Coronado - Dennis Lehane [59]
BOBBY Hard, huh?
BOBBY’S FATHER Look, she’s down here. Isn’t that enough? I admitted it. You asked, I answered. What’s the point?
BOBBY Keep digging.
BOBBY’S FATHER But what’s the fucking point?
BOBBY Put your back into it. Use a little elbow grease. Dig, bitch. Dig.
[BOBBY’S FATHER goes back to digging as GWEN enters. She sits behind Bobby, wraps her arms around him.]
GWEN Know what would be cool? If—if, if, if, if—all goes wrong? I put it in me.
BOBBY Don’t even talk ab—
GWEN Just saying. If I swallowed it or inserted it or…what else?
BOBBY You give it to him. You don’t get clever. ’Member?
GWEN The first time I saw you? Here? I swear I thought I’d lose my fucking mind if I couldn’t do this…
[GWEN tongues his neck.]
Where’s your father now?
BOBBY Far away.
GWEN Where’s your life now?
BOBBY Far away.
GWEN Good. Gotta pee.
BOBBY Don’t go.
GWEN Just going to the grass.
BOBBY Don’t.
[GWEN leaves him, exits. BOBBY’S FATHER hits something with the shovel. Looks up.]
BOBBY Throw the shovel back up.
[BOBBY’S FATHER tosses the shovel out of the grave.]
BOBBY’S FATHER You know, your mother and I used to come here and get ourselves some—
BOBBY Time to whip Mom out, is it?
BOBBY’S FATHER Get ourselves some cotton candy and ride the teacups and—
BOBBY What was her name again?
BOBBY’S FATHER
—just feel the night. You know? You know how that feels so good, the night on you? Like to make you crazy that soft, soft touch.
[BOBBY peers into the grave.]
BOBBY What’d you do with her clothes?
[BOBBY’S FATHER looks down into the grave.]
BOBBY’S FATHER Burned ’em.
BOBBY I mean, why’d you take ’em off in the first place?
[BOBBY’S FATHER shrugs.]
BOBBY Look at her.
BOBBY’S FATHER I’m looking.
BOBBY No. Look real close.
BOBBY’S FATHER I see the bones.
BOBBY Look closer. Where her stomach used to be. That general area.
[BOBBY’S FATHER looks.]
BOBBY’S FATHER Well, I’ll be damned.
[BOBBY hits his father in the head with the shovel.]
BOBBY’S FATHER Now hold on—
[BOBBY hits him again. And again. And one more time.]
Scene 15
WILL and GINA in the parking lot.
WILL It’s a pretty color.
GINA Are you flirting with me?
WILL No, I just like the color. I like the blouse. I like…
GINA What?
WILL Huh? Nothing. I just…
GINA Hey, you ever?
WILL What?
GINA Not want to get in your car?
WILL Yeah.
GINA When?
WILL Now. I don’t want to move.
GINA I know.
WILL I love that color.
GINA Thank you.
WILL It, um, suits you.
GINA What suits you, Will?
WILL You.
[WILL touches her chin with his fingers. GINA backs away.]
GINA I’m married.
[WILL shrugs.]
WILL You. You do, Gina.
GINA Oh God.
WILL Oh Something.
Scene 16
BOBBY finishes filling in the grave. He stands in pale, weak moonlight and removes his baseball cap to wipe his brow.
BOBBY I wish…I wish…I wish I’d taken a picture of you. Just one. Just once.
[GWEN enters from the darkness.]
GWEN You don’t need a picture.
BOBBY Yes. Yes, I do.
GWEN No, baby, you don’t. You’re good.
BOBBY Enough?
GWEN Enough. Yeah. You’re good enough.
BOBBY I’m not. I’m not.
[GWEN approaches until she’s an inch from him and BOBBY recoils from the pain. Her lips pass a hairsbreadth from his ear.]
GWEN You are. You are.
[GWEN fades into the dark. BOBBY covers his face with his baseball cap. Long beat. BOBBY removes the cap from his face and places it on his head. He tosses the shovel into the darkness. He takes several breaths. He notices a bench and goes to it. He sits. He pulls his cap tighter down his forehead. Music slowly filters into the scene as the light around him grows enough to reveal—
He sits in a bar booth. A waitress emerges from the darkness. It is not the WAITRESS we’ve seen before. It’s GINA/PATIENT and she looks weary from a long night.]
GINA Solo?
BOBBY Huh?
GINA Just you tonight, sweetie?
BOBBY Just me.
GINA What can I get you?
BOBBY Take a Bud and a shot of Beam.
GINA Right back.
[BOBBY splays his hands out in front of him and studies them. He removes his cap and runs a hand through his hair. GINA emerges from the dark as he rubs