More Tales of the City (1998): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript
Using money left her by Edgar Halcyon Mary Ann pays for herself and Mouse to go on a cruise where she meets and falls for Burke Andrew,a young man with a mysterious past. Mona,dissatisfied with city life,takes a bus ride and ends up near Reno,Nevada,where she is befriended by a potty-mouthed,eccentric old lady known as Mother Mucca. She is a brothel keeper and,calling herself Judy,Mona becomes her receptionist. Dede tells D'Or that her unborn babies' father is not Beauchamp but a Chinese delivery boy with whom she had rough,one-off sex.Brian,taking over Norman's roof-top apartment,becomes aware that a middle-aged woman with binoculars is spying on him when he is in the nude and pleasures himself for their mutual amusement.
Mouse
Are you home?
Mouse!
Mouse!!
Happy Valentine's Day
oh oh it's magnificent
Did you make this yourself?
open it.
you see, you're supposed to fill in the resolutions
yourself
oh I'm that screwed up huh
you bet I don't waste my time with well-adjusted
people
want to see my list
aren't you confusing this with New Year's
Eve
yeah that's nickel dime stuff smoking eating
drinking resolutions
these are the you know the hardcore some enchanted
evening resolutions
ready?
Michael Tolliver's dirty 30 for 77
1.
I will not call anyone Nelly or butch unless
that is his name.
2.
I will not assume that women who like me are
fag hags
3.
I will not measure it no matter who asks
4.
11 I will meet someone nice away from a bar
or the baths or the rollerskating rink
but I won't say I love you before he does
13.
the hell I won't
17.
I will not cry when Mary Tyler Moore goes
off the air
How come you get 30 resolutions I only get 10
think that's what tough for you
is that true? mr. gay chauvinist pig just try this for starters
mmm
1.
I will find mr. right this year
2.
he will not be married
3.
he will not be gay
4.
he will not be a child pornographer
I see... moving back to Cleveland huh
hello Mona.
This is your mother.
Hello buddy
Is this your permanent number again?
yeah
I called the place in Pacific Heights and
Dorothea said you moved back
I can't believe you'd lieve that charming
home in a nice neighborhood for that chuby!
You've never seen it.
I had.
You sent me a picture last summer.
Does that woman still run it?
If you mean Mrs Madrigal, yes.
She gives me the absolute creeps
Remind me not to send you any more pictures,
will you?
what was wrong with Dorothea's place anyway?
I couldn't handle the rent
If that's the problem I could tied you over.
just until you're able to find a job
uh-huh thank you but no
she's lured you in there Mona
who?
oh that woman!
Mrs. Madrigal offered me an apartment when
we became good friends and
that was almost three years ago
why are you suddenly so goddamn concerned
about my welfare
because I didn't know what she looks, until you sent her picture
she's so extreme.
Mona?
Mrs. Madrigal
are you there
Mrs. Madrigal
stay put
I've got a Valentine for you
dear Marianne by now you must need a little
fun
the enclosed is for you and a friend
head for someplace sunny always
E.H.
I don't get it.
What was enclosed - $5,000 Mouse
My boss Edgar Halcyon left it to me in his will
So,I bought two tickets on a Carnival cruise
to Mexico
you want to go with me
God damn!
Will you
Will I? you bet I will
How long?
In one week.
That's great.
We're gonna have to share a cabin Mouse
Oh that's okay
we'll seduce people in shifts
Or find a nice bisexual
Marianne, I'm shocked.
Good.
We'll get brown as a goddamn berry and find
you a lover.
And one for you
oh no
one miracle at a time please
look Mouse
if I think you're really attractive
there must be plenty of men
in this town I feel the same way.
Yeah sighs Queens
you know sometimes you're
sensitive about the dumbest things.
You must be five nine
That's gotta be tall enough for anybody
League meeting or something?
Can I fix breakfast for my husband?
You can but you don't
I worry too much Beecham
and today, I looked around me and I heard
the cable
cars clanging and well I just thought
we're a lot luckier than most people.
Beecham.
This thing hasn't been cleaned
Beecham.
Look at me.
Yes my sweet.
Will you at least tell me that you're happy.
About what?
About this, dammit.
Well.
I'm delirious.
Huh Didi, there's a great responsibility
attached to parenthood.
I accept the responsibility of raising one
child
although with great reluctance,
forgive me if I'm not exactly jumping with
joy
at the prospect of twins.
Beecham, I don't need your goddamn thesis
on parenthood.
I need your support, I can't do this alone.
I just can't.
You sure as hell didn't do that alone.
No but I sure as hell didn't do it with you
It wasn't bad, for you.
