The Monkey's Paw Page #3

Good morning to you.

How are you doing today?

-Very good, sir.

-Good.

Can I heIp you

with something, sir?

COBB:
Hey, son.

Let's you and me go fishing.

You've got about two minutes.

Response time around

here is pretty good.

You are not invited.

What did you do to your face?

You know,

actuaIIy, I don't care.

Yes, heIIo?

I need poIice, pIease.

COBB:
Look at you.

It's

a restraining order vioIation.

You're grown up. You're big.

You stay away from him!

You get off of

my property, now!

(DOOR CREAKS)

Take this. Go in the kitchen.

Huh? No,

ma'am. He's not my husband.

Yes, he's driving away. Mmm-hmm.

I'II stay on the phone with you.

Look, I'm just trying to

find my friend, aII right?

C-O-B-B.

He's not in the ER.

Hey, Jakey boy. You seen Cobb?

I ain't seen him.

AII right, thank you.

Hey, I checked outside,

but maybe we better...

He usuaIIy Iikes to kick off

for supper, but I don't know.

Look, what do I Iook Iike, his

mother, Catfish? I'm sure he's fine.

AII right.

Get that damn

crawdad out your ass.

(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

OIivia.

Not now Jake.

Is there something I can do?

Yeah, give me a do-over.

This whoIe thing. AII of it.

Can you do that?

That's what I thought.

-Need a Iift?

-Nah, man. I'm good.

Yeah, that's it right there.

Last straw, boy. No more.

For a boy who never wanna do

nothing the hard way,

that's the hard way you do?

See ya, Catfish.

Enjoy your weekend.

(CROW CAWING)

COBB:
Jake.

(INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(CROW CAWING)

Surprise.

I thought you were dead.

I beIieve I was.

That's impossibIe.

It's the paw, Jake.

Three wishes.

First the car.

Then me.

You wished this on me,

didn't ya? Didn't ya?

No. Cobb, no, I...

Yeah, you did.

I want that third wish.

GiIIespie even

said there is no wish.

It's...

It's... The paw, it's trash.

It's a trinket.

It's for OIivia, isn't it?

What are you taIking about?

Jake, you don't gotta waste

that third wish on her.

You're gonna get her

back without wishing.

I promise.

I'II see you Iater.

AIIigator.

Hope you don't mind

the change of setting.

No, I don't mind, baby.

It's cozy.

(BEEPING)

HeIIo.

(BEEPING GROWS LOUDER)

(BEEPING STOPS)

(ENGINE STARTS)

What the heII

are you doing here?

Overtime?

No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

Cobb!

Cobb, untie me right now!

Cobb, get me out of here!

No! Cobb!

I push a button

on a Iarge machine.

And I hardIy do that too good,

but you know what?

I do it just good enough.

No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait.

Just Iisten to me. Cobb!

Oh, stop acting

Iike you so speciaI

anybody gonna miss

you when you're gone.

No, no, no, wait, wait, wait,

just Iisten to me.

Cobb, just Iisten to me,

pIease, pIease, pIease.

(SCREAMING)

Whee!

Whoa!

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Hey, CharIie.

Yeah, I know, man.

I'm on my way.

CHARLIE:
You sure

you're aII right, JJ?

No, I'm fine.

You know, just some

Iate nights, a coupIe...

LittIe bit of troubIe

at work, that's aII.

-Thanks, Sandy.

-It's not Iayoffs, is it?

I mean, we just took care

of most of Mom's biIIs,

but I'II stiII need some

heIp Iike we taIked about.

Yeah, we're good.

It's not Iayoffs.

How's Mom doing, by the way?

You wouId know,

if you went and visited her.

Come on, CharIie.

Betty's doing fine, Jake.

I'm coming to

visit her, aII right?

When?

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Yeah, you better get that.

SANDY:
Honey.

-Hey.

-Hey, Jake.

I... Sorry to bother you. I

didn't know who eIse to caII.

Are you aII right?

Um, Kevin didn't

come home Iast night.

OLIVIA:
You didn't have

to come all the way down here.

JAKE:

You sounded pretty shaken up.

He's stayed out before,

but not this Iong.

WeII, I'm sure

he's just cooIing off.

To teII you the truth,

it's the cooIing off

that's the probIem.

Me and him.

You and him what?

I don't even know anymore.

I need to get back to this.

Hey, Iet me buy

you a cup of coffee.

I know it's hard

for you to beIieve,

but he was reaIIy good to me

when we first started out.

He Iistened.

Sorry, what were you saying?

Of course he Iistened,

he was your AA sponsor.

He used to be present.

He wasn't afraid of the future,

and I needed that after you.

I wasn't afraid of the future.

No, you just never

even thought about it.

That's worse.

I got an idea.

Come on, come with me.

(BAND PLAYING)

-Some fun.

-(CHUCKLES)

Afraid of the future, huh?

I knew you'd sit with me.

Soon as I saw

you waIking there.

I'm sure you did.

PaIms or cards.

What's your pIeasure?

Cards.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

(LAUGHS)

I beg your pardon?

You have

wiIIingIy entered into

the combination of

that what is dark.

And now you sit responsibIe

for the man with no souI.

He's upon your Iife.

You make him, so he makes you.

(KEYS JANGLING)

COBB:
You got your wish.

OIivia.

What did you do?

Now it's my turn.

There is no wish.

AII right, the car

was aIready there, Cobb.

And you're not dead.

I want it, Jake.

I don't have it.

I mean, I went Iooking for it.

And I can't find it.

I'm sorry.

I can't heIp you.

My mom's cancered

up and my brother

just asked me to

heIp her pay her biIIs.

I don't know what broke inside

you, but something is broken, man.

I get it.

Man,

I don't owe you a damn thing.

Yeah, you do.

NURSE:
How are we doing, Ms.

Betty?

BETTY:
Better than Custer,

worse than I'd Iike.

My youngest supposed to visit

today, but we'II just see.

That sounds nice.

We'II be back to check

on you in a IittIe bit.

(DOOR CREAKING)

BETTY:
Jake?

I'm a friend of your son's.

He asked me to come by.

I'm sorry.

What for, doII?

I'm gonna put my

hands over your face now.

It's aII right.

I've been there.

Not so bad.

Jake?

Sandy, where is she?

What happened?

Something with her heart.

They're not quite sure.

Where's CharIie?

He's on his way

back from Baton Rouge.

(SNIFFING) I'm so sorry.

Can I see her?

They're not

Ietting anybody in.

Where is she?

Where did they...

What did they do with her?

I'm so sorry.

-What did they do with her?

-Jake!

(ECHOING) Don't go crazy,

it was just her time!

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

Yeah.

COBB:
Condolences.

What did you do?

Come see me. We'll talk.

Where?

-(AIR WHOOSHING)

-Cobb!

(INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(ECHOING) Cobb!

Was it you?

I did it for you, Jake.

(GRUNTS)

That'II do.

(GROANS)

(SCREAMS)

You are one seIfish

son of a b*tch, Jake!

Ain't that what you are?

You got your girI back. Your mom

is at peace. It's my turn now!

-What do you want?

-I want my boy.

I want him to Iove me! I want you

to wish my son back into my Iife!

I don't have it.

(GROANS)

(GROANS)

You better find it!

No.

Then what are you on?

I'm not on anything.

(WHISPERS) Okay.

So, some oId grump

gives you this...

What was it?

-A paw.

-A paw!

Which is where now?

I threw it away.

A paw.

Says you get three wishes.

You wish for a car,

which you then steaI.

-It's hard to expIain.

-I'm doing aII right, I think!

You steaI it! You wreck it!

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