signed lease!

PlCKMAN:
l don 't want to see you again !

POLlCEMAN:
Mister, understand this.

POLlCEMAN:
The reason l'm not taking you downtown

is because l can 't...

POLlCEMAN:
...not because l don 't agree with her...

POLlCEMAN:
...because l do!

POLlCEMAN:
There's nothing on the books l can charge

you with.

POLlCEMAN:
But keep it up. Just give me a reason .

PlCKMAN:
Okay. You want to handle a real disturbance

for a change?

PlCKMAN:
You want to act like a real cop?

PlCKMAN:
Then you can do something about that damn dog!

PlCKMAN:
You have no idea how many paintings that yapping

mutt has shoved out of my head.

PlCKMAN:
They're simpletons, you know...

PlCKMAN:
Simple...simple...simpletons...

PlCKMAN:
They know nothing about art -- or creativity...

DR. DEXTER:
Robert, your landlady is going to evict you !

PlCKMAN:
l can handle my landlady.

PlCKMAN:
Nothing a little bit of money won 't solve -- right?

DR. DEXTER:
l'm afraid not. lt's gone way beyond that.

DR. DEXTER:
l don 't claim to understand what you 've gotten

yourself involved with...

DR. DEXTER:
But, l have to intervene.

PlCKMAN:
Oh, is that right?

PlCKMAN:
l'm sorry to inconvenience you ...

PlCKMAN:
But l actually have to get back to work now. My

paintings...

DR. DEXTER:
Robert, l've seen these painting before -- l know

them!

PlCKMAN:
l don 't have time for your games.

DR. DEXTER:
This is not a game.

DR. DEXTER:
Where did you get the ideas forthese images?

PlCKMAN:
You can call it inspiration .

DR. DEXTER:
Did Goodie Hines inspire you ?

PlCKMAN:
Goodie. Goodie. Goodie. That's the second time

l've heard that name this week.

PlCKMAN:
One of yourfailed patients, l understand.

DR. DEXTER:
Listen to me...

DR. DEXTER:
Your paintings are identical to his...

DR. DEXTER:
Where did you get the ideas forthese images?

PlCKMAN:
So now you call me a plagiarist!

PlCKMAN:
A plagiarist! As if l'm not capable of painting

something myself!

PlCKMAN:
Doc...

PlCKMAN:
Our relationship is over;

lneed you to leave.

PlCKMAN:
You never respected me.

PlCKMAN:
And if you want these pictures of the church -- you

can have them.

PlCKMAN:
Consider it yourfinal payment.

PlCKMAN:
Please,just leave.

DR. DEXTER:
Pardon me young ladies.

DR. DEXTER:
l noticed something odd in the churchyard

overthere...

DR. DEXTER:
Do any of you know anything about it?

GlRL:
A nasty octopus, or a squid, or something -- right?

GlRL:
That thing is stinking up the street!

GlRL:
Probably one of the boys did it.

DR. DEXTER:
Why would they do something like that?.

GlRL:
They try to show each otherthey're not scared.

DR. DEXTER:
Scared? Of the Church?

DR. DEXTER:
You girls don 't believe in ghosts -- do you ?

GlRL:
Not ghosts, something worse.

GlRL:
The boys put that thing in the yard to make fun of their

religion .

GlRL:
Guess it looks like some of the stuff they used to pray to

in there.

DR. DEXTER:
l don 't understand.

DR. DEXTER:
What does that thing in the yard have to do with

a Catholic Church?

GlRL:
lt's not a Catholic Church anymore.

GlRL:
lt hasn 't been for like a hundred years.

GlRL:
They sold it off.

DR. DEXTER:
Who bought it?

GlRL:
Whoeverthey were, they didn 't pray to God in there.

GlRL:
That's why they got run off a long time ago.

GlRL:
No one wants anything to do with the place.

GlRL:
l think it's betterto just leave it alone.

DR. DEXTER:
You really think people are that scared of

the place?

