Marlowe Page #4

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a way to tell everyone. I don’t

suppose you know how to make some

money so my dad and mom can keep

our farm, do you? Guess not.

LOUISE (O.S.)

Cole, it’s time for dinner so

wash up and come down.

COLE:

All right mom, just a minute.

Listen, I’ll steal some food off

the table and bring it to you

after dinner. My mom is a really

good cook. I don’t know if you

like our kind of food but, if you

liked that old pizza you’ll love

mom’s cooking. Okay, gotta go so

you better go back in and close

the door.

Cole goes to the door and closes it behind himself. Marlowe

hears him RUNNING down the stairs.

He walks back in the front door of the little house and

closes it behind himself.

Almost immediately Marlowe comes back out the front door and

climbs into the pile where he saw the book and finds the

book again with the word Marlowe on the page. Marlow sits

in front of the book and carelessly begins to turn the

pages.

He sees all the words but they don’t mean anything to him.

He quickly goes back in the toy house and brings back the

paper with the words written on it and compares it to the

ones in the book.

Hours go by as Marlowe studies the book and the way the

words are arranged. He traces the words across the page with

his tiny hand. He finally falls asleep with one thought on

his mind. Among all these words – he was Marlowe and the

human was Cole.

Marlowe opens his eyes slowly and he is rocking back and

forth in Cole’s palm. He tries not to show fear but Cole

is huge like a giant in the eyes of the mouse.

Cole stops and lowers his hand and Marlowe immediately jumps

out and onto the floor.

COLE:

Sorry. I didn’t want to wake

you. You were reading the book

weren’t you. I can’t even read

that book so you are very smart.

Cole points to his head and repeats it.

COLE:

Smart.

Marlowe finds the pencil and small, folded paper and offers

them to Cole.

Cole takes them and immediately writes down S M A R T and

then shows it to Marlowe and then points to his head.

Marlowe bounces up across some toys until he is on Cole’s

desk. He walks to the end of the desk and waits. Cole

comes over and gets down on his knees so they are face to

face.

COLE:

Smart.

Marlowe closes his eyes down and wrinkles his nose and moves

closer to Cole and looks right at Cole’s mouth as Cole says

it again.

COLE:

Smart. Like you are. Because

you want to see what is making

the sound. Right? Right.

Marlowe, come over here. Let

me show you this.

Marlowe hops across to the computer table where Cole sits

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