Monkey Shines Page #5

I could do us all a favour

and fill it with rat poison.

Where are the damn things?

I'll be.

What are you doing?

I'm trying to get some work done.

Ella.

What are you doing?

Come on.

Put the lights on, give me my stick.

I can hardly see you.

Come on. Get out of the way.

What do you want?

I'm gonna do it, darlin'.

I'm gonna go back to school.

Put my mind to it,

I oughta be able to tear up the track.

What? Don't you

want to go to school with me?

Ah, I know.

Ow! Hey. You don't like the beard?

Neither do I. It's out of here, OK?

The beard is history. That a deal? What?

I know. I love you too.

No. This is one thing

you don't know how to do.

- She just wants to play.

- You spoil her, Allan.

I want to spoil her. She's really...

- made my life...

- I know.

No. I don't think you do know, Melanie.

- I don't think you can know.

- Hold still.

She does so much for me. She seems

to want to do things just for me.

Look.

Completely different guy.

You're not gonna stop

coming around now, are you?

I mean, now that Ella's

finished her basic training.

I hate to see you disappear.

I won't disappear. I'll be around.

God, I'm sorry. I must have cut you.

- It's nothing.

- Hey! Get away from there.

Don't worry.

- Allan, hi!

- How are you guys doing?

Great.

- Who's your friend?

- This is Ella. That's my girl.

Ella's your girl?

June 12, 1984 - the Supreme Court

reversed the sixth circuit court of appeal

in a case involving the City of Memphis.

What was the ruling?

Check it out.

Well, Mr Mann,

does your friend know the answer?

Or do you?

The ruling held that courts could

not upset valid seniority systems

to protect the rights of minority workers.

Got one? Reel it in!

- Sh*t. My fault.

- No. It just wasn't meant to be.

At least we got one on the line.

It's not the right time of year.

We'll come back when they're running.

- Promise?

- Yeah, I promise.

- That was easy.

- It was, wasn't it?

- You getting cold?

- A little.

Let's pack it in.

- It's pretty fancy.

- Yeah. Each card dials a number.

Ella does it for me. She already

knows which cards are which.

- You're shitting me?

- The ones I use most often.

Telephone, Ella.

Come on, Ella. Telephone.

Telephone Geoffrey.

Geoffrey, Ella.

- Christ. You don't think?

- I do think.

She knows you're here

so it makes no sense to call you.

- No, no. There's no way, man.

- Go outside a minute.

- There's no way...

- Don't tell me you're not curious. Go on.

OK, Ella. He's gone. Telephone Geoffrey.

Come on. Telephone Geoffrey.

Come on back in! She did it.

She's unbelievable.

She's like a miniature person.

Hi, this is Geoffrey. I can't come

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