The Deep End of the Ocean(1996) INT. HOUSE Beth Vincent! What are you doing? Vincent! Vincent Hey, Ben! You won. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE Beth Come on, admit it. You're looking forward to this. Patty Are you kidding? I've got the weekend crowd I'm not even going to notice. INT. THE HOUSE Vincent Give me a break, You're the one that wants to go. Ben! Ben! You little jerk! Did you get in and the lid shut on you? Ben Yeah! You go now? Vincent Yeah, right. We go now. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE Beth You'll probably play pool with Joey after you close the restaurant. Patty You're dumb enough to take three kids to your class reunion I'm smart enough to have a good time. Beth Hey, party! Patty Party hearty! INT.THE HOUSE Ben I'm underwater! Beth That's great news. Where's your brother? Ben I don't know. Beth Honey, will you go find Vincent, please? Pat Sweetie, did you remember the sandwiches? Beth Of course not. Patty Bethie, I swear, if your head wasn't screwed on Beth You'll find it later, sitting by the microwave. Patty Then I'd have to call you in Chicago. Beth Who needs a head at a high school reunion? Vincent I want to stay with Dad and go to the restaurant. I'm not going to Chicago. Beth & Pat You're going! Patty Honey? Let me finish out the roll, okay? Beth Pat, Now? Patty Come on, just two shots! By the lilacs. It'll take just a second. Beth All right, sweetheart, look at Daddy. Patty I know, I know the photographer hates having her picture taken. Everybody say meatball! INT. INSIDE THE CAR TO CHICAGO Beth Benbo, bologna is for eating not washing windows. Vincent Your seatbelt's loose. Ben Mom, sing me that bunny song. Vincent I wish I was still home with Dad. Ben Sing me, " if a bunny catch a bunny.. Beth If a bunny catch a bunny Coming through the rye... Vincent I hate this song! Beth If a bunny kiss a bunny and made a bunny cry. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOTEL Ellen You're here! Beth I'm here! Beth Just a second, let me get Kerry. Ellen No, no, no, no. Let me get her. Ellen Oh, Look at her! Beth Watch your head, Benbo. Ellen I'm your godmama, Kerry. Remember me? God love her! Look at her. Oh my God! Is that Ben? You're a grownup. (To Vincent) Vincent, can you swim? Martha's inside, waiting for you. Come on sweetie. I have a surprise! Where's your tooth? Vincent I lost it. Ellen Oh, speak of the devil. Beth, you remember Martha, the babysitter from God. Beth Great! Can you help with Kerry? Martha Sure thing, Mrs. Cappadora. INT. THE HOTEL ROBBY Beth Is there some kind of registration table or something? Ellen Oh, Yeah! You're all set. I stuck it all my card. Beth Ellen, you can't do that! Ellen It's 70 bucks or something. Who cares? Beth Donna Trump, I care. Beside Ellen Besides, I can write it off. Beth I've got a fashion shoot on Sunday. Boutique on Oak Street. You'll have to go up in that mess and rearrange it then. Ellen O h, Jesus, Is that Michelle Pulliam? Beth Did she eve marry that guy? Ellen No, they broke up. Then she went out with. Jimmy Elizabeth Kerry and her merry band! Kids Jimmy! Jimmy How're my big guys? Wow, Vincent! You have gotten so huge! Beth They'd hug any man with a badge, Come to think of it and so would I. Jimmy What would you do if you found detective? Beth Hey! Congratulations! Jimmy Guess who I just saw? Beth Who? Jimmy Cecil Lockhart. Ellen You mean Cecil Maria Lockhart? Beth Star of stage, screen and mouthwash commercials. Oh my God! There she is. Ellen Remember when she first got laid? When she was 15, and she told us Beth " I can't imagine going a mouth without it." Jimmy She was talking about pizza, guys. Woman A Hey, Beth! My God! How are you? Woman B Look at you! How are you? Beth Good, good. Woman A Is she your new one? Beth Aha. Woman A Where's little Vincent? Vincent I'm not little. Woman A Oh, No, you're not. Vincent Mom, I want to go. Ben Mom, I want pizza. Beth You stay with your brother. Martha, would you take care of the car? It's ... Well, you saw it. Right. Benbo I'll pay the thing. Beth Vincent! Listen! I want you to hold Ben's hand real tight. And you guys can play on this really cool cart, okay? Vincent Mom, my neck's hot. My neck is killing me. Beth Vincent, listen up! This will only take a second, okay? Stay here with Ben while I'm paying the lady. When Martha comes, she'll take you swimming, okay? Vincent okay. Beth Oh, thanks. Front desk clerk Sorry it took so long. Beth That's okay. Beth Where's Ben? Vincent He wouldn't let me hold him. Would you look at my neck? I've got a heat rash or something. Yeah, hold on