Pieces of a Woman Page #5

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Hi.

I’m Sean.

– Yeah, Carson, right?

Carson, yeah. Elizabeth.

– Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Uh, you wanna come in?

– Yeah.

Okay.

– [Sean] Am I catching you at a good time?

Huh?

Oh. I forgot my paperwork. I’ll be right back.

– Yeah, you know, we’re related.

Yeah, I guess we are.

Strange.

[indistinct chatter]

[children giggling, chattering]

[Sean] Why are you trying to disappear my kid?

We don’t need this room, so…

Because we don’t have a kid.

– Why are you being so cold to me?

Cold?

[Sean] Yeah.

I’m cold?

– [Sean] You’re cold.

Right.

Well… [chuckles]

you’re the one teaming up with my mother behind my back, so…

Can you please leave that alone?

– Martha, I wanna put it back up.

Mm-hmm.

Can you give me the picture?

[glass shatters]

[Martha sighs] Stop it.

F***.

How’s your hand?

[footsteps approaching]

You don’t want this apple?

Huh?

It’s brown.

– Yeah, I don’t want it.

Okay.

What are you thinking about?

[Martha] Huh?

[Sean] Penny for your thoughts.

[Martha] I’m just thinking about my hand.

– [Sean] How is it?

[Martha] Fine.

Yeah, I’m thinking about going to Seattle for a little while.

– [Martha] Seattle?

Yeah.

Like a road trip. You could come with me. We could…

– We could road trip.

Mm.

We could get a cheap little… a little beater on some land,

and I got friends out there that’d help me renovate.

It’d be good for us, Martha.

It’d be so good for us. Good for you, good for me, good change of scenery.

I mean…

[Martha] Mm…

[Sean] Come on, let’s go.

I think we should go.

I miss you.

– Touch me.

Come on!

– Touch me.

Sean. Ow!

I miss you.

It’s okay.

[Martha moans]

[Sean whispers] Touch me.

Touch me. Touch me.

[Martha groans] Okay…

[Sean] Take this off.

The clip at the back.

[clattering]

Sean! Don’t rip it like that. Just…

– Take it off.

You’re gonna…

[both moaning]

Sean. Would you just let me take them…

Let me take them off!

– [Sean] Come here.

[Martha] Come on!

Stop it!

Listen to me.

I’ll take them off if you just give me a second.

F***, man!

Here. Sorry. Let me just… One second.

F*** it. I don’t want to now.

[pants jangling]

[sobbing]

[muttering indistinctly]

[screams]

[Sean] Hey, Chris. Hey, man. Um…

Oh, man, I’m so sorry.

[Sean] Yeah, it’s all right… No, wait…

I literally have no idea. I can’t even imagine what’s…

[Sean] Yeah. Hey, I need you to…

I need you to switch the car out for me. And give me the money for the car.

And then you sell it after.

– Yeah? – I can help you sell it.

It’ll take a couple of months, but…

No, I need it now. I’m sort of underwater now.

My hands are tied.

As soon as that car goes out, I can’t do anything.

But I haven’t driven it for six months. It’s just sort of the same car.

– I get it… – Chris, I need it.

My boss totally… Okay.

[Sean] I need you to do it now, man.

– [Chris] All right. – [Sean] Sorry.

[Chris clears throat] Well, there is… I could make it if it…

Is the car dangerous?

Is there… Is it… Is there a problem…

– [Sean] If the car’s dangerous… – Then I can take it back.

[Sean] How do we make that happen?

If there was an accident, I can figure out a way to make it work.

– Let’s do that. – Okay.

[jazz music playing softly]

[man] Looking for something about sprouting?

Mm-hmm.

I’ve got a better book than that.

Try this.

No, this one. Yeah.

– Thank you. – [man] You’re welcome.

[jazz music continues]

[Martha sighs]

[humming]

[hums]

[doorbell rings]

[doorbell rings]

Hi.

[Anita] We’ve gotta talk about Mom’s condition.

She’s aged five years in three months. She almost burned the house down.

Is it my fault?

It doesn’t help that you don’t answer the phone

when she calls to say the house is on fire.

So she sent you to meet me, right?

I don’t know why you guys do this through me.

Every time she calls, I’m in a meeting…

– I thought you quit. – [Martha] What?

– Chris said you quit. – I haven’t spoken to Chris.

Sean spoke to Chris when he returned the car.

[Martha] What?

Um…

This is yours. And…

– [Martha] That’s not mine. – [Anita] It was in the car.

Also found a roll of film.

– I got these printed for you. – Oh.

I’ve gotta go. I got a work thing. Bye.

– I love you. – Love you.

[Sean clears throat]

[exhales]

You know, I wouldn’t worry about it.

People wanna kill this woman. With the mistake she’s made,

the case is practically won with two to eight years imprisonment.

The gross negligence on not calling an ambulance in time to a dying baby

should be enough to put her away.

All right.

[Suzanne] And as your criminal lawyer, with your testimony,

we have this case in the bag.

If you guys decide to slap her with a civil case as well,

I can get someone to handle that, someone that I trust.

I feel like you got a good shot at winning both.

And you could win millions.

You know about this bridge?

Huh?

This bridge you got on the wall.

– No. – There’s a big story behind this bridge.

[Suzanne] Uh-huh.

In the ’40s, this thing just disintegrates into the floor.

It’s a big deal. It’s the third biggest bridge in the US.

You got the Golden Gate, George Washington and then you got the Tacoma.

In the ’40s, things collapse and they can’t figure it out

and they bring in these experts.

Mathematicians, scientists, nobody could figure it out.

Took a look at foundations, suspension wire, nothing.

Everything checks out.

Then finally, one of these scientists says “resonance.”

What?

– [Sean] Resonance. You know what that is? – [zips coat]

– No. – [Sean] Resonance is, um…

You know, every solid object has its own vibration.

When the outer one matches the inner one, you get resonance.

Sometimes, resonance can be so powerful, it can bring a whole bridge down.

[sniffs]

[exhales and sniffles]

– Does it happen often? – No, like, um…

Like when swings move by themselves at the playground?

That’s resonance. Thank you.

For everything.

– Here to help. – Yeah.

[door closes]

[indie pop music playing]

♪ Talk about the ways to go ♪

♪ All the things we dream about ♪

♪ In the night and every day ♪

♪ All the plans we have to make ♪

♪ In the night, in the night ♪

♪ I think you read my mind ♪

♪ You read my mind but did you know ♪

♪ I think you read my mind ♪

♪ We must have made a new record ♪

♪ I think you read my mind ♪

– ♪ That’s what we said ♪ – ♪ I think you read my mind ♪

♪ Gave it all we could We always knew we would ♪

♪ We went Down, down, down, down, down ♪

♪ Down, down, down into trouble ♪

♪ We went down, down, down, down, down ♪

♪ Down, down, down into trouble ♪

[song fades]

[jazz piano playing]

I should go.

Yeah, I’ll call us a cab.

– I’ll call us a cab right now. – No, I need to go. I’m sorry.

Sh*t. Piece of sh*t.

Hi, can I go to Christie Street, please? Now. Like, right now. Thank you.

[door opens]

You have a good party?

– [Martha] Yeah, it was. – Yeah?

Where were you?

– You’ve been drilling? – Yeah.

[Martha] I talked to Robert and he hasn’t seen you in three weeks.

So, drilling what?

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