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176 Chapter Twelve: The Finished Script and Writer’s Check List Life in Hopeful Village Page 7 of 10 Episode #36 Draft: Final Writer: Elaine Perkins Date: July 1992 90. MISS B: The dog barks for his supper. The pig howls for his life. Even the frog is not amused when he sees his life at stake. 91. LJ: You’ve gone too far now. STOP! 92. MISS B: Stop When I feel in my heart that you really don’t want to learn. Stop, when I see your eyes, your whole face in church. When the parson calls out the Bible verse, and you start to fumble all over the page, moving your fingers up and down as if you were blind. Rolling your eyeballs like bone dice...pretending! Feeling ashamed. Feeling less than other people. 93. LJ: Ah, don’t break your neck over it. Go and get the court paper. 94. MISS B: You’re a hard man, John Littlejohn. Hard and cruel to yourself. But as people used to say...you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. Now, where on earth is my purse (SEARCHING) I thought I put it here. 95. FX. FOOTSTEPS FADING OUT. 96. ROY: (OFF. CALLING DESPERATELY). Littlejohn. For God’s sake! 97. MISS B: (OFF) It’s Roy. 98. LJ: Don’t worry about him. Find the court paper. 99. ROY: (CALLING) You’re going to be the death of my only cow. 100. LJ: (DISGUSTED. CALLING BACK) Call the expert. I’m not a cow doctor. 101. MISS B: (URGENT PLEA) From Tydedixon to Salem, not a man can handle calf birthing better than you, Littlejohn. Besides, you and Roy go a long way back. He helped you dig your mother’s grave. 102. ROY: (STILL OFF) Littlejohn! 103. MISS B: I’ll go. 104. LJ: Birdie! 105. MISS B: Now people will know you really are ignorant. 106. FX. FOOTSTEPS RUNNING OFF. DOOR SLAM. 5. Miss Birdie appeals to Littlejohn’s emotions. The audience recognizes that Littlejohn’s real problem is his own stubborn pride. They recognize a typical human frailty and they are eager for him to overcome it. The first climax of this episode is reached when it seems that Miss Birdie will not be able to find a way to make her husband change his behavior. But the tension of this main scene builds even further, as the second climax of the episode is revealed— Littlejohn’s apparent willingness to desert his friend in his hour of need. Miss Birdie makes one last appeal to Littlejohn, and then leaves him in disgust. The scene ends on a high point of tension: how will Littlejohn react to his wife’s insult and to his friend’s need
Chapter Twelve: The Finished Script and Writer’s Check List 177 Life in Hopeful Village Page 8 of 10 Episode #36 Draft: Final Writer: Elaine Perkins Date: July 1992 107. MUSIC. BRIDGE TO NEXT SCENE. CROSS FADE TO FX IN NEXT SCENE. SCENE 5 108. FX. COW MOOING LOUDLY. ROY STRAINING TO DELIVER CALF. MISS BIRDIE BREATHING HARD AS SHE TRIES TO HELP. CONTINUE FX THROUGH SCENE. 109. MISS B: Did you call the extension officer 110. ROY: Yes, but he’s traveling outside the parish. Hold the rope hard. 111. MISS B: I AM holding it. 112. ROY: (TO COW) Bear up, Daisy. Bear up. We’ll soon deliver you. You’ll soon get some relief. (TO BIRDIE) It’s her first calf, and she’s scared. 113. MISS B: It’s the same thing with women. I remember when I had my first baby. It was the same time of day as this... I was barely seventeen years old...and... 114. ROY: Wait! I think it’s coming...it’s coming. Hold her! 115. FX. COW IN LABOR. BIRDIE AND ROY STRAIN HARDER. 116. MISS B: (STRAINING) Ohhiee! It looks as if it’s too big, Roy. She doesn’t have the strength to deliver it. 117. ROY: Pull! 118. FX. STRAINING. COW MOOING. ETC. THEN SILENCE. 119. ROY: Oh, Father in heaven. You mean I’m going to lose my one cow 120. LJ: (STRIDING IN) Move over there! This is my job. 121. MISS B: (RELIEVED) Littlejohn! I knew you would come. 122. ROY: Thank you, Jesus. 123. LJ: Stand back. Give me room! 124. ROY: (EAGERLY) Yes...yes. 125. MISS B: I told you he would come, Mass Roy. The excitement begins immediately with the opening lines of this final scene. The suspense builds and builds as the audience waits to learn if the calf will be born safely without Littlejohn there to help. The audience sides with Miss Birdie and Roy as they struggle to get by without Littlejohn. At the same time, the audience experiences a sense of sincere disappointment that Littlejohn has let himself down so badly with his friend. The sound effects are essential to this scene to convey the picture of the suffering cow and the human beings struggling to help her. The emotion of fear is heightened. The climax of the scene. If something doesn’t happen right now to save the cow, she will die, and all Roy’s dreams will be destroyed with her. The tension lets up slightly as Littlejohn arrives. The listeners are delighted that he has overcome his personal stubbornness and come to his friend’s rescue—but the question still remains: Has he come in time 12
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