GlRL:
Sure. Can 't you tell by just looking at it?

GlRL:
Hadn 't you noticed?

DR. DEXTER:
No. Notice what?

GlRL:
The windows.

GlRL:
You ever seen an abandoned building without

one single broken window?

GlRL:
And you know how boys are...

CLERK:
May we help you ?

DR. DEXTER:
Yes. l need to know who holds the deed to a

piece of property.

CLERK:
What's the address you 're searching for, Sir?

DR. DEXTER:
Well, l'm not sure of the exact address.

CLERK:
We can 't do a search without an address.

DR. DEXTER:
Well, it shouldn 't be too hard to find.

DR. DEXTER:
lt's the church at the top of Federal Hill; it's the

only one up there.

CLERK:
What is that? 1700 West?

CLERK:
1800 West.

CLERK:
Hold on , let me take a look.

CLERK:
Here it is.

CLERK:
lt shows here that it had several owners since the

Catholic Church sold it off.

DR. DEXTER:
Who's the current owner?

CLERK:
lt's a holding company: RF&R.

CLERK:
They've overseen the property for over

seventy-five years.

CLERK:
Not a single tax payment missed. lt's all legit.

DR. DEXTER:
How do l get a hold of this RF&R?

CLERK:
Seems to be based out of London ...

DR. DEXTER:
Seems?!

CLERK:
Yeah, sorry. This information isn 't exactly up to date.

CLERK:
Doesn 't look like any of this info has been put into our

new computer system.

CLERK:
Sorry. But there are several references here to a

religious organization named ''Starry Wisdom''.

DR. DEXTER:
Did you say Starry Wisdom?

CLERK:
Yes, it's the name of the organization at the

time of purchase.

DR. DEXTER:
Starry Wisdom...

CLERK:
Are you ok?

CLERK:
Can l get you a glass of water or something?

CLERK:
You look like you 've seen a ghost.

GOODlE:
l'd wake up every day staring out the window...

GOODlE:
...praying for something, anything, different then what

l had seen the day before.

GOODlE:
Anything.

GOODlE:
Beauty.

GOODlE:
Horror.

GOODlE:
Anything but the same horizon , the same blue sky.

GOODlE:
But each day just ticked before me like the next...

GOODlE:
...like a metronome.

GOODlE:
Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock...

GOODlE:
Pounding the same question into my mind!

GOODlE:
Why...?!

GOODlE:
Why... go on ?

GOODlE:
The only thing that would turn me back...

GOODlE:
...was the sudden fearthat what might be next, may

be even more tedious.

GOODlE:
Then l found Starry Wisdom.

GOODlE:
Starry Wisdom holds the window...

GOODlE:
...which shows me the world unseen .

lNTERVlEWER:
Does this Starry Wisdom tell you to do things?

GOODlE:
Yes... Oh, yes.

GOODlE:
For my duties, l am rewarded.

lNTERVlEWER:
Rewarded? What kind of reward?

GOODlE:
To see!

GOODlE:
The reward is to see...

lNTERVlEWER:
l'm interested, Goodie...

lNTERVlEWER:
...why do you keep referring to your creative

side as that?

GOODlE:
As what?.

lNTERVlEWER:
Starry Wisdom.

lNTERVlEWER:
That's what Starry Wisdom is, isn 't it...?

lNTERVlEWER:
Your creative side? Your imagination ?

lNTERVlEWER:
Why do you choose to call it that?.

GOODlE:
You think Starry Wisdom is a metaphor?

GOODlE:
A simile?

GOODlE:
A fabrication of my mind?

GOODlE:
Well, my mind is clear...

GOODlE:
Yours is clouded.

GOODlE:
You haven 't heard a thing l've said.

GOODlE:
You 're blind.

GOODlE:
All of you are blind!

GOODlE:
Starry Wisdom is real!

GOODlE:
Starry Wisdom is right on the horizon , but you

can 't see it.

GOODlE:
lt's right under your nose.

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