EPISODE FIVE (pgs 33-44)

(at table 3) lines for FIRST MAN AT BAR in Machinal by sophie treadwell

(at rise)

I’m going to beat it.

SECOND MAN: oh, for the love of mike

They ain’t going to show.

SECOND MAN: Sure they’ll show.

How do you know they’ll show?

SECOND MAN: I tell you you can’t keep that baby away from me - just got to - (Snaps fingers) - She comes running.

Looks like it.

MAN AT TABLE 2: The same.

I’m going to beat it.

SECOND MAN: Oh say, listen! I’m counting on you to take the other one off my hands.

I’m going to beat it.

SECOND MAN: …That don’t leave me no time at all if we got to hang around — entertain some dame. You got to take her off my hands.

Maybe she won’t fall for me

SECOND MAN: We been here that long — ain’t we Dick?

Just about, Harry.

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh I’ve heard them all.

Not a laugh in the carload, eh?

YOUNG WOMAN (TAKING ONE) Uhhuh.

SECOND MAN (to first man): One of these?

Thanks — I like these.

SECOND MAN: Where do we go from here! You just got here!

FIRST MAN: What’s the hurry?

YOUNG WOMAN: I just want to keep moving.

(smiling) You just want to keep moving, huh?

YOUNG WOMAN: It’s only some days — I want to keep moving.

You want to keep moving, huh? (smiling)

YOUNG WOMAN: Uhhuh.

Stick around a while.

GIRL: Helen don’t run with any crowd — do you, Helen?

YOUNG WOMAN: No.

Well, I’m not a crowd — run with me.

SECOND MAN: All set, huh? — Dick was about ready to beat it.

That’s before I met the little lady. (waiter serves drinks) Here’s how.

YOUNG WOMAN: Here’s — happy days.

(They all drink).

That’s good stuff!

SECOND MAN: Off a boat.

Off a boat?

SECOND MAN: They’re all set — aren’t you?

(to young woman) Are we?

SECOND MAN: All right with you folks?

All right with me.

SECOND MAN: Come on, kid. (They rise) What’s the damage?

Go on!

SECOND MAN: No!

Go on!

SECOND MAN: He’s matching me.

Am I matching you or you matching me?

SECOND MAN: i’m matching you. (They match) You’re stung!

Not so you can notice it.

YOUNG WOMAN: I know what business is like.

You do — do yuh?

YOUNG WOMAN: I used to be a business girl myself before —

Before what?

YOUNG WOMAN: Before I quit.

What did you quit for?

YOUNG WOMAN: I just quit.

You’re married, huh?

YOUNG WOMAN: Yes — I am.

All right with me.

YOUNG WOMAN: Some men don’t seem to like a woman after she’s married —

What’s the difference?

YOUNG WOMAN: Depends on the man, I guess.

Depends on the woman. (To Waiter) The same.

SECOND MAN: Say, I forgot — I want you to do something for me, will yuh?

Sure — what is it?

SECOND MAN: I want you to telephone me out home tomorrow and ask me to come into town — will yuh?

Sure — why not?

SECOND MAN: You know — business — get me?

I get you.

SECOND MAN: I’ve worked the telephone gag to death — and my wife likes you.

What’s your number?

SECOND MAN: I’ll write it down for you.

How is your wife?

SECOND MAN: She’s fine.

And the kid?

SECOND MAN: …Come on, kid. Good bye.

YOUNG WOMAN: Why did you?

What?

YOUNG WOMAN: Kill ‘em.

To get free.

MAN (at table 2): But are you a lover?

There were a bunch of bandidos — bandits, you know, took me into the hills — holding me there — what was I to do? Got the two birds that guarded me drunk one night and then I filled the empty bottle with small stones — and let ‘em have it!

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh!

I had to get free, didn’t I? I let em have it —

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh — then what did you do?

Then I beat it.

YOUNG WOMAN: Where to?

Right here. (Pause) Glad?

YOUNG WOMAN: Yes.

(To waiter) The same.

YOUNG WOMAN: A bottle like that?

Yeah — filled with pebbles.

YOUNG WOMAN: What kind of pebbles?

Pebbles! Off the ground.

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh.

Necessity, you know, mother of invention. Ain’t a bad weapon — first you got a sledge hammer — then you got a knife.

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh. (puts bottle down)

Women don’t like knives, do they? (pours drink)

YOUNG WOMAN: No.

Don’t mind a hammer so much, though, do they?

YOUNG WOMAN: No —

I didn’t like it myself — any of it — but I had to get free, didn’t I? Sure I had to get free, didn’t I? (Drinks) Now I’m damn glad I did.

YOUNG WOMAN: Why?

You know why. (Puts his hand on hers)

YOUNG WOMAN: When you put your hand over mine! When you just touch me!

Yeah? (Pause) Come on, kid, let’s go!

YOUNG WOMAN: Where?

You haven’t been around much, have you, kid?

YOUNG WOMAN: No.

I could tell that just to look at you.

YOUNG WOMAN: You could?

Sure I could. What are you running around with a girl like that other one for?

YOUNG WOMAN: I don’t know. She seems to have a good time.

So that’s it?

YOUNG WOMAN: Don’t she?

Don’t you?

YOUNG WOMAN: No.

Never?

YOUNG WOMAN: Never.

What’s the matter?

YOUNG WOMAN: Nothing — just me, I guess.

You’re all right.

YOUNG WOMAN: Am I?

Sure. You just haven’t met the right guy — that’s all — girl like you — you got to meet the right guy.

YOUNG WOMAN: I know.

You’re different from girls like that other one — any guy’ll do her. You’re different.

YOUNG WOMAN: I guess I am

You didn’t fall for that business gag — did you — when they went off?

YOUNG WOMAN: Well, I thought they wanted to be alone probably, but —

And how!

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh — so that’s it.

That’s it. Come along — let’s go —

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh I couldn’t! Like this?

Don’t you like me?

YOUNG WOMAN: Yes.

Then what’s the matter?

YOUNG WOMAN: Do — you — like me?

Like yuh? You don’t know the half of it — listen — you know what you seem like to me?

YOUNG WOMAN: What?

An angel . Just like an angel.

YOUNG WOMAN: I do?

That’s what I said! Let’s go!

YOUNG WOMAN: Where?

Where do you live?

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh, we can’t go to my place.

Then come to my place.

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh I couldn’t — is it far?

Just a step — come on —

YOUNG WOMAN: Oh I couldn’t — what is it — a room?

No — an apartment — a one room apartment.

YOUNG WOMAN: That’s different.

On the ground floor — no one will see you — coming or going.

YOUNG WOMAN: I couldn’t.

Wait a minute — I got to pay the damage — and I’ll get a bottle of something to take along.

YOUNG WOMAN: No — don’t.

Why not?

YOUNG WOMAN: Well — don’t bring any pebbles.

Say — forget that! Will you?

YOUNG WOMAN: I just meant I don’t think I’ll need anything to drink.

You like me — don’t you, kid?

YOUNG WOMAN: Do you me?

Wait!