Crash Page #4
- Year:
- 2005
- 10 min
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JAMES:
Thank you.
James examines himself in her hand-mirror, staring at his pale,
mannequin-like face, trying to read its lines.
Catherine looks around her as she puts her makeup away. There are
twenty-three other beds in the briskly efficient new ward, all of
them empty.
CATHERINE:
Not a lot of action here.
JAMES:
They consider this to be the airport
hospital. This ward is reserved for air-
crash victims. The beds are kept waiting.
CATHERINE:
If I groundloop during my flying lesson on
Saturday you might wake up and find me
next to you.
JAMES:
I'll listen for you buzzing over.
Catherine crosses her legs and tries to light a cigarette with a
heavy, mechanically complex lighter with which she is obviously
unfamiliar.
JAMES:
(referring to the lighter)
Is that a gift from Wendel? It has an
aeronautical feel to it.
CATHERINE:
Yes. From Wendel. To celebrate, the
license approval for our air-charter firm.
I forgot to tell you.
Catherine finally succeeds in lighting the cigarette. She takes a
deep drag. James props himself up on his elbow, breathing with
transparent pain.
JAMES:
That's going well, then.
CATHERINE:
Well, yes.
(pause)
You're getting out of bed tomorrow. They
want you to walk.
James gestures for the cigarette. Catherine puts the warm tip,
stained with pink lipstick, into his mouth.
CATHERINE:
The other man, the dead man, his wife is a
doctor - Dr. Helen Remington. She's here,
somewhere. As a patient, of course. Maybe
you'll find her in the hallways tomorrow
on your walk.
JAMES:
And her husband? What was he?
CATHERINE:
He was a chemical engineer with a food
company.
A dark-haired student female Nurse comes into the ward. She wags a
finger at James.
STUDENT NURSE:
No smoking, please.
As Catherine retrieves the cigarette from James and stubs it out
in a glass, the nurse examines Catherine's glamorous figure, her
expensive suit, her jewelry.
STUDENT NURSE:
(to Catherine)
Are you this gentleman's wife? Mrs.
Ballard?
CATHERINE:
Yes.
STUDENT NURSE:
You can stay for this, then.
The nurse pulls the bedclothes back and digs the urine bottle from
between his legs. She checks the level and, satisfied, drops it
back, flips over the sheets again.
Both Catherine and James watch her closely, her sly thighs under
her gingham, the movement of her breasts as she bends to check the
chart at the foot of the bed, the pulse in her throat. The nurse
catches them watching her, smiles enigmatically back at them, and
leaves.
Catherine pulls out a manila folder from her bag and slips a set
of storyboards for a commercial out of it.
CATHERINE:
Aida telephoned to say how sorry she was,
but could you look at the storyboards
again, she's made a number of changes.
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