sweetie. Beth Yeah, hold on sweetie. Ellen! Ben took off. Would you...? Ellen I'll find him. See you later. Beth You stay here! Don't move. Beth Excuse me? Have you seen a little boy? He's got a red baseball cap, 3 years old. Waitress No, sorry. Beth Vincent Think heard. Which way did Ben go? Vincent I don't know. Beth Didn't you watch? Vincent I couldn't see him. Ellen He wasn't over there. We should get the manager. Beth I don't know. Maybe if we just wait Ellen Stop! Everybody please just listen up for a second. We all need to look for Beth Kerry's little boy. His name is Ben. He's 3, and he was wearing a red baseball cap. He was just here a second ago. So if you would all look around where you are. Jimmy Wait a minute. Hold on, folks. (To Beth) We'll find him. It's going to be fine. I'm going to divide the room right down the middle, okay? I want each of you to stay in your half and look around you. If you see Ben, you pick him up and you call out to me, all right? Jimmy Pat will be here soon, right? Beth I didn't call him. I thought we'd find Ben right away. Jimmy Let's make that call now, right? (Jimmy dials the number) Here you go. Go ahead, Beth. (Beth can't answer) Cop A Magill, you go talk to the female. Cop Magill Mrs. Cappadora? I'm officer Magill. Beth My God! You brought a lot of police officers. Cop Magill We take the disappearance of a child this small very seriously this things Mrs. Cappadora. Beth you worried, then? Cop Magill lost kids, we always find them. And they're okay. They're not hurt. Beth Good. Cop Magill If only if it gets to 5 hours, we usually consider it. Anyway, we'll find him before then. Cop Magill So, your friend Elaine was with you? Beth Ellen. She met me out front. She was waiting for me. Cop Magill okay, so besides Ellen, who was the first person you talked to? Beth Oh, The cheerleaders. Cop B Would another family member on your side have any reason to pick up the boy? Beth My folks are dead. there's nobody. Cop C Has he ever been fingerprinted? Beth Ah, No. Yes, Actually, the school district a program. Beth Jimmy, It's been 4 hours. Jimmy Beth, we've got everybody on it, okay? This is my boss. Detective Supervisor Bliss. Beth Bliss? Bliss Candy Bliss. I know, it sounds like a stripper's name. The things parents do to kids! I can't believe I said that. Look, Mrs. Cappadora, We're gonna do everything we can to find your little boy. Description out? Cop Magill Yes,, they're checking the database now. Bliss Great. First thing I want to tell you is that this is nobody's fault. Kids disappear all the time and somebody always find them. Jimmy That's right. We're set up over here. Patty Where is he? Cop A Excuse me ,sir? Patty My son! Where is he? Jimmy Patty! We haven't found him yet. I promise you. It won't take long. Patty Where's Ben? Where's Bethie? Patty How did this happen? Beth No. Patty Okay, all right, okay. It's going to be okay. Where is it nobody's searched? The basement? Jimmy It's just food storage there, and all the doors are kept locked. Patty But you have freezers, cabinets? Ben loves hiding places. Take me down there. Vincent Daddy! Patty You okay? You sure? I'm going downstairs a minute. You stay here with Mommy, okay? (To Jimmy) Let's go! (Patty's parents arrives) Grandma Patty! Are you all right? (To Beth) My God in heaven! Grandpa How long has he been missing? Patty About 5 hours. Grandpa They'll remember. They'll make one more call. Patty Come on, I'll take you over to the command center. Grandma Kerry and Vincent will come to the house. It's better, right? Where's Kerry? Beth Upstairs. Grandma You'll come with me, Grandma., honey, all right. Beth You go with Grandmother, Vincent, okay? Vincent Will you tell me when Ben gets back, Mom? Grandma She'll tell us, honey. It won't be long. Patty Sit down, sweetheart. Bliss I'm sorry. Do you have any other pictures of Ben? Beth I lost my purse. Patty No, no ,no. I have it, Honey. Beth Ben!! I want Ben!! (Beth cries out) Jimmy Grab her wrist and hold her down. Medic! Patty It's okay. It's all right. Patty Give her something! Quick! It's all right, sweetheart. It's all right. Beth You don't know. I don't even know. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE (TV reporters asks a lot of questions) Pat, How long are you staying with your parents? Do the police have any leads? Have the kidnappers tried to contact you? How long were you gone before you noticed your son was missing. Who'd want to do this? How long will you be in Chicago? INT.THE HOUSE Beth's on TV(V.O.) he's 3 years old but he's big for his age. And people always think that he's older. He's very verbal , he babbled to himself.. Sometimes you can barely hear him but he says his words very clearly. He has blond hair and blue eyes. And he was wearing a red baseball cap. And he loves pizza. He's very afraid of the water. He loves to sing songs. Sometimes he'll sing the same song over and over again. He was wearing red shoes. Little high-top sneakers with green parrots on the side. And white socks. And a red T- shirt with yellow sleeves and little blue shorts. Blue plaid shorts. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE Patty Call you when we get home. INT. THE POLICE OFFICE Ellen Unbelievable, right? Diane Lundgren's on her way over and Cecil Lockhart signed up. But her mother got sick. You know who else called? Lizzy DeNunzio. Beth Where is she now, Switzerland? Ellen I think she moved there. Beth How'd she even fond out about it? Ellen Who knows? Beth But she just sounds sick about it. Everyone is, Bethie. Beth I know. Beth Laurie! I can't believe you're here. Laurie What was I supposed to do? Stay in Madison, watch CNN? Beth Have you seen Candy? Ricky she's with McGuire. Beth Thanks, Ricky. Bliss Then go to Minneapolis. How far can it be? Cop Candy, we've been getting bogus leads everyday for 6 weeks now. This kid is dead and you know it. Bliss Don't tell me I know it! I don't know it. This is interstate, so I have to call FBI. Cop Come on, Candy, the FBI? Bliss Give me a break. Bliss Hey, Bethie. So you heard that? Beth I heard about the FBI. Bliss Come into my office. Have a seat! Listen, Beth. Just because some volunteers are going home doesn't mean the case is closed. Some of them got lives. I don't. So I'm here. And I'm not giving up. Beth I'm sorry, I didn't... Bliss I'm a jerk. There's something wrong with what you just did. I'm just an oversensitive jerk. Beth You're too involved. You can't Bliss I'm black. I'm a woman. I'm a detective supervisor. And I'm gay. Did you know that? So I always feel like the eyes of Texas are on me. Every time I go to hug Katie from Crimestoppers I think she thinks I'm coming on to her. Beth I wasn't... Bliss I know hat. I just wanted you to know I'm a little jerkish today. So, that's calls for a Gummi Bear. Tough guys chew Gummi Bears. Beth, you laughed. You only laughed. It doesn't mean our side loses points. It doesn't mean you'll kill your son because you laughed. You have got to survive. Beth That's just it. I don't want to survive Ben. I don't want to face it. Bliss Then I guess you can just move into a corner in my office and I'll use you as a coat rack. You got to do whatever you got to do. But you got 2 great kids, which I would give. My right arm for. Even though you think you're a terrible mother you're the only mother Kerry and Vincent have. Beth I should go home. INT. THE CAR Patty Jill's been great with Kerry. Really great. But I think Vincent's going to need a little time. He'll be fine. He's been back, what, six weeks? Beth I'm sure he'll be fine. INT.THE GARAGE Patty Coming? Jill, we're back! Beth Baby, you scared me. How's my big guy? Are you good? Vincent Mom, Guess what? On Thursday, I made 6 baskets in a row! Beth look how long your legs are. INT. THE BEDROOM Patty How is she? Has she been in bed all day? Jill Pretty much. Patty How'd Vincent get home? Did you pick him up? Jill Yeah, I didn7t have class today. Patty Okay thanks. Jill, did she say she was coming down? INT KITCHEN Patty So, some girl walks in, chewing gum and talking through her nose has legs up to her neck. Polo just says, Great, you're hired! The new kids we got don't know spaghetti from scampi. They think the cash register is their personal savings account. I'll tell you what When I open my own place this is exactly what you won't see. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL Beth Guess what happened? I thought today was Sunday. Isn't that funny? Vincent Can we just please go? INT. THE BASEMENT Patty Beth, you downstairs? Honey, what are you doing? INT. THE KITCHEN Laurie You ever been in a doctor's office without a People magazine? One day Ben will go to a doctor's office with whoever took him. And some other patient. Beth Laurie, stop! Okay? I know you mean well, but just stop. INT. THE DOOR X'MAS EVE Joey Could be more presents. Grandma Merry Christmas! Grandpa Joey, it's cold. Shut the door. Joey Merry Christmas, Beth. Vincent Mom, look, Uncle Joey gave me my stocking present early because it's too big to fit in the stocking. See? Beth Yeah, that's great. Merry Christmas, Theresa. Theresa How you feeling, honey? I almost didn't make it. I started having Braxton-Hicks. Vincent You should