Agnes of God Page #7

HOUSEKEEPER:

(in French)

???

MARTHA:

(answers in French)

???

The housekeeper indicates she should enter and walks back

inside.

HOUSEKEEPER:

(halting briefly)

Wipe your feet.

They move into the next room. The housekeeper goes further

calling...

HOUSEKEEPER:

Pere Martineau...

(in French)

???

Martha stands uncertainly at the doorway. The sound of thumping

is heard,

and then the figure of a very old priest, FATHER MARTINEAU

appears walking

with a stick.

29 INT - PRESBYTERY DINING ROOM - DAY

Father Martineau and Martha are having tea. He pours a slug of

whisky from a flask into her cup and an even larger slug into his

own.

FATHER MARTINEAU

(French accent)

They arise at five in the morning... and

they're in bed by nine at night. Even if a

man could get to them, he would probably

find them praying. That's why I see that

the real question is not only how he got in,

but when.

MARTHA:

And you're the only man to see them?

FATHER MARTINEAU

I promise you Doctor, even if I had the

inclination, how could I possibly catch

her? She would have to be a very slow

and patient nun.

(they both laugh)

Ah no... they're a very special and rare

people those Sisters. Only a few of them

left in this modern world, consecrated to

the praise of God.

30 INT - NURSING HOME, LOUNGE - DAY

An elderly WOMAN is sitting watching "Spiderman" on TV cackling

with laughter. She is physically alright, but quite senile. Martha

enters, goes

over to her and kisses her.

MARTHA:

Hello, Mama

(pulls up a chair)

... brought you something.

MAMA:

Shut up, I'm trying to watch this.

MARTHA:

It's your favourite...

MAMA:

Who are you?

MARTHA:

It's Martha, Mama.

(hands over a tub

of icecream)

There you go.

MAMA:

Marie brings me icecream too you

know. Chocolate... my favourite.

MARTHA:

I thought cherry-vanilla was your

favourite.

MAMA:

Not any more... now I like chocolate.

MARTHA:

(stroking her hair)

Did you have a good week Mama. Are

they treating you all right?

MAMA:

You know Martha never comes to see me.

You watch it, she's going straight to

hell... after all the things she said to

me. Then she marries that son of a b*tch

of a Frenchman... has an abortion. I

knew that one wouldn't work out. Not

like you Marie. You got married to God.

MARTHA:

(lighting up)

Marie's dead Mama.

MAMA:

I remember when you was a little girl

Marie. You come back from the movies

and you'd say - Mama that ending was so

sad... and I'd tell you they had all the

happy endings locked away in a vault in

Hollywood.

(chuckles)

And you believed me.

MARTHA:

Mama, that wasn't Marie, that was me!

MAMA:

(a long pause)

Who are you?

MARTHA:

I... I'm Martha, Mama.

31 EXT - CONVENT, CHICKENYARD - DAY

It is raining... distant thunder in the background. Martha is

standing under

an umbrella talking to Sister Anne who is feeding the chickens.

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