It's true Beecham, you're not their father.
God damn it Can't you even add
I wanted to tell you a long time ago.
I really did.
I.. I even...
who is it?
I don't think we should.
Splinter Riley, maybe? or the charming but
terminally greasy Jorge Montoya Corona?
you don't know him
How interesting.
do you?
And also Dorothea Wilson called.
I don't suppose she bothered to tell you
why she's canceled the last three photoshoots.
She said she doesn't look right anymore.
What does that mean?
Maybe she gained weight over the holidays.
I...I don't know.
Or maybe she doesn't give a good goddamn about
Halcyon communications.
Maybe she wants to go to Mexico too
Beecham.It was mr.
Halcyon who said I should go.
I don't need to hear this again.
I'm really sorry to bug you
but we're leaving for Mexico tomorrow,
there's a suitcase I just can't reach.
Are you all settled in upstairs?
Get in there.
okay.
thanks.
I can take it from here.
Can you?
yes Brian.
you know what?
this trip is gonna work for me,
I'm gonna meet somebody.
I know it.
Not that you aren't the best company in the
world.
Look, you don't have to explain that one
Anyway I’ve got this dynamite plan,
anyway.
I spot a guy, right? Lounging out by the ship’s pool, maybe, or … whatever,
and I saunter up kind of casual like, with you on my arm all tanned and gorgeous, so that he’s
bound to be eating his heart out, and then I say in my very butchest Lee Majors voice,
“Hi, guy, I’m Michael Tolliver and this is
Mary Ann Singleton.
Which one of us would you like?
what if he doesn't want neither one of you.
push him off the first available cliff in Acapulco.
I wish you'd lay off to cut jokes why wasn't
your fault
I know.
Thinking about it gives me the creeps
get better baby thanks
How about a souvenir smile young lovers
folks Mary uh-huh
how am I supposed to get laid if I'm
your husband
would you try to be just a little respectable
while on board
For eleven whole days
It’s a British ship, Mouse.
Ah, yes! But with Italian stewards.
Straight Italian stewards
oh you wish
come on
I want on path
dear mrs. Madrigal:
I'll be gone for a while so please don't worry
I'm not mad at you or anybody my life is down
to the
seats and stamps and I just can't go anymore
the answer must be somewhere else
I hope it is anyway I'm running out of places
to look
love Mona
Hi.
Would you like to take a free personality
test
what for.
To see if I have one.
Come on, now that's just a reactive mind talking
A ron hubbard tells us that everybody...
hey don't I know you.
Seriously I doubt it.
Yeah sure you were at that party on Christmas Eve of barbarian land
you're Mary Ann Singleton's friend
Am I?
of course you are silly.
Silly me.
we'll have a fantabulous day.
To mr. Halcyon
God bless him.
And to adventure on the high seas
And romance
And to mrs. Madrigal and marijuana
but most of all to that well-bred, debonaire, but incredibly hunky number who gave the eye
to one of us when we came on board tonight.
Who?
How do I know who. I just got here woman
where?
you saw him didn't you
I don't think so
he never stopped staring at us
How come I always miss these things
Dear mrs. Madrigal
I'll be gone for a while so please
don't worry...
help you?
I'd like a one-way ticket to...
Reno
Thank you
Well then at least let me shop for the babies.
There's a precious place called baby Piero
and Ghirardelli Square
We dont even know their sex yet
little yellow
would be adorable what's wrong with yellow
you love yellow
Oh Didi darling, what is the matter?
nothing
Why can't I don't a little
because you're using it mother
you're using it as an excuse to...
I don't know to keep from living your life
again
I'm only half a person Didi
hmm daddy's gone you've got to get it together
I need to feel needed darling
nobody needs me now
the Legion of Honor needs you
that young needs you
so that's the story.
Is it? when you're young it's your family
that needs you
when you're old, it's museums
look, if you're determined to wallow in your
own self-pity
that's not a damn thing I can do about it
well what in God's name do you expect me to
do about it
I expect you to be good to yourself
live it up a little join a backgammon club
enroll in Janet's essence exercise class
get Kevin Matthews to take you to the symphony
for heaven's sakes his boyfriend's on Hedra
until the end of June
I know but I
alright then mother, take a good look
at yourself mother you look terrible
see a specialist get a few tux ducks why not
for God's
sakes you've got the money the face the boobies
the fanny the full catastrophe
hahaha Didi.
Where are you headin’, dolly?
Reno.
One stop after me.
You takin’ the midnight bus hmm?
How ‘bout sittin’ with me, then? I get real nervous on the bus,
what with the perverts and all.
