1 00:03:23,688 --> 00:03:26,306 Gentlemen, I wanna welcome you medical schoolmen... 2 00:03:26,536 --> 00:03:28,359 ...to our new operating theater. 3 00:03:28,584 --> 00:03:31,431 Although, as you can see, it isn't exactly what you'd call new. 4 00:03:31,656 --> 00:03:33,795 Used to be a library when this was a school... 5 00:03:34,025 --> 00:03:37,156 ...and maybe before that some kind of a sugar warehouse. 6 00:03:37,384 --> 00:03:40,287 But makeshift or not, the important thing is that we got it. 7 00:03:40,521 --> 00:03:43,336 The first to be devoted to psychosurgery in this state. 8 00:03:43,561 --> 00:03:45,602 And that is a great step forward. 9 00:03:45,834 --> 00:03:47,906 Now you're going to witness an operation... 10 00:03:48,138 --> 00:03:51,137 ...never performed before in this state. 11 00:03:51,369 --> 00:03:52,963 A lobotomy on the brain of a woman... 12 00:03:53,194 --> 00:03:56,063 ...suffering from acute schizophrenic withdrawal. 13 00:03:56,298 --> 00:03:59,233 Our new staff member, Dr. John Cukrowicz from Chicago... 14 00:03:59,466 --> 00:04:01,571 ...will perform this operation. 15 00:04:40,813 --> 00:04:41,741 Swab. 16 00:05:43,089 --> 00:05:44,463 Sew up, will you? 17 00:05:48,210 --> 00:05:51,723 You have just witnessed a delicate operation on the human brain... 18 00:05:51,954 --> 00:05:55,304 ...performed under the most primitive surgical conditions... 19 00:05:55,538 --> 00:05:58,572 ...that I hope any of you will ever encounter. 20 00:06:06,963 --> 00:06:08,524 Excuse us, please. 21 00:06:15,124 --> 00:06:17,512 -Son, I know just how you feel. -For six months... 22 00:06:17,748 --> 00:06:20,301 ...I have listened to you promise me this and that. 23 00:06:20,532 --> 00:06:22,736 -But I am not... -I know, I know, I know. 24 00:06:22,964 --> 00:06:26,161 You are not the state board of health. Well, I am not a witch doctor. 25 00:06:26,388 --> 00:06:28,690 I need properly trained assistants. 26 00:06:28,916 --> 00:06:31,764 I need an operating room that doesn't fall apart. 27 00:06:31,989 --> 00:06:33,615 At least lights that stay lit. 28 00:06:33,845 --> 00:06:36,366 I know, but this is a state hospital... 29 00:06:36,597 --> 00:06:38,288 ...and there isn't enough money for us. 30 00:06:38,517 --> 00:06:40,939 I can't promise you that there ever will be enough. 31 00:06:42,933 --> 00:06:45,355 I'll go back to Chicago or someplace where there is. 32 00:06:45,590 --> 00:06:46,418 John. 33 00:06:47,638 --> 00:06:49,165 Before you do that... 34 00:06:49,398 --> 00:06:50,543 ...read this. 35 00:06:58,647 --> 00:07:00,207 Who is Violet Venable? 36 00:07:00,598 --> 00:07:02,573 You reveal your ignorance of our fair city... 37 00:07:02,807 --> 00:07:05,295 ...of which Mrs. Venable is the richest lady. 38 00:07:05,527 --> 00:07:07,283 At one time, her husband owned most of it. 39 00:07:07,671 --> 00:07:09,678 Now she's a widow and she owns it. 40 00:07:09,911 --> 00:07:13,424 "...and was very interested in the work of your Dr. Cukrowicz." 41 00:07:14,104 --> 00:07:16,373 She must have read your write-up in the Herald. 42 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,178 "And I wonder if the foundation I am establishing... 43 00:07:20,408 --> 00:07:22,644 ...might be of some assistance." 44 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:25,649 Son, with one signature on one check... 45 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,401 ...she can solve all the problems we got. 46 00:07:28,889 --> 00:07:31,507 "Also there is a matter of some urgency... 47 00:07:31,737 --> 00:07:34,039 ...I should like to discuss with him. 48 00:07:34,553 --> 00:07:37,400 Would 4:30 on Tuesday be convenient?" 49 00:07:37,753 --> 00:07:39,030 That's today. 50 00:07:39,769 --> 00:07:41,296 What is her urgency, do you know? 51 00:07:41,530 --> 00:07:44,726 No, but I know what ours is. Lack of money. Her money. 52 00:07:44,954 --> 00:07:46,328 She is serious? 53 00:07:46,554 --> 00:07:48,409 4:30 this afternoon, you'll know. 54 00:07:48,634 --> 00:07:50,041 I can tell you this much. 55 00:07:50,266 --> 00:07:53,527 I've been trying for years just to see the Venable lawyers. 56 00:07:53,754 --> 00:07:56,918 You've been invited by her. That's a command performance. 57 00:07:57,147 --> 00:07:59,252 That's how serious I think it is. 58 00:07:59,579 --> 00:08:01,433 And this is serious too. 59 00:08:01,658 --> 00:08:06,132 More than 1 200 mental cases Lions View can't afford to handle. 60 00:08:18,811 --> 00:08:19,740 Good afternoon. 61 00:08:19,965 --> 00:08:22,202 -Dr. Cukrowicz. -Yes, sir. 62 00:08:24,957 --> 00:08:26,483 Take a seat, please. 63 00:08:26,716 --> 00:08:27,764 Thank you. 64 00:08:41,886 --> 00:08:42,901 Mrs. Venable? 65 00:08:43,134 --> 00:08:45,981 I am Miss Foxhill, Mrs. Venable's secretary. 66 00:08:46,206 --> 00:08:48,148 And you are Dr. Cukrowicz? 67 00:08:48,382 --> 00:08:49,943 Your appointment was for...? 68 00:08:50,175 --> 00:08:51,157 Four-thirty. 69 00:08:51,391 --> 00:08:54,871 You are 23 seconds early. Sit down, please. 70 00:08:55,487 --> 00:08:56,632 Thank you. 71 00:09:00,288 --> 00:09:02,710 Sebastian always said, "Mother, when you descend... 72 00:09:02,943 --> 00:09:05,081 ...it's like the goddess from the machine." 73 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,717 -Mrs. Venable's on her way down. -I feel just like an angel... 74 00:09:09,951 --> 00:09:12,668 ...coming to earth as I float, float into view. 75 00:09:13,504 --> 00:09:14,267 Sebastian... 76 00:09:14,944 --> 00:09:18,207 ...my son, Sebastian, was very interested in the Byzantine. 77 00:09:18,433 --> 00:09:20,506 Are you interested in the Byzantine, Dr...? 78 00:09:20,897 --> 00:09:21,976 Cukrowicz. 79 00:09:22,208 --> 00:09:24,314 I don't know very much about the Byzantine. 80 00:09:24,608 --> 00:09:28,286 The emperor of Byzantium, when he received people in audience... 81 00:09:28,513 --> 00:09:30,935 ...had a throne which, during the conversation... 82 00:09:31,170 --> 00:09:32,958 ...would rise mysteriously in the air... 83 00:09:33,186 --> 00:09:35,487 ...to the consternation of the visitors. 84 00:09:35,714 --> 00:09:38,584 But as we are living in a democracy, I reverse the procedure. 85 00:09:38,818 --> 00:09:40,443 I don't rise. I come down. 86 00:09:40,673 --> 00:09:43,260 How do you do, Dr....? Oh, I'm sorry, your name? 87 00:09:43,491 --> 00:09:44,505 Cukrowicz. 88 00:09:44,802 --> 00:09:47,421 It's a Polish word meaning "sugar." 89 00:09:48,515 --> 00:09:52,159 Am I only wearing one earring? Have I forgotten my lip rouge? 90 00:09:52,546 --> 00:09:54,107 Excuse me, I... 91 00:09:54,371 --> 00:09:57,305 I guess I had been told you were a widow. 92 00:09:57,635 --> 00:09:59,675 I am. I'm in mourning. 93 00:09:59,907 --> 00:10:02,242 White was my son's favorite color. 94 00:10:02,467 --> 00:10:04,802 Perhaps, Dr. Sugar... 95 00:10:05,027 --> 00:10:07,231 ...you expected an old widow. 96 00:10:07,459 --> 00:10:09,794 With a garnet brooch, a cane and an ear trumpet. 97 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:11,930 Well, I have all that to look forward to. 98 00:10:12,164 --> 00:10:16,442 Life is a thief. Sebastian always said, "Life steals everything." 99 00:10:16,677 --> 00:10:18,683 I want to show you his garden. 100 00:10:19,013 --> 00:10:21,020 Are you sure you should go out, Mrs. Venable? 101 00:10:21,252 --> 00:10:23,259 Quite sure. They treat me like an invalid. 102 00:10:23,492 --> 00:10:25,348 You see, last spring I had a slight... 103 00:10:25,573 --> 00:10:28,639 ...a tiny convulsion of a tiny blood vessel. 104 00:10:28,869 --> 00:10:30,299 What did your doctor call it? 105 00:10:30,533 --> 00:10:31,744 A malady of living. 106 00:10:31,973 --> 00:10:36,163 After all, I've buried a husband and a son. I'm a widow and a... 107 00:10:36,582 --> 00:10:38,436 Funny, there's no word. 108 00:10:38,662 --> 00:10:40,767 Lose your parents, you're an orphan. 109 00:10:40,998 --> 00:10:44,097 Lose your only son and you are... 110 00:10:45,606 --> 00:10:46,653 ...nothing. 111 00:10:48,263 --> 00:10:49,278 Foxhill. 112 00:10:50,662 --> 00:10:52,190 Where are they? 113 00:10:52,935 --> 00:10:54,593 I put them in the patio. 114 00:10:54,823 --> 00:10:58,620 They sent them parcel post from Pensacola. That's why they were late. 115 00:10:58,855 --> 00:11:02,303 Another day and we'd have starved to death. Come on, doctor. 116 00:11:03,336 --> 00:11:06,303 In your letter, you said an "urgent" matter. 117 00:11:06,535 --> 00:11:09,765 I must say, you're handsomer than your photograph in the paper... 118 00:11:09,993 --> 00:11:12,895 ...without that awful paraphernalia you doctors wear. 119 00:11:13,129 --> 00:11:15,682 Your son's favorite color, white. 120 00:11:15,913 --> 00:11:18,182 Such extraordinary eyes. 121 00:11:18,408 --> 00:11:19,586 So like his. 122 00:11:19,817 --> 00:11:21,093 You must... 123 00:11:21,321 --> 00:11:25,762 I almost said, "You must meet my son, Sebastian." Force of habit. 124 00:11:25,993 --> 00:11:27,335 Is he the son who died? 125 00:11:27,562 --> 00:11:29,055 Yes, last July, in Europe. 126 00:11:29,289 --> 00:11:30,751 He must have been young to die. 127 00:11:30,985 --> 00:11:32,130 All poets... 128 00:11:32,361 --> 00:11:35,810 ...whatever age they may seem to others, die young. 129 00:12:06,988 --> 00:12:08,069 It's unexpected. 130 00:12:08,301 --> 00:12:10,340 Like the dawn of Creation. 131 00:12:10,573 --> 00:12:12,328 It was Sebastian's idea. 132 00:12:12,556 --> 00:12:16,005 Part of his lifelong war against the herbaceous border. 133 00:12:16,237 --> 00:12:19,946 Not unlike a well-groomed jungle and, frankly, a little terrifying. 134 00:12:20,173 --> 00:12:21,831 So was Creation. 135 00:12:22,061 --> 00:12:25,193 So is Creation. Listen to them buzz, buzz. 136 00:12:25,421 --> 00:12:26,796 What's in there? 137 00:12:27,021 --> 00:12:29,574 This way, before our poor Lady dies of hunger. 138 00:12:29,805 --> 00:12:32,555 The Latin names to the plants are printed on tags... 139 00:12:32,781 --> 00:12:34,789 ...attached to them, but the print's fading. 140 00:12:35,022 --> 00:12:37,771 Those ones there are the oldest plants on earth. 141 00:12:37,998 --> 00:12:41,381 Survivors from the age of the giant fern forest. 142 00:12:41,615 --> 00:12:43,240 And here's my poor Lady. 143 00:12:44,206 --> 00:12:45,635 They never get away. 144 00:12:45,870 --> 00:12:49,067 The Lady exudes this marvelous perfume... 145 00:12:49,296 --> 00:12:50,669 ...which attracts them. 146 00:12:50,895 --> 00:12:52,651 They plunge into her chalice. 147 00:12:53,294 --> 00:12:54,473 And they never come out. 148 00:12:54,991 --> 00:12:57,326 This operation you perform is called...? 149 00:12:58,479 --> 00:12:59,690 Lobotomy. 150 00:12:59,919 --> 00:13:01,742 -That's an unusual... -I hate these flies. 151 00:13:01,968 --> 00:13:03,113 Foxhill! 152 00:13:03,376 --> 00:13:04,456 Foxhill! 153 00:13:05,008 --> 00:13:08,357 She loves feeding our wicked Lady. Foxhill's rather a brute. 154 00:13:08,592 --> 00:13:11,627 Such an extravagance, really, from early fall to late spring... 155 00:13:11,857 --> 00:13:13,612 ...Lady must be kept under glass... 156 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:17,190 ...we have to provide her with flies flown in at great expense. 157 00:13:17,425 --> 00:13:19,465 Foxhill, you do the honors. 158 00:13:19,697 --> 00:13:23,112 -Lady's very hungry today. -Of course, Mrs. Venable. 159 00:13:23,345 --> 00:13:27,056 I've never seen an insectivorous plant before. What is it called? 160 00:13:27,282 --> 00:13:29,290 The Venus's-flytrap. 161 00:13:29,618 --> 00:13:31,505 A devouring organism... 162 00:13:31,731 --> 00:13:34,829 ...aptly named for the goddess of love. 163 00:13:35,762 --> 00:13:39,111 What was your son's work? I mean, aside from this garden. 164 00:13:39,347 --> 00:13:42,314 As many times as I've had to answer that question... 165 00:13:42,547 --> 00:13:44,457 ...it still shocks me a little to realize... 166 00:13:44,691 --> 00:13:47,538 ...that Sebastian Venable the poet was quite unknown... 167 00:13:47,763 --> 00:13:50,796 ...outside of a small coterie of friends, including his mother. 168 00:13:51,027 --> 00:13:51,954 Your son was a poet? 169 00:13:52,180 --> 00:13:54,186 Strictly speaking, his life was his occupation. 170 00:13:54,419 --> 00:13:56,875 Yes. Yes, Sebastian was a poet. 171 00:13:57,109 --> 00:13:59,978 That's what I meant when I said his life was his work. 172 00:14:00,404 --> 00:14:04,681 Because the work of a poet is the life of a poet. And vice versa. 173 00:14:04,917 --> 00:14:07,087 I mean, you can't separate them. 174 00:14:07,316 --> 00:14:10,218 I mean, a poet's life is his work. 175 00:14:10,452 --> 00:14:14,576 And his work is his life, in a special sense. 176 00:14:18,901 --> 00:14:21,934 -Are you all right? -Right as rain, however right that is. 177 00:14:22,581 --> 00:14:25,167 This operation of yours, does it really work? 178 00:14:25,654 --> 00:14:27,344 Yes, yes, it does. 179 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:29,483 However, it is very experimental. 180 00:14:29,717 --> 00:14:33,613 I was struck by something you said in the paper. 181 00:14:33,846 --> 00:14:36,497 About the sharp knife in the mind. 182 00:14:36,726 --> 00:14:38,417 That kills the devil in the soul? 183 00:14:39,447 --> 00:14:41,454 I'm afraid I got a bit carried away. 184 00:14:42,358 --> 00:14:46,483 No, what you said was almost poetic itself. 185 00:14:47,831 --> 00:14:51,825 Mrs. Venable, the work of a doctor is his life too. 186 00:14:52,055 --> 00:14:56,463 But we need help, particularly in a field as experimental as mine. 187 00:14:56,695 --> 00:15:00,176 Particularly at a state hospital like Lions View. 188 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,185 Yet we have little money, practically none. 189 00:15:03,416 --> 00:15:04,877 Yes, I know. 190 00:15:05,368 --> 00:15:06,351 Doctor... 191 00:15:06,808 --> 00:15:08,532 ...I have a niece by marriage... 192 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,615 ...at a place called St. Mary's. 193 00:15:10,841 --> 00:15:12,084 I've heard of it. 194 00:15:12,473 --> 00:15:14,448 It's a custodial home for the insane. 195 00:15:14,681 --> 00:15:18,096 She suffers from something called dementia praecox. 196 00:15:18,329 --> 00:15:19,409 Dementia praecox? 197 00:15:19,641 --> 00:15:22,675 Which is to say, she's mad as a hatter, poor child. 198 00:15:22,906 --> 00:15:24,629 Would you like to see Sebastian's studio? 199 00:15:24,858 --> 00:15:28,240 It's at the end of the jungle in what used to be the gar鏾nni鑢e. 200 00:15:28,473 --> 00:15:30,034 That's an old New Orleans convenience. 201 00:15:30,266 --> 00:15:33,168 A place where the young men could go to be private. 202 00:15:33,402 --> 00:15:35,061 You're not from New Orleans? 203 00:15:35,290 --> 00:15:39,513 No, Chicago. Actually, dementia praecox is a meaningless phrase... 204 00:15:39,738 --> 00:15:43,448 Chicago. I've always wanted to see two places before I die. 205 00:15:43,675 --> 00:15:44,821 Hong Kong... 206 00:15:45,051 --> 00:15:46,677 ...and Chicago. 207 00:15:47,195 --> 00:15:49,138 Now I shall never see either. 208 00:15:49,499 --> 00:15:53,176 Because I must use every inch and ounce of what little strength I have... 209 00:15:53,403 --> 00:15:55,793 ...in doing just what I'm doing. 210 00:15:56,027 --> 00:15:57,588 The foundation you referred to? 211 00:15:57,820 --> 00:16:00,373 Building a memorial to my son. 212 00:16:00,604 --> 00:16:04,827 You see, Sebastian had no public name as a poet. 213 00:16:05,052 --> 00:16:06,940 He didn't want one. 214 00:16:07,165 --> 00:16:09,173 He refused to have one. 215 00:16:09,405 --> 00:16:13,267 He abhorred the false values that come from being publicly known... 216 00:16:13,501 --> 00:16:17,047 ...from fame, from personal exploitation. 217 00:16:17,278 --> 00:16:20,856 He'd say to me, "Violet, Mother, you're going to live longer than me. 218 00:16:21,085 --> 00:16:24,435 When I'm gone, it will be yours to do whatever you please with." 219 00:16:24,766 --> 00:16:27,581 Meaning, of course, his future recognition. 