Departure Page #3

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- Make up your mind.

(GASPS)

[CLMENT, IN FRENCH] You OK, soldier?

[IN FRENCH] It's big.

CLMENT:
You must breathe.

(DOOR SQUEAKS)

BEA:
Elliot?

- Yeah?

- What are you doing?

I'm... having a snack.

BEA:
Don't leave a mess.

OK.

BEA:
I'm sorry about... earlier.

Look, you know, the...

the dchetterie was closed and... I...

I'm sorry.

So am I.

you know, the bicycles you can hire...

- BEA:
Oh, yeah.

- ...are everywhere, which is cool.

But... How do you say?

People piss everywhere.

- No.

- Si.

CLMENT:

They make signs to stop people.

- Even on the Champs-lyses?

- [IN FRENCH] No, it's too classy.

- BEA:
Clment's come back to help.

- Yeah, I can see.

BEA:
He was just telling me about Paris.

- [IN FRENCH] Hot chocolate?

[IN FRENCH] Me too.

OK.

[IN FRENCH] You OK?

CLMENT:
Yeah, and you?

Yes.

Yes, yes.

- BEA:
Uh, rubbish.

[CLMENT, IN FRENCH] Bin?

- Uh, no.

- Ici. Bin. Um...

- CLMENT:
Poubelle.

BEA:
Poubelle, yes.

- Mum?

- Yeah?

Do we throw this away?

I don't know.

- Um...

- C'est le tlphone.

Oh, it's the old one, I think.

Yes, poubelle.

- It's a funny word.

- ELLIOT:
Mum.

I'm... I'm just not... sure

what we'll need.

Maybe I'll make a cake.

- Is that it?

- CLMENT:
No. This.

This,... this and this.

All this... life.

I wonder what happened

to that sandwich toaster.

Oh, I liked this oven. It was very...

Personable?

BEA:
I suppose they don't mean to,

but people are very careless

when they rent a holiday house.

Things break down.

(BEA SIGHS)

I don't know what I'm doing.

We've done this so often, packing up.

But we were always moving somewhere

else, somewhere better or bigger.

Weren't we, Elliot?

Not just... giving things up.

[CLMENT, IN FRENCH] Your mother's sad.

[ELLIOT, IN FRENCH] I don't think so.

it's like an 'ospital, but different.

- Is she crazy?

- No, she has cancer.

Oh.

How? I mean...

Smoking.

The first was just... but now her...

- ELLIOT:
Head?

- Yeah, and everywhere.

My father says she...

she's like a different person

because of... of the cancer.

Not my mother any more.

At first she was funny.

She made really strange comments,

you know?

Really.

She made us laugh.

[IN FRENCH] Then suddenly

she said horrible things.

We were in the hospital

and they were changing her bed.

She said something weird

and one of the nurses laughed.

- Understand?

- Oui, je comprends.

It drove me mad,

so I hit him in the face.

Dad said I shouldn't come any more.

He said I should stay here with my aunt.

While she is there... dying.

(YELLS)

(MAKES ENGINE NOISES)

WOMAN:
Hello?

- Sally.

- I borrowed this.

Those presents, you shouldn't have.

Oh, it was nothing.

And I guessed

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