Well, I’m not sure I’d be much
all right I won't bother you know
I won't say nothing
unless you want me to
it's a deal
what's your name darling?
Mo..
Mo what
Mo nothing.
It's Judy
Mine's Mother Mucca. It’s kind of a nickname. I’m from Winnemucca
It’s a long story, and I don’t see no point in … Say, dolly, are you OK
You look kinda fucked up
I said you look fucked up. Your eyes
are all …
You ain’t been smokin’ no reefers, have you, dolly?
Sort of. Meanin’?
Ever heard of angel dust?
Holy shit! That stuff is for puttin’ elephants to sleep, girl! If you don’t know
any better than to fuck yourself up with an animal tranquilizer,
you ain’t got no business ridin’
I don’t have to sit here and listen
The fuck you don’t
Welcome to Manderley
I'm mrs.
Danvers
I'm sure you'll be very happy here.
Feeling gothic tonight?
aren't you? This place is a tomb.
But with Marianne and Michael off to Mexico
and Mona gone
who knows where and you out there terrorizing
half the female
population of San Francisco
I was working
hmm. it is work isn't it?
at the restaurant
well now your home would you care to smoke
a quick
joint with an old lady
sure, I'll bring the joint if you bring the
old lady
some people drink to forget, personally I smoke to remember.
Like what
old lovers, train rides, the taste of fountain Cokes when I was a kid
old lovers mm-hmm.
there were a few of them huh
mm-hmm a few, no not really
just one that I was sure
how about you. who was it you were so sure?
who said I was
I met her in law school
we had a place together cat, dog, furniture
how long
seven years
in 11 days
I don't want to be that sure again
it's part of the deal you know
what?
losing people.
wanting them back.
it's the price you pay for being alive
and guess what
age doesn't fix a thing
oh great fucking great
now you think it will when you're young
you think there will be some quiet safe place
just down the road
but it doesn't get any easier
just more familiar
so when the pain comes around again
all you can do is look at it straight in the eye
and say I recognize you you old bastard
was this reason
hmm fairly
his name was Edgar.
He was lovely
I didn't get to happen that long.
What a pisser
yes it was
it was a pisser.
Breakfast stop.
It’s O.K., dolly. Mother Mucca’s here. I’m lookin’ out for ya.
okay I appreciate
That angel dust’ll fuck you up every time. You shoulda heard yourself talkin’
in your sleep, dolly!
I don’t … what did I say
Where did the mouse go? I can’t find the mouse.’ Then you started hollerin’ for your daddy. It was goddamn spooky, dolly!
you got a damn it. Mind your manners
my daddy ran away when I was two and he could
stay away.
Where the hell are we
Truckee, California
come on
I'll buy you breakfast.
Drink
Hey
oh well he always takes longer
than I do
men are much fussier than girls I'll say
apologies, apologies
No sweat,
keep an eye on the little lady though
she's too pretty to let out without a leash
Mike knows that don't you Mike
can't let her out of my sight for a minute
you don't ever say that about me
wow this kids are younger than we are.
Mike
yep
how long you been in tools?
Under your t-shirt over the trendline business
oh yeah, I've been into tools oh I don't know,
four or five years
should remind work
oh yeah I'm a big tool man.
Why don't we go get some food hmm.
But a woman doesn't like when I talk tools
at the table
oh me too Arnold talks about aluminum honeycomb
until he's blue in the face and it is so boring
well maybe boring to you Melba but to
some people who choose to make their living
from it it's not boring Mike you
don't think tools are boring dude.
Hell no.
I had a girl named Judy once
What?
You said your name was Judy didn't you
Oh Judy was a peach
I guess she stayed with me longer’n any of ‘em.I guess she stayed with me longer’n any of ‘em.
yes sir she was a peach
you had a lot of children
children
you said
you're a lot dumber than you look darling
I'm talking about my whorehouse in Winnemucca
you
how long have you?
lord, it's too fucking long.
What brought you to San Francisco?
Ohh, hookers union meeting.
hmm What about you darling?
Well, dolly! You ain’t told me why you’re headin’ to Reno with a head full o’ angel dust!
I don't know, to get away for a while
I've never seen the desert
Desert, well I got plenty of that in Winnemucca.
I need a rest darling oh it's big place
I need help and over the phones
It’s real clean and pretty too.
I think you'd be kind of surprised.
Sure it's very nice.
Hell, dolly! I’m not white-slavin’ ya or anything! You’ll keep me company, that’s all.
You can leave whenever you want to.
I just don't think I'm... you know
Come on,
what do you do anyway For living I mean
I was an advertising copyrighter
Don't be so fucking uppity
The bus is leaving Mother Mucca
what we'll do then
nope Not unless I get my own waterbed.
