The Handmaid's Tale Page #5
- R
- Year:
- 1990
- 108 min
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We may want you to kill him.
Keep down!
[ Keys typing, beeping ]
Yeah. We'll be there
within 20 minutes.
[ Lock buzzing, unlocks ]
COMMANDER:
We'll be there.
Aha! Come in.
Now, I have a nice little
surprise for you tonight...
something that you're
gonna like a whole lot.
What is it, chinese checkers?
[ Chuckling ]
No. Better.
A boa... for you.
Now... And also
a dress... for you.
I hope to heaven it fits.
- You want me to wear this?
- Yep.
I'm taking you out.
[ Door opening ]
You look fantastic.
Fantastic is right.
COMMANDER:
Devastating.[ Door opening ]
[ Doors closing ]
[ Engine revving ]
We're coming to
a checkpoint, sir.
I'm sorry. You're going to have
to get down on the floor
for a few minutes.
There are no wives allowed
where we're going.
Just for a minute. Sorry.
[ Doors opening ]
[ Doors closing ]
[ Door closing ]
- Oh, Nick, could you come here?
- Yes, sir.
You won't be needing
that in here...
so let Nick take the cloak.
Kind of like walking
into the past, don't you think?
Good to see you here.
How you doing, Dick?
Good to see you.
This here's Mary Lou.
She's new here.
- Mary Lou, how you doin'?
- Fine.
Good, good, good.
So you're new here, huh?
Oh, you're gonna love it here,
Mary Lou.
Everybody has fun here.
Everybody really has fun.
My friend.
I thought all this kind of thing
was strictly forbidden.
It is officially,
but, you know...
- Good evening, Commander.
- Good evening.
Now...
you can have one drink.
What do you want?
I haven't had a drink in years.
Well, have one now.
What'll it be?
Um...
- Vodka tonic?
- OK. Vodka and tonic.
Bring me a bottle of scotch.
[ Laughing ]
What do you think?
Who are these people?
Well, we have, you know,
staff officers from the front...
allies, trade delegation...
I mean, it's a good place to
meet people and stimulate trade.
You know, things like that.
No. I meant the women.
- The women?
- Mm-hmm.
Who are the women?
The women. Well, they're like,
uh, real working pros...
you know, from the time before.
The others?
We have quite a collection.
For instance, now, the one in
the green gloves over there?
She's a sociologist... or was.
This one was a lawyer.
We have business executives,
schoolteachers... you name it.
We got everybody here.
But they prefer it here, see?
Believe me.
Prefer it to what?
To the alternatives.
Sorry to bother you, sir.
You have a phone call.
All right. Thank you.
[ No audible dialogue ]
Yes, sir.
Right, sir. Uh-huh. Yes.
Yes, sir. In God we trust.
Get the field commander
and put him on hold.
You look like
the whore of Babylon.
Well, I asked them to get me
something classy
from Saks Fifth Avenue,
but you know
what the mail's like these days.
I do.
Don't do that. Your eyes'll run.
Anyway, there's no time.
Paige, could you please
leave just for a minute?
Sit. Sit.
So, why are you here?
What did you do?
Why did they send you in?
Did you laugh at the
wrong dick or something?
I'm an evening rental.
He smuggled me in for the night.
So, how are you?
I thought that
I'd never see you again.
So, what happened to you?
They caught me at the border.
Somebody must've got cold feet
or something. It's too bad.
Took me f***ing ages
to get there
with a lot of people
risking their necks.
I had some sweet guy who hid me
in his kid's room for a month
just hanging on the wall,
and I think, for what?
Christ, I didn't even have
the decency to escape.
So, what did they do to you?
They worked me over a little.
They showed me a movie
about the colonies.
You know, those f***ing toxic dumps
with all the dead bodies and sh*t?
They say you have
one year maximum there...
before your goddamn
nose falls off.
So, they stuck something
up my ass and told me I had
two alternatives...
the colonies or here,
so I said here.
So here you are.
So here I am.
It's not so bad, really.
You get free face cream here.
Free booze, free drugs,
you only work nights.
Oh, sh*t.
It's not bad, really.
Actually, there's all
these women around. I love it.
Do they let you?
They don't care who you f***.
Do you know what they
call this place? Jezebel's.
WOMAN ON P.A.:
All girls back on the floor.
All girls back on the floor.
Give me your hand.
Come on, give it to me.
Yes, they did that, too.
You remember... hands and feet
we don't need for our purposes.
WOMAN ON P.A.:
All girls back on the floor.
Back on the floor, girls.
You're such a goddamn wimp.
What am I gonna do with you?
WOMAN ON P.A.:
All girls back on the floor.
Oh, Moira.
Come on. Time's up.
WOMAN ON P.A.:
All girls back on the floor.
[ Indistinct conversations ]
I guess I'm lucky.
Lucky ducky.
Better a lucky ducky
than a dead ducky.
You're a good woman.
There's a nice room in here.
I think you'll like it.
[ Door opening ]
- [Door closing]
- COMMANDER:
Nick's a good guy.He's like a son to me.
[ Dog barking ]
[ Door closing ]
[ Door opening ]
[ Kissing ]
Good night.
Here, sir.
Shall I take that, sir?
[ Door opening ]
[ Door closing ]
So...
what was it like?
Huh?
I said, what was it like?
Did the earth move?
What the f*** do you think
it was like?
Well, how the f***
should I know?
For God's sake...
what did you want me to do,
spit in his face
and end up shoveling sh*t
in the goddamn colonies?
Do you think
we'll ever get out?
Nick, it's happened.
What's happened?
I'm going to have a baby.
He'll love you to death.
So will she.
Come on.
You know it's yours...
and I won't let them get it.
You want to get out.
Could we get out together?
Maybe.
We have to.
Maybe.
[ Knife blade locking ]
I found it,
but I don't know
what I could do if I...
- Where's Ofglen?
- I am Ofglen.
[ Engine rumbling ]
[ Gunfire]
[ Indistinct reporting]
I trusted you.
I tried to help you.
Look, my cloak.
Used for a hooker!
We had an agreement.
Just like the other one.
A little whore.
I'm sorry.
Go to your room.
COMMANDER:
Correct, yes, sir.
Uh, we've got most of
the Mayday gang now,
and that includes the leader,
a very dangerous man.
This is a definite breakthrough
for our security forces...
and, as I would say,
this is a comparatively
stable situation
here in this state.
But let me add that we intend to rid
the whole country of these vermin.
And we'll do it without mercy.
[ Clock ticking ]
[ Door opening ]
It's dark in here.
Don't you want the light on?
KATE:
No, thanks.Here's your supper.
Thanks, Rita.
Bless you, dear.
Bless you.
[ Doors closing ]
- Good night, Nick.
- Good night.
[ Car starting ]
[ Engine rumbling ]
[ Door opening, closing ]
[ Clock chiming ]
[ Keypad code pressed,
door unlocks ]
What is it? I...
I could've fired this thing.
[ Chuckling nervously ]
I didn't send for you.
Uh, what is it?
You've got to help me.
I'm sorry.
It's out of my hands.
Did you tell her?
[ Sighing ]
Well...
She found this.
So what could I do?
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