Suddenly, Last Summer Page #8

with her tongue?

Cut this hideous story

out of her brain.

How much are you willing

to pay for that?

Get me away from her.

Out of here.

Out of this...

-Nurse, some spirits of ammonia.

-Yes, doctor.

-What happened?

-She fainted.

No. No, she didn't.

Just a little...

...dizziness, that's all.

Dr. Hockstader, would you

help me to my car?

I don't think that's

a good idea right now.

Whether it is or not,

I'm going home.

Tomorrow, I want that girl

operated on.

That decision belongs to the doctor

in charge, who is also the surgeon.

I don't want to hear from you until

the operation has been performed.

No! No!

Please, no!

-You trying to ruin this hospital?

-You know better than that.

Can you imagine what would happen

to us if she'd jumped?

She was frightened. She...

Patients are here

because they can't think.

After 24 hours observation...

During which she tried to kill herself,

incited the men's day room to a riot...

-She opened that door by mistake.

-While trying to get away.

There was a riot, and she caused it.

Don't invent excuses for her.

And from that Paris clinic...

...delusions that the world

was devouring her...

...that she was raped by a man

with dueling pistols.

-The Dueling Oaks.

-Here's more of her erotomania.

At St. Mary's, they couldn't

keep her. And why?

Because of her obscenity and violence.

She sexually attacked

a 60-year-old gardener.

It was the other way around.

She tried to burn one of the sisters

with a cigarette.

She was provoked.

I was there, I saw it.

Provoked? Who would provoke

a disturbed patient?

You'd be surprised.

And, to top it, she attempts suicide.

Cogent proof of sanity,

wouldn't you say?

I need time.

When will you want the operating room?

I said I need more time.

I heard you.

Get me Dr. Glen Kilmer

at the Seattle Clinic.

You know I want that

building as much as you do.

I'll hold on.

Give me one more day to see if I can

break through that block to the truth.

This is a medical emergency.

I want to try something.

I want to try something tomorrow,

at Mrs. Venable's.

Why Mrs. Venable's?

I don't know. I feel somehow

that in that garden...

...maybe in that jungle,

we might find...

Look, you don't want Mrs. Venable

giving her money...

...to the Seattle Clinic, do you?

And you don't want anybody to be able

to say that we acted hastily...

...or unethically, do you?

Cancel the call.

But be sure you know where

I can find Dr. Kilmer.

Mrs. Venable will be right down.

-The others are here, as you asked.

-Show them into the sun room, please.

Of course, doctor.

Cathy, honey...

Later, Mrs. Holly.

Doctor, I have the things you wanted.

-ln the dining room.

-Oh, thank you.

What's going on here?

Sorry to keep you waiting,

Dr. Cukrowicz.

I had to get those papers you wanted.

I mislay everything.

My son always said,

"Mother, if you..."

What are you two doing here?

And where is Dr. Cukrowicz?

Why, I thought you invited us.

Dr. Cukrowicz asked me

to ask them to come.

Of course.

Dr. Hockstader...

...I want you to meet

my sister-in-law, Mrs. Ho...

Where is Catherine?

In the sun room.

Could Mrs. Holly and her son

wait for us in the garden?

Of course. Foxhill?

I don't know why everybody

is being so mysterious.

I brought you some of Sebastian's

papers. Odds and ends.

And this, the thing you wanted.

Your son's death certificate?

-This must be painful for you.

-lf you don't read Spanish, I have...

I read Spanish.

Well, I have a translation.

As you see, there was no mystery...

...no matter what the girl said

at the time or any other time.

It says the body was somewhat...

...damaged in falling.

Where did he fall?

On the ground. Where else do you fall

when you die in the hot sun...

...in the street of some

godforsaken village?

Did you see his body?

It was a primitive country.

The coffin came to us sealed.

Sealed?

Were there any rumors?

There were no rumors.

His heart stopped and he fell.

I'll wait in the garden now.

That is where you want me?

Yes, if you will.

Dr. Hockstader...

...let me show you my son's garden.

It's very unusual.

Like the dawn of Creation.

Sebastian's garden.

I can still cry.

Am I dreaming this?

It doesn't seem real.

Would you take off your jacket?

It's time for another injection.

What is it this time?

Something different.

The truth serum?

Yes, except there is no such thing.

As truth?

Or the truth serum?

There is truth, all right.

Somewhere.

Sit down.

And now you want me to start

counting backwards from 1 00?

-Do you enjoy counting backwards?

-Oh, I love it. Just love it.

...99, 98...

...97...

...96...

...95...

I feel it already.

How funny.

Close your eyes for a minute.

I want you to give me something.

You name it, it's yours.

I want you to give me

all your resistance.

Resistance? To what?

To the truth.

Truth is the one thing

I have never resisted.

People think they don't resist it,

but they still do.

Sebastian said:

"Truth is at the bottom

of a bottomless well."

Why did...?

Open your eyes.

Why did you try to kill yourself?

Isn't that what everybody wants?

Me out of the way?

Mother and George

would get their money.

You'd get your building.

Aunt Vi...

Go on.

You know what I think

you're trying to do?

I think you're trying

to hypnotize me.

You're looking at me so...

...straight.

You're doing something strange

to me with your eyes.

Your eyes.

-ls that what you're doing?

-ls that what you feel I'm doing?

I feel...

...peculiar.

It doesn't just have to do

with what you gave me.

I'm putting out my hands.

I want you to put your hands into mine

and give me all your resistance.

Pass all the resistance

from your hands into mine.

Here are my hands...

...but there's no resistance in them.

You'll tell the true story?

Yes, I'll try.

Nothing not spoken.

Everything told exactly?

Everything exactly.

Because I have to.

Can I...?

Can I get up?

Yes, of course, but be careful.

You'll feel a little dizzy.

I can't.

Tell me to.

Then I think I could.

Stand up.

Now I can.

-Oh, I'm dizzy. Help me.

-lt's all right. You're all right.

Hold me.

I've been so lonely.

Let me.

Let me.

I suggest you bring her outside,

if you don't mind, doctor.

We'll be right out.

Are you ready?

Hello, Catherine.

Now, Catherine...

...you're going to tell

the true story.

Where do I start?

Wherever you think it started.

I think it started...

...the day Sebastian was born

in this house.

-Cathy.

-I don't mind.

Let's start later than that.

Why don't we begin with last summer?

Last summer?

Last summer. How did it begin?

It began...

...after the Dueling Oaks.

-Don't tell about that, Cathy...

-Mrs. Holly, don't interrupt.

After that happened...

...the next morning,

I started writing my diary...

...in the third person singular

such as:

"She is still living this morning."

Meaning that I was.

"What's next for her? God knows."

I couldn't go out anywhere.

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