220 00:16:28,574 --> 00:16:31,803 -You're very like him, doctor. -ln what way? 221 00:16:32,031 --> 00:16:34,748 Because you, a doctor, a surgeon... 222 00:16:34,975 --> 00:16:37,724 ...are dedicated to your art. 223 00:16:38,046 --> 00:16:41,080 Yes, to your art. It is an art, what you do. 224 00:16:41,311 --> 00:16:43,319 Using people the way he did. 225 00:16:43,551 --> 00:16:45,624 Grandly, creatively. 226 00:16:46,111 --> 00:16:48,381 Almost like God. 227 00:16:48,607 --> 00:16:50,996 I'm afraid my art is to help. 228 00:16:51,232 --> 00:16:53,599 Not to use, but to be used. 229 00:16:55,456 --> 00:16:58,271 Well, it comes to the same, doesn't it? 230 00:16:58,496 --> 00:17:00,635 I mean, in the end. 231 00:17:01,568 --> 00:17:03,456 Oh, I don't know what I mean. 232 00:17:04,288 --> 00:17:07,704 There is the atelier, Sebastian's studio. 233 00:17:08,289 --> 00:17:10,144 Most people's lives... 234 00:17:10,497 --> 00:17:13,115 ...what are they but trails of debris? 235 00:17:13,345 --> 00:17:15,517 Each day more debris, more debris. 236 00:17:15,745 --> 00:17:19,040 Long, long trails of debris... 237 00:17:19,426 --> 00:17:22,743 ...with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death. 238 00:17:23,746 --> 00:17:24,956 I guess... 239 00:17:25,475 --> 00:17:29,184 ...quiet desperation is the word for most lives. 240 00:17:30,467 --> 00:17:32,354 But ours were different. 241 00:17:32,578 --> 00:17:34,683 Sebastian's and mine. 242 00:17:35,298 --> 00:17:38,594 I know it sounds hopelessly vain to say... 243 00:17:38,819 --> 00:17:40,958 ...but we were a famous couple. 244 00:17:41,187 --> 00:17:44,002 People didn't speak of Sebastian and his mother... 245 00:17:44,228 --> 00:17:46,649 ...or Mrs. Venable and her son. 246 00:17:46,883 --> 00:17:48,706 They said Sebastian and Violet. 247 00:17:48,932 --> 00:17:50,842 Violet and Sebastian are staying at the Lido. 248 00:17:51,076 --> 00:17:52,286 They're at the Ritz. 249 00:17:52,708 --> 00:17:56,124 And every appearance, every time we appeared... 250 00:17:56,357 --> 00:17:58,691 ...attention was centered on us. 251 00:17:59,012 --> 00:18:00,868 Everyone else eclipsed. 252 00:18:01,349 --> 00:18:04,196 My son, Sebastian... 253 00:18:04,645 --> 00:18:06,206 ...and I... 254 00:18:06,437 --> 00:18:08,324 ...constructed our days. 255 00:18:08,549 --> 00:18:12,607 Each day, we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture. 256 00:18:14,022 --> 00:18:16,356 We left behind us a trail of days... 257 00:18:16,581 --> 00:18:18,786 ...like a gallery of sculpture... 258 00:18:19,942 --> 00:18:23,487 ...until suddenly, last summer... 259 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:25,635 Your son died? 260 00:18:33,318 --> 00:18:37,029 You say that your niece suffers from dementia praecox. 261 00:18:37,255 --> 00:18:39,524 There must have been a more exact diagnosis. 262 00:18:40,295 --> 00:18:42,783 Such a pretty name for a disease. 263 00:18:43,015 --> 00:18:45,350 Sounds like a rare flower, doesn't it? 264 00:18:45,576 --> 00:18:48,031 Night-blooming dementia praecox. 265 00:18:49,992 --> 00:18:52,359 What form does her disturbance take? 266 00:18:52,584 --> 00:18:53,664 Madness. 267 00:18:54,184 --> 00:18:55,940 Obsession, memory. 268 00:18:56,168 --> 00:18:58,656 She lacerates herself with memory. 269 00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:00,295 Memory of what? 270 00:19:00,521 --> 00:19:02,757 Visions, hallucinations. 271 00:19:03,497 --> 00:19:05,286 It all started last summer. 272 00:19:05,513 --> 00:19:08,131 The first I knew, there was a cable... 273 00:19:08,361 --> 00:19:10,150 ...from this clinic in Paris... 274 00:19:10,378 --> 00:19:13,345 ...saying, "Your niece is out of her mind. What shall we do?" 275 00:19:13,577 --> 00:19:15,487 I was almost out of my own mind last summer. 276 00:19:15,722 --> 00:19:19,234 Sebastian had just died, I was ill, but I did everything I could. 277 00:19:19,465 --> 00:19:22,150 I said, "Send her straight home with a nurse." 278 00:19:22,378 --> 00:19:24,899 So they put her on the Berengaria... 279 00:19:25,387 --> 00:19:27,940 ...locked in her stateroom like a wild animal. 280 00:19:28,171 --> 00:19:30,310 She was taken straight to St. Mary's. 281 00:19:30,539 --> 00:19:34,336 And now they can't keep her there, they can't help her... 282 00:19:34,571 --> 00:19:36,513 ...or cope with her fits of violence. 283 00:19:36,747 --> 00:19:40,163 Her babbling, her dreadful obscene babbling. 284 00:19:40,396 --> 00:19:44,192 -What kind of babbling? -Fantastic delusions and babblings... 285 00:19:44,427 --> 00:19:45,835 ...of an unspeakable nature... 286 00:19:46,060 --> 00:19:48,297 ...mostly taking the form of hideous attacks... 287 00:19:48,524 --> 00:19:51,655 ...on the moral character of my son, Sebastian. 288 00:19:51,916 --> 00:19:55,114 And now they tell me at St. Mary's... 289 00:19:55,341 --> 00:19:57,162 ...the mother superior tells me... 290 00:19:57,388 --> 00:19:59,973 ...that we must find another place for her. 291 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:04,929 And then I read about you... 292 00:20:05,262 --> 00:20:08,393 ...about your operation, and I thought: 293 00:20:08,621 --> 00:20:10,891 "This may be the answer to all our prayers." 294 00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:13,382 You must realize the operation I do... 295 00:20:13,614 --> 00:20:16,680 ...is only for the unapproachable, for the hopeless. 296 00:20:16,910 --> 00:20:19,561 If she isn't unapproachable and hopeless, I don't know who is. 297 00:20:19,790 --> 00:20:21,219 -The things she says. -What? 298 00:20:21,454 --> 00:20:23,462 -Terrible, obscene things. -Such as? 299 00:20:23,695 --> 00:20:25,385 Oh, anything. 300 00:20:25,615 --> 00:20:26,792 Such as? 301 00:20:27,630 --> 00:20:29,158 All right, you asked. 302 00:20:29,391 --> 00:20:31,758 This happened recently at St. Mary's. 303 00:20:31,983 --> 00:20:35,278 Catherine accused an elderly gardener of making love to her. 304 00:20:35,503 --> 00:20:37,707 They questioned the gardener, an old man. 305 00:20:37,935 --> 00:20:39,496 It was the other way around. 306 00:20:39,728 --> 00:20:43,438 Catherine had made advances to him, spoken obscenely to him. 307 00:20:43,664 --> 00:20:45,869 When confronted with her lies, she fought, she screamed. 308 00:20:46,097 --> 00:20:48,038 It took four nuns to control her. 309 00:20:48,271 --> 00:20:51,884 And now I'm put on notice that they won't keep her there after this week. 310 00:20:52,112 --> 00:20:53,639 You see why I said urgent. 311 00:20:53,873 --> 00:20:55,596 Yes, I do. I certainly do. 312 00:20:55,824 --> 00:20:57,963 It's important I see her as soon as possible. 313 00:20:58,192 --> 00:21:00,811 And help her because if you can't, I'm at my wits' end. 314 00:21:01,041 --> 00:21:04,075 I can transfer her to Lions View. She won't be as comfortable... 315 00:21:04,305 --> 00:21:05,581 I understand, I understand. 316 00:21:05,809 --> 00:21:07,849 But the important thing is you, doctor. 317 00:21:08,081 --> 00:21:10,470 You'll be happy to know that at this very minute... 318 00:21:10,705 --> 00:21:14,448 ...my lawyers are working on the Sebastian Venable Memorial Foundation... 319 00:21:14,674 --> 00:21:18,122 ...to subsidize the work of young people like yourself... 320 00:21:18,354 --> 00:21:21,453 ...who are pushing out the frontiers of art and science... 321 00:21:21,683 --> 00:21:23,089 ...but have a financial problem. 322 00:21:23,602 --> 00:21:27,400 Mrs. Venable, loving your niece as you do, you must know... 323 00:21:27,634 --> 00:21:30,351 ...there's great risk in this operation. 324 00:21:30,579 --> 00:21:32,489 Whenever you enter the brain with a foreign object... 325 00:21:32,947 --> 00:21:34,857 ...even a needle-thin knife... 326 00:21:35,092 --> 00:21:37,296 ...in the hands of the most skilled surgeon... 327 00:21:38,195 --> 00:21:40,945 ...there still is a great deal of risk. 328 00:21:41,235 --> 00:21:43,624 But it does pacify them, I've read that. 329 00:21:43,859 --> 00:21:46,959 It quiets them down. It suddenly makes them peaceful. 330 00:21:47,221 --> 00:21:48,976 Yes, that it does do, but... 331 00:21:49,204 --> 00:21:50,383 But what? 332 00:21:51,125 --> 00:21:54,573 Well, it will be years before we know if the immediate benefits... 333 00:21:54,805 --> 00:21:57,261 ...of the operation are lasting... 334 00:21:57,494 --> 00:21:59,861 ...or just passing or perhaps... 335 00:22:00,470 --> 00:22:04,211 There's a strong possibility that the patient will always be limited. 336 00:22:04,437 --> 00:22:07,667 Relieved of acute anxiety, yes, but limited. 337 00:22:07,894 --> 00:22:11,887 But what a blessing to them, doctor, to be just peaceful. 338 00:22:13,334 --> 00:22:16,334 To be just suddenly peaceful. 339 00:22:17,142 --> 00:22:18,965 After all that horror... 340 00:22:19,382 --> 00:22:21,357 ...after those nightmares... 341 00:22:21,878 --> 00:22:25,174 ...just to be able to lift up their eyes to a sky... 342 00:22:25,399 --> 00:22:27,668 ...not black with savage, devouring birds. 343 00:22:27,927 --> 00:22:30,960 You said a sky filled with savage, devouring birds? 344 00:22:31,192 --> 00:22:32,140 Did I? 345 00:22:32,375 --> 00:22:35,921 How odd. I hadn't thought about all that in years. 346 00:22:36,151 --> 00:22:37,974 Now, why should I suddenly...? 347 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,258 Yes, we saw those birds one summer in the Pacific. 348 00:22:42,487 --> 00:22:45,717 You see, my son, Sebastian, was looking for... 349 00:22:46,424 --> 00:22:47,886 Looking for what? 350 00:22:48,121 --> 00:22:50,193 Rare, hungry birds. 351 00:22:50,808 --> 00:22:52,466 That isn't what you started to say. 352 00:22:52,826 --> 00:22:54,451 You're too quick for me. 353 00:22:54,681 --> 00:22:58,544 No. I was going to say my son, Sebastian, was looking for God. 354 00:22:58,873 --> 00:23:01,623 But I stopped myself because I thought you'd think: 355 00:23:01,849 --> 00:23:03,922 "What a pretentious young crackpot." 356 00:23:04,698 --> 00:23:06,073 Which Sebastian was not. 357 00:23:06,650 --> 00:23:09,650 This is something I've never told anyone before. 358 00:23:09,882 --> 00:23:11,443 Something so strange, so terrible. 359 00:23:11,962 --> 00:23:15,792 Forgive me if I sound quite mad, but it's true all the same. 360 00:23:16,059 --> 00:23:18,961 Sebastian saw the face of God. 361 00:23:19,483 --> 00:23:21,272 I'd like to hear about that. 362 00:23:21,691 --> 00:23:23,731 Yes, yes. 363 00:23:26,172 --> 00:23:29,619 One long ago summer, sitting right here in this garden... 364 00:23:29,851 --> 00:23:32,339 ...Sebastian said to me, "Mother, listen to this." 365 00:23:32,571 --> 00:23:35,987 And he read me Herman Melville's description... 366 00:23:36,220 --> 00:23:39,155 ...of the Encantadas, the Gal醦agos Islands. 367 00:23:40,891 --> 00:23:43,642 He read me that description and said we had to go there. 368 00:23:43,868 --> 00:23:45,777 And so we did go there that summer... 369 00:23:46,012 --> 00:23:48,500 ...on a chartered boat, a four-masted schooner... 370 00:23:48,733 --> 00:23:52,148 ...the sort of boat that Melville would have sailed on. 371 00:23:52,381 --> 00:23:54,454 We saw the Encantadas. 372 00:23:54,685 --> 00:23:57,205 But on the Encantadas we saw something... 373 00:23:57,437 --> 00:23:59,445 ...that Melville hadn't written about. 374 00:24:00,061 --> 00:24:02,779 We saw the great sea turtles crawl up out of the sea... 375 00:24:03,006 --> 00:24:04,762 ...for their annual egg-laying. 376 00:24:04,989 --> 00:24:08,055 Once a year, the female of the sea turtles... 377 00:24:08,286 --> 00:24:11,702 ...crawls up out of the equatorial sea onto the blazing sand beach... 378 00:24:11,935 --> 00:24:15,796 ...of a volcanic island to dig a pit in the sand... 379 00:24:16,030 --> 00:24:18,420 ...and deposit her eggs there. 380 00:24:18,654 --> 00:24:22,681 It's a long and dreadful thing, the depositing of the eggs in the pits. 381 00:24:22,911 --> 00:24:24,439 And when it's finished... 382 00:24:24,672 --> 00:24:27,061 ...the exhausted female turtle crawls... 383 00:24:27,296 --> 00:24:30,045 ...back to the sea half-dead. 384 00:24:30,432 --> 00:24:32,374 She never sees her offspring. 385 00:24:33,247 --> 00:24:34,655 But we did. 386 00:24:34,912 --> 00:24:39,035 Sebastian knew exactly when the sea turtle eggs would be hatched... 387 00:24:39,264 --> 00:24:41,239 ...and we returned in time for it. 388 00:24:41,472 --> 00:24:42,236 You went back? 389 00:24:42,465 --> 00:24:44,985 In time to witness the hatching of the sea turtles... 390 00:24:45,216 --> 00:24:47,421 ...and their desperate flight to the sea. 391 00:24:47,649 --> 00:24:52,156 The narrow beach, the color of caviar, was all in motion... 392 00:24:52,385 --> 00:24:55,701 ...but the sky was in motion too, full of flesh-eating birds. 393 00:24:55,937 --> 00:24:57,596 And the noise of the birds... 394 00:24:57,826 --> 00:25:00,215 ...their horrible savage cries as they circled... 395 00:25:00,450 --> 00:25:02,785 ...over the narrow black beach of the Encantadas... 396 00:25:03,010 --> 00:25:06,392 ...while the new-hatched sea turtles scrambled out of their sandpits... 397 00:25:06,626 --> 00:25:08,285 ...and started their race to the sea. 398 00:25:08,514 --> 00:25:09,441 Race to the sea? 399 00:25:09,665 --> 00:25:11,771 To escape the flesh-eating birds... 400 00:25:12,002 --> 00:25:14,620 ...that made the sky almost as black as the beach. 401 00:25:14,850 --> 00:25:17,403 And I said, "Sebastian, no. 402 00:25:17,635 --> 00:25:19,773 No, it's not like that." 403 00:25:20,131 --> 00:25:21,560 But he made me look. 404 00:25:21,794 --> 00:25:23,999 He made me see that terrible sight. 405 00:25:24,227 --> 00:25:26,561 -What was not like that? -Life. 406 00:25:26,915 --> 00:25:28,377 I said, "No. 407 00:25:28,611 --> 00:25:31,645 No! That's not true!" 408 00:25:32,196 --> 00:25:33,658 But he said it is. 409 00:25:33,892 --> 00:25:37,601 He said, "Look, Violet. Look, there on the shore." 410 00:25:37,829 --> 00:25:42,106 And I looked and saw the sand all alive, all alive... 411 00:25:42,340 --> 00:25:45,440 ...as the new-hatched sea turtles made their dash to the sea... 412 00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:48,898 ...while the birds hovered and swooped to attack... 413 00:25:49,124 --> 00:25:52,059 ...and hovered and swooped to attack. 414 00:25:52,933 --> 00:25:55,901 They were diving down on the sea turtles... 415 00:25:56,134 --> 00:25:58,043 ...turning them over... 416 00:25:58,278 --> 00:26:01,180 ...to expose their soft undersides... 417 00:26:01,414 --> 00:26:04,316 ...tearing their undersides open... 418 00:26:04,774 --> 00:26:08,452 ...and rending and eating their flesh. 419 00:26:10,726 --> 00:26:14,076 Sebastian guessed that possibly... 420 00:26:14,311 --> 00:26:17,126 ...only a hundredth of 1 percent of their number... 421 00:26:17,351 --> 00:26:19,140 ...would escape to the sea. 422 00:26:21,575 --> 00:26:24,674 Nature is not created in the image of man's compassion. 423 00:26:24,903 --> 00:26:26,594 Nature is cruel! 424 00:26:27,144 --> 00:26:30,492 Sebastian knew it all along, was born knowing it, but not I. 425 00:26:30,727 --> 00:26:35,201 I said, "No, no, those are only birds, turtles, not us." 426 00:26:35,432 --> 00:26:37,472 I didn't know then it was us. 427 00:26:37,704 --> 00:26:42,080 That we are all of us trapped by this devouring creation. 428 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,212 I couldn't, wouldn't face the horror of the truth... 429 00:26:46,441 --> 00:26:48,863 ...even that last day in the Encantadas... 430 00:26:49,098 --> 00:26:50,886 ...when Sebastian left me... 431 00:26:51,113 --> 00:26:54,148 ...and spent the whole blazing equatorial day... 432 00:26:54,378 --> 00:26:57,793 ...in the crow's-nest of the schooner, watching that thing on the beach... 433 00:26:58,026 --> 00:27:00,033 ...until it was too dark to see. 434 00:27:00,266 --> 00:27:04,358 And when he came down the rigging, he said, "Well, now I've seen Him." 435 00:27:04,682 --> 00:27:05,926 And he meant God. 436 00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,006 Do you believe he saw God? 437 00:27:08,426 --> 00:27:11,722 He saw the whole thing there that day on the beach. 