The Shadow Box- Maggie Lines
(scene change) Bugged?
I brought some Lysol. Here.
AGNES: Let's see. Today is the fifth. The fifth of May.
I called home. I told them we got here all right. I told them... I don't know.
Try. Just try. Live with it. Look at it. Don't make me do it alone.
I can't promise...
Look at me. You want magic to happen? I'm waiting. Make it happen!
I can't.
Make it happen!
I can't.
He doesn't know? What does he think? He thinks I'm going home with you?
I couldn't.
Let me look at you, huh?
I didn't know what you'd need. I thought it was 40 lbs on the plane, but they let you have extra. You can put things under the seat. A lot of people didn't have anything. So I put stuff under their seats, too.
Sure.
I didn't tell him.
What?
I didn't tell him.
...before you know it, everything you had is gone.
I'm telling you, I don't want to talk about it.
Maggie, you know I can't.
No, I don't know.
You mean you carried a ham 3,000 miles across the country?
No, I put it under the seat.
Come on in, Maggie. I'll show you around.
No, I want to stay outside for a while. It's nice.
Any smart back-talk or I'll split your lip.
Well...I brought you some things...I didn't know for sure what you'd want.
Maggie...
What is this place, anyway? They make everything so nice? Why? So you forget? I can't. I want you to come home.
BRIAN: It doesn't last forever.
A few days, a few minutes... that's all.
Why not?
Because...it isn't true. It isn't true. It isn't...
With Steve...
He doesn't remember...
They asked me all those questions. They said, no more kids.
It hurt so bad, I cried...
I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you.
It's okay.
Leave him be. I'll get this.
No, you rest. Stephen!
Look at me, Maggie.
No.
Tomorrow is nothing. It's not going to change. You don't snap your fingers and it disappears. You don't buy a ticket and it goes away. It's here. Now.
No.
It gets worse.
No. I can see it.
Sure. Come inside and I'll show you.
No. I don't want to go inside.
It's not going to change anything.
No. It's too fast. What'll I do? I can't remember tomorrow. It's no good.
Come on inside, Maggie. Come on!
No...I don't...want to go inside, Joe. Now stop it!
We'll take them inside...
No...Steve'll get them.
BRIAN: Not me!
Not me!
You look real pretty. You must be tired. Come on in, you can rest.
One minute you're there, the next minute you're here. I still feel like I'm there. Oh, yeah, I made a ham!
BEVERLY: You try to remember what it was you believed in.
What was it?
I don't know. Like everything else, I don't know. Come inside.
What'll we do in there?
Mom. I'm sorry.
What?
I'm going to die, Maggie.
Why?
Yeah?
Yeah.
(scene change) JOE: You want to say no.
...no...
What?
A ham. We can have it for lunch.
Don't do this, Maggie.
A little time, that's all.
We got to tell him, Maggie. We got to face it and tell him.
Don't make me say things I don't understand. I don't want to hear them. I shake all over when I think about them. How long? Two weeks? Three? A month? And then what? What have I got then? An apartment full of some furniture I can't even keep clean for company. A closet full of some old pictures, some curtains I made out of my wedding dress that don't even fit the windows.
Sundays and Saturdays when I could get off.
He should have had brothers and sisters.
Why not?
How do I look? It's a new dress.
Well, what the hell are we going to do with it?
I don't know...I thought it'd last. I'll put it away. You don't have to look at it.
(scene change) ...Yes, Mama... I'm here. I'm here.
I found a picture of us in New York in Central Park. You were in uniform. What did we have? A few days in January was all.
We couldn't.
I know.
In the fall...
I tell him, he doesn't remember...
Aren't you ever coming in?
I'll go when I'm good and ready.
You can sit out here all night.
I'm all right. I just need some time, that's all.
Hey, Mom! Come on in.
I'm not coming in. You're coming out. And don't give me...
(scene change) It's getting dark, Maggie.
It's pretty.
Yeah. Every move. Every word.
Joe, cut it out. Take this stuff inside.
Is this it?
Joe? Stephen? Is that your father?
I knew you would.
Stephen!
It was great to get out of that city.
Stephen, take this bag inside. Put this one in the kitchen. You got a kitchen?
I can get it. The more exercise I get, the better I feel.
Steve can do it. Stephen! Put that thing down and give your father a hand.
Great. Come on, I'll show you the guitar. It was pretty cheap. I got ripped off the case, so that didn't cost anything. It's got a little compartment on the inside for picks and capos, and like that.
Steve? Joe? The jackass is here! Come and get your luggage! You leave me alone out here for one more minute, and I'm taking the next plane back. Stephen, are you in there or not?
I'm going inside now, Maggie. I'm going to tell him.
Tell me first.
What?
Tell me. Say it out loud.
BEVERLY: These things you love.
These children.
BRIAN: Yes.
This breath.
Sure. A kitchen, a bathroom, two bedrooms, a living room...
This goes in the bedroom.
BEVERLY: This smile.
This pain.
Every day it gets worse.
We'll go home tomorrow. I got another ticket.
BRIAN: Yes.
Yes.
MARK: These things you have.
Yes.
STEVE: I can play for you now. It's not good, but it's not bad either.
Yes.
I can't.
You can. Don't believe what they tell you. What do they know? We've been through worse than this. You look fine. I can see it.
It's all right, what the hell are we talking about?
You didn't say in the letter. And we talked and I couldn't remember. I tried! They said to come and bring Steve. That's all. You sounded fine, so I made the ham, I...
Maggie, listen.
You don't have to tell me, you're fine. It's just I got so scared. Thinking about it. But it's all right now. I can see it's all right. I knew it would be when I got here.
No, Maggie.
You get stronger every day.
I missed you, Maggie.
You got to tell me what's going on. Don't make me feel so stupid. Like I'm supposed to know everything. I don't know anything. I just know what I see.
BEVERLY: You want it to make a difference.
You want to blame somebody.