Truly Madly Deeply Page #5

Some of the guys wanted to come back

and... just watch a couple of videos.

- What guys?

- Friends. Some friends.

- Dead friends?

- I don't know. I suppose so, yes.

Are you telling me there are dead people

in my living room, watching videos?

Well, I mean... aren't these videos

available wherever they are normally?

Look, if this is a problem...

These are my friends, Nina.

No, OK, I'll send them away. Sure.

No, it's fine. It's absolutely fine.

- I'd forgotten you could be like this.

- Be like what?

- Doesn't matter.

- I said it's fine.

Bless you.

- Bless you.

Oh, no!

I'll tell you his name: Eric Stuart

Campbell. He is the star of this film.

The lamppost bit is nonsense.

The greatest bit in this film is the fight

with Eric Campbell in the police station.

Charlie Chaplin's not even there.

It is brilliant.

Eric died a few months after making

this film. He got run over. He told me...

- Hey, where's the picture?

- Just press one of those. Jamie?

Oh, Nina!

This is Freddie and this is Pierre.

- This is Bruno and this is...

- Isaac.

- Hello.

- This is Nina.

- I'm Bruno.

- Hello, Bruno.

- Freddie. Hi.

- Freddie.

- Pierre. Hello.

- Pierre. Hi, hi.

- Well, can I get anybody... anything?

- No, thanks.

Well, the tape that says

it's Manhattan... It isn't.

Oh, no. You know, the other day, I was

trying to record Hannah and her Sisters...

- Lovely film.

- Woody Allen.

Yes. I've got a terrible feeling...

I'm so hopeless with that machine...

You haven't recorded over it?! Nina!

She did that with Strangers on a Train.

- Really?

- I love that film!

- He's wonderful in it.

- Robert Walker.

That's such a drag!

Sorry.

Laura...

Yes, dear?

Whatever your dream was,

it wasn't a very happy one, was it?

No.

Is there anything I can do to help?

Yes, Fred, you always help.

- You've been a long way away.

...a long way away.

- Thank you for coming back to me.

- Thank you for coming back to me.

OK, Five Easy Pieces or Fitzcarraldo?

- Fitzcarraldo.

- Five Easy Pieces.

Guys, actually I'm gonna

have to go to bed. Sorry.

- Good night.

- I'll be in in a minute.

Don't be long.

- Five Easy Pieces.

- Fitzcarraldo.

Let's take a vote.

- You smell so nice.

- Mm.

- Are you asleep?

- Mm.

Nina, have you still got

that hot water bottle?

Oh, Jamie, the thing is, I'm so hot,

I'm suffocating. I'm too hot!

Don't worry, sh. I love you.

Go back to sleep.

The guys are nice, aren't they?

Mm.

Great guys.

- Get a move on!

Well done, Maureen.

- All right, Mand?

- Yeah, I'm all right.

Excuse me.

- Oh, hi!

- Hello.

- How are you?

- I'm fine.

This is Anthony,

and Anthony, this is my friend...

- Nina.

- Hello, Nina.

Hello.

We're going for a walk and we'll do some

paintings, and then we'll have a picnic.

- Do you want to come?

- I think Nina's probably busy.

I'd like to. I'd love to.

But I've got an appointment. I'm late.

- Well, er, nice to see you.

- To see you, nice!

Oh, how's your friend?

The one who's having the baby.

Maura? Oh, she's fine.

No, don't disappear! Helen!

Adrian! Just...

- Er, I'd better go.

- OK, OK.

- See you soon.

- Bye.

Nina! Nina!

- Sorry. Er...

- Hang on.

Look, I was wondering,

do you think maybe sometime we could...

This is probably terrible. You can say no...

- Yes, I'd like to.

- Oh, really?

- Well, could I call you?

- Yes... No, I'll call you.

- OK.

- No, I will call you. It's just, erm...

- I haven't got a pen. Have you?

- Yeah. Well, I think so.

Sorry. Have you got a pen, please?

- It's OK.

- I haven't got any paper.

- Here, write on that.

- Right, OK. It's...

...261-0840.

And my work number is 267...

- I can't remember it.

- That's fine.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Wave, Heidi! Wave, Sandy!

I was reading, erm...

I was reading... it must have been one of

those books you lent me on bereavement.

It was about how it was possible that

people might get a powerful sensation...

...that their loved one has come back.

I don't mean a sense of their presence.

I mean that they've actually come back.

And they're in their house.

What do you think about that?

Is that ridiculous?

What?

Is what ridiculous?

Well, I don't know. I mean...

When I read it, I thought "How ridiculous!"

Why?

Well, no, I can imagine it. I can

imagine going home this evening...

...and there's Jamie...

...and he's back.

- All right.

But then...

- But then what?

- What are you saying is ridiculous?

Well...

Oh, I don't know.

Everything, everything. I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, God.

I'm so sorry.

- Madame!

- Oh.

- Sorry.

- Oh, they're glorious.

Oh. Thanks.

The scent! Lovely. I know

it's very late. It's started and...

It doesn't matter.

We can do something else.

- No, I can't.

- Why? Has something happened?

I've got to be somewhere else.

It's very complicated.

- OK.

- No. It's complicated...

...but I guarantee that whatever you're

thinking is not why it's complicated.

Well, what am I going to tell my group?

They're on tenterhooks.

- Is that? Are they your work, or?

- Yeah. We were drawing trees.

You draw a tree, and then on the roots

and the branches you put the names of...

- Have you got time for this?

- Yes, sure, I just haven't...

You draw a tree, and then on the roots...

...you put in the names of people

who were important in forming you...

...or stabilising you or taking

care of you:
Mum, Dad, sister...

And then you put in the names

of people who are around you now.

This is on the branches, like leaves.

Sorry, are you with me?

- Yes, I think so.

- Right, well...

...bit ambitious, really, but I did.

I was doing mine.

And Anthony, who you met,

he suddenly said "Where's Nina?"

Actually, it's not just the group

that's on tenterhooks, but, er...

- Anyway, can I give you a lift?

- No, really, I'll be fine.

Well, aren't we both going north?

I could drop you off at the end of the road.

No, I'll get a bus. Really. I think it's better.

You could walk me to the

underground if you want.

Well, this is my shortest ever date. Yours?

- Yes.

- That's something, then.

Are you interested in my last name?

No, hang on, stop!

OK, no, this is what we do.

I tell you everything about my life

between here and that statue there.

And then you tell me yours, OK?

And we hop, of course.

No lies from the speaker, no interruptions

from the listener. And we're off.

Mark Damian de Grunwald, 32 next

birthday, born Budleigh Salterton.

Capricorn. I don't believe in star signs.

Parents alive, retired. Father silent,

practically completely silent...

...18 years older than my mother,

who is not completely silent.

Owned a mill, then a post office,

then a tea shop.

Amateur magician - father, that is.

I was his assistant...

...at Conservative club dinner dances,

sawn in half from the age of seven...

...and made to disappear in ideologically

unsound circumstances. Change legs!

What else? Home, OK. Puberty, OK.

Parents, OK. One older brother, OK.

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