Big Stone Gap Page #3

From now on, everything around

here is gonna end in a vowel.

My brother Fred'd

be ashamed!

Sail on, Alice.

Alice,

sail on.

Thank you for the pineapple upside

down cake. It was delicious.

I did not send it.

It was not mine.

Mine was a Texas sheet cake,

which I hope you froze.

I did, right next

to my emotions.

Well, you know,

Alice Lambert

wouldn't have a reason to mess

with you if you had a husband.

You know, I know

Theodore's a Yankee,

but, hell,

at this point,

you just gotta take

whatever you can get.

I like being

the town spinster.

It has cachet, Fleeta.

Yeah, well,

you can't hug cachet.

(TYPING)

SPEC:
Well, thanks for

stopping by, Doug Kilgore.

You tell that peanut farmer

that I say, "Hi."

Thank you, Spec.

You take care, now.

EARL:
Mr. Broadwater

will see you now, Ave.

Tell your mama and them

I said, "Hi." I will.

Come on in, darling.

Take a seat.

Yeah.

Ave, how long

I been a lawyer?

Long time.

And what I learned is this.

When people die,

that's when all

the secrets come out.

(DOOR CREAKING)

Earl, shut the damn door!

I swear that boy hasn't got the

sense that God gave a screwdriver.

anyway-

A while back, your mama came in

to see me about doing her will,

which I did.

And when I was

gonna notarize it,

she added the letter.

I don't understand.

You will when you

read it, darling.

You best take

a deep breath.

(SIGHS)

EARL:
I'll send the rest of

the files to you, Miss Ave.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

"...too ashamed and never told

them about my angel girl. Mama."

How did this happen?

She was already pregnant

when she left Italy.

And she was too ashamed

to tell her family.

Came and found work

as a seamstress, so...

Fred Mulligan felt sorry

for her and married her.

Which explains why

he never liked me.

'Cause I'm not even his.

(SIGHS)

This is my father.

Well, this sure

explains your nose.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Ave, he's pretty suave.

Yeah.

Very.

You gonna go find him?

Why would he want me?

No man ever did.

I do.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(HONKING)

NA LOU:
Hey! Ave!

Pull over!

Pull over!

Wise County Bookmobile.

Next stop, Shawnee Avenue.

Wait! Don't go! I got two

check-outs for you. Don't go.

Okay-

This is my favorite book on

Chinese face reading. (CHUCKLES)

No, no. I've read the face

of every man I've ever known.

It's never been wrong.

You really think

face reading's true?

It never fails.

I gotta say. I'm not one bit

surprised you're out here crying,

all tore up and all alone.

You got a perfect little

cupid's bow on your lip,

which means

you are proud

and private

and romantic. See?

(SCOFFS)

Yeah, but all that information

is useless if you don't love.

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