Tapping Page #4

Synopsis: Charlie Brooker talks to the cast of The Wire, and to Baltimore natives, to find out what makes the show so special.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Year:
2007
25 min
356 Views


MARY:

Yes! We need to get you some

clothes.

PO:

We can't afford it.

MARY:

You can use Dad's wedding suit.

INT. MARY'S BEDROOM - DAY - MOMENTS LATER

Mary grabs a trunk from the closet and sets it on the bed.

She opens it.

MARY:

(remembering when she was

newly-wed, and happy)

Ohhhh. These are so beautiful!

She pulls out her wedding dress and lays it on the bed.

MARY (CONT’D)

I wish I could have a daughter!

PO:

(laughing)

Wow, thanks Mom.

She gives him a skeptical look.

MARY:

In addition to you, of course.

They laugh.

Mary pulls out Po's Father's Suit. Mary smiles a little bit.

She sighs. She walks over to Po, holding the hanger with the

suit on it. She holds it up to Po's chest.

(MORE)

12.

CONTINUED:

MARY (CONT’D)

It fits.

He takes it from her and looks at it.

PO:

It's nice.

MARY:

Yeah, it is.

She looks at a picture of her and her husband which is on the

nightstand.

MARY (CONT’D)

(quietly)

So was he.

INT. PO'S BATHROOM - EVENING - LATER

Po looks in the mirror, trying (not very hard) to fix his

hair. He is wearing his father's suit. He comes out of the

bathroom.

INT. PO'S KITCHEN - EVENING - CONTINUOUS

Po comes into the kitchen, where his mom is putting a trashbag

into a cardboard box. She looks up at him and smiles.

MARY:

Oh, you look amazing!

Po smiles a little bit.

PO:

What's with the box?

MARY:

Oh, it's glass.

(laughing)

I don't want to kill the trash-man!

Po stands still, wanting more. Mary sighs.

MARY (CONT’D)

Your father had a little bit of an

incident last night.

(MORE)

13.

CONTINUED:

Po purses his lips. Mary walks out the back door with the

cardboard box. Po watches her go and put it out in the

trashcan behind the house. She comes back inside.

Po gestures towards a bandage over her forearm.

PO:

Incident have anything to do with

that bandage?

Mary lowers the arm of her flannel.

MARY:

Don't worry about it, Po.

PO:

How? How can I not worry about

something like this? You're my

mother, for God's sake. We both

know that this has to stop.

Po looks around.

PO (CONT’D)

What about David? He's a freaking

five-year-old. Never done anything

to deserve this.

Mary leans against the counter. She takes a deep breath and

then smiles.

MARY:

Your father will get over this.

It's a phase. You have to trust me,

you didn't know him like I did.

PO:

Yeah, 'cause one of my earliest

memories of him was him coming to

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