breathe in a bag. Grandma I'll try that. Maybe a Christmas baby. Theresa I hope not. Theresa She's carrying like it's a boy. That's what everybody says. Patty The gang's all here! My God, sis, look how big you are! Theresa Don't rub it in. INT. THE LIVINGROOM Vincent Look, mom, they're for Ben from Grandma and Grandpa. Beth Rosie, What are these? Grandma Present for Ben. Beth Rosie, Why did you bring present for Ben? Grandma I believe that Ben will be found. When he is found I want him to know his family didn't forget him. Beth Do you have forgotten Ben? Grandma Of course not. We didn't get Ben any gifts. Beth I understand that. To tell the truth, I didn't even want to go through this whole, big holiday act. You know what I wanted to do? I anted to sleep through it. When you do this, and you act like he's just out of town on some business trip and he'll be back anytime. Theresa Beth, take it easy. Beth Take it easy? How can I take it easy when nobody except me seems to want to accept the fact that it's over? It's over. We're all going to go on eating and sleeping Theresa You must snap out of this. No one can talk to you. I can't. Pat can't. Patty Butt out, will you? Theresa If you don't have any hope that Ben will come back. Beth Come back? He's even fore yet. What's he going to do? Get an Amtrak schedule? Grandpa We didn't mean anything by it. Theresa Don't you think we're all grieving? Patty I mean it! Theresa ! Shut up! Theresa No, Pat! You're all scared to say this, but I'm not. We try and call. She doesn't want to talk. We write, she doesn't answer. Vincent Mom. Ben will be back tomorrow. Beth What? Vincent But it's Christmas. For my present, I asked Santa to bring Ben home I think he'll do. INT. THE HALL Laurie Where is she? Patty She's upstairs. Laurie She still won't speak to me, will she? Patty I think she will. Everybody's been calling. After you talk with People we reprinted the poster 5 times. Laurie I think she hates my guts. INT. UPSTAIRS THE BEDROOM Laurie What are you doing? Beth Ending would hunger. I just got off the phone with the U.N. Laurie Well, That's good. Look, will you just forgive me and get this over with? I'd never give them anything unless it was the right thing to do. I would never do a thing to hurt you. How long have we been friends? Beth 1000 years. I know. Laurie Then good, okay? I have something I want to do for me. Beth I don't believe you. Laurie I want you to take a picture. Beth I don't do that anymore. I took early retirement. Laurie You could use the money. This is good money. Patty Good for what? Laurie I want her to take a portrait of a Chinese family. Patty We are kind of tapped out, just keeping Vincent in sneakers. You could do this. You wouldn't even have to go out. Beth I threw away all my paper and stuff. Patty I'll go get you more paper and stuff. Laurie Please. Just this once. Let me get rid of my guilt by doing you this one good turn. Beth This is not a good turn. This is a set- up. INT.THE KITCHEN Patty These are really beautiful. Beth I have to print. I have 4 phone calls to make. I have to get Vincent ready for Little League. Patty Through any more about Chicago? Beth What about it? Patty Could be great. Kids'll love it there. I'll have my own restaurant. Beth I have to get Kerry up. Patty There's plenty of time for that. Beth Okay, fine. You go upstairs, get my diaphragm, fill it up with gunk and we'll have 8 minutes before I have to feed Vincent. Patty We can have a lot of fun in 8 minutes. Beth Okay, fine. You want to do it right here? I can make toast at the same time. Patty It's not like I'm on top of you all the time. We make love about as often as we pay the water bill. I don't see why you need a diaphragm every damn time. Beth I don't want to get pregnant every damn time. We had 3 kids and we always wanted more. I miss that. I misses this house being full of noise. I used to want to run up the walk to lunch. Beth It's not going to change anything. Another kid. It'd be like a replacement part like you get a new gravy boat so you don't spoil the set. Patty That's a lousy fucking thing to say. Beth I agree. So, I'll stop saying fucking lousy things. I'm not having a baby, and I'm not moving to Chicago. So you can start a new restaurant with your dad. You want a new baby and restaurant? You need a new wife. Patty I don't want a new wife. All I want is for us to be a family again. A normal life. Nothing's wrong with that. That's healthy. Beth You want to know what it's like? It's like I'm standing under this giant snowbank. If I move one inch in any direction it's going to come crashing down and