Scene 8 Flashcards by Aaron Black

Alfieri
You won’t have a friend in the world, Eddie! Even those who understand will turn against you, even the ones who feel the same will despise you! Put it out of your mind! Eddie!

Connect me with the Immigration Bureau. Thanks. I want to report something. Illegal immigrants. Two of them. That’s right. Four-forty-one Saxon Street, Brooklyn, yeah. Ground floor. Heh?

I’m just around the neighborhood, that’s all. Heh?

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Louis
Go bowlin’, Eddie?

No, I’m due home.

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Louis
Well, take it easy.

I’ll see yiz.

Where is everybody?
I says where is everybody?

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Beatrice
I decided to move them upstairs with Mrs. Dondero.

Oh, they’re all moved up there already?

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Beatrice
Yeah.

Where’s Catherine? She up there?

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Beatrice
Only to bring pillow cases.

She ain’t movin’ in with them.

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Beatrice
Look, I’m sick and tired of it. I’m sick and tired of it!

All right, all right, take it easy.

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Beatrice
I don’t wanna hear no more about it, you understand? Nothin’!

What’re you blowin’ off about? Who brought them in here?

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Beatrice
All right, I’m sorry; I wish I’d a drop dead before I told them to come. In the ground I wish I was.

Don’t drop dead, just keep in mind who brought them in here, that’s all.

I mean I got a couple of rights here.

This is my house here not their house.

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Beatrice
What do you want from me? They’re moved out; what do you want now?

I want my respect!

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Beatrice
So I moved them out, what more do you want? You got your house now, you got your respect.

I don’t like the way you talk to me, Beatrice.

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Beatrice
I’m just tellin’ you I done what you want!

I don’t like it! The way you talk to me and the way you look at me. This is my house. And she is my niece and I’m responsible for her.

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Beatrice
So that’s why you done that to him?

I done what to him?

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Beatrice
What you done to him in front of her; you know what I’m talkin’ about. She goes around shakin’ all the time, she can’t go to sleep! That’s what you call responsible for her?

The guy ain’t right, Beatrice.

Did you hear what I said?

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Beatrice
Look, I’m finished with it. That’s all.

I’m gonna have it out with you one of these days, Beatrice.

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Beatrice
Nothin’ to have out with me, it’s all settled. Now we gonna be like it never happened, that’s all.

I want my respect, Beatrice, and you know what I’m talkin’ about.

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Beatrice
What?

What I feel like doin’ in the bed and what I don’t feel like doin’. I don’t want no –

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Beatrice
When’d I say anything about that?

You said, you said, I ain’t deaf. I don’t want no more conversations about that, Beatrice. I do what I feel like doin’ or what I don’t feel like doin’.

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Beatrice
Okay.

You used to be different, Beatrice. You had a whole different way.

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Beatrice
I’m no different.

You didn’t used to jump me all the time about everything. The last year or two I come in the house I don’t know what’s gonna hit me. It’s a shootin’ gallery in here and I’m the pigeon.

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Beatrice
Okay, okay.

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Don’t tell me okay, okay, I’m tellin’ you the truth.
A wife is supposed to believe the husband. If I tell you that guy ain’t right don’t tell me he is right.

Beatrice
But how do you know?

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Because I know. I don’t go around makin’ accusations. He give me the heeby-jeebies the first minute I seen him. And I don’t like you sayin’ I don’t want her marryin’ anybody. I broke my back payin’ her stenography lessons so she could go out and meet a better class of people. Would I do that if I didn’t want her to get married? Sometimes you talk like I was a crazy man or sump’m.

Beatrice
Well, you kept her a baby, you wouldn’t let her go out. I told you a hundred times.

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All right. Let her go out, then.

Beatrice
But she likes him.

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Beatrice, she’s a baby, how is she gonna know what she likes?

Beatrice She don’t wanna go out now. It’s too late, Eddie.

Suppose I told her to go out. Suppose I –

Beatrice They’re going to get married next week, Eddie.

She said that?

Beatrice Eddie, if you want my advice, go to her and tell her good luck. I think maybe now that you had it out you learned better.

What’s the hurry next week?

Beatrice Well, she’s been worried about him bein’ picked up; this way he could start to be a citizen. She loves him, Eddie. Why don’t you give her a good word? Because I still think she would like you to be a friend, y’know? I mean like if you told her you’d go to the wedding.