438 00:27:11,947 --> 00:27:14,598 But I was like you. I said no. 439 00:27:14,827 --> 00:27:16,802 I refused to believe... 440 00:27:17,036 --> 00:27:21,258 ...until suddenly, last summer, I learned my son was right. 441 00:27:21,868 --> 00:27:24,006 That what he had shown me in the Encantadas... 442 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:25,642 ...was the horrible... 443 00:27:25,868 --> 00:27:28,235 ...the inescapable truth. 444 00:27:42,413 --> 00:27:43,340 Oh, Violet, honey. 445 00:27:44,044 --> 00:27:45,572 You gave me a turn, coming in like that. 446 00:27:45,805 --> 00:27:46,568 Hi, Aunt Vi. 447 00:27:47,149 --> 00:27:48,459 What are you two doing here? 448 00:27:48,685 --> 00:27:51,914 We came for cousin Sebastian's clothes, like you said. 449 00:27:52,141 --> 00:27:53,124 Remember? 450 00:27:53,358 --> 00:27:55,846 So we just kind of let ourselves in. 451 00:27:56,078 --> 00:27:59,176 I must have just got hold of this letter when you frightened me. 452 00:27:59,405 --> 00:28:01,348 Caught on your sleeve probably. 453 00:28:01,582 --> 00:28:04,517 This is Mrs. Holly, the mother of the girl at St. Mary's... 454 00:28:04,750 --> 00:28:06,659 ...and that is her son, George. 455 00:28:06,894 --> 00:28:10,310 Apparently, in a weak moment, I said he could have Sebastian's clothes. 456 00:28:10,543 --> 00:28:14,798 You haven't forgotten what you said last week at Elaine Tutweiler's? 457 00:28:15,022 --> 00:28:16,910 Said since I was going off to college... 458 00:28:17,135 --> 00:28:19,884 ...I could have his clothes, which were going to waste. 459 00:28:20,111 --> 00:28:21,388 That's right, you said that. 460 00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:23,787 I heard you say that son here could have... 461 00:28:24,303 --> 00:28:27,500 All right, I stand accused of generosity. Now will you please...? 462 00:28:28,112 --> 00:28:31,560 Aunt Violet is generous, so generous to her family, Mr... 463 00:28:31,792 --> 00:28:32,970 I didn't catch your name. 464 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,590 -Dr. Cukrowicz. -Doctor? Are you a doctor? 465 00:28:36,241 --> 00:28:38,477 -Violet, you're not ill again? -No, Grace... 466 00:28:38,704 --> 00:28:40,111 Oh, I'm so relieved. 467 00:28:40,336 --> 00:28:43,337 I was afraid you had another of those strokes of yours. 468 00:28:43,569 --> 00:28:44,714 Those hysterical seizures. 469 00:28:44,945 --> 00:28:48,655 I've never had a seizure nor a stroke. We were discussing your daughter. 470 00:28:48,882 --> 00:28:49,896 Cathy? 471 00:28:50,385 --> 00:28:53,036 My poor lamb, my poor little girl. 472 00:28:53,266 --> 00:28:54,727 Doctor, can you help her? 473 00:28:54,962 --> 00:28:56,206 I'll try to if I can. 474 00:28:56,530 --> 00:28:59,433 Mama, look here! White silk. 475 00:28:59,858 --> 00:29:01,517 "Made in Rome." 476 00:29:02,162 --> 00:29:04,912 Oh, boy. Is this one gonna pick up lipstick? 477 00:29:05,138 --> 00:29:08,433 I said take the clothes, George. Don't flaunt them in my face. 478 00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:11,442 Why don't you both kindly let yourselves out? 479 00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:13,839 Get the rest of the clothes another time. 480 00:29:14,068 --> 00:29:16,173 It won't take me two seconds to finish up. 481 00:29:16,403 --> 00:29:17,963 It's impossible to believe... 482 00:29:18,195 --> 00:29:20,716 ...that Sebastian won't walk through that door again... 483 00:29:20,947 --> 00:29:24,177 ...with all those bright young people he used to know. 484 00:29:24,404 --> 00:29:26,127 All laughing and carrying on... 485 00:29:26,356 --> 00:29:30,317 ...saying those witty, sophisticated things that were way over my head. 486 00:29:30,548 --> 00:29:31,792 He was such a tease too. 487 00:29:32,020 --> 00:29:32,881 You know, doctor... 488 00:29:33,108 --> 00:29:36,524 ...he told me that the piece of lace on this table... 489 00:29:36,757 --> 00:29:38,612 ...was made by these blind nuns... 490 00:29:38,836 --> 00:29:41,258 ...in Belgium. Imagine! 491 00:29:41,494 --> 00:29:43,697 I thought I'd gone through everything. 492 00:29:43,925 --> 00:29:44,722 Who is that? 493 00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:47,851 -lt's the girl. -Why, that's my poor angel. 494 00:29:48,085 --> 00:29:50,671 -That's Catherine. -I wonder why he put it there. 495 00:29:50,902 --> 00:29:52,593 Well, maybe he liked her. 496 00:29:53,334 --> 00:29:55,701 George, take your plunder and get out of here. 497 00:29:57,111 --> 00:30:00,275 -Okay, Aunt Vi. -This must have been taken last spring. 498 00:30:00,503 --> 00:30:02,707 Cathy's wearing her Mardi Gras ballgown. 499 00:30:02,935 --> 00:30:06,994 Remember, Vi, how lovely she was? And you loaned her your fur coat. 500 00:30:07,224 --> 00:30:09,328 I remember everything. 501 00:30:10,199 --> 00:30:13,167 I guess it was not exactly a happy evening. 502 00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:14,770 What did happen? 503 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,902 She was... She is a lovely girl. 504 00:30:18,136 --> 00:30:20,754 And I must say, of all my relations... 505 00:30:20,983 --> 00:30:25,424 ...my delightful relations, she was the one most like me. 506 00:30:25,977 --> 00:30:27,733 That's why you've got to save her... 507 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,124 ...because madness is the most horrible doom there is on this earth. 508 00:30:31,352 --> 00:30:35,128 Every item here has been inventoried by the insurance people. 509 00:30:35,353 --> 00:30:38,353 I'm sure they'd be upset if anything were missing. 510 00:30:38,649 --> 00:30:40,177 What do you think I am? 511 00:30:40,410 --> 00:30:43,127 On that subject, George, my lips are sealed. 512 00:30:43,513 --> 00:30:45,586 Now, both of you, please go. 513 00:30:45,818 --> 00:30:48,152 -lt's almost 5:00. -That's right. 514 00:30:48,378 --> 00:30:50,898 Violet always has, I mean, used to have... 515 00:30:51,130 --> 00:30:54,000 ...her 5:00 daiquiri here with Sebastian. 516 00:30:54,234 --> 00:30:55,761 Now I have it here alone. 517 00:30:56,250 --> 00:30:58,639 Well, we must fly now. 518 00:30:58,874 --> 00:31:02,419 I do pray you can help my poor Cathy. Goodbye, doctor. 519 00:31:02,650 --> 00:31:06,928 Violet, bye now. Say thank you, George. 520 00:31:07,162 --> 00:31:09,977 Bye, Aunt Violet. Thanks. Thanks for everything. 521 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:14,426 Aren't they awful? Sebastian and I used to speculate... 522 00:31:14,651 --> 00:31:16,724 ...on how that family of Neanderthals... 523 00:31:16,956 --> 00:31:19,989 ...could have produced a girl as rare as Catherine. 524 00:31:20,508 --> 00:31:22,613 You would have liked Sebastian... 525 00:31:22,844 --> 00:31:25,113 ...and he would have been charmed by you. 526 00:31:25,340 --> 00:31:28,953 He wasn't a family or a money snob, but he was a snob, all right. 527 00:31:29,181 --> 00:31:32,497 He was a snob about loveliness and elegance in things... 528 00:31:32,732 --> 00:31:36,759 ...about personal charm and physical grace in people. 529 00:31:36,989 --> 00:31:38,745 We had a perfect little troupe... 530 00:31:38,974 --> 00:31:43,414 ...of young and beautiful people around us always whenever we traveled. 531 00:31:44,446 --> 00:31:47,130 -May I sit here? -Sebastian's seat. 532 00:31:47,358 --> 00:31:49,725 -Oh, well... -No, no, please. 533 00:31:49,950 --> 00:31:54,358 It's a court jester's chair. A rare one, 500 years old. 534 00:31:54,814 --> 00:31:57,018 Please, sit on it. 535 00:31:57,438 --> 00:32:01,148 Say something funny. Make me stop wanting to cry. 536 00:32:02,271 --> 00:32:05,337 I'm afraid I'd make a miserable jester. 537 00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:09,076 You see, I get concerned when people stop wanting to cry. 538 00:32:09,311 --> 00:32:11,733 Time for your medicine and your frozen daiquiri. 539 00:32:11,968 --> 00:32:13,528 In that order. 540 00:32:15,264 --> 00:32:17,817 Isn't it nice of the drugstore to keep me alive? 541 00:32:18,048 --> 00:32:19,575 -Thank you. -Foxhill. 542 00:32:19,808 --> 00:32:24,086 See the Hollys off the premises. They're apt to remove the silver. 543 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,596 Yes, Mrs. Venable. 544 00:32:26,016 --> 00:32:29,759 He would sit in his chair, I in mine, at 5:00 every day... 545 00:32:29,985 --> 00:32:33,530 ...and we'd have our daiquiris with St. Sebastian brooding above us. 546 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,536 But you stayed here last summer. 547 00:32:36,801 --> 00:32:40,150 Yes, I did. I wasn't well. He took Catherine with him. 548 00:32:40,386 --> 00:32:42,296 -And he died. -Of a heart attack. 549 00:32:42,690 --> 00:32:43,802 Was she with him? 550 00:32:44,161 --> 00:32:48,635 She was there with him when he died. It was that day that she lost her mind. 551 00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:51,168 When will you see her, doctor? 552 00:32:51,522 --> 00:32:53,595 As soon as I can. 553 00:32:54,178 --> 00:32:58,783 What can I tell Dr. Hockstader about your interest in helping us? 554 00:32:59,010 --> 00:33:01,312 Can't it wait until you've met my niece... 555 00:33:01,539 --> 00:33:04,889 ...and decided if you think your operation could help her? 556 00:33:05,123 --> 00:33:07,065 Yes, of course it can wait. 557 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:09,689 Surely there's no connection between... 558 00:33:09,924 --> 00:33:14,364 Aren't we always more interested in something that concerns us personally? 559 00:33:14,756 --> 00:33:16,544 Aren't we, doctor? 560 00:33:17,317 --> 00:33:18,909 I understand. 561 00:33:21,572 --> 00:33:23,743 Please don't bother. I can find my way out. 562 00:33:23,972 --> 00:33:27,967 Millions of years ago, dinosaurs fed on the leaves of those trees. 563 00:33:28,197 --> 00:33:30,979 They were vegetarian. That's why they became extinct. 564 00:33:31,269 --> 00:33:33,604 They were just too gentle for their size. 565 00:33:33,925 --> 00:33:37,122 Then the carnivorous creatures, the ones that eat flesh... 566 00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:39,804 ...the killers, inherited the earth. 567 00:33:40,037 --> 00:33:42,525 But then they always do, don't they? 568 00:34:00,294 --> 00:34:03,841 Catherine. It's Sister Felicity, Catherine. 569 00:34:04,583 --> 00:34:07,038 Please get up. You're to come with me. 570 00:35:05,899 --> 00:35:07,144 Catherine. 571 00:35:09,037 --> 00:35:11,272 I'm not being violent, sister. 572 00:35:28,652 --> 00:35:29,700 What are you doing? 573 00:35:33,805 --> 00:35:35,529 Just smoking a cigarette. 574 00:35:36,141 --> 00:35:36,938 No. 575 00:35:37,166 --> 00:35:41,127 You know we're not allowed to smoke at St. Mary's. 576 00:35:41,358 --> 00:35:42,733 Please let me smoke. 577 00:35:42,958 --> 00:35:44,234 -Please. -Give it here. 578 00:35:44,462 --> 00:35:45,772 Don't be a bully! 579 00:35:45,998 --> 00:35:48,038 Disobedience has to be paid for later. 580 00:35:48,270 --> 00:35:51,434 -All right, I'll pay for it later. -Now, Catherine. 581 00:35:51,662 --> 00:35:54,051 I'm putting out my hand for it. 582 00:35:54,351 --> 00:35:56,685 -All right then! Take it! -You burned me! 583 00:35:56,910 --> 00:35:59,366 -I'm sorry... -You deliberately burned me. 584 00:35:59,630 --> 00:36:00,395 You said to... 585 00:36:00,624 --> 00:36:03,013 You stuck the lighted end of it into my hand. 586 00:36:03,248 --> 00:36:06,761 I'm so sick of being bossed and bullied. 587 00:36:06,992 --> 00:36:08,486 I'm sick of being t... 588 00:36:09,296 --> 00:36:12,493 You saw that, doctor. Saw her deliberately burn me. 589 00:36:12,816 --> 00:36:16,111 -You better put something on that hand. -I can't leave her. 590 00:36:16,528 --> 00:36:19,376 -Patients who are classified violent... -Sister. 591 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,183 Very well, doctor. I'll wait outside. 592 00:36:26,225 --> 00:36:27,916 Just outside the door. 593 00:36:30,578 --> 00:36:33,993 You know, you're very brave being in the room alone with me. 594 00:36:34,226 --> 00:36:35,633 Do you plan to burn me too? 595 00:36:35,858 --> 00:36:37,101 Oh, much worse. 596 00:36:37,875 --> 00:36:40,176 You see, I'm classified as violent. 597 00:36:40,403 --> 00:36:43,698 I'm apt to attack you physically and then accuse you of rape. 598 00:36:44,466 --> 00:36:45,644 Do you do that sort of thing? 599 00:36:45,875 --> 00:36:48,363 Of course. That's why I'm in isolation. 600 00:36:49,011 --> 00:36:52,720 I molested an elderly gardener of great virtue. 601 00:36:52,946 --> 00:36:56,591 When he refused my advances, I denounced him as a lecher. 602 00:36:57,107 --> 00:36:58,449 After that, I was punished. 603 00:36:59,796 --> 00:37:01,105 Was it true? 604 00:37:01,492 --> 00:37:03,597 That I was punished? Yes. 605 00:37:04,084 --> 00:37:05,513 That you accused him unjustly. 606 00:37:05,909 --> 00:37:07,817 Of course I accused him unjustly. 607 00:37:08,437 --> 00:37:09,865 After all, I'm insane. 608 00:37:10,164 --> 00:37:12,620 It's the sort of thing an insane woman would do. 609 00:37:14,037 --> 00:37:17,452 Besides, haven't you noticed how... 610 00:37:17,748 --> 00:37:19,341 ...oddly I've looked at you? 611 00:37:19,733 --> 00:37:20,681 Have you? 612 00:37:20,948 --> 00:37:23,949 How I've been staring at your eyes. 613 00:37:24,373 --> 00:37:28,082 Your beautiful, blue, frightened eyes. 614 00:37:28,309 --> 00:37:31,244 Why are they so frightened? Do you need help? 615 00:37:31,702 --> 00:37:33,457 Do you want help from me? 616 00:37:35,094 --> 00:37:36,752 I'm making you nervous. 617 00:37:37,494 --> 00:37:39,600 You have every reason to be. 618 00:37:40,246 --> 00:37:44,786 Because now I'm going to attack you. Yes, attack. 619 00:37:45,046 --> 00:37:46,934 But it won't be for your beauty. 620 00:37:47,159 --> 00:37:50,420 No, it's for these cigarettes. Doctor, let me have one. 621 00:37:50,646 --> 00:37:52,240 Of course. Help yourself. 622 00:37:54,424 --> 00:37:55,700 You are good. 623 00:37:57,496 --> 00:38:00,147 -Who are you? -I'm a doctor. 624 00:38:01,271 --> 00:38:03,311 -Sent by my aunt? -Yes. 625 00:38:03,895 --> 00:38:07,213 -Because I didn't respond to treatment. -So they say. 626 00:38:07,448 --> 00:38:11,824 You have been invited to try your hand at what is clearly a hopeless case. 627 00:38:12,057 --> 00:38:13,071 Is it hopeless? 628 00:38:13,848 --> 00:38:15,158 What do you think? 629 00:38:18,584 --> 00:38:20,014 Where are you from? 630 00:38:20,250 --> 00:38:21,231 Lions View. 631 00:38:27,034 --> 00:38:28,691 The state asylum. 632 00:38:30,106 --> 00:38:31,731 Where they have The Drum. 633 00:38:32,219 --> 00:38:35,448 What you call "The Drum" is not a torture chamber. 634 00:38:35,866 --> 00:38:37,841 It's really a recreation hall. 635 00:38:39,226 --> 00:38:41,114 They'll keep me there forever. 636 00:38:42,138 --> 00:38:44,277 Like an animal in a cage. 637 00:38:46,011 --> 00:38:47,866 She is merciless, isn't she? 638 00:38:48,092 --> 00:38:49,019 Who? 639 00:38:49,243 --> 00:38:51,894 Aunt Violet. Why else do you think I'm here... 640 00:38:52,123 --> 00:38:54,458 ...where no one can see me, hear me? 641 00:38:54,683 --> 00:38:56,952 You sound as if you think she hates you. 642 00:38:57,500 --> 00:38:58,644 Doesn't she? 643 00:38:58,876 --> 00:39:00,250 Do you hate her? 644 00:39:01,276 --> 00:39:02,738 What, hate? 645 00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:04,347 No. 646 00:39:05,244 --> 00:39:07,066 I don't understand what hate is. 647 00:39:07,292 --> 00:39:10,042 I don't see how anyone could hate and still be sane. 648 00:39:10,269 --> 00:39:12,123 I really do think I am sane... 649 00:39:13,085 --> 00:39:16,085 ...despite considerable evidence to the contrary. 650 00:39:16,413 --> 00:39:19,762 Your aunt, Mrs. Venable... 651 00:39:19,997 --> 00:39:22,201 Can no more help herself than I could. 652 00:39:22,429 --> 00:39:24,796 Help herself? How do you mean? 653 00:39:25,662 --> 00:39:27,996 You see, we all loved Sebastian. 