bury me. Do you know I don't dare to think of him for a full minute? One inch and the whole thing's going to comedown. You will have to raise these kids by yourself. Patty I'm doing that now. Beth That's right. Pat's always been the rock. Isn't that what it said in People magazine? There was Pat holding together that poor, crazy woman and those sweet little kids. You're such a hero. Patty All right, stop it. Beth You would never have let Ben get lost. Patty I mean it. Stop it. Beth You would never have been such a bad, shitty parent. Patty That's right, I wouldn't. Beth You self-righteous son of a bitch! Pat I'm not self-righteous, I'm RIGHT! Kids don't just vanish up in smoke, kids don't just get lost, PEOPLE LOSE THEM! INT. THE RESTAURANT 9YEARS LATER IN CHICAGO Patty So This is the bar and the waiting area. That's the wine rack. Dad's personal design. People sit here while they're waiting for tables. That's that kitchen back there and this is it. Beth The murals are done. Patty Tables will be through here and they'll carry back over to there. And this is the dance floor. there'll be a live band over here. Thursday through Sunday. Kerry Hey, Theresa, is that Italian Italy? Patty You like it, honey? It's La Boheme. You're Mini and I'm Rodolfo. Except she lives in the end. Beth Well, good. Oh, honey, it's gorgeous, it really is. Patty Can you believe this place? Beth I can't wait. Bliss (looks at Vincent) So, what's Mr. Tough Guy up to? Vincent (on the phone) Apart from needing a haircut. Beth I don't know. He's making friends, I guess. He's been on the phone a lot lately. Patty (To Vincent) Hey, Vincent, If you're using that phone for your bookie operation, it'll be a part of your anatomy. Vincent I'm not, Dad. Jesus! (On the phone) I got to go. Yeah, Bye. Beth It is, isn't it? Bliss New house, new restaurant. You're doing a really good imitation of having a life. INT. THE BEDROOM MORNING Beth You have the biggest snarl right here. No, wait, Kerry. Just one more. INT. THE HOUSE DOOR Kerry Are you in sixth? Sam Yeah, You're in third. You were the soybean, right? Kerry Actually, I was the feed corn. Sam So who do you have? Kerry Cook. Yeah, I had Cook. She's pretty decent. Kerry Mommy? Sam Are you okay? Beth Yeah, I'm fine. Sam I was leaving my phone number in case you needed your lawn mowed. Beth Wait. I really do need my lawn mowed. Could you do it today? Sam Yeah. Sure. Great! I'll get my stuff. I live 2 blocks down there. Kerry You don't need a mower! We have a mower. My brother's supposed to do it. He's in high school. He's lazy! Beth Do you know that boy? Kerry Mom, it's not talking to strangers if you're in your own house. Beth I know. That's true. Do you know his name? Kerry It's Jason. He's on patrol. No, wait, wait, I'm wrong. Jason wears the beanie hat. He got reported. Beth You don't know his name? Kerry It's Sam. It's Sam Kero. Kero something. Mom, where are you going? INT. THE BASEMENT Kerry Are you going to work? Beth Kerry, you know what? I have to take some leaf pictures. So, it's okay if you go across the street and play with Blythe, okay? INT. THE SECOND FLOOR Beth (To Sam in the yard) I'm taking pictures of leaves. That's my job. I take pictures. INT. THE BASEMENT Beth Lord God, Lamb of God, son of the Father who takes away sin. Have mercy on us. Have mercy on us. EXT. THE FRONT DOOR (Sam's note says) Ran out of gas. I will come back tomorrow. Sincerely, Sam. INT. THE BASEMENT Beth it is . Isn't it? Patty Is this possible? Beth Here's the last aging projection they did of him around the time he was 8. Patty Who is he? Beth He came to the door to mow lawns. I let him mow the lawn. He's coming back tomorrow.. He ran out of gas. Patty Where does he live? Beth 2 blocks. Patty 2 blocks from here? Did he just move here? Beth I don't know how long Kerry knows him from school and she's been at Sandburg for what, 2 years? Good Christ! He's probably just some kid who looks like Ben. His hair is darker. Patty No, you're right. Let's call Candy. Then we're going to that house. Beth it's late at night. He's sleeping. We don't even know his last name. Patty 2 blocks from here. I mean When you saw you, did he... Beth Nothing. He had no idea. But he was 3, and he doesn't know this house. INT. VINCENT'S ROOM Beth Vincent, I want you to go downstairs and order a pizza. Do that first, then go to Blythe's and get Kerry and put on a video for her. Take the pizza money out of my purse. Because, I want to do in the basement. Its very important and it can't wait. So, I want you to give Kerry pizza. Will you do that? Vincent Don't I always? Jesus! EXT. THE