Shockproof Page #3

Okay.

Okay for sound?

- Echo.

- Okay for sound?

Yeah, okay here.

Now, play it cagey, Doc. This one's smart.

- What are you trying to prove?

- I'm not sure yet.

Maybe that the girl has character.

They all have when they're caught.

Never should have been paroled.

Over here.

- Can you make it?

- I think so. Take it easy.

It's her ankle, Doc.

- I'll be right outside.

- Take off your stocking.

So...

- I feel sick.

- Really hurt that bad?

I just saw a man jump off the balcony.

What did he do that for?

They were sending him back for good.

I guess if I had the nerve,

I'd do the same thing.

No, you wouldn't.

You wouldn't.

Well, you know,

you remind me of my daughter.

You even look like her.

Why, because we're both female?

That's about the only resemblance

between her and me.

- Is your mother still living?

- My mother? Yes.

- How long were you in prison?

- Five years.

Five years. Must have broken her heart.

She's still in the hospital

in the alcoholic ward.

- And your father?

- He was no good.

I guess like father, like daughter.

It's heredity.

- It's environment.

- It's a joke.

There were nine of us. I was the oldest.

Blew their noses for them, scrubbed them,

doctored them,

everybody living in the one room.

Swill pile, that's what it was.

- Where'd you get hurt?

- In a raid on a bookie joint.

I broke parole. That means I'm going back.

Don't you think you were pretty silly

to go to a bookie joint

when you were out on parole?

I went with a friend who had business there.

Fine friend. Got you in a big jam.

He's the one who didn't forget me

when they sent me to prison.

Love him?

He waited five years for me. For me.

A man with a college education,

nice manners, money,

everything I never had in a man before.

Put that in your test tube, Doc,

and what do you see?

- What does he do?

- Gambles in a refined sort of way.

- It feels better now.

- It'll be all right in a day or two.

- Officer.

- Yes, Doc?

- You can take her back now.

- Okay.

Doc, I just bought this outfit.

If your daughter wears a size 12,

she can have it.

I guess I won't be needing it anymore.

My feeling is that she's sensitive,

confused and angry.

But Griff's right. I don't think

Jenny Marsh is an habitual criminal.

Well, then,

you think she'll straighten out okay, Doc?

- I mean, if somebody gave her a break?

- I think so, Griff.

- You do?

- Yes, I'm sure of it.

Well, I still don't trust her, but go ahead.

She's your case.

Thanks, Sam. You'll see I'm right about her.

I don't say she's a hardened criminal.

- What is a criminal, Sam?

- Yeah, I've often wondered.

I see them every day, but I still don't know.

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