654 00:39:28,222 --> 00:39:32,345 Women, men, children, animal, mineral, vegetable... 655 00:39:32,702 --> 00:39:35,736 Sebastian was a vocation, not a man. 656 00:39:37,534 --> 00:39:40,251 Poor Aunt Vi was hooked from the beginning. 657 00:39:40,478 --> 00:39:43,545 Loved Sebastian from the beginning and nobody else. 658 00:39:43,776 --> 00:39:46,143 She gave up everything for Sebastian. 659 00:39:46,911 --> 00:39:48,504 Even her husband. 660 00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:51,001 What was Mr. Venable like? 661 00:39:51,904 --> 00:39:54,173 Mr. Venable was a good man... 662 00:39:54,528 --> 00:39:57,016 ...but dull to the point of genius. 663 00:39:59,008 --> 00:40:01,081 That was Sebastian you just heard talking. 664 00:40:01,312 --> 00:40:04,127 He would've said that, and it wouldn't have sounded cruel. 665 00:40:04,352 --> 00:40:08,608 When I talk like him or when Aunt Vi talks like him, we sound heartless. 666 00:40:09,281 --> 00:40:10,841 And we're not really. 667 00:40:11,553 --> 00:40:13,113 Though we do terrible things. 668 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,423 What do you consider terrible? 669 00:40:16,866 --> 00:40:20,029 Aunt Vi let her husband die because of Sebastian. 670 00:40:20,513 --> 00:40:22,520 Killed him, some people thought. 671 00:40:23,617 --> 00:40:25,308 How, killed him? 672 00:40:25,985 --> 00:40:30,045 One summer, Sebastian decided to give up the torments of this world... 673 00:40:30,274 --> 00:40:33,535 ...and become a Buddhist monk. That was in Tibet in the Himalayas. 674 00:40:33,762 --> 00:40:37,854 He shaved his head, was given a wooden bowl to beg rice with and was happy. 675 00:40:38,083 --> 00:40:39,774 Till Aunt Vi came. 676 00:40:40,003 --> 00:40:41,596 Why? What did she do? 677 00:40:42,115 --> 00:40:46,206 Lived in a hut, even took vows, or whatever women do in such countries. 678 00:40:46,434 --> 00:40:49,915 Anything to be near him, to get to him, to make him come home. 679 00:40:51,171 --> 00:40:53,059 While they were there, word came. 680 00:40:53,284 --> 00:40:56,382 Mr. Venable was dying. He had to see her. 681 00:40:56,868 --> 00:40:58,395 And she chose to stay? 682 00:40:59,397 --> 00:41:01,950 She chose to let her husband die alone. 683 00:41:03,812 --> 00:41:07,555 If you'd known Sebastian, you'd understand how she had no choice... 684 00:41:07,781 --> 00:41:11,872 ...how none of us ever had a choice, once Sebastian had decided we were... 685 00:41:13,189 --> 00:41:14,716 ...to be used. 686 00:41:14,949 --> 00:41:16,029 Used? 687 00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:18,819 You mean he used people? 688 00:41:19,429 --> 00:41:20,476 Yes. 689 00:41:21,637 --> 00:41:24,987 Isn't that what love is? Using people? 690 00:41:25,446 --> 00:41:29,953 And maybe that's what hate is. Not being able to use people. 691 00:41:30,375 --> 00:41:32,316 -Go on. -Go on where? 692 00:41:32,551 --> 00:41:33,696 Anywhere. 693 00:41:34,470 --> 00:41:37,537 To the first memory you come to. 694 00:41:38,759 --> 00:41:40,221 My first memory? 695 00:41:41,319 --> 00:41:43,686 It was once at a Mardi Gras ball. 696 00:41:44,295 --> 00:41:46,434 The Mardi Gras ball? Yes? 697 00:41:48,039 --> 00:41:50,211 My very first memory. 698 00:41:50,824 --> 00:41:52,165 It was last spring. 699 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,785 Before last spring, I remember... 700 00:41:55,015 --> 00:41:57,285 ...nothing, nothing at all. 701 00:41:58,472 --> 00:42:02,433 It's as if my life began and ended that night. 702 00:42:06,057 --> 00:42:07,464 Tell me about it. 703 00:42:08,585 --> 00:42:10,112 At the ball... 704 00:42:12,648 --> 00:42:16,446 I was taken there by some boy who got too drunk to stand up. 705 00:42:16,681 --> 00:42:19,812 I wanted to go home. My coat was in the cloakroom. 706 00:42:20,041 --> 00:42:23,904 They couldn't find the check for it in his pocket. I said, "Let it go"... 707 00:42:24,138 --> 00:42:26,026 ...and started out for a taxi. 708 00:42:27,050 --> 00:42:29,865 Then somebody took my arm and said: 709 00:42:30,090 --> 00:42:31,716 "I'll drive you home." 710 00:42:33,034 --> 00:42:37,191 As we left the hotel, he took off his coat and put it around my shoulders... 711 00:42:37,483 --> 00:42:39,142 ...and then I looked at him. 712 00:42:40,234 --> 00:42:43,082 I don't think I'd ever seen him before then, really. 713 00:42:44,620 --> 00:42:45,995 He took me home. 714 00:42:46,668 --> 00:42:48,260 He took me another place first. 715 00:42:49,132 --> 00:42:52,132 Near the Dueling Oaks at the end of Esplanade Street. 716 00:42:52,780 --> 00:42:56,642 We stopped. I asked what for. 717 00:42:57,868 --> 00:42:59,297 He didn't answer. 718 00:43:00,077 --> 00:43:02,695 Just struck a match to light a cigarette... 719 00:43:02,924 --> 00:43:06,274 ...and I looked at him, and I knew what for. 720 00:43:09,230 --> 00:43:13,572 I think I got out of the car before he got out of the car, and we... 721 00:43:14,670 --> 00:43:18,499 ...walked through the wet grass toward the great misty oaks as if... 722 00:43:19,950 --> 00:43:22,154 ...as if somebody were... 723 00:43:22,382 --> 00:43:24,771 ...calling for help there. 724 00:43:29,167 --> 00:43:31,206 And after that? 725 00:43:35,918 --> 00:43:37,413 I lost him. 726 00:43:38,798 --> 00:43:41,384 He took me home. 727 00:43:42,191 --> 00:43:44,875 Then he said an awful thing to me. He said: 728 00:43:46,287 --> 00:43:47,946 "We'd better forget it. 729 00:43:48,624 --> 00:43:51,690 My wife's expecting a child." 730 00:43:55,792 --> 00:43:58,727 I just entered the house and sat there thinking a while. 731 00:44:00,241 --> 00:44:04,430 Suddenly, I called a taxi and rushed back to the Roosevelt Hotel ballroom. 732 00:44:04,658 --> 00:44:06,545 The ball was still going on. 733 00:44:06,769 --> 00:44:09,289 I thought I'd gone back to pick up my borrowed coat. 734 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,231 But I hadn't. I hadn't gone back for that at all. 735 00:44:13,457 --> 00:44:16,556 I'd gone back to make a scene on the floor of the ballroom. 736 00:44:16,882 --> 00:44:20,625 I didn't pick up Aunt Violet's old silver fox in the cloakroom. 737 00:44:21,042 --> 00:44:25,417 I rushed right into the ballroom, spotted him on the floor... 738 00:44:25,746 --> 00:44:28,113 ...ran up to him and started to... 739 00:44:28,530 --> 00:44:32,272 ...beat him in the face and the chest with my fists till... 740 00:44:35,763 --> 00:44:38,185 ...cousin Sebastian took me away. 741 00:44:40,724 --> 00:44:42,152 Miss Catherine. 742 00:44:48,564 --> 00:44:49,677 Miss Catherine. 743 00:44:51,828 --> 00:44:54,446 She's here. Miss Catherine's here. 744 00:44:55,829 --> 00:44:58,066 In spirit as well as flesh. 745 00:44:59,061 --> 00:45:02,225 And now you want to play a game. Look at pictures? 746 00:45:02,453 --> 00:45:06,829 Tell you the first thing that comes into my mind, my poor deranged mind. 747 00:45:07,062 --> 00:45:08,272 All right. 748 00:45:10,389 --> 00:45:14,132 That shadow on the wall. What does it look like to you? 749 00:45:15,350 --> 00:45:17,390 Like a shadow on a wall. 750 00:45:17,622 --> 00:45:19,565 I thought we were gonna play a game. 751 00:45:20,150 --> 00:45:21,263 All right. 752 00:45:22,102 --> 00:45:24,917 I see forests. 753 00:45:25,142 --> 00:45:27,379 Trees, a girl. 754 00:45:27,958 --> 00:45:30,926 And those trees are the Dueling Oaks... 755 00:45:31,639 --> 00:45:35,948 ...and that tormented figure is the girl, Catherine, losing her... 756 00:45:36,183 --> 00:45:37,361 ...honor. 757 00:45:38,423 --> 00:45:40,725 I'm trying to make you feel sorry for her. 758 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:42,101 I hope I am. 759 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,335 I am sorry. 760 00:45:45,527 --> 00:45:47,470 I believe you really are. 761 00:45:50,904 --> 00:45:53,490 Tell me about your cousin Sebastian. 762 00:45:55,224 --> 00:45:58,191 He liked me, so I loved him. 763 00:45:58,424 --> 00:46:01,459 How? I mean, in what way did you love him? 764 00:46:02,329 --> 00:46:04,239 The only way he'd accept. 765 00:46:08,250 --> 00:46:11,960 -I tried to save him, doctor. -Save him from what? 766 00:46:13,402 --> 00:46:18,105 Completing a sort of image he had of himself as... 767 00:46:19,066 --> 00:46:21,784 ...a sort of a sacrifice to... 768 00:46:22,010 --> 00:46:24,181 -...a terrible sort of a... -God? 769 00:46:26,170 --> 00:46:29,554 Sebastian, who was gentle, kind... 770 00:46:29,787 --> 00:46:33,136 ...saw something not gentle, not kind, in the universe. 771 00:46:33,371 --> 00:46:37,561 Something terrible in himself. 772 00:46:38,139 --> 00:46:39,962 What was it? Can you tell me? 773 00:46:40,955 --> 00:46:44,152 -One day at Cabeza de Lobo... -Where? 774 00:46:46,811 --> 00:46:50,587 That's where we were last summer. That's where... 775 00:46:51,132 --> 00:46:53,173 That's where Sebastian died? 776 00:46:54,140 --> 00:46:55,220 Yes. 777 00:46:56,060 --> 00:46:56,856 How did he die? 778 00:46:58,781 --> 00:47:01,116 They say a heart attack, but I don't remember. 779 00:47:01,341 --> 00:47:03,000 I really don't. 780 00:47:03,230 --> 00:47:07,026 You see, afterwards, I was hysterical, taut. 781 00:47:08,030 --> 00:47:09,753 Said things I don't remember. 782 00:47:10,302 --> 00:47:11,829 That's why I'm here. 783 00:47:12,126 --> 00:47:15,389 Because I say things people don't... 784 00:47:15,614 --> 00:47:18,396 ...and then I don't even remember. 785 00:47:18,622 --> 00:47:20,248 Try to remember. 786 00:47:23,935 --> 00:47:27,830 You and Sebastian, last summer... 787 00:47:28,735 --> 00:47:30,262 Try to remember. 788 00:47:38,336 --> 00:47:41,598 The beach was very white. 789 00:47:42,944 --> 00:47:45,083 Oh, how the sun burned. 790 00:47:46,336 --> 00:47:50,777 It was like the eye of God watching us. 791 00:47:51,296 --> 00:47:53,402 Burning, burning. 792 00:47:54,465 --> 00:47:56,637 There was no air that day. 793 00:47:56,865 --> 00:47:59,582 The sun had burned up all the air. 794 00:48:00,577 --> 00:48:04,571 Outside it was like inside a furnace. 795 00:48:07,873 --> 00:48:11,038 -Then they came. -Who came? 796 00:48:12,162 --> 00:48:14,333 From all parts of the beach. 797 00:48:15,970 --> 00:48:18,075 And that awful noise they made. 798 00:48:19,427 --> 00:48:23,705 The noise of musical instruments all made of tin. 799 00:48:24,355 --> 00:48:25,598 Who is "they"? 800 00:48:27,939 --> 00:48:30,656 And that... That music. 801 00:48:31,908 --> 00:48:33,598 That awful music. 802 00:48:35,299 --> 00:48:37,209 I hear that music! 803 00:48:38,020 --> 00:48:39,995 I still hear it! 804 00:48:40,707 --> 00:48:43,741 It's getting closer and closer! 805 00:48:44,741 --> 00:48:46,234 Sebastian! 806 00:48:50,437 --> 00:48:55,139 -What happened? What happened then? -I don't remember after that! 807 00:48:55,877 --> 00:48:58,146 Stop that this minute. Stop that noise. 808 00:48:58,373 --> 00:49:00,829 -Doctor, I must see you at once. -Get out of here. 809 00:49:01,317 --> 00:49:04,580 Sister, get out and don't come back until I call you. 810 00:49:11,814 --> 00:49:14,564 I can't remember. 811 00:49:14,791 --> 00:49:18,751 -I can't remember! -lt's all right. 812 00:49:19,174 --> 00:49:20,582 Don't worry, it's all right. 813 00:49:20,807 --> 00:49:23,327 But I have to, I want to! 814 00:49:23,591 --> 00:49:24,933 Then you will. 815 00:49:25,191 --> 00:49:26,652 Will you help me? 816 00:49:26,887 --> 00:49:29,790 -lf you let me. -Yes. 817 00:49:33,992 --> 00:49:35,683 I shouldn't have done that. 818 00:49:35,912 --> 00:49:38,595 Why not? It was a friendly kiss, wasn't it? 819 00:49:39,849 --> 00:49:41,277 Maybe it wasn't. 820 00:49:42,345 --> 00:49:44,232 Maybe now you'll think that all those... 821 00:49:44,456 --> 00:49:47,304 ...stories about the gardener are true. 822 00:49:47,529 --> 00:49:49,700 Whatever's true, we'll find. 823 00:50:03,114 --> 00:50:07,391 I want you to know that I can look attractive... 824 00:50:07,946 --> 00:50:09,920 ...if I had my hair done and if... 825 00:50:11,626 --> 00:50:14,114 When I'm at Lions View, may I wear a pretty dress? 826 00:50:14,346 --> 00:50:15,721 If you like. 827 00:50:18,667 --> 00:50:22,562 Just imagine, once again to be able to do... 828 00:50:22,795 --> 00:50:24,421 ...one thing I'd like. 829 00:50:46,061 --> 00:50:48,876 Come out here, son. I want you to see something. 830 00:50:56,014 --> 00:51:00,716 Take a good long look. Tell me, what do you see? 831 00:51:01,327 --> 00:51:05,101 Old tires, tin cans, and a "Drink Nehi" sign. 832 00:51:05,325 --> 00:51:07,082 That's the past you're looking at. 833 00:51:07,310 --> 00:51:09,765 Thanks to a certain young man from Chicago... 834 00:51:09,998 --> 00:51:12,268 ...there'll be a new building on that lot... 835 00:51:12,495 --> 00:51:17,165 ...devoted to psychosurgery, dedicated to the memory of Sebastian Venable. 836 00:51:18,158 --> 00:51:20,133 I wish I were that optimistic. 837 00:51:21,967 --> 00:51:24,586 I've been working with the lawyers and accountants. 838 00:51:24,816 --> 00:51:26,671 And we're getting, listen to this... 839 00:51:26,896 --> 00:51:30,987 ...in big, round, beautiful figures, $1 million. 840 00:51:31,215 --> 00:51:35,013 -Just like that, no strings attached? -No strings attached. 841 00:51:35,248 --> 00:51:38,281 She wants you, and nobody else, to do the operation on her niece. 842 00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:41,611 You can't blame her for that. There isn't anybody better. 843 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,984 Something horrible happened to that girl last summer. 844 00:51:47,697 --> 00:51:52,171 Some dreadful, traumatic experience of some kind. 845 00:51:52,402 --> 00:51:53,514 What? 846 00:51:54,065 --> 00:51:56,171 I don't know. I haven't found out yet. 847 00:51:56,946 --> 00:51:59,914 And she refuses to allow herself to remember. 848 00:52:00,562 --> 00:52:03,147 She's gonna have to be made to remember it. 849 00:52:04,818 --> 00:52:05,712 Come in. 850 00:52:06,130 --> 00:52:07,625 Excuse me, Dr. Hockstader. 851 00:52:07,859 --> 00:52:10,793 Mrs. Holly and her son are here to see the new patient. 852 00:52:11,122 --> 00:52:13,359 Have them wait in my office, will you? 853 00:52:13,587 --> 00:52:15,693 -How's Miss Catherine? -She looks lovely. 854 00:52:15,923 --> 00:52:19,720 She had her hair done this morning. She's wearing her own clothes. 855 00:52:19,955 --> 00:52:23,916 I've never seen clothes like that girl's got. From Paris! 856 00:52:24,659 --> 00:52:27,627 Thank you, Miss Benson. I'll be along. 857 00:52:28,436 --> 00:52:32,014 But she's a patient. You can't let her wear her own clothes. 858 00:52:32,276 --> 00:52:35,179 I put her in the nurses' wing. I don't want her in the ward. 859 00:52:35,413 --> 00:52:37,038 The nurses' wing? 860 00:52:37,428 --> 00:52:39,567 I know I'm taking a risk... 861 00:52:39,796 --> 00:52:42,929 ...but for a while I don't want her to feel she's a patient. 862 00:52:43,157 --> 00:52:47,085 I want her to feel she's free of restrictions, free of being watched. 863 00:52:47,317 --> 00:52:48,561 This is very unorthodox. 864 00:52:48,949 --> 00:52:50,859 So is insanity. That's why we're here. 865 00:52:51,093 --> 00:52:54,388 Your whole approach has little to do with neurosurgery. 866 00:52:54,997 --> 00:52:58,315 -For the time being. -That's what this new building is for. 867 00:52:58,678 --> 00:53:01,460 Dedicated to neurosurgery. 868 00:53:01,686 --> 00:53:02,482 Yes, I know. 869 00:53:02,742 --> 00:53:06,933 Mrs. Venable thinks you're prepared to go ahead with the operation. 870 00:53:07,991 --> 00:53:09,332 Yes, I know. 871 00:53:24,216 --> 00:53:26,224 Cathy's in there? George, hold me now. 872 00:53:26,392 --> 00:53:29,426 I'm so nervous, I could jump clear out of my skin. 873 00:53:29,656 --> 00:53:31,696 Well, don't, Mama. 874 00:53:38,457 --> 00:53:39,351 Kitten. 875 00:53:39,577 --> 00:53:42,098 Miss Benson, why don't you go to lunch now? 876 00:53:42,329 --> 00:53:43,157 Thank you, doctor. 877 00:53:43,384 --> 00:53:46,768 My poor baby. My angel. 