PORCH NIGHT Patty I'm going to call Pop. Beth No, don't tell him. Not until we know. Patty No, I just I'm not going to work tomorrow. INT. THE KITCHEN Kerry What were you doing on the porch mommy? Beth I was watching the sun come up. Patty You got a ride? Vincent Kenny's dad is picking me up. Kerry I'm riding my bike. Patty No, you're not riding your bike. Kerry Dad, I'm 9 now. I'm older than the other 18 kids in my class. Patty People who live in walking distance don't ride bikes. They walk. You don't have a bike lock. Kerry Could you get me one? Patty Yes, I'll get you a bike lock today. I promise. You van ride your bike to school tomorrow. Okay? Come on, let's go. Vincent Bye, Mom. Beth Vincent, wait. I love you. I want you to know I love you. Vincent Thank you, Mom. INT. THE FRONTDOOR Beth I know it sounds insane. I don't know if it's him for sure. I don't know what I know. It can't be Ben. But It's Ben. Isn't it? (Bliss looks at Sam's pictures) INT. THE LIVINGROOM Bliss I say we go in Chief Badtokovich The boy's in prospective custody. We got an unmarked in front of the suspect's house. Bliss We snatched the kid from school. The principal probably called the father. Patty What are we waiting for? Chief Badtokovich There's a process involved here. It's not like you're bringing your boy home today. He's gonna have to go to foster care. He's gonna need counseling. There'll be a period of transition. And anyway, we want to make sure we I.D the boy 100%. Bliss Look at the picture! It's the same kid. It's Sam Karras! Chief Badtokovich Candy, don't go off half-cooked on me. This is a big case. And it wouldn't be any harm to get a little thing like a warrant.‚ Bliss I got the warrant. I talked to the D.A. (on the phone) Bliss. Thank you. The fingerprints match. Chief Badtokovich You folks ready for this? Beth You don't get to be ready for this. EXT. STREET Vincent's friend They're busting you for hot-wiring Jamie's car. Vincent I don't know. I'm going to call you later, okay? INT.THE LIVINGROOM Patty Vincent! Come in here, will you please? This is Chief Badtokovich. Listen, Vincent, Kerry's got girl Scouts, right? Beth I think. Vincent So, she won't be home till after 5. Beth Right. Vincent. You saw that picture this morning. That's why the police are here. Vincent I thought it was a fire drill. Can I just go upstairs? Beth Listen to me. We think the boy in that picture is Ben. Vincent Yeah, The kid in that house on Maple, right? Beth You saw him? You saw Ben? Vincent I didn't know it was Ben. I used to see this kid goofing around. I looked. I never really thought about him much. Beth Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me, or, for God's sake, your father! Vincent Tell you what? I found my long-lost brother down the street? Would you have listened to me? Would you have ever heard me? Beth When was the first time you saw him? Vincent How long have we lived here? Beth It doesn't matter now. I'll tell you when. I'll tell you. Vincent Fine. Do that. INT. THE KARRAS'S HOUSE Bliss Do you have a 12-year-old boy named Sam living in this house? Karras Yes, I do. My God, my son. Is he hurt? Bliss No, he is fine. He's in the custody of protective services of Cook County. Karras What are you talking about? He's at school. Bliss Mr. Karras. You're under arrest for kidnapping in connection with the abduction June 3rd, 1988 of Benjamin Cappadora. You have the right to remain silent. What you say can and will be used against you... Karras You've got the wrong house. The people that lost their boy live around the corner. Still over on Drummond. No, no, no. My neighbor knows the family. This is a big mistake. INT. THE DININGROOM Bliss Cecil gave birth in 1985 which is the same year Ben was born. Apparently, the baby had complications and died. She had a nervous breakdown. They had to put her away. She got out about 3 years after that, just in time to make it to the reunion, where she saw Ben and snatched him. And she disappeared into Minneapolis where she met George and married him. He adopted Ben. And then they moved here. About 5 years ago, she committed suicide. I got to tell you, I feel totally responsible for a lot of what's happened. Because, we interviewed this woman. I sat in this woman's house. I had tea with her. And someone in there You know was Ben. And I missed him. Patty George Karras wasn't at all suspicious and he adopted Ben. Bliss So she lied to her husband. She lied to me. I'm supposed to know when people are lying. Because I 'm a supercop. I didn't find him. You guys did. Beth No one found him. He found us. EXT. IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE TV Reporters. Are you heading to the foster home now? What are you going to say to him? How's it feel to get your son back? Did you contact him at all in the last 2 weeks? Are you going to call him Ben or Sam? Do you have any statement to make? EXT. IN FRONT OF THE KARRAS'S HOUSE Patty How are you? Ben I'm good. INT. KITCHEN Beth Kerry, Stop fidgeting. You're not hungry? Vincent I'm not in industrial vacuum mode like some people. Ben Could I have some milk? Vincent You do milk with pizza? Beth I like milk with pizza. INT. THE FRONTDOOR Beth Yes, Mr. Karras? Karras I came to bring you Sam's records. Photos. This is his medical chart. This is his dental. One cavity in his permanent teeth when he was 10. Report cards.. You'll see. A little trouble in math. You know, this was my wife and my son. This wasn't some lunatic and the boy she kidnapped. Not to me. Good night. INT. RESTAURANT Vincent Loosen up, man. Patty Come on. I want to show you something. This is called the tarantella. It's an old Italian dance. You want to learn it? Come on, you can learn it. Ben I don't know this dance. I only know the Hasapiko. Patty You'll have to say it again. Ben Hasapiko. Patty Hey, guys, can you hold it? My son doesn't know the trantella. But he knows the Hasapiko. You know it? INT. KERRY'S BEDROOM Beth Here, just wear these. Kerry Mommy, I hate those. Beth Kerry you loved those socks 3 days ago. Kerry It's not for church. I want tights. INT. THE BEDROOM Beth That's Vincent's. See, it's his christening gown. This is what we brought him home from the hospital in. Do you want to see yours? Ben They're so little. They look like doll clothes. What's that smell? Beth It's cedar. It's from the chest. It's supposed to keep moths away. Haven't you ever smelled it before? Ben No, maybe my grandmother had a chest like this. Beth What? Sam, are you remembering something? Ben Beth, can I see my dad today? I really want to see him. Beth Sure. EXT. THE SEMETARY Beth Basically it's the story of what happened. What we talked about in the car. Look at this ,Sam. He was only 14 years old. That must've been so sad. But look, 1869. He died 2 years before the fire. Ben Maybe he killed himself, like my mom. I mean, Cecilia. Beth Why do you think that? Here, look through here. Ben Like, for Cecilia, I think she was just too sad. So maybe this guy was too sad too, you know? Beth What do you mean? Ben There could be worse things than being dead. Beth Like what? Sam, you know how much we love you. Ben Yeah, I know you do. Pat, Kerry. Beth And Vincent too. Ben Yeah, right. Beth Really, he's like that with all of us. He's had a hard time. Ben What about me? I love my dad. And I loved my mom too. She didn't mean to be sick. So why do I have to be punished when it wasn't my fault? Beth Do you know how much I've missed holding you all these years? And how many years you didn't have me to hug you? Ben They hugged me. They hugged me all the time. Beth Sam, what do you wish? You can say. Ben That everything was like it was before. But that would hurt you and Pat and I couldn't stand that either. I don't know. EXT. THE BACKYARD Beth You know, what happened last night, that's just the tip of it. Patty I'm gonna say this just once. I love you. I've been in love with you your whole life. But you know what I've seen about you? you've made a career out of being unhappy. Beth That is not fare. Patty If I have a chance to be happy, I'm going to be happy. can't you just try and let us all be happy? Beth What about Sam? Patty Just keep being a mother to him. Help him to get through this. Beth He doesn't know who we are. He doesn't remember us. We are holding him against his will. Patty Where are you going with this? If you think I'm going to lose my kid again? Beth I can't ignore that because you finally have your life the way you want. It's like we are the kidnappers now. Patty No, We're not the kidnappers! Sam will be fine. He'll get through this. It's you. Losing your kid once wasn't enough, was it? Beth You know something, Pat? You're right. I wasn't there. I let it happen. It only took a minute and we've paid for it. I have and you have and Vincent has, I'm sorry t think that means that Sam has to pay for it too. Does it? We are where we are. How we got here doesn't matter. What matters is . What are we going to do now? Patty Don't push me on this, Beth. Beth I want to give him back. Patty I can't do that. Beth Then I want you to let me do what I have to do. INT. THE CAR Beth Can you get your bags okay? INT.THE JAIL Beth He's so angry with me. Things are really bad. Bliss I know. But