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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
Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Editing 197 The Other Side (edited) Page 4 of 5 Episode #1 Draft: #2 Writer: Nelson Date: October 1996 49. MUSIC. MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY 50. PERCY: (FAR OFF) Yes, Ma’am. 51. MAYA: It’s all right, Percy....we weren’t talking to you. We were talking ABOUT you. 52. PERCY: (COMING IN) And what were you saying about me...may I ask 53. HELDA: That you’re mad. That you said arithmetic made the mountain slide down on top of Smallwood! 54. JUNO: Arithmetic Percy...what on earth... 55. HELDA: I’ll bet he doesn’t even know what arithmetic is. Did you go to school, Percy 56. MAYA: Wait...wait a minute... Maybe Percy has a point. Arithmetic...numbers.... Yes, I think what Percy means.... 57. MAN: (OFF. RUSHING IN) Sister Maya...Sister Maya...come please...quickly. My wife...the baby is coming very fast. 58. PERCY: (QUIETLY) Adding to the numbers... 59. FX. CRACK OF THUNDER AND HEAVY RAIN FALLING. 60. MAYA: I’m coming sir, I’m coming. (GOING OUT) Just let me get my birthing bag. 61. MAN: (GOING OUT) And bring your umbrella. It’s pouring down rain. Scene 5 62. FX. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES. HOLD UNDER NEXT SCENE. MIX WITH FX. SOUND OF NEWBORN BABY CRYING :03. FADE AND CUT. 63. MAYA: Congratulations, sir. You have a beautiful, healthy baby boy. And your wife is doing fine. 64. MAN: Another boy. I should be a very happy man... 65. MAYA: But you’re not 66. MAN: Well yes and no. I thank God the baby is healthy... and my wife. I try to take good care of her and help her in her pregnancy.... But now...four boys, and so little land. 67. MAYA: You must provide each son with land for his family. 68. MAN: It is tradition...but we have so little land now. When my father divided his land for my brothers and me, there was not much each, and now... it just won’t work. You cannot divide nothing into four... And God is not making new land for us. 69. MAYA: No, we cannot determine how much land there will be in the world...but we can figure out how many people can live on the land we have. We can help preserve the little bit we have... 70. FX. BABY CRIES IN BACKGROUND. 71. MAN: Look at me... a new father and I stand here complaining. (GOING OUT) I must go and meet my new son. 72. MAYA: (CALLING AFTER HIM) Come to the clinic and talk to me... Perhaps it would be good if you did not add to your worries with more children. (ON MICROPHONE) Percy isn’t so mad after all. The numbers do make a difference. 13
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