878 00:53:47,002 --> 00:53:50,417 -ln this place. -lt's all right, Mama. I'm just fine. 879 00:53:50,650 --> 00:53:53,497 Say, you look pretty good, Cathy, considering. 880 00:53:53,722 --> 00:53:57,018 -So do you, George, considering. -We wanted to see you... 881 00:53:57,242 --> 00:53:59,860 ...but Violet said not while you were at St. Mary's. 882 00:54:00,090 --> 00:54:03,801 The doctors there didn't want anybody to see you, so we didn't. 883 00:54:04,506 --> 00:54:06,262 Oh, my, that's a pretty dress. 884 00:54:06,491 --> 00:54:07,767 When did you get that, honey? 885 00:54:07,994 --> 00:54:10,100 In Paris. Cousin Sebastian bought it for me. 886 00:54:10,331 --> 00:54:13,495 Yeah? I'm wearing one of his suits. 887 00:54:13,723 --> 00:54:15,795 Yes, I recognize it. 888 00:54:16,027 --> 00:54:18,961 Wasn't it sweet of Vi to give George Sebastian's wardrobe? 889 00:54:19,196 --> 00:54:21,367 Nothing else she could have done with it. 890 00:54:21,596 --> 00:54:25,174 It's the thought behind the deed that matters. 891 00:54:25,564 --> 00:54:27,637 Have you seen Aunt Vi recently? 892 00:54:27,868 --> 00:54:30,618 Yes, we saw her last night. At her house. 893 00:54:30,844 --> 00:54:33,495 She invited us to a little private supper. 894 00:54:33,724 --> 00:54:36,091 She's had this elevator installed. 895 00:54:36,316 --> 00:54:39,219 -Cutest little thing. -We got business to talk about. 896 00:54:39,454 --> 00:54:42,453 You know how children are, how critical they are. 897 00:54:42,877 --> 00:54:44,983 What did Aunt Vi say last night? 898 00:54:45,214 --> 00:54:48,530 That you were in extremely capable hands. 899 00:54:48,765 --> 00:54:51,634 And I can tell they are capable too. 900 00:54:51,869 --> 00:54:54,587 Mr. Brossard, the new lawyer we got... 901 00:54:54,815 --> 00:54:57,465 Such a nice man too, a tower of strength... 902 00:54:57,695 --> 00:55:00,542 ...in all these awful months since Sebastian's been gone. 903 00:55:00,766 --> 00:55:04,028 It nearly killed Violet. I know, I was right there. 904 00:55:04,254 --> 00:55:08,630 You didn't see her the way I did, grieving like a madwoman. 905 00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,469 I mean, like her heart would break. 906 00:55:15,136 --> 00:55:16,630 He was her whole life. 907 00:55:16,863 --> 00:55:19,034 She worshiped the ground beneath his feet. 908 00:55:19,263 --> 00:55:22,909 When she got this letter from that place with the funny name... 909 00:55:23,136 --> 00:55:23,997 What letter? 910 00:55:24,224 --> 00:55:28,535 From the authorities, I suppose, telling what happened to him at... 911 00:55:28,768 --> 00:55:31,768 What was the name of that place? Where he passed on? 912 00:55:32,128 --> 00:55:33,689 -Cabeza de Lobo. -That's it. 913 00:55:33,952 --> 00:55:35,513 -Did you see the letter? -No. 914 00:55:35,745 --> 00:55:39,062 I guess it told all about how he had this heart attack... 915 00:55:39,329 --> 00:55:40,824 ...and how Catherine was... 916 00:55:41,281 --> 00:55:42,907 ...not quite herself, poor baby. 917 00:55:43,137 --> 00:55:46,039 I'm myself now. Aren't l, doctor? 918 00:55:46,722 --> 00:55:47,933 Of course you are. 919 00:55:48,322 --> 00:55:50,591 And don't you worry about what people say. 920 00:55:50,818 --> 00:55:53,633 Nobody in the city knows what you've been through. 921 00:55:53,858 --> 00:55:55,517 Do they, George? Not a thing. 922 00:55:55,747 --> 00:55:58,136 Nobody even knows you've come back from Europe. 923 00:55:58,371 --> 00:56:00,159 When they question us... 924 00:56:00,386 --> 00:56:04,445 ...we just say that you stayed abroad to study something or other. 925 00:56:05,155 --> 00:56:06,530 Can we talk to her alone? 926 00:56:06,755 --> 00:56:09,373 Yes, on a little private family matter. 927 00:56:09,603 --> 00:56:13,598 Just some papers got to be signed. Some business. 928 00:56:15,844 --> 00:56:17,370 Is that all right with you? 929 00:56:17,603 --> 00:56:21,565 Don't worry. Since I've been allowed to smoke, I've become a perfect lamb. 930 00:56:21,796 --> 00:56:24,829 My little girl was always a perfect lamb. 931 00:56:27,172 --> 00:56:28,284 Thank you. 932 00:56:36,646 --> 00:56:40,508 -Cathy, Sebastian left a will. -A generous, thoughtful will. 933 00:56:40,741 --> 00:56:44,157 He bequeathed to us, to you and to me, $50,000 each... 934 00:56:44,390 --> 00:56:46,112 ...after taxes are paid. 935 00:56:46,342 --> 00:56:49,441 -Sebastian always was very kind. -lsn't that the truth? 936 00:56:49,670 --> 00:56:50,946 There is a legal problem. 937 00:56:51,174 --> 00:56:55,298 It's very complicated, but Mr. Brossard, this new lawyer, is... 938 00:56:55,526 --> 00:56:59,455 -...trying to get it through probate. -Only it won't go through probate. 939 00:56:59,687 --> 00:57:01,148 -Why not? -Aunt Vi. 940 00:57:01,382 --> 00:57:05,409 Well, you see, it has to do with you. With your being ill. 941 00:57:06,310 --> 00:57:10,686 -She doesn't trust me with the money? -50 grand is chicken feed to Aunt Vi. 942 00:57:10,919 --> 00:57:14,302 -Then what is it? -When you went off your rocker... 943 00:57:14,536 --> 00:57:18,333 Shut up, Mama. Cathy's not that far gone. Are you, Cathy? 944 00:57:18,568 --> 00:57:21,951 -When I "went off my rocker"? -Yeah. You said something. 945 00:57:22,184 --> 00:57:24,519 You made up some crazy story about Sebastian. 946 00:57:24,745 --> 00:57:27,080 -When she heard whatever it was... -Last night... 947 00:57:27,305 --> 00:57:30,753 ...not a word would she say except that you babbled. 948 00:57:30,985 --> 00:57:34,880 That was her word for it. You "babbled" some story about Sebastian... 949 00:57:35,113 --> 00:57:38,113 -...and how he lived and... -Died... 950 00:57:38,985 --> 00:57:41,473 ...in a place called Cabeza de Lobo. 951 00:57:41,930 --> 00:57:44,548 What you said gave her a real turn. 952 00:57:44,778 --> 00:57:49,414 When the doctors decided you were crazy, she wanted you to stay at St. Mary's. 953 00:57:49,642 --> 00:57:53,319 Or even right here. This seems such a nice place too. 954 00:57:53,547 --> 00:57:56,514 -With that nice, capable doctor. -Go on. 955 00:57:56,970 --> 00:57:59,523 Written permission was needed to keep you here. 956 00:57:59,755 --> 00:58:03,268 So that was the point of the private supper. 957 00:58:03,723 --> 00:58:05,316 You've got to understand. 958 00:58:05,547 --> 00:58:08,198 This $1 00,000 is the most important thing ever. 959 00:58:08,427 --> 00:58:11,177 George will have all sorts of advantages now. 960 00:58:11,403 --> 00:58:15,365 Things we couldn't give, since 1 929 killed your father and our nest egg. 961 00:58:15,596 --> 00:58:18,378 Mother, you didn't sign those papers? 962 00:58:18,604 --> 00:58:21,768 -You didn't commit me to Lions View? -Not yet. 963 00:58:21,996 --> 00:58:25,575 But, Cathy, the way Aunt Vi put it, there was no choice at all. 964 00:58:25,805 --> 00:58:27,081 Mama's got to sign. 965 00:58:27,308 --> 00:58:31,018 Besides, honey, it's not like it was for always. 966 00:58:31,246 --> 00:58:33,995 They say in no time after the little operation... 967 00:58:34,221 --> 00:58:37,288 ...you'll be able to... 968 00:58:37,998 --> 00:58:40,681 What "little operation"? 969 00:58:40,910 --> 00:58:44,586 Oh, Cathy! Oh, Cathy! 970 00:58:45,261 --> 00:58:48,808 There's only one "little operation" they perform here. 971 00:58:49,038 --> 00:58:52,202 It's on the brain. It's called a lobotomy. 972 00:58:52,430 --> 00:58:55,212 You may have heard or read about it. I have. 973 00:58:55,438 --> 00:58:58,439 It's that nice, young doctor's specialty. 974 00:58:58,671 --> 00:59:02,152 In cases of hopeless lunacy... 975 00:59:02,383 --> 00:59:05,798 ...he bores holes into the skull and operates on the brain! 976 00:59:06,032 --> 00:59:09,861 Oh, honey, please don't talk about it. Please! 977 00:59:10,096 --> 00:59:13,991 -You can't let them! -Stop. It's not the end of the world! 978 00:59:14,256 --> 00:59:16,874 -Don't sign. -They say it don't hurt at all. 979 00:59:17,104 --> 00:59:19,690 -Don't let them! -No worse than having your tonsils out. 980 00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,790 And then, afterwards, you're all right again. 981 01:01:21,944 --> 01:01:23,733 Miss Catherine. 982 01:01:25,432 --> 01:01:27,734 -Those faces! -Look, for the love of... 983 01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:30,809 -Get her back to her room. -What are you doing here? 984 01:01:35,834 --> 01:01:37,775 Doctor, we've just come from your office. 985 01:01:38,009 --> 01:01:41,206 -What is all that noise? Is it fire? -What happened? 986 01:01:41,435 --> 01:01:45,558 I don't know. We were having this little chat about your treatment... 987 01:01:45,786 --> 01:01:49,268 ...and all of a sudden, she flew out of the room and down the hall. 988 01:01:49,499 --> 01:01:53,525 I'm sure it's the right thing, what you and Violet are doing. 989 01:01:53,756 --> 01:01:55,959 -lt is the right thing for her. -Come on. 990 01:01:56,188 --> 01:01:58,456 -We're so grateful to you. -Come on. 991 01:01:58,716 --> 01:02:00,242 Having you look after her... 992 01:02:00,475 --> 01:02:02,745 Will you get me Dr. Van Vitch? 993 01:02:02,971 --> 01:02:04,084 -Yes. -Thank you. 994 01:02:09,021 --> 01:02:11,125 I'm sorry they upset you. 995 01:02:11,772 --> 01:02:14,740 Miss Catherine, don't ever run away. 996 01:02:15,068 --> 01:02:17,011 Where will you cut, doctor? 997 01:02:18,173 --> 01:02:20,061 I'm not at all sure that I will. 998 01:02:20,285 --> 01:02:22,674 Where will you cut my brain, doctor? 999 01:02:22,909 --> 01:02:26,357 In front? Or further back? 1000 01:02:26,590 --> 01:02:28,858 I suppose I'm to have my head shaved. 1001 01:02:29,917 --> 01:02:33,529 It seems like a waste. I just had my hair fixed this morning. 1002 01:02:33,757 --> 01:02:36,605 Then to have it all cut off right after it. 1003 01:02:37,023 --> 01:02:39,029 I tell you, it's funny. 1004 01:02:40,830 --> 01:02:43,099 You were the one who was going to help me. 1005 01:02:45,278 --> 01:02:46,227 Help me! 1006 01:02:46,463 --> 01:02:47,892 Don't talk like that. 1007 01:02:48,127 --> 01:02:51,029 Why not? Now I sound insane, don't I? 1008 01:02:51,263 --> 01:02:53,118 -Are you trying to? -No, and I'm not. 1009 01:02:53,759 --> 01:02:56,758 You've got to believe me, doctor. I am not. 1010 01:02:57,087 --> 01:02:59,902 Insane is such a meaningless word. 1011 01:03:00,768 --> 01:03:03,451 But lobotomy has a precise meaning, hasn't it? 1012 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:08,382 Are you going to operate? Tell me, please, are you going to? 1013 01:03:08,704 --> 01:03:10,974 I don't know yet. 1014 01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,197 Poor doctor. 1015 01:03:16,768 --> 01:03:18,656 I bother you, don't I? 1016 01:03:19,297 --> 01:03:20,672 Yes, you do. 1017 01:03:21,281 --> 01:03:23,321 Well, I'll try not to anymore. 1018 01:03:27,297 --> 01:03:30,048 -Three cc, please. -Yes, doctor. 1019 01:03:30,626 --> 01:03:32,666 Must I take off my pretty dress? 1020 01:03:32,898 --> 01:03:34,327 Of course not. 1021 01:03:38,659 --> 01:03:42,139 I want to help you. Trust me. 1022 01:03:43,267 --> 01:03:45,023 I want to trust you. 1023 01:03:46,211 --> 01:03:50,401 It seems to me that I need help very much. 1024 01:03:58,340 --> 01:04:01,187 -His eyes are so blue. -Who? 1025 01:04:01,572 --> 01:04:02,749 The doctor. 1026 01:04:03,940 --> 01:04:06,274 Wonder why he isn't blond. 1027 01:04:06,500 --> 01:04:08,835 They usually are with eyes that blue. 1028 01:04:09,060 --> 01:04:11,003 -I'm blond. -Are you? 1029 01:04:11,237 --> 01:04:14,848 Funny. We were going to blonds next. 1030 01:04:15,237 --> 01:04:17,539 Blonds were next on the menu. 1031 01:04:17,765 --> 01:04:21,410 Now you just relax. Let yourself go. 1032 01:04:23,109 --> 01:04:27,485 All last summer, Sebastian was famished for blonds. 1033 01:04:27,813 --> 01:04:29,788 Fed up with the dark ones. 1034 01:04:30,150 --> 01:04:32,223 Famished for blonds. 1035 01:04:32,741 --> 01:04:34,684 The travel brochures he picked up... 1036 01:04:34,918 --> 01:04:38,333 ...were advertisements of blond, northern countries. 1037 01:04:39,143 --> 01:04:42,492 Think he'd already booked us to Stockholm and Copenhagen. 1038 01:04:43,687 --> 01:04:47,648 Fed up with the dark ones, famished for the light ones. 1039 01:04:48,614 --> 01:04:52,357 That's the way he talked about people, as if they were... 1040 01:04:52,903 --> 01:04:54,976 ...items on a menu. 1041 01:04:55,591 --> 01:04:57,980 That one's delicious-looking. 1042 01:04:58,696 --> 01:05:00,801 That one's appetizing. 1043 01:05:01,416 --> 01:05:04,548 Or that one is not appetizing. 1044 01:05:06,248 --> 01:05:09,597 I think really he was half-starved... 1045 01:05:09,832 --> 01:05:12,996 ...from living on pills and salads. 1046 01:05:14,441 --> 01:05:16,196 You just relax now. 1047 01:05:20,457 --> 01:05:22,912 We'll fly north, little bird. 1048 01:05:24,105 --> 01:05:28,067 It's what he called me sometimes. Little bird. 1049 01:05:29,898 --> 01:05:34,568 We'll walk under those radiant, cold northern lights. 1050 01:05:36,394 --> 01:05:39,778 I've never seen the aurora borealis. 1051 01:05:45,036 --> 01:05:47,753 He never saw those northern lights. 1052 01:05:50,092 --> 01:05:53,834 Who said, "We're all of us children... 1053 01:05:54,668 --> 01:05:56,456 ...in a vast kindergarten... 1054 01:05:57,836 --> 01:05:59,876 ...trying to spell God's name... 1055 01:06:00,108 --> 01:06:03,043 ...with the wrong alphabet blocks"? 1056 01:06:25,069 --> 01:06:25,997 Thank you. 1057 01:06:28,974 --> 01:06:31,178 I do want to speak with you... 1058 01:06:31,406 --> 01:06:35,018 Oh, this forgetfulness, my greatest failing. 1059 01:06:35,247 --> 01:06:37,800 I have a little gift for you, this book. 1060 01:06:38,031 --> 01:06:39,372 Thank you. 1061 01:06:40,238 --> 01:06:42,856 -Poem of Summer. -By my son, Sebastian Venable. 1062 01:06:43,088 --> 01:06:46,436 That volume contains one poem, as do the others I have at home. 1063 01:06:46,671 --> 01:06:49,868 Each with the title Poem of Summer and the date of the summer. 1064 01:06:50,095 --> 01:06:52,583 If you like that one, I'll bring you the others. 1065 01:06:52,815 --> 01:06:54,441 He wrote one poem a year? 1066 01:06:54,672 --> 01:06:57,869 One for each summer that we traveled together. 1067 01:06:58,257 --> 01:07:01,966 The other nine months of the year were only a preparation. 1068 01:07:02,192 --> 01:07:03,600 Nine months? 1069 01:07:03,824 --> 01:07:05,678 The length of a pregnancy, yes. 1070 01:07:06,673 --> 01:07:09,094 I gather the poem was hard to deliver. 1071 01:07:09,329 --> 01:07:10,278 Even with me. 1072 01:07:10,768 --> 01:07:12,362 Without me, impossible. 1073 01:07:12,593 --> 01:07:15,910 Doctor, he wrote no poem last summer. 1074 01:07:16,146 --> 01:07:17,258 He died last summer. 1075 01:07:17,489 --> 01:07:19,180 Without me, he died. 1076 01:07:19,410 --> 01:07:21,133 That was his last summer's poem. 1077 01:07:22,354 --> 01:07:26,664 Mrs. Venable, how exactly did your son die? 1078 01:07:27,506 --> 01:07:30,408 I told you, heart attack. 1079 01:07:30,642 --> 01:07:32,530 Is that what the letter said? 1080 01:07:33,266 --> 01:07:36,748 How did Catherine know I received a letter? 1081 01:07:36,979 --> 01:07:39,150 Catherine? She knows very little. 1082 01:07:39,827 --> 01:07:41,388 She can't remember. 1083 01:07:41,619 --> 01:07:45,481 That's her illness. She was there, but she can't remember. 1084 01:07:45,971 --> 01:07:47,248 Mrs. Holly told me. 1085 01:07:47,476 --> 01:07:51,667 You've seen her too? I must say, you have been observing. 1086 01:07:51,892 --> 01:07:54,314 There was no letter, only a death certificate. 1087 01:07:54,549 --> 01:07:56,206 -I'd like to see that. -Why? 1088 01:07:56,821 --> 01:07:58,097 I think it's important. 1089 01:07:58,324 --> 01:08:00,975 I want to know what happened the day your son died. 1090 01:08:01,460 --> 01:08:03,500 You shall have it tomorrow. 1091 01:08:04,341 --> 01:08:07,854 And tomorrow you shall also have the permission to operate. 1092 01:08:08,085 --> 01:08:09,646 And now I'd better go. 1093 01:08:09,877 --> 01:08:12,212 I've got lawyers waiting for me. 1094 01:08:12,438 --> 01:08:17,108 You'd think giving a building was simple. I must sign papers till I drop. 1095 01:08:17,334 --> 01:08:20,368 Not that I'm not used to it. Sebastian never signed anything. 