Brooklyn Page #4

EILIS:

I don’t want to spend my last

evening talking about her.

ROSE:

Good.

But nobody knows what they do want to talk about.

(CONTINUED)

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MARY:

They say it’s hotter there in the

summer, and colder in the winter.

Mary puts her knife and fork down despairingly.

MARY:

(with deep but clearly

displaced anxiety)

What in Heaven’s name will she do

about clothes?

ROSE:

She’ll buy them, mother.

MARY:

She doesn’t want to be wasting her

money on clothes.

ROSE:

She won’t have much choice. She’ll

be there...

She stops herself from finishing the sentence. An even deeper

and unhappier silence falls on the table.

10 INT. EILIS’S BEDROOM. NIGHT 10

Close on an old and very large suitcase. It’s about two-

thirds full of Eilis’s things. Pull back to show Rose and

Eilis peering into it.

EILIS:

(wry)

There. It wasn’t so hard to decide

after all.

ROSE:

Is that really everything you own?

Oh, Eilis. I should have looked

after you better. I should have

taken you shopping twice a year,

summer and winter.

EILIS:

You’ve bought most of the clothes

in this case. That’s one of the

reasons I’m going, because I can’t

buy my own.

ROSE:

If it was just that, I’d spend

every penny I had on you, gladly.

But I can’t buy you a future. I

can’t buy you the kind of life you

need.

(CONTINUED)

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EILIS:

(whispers)

I know. (Beat) But you’ll come to

see me there one day?

ROSE:

Yes.

EILIS:

And you’ll look after yourself?

ROSE:

You don’t have to worry about me.

EILIS:

And I’ll come home to visit, won’t

I? Because I couldn’t bear it if...

Rose has to stop this, because she can’t bear it either.

ROSE:

You haven’t packed your shoes yet.

They’ll take up a bit of room.

11 EXT. LINER. DAY 11

Eilis is wedged at the deck-rail of a large passenger liner,

along with a lot of other emigres, her large suitcase in

front of her. Among the crowd on the dock below her are Rose

and Mary. There are a lot of tears, from passengers and the

people they are leaving behind. Rose and Mary, however, like

Eilis, are keeping everything in. The ship blasts its horn to

announce its imminent departure; everyone jumps and laughs

nervously, and the waving becomes more frantic. Rose and

Mary, however, suddenly turn away from the boat and push

through the crowd. Rose looks back helplessly and blows Eilis

a kiss. Eilis watches the backs of the two of them until they

disappear out of sight.

12 INT. STAIRCASE, LINER. DAY 12

Eilis bumps her case down the narrow steps deep in the bowels

of the boat. She reaches a corridor and examines the sign on

the wall directing passengers to their berths. She has to

descend still deeper into the boat.

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