Mouse
I do not know thees Mouse, signorina.
I am but a seemple Italian dining room steward
who wants to make ze whoopee weez ze beyootiful,
horny American girls!
you smoke that joint didn't you
I wish you'd learn to fantasize
tie me up.
will you?
Bondage already? You haven’t tried bingo yet.
And there’s a swell seniors mambo class this afternoon in the Carrousel Lounge
Actually I thought we might enter that
no thanks, last time I entered a dance contest
my boyfriend dumped me
that's because you were in your undies silly
shhh
what
that's the guy who's trying to pick us up
one of us
I sure wouldn't kick him out of bed
do you think he's gay
Well … his backstroke is a little nellie.
no I'm serious Mouse
then ask him dummy
Invite him over for Pina Colada
you don't think I'll do it
do you
okay. watch me
is it cold?
you can take it.
Something to eat miss Frances?
No, thank you Emma.
Emma
Madame
Do you think I...Emma
You were saying miss Frances
mr. Edgar gone miss Frances
he's passed on to the bosom of Jesus
and there's not a living thing in this
whole world can can bring him back
until the final judgment of the Lord
when he delivers his people from the origin
oh my god you're giving me a headache
What I want to know is,
I trust your opinion a great deal
I think you know that and...
Emma do you think I need a facelift?
well you do know what a facelift is
mm-hmm
Cuttin
no, well it gets that part
of it but it's a cosmetic process
a complete one which is really quite
common these days I mean lots of ladies
What ladies?
Miss Frances, the Lord gave you a perfectly
fine face and if
the Lord had intended
for you to look any differently he would've made you
Emma Lord doesn't have to go to Opera Guild
meetings
ma'am
I look so old
nobody I know looks like Nancy Kissinger
I'm an old turkey gobbler
look at that
now mr. Edgar wouldn't like that kind of talk
mr. Edgar is dead.
I'm Burke Andrew
Michael Tolliver
Thank you for letting me join you
I don't exactly relate
to most of the people on this ship
You don’t get off on blue rinse?
blue what?
I guess I'm a bit out of it.
Mouse talks in code, Burke. Half the time, I don’t have the slightest idea
what he’s talking about.
How long you two known each other?
A year I guess, we where at a grocery store
Mary Ann was trying to pick up my boyfriend
Gay as a goose
I'm gonna take a hike I'll give you two exactly an hour to get it on
can't do anything with him
apparently
oh no I didn't mean
I didn't mean like that
He seems very nice, actually
He is.
I love him a lot.
But he's not your ...
oh no no.
Actually, he thinks himself as my pimp service
Did that sound gross?
Not at all. I just … well, I’ve never met anybody
like you two before
so what were you from Burke?
All over really
most recently?
San Francisco.
Great! so am i.
Where do you live?
I don't ha I mean I used to live in San Francisco
but I don't anymore.
My parents live in Nantucket
I'm staying with them.
When you were there...
Do you like to swim?
I really think we should do that.
That's her.
you had her long?
sixty years enough for you?
Mother Mucca is an old motherfucker!
Come on
hey Bobby!
What the hell kept you
welcome back
are you limping?
If you turn one more trick with that crazy-ass
Elko shitkicker, I’ll boot your ass outa here so fast
you’ll wish you never been born.
Come here.
This here is Judy.
She's gonna stand work the phones for a while
mm-hmm,
Give her Tanya’s room
But take out the swing first
Sweet little thing, isnt she?
She seems very nice
Fucked up, though. Loco as they come. You gotta watch her like a mother hen.
Hell, when I found that dolly she’d sunk plumb to the bottom. She couldn’t go no lower.
heavy drugs?
Nope. Worse. Key punch operator.
knock knock
uh hi
You settled in now?
yeah thanks Bobby
what's that for?
This use to be Tanya's room
That’s where she hung the swing.That’s where she hung the swing.
The swing was part of … her routine?
silly She tinkled on them from up there. While she was swinging, see?
she was real famous for it
I think I saw her on The Gong Show once.
what happened to her?
oh She switched to a house in Elko.
Mother Mucca was plenty pissed
but you like Mother Mucca she talks real mean
but she's not that way at all
she loves us like daughters
I guess
she's never had any of her own
huh no she had a son once
what happened to him
oh he ran away they say a long time ago
Bobby!!
Bye.
well?
Is he?
How should I know?
It hasn't been a secret code handshake since 1956
He is gorgeous isn't he
yeah like big old collie dog
I think he likes me Mouse
So help me figure out what's wrong with him.
We Need to Talk.