1096 01:08:20,598 --> 01:08:23,086 -He must have suspected... -Mrs. Venable. 1097 01:08:24,086 --> 01:08:25,068 Your son... 1098 01:08:26,038 --> 01:08:27,216 What about my son? 1099 01:08:28,118 --> 01:08:31,118 What sort of personal life did he have? 1100 01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:33,653 He was chaste. 1101 01:08:34,326 --> 01:08:35,636 You mean he was celibate? 1102 01:08:39,319 --> 01:08:41,392 You don't believe me, do you? 1103 01:08:41,750 --> 01:08:44,052 -Do you believe that he never...? -Never. 1104 01:08:44,279 --> 01:08:46,515 As strictly as if he'd taken a vow. 1105 01:08:46,744 --> 01:08:49,974 This sounds like vanity... 1106 01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,047 ...but I was actually the only one in his life... 1107 01:08:53,272 --> 01:08:56,141 ...that satisfied the demands he made of people. 1108 01:08:56,376 --> 01:08:58,962 My son would let people go, dismiss them... 1109 01:08:59,192 --> 01:09:02,127 ...because their attitude toward him was not... 1110 01:09:02,361 --> 01:09:05,744 -As pure? -As pure as my son, Sebastian, demanded. 1111 01:09:06,137 --> 01:09:08,047 Would you want to see Catherine? 1112 01:09:09,817 --> 01:09:10,800 Is that wise? 1113 01:09:11,194 --> 01:09:12,567 It might help me. 1114 01:09:12,825 --> 01:09:15,061 But the lawyer. 1115 01:09:15,290 --> 01:09:18,324 Surely you've kept the lawyer waiting before. 1116 01:09:18,650 --> 01:09:20,111 Yes, I have. 1117 01:09:20,922 --> 01:09:25,395 Such a strong, such a persuasive doctor. 1118 01:09:41,531 --> 01:09:45,143 She's been under sedation. She's just coming out of it. 1119 01:09:45,980 --> 01:09:48,663 She looks lovely, doesn't she? 1120 01:09:49,020 --> 01:09:50,165 Doesn't she? 1121 01:09:59,229 --> 01:10:00,788 Where are we going? 1122 01:10:01,053 --> 01:10:02,165 His eyes. 1123 01:10:03,037 --> 01:10:05,906 This one's eyes are so blue... 1124 01:10:06,205 --> 01:10:08,661 ...such strange, frightened... 1125 01:10:13,565 --> 01:10:16,882 I'm sorry. I must have been dreaming. 1126 01:10:18,046 --> 01:10:19,192 Hello, Catherine. 1127 01:10:23,614 --> 01:10:27,412 I thought l... We would have seen each other before this. 1128 01:10:27,839 --> 01:10:30,556 At St. Mary's they wouldn't let any of us see you. 1129 01:10:31,392 --> 01:10:33,431 Mama was here today. 1130 01:10:33,887 --> 01:10:37,946 It was today, wasn't it? I lose all track of time with all these shots. 1131 01:10:38,175 --> 01:10:39,801 You look very well. 1132 01:10:40,351 --> 01:10:44,574 Mama told me how you got her to agree to commit me here... 1133 01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,293 ...and then let them... 1134 01:10:46,527 --> 01:10:48,633 She seems disturbed, doctor. 1135 01:10:48,991 --> 01:10:52,953 Aunt Violet! I am disturbed. 1136 01:10:53,568 --> 01:10:56,602 Don't you think I have every reason to be? 1137 01:10:57,345 --> 01:10:59,833 Forcing my mother into signing a paper. 1138 01:11:00,129 --> 01:11:02,747 I've never forced anybody to do anything. 1139 01:11:02,978 --> 01:11:04,385 Oh, yes, you have. 1140 01:11:04,609 --> 01:11:05,689 Always. 1141 01:11:06,881 --> 01:11:09,631 And now you're holding $1 00,000 under... 1142 01:11:09,857 --> 01:11:12,640 ...Mother and George's poor greedy noses... 1143 01:11:12,866 --> 01:11:14,841 ...to force her to sign a paper... 1144 01:11:15,074 --> 01:11:16,503 ...authorizing this doctor... 1145 01:11:17,475 --> 01:11:20,322 I see no purpose in remaining here listening to this. 1146 01:11:20,547 --> 01:11:23,100 I'll wait for you in that sun room. 1147 01:11:54,565 --> 01:11:57,053 Doctor, I wanted to speak to you alone. 1148 01:11:57,349 --> 01:12:00,317 She wanted to see you again before you left. 1149 01:12:01,093 --> 01:12:03,962 I didn't want to take your place last summer. 1150 01:12:04,357 --> 01:12:06,430 Please believe that, Aunt Vi. 1151 01:12:06,886 --> 01:12:09,057 But Sebastian insisted. He said... 1152 01:12:09,285 --> 01:12:12,253 ...you weren't well enough to travel with him. 1153 01:12:12,486 --> 01:12:15,006 He couldn't travel alone, so he insisted... 1154 01:12:15,237 --> 01:12:17,441 ...that I go along with him in your place. 1155 01:12:17,958 --> 01:12:19,933 And he died last summer. 1156 01:12:21,958 --> 01:12:26,269 Aunt Violet, would you like me to tell you? 1157 01:12:45,480 --> 01:12:48,229 You fell in love with Sebastian, didn't you? 1158 01:12:48,457 --> 01:12:51,621 I tried to give him what you had always given him: 1159 01:12:51,849 --> 01:12:54,402 The tender understanding and love... 1160 01:12:54,665 --> 01:12:59,367 My son and I had a rare and wonderful love and trust between us. 1161 01:12:59,594 --> 01:13:01,536 A contract, a covenant between us... 1162 01:13:01,770 --> 01:13:04,159 -I know about the covenant. -He broke it when... 1163 01:13:04,394 --> 01:13:08,006 ...he took her, not me, to travel with him while he created his poem. 1164 01:13:08,425 --> 01:13:11,623 Even when I was with him, he would sometimes be frightened. 1165 01:13:11,850 --> 01:13:13,344 I'd know when and what of. 1166 01:13:13,578 --> 01:13:16,928 I'd reach across a table to him and touch his hands. 1167 01:13:17,163 --> 01:13:21,221 Say not a word, just look, and touch his hands with my hand. 1168 01:13:22,635 --> 01:13:25,984 Then in the morning, the summer poem would be continued... 1169 01:13:26,219 --> 01:13:27,681 ...until it was finished. 1170 01:13:27,915 --> 01:13:30,598 -I couldn't help him. -Naturally. He was mine. 1171 01:13:30,828 --> 01:13:32,683 I knew how to help him. You couldn't. 1172 01:13:32,907 --> 01:13:34,052 -I tried. -I'd say, "You will." 1173 01:13:34,284 --> 01:13:35,844 All right! I failed him. 1174 01:13:36,076 --> 01:13:39,753 I knew that the day we flew down to Cabeza de Lobo from... 1175 01:13:39,980 --> 01:13:41,867 ...where he'd given off writing his poem. 1176 01:13:42,093 --> 01:13:45,508 -Because he had broken our... -Yes, something had broken. 1177 01:13:45,740 --> 01:13:48,936 -That string of pearls old mothers... -Old? 1178 01:13:49,164 --> 01:13:51,074 -...hold their sons by. -Hold them from death. 1179 01:13:51,308 --> 01:13:53,065 No, life! Hold them from life! 1180 01:13:53,293 --> 01:13:55,715 What do you know? You were the destroyer. 1181 01:13:55,949 --> 01:13:58,404 -We were life. -You fed on life. 1182 01:13:58,637 --> 01:14:00,296 Both of you. Taking! 1183 01:14:00,557 --> 01:14:03,721 People were objects for your pleasure. 1184 01:14:03,949 --> 01:14:05,892 That's what you taught each other. 1185 01:14:06,126 --> 01:14:10,382 -You were superior to mere mortals. -We needed no one but one another. 1186 01:14:11,022 --> 01:14:15,562 Sebastian only needed you while you were still useful. 1187 01:14:15,791 --> 01:14:19,500 -Useful? -I mean young, able to attract. 1188 01:14:19,726 --> 01:14:21,483 She's babbling and lying. 1189 01:14:21,711 --> 01:14:24,264 -He left her home because she lost... -You stole him! 1190 01:14:24,494 --> 01:14:26,317 Lost her attraction! 1191 01:14:26,543 --> 01:14:29,413 What would attraction have to do with a son and a mother? 1192 01:14:29,647 --> 01:14:30,411 I'll tell you. 1193 01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:34,087 -Can we stop these lies? -Yes! Have my brain cut. 1194 01:14:34,319 --> 01:14:35,629 This was a mistake. 1195 01:14:35,856 --> 01:14:38,507 The mistake was my going with Sebastian. 1196 01:14:39,088 --> 01:14:41,227 When he left her home, she had a stroke. 1197 01:14:41,456 --> 01:14:42,350 Not a stroke! 1198 01:14:42,576 --> 01:14:44,235 A hysterical stroke. 1199 01:14:44,592 --> 01:14:47,440 Sebastian left her home like a toy he tired of. 1200 01:14:47,664 --> 01:14:50,567 And he took me with him like a new toy. 1201 01:14:50,801 --> 01:14:53,223 -On his last voyage. -Lies. 1202 01:14:53,457 --> 01:14:55,115 You see, doctor, we both... 1203 01:14:56,561 --> 01:14:58,417 -We were decoys. -Decoys? 1204 01:14:58,642 --> 01:15:01,609 For Sebastian. He used us as bait! 1205 01:15:02,289 --> 01:15:06,665 When she was no longer able to lure the better fish into the net, he let her go. 1206 01:15:06,898 --> 01:15:09,418 Bait for what? What were the better fish? 1207 01:15:09,650 --> 01:15:11,374 We procured for him. 1208 01:15:12,018 --> 01:15:16,242 She used to do it in the fashionable places they went before last summer. 1209 01:15:16,467 --> 01:15:18,322 Sebastian was shy with people. She wasn't. 1210 01:15:18,771 --> 01:15:20,145 Neither was I. 1211 01:15:20,947 --> 01:15:23,468 But we both did the same thing for him. 1212 01:15:24,116 --> 01:15:26,091 We both made contacts for him. 1213 01:15:27,348 --> 01:15:30,763 I can't listen to this obscenity. Stop her, doctor. 1214 01:15:30,996 --> 01:15:34,443 Cut the truth out of my brain. Is that what you want? 1215 01:15:34,676 --> 01:15:37,938 You can't. Not even God can change the truth. 1216 01:15:38,164 --> 01:15:39,572 We were nothing but a pair of... 1217 01:15:39,796 --> 01:15:41,258 -Doctor! -lt's the truth! 1218 01:15:41,493 --> 01:15:43,500 See how she destroys us with her tongue? 1219 01:15:43,733 --> 01:15:46,001 Cut this hideous story out of her brain. 1220 01:15:46,325 --> 01:15:50,034 How much are you willing to pay for that? 1221 01:15:50,292 --> 01:15:52,878 Get me away from her. Out of here. 1222 01:15:53,141 --> 01:15:54,548 Out of this... 1223 01:15:58,229 --> 01:16:01,579 -Nurse, some spirits of ammonia. -Yes, doctor. 1224 01:16:01,846 --> 01:16:03,700 -What happened? -She fainted. 1225 01:16:03,927 --> 01:16:06,480 No. No, she didn't. 1226 01:16:07,063 --> 01:16:08,524 Just a little... 1227 01:16:09,142 --> 01:16:11,378 ...dizziness, that's all. 1228 01:16:11,607 --> 01:16:15,185 Dr. Hockstader, would you help me to my car? 1229 01:16:15,414 --> 01:16:17,106 I don't think that's a good idea right now. 1230 01:16:17,335 --> 01:16:20,117 Whether it is or not, I'm going home. 1231 01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,623 Tomorrow, I want that girl operated on. 1232 01:16:41,848 --> 01:16:46,551 That decision belongs to the doctor in charge, who is also the surgeon. 1233 01:16:46,808 --> 01:16:50,835 I don't want to hear from you until the operation has been performed. 1234 01:19:03,074 --> 01:19:05,114 No! No! 1235 01:19:07,874 --> 01:19:08,987 Please, no! 1236 01:19:14,403 --> 01:19:17,600 -You trying to ruin this hospital? -You know better than that. 1237 01:19:17,827 --> 01:19:20,861 Can you imagine what would happen to us if she'd jumped? 1238 01:19:21,092 --> 01:19:22,336 She was frightened. She... 1239 01:19:22,564 --> 01:19:25,117 Patients are here because they can't think. 1240 01:19:26,052 --> 01:19:27,907 After 24 hours observation... 1241 01:19:28,132 --> 01:19:32,355 During which she tried to kill herself, incited the men's day room to a riot... 1242 01:19:32,580 --> 01:19:35,231 -She opened that door by mistake. -While trying to get away. 1243 01:19:35,460 --> 01:19:39,804 There was a riot, and she caused it. Don't invent excuses for her. 1244 01:19:40,037 --> 01:19:42,077 And from that Paris clinic... 1245 01:19:42,693 --> 01:19:45,508 ...delusions that the world was devouring her... 1246 01:19:45,733 --> 01:19:48,189 ...that she was raped by a man with dueling pistols. 1247 01:19:48,422 --> 01:19:50,942 -The Dueling Oaks. -Here's more of her erotomania. 1248 01:19:51,173 --> 01:19:53,410 At St. Mary's, they couldn't keep her. And why? 1249 01:19:53,638 --> 01:19:55,842 Because of her obscenity and violence. 1250 01:19:56,070 --> 01:19:58,459 She sexually attacked a 60-year-old gardener. 1251 01:19:58,695 --> 01:20:00,517 It was the other way around. 1252 01:20:00,743 --> 01:20:03,906 She tried to burn one of the sisters with a cigarette. 1253 01:20:04,135 --> 01:20:06,655 She was provoked. I was there, I saw it. 1254 01:20:06,886 --> 01:20:09,853 Provoked? Who would provoke a disturbed patient? 1255 01:20:10,086 --> 01:20:11,429 You'd be surprised. 1256 01:20:11,655 --> 01:20:14,110 And, to top it, she attempts suicide. 1257 01:20:14,343 --> 01:20:17,474 Cogent proof of sanity, wouldn't you say? 1258 01:20:18,056 --> 01:20:19,648 I need time. 1259 01:20:20,552 --> 01:20:22,755 When will you want the operating room? 1260 01:20:23,752 --> 01:20:26,502 I said I need more time. 1261 01:20:27,016 --> 01:20:28,358 I heard you. 1262 01:20:33,065 --> 01:20:36,480 Get me Dr. Glen Kilmer at the Seattle Clinic. 1263 01:20:37,097 --> 01:20:40,610 You know I want that building as much as you do. 1264 01:20:40,841 --> 01:20:42,434 I'll hold on. 1265 01:20:43,369 --> 01:20:48,006 Give me one more day to see if I can break through that block to the truth. 1266 01:20:48,233 --> 01:20:49,957 This is a medical emergency. 1267 01:20:50,186 --> 01:20:51,430 I want to try something. 1268 01:20:51,658 --> 01:20:54,592 I want to try something tomorrow, at Mrs. Venable's. 1269 01:20:55,082 --> 01:20:56,457 Why Mrs. Venable's? 1270 01:20:56,682 --> 01:21:00,577 I don't know. I feel somehow that in that garden... 1271 01:21:00,810 --> 01:21:04,673 ...maybe in that jungle, we might find... 1272 01:21:04,907 --> 01:21:07,906 Look, you don't want Mrs. Venable giving her money... 1273 01:21:08,138 --> 01:21:10,277 ...to the Seattle Clinic, do you? 1274 01:21:10,507 --> 01:21:14,631 And you don't want anybody to be able to say that we acted hastily... 1275 01:21:14,859 --> 01:21:17,031 ...or unethically, do you? 1276 01:21:19,340 --> 01:21:20,355 Cancel the call. 1277 01:21:21,357 --> 01:21:23,877 But be sure you know where I can find Dr. Kilmer. 1278 01:21:56,782 --> 01:21:58,757 Mrs. Venable will be right down. 1279 01:21:59,150 --> 01:22:02,948 -The others are here, as you asked. -Show them into the sun room, please. 1280 01:22:03,375 --> 01:22:04,902 Of course, doctor. 1281 01:22:06,638 --> 01:22:07,751 Cathy, honey... 1282 01:22:07,983 --> 01:22:09,444 Later, Mrs. Holly. 1283 01:22:09,679 --> 01:22:11,980 Doctor, I have the things you wanted. 1284 01:22:12,208 --> 01:22:14,663 -ln the dining room. -Oh, thank you. 1285 01:22:21,136 --> 01:22:22,762 What's going on here? 1286 01:22:23,409 --> 01:22:25,481 Sorry to keep you waiting, Dr. Cukrowicz. 1287 01:22:25,712 --> 01:22:28,746 I had to get those papers you wanted. I mislay everything. 1288 01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,721 My son always said, "Mother, if you..." 1289 01:22:33,105 --> 01:22:36,237 What are you two doing here? And where is Dr. Cukrowicz? 1290 01:22:36,465 --> 01:22:38,320 Why, I thought you invited us. 1291 01:22:38,545 --> 01:22:41,066 Dr. Cukrowicz asked me to ask them to come. 1292 01:22:41,969 --> 01:22:43,213 Of course. 1293 01:22:43,474 --> 01:22:44,903 Dr. Hockstader... 1294 01:22:45,458 --> 01:22:47,946 ...I want you to meet my sister-in-law, Mrs. Ho... 1295 01:22:48,178 --> 01:22:49,290 Where is Catherine? 1296 01:22:49,522 --> 01:22:50,832 In the sun room. 1297 01:22:51,346 --> 01:22:54,314 Could Mrs. Holly and her son wait for us in the garden? 1298 01:22:54,546 --> 01:22:56,302 Of course. Foxhill? 1299 01:22:56,755 --> 01:22:59,537 I don't know why everybody is being so mysterious. 1300 01:22:59,762 --> 01:23:02,697 I brought you some of Sebastian's papers. Odds and ends. 1301 01:23:02,931 --> 01:23:04,556 And this, the thing you wanted. 1302 01:23:04,787 --> 01:23:06,097 Your son's death certificate? 1303 01:23:06,323 --> 01:23:09,836 -This must be painful for you. -lf you don't read Spanish, I have... 1304 01:23:10,067 --> 01:23:11,529 I read Spanish. 1305 01:23:12,659 --> 01:23:14,318 Well, I have a translation. 1306 01:23:14,548 --> 01:23:16,174 As you see, there was no mystery... 1307 01:23:16,404 --> 01:23:19,306 ...no matter what the girl said at the time or any other time. 1308 01:23:19,540 --> 01:23:21,996 It says the body was somewhat... 1309 01:23:22,388 --> 01:23:24,395 ...damaged in falling. Where did he fall? 1310 01:23:24,628 --> 01:23:28,109 On the ground. Where else do you fall when you die in the hot sun... 1311 01:23:28,342 --> 01:23:30,283 ...in the street of some godforsaken village? 