Four in the Morning
(eerie music)
- How old do you think, sarge?
- 24, 25.
(foghorn)
(grunts)
- Got it, grab this.
(soft music)
- Good night.
- Good night.
- How's my honey, ready to set shop?
- You're honey's going home as soon as
she's changed her clothes.
- I'll come and help you.
- Any rings?
- No rings.
- Earrings?
- Nope.
- Right, well, cover it up.
- How's she doing, all right sarge?
- Yes, all right.
(whistles)
- Hello, club?
Who, oh.
Here, it's for you.
- Hello?
- Hello, it's me.
- Oh, hello.
- I just thought I might
come around and pick you up.
- Well I'm not finished yet.
- Then in about 20 minutes?
- I'm sorry, I must go.
- Okay, in 30 minutes.
- Look, you must be tired and I've got a
lot of sorting out to do.
- Look, I'll be there.
Are you still there?
(soft music)
- All right, straight up there.
(grunts)
Steady there.
All right, up.
(crying)
- Are you still crying?
(crying)
Shut up.
(crying)
Norman?
(crying)
Oh, I'm coming.
(crying)
Shut up.
I can't be any quicker.
(crying)
Now, come on, come on, come on.
Come on.
Take it.
Go to sleep.
Sleep, sleep, go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Go to sleep, shh.
(crying)
Stop it!
(crying)
Stop it.
Stop it!
(squeaking)
(yells)
(grunting)
- Oh, I'm exhausted.
- Where are we going to now then?
- There's only one place to go to now, home.
You know what that other lot
had stopped, don't you?
- Yeah, won't be any good though.
- I don't know, Id postpone the evil hour.
- No, no, I'll take you home.
I'll get you some coffee, eh?
- No, I don't think under the circumstances
that'll be a very good idea.
- Come on, we can woo her.
Stand under the window
and sing her a serenade, eh?
- You try that, you see what you get.
- We'll be a couple of cherubs.
- No, no.
I think I shall plan a campaign.
Slink off back to the other party.
No, peace offering.
Bring her flowers.
That's a very good idea.
- Excuse me, sir,
I wonder if you could help us in
connection with some robberies
we've had around here.
- Fool, you put the heart across me.
- Resisting arrest, eh?
Uh huh, uh huh.
(imitating gunfire)
(laughter)
(soft music)
- Finished, have you?
I'll get you a cab, dear.
- No, I've forgotten my cigarettes.
- Hello.
(soft music)
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Would you like to walk for a while?
- Good night.
- Good night.
- Cold?
What do you do most mornings?
- Cab.
- Straight home?
Thought you may go for a walk or
maybe have a cup of coffee.
- Coffee.
- That was the first job
I had after I got to Canada.
- How old were you then?
- Oh, about 17 and a half.
Anyway, I was no salesman.
I'm still not.
You know, it's this business
of worshipping something
because you have to sell it.
It's like a religion with them.
I mean, they believe
that this is the greatest thing
that's ever happened and it's not.
Well, can you believe this?
- No, I'm sorry.
I was watching you, not listening to you.
- I mean, you're a customer
and I've got to sell
you this thing
and I've got to convince you it
will give you more pleasure than any man
you've ever slept with, right?
Look, I'm buying you a cup of coffee,
not a glass of champagne.
I'm not a drunken punter trying to make you.
- Aren't you?
- I see.
Well, shall I buy you
another cup of coffee?
Or shall we just go home?
(soft music)
How many of these do you smoke a day?
- 40.
- Didn't you read the reports?
You're going to die young.
- What do you do?
- I bite my nails.
- You do too.
- I'd like to touch you.
- It's all right.
- Does there have to be a table between us?
All right, I'll just have to carry
my own table with me.
- Morning, John, what's in this morning?
- Dead one.
- Dead one, oh.
Who's he?
- He's a doctor.
- Doctor, she don't want a doctor,
she wants an undertaker I should think.
- Good morning, doctor.
- Good morning.
- Sorry to drag you out
this time of the morning,
but I'm afraid we've got another one here.
Young girl.
- Let's have a look.
- We thought she'd been in about 36 hours.
- Quite a long time anyhow.
- Thank you very much.
- [Girl] You get used
to being independent, that's all.
- Like taking taxis
instead of standing in bus queues?
You're an expensive lady.
- I pay for them.
If I had my way,
I'd spend my life in taxis and hotels.
- Did you ever live in a hotel?
I lived in hotels for nine months.
It's awful, one room is just like another.
You can't do anything with them.
- You just perch there
and fly off at the first footstep.
Anyway, I don't do anything
with the room I've got now.
- No, there's people
who come in to clean and
there's people who,
you've got not control over it.
- Of course you have.
If you want tea, tea can arrive.
If you don't want, nothing can arrive.
- You don't want a hotel,
you want a servant.
- That's true.
- Then get yourself a servant,
don't live in a hotel.
- What else don't you like?
- What else don't I like?
- Girls who can't make up their minds.
who can't make up their minds.
Least of all the girls themselves.
- True.
- What else?
Nightmares.
- Well nobody likes nightmares.
- No.
I used to have one where
there was a whole lot
of people tearing at me and then I screamed
blue murder then zoom, I'd wake up.
Then there was this death figure.
- Death figure, what's that?
What's it like?
- Well, I'm standing at
the top of the stairs
in a very high building and he's suspended
in the stairwell and no
matter how fast I run
down the stairs, I can't
get away from his face.
Except that one night
when he was coming for me
I jumped out of bed to smash the skull
and it was me.
And what about you?
Don't you ever talk?
You've got me talking my head off.
- That was the whole idea.
What about the table?
- Will this do?
(eerie music)
Why do you always blame yourself?
- 'Cause I deserved it.
Don't think anyone gets anything
that they don't deserve.
- Don't you feel he has some responsibility
for the breakup?
- I suppose so.
- How long had you been together?
- Three years.
- Didn't you want to get married?
- Yes I did.
Too much.
Hey, come back.
- Do you want to go for a ride?
Yeah, eh?
Can I interest you in a boat, madam?
South of France this year?
- Wrong colour.
- Wrong colour.
This I know madam will like.
- Possibly.
- We'll take it.
- I've decided it's too small.
- How about this one?
- No, not that one, this one.
- Oops.
Well come on.
Here we go.
(laughs)
Great coat.
- Oh!
(laughter)
- For a ride.
- Come on then.
- I don't want to go anywhere now.
- Come on.
- All right, we'll go for a ride.
- It's locked.
- Well we'll just have to break it.
- Be careful, you really will break it.
- All right, let's stay here.
- Go on, you promised me a ride.
Please.
- You really want to go for a ride?
All right then, let's go for a ride.
(train clattering)
(clinking)
(motor starts)
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Four in the Morning" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 4 Oct. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/four_in_the_morning_8486>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In