Silkwood Page #2

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One, two, three!

Good girl!

What you got?

Kiss your mama. That a girl.

I don't want to!

I'll see you next month.

Take them in.

Pete, did you give her

our new address?

All I know is Midland, Texas,

care of the company.

- Midland?

- Yeah.

Big strike near

the New Mexico border.

I just can't picture it.

What?

How long were you

married to him?

You want to hear

something funny?

How about some for the back?

We ran off to get married.

We heard you could get a license

in Louisiana under-age.

But we couldn't,

so we came home...

we told everybody

we got married.

And we never did.

I thought you were divorced.

We're divorced, all right.

How come you got divorced

if you never got married?

Common law.

Goddamn government

fucks you coming and going.

Amazing grace.

How sweet the sound.

That saved.

A wretch like me

I once was lost.

But now I'm found.

Was bound.

But now I'm free.

I had them in the car.

I could have just headed

straight for Oklahoma.

What would you

have done with them?

I don't know.

Hey, Karen?

Joe... from the concert.

Hi. What you doing?

We did a job out here

the other night, buried a truck.

Sure you did.

Yeah. We had a hot truck.

We chopped it up, put it

in these little baggies...

and they sent it off

to be buried.

Friday night? Yeah, I saw that.

Some bozo was here

barking at everybody.

See you.

What did he want?

He's a friend of Wesley's.

My windshield wipers broke.

You think you could ask Drew

to take a look at it?

He's got two cars ahead of you,

but I'll ask him.

Thelma,

your hair looks different.

I gave my daughter my good wig.

Her hair is falling out.

They give her them treatments.

Do you know they're making

my daughter die...

next to a colored person?

Come here. Go like that.

There.

I like your hair

that color, Thelma.

But this here is my bad wig.

It ain't human hair or nothing.

You and Drew

ought to settle down.

Stop people talking about us.

I don't care about that stuff.

- What stuff?

- The pot.

Yeah. The pot.

And the kind of sex.

The kind of sex.

Oh, God.

Gilda, how did it go?

We had to go to my

mother-in-law's after church.

She served up this casserole...

that she'd been

slow cooking for three days.

We've both been

up sick all night.

You were supposed

to work my shift yesterday!

Karen, they shut down.

Say what?

There was a contamination

in our section.

When?

Right after you left.

Karen, I'm not saying this

to upset you...

but you ought to know

they're saying that you did it.

I did it?

They knew you wanted

the weekend off.

Gilda, that is so dumb.

I know.

I hope you enjoyed

your weekend, Karen.

Sh*t!

Monitor yourself on the way out.

Did you hear about this thing?

Why don't we talk

about it at lunch?

I hate people

talking about me that way.

Then quit and

live on your savings.

Somebody contaminated

your section.

Why would anybody

think I did it?

Whoever did, it wasn't funny.

I brung your plastic, Drew.

Thanks, Zachary.

You could have done it

a lot easier than I could've.

Anybody could have done it.

Well, it wasn't me!

Here's Quincy.

Here's the head of the union.

Talk to him. The union

will get you out of this.

Yeah, sure, OK.

The company has

got to blame somebody.. .

otherwise, it's their fault.

What are you looking at,

Zachary?

Get lost, OK?

Karen, you ever thought

of going into politics?

I am really not interested.

Come on. Try Karen.

A**hole.

No! I'm scared!

I'm scared!

I don't want to die. No!

Just stay calm. Come on.

Thelma's cooked.

I said Thelma is cooked.

Sh*t.

Did they take her

down to decon yet?

I think so.

- You can't go in there.

- Come on, Earl!

Karen! Get on out of there!

She wants me here.

Oh, God!

This is just to take off

the contamination.

I was doing a transfer...

and they must have had

a leak in them!

When I went through

the check, I was hot!

The exposure that you got...

is under

the acceptable body burden.

I'm going to get cancer.

I'm going to die.

Now, Thelma.

I know something about this.

So does Earl know something.

What would he know? He's a vet.

That's what he was trained at!

Thelma, you're OK. There is

no internal contamination.

There's just a little

external contamination...

and we've taken care

of the problem.

Oh, my skin.

My skin hurts.

Honey, try not to cry.

Salt's going to make it worse.

Hell, you can make money

on any kind of place...

as long as it wasn't

too far from town.

There aren't that many mechanics

who know sports cars.

Where you gonna get the money?

Guess I'll have to sell my body.

I'll give you

five bucks for it...

but I'll think of it

as a charitable contribution.

That's beautiful.

What are you going to

call your place?

Drew's.

That's original.

What's your idea?

Lillian's.

Drew's Car Repair

and Live Bait Dealership.

Thought I'd keep a few worms

for a sideline.

Drew's Car Repair

and Live Bait Dealership.

Rolls right off your tongue.

What is this?

Spaghetti.

Yeah, I can see that.

You wrap this stuff

up in aluminum foil.

You don't even know what it is.

It sits in the refrigerator

and grows cooties.

One third of

the refrigerator is mine.

I can grow cooties if I want to.

When you do, one third

of the cooties is mine.

Dolly, look at the floor.

It's just seeds, Karen.

I don't care what it is!

I just cleaned up!

See you around the track.

Thelma says

she's going to get cancer.

If anybody's going to get

cancer around here...

it's going to be me,

Dolly Trashbags.

Everything isn't about you.

If anybody around here

is going to get cancer...

we're all going to get cancer.

How long have I been

at Kerr McGee?

Two years in October.

Thelma only got 24 DPMs.

Is that bad?

It's not super bad.

Are you just waking up to this?

You think we're working

with puffed wheat?

I'm just asking a question.

If you're really worried

about it, stop smoking.

Come on. Let's go to bed.

Let's go to bed.

You getting bored with it?

Come on.

Didn't you go to bed yet?

I'm sorry I yelled at you

last night.

I love you, Karen.

I love you, too.

I don't mean "I love you, too."

I know that's not what you mean.

That's what I mean.

We'd better go.

- What's going on?

- Nothing.

I saw Thelma this morning.

Thelma hasn't had

her mind on her work...

since her daughter took sick.

It's terrible what they do

when they scrub a person.

I've been through it.

It ain't so bad.

Did she have just external,

or was it internal?

- Just external.

- They give her a nasal smear?

That's how they tell

about the internal.

No, I don't think so.

Shoot, I knew that!

Why didn't I think of that?

They should've given her

a nasal smear.

You can't think of everything.

Boy, they didn't even

give her a nasal smear!

- Why are you so interested?

- Huh?

Why are you so interested

all of a sudden?

Karen, I got one for you.

For as long as

anyone could remember...

this Indian chief

was in charge...

of naming all the children

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