Beauchamp
I'm tired of talking about it
I'm having these babies and I can't take
this harassment anymore.
I've decided to move to mother's.
Look goddamnit you've got some
explaining to do and you're not
running home to mommy
until I get some answers.
This charming anonymous missive
came to me at the office.
Now will you please tell me
what the hell that means?
That's disgusting.
Answer the question!
Oh fuck it Beauchamp.
The babies' father is Chinese
Are you home?
Mouse!
Mouse!!
Happy Valentine's Day
oh oh it's magnificent
Did you make this yourself?
open it.
you see, you're supposed to fill in the resolutions
yourself
oh I'm that screwed up huh
you bet I don't waste my time with well-adjusted
people
want to see my list
aren't you confusing this with New Year's
Eve
yeah that's nickel dime stuff smoking eating
drinking resolutions
these are the you know the hardcore some enchanted
evening resolutions
ready?
Michael Tolliver's dirty 30 for 77
1.
I will not call anyone Nelly or butch unless
that is his name.
2.
I will not assume that women who like me are
fag hags
3.
I will not measure it no matter who asks
4.
11 I will meet someone nice away from a bar
or the baths or the rollerskating rink
but I won't say I love you before he does
13.
the hell I won't
17.
I will not cry when Mary Tyler Moore goes
off the air
How come you get 30 resolutions I only get 10
think that's what tough for you
is that true? mr. gay chauvinist pig just try this for starters
mmm
1.
I will find mr. right this year
2.
he will not be married
3.
he will not be gay
4.
he will not be a child pornographer
I see... moving back to Cleveland huh
hello Mona.
This is your mother.
Hello buddy
Is this your permanent number again?
yeah
I called the place in Pacific Heights and
Dorothea said you moved back
I can't believe you'd lieve that charming
home in a nice neighborhood for that chuby!
You've never seen it.
I had.
You sent me a picture last summer.
Does that woman still run it?
If you mean Mrs Madrigal, yes.
She gives me the absolute creeps
Remind me not to send you any more pictures,
will you?
what was wrong with Dorothea's place anyway?
I couldn't handle the rent
If that's the problem I could tied you over.
just until you're able to find a job
uh-huh thank you but no
she's lured you in there Mona
who?
oh that woman!
Mrs. Madrigal offered me an apartment when
we became good friends and
that was almost three years ago
why are you suddenly so goddamn concerned
about my welfare
because I didn't know what she looks, until you sent her picture
she's so extreme.
Mona?
Mrs. Madrigal
are you there
Mrs. Madrigal
stay put
I've got a Valentine for you
dear Marianne by now you must need a little
fun
the enclosed is for you and a friend
head for someplace sunny always
E.H.
I don't get it.
What was enclosed - $5,000 Mouse
My boss Edgar Halcyon left it to me in his will
So,I bought two tickets on a Carnival cruise
to Mexico
you want to go with me
God damn!
Will you
Will I? you bet I will
How long?
In one week.
That's great.
We're gonna have to share a cabin Mouse
Oh that's okay
we'll seduce people in shifts
Or find a nice bisexual
Marianne, I'm shocked.
Good.
We'll get brown as a goddamn berry and find
you a lover.
And one for you
oh no
one miracle at a time please
look Mouse
if I think you're really attractive
there must be plenty of men
in this town I feel the same way.
Yeah sighs Queens
you know sometimes you're
sensitive about the dumbest things.
You must be five nine
That's gotta be tall enough for anybody
League meeting or something?
Can I fix breakfast for my husband?
You can but you don't
I worry too much Beecham
and today, I looked around me and I heard
the cable
cars clanging and well I just thought
we're a lot luckier than most people.
Beecham.
This thing hasn't been cleaned
Beecham.
Look at me.
Yes my sweet.
Will you at least tell me that you're happy.
About what?
About this, dammit.
Well.
I'm delirious.
Huh Didi, there's a great responsibility
attached to parenthood.
I accept the responsibility of raising one
child
although with great reluctance,
forgive me if I'm not exactly jumping with
joy
at the prospect of twins.
Beecham, I don't need your goddamn thesis
on parenthood.
I need your support, I can't do this alone.
I just can't.
You sure as hell didn't do that alone.
No but I sure as hell didn't do it with you
It wasn't bad, for you.
It's true Beecham, you're not their father.
God damn it Can't you even add
I wanted to tell you a long time ago.
I really did.
I.. I even...
who is it?
I don't think we should.
Splinter Riley, maybe? or the charming but
terminally greasy Jorge Montoya Corona?
you don't know him
How interesting.
do you?
And also Dorothea Wilson called.
I don't suppose she bothered to tell you
why she's canceled the last three photoshoots.
