Johnny Act Two Lines

Ponyboy - Beginning to get light.

The old church is over there. Dallas was right.

Ponyboy - My dream’s come true. We’re in the country.

You wait at the church. I’ll go to the store for supplies. Be there first thing when they open.

Ponyboy - I wonder what’s happening with the guys back at home?

I can imagine.

Ponyboy - […] That’s our signal.

Nobody paid attention at the store. We’re loaded up. A week’s supply of baloney, two loaves of bread, a box of matches, candy bars, candy bars—

Ponyboy - […] How’d you know I always wanted to read that book?

I remember you sayin’ something about it once. I thought maybe you could read it out loud and help kill time or something.

Ponyboy - Thanks.

We’re in big trouble.

Ponyboy - […] Man, I’m tired.

Last night… Was it last night?

Ponyboy - […] Last night we were layin’ in the lot, lookin’ up at the stars—

Last night I killed that Bob. He couldn’t have been over seventeen or eighteen, and I killed him. I’m real tired, too.

Ponyboy - […] Johnny was especially stuck on the Southern gentlemen.

I bet they were cool ol’ guys— ridin’ into sure death because they were gallant. They remind me of Dallas.

Ponyboy - […] And you saw how he treated those girls at the Nightly Double.

Yeah, but one night I saw Dallas gettin’ picked up by the fuzz, and he kept real cool. They were gettin’ him for somethin’ Two-Bit did. And Dallas knew it. But he took the sentence without batting an eye or even denying it. That’s gallant.

Ponyboy - […] There was a silent moment when everything held its breath — then the sun rose.

Golly— that’s sure pretty.

Ponyboy - Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to paint that sky?

Too bad it can’t stay like that.

Ponyboy - “Nothing gold can stay”

What?

Ponyboy - […] it goes on.

Well, you go on.

Ponyboy - […] Nothing gold can stay

Where’d you learn that?

Ponyboy - Robert Frost wrote it. He meant more to it than I’m gettin’ though.

How come you remember it?

Ponyboy - Because I keep tryin’ to figure it out. I never quite got what he meant by it.

I never noticed colors and clouds and stuff till you started reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before.

Ponyboy - […] Just you, and Sodapop sometimes — and maybe Cherry Valance

I guess we’re different.

Ponyboy - […] I was beginning to think I’d always lived in a church, or maybe during the Civil War— or both.

Pony— hear it?

Dallas - glory— look at the church mice.

Hey, Dallas!

Ponyboy - Never thought I’d be so glad to see Dallas Winston

What’s happening?

Dallas - […] I skipped breakfast and I’m starving.

You’re starving?

Dallas - […] Ain’t you been eatin’ anything?

What gives you that idea?

Dallas - […] They beat it out of me.

Like I told ya— gallant.

Ponyboy - Believe it!

Be good to get in a car again.

Ponyboy - First thing I got was a Pepsi. Then we started gorging.

I’m gonna start next on the banana splits—

Dallas - Ya kill ‘em with switchblades, too, don’t ya, kid?

Please, Dallas—

Dallas - […] Tomorrow night. The vacant lot.

Tomorrow night!

Dallas - […] I don’t care how many Socs show up— they’re gonna run.

Suppose they bring chains?

Dallas - […] The redhead. Cherry whats-her-name

(with Ponyboy) Cherry!

(alone) The Soc?

Dallas - […] —and you only fought back in self-defense. How about that?

That would really help

Dallas - […] What do they do for kicks in the country, play checkers?

We’re goin’ back and turn ourselves in.

Dallas- What?

We’re going back and turn ourselves in. I got a good chance of bein’ let of easy. I ain’t got no record. Both Ponyboy and Cherry can testify it was self-defense.

Once they get your hands on you —

I can’t stay in that church the rest of my life.

Dallas - When they take you in you’ll find out — greasers get it worse than anyone.

We won’t tell that you helped us, and we’ll give you what’s left of the money—

Dallas - you sure you want to go back?

It ain’t fair for Ponyboy to have to stay up in the church with Darry and Soda worrying about him all the time.

Ponyboy - Darry don’t—

Yes, he does. I don’t guess— I don’t guess my parents are worried about me or anything.

Dallas - The boys are worried. Two-Bit was for going to Texas to look for you.

My parents, did they ask about me?

Dallas - Get in the car. If you’d turned yourself in five days ago, it’d saved us a lot of trouble. C’mon.

I was scared. I still am.

Dallas - […] You don’t know what a few months in jail can do to you.

Like it happened to you.

Dallas - What for? Get back in the car.

People over there—

Mrs. O’Briant - They’re missing. They were— They’re in the church!

We’ll get them. Don’t worry.

Jerry - No. Wait for the firemen.

There ain’t time.

Ponyboy - Hand me that kid Johnny

Hey— got a little one! Out the window little guy!

Two-Bit - Hey, Johnnycake. Johnnycake—

Hey, y’all

Two-Bit - got a riddle for ya. What’s the safest thing to be when you meet a gang of social outcasts in an alley?

Dunno—

Ponyboy - You got your name in the paper for being a hero! Yeah, you!

Tuff!

Ponyboy - I figure Southern gentlemen ain’t got nothing on Johnny Cade!

The book that got burned— can we get another one?

Ponyboy - Dallas’s gonna be all right. And Darry and me— we’re okay now. Johnny?

Ut just hurts sometimes. It usually don’t— I can’t feel anything below the middle of my back. I’m pretty bad off, ain’t Pony?

Ponyboy - You’ll be okay. You gotta be. We couldn’t get along without you.

I won’t be able to walk again.

Ponyboy - You’ll be okay. I’m telling you—

I’m so scared. I used to talk about killing myself, but I don’t want to die. It ain’t long enough, Ponyboy. Sixteen years ain’t long enough. There’s so much stuff I ain’t done yet, and so many things I ain’t seen. That time we were at the church in Windrixville was the only time I’ve been away from our neighborhood.

Dallas - That’s right, Johnny.

Dallas?

Dallas - […] Said when they saw my picture they couldn’t believe it didn’t have “Wanted Dead or Alive” under it.

That’s a good one, Dallas.

Nurse - Johnny. Your mother’s here to see you.

She— I don’t want to see her.

Nurse - She’s your mother.

She’s come to tell me about all the trouble I’m causing her. Well, tell her to leave me alone. For once. For once just leave me alone.

Nurse - They brought a book for you, Johnny. Gone with the Wind. We can read it together a little later.

Could I have a piece of paper and a pencil?

Dallas - Johnnycake? Johnny?

Hey— Dallas an’ Ponyboy

Dallas - We won! We beat the Socs. We chased them out of our territory.

Fighting is no good—

Dallas - Johnny— they’re still writing about you in the paper. All that hero stuff. I’m proud of you buddy. Really proud of you!

Dallas, proud of me!

Ponyboy - We’re all proud of you—

Ponyboy— Stay Gold.

Something Important. Johnny’s handwriting—

I asked the Nurse to give you this book so you could finish it— I want you to tell Dallas to look at a sunset. He’ll probably think you’re crazy, but ask him for me. Listen, I don’t mind dying now. It’s worth it saving those kids. Some of their parents came by to thank me, and I know it was worth it.That guy who wrote the poem— he meant you’re gold when you’re a kid, like green. When you’re a kid everything’s new, dawn. It’s just that when you get used to everything that it’s day. The way you are, Pony. That’s gold. There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dallas. I don’t think he knows.