The Indian in the Cupboard Page #3

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comprende?

Omri, Texas?

- You're from Texas?

- Proud of it.

- Where are you taking me?

- To school.

- White man goes to school?

- That's right.

- I go to school.

- You wouldn't like it.

- He can go, I can go.

- It's too risky.

- Whiskey?

- Risky! Dangerous!

Good. I like danger.

Do you like danger, Texas man?

Are you threatening me, Injun? You'll

need some help to get this scalp.

Omri, send him back. Do it.

Come on! Come on!

Come on!

Bye-bye.

You got him?

Careful, he's so delicate. Come here.

- Boone's in the front...

- Let me have him!

I got to check on Little Bear.

- You all right, Little Bear?

- Let me have that!

- Come on! Give me him.

- Calm down, Patrick.

Boys!

School, remember?

All right, thank you,

Malcolm and George.

All right, let's have...

Emily and Loretta.

Loretta and I...

We're making a map

of the United States.

We built it here on a piece of wood.

We made the whole country

out of flour,

water, salt and food colouring

using beans for mountains,

yarn for the rivers

and rice for borders.

We're making the desert

out of brown sugar.

I thought America should

be green and yellow.

Loretta thought it

should be more like beige...

What are these folks talking about?

...to make it more topo...

- Topographical.

Sounds to me like they've

been hitting the old tornado juice.

You ever been west

of the Mississippi?

Big river?

I have travelled far north.

- Land of the Micmacs.

- Micmacs?

Sounds too cold for me.

- Must be purty country though.

- Yes. Cold.

Purty.

Thank you very much.

OK, now, let's have...

Omri and Patrick.

I'll do it!

We both agreed that I'll do it.

I'm the best talker.

You all know that.

Patrick and I are making a volcano.

It's... made out of Play...

Mixed-up Play-Doh, it's big and...

The smallpox.

Yes.

Will you marry again, Little Bear?

If there is a woman for me.

Maybe have another little child.

Yes.

I will heal when

I have another child.

Little children

are the sun and moon and the stars.

Good morning, boys and girls.

Today, lunch is macaroni and cheese

and a build-your-own sandwich.

Don't worry about the iguana,

moulting is a natural process.

Origami is cancelled today.

Damn!

All right, everybody, stay in

double line, please. Thank you.

Follow Mrs Cox.

That's a wonderful

story that you're writing.

- Yeah.

- Have you read about the Iroquois?

What interested you the most?

There were six tribes

that joined together to stop the war.

They formed a true government,

our constitution borrowed from them.

- Yeah.

- So, what else?

As you know, I got to get

going to computer class.

- OK, I'll show you.

- No!

What are you doing?

- I'm just having fun.

- They're two real men.

- It's not fun.

- Shove it!

Hello! Excuse me.

What's going on here? What happened?

What happened?

All right, somebody start talking.

- We can't resolve this now.

- We need to try.

- I can resolve it. Want to see how?

- No!

- I could do it!

- Do what?

No, no!

- I could show. I could.

- Show what?

You can't. They're people.

You can't use people.

All right...

Patrick, show me

what's in your pouch.

Please.

Patrick, show me

what's in your pouch.

They're just plastic toys.

Plazteck people.

- They're just completely plazteck.

- OK.

- That's fine.

- Plazteck.

- Yes. Thank you. Let me see.

- Plazteck.

Let me see.

They're just people.

Why don't you two work this out?

But no more fighting, OK?

- All right.

- Go catch up with your class.

"It's just like having a child.

"Every time I'm away from him,

I worry that he's OK.

"I come home and open the door

"and worry about what I will find.

"But he's a man.

I can't treat him like a baby."

Good. Sam.

"JFK.

"JFK was about

the youngest man ever president.

"There were little kids

in the White House."

Mum, can Patrick

please spend the night?

- Yeah, I think so.

- Spend the night?

It's a wife.

Excuse me.

- That's great. Come on.

- Look at 'em.

Who will she be?

- What is that?

- It's a wife.

A wife? My mother should

choose me a wife.

But your mother's not here.

I've been thinking about

settling down my own self.

It's gone. The cupboard's gone.

Who would take it?

- Where is it?

- Where's what?

- The cupboard, butt-head.

- Who gave you that cupboard?

Please, where's the cupboard?

Gili, please.

Where's my rat ball?

Where? Please?

In the crawlspace.

Damn.

The key! Where's the key?

There was no key. I swear.

You mean, we've got to live

here forever? Little like this?

No new wife for Little Bear?

No baby? He needs a baby.

I could look for another key.

I want to go home. We've just got

the railroad coming through town

and we've got a new doctor,

a good doctor.

Hell, it's 1879. I'm living

at the dawn of a new century.

Now I know what

you was talking about.

God sure do play with men, all right.

There is no god here.

Come on, Gili!

- Bye, Mum. Bye, Dad.

- Bye, guys.

Bye, Mum.

Disgusting display.

They do this in front of children?

- It's not real.

- It's real all right. It's real.

Let's change to

the Discovery Channel.

...roaming the great savannahs

of Africa.

Let me see that clicker.

Apaches! The ugliest Redskins

that ever walked the earth!

Get 'em, boys! Hell, yeah!

Amigo?

- He's alive.

- I wish we had Tommy.

- You do not have the key.

- Can you take the arrow out?

Blood will flow. Get me husks.

We have no husks.

Leave me.

Boys?

Time for bed.

- Can you turn out the light, please?

- Sure.

I feel like I haven't seen

you in days.

- Cartoon day tomorrow.

- I don't think we'll watch, thanks.

- Good night.

- Good night, Mum.

- Night, Patrick.

- Night, Janie.

If you hear noises under floor,

it's Gili's rat.

- What?

- He escaped.

Dad pulled up your floorboards

but he couldn't get him.

That rat's under my floor?

Maybe. He might have moved on.

If we're lucky, he moved out.

- Oh, no.

- I know.

Good night, guys.

- Do you think he'll be OK?

- A rat will eat at a wounded man.

Now we can't go to sleep at all.

We'll take turns.

If you go first,

I'll give you a million dollars.

Wake up! I hear the rat! Get up!

- It's the key!

- Get it!

Hold this.

Watch out.

Oh, no!

Let me go.

I am too big. I am too big!

See if you can get under

that loose floorboard there.

There's an animal, a big animal.

Move fast.

Do you see a way? Is there a hole?

Yes, I see one.

Yeah?

- What are also dangers?

- Everything.

Did he take his bow and arrow?

And his knife?

I hear him! Over there!

- Where is he?

- Little Bear, come back.

Come back.

- What was that?

- I don't know.

Please, Little Bear, come back.

Why won't he come?

I got him!

It's you again.

I do pick my moments to fall asleep.

A great Minnie whining overhead.

Thought I was a goner.

Perhaps I am a goner. Did I die?

No. You're dreaming again.

There's two of you now,

are there? Good show.

Well, take me to him.

The elegant Injun?

No, it's another.

That's clever. Hello again.

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