She said she doesn't look right anymore.
What does that mean?
Maybe she gained weight over the holidays.
I...I don't know.
Or maybe she doesn't give a good goddamn about
Halcyon communications.
Maybe she wants to go to Mexico too
Beecham.It was mr.
Halcyon who said I should go.
I don't need to hear this again.
I'm really sorry to bug you
but we're leaving for Mexico tomorrow,
there's a suitcase I just can't reach.
Are you all settled in upstairs?
Get in there.
okay.
thanks.
I can take it from here.
Can you?
yes Brian.
you know what?
this trip is gonna work for me,
I'm gonna meet somebody.
I know it.
Not that you aren't the best company in the
world.
Look, you don't have to explain that one
Anyway I’ve got this dynamite plan,
anyway.
I spot a guy, right? Lounging out by the ship’s pool, maybe, or … whatever,
and I saunter up kind of casual like, with you on my arm all tanned and gorgeous, so that he’s
bound to be eating his heart out, and then I say in my very butchest Lee Majors voice,
“Hi, guy, I’m Michael Tolliver and this is
Mary Ann Singleton.
Which one of us would you like?
what if he doesn't want neither one of you.
push him off the first available cliff in Acapulco.
I wish you'd lay off to cut jokes why wasn't
your fault
I know.
Thinking about it gives me the creeps
get better baby thanks
How about a souvenir smile young lovers
folks Mary uh-huh
how am I supposed to get laid if I'm
your husband
would you try to be just a little respectable
while on board
For eleven whole days
It’s a British ship, Mouse.
Ah, yes! But with Italian stewards.
Straight Italian stewards
oh you wish
come on
I want on path
dear mrs. Madrigal:
I'll be gone for a while so please don't worry
I'm not mad at you or anybody my life is down
to the
seats and stamps and I just can't go anymore
the answer must be somewhere else
I hope it is anyway I'm running out of places
to look
love Mona
Hi.
Would you like to take a free personality
test
what for.
To see if I have one.
Come on, now that's just a reactive mind talking
A ron hubbard tells us that everybody...
hey don't I know you.
Seriously I doubt it.
Yeah sure you were at that party on Christmas Eve of barbarian land
you're Mary Ann Singleton's friend
Am I?
of course you are silly.
Silly me.
we'll have a fantabulous day.
To mr. Halcyon
God bless him.
And to adventure on the high seas
And romance
And to mrs. Madrigal and marijuana
but most of all to that well-bred, debonaire, but incredibly hunky number who gave the eye
to one of us when we came on board tonight.
Who?
How do I know who. I just got here woman
where?
you saw him didn't you
I don't think so
he never stopped staring at us
How come I always miss these things
Dear mrs. Madrigal
I'll be gone for a while so please
don't worry...
help you?
I'd like a one-way ticket to...
Reno
Thank you
Well then at least let me shop for the babies.
There's a precious place called baby Piero
and Ghirardelli Square
We dont even know their sex yet
little yellow
would be adorable what's wrong with yellow
you love yellow
Oh Didi darling, what is the matter?
nothing
Why can't I don't a little
because you're using it mother
you're using it as an excuse to...
I don't know to keep from living your life
again
I'm only half a person Didi
hmm daddy's gone you've got to get it together
I need to feel needed darling
nobody needs me now
the Legion of Honor needs you
that young needs you
so that's the story.
Is it? when you're young it's your family
that needs you
when you're old, it's museums
look, if you're determined to wallow in your
own self-pity
that's not a damn thing I can do about it
well what in God's name do you expect me to
do about it
I expect you to be good to yourself
live it up a little join a backgammon club
enroll in Janet's essence exercise class
get Kevin Matthews to take you to the symphony
for heaven's sakes his boyfriend's on Hedra
until the end of June
I know but I
alright then mother, take a good look
at yourself mother you look terrible
see a specialist get a few tux ducks why not
for God's
sakes you've got the money the face the boobies
the fanny the full catastrophe
hahaha Didi.
Where are you headin’, dolly?
Reno.
One stop after me.
You takin’ the midnight bus hmm?
How ‘bout sittin’ with me, then? I get real nervous on the bus,
what with the perverts and all.
Well, I’m not sure I’d be much
all right I won't bother you know
I won't say nothing
unless you want me to
it's a deal
what's your name darling?
Mo..
Mo what
Mo nothing.
It's Judy
Mine's Mother Mucca. It’s kind of a nickname. I’m from Winnemucca
It’s a long story, and I don’t see no point in … Say, dolly, are you OK
You look kinda fucked up
I said you look fucked up. Your eyes
are all …
You ain’t been smokin’ no reefers, have you, dolly?