1312 01:23:30,741 --> 01:23:31,886 Did you see his body? 1313 01:23:32,117 --> 01:23:34,670 It was a primitive country. The coffin came to us sealed. 1314 01:23:34,901 --> 01:23:35,949 Sealed? 1315 01:23:36,310 --> 01:23:37,487 Were there any rumors? 1316 01:23:37,717 --> 01:23:40,751 There were no rumors. His heart stopped and he fell. 1317 01:23:41,270 --> 01:23:43,954 I'll wait in the garden now. That is where you want me? 1318 01:23:44,182 --> 01:23:45,708 Yes, if you will. 1319 01:23:46,839 --> 01:23:48,049 Dr. Hockstader... 1320 01:23:48,503 --> 01:23:51,154 ...let me show you my son's garden. 1321 01:23:51,383 --> 01:23:55,507 It's very unusual. Like the dawn of Creation. 1322 01:23:58,199 --> 01:24:00,087 Sebastian's garden. 1323 01:24:02,167 --> 01:24:04,142 I can still cry. 1324 01:24:05,527 --> 01:24:07,219 Am I dreaming this? 1325 01:24:07,544 --> 01:24:09,453 It doesn't seem real. 1326 01:24:11,832 --> 01:24:16,022 Would you take off your jacket? It's time for another injection. 1327 01:24:17,305 --> 01:24:18,996 What is it this time? 1328 01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:21,142 Something different. 1329 01:24:21,368 --> 01:24:22,514 The truth serum? 1330 01:24:22,745 --> 01:24:25,614 Yes, except there is no such thing. 1331 01:24:25,945 --> 01:24:27,156 As truth? 1332 01:24:27,385 --> 01:24:28,562 Or the truth serum? 1333 01:24:28,921 --> 01:24:30,677 There is truth, all right. 1334 01:24:30,904 --> 01:24:31,985 Somewhere. 1335 01:24:32,441 --> 01:24:33,685 Sit down. 1336 01:24:35,929 --> 01:24:38,613 And now you want me to start counting backwards from 1 00? 1337 01:24:41,050 --> 01:24:45,273 -Do you enjoy counting backwards? -Oh, I love it. Just love it. 1338 01:24:48,283 --> 01:24:49,592 1 00... 1339 01:24:49,819 --> 01:24:51,705 ...99, 98... 1340 01:24:51,930 --> 01:24:53,043 ...97... 1341 01:24:53,467 --> 01:24:54,547 ...96... 1342 01:24:54,779 --> 01:24:56,153 ...95... 1343 01:24:59,131 --> 01:25:01,073 I feel it already. 1344 01:25:01,370 --> 01:25:02,200 How funny. 1345 01:25:02,428 --> 01:25:04,250 Close your eyes for a minute. 1346 01:25:16,764 --> 01:25:18,903 I want you to give me something. 1347 01:25:19,132 --> 01:25:21,140 You name it, it's yours. 1348 01:25:21,885 --> 01:25:23,860 I want you to give me all your resistance. 1349 01:25:24,349 --> 01:25:26,204 Resistance? To what? 1350 01:25:26,653 --> 01:25:27,448 To the truth. 1351 01:25:28,733 --> 01:25:31,733 Truth is the one thing I have never resisted. 1352 01:25:32,061 --> 01:25:34,843 People think they don't resist it, but they still do. 1353 01:25:35,230 --> 01:25:36,985 Sebastian said: 1354 01:25:37,662 --> 01:25:41,306 "Truth is at the bottom of a bottomless well." 1355 01:25:42,751 --> 01:25:43,994 Why did...? 1356 01:25:46,910 --> 01:25:48,471 Open your eyes. 1357 01:25:50,783 --> 01:25:52,441 Why did you try to kill yourself? 1358 01:25:54,495 --> 01:25:56,535 Isn't that what everybody wants? 1359 01:25:56,767 --> 01:25:58,425 Me out of the way? 1360 01:25:59,199 --> 01:26:01,403 Mother and George would get their money. 1361 01:26:01,631 --> 01:26:03,541 You'd get your building. 1362 01:26:03,775 --> 01:26:04,985 Aunt Vi... 1363 01:26:05,728 --> 01:26:06,840 Go on. 1364 01:26:08,321 --> 01:26:10,622 You know what I think you're trying to do? 1365 01:26:12,160 --> 01:26:14,201 I think you're trying to hypnotize me. 1366 01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:16,607 You're looking at me so... 1367 01:26:16,832 --> 01:26:18,076 ...straight. 1368 01:26:18,881 --> 01:26:22,809 You're doing something strange to me with your eyes. 1369 01:26:23,040 --> 01:26:23,902 Your eyes. 1370 01:26:24,513 --> 01:26:27,480 -ls that what you're doing? -ls that what you feel I'm doing? 1371 01:26:28,065 --> 01:26:29,080 I feel... 1372 01:26:29,313 --> 01:26:30,655 ...peculiar. 1373 01:26:33,121 --> 01:26:35,871 It doesn't just have to do with what you gave me. 1374 01:26:39,586 --> 01:26:41,343 I'm putting out my hands. 1375 01:26:41,571 --> 01:26:45,826 I want you to put your hands into mine and give me all your resistance. 1376 01:26:46,050 --> 01:26:49,695 Pass all the resistance from your hands into mine. 1377 01:26:51,267 --> 01:26:52,958 Here are my hands... 1378 01:26:53,698 --> 01:26:55,422 ...but there's no resistance in them. 1379 01:26:55,843 --> 01:26:57,087 You'll tell the true story? 1380 01:26:57,892 --> 01:26:59,648 Yes, I'll try. 1381 01:27:00,100 --> 01:27:02,817 Nothing not spoken. Everything told exactly? 1382 01:27:03,236 --> 01:27:05,178 Everything exactly. 1383 01:27:06,499 --> 01:27:08,158 Because I have to. 1384 01:27:13,956 --> 01:27:14,905 Can I...? 1385 01:27:15,332 --> 01:27:16,379 Can I get up? 1386 01:27:16,612 --> 01:27:20,028 Yes, of course, but be careful. You'll feel a little dizzy. 1387 01:27:21,637 --> 01:27:22,914 I can't. 1388 01:27:25,957 --> 01:27:27,419 Tell me to. 1389 01:27:28,102 --> 01:27:29,564 Then I think I could. 1390 01:27:29,798 --> 01:27:31,106 Stand up. 1391 01:27:38,438 --> 01:27:39,845 Now I can. 1392 01:27:40,710 --> 01:27:44,005 -Oh, I'm dizzy. Help me. -lt's all right. You're all right. 1393 01:27:47,847 --> 01:27:49,253 Hold me. 1394 01:27:49,606 --> 01:27:51,646 I've been so lonely. 1395 01:27:55,975 --> 01:27:57,185 Let me. 1396 01:27:57,448 --> 01:27:58,527 Let me. 1397 01:28:06,344 --> 01:28:09,508 I suggest you bring her outside, if you don't mind, doctor. 1398 01:28:09,736 --> 01:28:11,362 We'll be right out. 1399 01:28:18,377 --> 01:28:19,871 Are you ready? 1400 01:28:34,442 --> 01:28:36,035 Hello, Catherine. 1401 01:28:37,034 --> 01:28:38,441 Now, Catherine... 1402 01:28:38,666 --> 01:28:41,122 ...you're going to tell the true story. 1403 01:28:41,450 --> 01:28:42,759 Where do I start? 1404 01:28:42,986 --> 01:28:44,961 Wherever you think it started. 1405 01:28:45,579 --> 01:28:47,236 I think it started... 1406 01:28:47,467 --> 01:28:49,638 ...the day Sebastian was born in this house. 1407 01:28:49,866 --> 01:28:51,012 -Cathy. -I don't mind. 1408 01:28:51,243 --> 01:28:55,684 Let's start later than that. Why don't we begin with last summer? 1409 01:28:55,916 --> 01:28:56,996 Last summer? 1410 01:28:57,228 --> 01:28:59,333 Last summer. How did it begin? 1411 01:28:59,723 --> 01:29:01,131 It began... 1412 01:29:01,644 --> 01:29:02,985 ...after the Dueling Oaks. 1413 01:29:03,211 --> 01:29:07,205 -Don't tell about that, Cathy... -Mrs. Holly, don't interrupt. 1414 01:29:08,044 --> 01:29:10,019 After that happened... 1415 01:29:10,316 --> 01:29:13,350 ...the next morning, I started writing my diary... 1416 01:29:13,581 --> 01:29:15,653 ...in the third person singular such as: 1417 01:29:15,885 --> 01:29:18,952 "She is still living this morning." 1418 01:29:19,437 --> 01:29:21,477 Meaning that I was. 1419 01:29:21,709 --> 01:29:24,971 "What's next for her? God knows." 1420 01:29:25,486 --> 01:29:28,268 I couldn't go out anywhere. 1421 01:29:28,493 --> 01:29:30,665 That's true. She wouldn't leave her room. 1422 01:29:30,894 --> 01:29:32,204 Shut up, Mama. 1423 01:29:32,430 --> 01:29:33,640 I would write: 1424 01:29:34,286 --> 01:29:35,944 "She woke up early this morning. 1425 01:29:36,558 --> 01:29:39,275 She had her coffee, dressed... 1426 01:29:39,502 --> 01:29:40,876 ...went for a brief walk." 1427 01:29:41,294 --> 01:29:43,335 -Who did? -She did. 1428 01:29:44,911 --> 01:29:46,154 I did. 1429 01:29:47,375 --> 01:29:49,742 From the Esplanade to Canal Street... 1430 01:29:49,967 --> 01:29:53,098 ...as though being pursued by a pack of Siberian wolves. 1431 01:29:53,807 --> 01:29:57,768 Went through all the stop signs. Couldn't wait for the green signals. 1432 01:29:58,351 --> 01:30:02,727 "Where did she think she was going, back to the Dueling Oaks?" 1433 01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:06,636 Everything... 1434 01:30:07,088 --> 01:30:08,997 ...chilly and dim. 1435 01:30:10,193 --> 01:30:11,599 But that hot... 1436 01:30:11,985 --> 01:30:13,064 ...ravenous mouth. 1437 01:30:13,745 --> 01:30:15,785 He was a very ordinary married man. 1438 01:30:16,241 --> 01:30:17,169 And then? 1439 01:30:18,865 --> 01:30:22,444 One morning, cousin Sebastian came in and said, "Get up." 1440 01:30:22,705 --> 01:30:25,161 Well, if you're still alive after dying... 1441 01:30:25,394 --> 01:30:27,401 ...then you're obedient. I got up. 1442 01:30:27,858 --> 01:30:31,600 He took me downtown to a place where they take passport photos. 1443 01:30:31,826 --> 01:30:34,161 He said, "Mother can't go abroad with me this summer. 1444 01:30:34,482 --> 01:30:37,265 You're going to go with me this summer instead of Mother." 1445 01:30:37,491 --> 01:30:41,266 -Except that it was her idea, not his. -Mrs. Venable. 1446 01:30:42,098 --> 01:30:43,244 And your cousin? 1447 01:30:43,955 --> 01:30:46,344 He helped bring me back to life... 1448 01:30:46,579 --> 01:30:49,197 ...in Paris, Barcelona, Rome. 1449 01:30:49,427 --> 01:30:53,104 All those lovely foreign cities I'd never seen, we saw together. 1450 01:30:53,332 --> 01:30:54,259 And those... 1451 01:30:54,483 --> 01:30:56,044 What did he call them? 1452 01:30:56,276 --> 01:30:58,164 Those sunshine days... 1453 01:30:58,388 --> 01:31:01,868 ...where it's always noon, and we cast no shadows. 1454 01:31:02,100 --> 01:31:02,864 But then... 1455 01:31:03,253 --> 01:31:04,300 But then what? 1456 01:31:04,980 --> 01:31:06,257 At Amalfi... 1457 01:31:07,284 --> 01:31:11,180 ...high above the Mediterranean, in a garden, I took his arm. 1458 01:31:11,956 --> 01:31:13,680 You took his arm. Yes? 1459 01:31:13,909 --> 01:31:17,008 It seemed like such a natural thing to do, but he pulled away. 1460 01:31:17,364 --> 01:31:20,464 How he must have loathed being touched by her. 1461 01:31:20,886 --> 01:31:24,944 I only did it to try and show my appreciation for his kindness. 1462 01:31:25,173 --> 01:31:26,636 I didn't want to... 1463 01:31:27,350 --> 01:31:29,260 There was nothing else. 1464 01:31:30,999 --> 01:31:32,340 Anyway... 1465 01:31:32,854 --> 01:31:35,188 ...it was there in Amalfi... 1466 01:31:35,414 --> 01:31:39,211 ...suddenly, last summer, that he began to be restless and... 1467 01:31:40,151 --> 01:31:41,329 Go on. 1468 01:31:43,543 --> 01:31:45,069 He couldn't go on. 1469 01:31:45,399 --> 01:31:47,538 He couldn't write his summer poem. 1470 01:31:47,927 --> 01:31:50,742 I have his notebook here. See? 1471 01:31:50,968 --> 01:31:54,862 Title, "Poem of Summer." And the date of the summer. 1 937. 1472 01:31:55,096 --> 01:31:58,959 And after that, blank pages, blank pages. Nothing but nothing. 1473 01:31:59,193 --> 01:32:01,298 A poet's vocation rests on something... 1474 01:32:01,528 --> 01:32:03,535 ...as fine and thin as the web of a spider. 1475 01:32:04,056 --> 01:32:06,129 It's all that holds him out of destruction. 1476 01:32:06,361 --> 01:32:08,248 Very few are able to do it alone. 1477 01:32:08,472 --> 01:32:10,861 Great help is needed. I did give it. She didn't. 1478 01:32:11,096 --> 01:32:13,398 She's right about that. I failed him. 1479 01:32:13,625 --> 01:32:15,600 I wasn't able to keep the web from breaking. 1480 01:32:15,833 --> 01:32:17,873 I saw it breaking, but I couldn't save it. 1481 01:32:18,105 --> 01:32:21,880 Now the truth's coming out. Maybe she'll admit what really happened. 1482 01:32:22,234 --> 01:32:23,128 What did happen? 1483 01:32:23,354 --> 01:32:25,209 How she killed him. 1484 01:32:25,433 --> 01:32:28,052 How she murdered him at Cabeza de Lobo. Ask her. 1485 01:32:33,307 --> 01:32:35,096 What did really happen? 1486 01:32:35,611 --> 01:32:37,847 Suddenly, last summer... 1487 01:32:38,107 --> 01:32:40,017 ...he wasn't young anymore. 1488 01:32:40,251 --> 01:32:41,942 We went to Cabeza de Lobo... 1489 01:32:42,427 --> 01:32:45,144 ...and suddenly, he switched from the evenings to the beach. 1490 01:32:45,372 --> 01:32:46,746 From the evenings to the beach? 1491 01:32:47,163 --> 01:32:51,353 I mean, from the evenings to the afternoons. 1492 01:32:51,579 --> 01:32:55,541 Suddenly, cousin Sebastian changed to the afternoons in the beach. 1493 01:32:55,932 --> 01:32:58,616 What kind of a beach was it? Was it a public beach? 1494 01:32:58,844 --> 01:33:00,339 Yes, public. 1495 01:33:00,572 --> 01:33:03,060 It's little statements like that that give her away. 1496 01:33:03,900 --> 01:33:07,611 After all I've told you about his fastidiousness, can you accept that... 1497 01:33:07,837 --> 01:33:11,415 ...Sebastian would go to some dirty, free public beach near a harbor? 1498 01:33:11,645 --> 01:33:14,646 Whatever she wants to say, I want her to say it. 1499 01:33:15,294 --> 01:33:16,341 Go on. 1500 01:33:16,925 --> 01:33:19,347 I don't want to go on. 1501 01:33:19,581 --> 01:33:24,022 Every afternoon, you and your cousin would go to this free public beach? 1502 01:33:24,670 --> 01:33:28,696 It wasn't the free one. The free one was right next to it. 1503 01:33:28,926 --> 01:33:31,196 There was a fence between the free beach... 1504 01:33:31,422 --> 01:33:34,324 ...and the beach that we went to that charged admission. 1505 01:33:34,878 --> 01:33:36,853 Did anything happen there that disturbed you? 1506 01:33:38,143 --> 01:33:39,898 -Yes. -What? 1507 01:33:40,127 --> 01:33:43,389 He bought me a bathing suit I didn't want to wear. 1508 01:33:43,615 --> 01:33:45,503 I laughed. I said, "I can't wear that. 1509 01:33:45,727 --> 01:33:48,793 Why, it's a scandal to the jaybirds." 1510 01:33:49,024 --> 01:33:51,195 What do you mean? Was this suit immodest? 1511 01:33:51,424 --> 01:33:55,484 It was a one-piece bathing suit. Made of white something. 1512 01:33:55,713 --> 01:33:57,785 But the water made it transparent. 1513 01:33:58,017 --> 01:34:00,668 I told him I didn't want to swim in it... 1514 01:34:00,897 --> 01:34:04,246 ...but he just grabbed my hand and dragged me into the water... 1515 01:34:04,480 --> 01:34:06,139 ...all the way in... 1516 01:34:06,369 --> 01:34:09,151 ...and I came out looking naked. 1517 01:34:09,377 --> 01:34:12,792 Why did he do that? Do you know why he did that? 1518 01:34:13,026 --> 01:34:14,454 Yes. 1519 01:34:14,689 --> 01:34:16,729 To attract attention. 1520 01:34:16,961 --> 01:34:18,936 Why? Because he thought you were lonely? 1521 01:34:19,169 --> 01:34:21,952 Did he think he could shock you out of your depression? 1522 01:34:22,850 --> 01:34:26,331 You know why I was doing it. I told you. 1523 01:34:26,562 --> 01:34:28,984 I was procuring for him. 1524 01:34:30,338 --> 01:34:33,339 Sebastian was lonely, doctor. 1525 01:34:33,571 --> 01:34:37,793 That empty blue jay notebook got bigger and bigger. 1526 01:34:38,018 --> 01:34:40,506 So big, it was big and empty... 1527 01:34:40,739 --> 01:34:44,253 ...like that big, empty, blue sea and sky. 1528 01:34:46,564 --> 01:34:50,720 And before long, when the weather was warmer and the beach so crowded... 1529 01:34:50,948 --> 01:34:53,501 ...he didn't need me anymore for that purpose. 1530 01:34:54,277 --> 01:34:58,684 The ones from the free beach climbed over the fence or swam around it. 1531 01:34:59,525 --> 01:35:03,485 So now he let me wear a decent dark suit. 1532 01:35:03,717 --> 01:35:06,717 I'd go to a faraway end of the beach and write post cards... 1533 01:35:06,949 --> 01:35:10,298 ...and letters and keep up my third person journal... 1534 01:35:10,533 --> 01:35:14,462 ...till it was time to meet him outside the bathhouses on the street. 1535 01:35:15,206 --> 01:35:17,061 He would come out... 1536 01:35:17,286 --> 01:35:18,081 ...followed. 1537 01:35:18,790 --> 01:35:20,317 Who'd follow him? 1538 01:35:20,550 --> 01:35:25,122 The hungry young people that climbed over the fence from the free beach. 1539 01:35:26,278 --> 01:35:28,863 He'd pass out tips among them, as if they'd all... 1540 01:35:29,095 --> 01:35:32,805 ...shined his shoes or called taxis for him. 1541 01:35:33,031 --> 01:35:35,519 Each day the crowd got bigger... 1542 01:35:35,751 --> 01:35:38,621 ...noisier, greedier. 1543 01:35:38,855 --> 01:35:41,889 At last, we stopped going out there. 1544 01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:45,764 And after that? After you stopped going to the public beach? 