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- 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?
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- 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!