Sort of. Meanin’?
Ever heard of angel dust?
Holy shit! That stuff is for puttin’ elephants to sleep, girl! If you don’t know
any better than to fuck yourself up with an animal tranquilizer,
you ain’t got no business ridin’
I don’t have to sit here and listen
The fuck you don’t
Welcome to Manderley
I'm mrs.
Danvers
I'm sure you'll be very happy here.
Feeling gothic tonight?
aren't you? This place is a tomb.
But with Marianne and Michael off to Mexico
and Mona gone
who knows where and you out there terrorizing
half the female
population of San Francisco
I was working
hmm. it is work isn't it?
at the restaurant
well now your home would you care to smoke
a quick
joint with an old lady
sure, I'll bring the joint if you bring the
old lady
some people drink to forget, personally I smoke to remember.
Like what
old lovers, train rides, the taste of fountain Cokes when I was a kid
old lovers mm-hmm.
there were a few of them huh
mm-hmm a few, no not really
just one that I was sure
how about you. who was it you were so sure?
who said I was
I met her in law school
we had a place together cat, dog, furniture
how long
seven years
in 11 days
I don't want to be that sure again
it's part of the deal you know
what?
losing people.
wanting them back.
it's the price you pay for being alive
and guess what
age doesn't fix a thing
oh great fucking great
now you think it will when you're young
you think there will be some quiet safe place
just down the road
but it doesn't get any easier
just more familiar
so when the pain comes around again
all you can do is look at it straight in the eye
and say I recognize you you old bastard
was this reason
hmm fairly
his name was Edgar.
He was lovely
I didn't get to happen that long.
What a pisser
yes it was
it was a pisser.
Breakfast stop.
It’s O.K., dolly. Mother Mucca’s here. I’m lookin’ out for ya.
okay I appreciate
That angel dust’ll fuck you up every time. You shoulda heard yourself talkin’
in your sleep, dolly!
I don’t … what did I say
Where did the mouse go? I can’t find the mouse.’ Then you started hollerin’ for your daddy. It was goddamn spooky, dolly!
you got a damn it. Mind your manners
my daddy ran away when I was two and he could
stay away.
Where the hell are we
Truckee, California
come on
I'll buy you breakfast.
Drink
Hey
oh well he always takes longer
than I do
men are much fussier than girls I'll say
apologies, apologies
No sweat,
keep an eye on the little lady though
she's too pretty to let out without a leash
Mike knows that don't you Mike
can't let her out of my sight for a minute
you don't ever say that about me
wow this kids are younger than we are.
Mike
yep
how long you been in tools?
Under your t-shirt over the trendline business
oh yeah, I've been into tools oh I don't know,
four or five years
should remind work
oh yeah I'm a big tool man.
Why don't we go get some food hmm.
But a woman doesn't like when I talk tools
at the table
oh me too Arnold talks about aluminum honeycomb
until he's blue in the face and it is so boring
well maybe boring to you Melba but to
some people who choose to make their living
from it it's not boring Mike you
don't think tools are boring dude.
Hell no.
I had a girl named Judy once
What?
You said your name was Judy didn't you
Oh Judy was a peach
I guess she stayed with me longer’n any of ‘em.I guess she stayed with me longer’n any of ‘em.
yes sir she was a peach
you had a lot of children
children
you said
you're a lot dumber than you look darling
I'm talking about my whorehouse in Winnemucca
you
how long have you?
lord, it's too fucking long.
What brought you to San Francisco?
Ohh, hookers union meeting.
hmm What about you darling?
Well, dolly! You ain’t told me why you’re headin’ to Reno with a head full o’ angel dust!
I don't know, to get away for a while
I've never seen the desert
Desert, well I got plenty of that in Winnemucca.
I need a rest darling oh it's big place
I need help and over the phones
It’s real clean and pretty too.
I think you'd be kind of surprised.
Sure it's very nice.
Hell, dolly! I’m not white-slavin’ ya or anything! You’ll keep me company, that’s all.
You can leave whenever you want to.
I just don't think I'm... you know
Come on,
what do you do anyway For living I mean
I was an advertising copyrighter
Don't be so fucking uppity
The bus is leaving Mother Mucca
what we'll do then
nope Not unless I get my own waterbed.
Mouse
I do not know thees Mouse, signorina.
I am but a seemple Italian dining room steward
who wants to make ze whoopee weez ze beyootiful,
horny American girls!
you smoke that joint didn't you
I wish you'd learn to fantasize
tie me up.
will you?
Bondage already? You haven’t tried bingo yet.