She asked you that?

Beatrice I know she would like it. I’d like to make a party here for hcr. I mean there oughta be some kinda send-off. Heh? I mean she’ll have trouble enough in her life, let’s start it off happy. What do you say? ’Cause in her heart she still loves you, Eddie. I know it. What’re you, cryin’? Go . . . whyn’t you go tell her you’re sorry? There . . . she’s comin’ down. Come on, shake hands with her.

No, I can’t, I can’t talk to her.

Beatrice Eddie, give her a break; a wedding should be happy!

I’m goin’, I’m goin’ for a walk.

Beatrice Katie? . . . Eddie, don’t go, wait a minute. Ask him, Katie. Come on, honey.

It’s all right, I’m – (He starts to go and she holds him.)

Beatrice No, she wants to ask you. Come on, Katie, ask him. We’ll have a party! What’re we gonna do, hate each other? Come on! Catherine I’m gonna get married, Eddie. So if you wanna come, the wedding be on Saturday.

Okay. I only wanted the best for you, Katie. I hope you know that.

Catherine Okay.

Catherine? I was just tellin’ Beatrice . . . if you wanna go out, like . . . I mean I realize maybe I kept you home too much. Because he’s the first guy you ever knew, y’know? I mean now that you got a job, you might meet some fellas, and you get a different idea, y’know? I mean you could always come back to him, you’re still only kids, the both of yiz. What’s the hurry? Maybe you’ll get around a little bit, you grow up a little more, maybe you’ll see different in a couple of months. I mean you be surprised, it don’t have to be him.

Catherine No, we made it up already.

Katie, wait a minute.

Catherine No, I made up my mind.

But you never knew no other fella, Katie! How could you make up your mind?

Catherine ’Cause I did. I don’t want nobody else.

But, Katie, suppose he gets picked up.

Catherine That’s why we gonna do it right away. Soon as we finish the wedding he’s goin’ right over and start to be a citizen. I made up my mind, Eddie. I’m sorry. Could I take two more pillow cases for the other guys? Beatrice Sure, go ahead. Only don’t let her forget where they came from.

She’s got other boarders up there?

Beatrice Yeah, there’s two guys that just came over.

What do you mean, came over?

Beatrice From Italy. Lipari the butcher – his nephew. They come from Bari, they just got here yesterday. I didn’t even know till Marco and Rodolpho moved up there before. It’ll be nice, they could all talk together.

Catherine! What’re you, got no brains? You put them up there with two other submarines?

Catherine Why?

Why! How do you know they’re not trackin’ these guys? They’ll come up for them and find Marco and Rodolpho! Get them out of the house!

Beatrice But they been here so long already –

How do you know what enemies Lipari’s got? Which they’d love to stab him in the back?

Catherine Well what’ll I do with them?

The neighborhood is full of rooms. Can’t you stand to live a couple of blocks away from him? Get them out of the house!

Catherine Well maybe tomorrow night I’ll –

Not tomorrow, do it now. Catherine, you never mix yourself with somebody else’s family! These guys get picked up, Lipari’s liable to blame you or me and we got his whole family on our head. They got a temper, that family.

Catherine How’m I gonna find a place tonight?

Will you stop arguin’ with me and get them out! You think I’m always tryin’ to fool you or sump’m? What’s the matter with you, don’t you believe I could think of your good? Did I ever ask sump’m for myself ? You think I got no feelin’s? I never told you nothin’ in my life that wasn’t for your good. Nothin’! And look at the way you talk to me! Like I was an enemy! Like I – (A knock on the door.) Go up the fire escape, get them out over the back fence.

First Officer VO Immigration! Open up in there!

Go, go. Hurry up! Well, what’re you lookin’ at!

First Officer VO Open up!

Who’s that there?

First Officer VO Immigration, open up.

All right, take it easy, take it easy. What’s all this?

First Officer VO Where are they?

Where’s who?

First Officer VO Come on, come on, where are they?

Who? We got nobody here. What’s the matter with you?

Beatrice Oh, Jesus, Eddie.

What’s the matter with you?

Beatrice Oh, my God, my God . . .

What’re you, accusin’ me?

Beatrice My God, what did you do?

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Scene 8 Flashcards

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