Calvary Page #5

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LAVELLE:

“Razors pain you.”

FIONA:

(looking at him)

“Rivers are damp.”

(CONTINUED)

13.

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LAVELLE:

“Acids stain you. And drugs cause

cramp.”

FIONA:

“Guns aren’t lawful. Nooses give.”

LAVELLE:

“Gas smells awful.”

FIONA/LAVELLE

“You might as well live.”

They smile.

LYNCH studies them from the other end of the bar.

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EXT. CHURCH - DAY 23

CLOSE on various angles of the church’s architecture --

windows, steeple, etc. -- emphasising its simple,

unpretentious nature.

FIONA (O.S.)

Back-to-basics, is what you’re

saying.

LAVELLE (O.S.)

Simplicity. Lack of ostentation.

That kind of thing.

LEARY (O.S.)

All your father’s idea. His baby.

*

*

LAVELLE, FIONA and LEARY are standing to the front and

sides of the church. LEARY carrying a box of toys.

*

*

LEARY:

We couldn’t go on with the old

one anyways. Falling to pieces.

Liable to get someone killed.

*

FIONA:

It’s a good gimmick, I suppose.

LAVELLE:

It’s not a gimmick.

FIONA:

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean...

LEARY:

They’d call it a rebranding in the

advertising world.

*

(CONTINUED)

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FIONA:

I suppose you are a corporate entity,

if you look at it in one way.

LEARY *

It’s the only way to look at it.

We provide a product and a service

and that’s all there is to it.

He strolls away. FIONA smiles wryly. LAVELLE gives a shake

of the head. Glances up proudly at the church.

EXT. BRENNANS’ HOUSE - DAY 24

VERONICA BRENNAN, thirties, wearing shades, pegging up the

linen. White sheets fluttering in the wind. She looks up -

LAVELLE at the other side of the line. His black soutane

fluttering in the wind.

LAVELLE:

Nice shades.

VERONICA:

Do they make me look like Jackie O?

LAVELLE:

Not really, no.

VERONICA smiles. Raises the glasses up on her forehead.

VERONICA:

This what you came to gawp at?

Nasty, hah?

LAVELLE:

It’s an interesting colour.

VERONICA lowers the shades and continues with the laundry.

VERONICA:

They say you can find beauty in

everything, if you look hard enough.

LAVELLE:

I’d say you can find beauty in

most things, but not everything.

That’s nonsense.

VERONICA:

Sure what would I know? I’m just

an auld washerwoman.

The washing that she’s hanging on the line now seems to be

comprised solely of items of lingerie.

VERONICA:

See anything you fancy?

(CONTINUED)

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LAVELLE:

If you don’t want to talk to me,

that’s fine. I’m not here to compel

you to do anything.

VERONICA:

You never know, Father, maybe I’d

like to be compelled. Maybe I’d

enjoy it.

LAVELLE:

I’ll have a word with Jack.

See what he has to say for himself.

VERONICA:

The Grand Inquisitor, hah? Go on

ahead for yourself so. I’m sure

he’ll be only too pleased to have

someone else to bore the ears off.

I stopped listening to his auld

shite a long time ago.

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