And there’s a swell seniors mambo class this afternoon in the Carrousel Lounge
Actually I thought we might enter that
no thanks, last time I entered a dance contest
my boyfriend dumped me
that's because you were in your undies silly
shhh
what
that's the guy who's trying to pick us up
one of us
I sure wouldn't kick him out of bed
do you think he's gay
Well … his backstroke is a little nellie.
no I'm serious Mouse
then ask him dummy
Invite him over for Pina Colada
you don't think I'll do it
do you
okay. watch me
is it cold?
you can take it.
Something to eat miss Frances?
No, thank you Emma.
Emma
Madame
Do you think I...Emma
You were saying miss Frances
mr. Edgar gone miss Frances
he's passed on to the bosom of Jesus
and there's not a living thing in this
whole world can can bring him back
until the final judgment of the Lord
when he delivers his people from the origin
oh my god you're giving me a headache
What I want to know is,
I trust your opinion a great deal
I think you know that and...
Emma do you think I need a facelift?
well you do know what a facelift is
mm-hmm
Cuttin
no, well it gets that part
of it but it's a cosmetic process
a complete one which is really quite
common these days I mean lots of ladies
What ladies?
Miss Frances, the Lord gave you a perfectly
fine face and if
the Lord had intended
for you to look any differently he would've made you
Emma Lord doesn't have to go to Opera Guild
meetings
ma'am
I look so old
nobody I know looks like Nancy Kissinger
I'm an old turkey gobbler
look at that
now mr. Edgar wouldn't like that kind of talk
mr. Edgar is dead.
I'm Burke Andrew
Michael Tolliver
Thank you for letting me join you
I don't exactly relate
to most of the people on this ship
You don’t get off on blue rinse?
blue what?
I guess I'm a bit out of it.
Mouse talks in code, Burke. Half the time, I don’t have the slightest idea
what he’s talking about.
How long you two known each other?
A year I guess, we where at a grocery store
Mary Ann was trying to pick up my boyfriend
Gay as a goose
I'm gonna take a hike I'll give you two exactly an hour to get it on
can't do anything with him
apparently
oh no I didn't mean
I didn't mean like that
He seems very nice, actually
He is.
I love him a lot.
But he's not your ...
oh no no.
Actually, he thinks himself as my pimp service
Did that sound gross?
Not at all. I just … well, I’ve never met anybody
like you two before
so what were you from Burke?
All over really
most recently?
San Francisco.
Great! so am i.
Where do you live?
I don't ha I mean I used to live in San Francisco
but I don't anymore.
My parents live in Nantucket
I'm staying with them.
When you were there...
Do you like to swim?
I really think we should do that.
That's her.
you had her long?
sixty years enough for you?
Mother Mucca is an old motherfucker!
Come on
hey Bobby!
What the hell kept you
welcome back
are you limping?
If you turn one more trick with that crazy-ass
Elko shitkicker, I’ll boot your ass outa here so fast
you’ll wish you never been born.
Come here.
This here is Judy.
She's gonna stand work the phones for a while
mm-hmm,
Give her Tanya’s room
But take out the swing first
Sweet little thing, isnt she?
She seems very nice
Fucked up, though. Loco as they come. You gotta watch her like a mother hen.
Hell, when I found that dolly she’d sunk plumb to the bottom. She couldn’t go no lower.
heavy drugs?
Nope. Worse. Key punch operator.
knock knock
uh hi
You settled in now?
yeah thanks Bobby
what's that for?
This use to be Tanya's room
That’s where she hung the swing.That’s where she hung the swing.
The swing was part of … her routine?
silly She tinkled on them from up there. While she was swinging, see?
she was real famous for it
I think I saw her on The Gong Show once.
what happened to her?
oh She switched to a house in Elko.
Mother Mucca was plenty pissed
but you like Mother Mucca she talks real mean
but she's not that way at all
she loves us like daughters
I guess
she's never had any of her own
huh no she had a son once
what happened to him
oh he ran away they say a long time ago
Bobby!!
Bye.
well?
Is he?
How should I know?
It hasn't been a secret code handshake since 1956
He is gorgeous isn't he
yeah like big old collie dog
I think he likes me Mouse
So help me figure out what's wrong with him.
We Need to Talk.
Beauchamp
I'm tired of talking about it
I'm having these babies and I can't take
this harassment anymore.
I've decided to move to mother's.
Look goddamnit you've got some
explaining to do and you're not
running home to mommy
until I get some answers.
This charming anonymous missive
came to me at the office.
Now will you please tell me
what the hell that means?
That's disgusting.
Answer the question!
Oh fuck it Beauchamp.
The babies' father is Chinese