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196 Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Editing
The Other Side (edited) Page 3 of 5
Episode #1 Draft: #2
Writer: Nelson Date: October 1996
26. SAM: So now, you have the right to tell me not to chop down MY trees. What am I supposed to use
for firewood
27. JOJO: Get wood from the mountain top...everyone else does.
28. SAM: Everyone else doesn’t have to run a farm AND work in a factory as I do. I can’t make a living on
that one small piece of land.
29. JOJO: So now it’s my fault that your family doesn’t have enough land.
30. SAM: Yes, it’s your fault and (ANGRY) I’m going to stop you if I have to kill you!
31. MUSIC. SHORT CHORD.
Scene 4
32. FX. CLINIC NOISES...BABIES CRYING. ETC.
33. MAYA: Everything looks fine, Momma Juno. You are obviously remembering to take your pill every
day...and you don’t have any side effects.
34. JUNO: Not like I did in the first few months...I didn’t like all that extra bleeding and cramping...but
you were right sister Maya. You’re always right.
35. MAYA: (LAUGHING) Not always...But I’m glad I was right this time. Now you and your husband can
take your time to decide if you want any more children or not.
36. JUNO: Sam says two is enough. He says he wants to have a vasectomy. But I’m not sure. My mother
had eight children. It’s hard for me to get used to these new ideas...
37. MAYA: As long as you stay on the pill, you won’t get pregnant again, and you’ll have time to think
about what you want to do.
38. MUSIC. PERCY’S GUITAR IS HEARD SOFTLY IN THE BACKGROUND. HOLD UNDER.
39. JUNO: Is that Percy What’s he doing here Does he come here for medicine
40. MAYA: No, he isn’t sick... He’s come to...
41. JUNO: (INTERRUPTING) You mean he’s mad, but he isn’t sick.
42. MAYA: (LAUGHING) Percy isn’t mad...he just sees things differently. He has good reason for his
strange ways. But he’s a good man. He’s here today to help me with what people are bringing for
the Smallwood disaster.
43. JUNO: Oh yes, I want to give you some money... it’s not much. There is hardly enough to go around
these days, but...
44. FX. SOUND OF COINS DROPPED ON TABLE.
45. HELDA: (COMING IN) And I’ve got a few clothes... baby things... It’s so awful. What would we do if
something like that happened in Clayton
46. JUNO: Why do such terrible things happen
47. HELDA: (SCOFFING) Ask him.... HE knows the answer.
48. MAYA: Who.... Percy