"You Know You Don't Eat"

• MONICA : Hey David?
• DAVID : Mommy! Mommy!
• MONICA : David, wait. I need to speak to to you for a minute, okay?
• DAVID : Okay!
• MONICA : Yeah...
• Monica looks over some messages that David has been writing.
• MONICA : Oh, David, these are beautiful! Thank you. Um...
• Um, hey David, I was thinking that we could go for a drive
• tomorrow in the country. You and me. What do you say?
• DAVID : And Teddy?
• MONICA : Yeah, and Teddy.
• DAVID : Thank you Mommy! Thank you so much!
• MONICA : Tomorrow's gonna be just for us, okay?
• **************************************************************
• DAVID : Where are we going? Someplace nice? Are those happy tears?
• What’s for dinner tonight?
• MONICA : You know you don’t eat.
• DAVID : Yes. But I like sitting at the table.
• IN THE WOODS
• MONICA
• David. David, hold on. David? David! Listen! Listen to me!
• David? David listen! Now you won't understand the reasons,
• but I ..I have to leave you here.
• DAVID
• Is it a game?
• MONICA
• No.
• DAVID
• When will you come back for me?
• MONICA
• I'm not, David, you...you'll have to be here by yourself.
• DAVID
• Alone?
• MONICA
• With Teddy.
• **David and Monica talk over each other. For clarity, here
• is the dialogue, separated.
• DAVID
• No. No! No, no, no, no! No, Mommy please!
• MONICA
• Shhh...shhh...
• DAVID
• No! No! Please no Mommy no!
• MONICA
• They're going to destroy you...
• DAVID
• No, Mommy!
• MONICA
• David, they'll destroy you. David...David, they're going to
• destroy you!
• DAVID
• Mommy, No! I'm sorry I broke myself! I'm so sorry I cut your
• hair off and I'm oh so sorry I hurt you and I hurt Martin
• and I hurt Henry and I hurt everybody!
• MONICA
• No...no, no...I have to go. I have to go! Stop it!
• DAVID
• I'm sorry!
• MONICA
• Stop it! I have to GO!
• DAVID
• Mommy, no! Mommy! MOMMY! Mommy, if Pinocchio became a real
• boy and...and I become a real boy can I come home?
• MONICA
• But that's just a story, David.
• DAVID
• But that story tells what happens!
• MONICA
• Stories are not real! You're not real!
• Now listen , look. Look! Take this, alright? Take this. And
• don't let anyone see how much it is. Now look. Don't go that
• way, alright? Look! Don't look at me, look! Don't go that
• way, alright? Go any where but that way or they'll catch
• you! Don't ever let them catch you! Listen, stay away from
• Flesh Fairs, away from where there are lots of people! Stay
• away from all people! Only others like you, only Mecha are
• safe! Now get going!
• DAVID
• Why do you want to leave me? Why do you want to leave me??!
• I'm sorry I'm not real, if you let me I'll be so real for
• you!
• MONICA
• Let go. Let go! Let GO!!
• I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the world!

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Posted on June/30/2009

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