Agnes of God Page #6

MOTHER MIRIAM:

Well... what do you think? Is she

totally bananas or merely slightly

off centre... or maybe she's perfectly

sane and just a very good liar.

MARTHA:

What's your opinion?

MOTHER MIRIAM:

I believe Agnes is different.

MARTHA:

From other nuns...

(laughs)

Yes I... I've noticed.

MOTHER MIRIAM:

From other people!

(moving across the room)

I believe she is not crazy, nor is she

lying.

MARTHA:

How could she have a baby and know

nothing of sex or birth?

MOTHER MIRIAM:

Because she's an innocent. She's a slate

that's hasn't been touched except by God.

MARTHA:

(lights a cigarette)

That's ridiculous...

MOTHER MIRIAM:

(moves to her desk,

starts writing)

In her case it isn't. She's had very little

schooling. Her mother kept her home

almost all the time and when her mother

died Agnes came here, to us. She's never

been out there Doctor. She's never seen a

movie or a television show. She's never

even read a book.

MARTHA:

If she's so innocent, how come she

murdered a child?

MOTHER MIRIAM:

She didn't! This is manslaughter, not

murder. She didn't consciously kill that

baby. She'd lost a lot of blood. She was

unconscious by the time we got to her.

MARTHA:

So, someone else could have done it.

MOTHER MIRIAM:

No... not in the eyes of the police.

MARTHA:

And in your eyes?

MOTHER MIRIAM:

I've already told you what I thought.

MARTHA:

That she was unconscious, yes! So

someone easily could have come in

the room and killed the...

MOTHER MIRIAM:

You don't really believe something like

that happened do you?

MARTHA:

It's possible isn't it?

MOTHER MIRIAM:

Who?

MARTHA:

One of the other nuns found out about

the baby and... and wanted to avoid a

scandal.

Mother Miriam removes the tray from under a pot plant and bangs

it down in front of Martha to act as an ashtray.

MOTHER MIRIAM:

That's absurd!

MARTHA:

That possibility never occurred to

you?

MOTHER MIRIAM:

No-one knew about Agnes' pregnancy.

No-one. Not even Agnes.

24 EXT - CONVENT - DAY

Martha's car exits out of the convent and heads up the road.

25 INT - CAR - DAY

The car radio is playing light band music...

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

You have been listening to Mostly Music

from Montreal. This is CBC Radio.

(and again in French)

Martha flicks the radio off and stops the car. She thinks for a

moment

then...

26 EXT - LONELY ROAD - DAY

... she turns the car around and heads back in the direction

she came.

27 EXT - PRESBYTERY - DAY

Martha drives in through an entrance and pulls up outside the

presbytery.

28 INT - PRESBYTERY - DAY

From inside the house, Martha can be seen knocking on the glass

fronted

door. Presently a huge, fat HOUSEKEEPER answers.

MARTHA:

Is Father Martineau in please?

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