Brooklyn Page #5

13 INT. CABIN. DAY 13

Eilis’s cabin is tiny and windowless, and she has to share it

with someone:
there are two bunk beds. She wedges her

suitcase into an available space.

She opens the bathroom door. The bathroom is tiny. It

contains a toilet and a sink.

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There is another door, apparently leading into the next

cabin. A sign on the door says ‘UNLOCK WHEN NOT IN USE’.

Eilis pushes it open and sees two middle-aged women

unpacking.

EILIS:

Sorry.

She shuts it again quickly. She doesn’t know what to do, so

lies down on the bottom bunk with her hands behind her head,

staring. She closes her eyes, but suddenly the cabin door

bursts open and a glamorous blonde, late thirties, bustles in

to the room with a large trunk. This is GEORGINA, her cabin-

mate.

GEORGINA:

Off!

Eilis sits up and stares at her, uncomprehending. Georgina

waves a ticket at her.

GEORGINA (CONT’D)

Number one. Bottom bunk. That’s

mine. You’re on the top.

Eilis scrambles up the ladder to her bed. She can’t sit up -

the ceiling is too low - so she has to lie down, and is

therefore unable to make eye-contact with Georgina throughout

the scene.

GEORGINA:

This is hell. Never again.

EILIS:

(trying to be friendly)

Never again to America?

GEORGINA:

The mistake was coming home from

America in the first place. I’d do

anything to get out of this

horrible cabin, and I mean

anything. Let’s go for a smoke.

EILIS:

I don’t.

Georgina rolls her eyes.

GEORGINA:

Suit yourself. I’ll see you later.

Unless I find a nice man in First

to smoke with.

She bustles out.

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14 INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT 14

Eilis is on her own in the Third Class dining room. She is

eating a plate of very brown and very unappetising-looking

mutton stew. She eats as much as she can, although a lot of

the meat is gristle, which she has to extract from her mouth

with a napkin, as discreetly as possible.

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She finishes, dabs her mouth with the napkin. The underemployed

waiter comes over immediately to clear away her

plate.

WAITER:

It’s good to see that not

everybody’s put off their dinner by

the weather forecast.

Eilis looks at him blankly.

WAITER (CONT’D)

(cheerful)

It’s supposed to be a rough one

tonight, so none of the other

passengers are eating. A few

spoonfuls of soup, maybe, but not

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