1545 01:35:45,991 --> 01:35:47,170 Then one day... 1546 01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:51,742 ...a few days after we'd stopped going out to the beach... 1547 01:35:51,976 --> 01:35:54,846 ...it was a blazing white day. 1548 01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:59,390 Not a blazing hot, blue day, but a blazing hot, white one. 1549 01:36:00,041 --> 01:36:04,132 We had a late lunch at a shabby, lonely restaurant by the sea there. 1550 01:36:04,361 --> 01:36:06,630 Sebastian was white as the weather. 1551 01:36:06,857 --> 01:36:11,559 He had on a white silk suit, a white tie, a white Panama. 1552 01:36:11,881 --> 01:36:15,744 And he kept touching his face and his throat here and there... 1553 01:36:15,978 --> 01:36:17,953 ...with a white silk handkerchief... 1554 01:36:18,186 --> 01:36:21,001 ...and popping little white pills into his mouth all the time. 1555 01:36:21,226 --> 01:36:25,089 I knew he was having a bad time with his heart and that it frightened him. 1556 01:36:25,323 --> 01:36:27,145 "Let's go north," he kept on saying. 1557 01:36:27,370 --> 01:36:31,331 "I think we've done Cabeza de Lobo. I think we've done it, don't you?" 1558 01:36:31,563 --> 01:36:32,905 I thought we'd done it. 1559 01:36:33,131 --> 01:36:36,165 Then there were those children along the beach... 1560 01:36:36,396 --> 01:36:39,941 ...which was fenced off with wire from the restaurant. 1561 01:36:40,171 --> 01:36:44,165 Our table was less than a yard away from the wire fence. 1562 01:36:44,395 --> 01:36:47,265 And those children... 1563 01:36:47,500 --> 01:36:48,907 There was a band of them. 1564 01:36:49,133 --> 01:36:51,238 They looked like a flock of plucked birds... 1565 01:36:51,468 --> 01:36:53,835 ...and they came darting up to the wire fence... 1566 01:36:54,060 --> 01:36:56,003 ...as if they'd been blown there by the wind... 1567 01:36:56,237 --> 01:36:59,084 ...by the hot, white wind from the sea. 1568 01:36:59,309 --> 01:37:02,691 They were all calling out, "Pan! Pan! Pan!" 1569 01:37:02,925 --> 01:37:04,452 They were calling for bread? 1570 01:37:04,685 --> 01:37:07,206 They made gobbling noises with their mouths... 1571 01:37:07,437 --> 01:37:10,154 ...stuffing their fists into their mouths and making... 1572 01:37:10,381 --> 01:37:13,644 ...gobbling noises with frightful grins. 1573 01:37:14,702 --> 01:37:18,794 We were sorry we'd come to the place, but it was too late to go. 1574 01:37:19,022 --> 01:37:20,647 Why was it too late to go? 1575 01:37:20,878 --> 01:37:23,016 I told you. Cousin Sebastian wasn't well. 1576 01:37:23,247 --> 01:37:25,865 His eyes looked dazed. 1577 01:37:26,095 --> 01:37:29,030 But he said, "Don't look at those little monsters. 1578 01:37:29,263 --> 01:37:31,467 Beggars are a social disease in this country. 1579 01:37:31,695 --> 01:37:33,964 If you look at them, you'll get sick of the country. 1580 01:37:34,192 --> 01:37:36,843 It spoils the whole country for you." 1581 01:37:38,159 --> 01:37:39,272 Go on. 1582 01:37:42,096 --> 01:37:43,306 Go on. 1583 01:37:47,408 --> 01:37:48,520 Go on. 1584 01:37:49,521 --> 01:37:51,823 I am going on. 1585 01:37:52,049 --> 01:37:55,398 The band of children began to serenade us. 1586 01:37:55,633 --> 01:37:58,000 -Began to what? -Play for us on instruments... 1587 01:37:58,224 --> 01:38:01,771 ...make music, if you could call it music. 1588 01:38:02,002 --> 01:38:06,158 Their instruments were the instruments of percussion, do you know what I mean? 1589 01:38:06,385 --> 01:38:09,102 Yes, instruments of percussion, like drums. 1590 01:38:09,331 --> 01:38:13,934 As far as I could make out in the white blaze of the sand beach... 1591 01:38:14,162 --> 01:38:17,807 ...the instruments were tin cans strung together... 1592 01:38:18,034 --> 01:38:20,456 ...and bits of metal, other bits of metal... 1593 01:38:20,691 --> 01:38:23,691 ...that had been flattened out and made into... 1594 01:38:23,923 --> 01:38:24,938 Into what? 1595 01:38:25,171 --> 01:38:26,119 Cymbals, you know? 1596 01:38:26,355 --> 01:38:27,850 Yes, brass plates hit together. 1597 01:38:28,083 --> 01:38:29,162 That's right. 1598 01:38:29,394 --> 01:38:33,421 Tin cans flattened out and clashed together. Cymbals. 1599 01:38:34,099 --> 01:38:37,896 The others had other things. All sorts of things. 1600 01:38:38,132 --> 01:38:42,835 Things that they'd made or picked up on the beach to make a sort of noise. 1601 01:38:43,892 --> 01:38:46,543 A music made out of noise. 1602 01:38:46,772 --> 01:38:47,569 Go on. 1603 01:38:47,796 --> 01:38:50,066 I am going on. Nothing could stop me now. 1604 01:38:50,293 --> 01:38:54,068 Your cousin Sebastian, was he entertained by this concert? 1605 01:38:54,293 --> 01:38:56,333 -Terrified of it. -Terrified, why? 1606 01:38:56,565 --> 01:39:00,079 I think he recognized some of the musicians. 1607 01:39:00,310 --> 01:39:01,553 Some of the boys. 1608 01:39:02,357 --> 01:39:04,528 Between childhood and older. 1609 01:39:04,758 --> 01:39:07,376 What did he do? Did he complain to the manager? 1610 01:39:07,606 --> 01:39:09,329 What manager? God? 1611 01:39:09,558 --> 01:39:11,085 You don't understand my cousin. 1612 01:39:11,574 --> 01:39:12,501 How do you mean? 1613 01:39:13,910 --> 01:39:17,839 He accepted all as how things are... 1614 01:39:18,071 --> 01:39:22,773 ...and thought nobody had any right to complain or interfere whatsoever. 1615 01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:26,480 Even though he knew what was awful was awful... 1616 01:39:26,711 --> 01:39:28,653 ...what was wrong was wrong. 1617 01:39:28,887 --> 01:39:33,361 He thought it unfitting to ever take any action about anything whatsoever... 1618 01:39:33,592 --> 01:39:37,039 ...except to go on doing as something in him directed. 1619 01:39:37,271 --> 01:39:40,119 What did this something in him direct him to do? 1620 01:39:40,343 --> 01:39:44,370 He suddenly pushed himself away from the table and said: 1621 01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:47,470 "They've got to stop that. Make them stop. I'm not a well man. 1622 01:39:47,705 --> 01:39:50,705 I have a heart condition. It's making me sick." 1623 01:39:50,937 --> 01:39:54,199 That was the first time that cousin Sebastian had ever attempted... 1624 01:39:54,425 --> 01:39:56,946 ...to correct a human situation. 1625 01:39:57,177 --> 01:40:01,717 I think that that was his fatal error. 1626 01:40:01,946 --> 01:40:06,256 He stalked out of the restaurant after throwing paper money on the table. 1627 01:40:06,490 --> 01:40:08,563 He fled from the place. 1628 01:40:08,794 --> 01:40:09,721 I followed. 1629 01:40:09,946 --> 01:40:14,202 It was all white outside. 1630 01:40:14,427 --> 01:40:16,663 White hot. A blazing white hot, it... 1631 01:40:16,891 --> 01:40:20,785 You followed Sebastian out of the restaurant onto that hot, white street? 1632 01:40:21,018 --> 01:40:22,263 Running along the beach... 1633 01:40:22,491 --> 01:40:25,306 -You ran along the beach? -No, no. We didn't. 1634 01:40:25,531 --> 01:40:27,026 We didn't move either way. 1635 01:40:29,372 --> 01:40:33,627 I rarely made any suggestion, but this time I did. 1636 01:40:33,852 --> 01:40:35,378 What did you suggest? 1637 01:40:35,612 --> 01:40:39,290 Cousin Sebastian seemed to be paralyzed near the entrance at the caf? 1638 01:40:39,516 --> 01:40:42,418 So I said, "Let's go." I remember I said: 1639 01:40:42,652 --> 01:40:46,481 "Down that way is the harbor, and we're more likely to find a taxi near there. 1640 01:40:46,717 --> 01:40:49,751 Or why don't we go back in and have them call us a taxi? 1641 01:40:49,981 --> 01:40:52,403 Oh, let's do! Let's do that. That's better." 1642 01:40:52,638 --> 01:40:56,663 And he said, "Are you mad? Go back in that filthy place? Never! 1643 01:40:56,893 --> 01:41:00,505 That gang of kids shouted vile things about me to the waiters." 1644 01:41:00,733 --> 01:41:03,384 I said, "Well, let's go down towards the harbor. 1645 01:41:03,613 --> 01:41:08,120 Let's not try to climb that hill in this dreadful heat." 1646 01:41:08,350 --> 01:41:10,936 And cousin Sebastian shouted, "Please shut up! 1647 01:41:11,166 --> 01:41:15,062 Let me handle this situation, will you? I want to handle this thing." 1648 01:41:16,414 --> 01:41:20,670 And he started up the steep street with a hand stuck in his jacket... 1649 01:41:20,895 --> 01:41:24,790 ...where I knew he was having a pain from his palpitations. 1650 01:41:25,024 --> 01:41:29,595 But he walked faster and faster in panic. 1651 01:41:29,824 --> 01:41:31,351 The faster he walked... 1652 01:41:31,584 --> 01:41:34,486 ...the louder and the closer it got. 1653 01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:35,800 Closer what got? 1654 01:41:36,032 --> 01:41:37,407 The music! 1655 01:41:37,632 --> 01:41:38,526 The music again? 1656 01:41:38,752 --> 01:41:40,062 The music! 1657 01:41:40,289 --> 01:41:42,624 The noise of the following band. 1658 01:41:42,849 --> 01:41:46,013 They were following. They were following... 1659 01:41:46,241 --> 01:41:48,794 ...up the blazing white street. 1660 01:41:49,025 --> 01:41:53,248 Up. Straight up. That was the only way open, so he went that way. 1661 01:41:53,570 --> 01:41:56,221 He tried to escape from those streets? 1662 01:41:56,450 --> 01:42:00,509 He tried to escape from those streets... 1663 01:42:00,738 --> 01:42:01,982 But he couldn't find a way out? 1664 01:42:02,210 --> 01:42:05,472 He couldn't find a way out. 1665 01:42:05,699 --> 01:42:07,640 Did the band of children...? 1666 01:42:07,875 --> 01:42:10,777 When he tried to escape... 1667 01:42:11,170 --> 01:42:12,828 ...from those streets... 1668 01:42:13,539 --> 01:42:17,729 ...down those little side streets, between the buildings... 1669 01:42:17,955 --> 01:42:20,343 ...they came from everywhere. 1670 01:42:20,579 --> 01:42:22,880 So the only way was up. 1671 01:42:23,108 --> 01:42:25,016 The only way was straight up... 1672 01:42:25,251 --> 01:42:27,106 ...up those steep, white streets... 1673 01:42:27,332 --> 01:42:31,740 ...in the sun, that was like a great white bone of a giant beast... 1674 01:42:31,972 --> 01:42:33,729 ...that had caught on fire in the sky. 1675 01:42:33,957 --> 01:42:36,259 And Sebastian kept running straight up. 1676 01:42:36,484 --> 01:42:38,721 I don't know how he still ran. He never ran... 1677 01:42:38,949 --> 01:42:41,316 ...but he ran and he ran and he ran... 1678 01:42:41,540 --> 01:42:43,908 ...where it was whiter and emptier. 1679 01:42:44,133 --> 01:42:45,442 What was emptier? 1680 01:42:45,669 --> 01:42:48,931 The light... The sky and the light. 1681 01:42:49,158 --> 01:42:53,860 Those steep, white streets and the sun, and everything blazed white and empty. 1682 01:42:54,789 --> 01:42:56,764 Where did those streets lead to? 1683 01:42:56,998 --> 01:42:57,980 Nowhere! 1684 01:42:58,213 --> 01:42:59,075 He never reached...? 1685 01:42:59,302 --> 01:43:03,776 He never reached the end. They stopped nowhere! Never! 1686 01:43:04,007 --> 01:43:06,374 Except, except... 1687 01:43:06,599 --> 01:43:08,322 Except? 1688 01:43:08,711 --> 01:43:11,012 At the very top of the hill. 1689 01:43:11,239 --> 01:43:15,549 Something. A place, a ruin. 1690 01:43:15,783 --> 01:43:17,638 Broken stones. Like... 1691 01:43:17,863 --> 01:43:18,911 Like what? 1692 01:43:19,143 --> 01:43:22,526 Like the entrance... 1693 01:43:22,760 --> 01:43:26,371 ...to a ruined temple... 1694 01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:30,113 ...some ancient ruined temple... 1695 01:43:30,344 --> 01:43:32,995 ...which he entered. 1696 01:43:37,480 --> 01:43:39,237 And they overtook him. 1697 01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:43,942 There in that... 1698 01:43:44,169 --> 01:43:46,984 And you, Catherine, what did you do then? 1699 01:43:48,234 --> 01:43:50,438 I heard Sebastian scream. 1700 01:43:54,281 --> 01:43:56,518 He screamed just once. 1701 01:43:57,930 --> 01:43:59,075 Then I... 1702 01:44:04,875 --> 01:44:06,849 Help! 1703 01:44:10,667 --> 01:44:11,877 Help! 1704 01:44:13,035 --> 01:44:14,377 And then? Then? 1705 01:44:14,603 --> 01:44:16,774 I ran. They let me run. 1706 01:44:17,003 --> 01:44:18,247 They didn't even see me. 1707 01:44:18,475 --> 01:44:19,238 Run where? 1708 01:44:19,467 --> 01:44:20,395 Down. 1709 01:44:20,620 --> 01:44:23,467 The waiters, police, people... 1710 01:44:23,692 --> 01:44:26,659 ...ran out of buildings, back up to where... 1711 01:44:26,891 --> 01:44:30,504 ...to where cousin Sebastian... 1712 01:44:32,493 --> 01:44:36,649 He was lying naked... 1713 01:44:36,876 --> 01:44:39,462 ...on the broken stones. 1714 01:44:41,069 --> 01:44:44,135 And this you won't believe. 1715 01:44:44,365 --> 01:44:49,035 Nobody, nobody could believe it. 1716 01:44:52,238 --> 01:44:54,758 It looked as if... 1717 01:44:54,989 --> 01:44:58,187 ...as if they had devoured him! 1718 01:44:59,310 --> 01:45:01,929 As if they had torn or cut... 1719 01:45:02,159 --> 01:45:05,476 ...parts of him away with their hands... 1720 01:45:06,095 --> 01:45:09,641 ...or with knives or those jagged tin cans... 1721 01:45:09,871 --> 01:45:11,529 ...they made music with... 1722 01:45:12,782 --> 01:45:16,264 ...as if they'd torn bits of him away... 1723 01:45:16,496 --> 01:45:21,068 ...and stuffed them in their own gobbling mouths! 1724 01:45:24,176 --> 01:45:28,781 There wasn't a sound anymore. 1725 01:45:29,008 --> 01:45:32,042 There was nothing... 1726 01:45:33,393 --> 01:45:35,661 ...but Sebastian... 1727 01:45:38,289 --> 01:45:42,632 ...lying on those stones... 1728 01:45:42,865 --> 01:45:47,056 ...torn and crushed. 1729 01:45:57,362 --> 01:45:58,988 Oh, Cathy. 1730 01:46:04,051 --> 01:46:05,611 Mrs. Venable. 1731 01:46:11,090 --> 01:46:13,000 There you are. 1732 01:46:13,235 --> 01:46:14,959 I thought you were still on deck. 1733 01:46:15,187 --> 01:46:19,498 And where's your hat? Oh, dear, you'll get fever. 1734 01:46:19,732 --> 01:46:22,798 A whole day up there in the rigging in the hot sun. 1735 01:46:23,028 --> 01:46:26,344 Watching those awful, hungry birds. 1736 01:46:26,580 --> 01:46:29,516 I don't know what you see in such terrible sights. 1737 01:46:29,749 --> 01:46:33,044 It's too much for both of us, my darling. 1738 01:46:33,268 --> 01:46:35,407 That horrible sun. 1739 01:47:03,479 --> 01:47:05,170 Of course God is cruel. 1740 01:47:05,400 --> 01:47:09,360 We didn't need to come to the Encantadas to find that out, did we? 1741 01:47:09,591 --> 01:47:11,185 No, we've always known about Him. 1742 01:47:11,416 --> 01:47:13,521 The savage face He shows to people... 1743 01:47:13,751 --> 01:47:15,857 ...and the fierce things He shouts. 1744 01:47:16,088 --> 01:47:20,790 It's all we ever see or hear of Him now. Nobody seems to know why. 1745 01:47:21,176 --> 01:47:22,353 The difference is... 1746 01:47:22,584 --> 01:47:25,202 ...we know about Him, the others don't. That's where we're lucky. 1747 01:47:25,433 --> 01:47:27,319 Go rest, my darling. 1748 01:47:27,544 --> 01:47:29,431 Look out for that fever. 1749 01:47:29,657 --> 01:47:33,814 I'm going to see the captain and tell him to change our course for home. 1750 01:47:34,041 --> 01:47:36,496 Oh, Sebastian. 1751 01:47:36,729 --> 01:47:40,307 What a lovely summer it's been. Just the two of us. 1752 01:47:40,538 --> 01:47:42,195 Sebastian and Violet. 1753 01:47:42,425 --> 01:47:44,182 Violet and Sebastian. 1754 01:47:44,410 --> 01:47:46,898 Just the way it's always going to be. 1755 01:47:47,130 --> 01:47:49,650 Oh, we are lucky, my darling... 1756 01:47:49,881 --> 01:47:52,664 ...to have one another and need no one else, ever. 1757 01:48:06,140 --> 01:48:09,489 There's every possibility that the girl's story is true. 1758 01:48:15,611 --> 01:48:18,646 George, tell her she's got to come home with us. 1759 01:48:18,876 --> 01:48:21,178 -Catherine'll be all right. -Can't she come home? 1760 01:48:21,404 --> 01:48:22,745 Don't worry, she will. 1761 01:48:22,972 --> 01:48:25,721 -Why don't you take your mother. -Sure. Come on, Ma. 1762 01:48:36,925 --> 01:48:37,786 Miss Catherine? 1763 01:48:38,910 --> 01:48:40,731 She's here, doctor. 1764 01:48:42,525 --> 01:48:44,500 Miss Catherine's here.