The Help Page #10
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- 2011
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MISSUS WALTERS:
You're making it a lot hotter
flapping your arm like that.
Minny stops and begins squirming with discomfort. Missus
Walters notices her looking out to the garage bathroom.
Lightning strikes. Leaves blow across the yard. Hilly plops
down in a chair with a candle.
HILLY:
That should do it. Minny, go get
me and Momma some iced tea.
Minny hesitates. She gulps.
MINNY:
Uh...Miss Hilly?
HILLY:
Yes.
MINNY:
Never mind.
As Minny turns, Missus Walters calls out to her.
35.
MISSUS WALTERS:
You go on ahead and use the guest
bath, Minny. It's okay.
HILLY:
Oh, for crying out loud. It's just
a little rain. She can go get an
umbrella up in William's Study!
MISSUS WALTERS:
I believe she was working for me
before you dragged us both here.
Minny looks outside just as wind slams an aluminum lawn chair
against the garage bathroom.
Boom! Another crash of thunder. Large hail stones begin
falling in the yard.
MINNY:
I'm gone get your tea.
INT. HOLBROOK HOUSE - BATHROOM - SECONDS LATER
Minny sneaks into the guest bath with a candle and shuts the
door. She carefully lowers the seat and sits. Relief
spreads across her face.
There's a knock on the door. She freezes.
HILLY (O.C.)
Minny?
Minny panics, staying completely quiet.
INT. HOLBROOK HOUSE (INTERCUT) - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS
Hilly leans into the bathroom door.
HILLY:
MINNYYYY, are you in there?
MINNY:
Yes, ma'am...
HILLY:
Are you sitting down?
Minny gets up quickly and flushes the toilet. Hilly beats on
the door.
HILLY (CONT'D)
Outside the house, an eerie, groaning sound, much like a
freight train, intensifies.
The top of a huge tree snaps off and falls against the house,
shattering a window.
36.
Minny crouches down and covers her head. A draft sucks the
candle's flame toward the bottom of the door.
INT. LEEFOLT HOME - MAE MOBLEY'S ROOM - MOMENTS LATER
Aibileen sits with Mae Mobley against an interior wall,
holding a mattress on top of them and humming in her ear.
AIBILEEN (V.O.)
On top a Minny losin' her tenth
job, eighteen people died in
Jackson that day. Ten white.
Eight black.
EXT. PHELAN PLANTATION - SAME TIME
Skeeter stands in her backyard facing Jackson. Cool winds
head toward the dark, swirling horizon.
In the distance, lightning strikes.
EXT. FOOTE ESTATE - FRONT PORCH - SAME TIME
Celia leans on the porch railing, gazing helplessly as the
relentless hail storm pummels her two rosebushes.
AIBILEEN (V.O.)
God don't pay no mind to color or
class once he sets a tornado loose.
Within seconds, the rose blossoms are gone.
INT/EXT. BATHROOM/BACKYARD (INTERCUT) - THREE MONTHS LATER
Aibileen uses the newly completed bathroom Hilly has built in
the garage. The walls consist of unpainted plywood with a
small window hugging the ceiling.
Beads of sweat glisten on Aibileen's forehead under a single
bulb hanging above.
AIBILEEN (V.O.)
Soon after, that bitter seed inside
of me had sprout and was growing
fast...
Well into her second pregnancy, Elizabeth exits the house
with Mae Mobley at her side. She wears an awful, homemade
maternity dress.
ELIZABETH:
Hurry, Aibileen. Mae Mobley's up,
and I'm off to the doctor.
Aibileen reaches behind and flushes the toilet. Mae Mobley
gets excited and points to the garage bathroom.
37.
MAE MOBLEY:
Aibee bafroom, Momma!
Mae Mobley walks toward the bathroom and calls out.
MAE MOBLEY (CONT'D)
Aibee?
Elizabeth grabs her and forces her down on the back step.
ELIZABETH:
No!
AIBILEEN:
Be right there, Baby Girl.
Aibileen pulls up her panty-hose.
EXT. BUS STOP - LATER THAT AFTERNOON
Aibileen waits with YULE MAY, 45, as well as other maids and
black males at a bus stop. Yule May is tall, pretty and
graceful. Her hair is pulled tightly into a bun.
Skeeter walks down the sidewalk toward them. She and
Aibileen catch eyes. Skeeter waves.
Yule May inches away from Aibileen. One BLACK MAN in
particular looks with concern as Skeeter walks up.
SKEETER:
Afternoon, Aibileen.
Aibileen nods nervously, looking at the other domestics.
SKEETER (CONT'D)
Can I talk to you?
A bus pulls up.
AIBILEEN:
You got some "Miss Myrna" questions
for me?
SKEETER:
No.
Yule May and others board. Skeeter grabs Aibileen's arm.
SKEETER (CONT'D)
Please.
Aibileen signals to Yule May to go on ahead without her.
AIBILEEN:
Yes, ma'am.
The bus pulls away.
38.
SKEETER:
Please let me interview you. I
know it's scary, but I really
believe this has to be done. We'll
be careful.
AIBILEEN:
This already ain't careful, Miss
Skeeter. You not knowing that is
what scares me most. I'm sorry.
Skeeter hands Aibileen a piece of paper with her phone number
written on it. Aibileen turns and walks off down the
sidewalk.
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