The Searchers Page #3
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- 1956
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14INT. EDWARDS HOUSE - FULL SHOT - NIGHT
The family is finishing dinner -- and the scene is not
quite, but almost, a still-life. Loud in the room is the
pendulum tick of a Seth-Thomas clock on the mantel above
the fireplace -- in which logs are burning briskly. Ben
crouches near the fireplace, fascinatedly examining the
scabbard and sabre Ethan has brought home from the wars.
He tries to ease the blade just a bit out of its scabbard.
Aaron sits at one end of the hand-hewn table, Martha at
the other. At her right is Ethan, his fork scraping the
last crumb off his plate. Lucy sits at her father's right
and Martin at his left. Next to Martin is Debbie. In the
center of the table is the sorry remnant of what was once
a meal. Lucy and Martin have finished eating. Aaron is
sipping his coffee, and Martha -- her own plate largely
untasted -- is watching Ethan.
Ethan has shaved, changed his shirt. He straightens
contentedly and every eye is on him, expectantly.
ETHAN:
Good.
The clock rattles alarmingly -- the usual preliminary to
its striking; and then it bangs out the strokes like a
fire-alarm gong. Eight fast clangs.
AARON:
Ben! Deborah! Bed!
DEBBIE:
But I've got to help with the dishes.
MARTHA:
Not tonight...Ben, put that sword
back.
BEN:
It's not a sword, ma...It's a
sabre!
(moving to Ethan)
Did you kill many damYankees with
this sabre, Uncle Ethan?
ETHAN:
(matter-of-factly)
Some...
BEN:
How many damYankees, Uncle Ethan?
MARTHA:
Ben!...Martin, he'll sleep in the
bunkhouse with you tonight.
Martin nods and crosses to kiss Martha good night.
MARTIN:
Good night, Aunt Martha...Uncle
Aaron...
(he hesitates)
Good night, Uncle Ethan.
Ethan doesn't like being called Uncle -- as we must know
from the quick look he shoots at Martin. But he
acknowledges it.
ETHAN:
Night.
Ben reluctantly puts the scabbard away, turns to Ethan.
BEN:
Will you tell me tomorrow about
the war?
AARON:
The war ended three years ago,
boy!
BEN:
It did?...Then whyn't you come home
before now?
MARTHA:
BEN!...Go 'long with Martin. MARCH!
As Ben reluctantly heads out with Martin, Deborah crosses
to Ethan's side and studies him gravely.
DEBBIE:
Lucy's wearing the gold locket you
gave her when she was a little girl...
ETHAN:
Oh?
DEBBIE:
She don't wear it much account of
it makes her neck green.
LUCY:
(aghast)
Deborah!
DEBBIE:
(defensively)
Well, it does...But I wouldn't care
if you gave me a gold locket if it
made my neck green or not.
Ethan looks at her gravely.
ETHAN:
'Fraid I...
(then he remembers
something, rises)
Wait.
He crosses to where his pack is -- a side table or something
-- and burrows into it. Debbie is at his side.
ETHAN:
How about this?
It is a gold medal or medallion -- something appropriate
to Maximilian of Mexico -- suspended by a long multi-
colored satin ribbon.
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