The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Page #3

I must be getting back to my patients.

Thank you.

Thank you.

[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]

[ORCHESTRA PLAYING]

[MOZART'S "SYMPHONY NO. 41

IN C MAJOR" PLAYING]

Mama, who's playing that music?

Mama?

[MUSIC STOPS]

[RECORD CLICKING]

Hi.

Uh, it's over. The record.

Could I turn it?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Would it be okay if I stay and listen?

I won't disturb you any, honest.

Maybe I could swipe some Tintex

from the five-and-dime.

BUBBER:

Can I go with you?

- Swipe what?

- Tintex.

I'm figuring on dyeing my dress purple

for the party.

Purple's no color for a girl your age.

Besides, stealing is a sin.

Well, I gotta dye it some color.

If I leave it white, everybody will know

it's my old graduation dress.

You could buy purple Tintex.

You don't have to swipe it.

You've got better than $4

in your hiding place.

I counted it.

That was my fireworks money.

But I'm gonna spend it on my party,

so you're on your own this year.

I don't need your money.

I've got money of my own, 65 cents.

Me, Sucker Wells, Baby Wilson

and Spareribs...

...is all putting in our money

to buy fireworks.

That is what they call a syndicate.

Well, I'll be.

That's communism, Bubber Kelly.

And they can put you in jail for it.

They can't prove it.

Hey, stop picking on Bubber.

He's only a child.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Oh, I'll get it.

He's no child.

He's a red menace, that's what he is.

If you're selling something

we don't want any.

No, I'm Jake Blount.

Is Mr. Singer in? He's expecting me.

MICK:

Oh, yeah.

Front room on the left upstairs.

I know, thank you.

Oh, I'm- I can only stay a minute.

I just stopped in to tell you

that I got a job.

Yeah, over at the Sunny Dixie Carnival,

running the merry-go-round.

Yeah. Oh, thank you.

I mean, it ain't much...

...but what the hell?

I gotta start somewhere.

Hey, listen,

anytime you want a free ride...

...you just come right on over.

It'd be my pleasure.

Yeah.

Oh, listen, I forgot.

I gotta work tonight.

So I guess the chess game's off.

That's all I come by to tell you.

Look, I'll be seeing you real soon.

We'll play chess some other time.

Yes, can I help you?

Oh, I see, and you want to see-?

Who is it?

I can't quite make out the last name.

Oh, yes, I know, the other one.

Here we are.

Spiros Antonapoulos.

He's in the infirmary.

That's in Building J.

It's only a little kidney infection.

Nothing serious.

Now, you'll need a special pass.

A special pass to get into the infirmary,

so I'll just fill one out for you.

MAN:

Yes, ma'am.

WOMAN:

Hi.

[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

Oh. Sorry, Mr. Singer.

I didn't know you'd be back so soon.

Uh, hope you don't mind my coming in

like this, playing the records.

You said I could.

Uh. Yeah.

No. I couldn't get to sleep,

you know...

...and I thought it'd be all right.

With you away.

No. I'll go to bed now.

Oh.

Thanks.

Did you have a nice day?

Nice day?

You feeling okay?

Yeah.

I guess you'd- I guess you'd really

rather I let you alone.

You're lonely.

I never thought about anybody else

being lonely before.

But you are, aren't you?

Boy, all this time I thought I was

the only one ever felt like that.

But you know what?

Since I found music-

Oh, well, since you bought

the record and the phonograph...

...I don't get lonely anymore.

Well, I do get lonely, you know, but I-

Soon as I listen to the music,

it just goes right away.

Sometimes I can even make it go away

by just remembering the music in my head.

And then other times, I can-

Now, you won't laugh

if I tell you this, will you?

I make up tunes of my own.

You know, I think up music

nobody's ever written.

I wish you had something like music.

Hey, may- Maybe I could

make you sort of hear music.

Describe it to you.

Would you like me to try?

Okay.

[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

The beginning.

This part that's on now.

Now, it's slow and kind of solemn.

Like old ladies when you see them

walk in to church.

Oh, now a horn comes in here.

A horn, a horn. Yeah.

But it sounds like the sun feels

on a hot day...

...when you don't have a hat on.

Oh, and everything's

going much faster now.

Each part has a different speed, you see.

And it all fits together somehow.

[SINGING]

It's like water running downhill.

Like the leaves are, you know,

the leaves just before it starts to rain...

...when the wind blows them all

upside down.

You ever seen that?

Now all the instruments

are playing together.

It's as if they were dancing.

Some of them to one tune,

some of them to another.

But it all works.

They're all part of one beautiful thing.

Oh, I wish I could make you hear.

No, not like that. I mean, really hear.

[MUSIC STOPS]

[RECORD CLICKING]

That's very good.

Um, only, the record's over now.

Guess I'd better go now.

COPELAND:

Mm-hm.

Ask him, does he still have pain?

Mm-hm.

Now ask him, does he still want

to start school in the fall?

Ask him, does he still want

to start school in the fall?

Mm-hm.

Will you tell him he can't go to school

unless he goes back to the hospital first?

COPELAND:

I'll drive him over myself on Monday.

There's Horace struggling against odds...

...that you can well appreciate

to get an education.

While my own daughter...

Oh, yes. Yes, I have a daughter.

She had everything right in her lap,

threw it away.

I'd hoped she'd become a doctor.

She chose to become a maid.

[PORTIA SCREAMING AND LAUGHING]

[WILLIAM LAUGHING]

[MERRY-GO-ROUND MUSIC PLAYING]

Hey, you wanna be sure

and try the whirligig.

- That's the best ride in the place.

- Well, what about the Ferris wheel?

- Ferris wheel?

- Yeah.

Well, I don't know.

It gets pretty scary up there.

We're not scared of anything,

are we, Mr. Singer?

[BLOUNT LAUGHS]

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

Come on, let's go on this ride.

Come on, one time.

No, I ain't. I don't wanna go on that.

Let's go on the merry-go-round.

Come on.

[WOMAN SCREAMS]

WILLIAM:

Hey, watch it, will you.

Just watch it.

Well, I don't see what's eating you, boy.

I ain't said nothing

when you grabbed my wife.

- Are you all right?

- I'm all right.

WILLIAM:
You sure?

- Yes, I am.

MAN:

What'd he do to your wife?

- He grabbed and ripped her blouse.

MAN:
He tore it?

- Yeah.

MAN:
Come on.

BLOUNT:

Hey, you guys. Hey.

Now, let us not have any trouble

around here, all right?

We ain't fixing to cause any trouble,

mister, unless it's with you.

Oh, yeah?

Well, I guess you'll just have to reckon

with me then.

It'll be a pleasure.

[MAN 1 LAUGHING]

Will you hold this, please?

[WOMEN SCREAMING]

MAN 1:

Get up, boy. Get up.

MAN 1:
Leave me alone.

MAN 2:
Get him. Get him.

[GAME POPPING]

- Excuse me.

- Hey, what you guys doing?

- They ripped her blouse.

- Come on.

Come on.

Hey, boy. If you ain't done nothing,

why are you running?

[GRUNTING]

PORTIA:
Let him go.

- Get out of the way, girl.

- Get out of the way. Get out.

PORTIA:
Leave him alone.

Get up.

Come on, boy, get up.

PORTIA:
Leave him alone.

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