I think he's right about Vincent. Beth I can't win with Vincent. He hates me. Bliss He doesn't hate you. What are you talking about? He loves you. Have you never seen the way that he looks at you? All he wants you to do is to forgive him. For all the shit he's pulled and the shit you don't know he's pulled. He's so much like you. He takes everything onto himself. How do you think he's feeling that Sam is gone? Beth You okay? Vincent I'm fine. Beth Do you need anything? I think you'll have to stay here another day or so. Vincent It's the weekend. I'm fine. Headache. It's no big deal. Beth Do you know how lucky you were? Mr. Teeter's car was totaled. You could've been... Vincent I don't need this right now. What are you doing here? I've been fine without you. Beth I don't think you have been, Vincent. I'm sorry. I'll get you out. Dad's working on it. INT. THE GARAGE Beth Can't we get past this? This isn't just about losing Sam. Patty What is it about? Beth The Sam that's in your head, he doesn't exist. The family that's in your head doesn't exist either. Patty This family is not in my head. It's very real. After what he pulled, I pray I find a way to get him through high school in one piece. And get him to believe he can get through life without fouling up. Beth Part of you liked it when I always fell apart and you were holding this family together Making all the decisions. But now I don't need you to pull me out of bed and slap my clothes and make me pay attention to the kids. Patty I have to go to work. Beth But I need you. Patty Why? Tell me what for. Beth I need you to love me. INT.THE JAIL Officer You got a visitor. Vincent Everyone I've ever met in my life has already been here. Officer Name's Sam Karras. Are you going to see him or not? Ben So, you okay? Vincent They gave me 5 to 10. But I'm reasonably okay. I'm kidding. Ben Were you drunk? Vincent I was over-served. Yeah, Sam, I was drunk. So what do you want? Ben I just thought... I came because I thought we could be friend. Vincent Friends? Tell me how you and I can be friends. You come back. You leave. You go in and out of our window. I don't even know who you are, Ben. Sam! Whatever the hell your name is. You're a concept. You follow me? Ben That's not my fault. Vincent "That's not my fault." You always worry about whose fault it is. Who cares? Look, I got my own life now. It's pretty unfun at the moment. Tell me what you want. Ben You're my brother. I missed you. Sometimes, I even thought that maybe I shouldn't have. Whatever, you're my brother. Vincent You should go now, Sam. I'm sorry, you're a real good kid. You're fine, but I'm Maybe I'll visit you when I'm out, but now. Ben Wait! There's something I got to tell you. I remembered something. Vincent What do you mean? Ben Well, when I was at your house, Beth showed me this old trunk. It was full old baby clothes. I don't remember anything. Vincent Yeah. So? Ben But I remembered the smell. From being inside the trunk. Hide- and-seek. Did that really happened? Vincent You let the lid shut and it caught. Ben I knew it. Finally, you came and opened the top. Vincent You were just there. Not scared or anything. Ben See? That's what I remember. That I wasn't scared. Because I knew you'd come and find me. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE Vincent What the hell are you doing? Ben Nothing. Want to play some? Vincent It's nearly midnight and it's cold, in case you haven't noticed. Jesus, Sam! Does George know you're here? Ben Yeah, come on down. Vincent No, you just want to get me arrested again, don't you? You ever heard of disturbing the peace? Ben We could play quiet. What's the matter? Come on! Vincent All right. Ben Come on! What are you waiting for? Vincent Easy, Sam. Ben All right. Vincent Losers out to 11, win by 2? Ben Watch out. Are you asleep or something? Ben Quit fouling me! Ben You got to say, "beat" You are beat, right? Vincent I let you. Let's call it a night. Come back tomorrow for a rematch. Ben Well, the thing is, I'm not going back. Vincent What do you mean? What are you doing? Ben George knows. I mean, we talked about it a lot last week. He even knows why I came here so late. Vincent Why? Ben I didn't want to have this whole big thing with you and Beth and Pat. Vincent Sam? Is this permanent? Ben I don't know. I mean, maybe. If I can. Vincent Jesus, what is this, your cinder block collection? I was the one. I let go of your hand. Ben This thing is heavy. My dad, George helped me carry it over. Vincent Did you hear what I said? Ben Yeah. So what? Vincent I let go of your hand, Sam. I told you to get lost. That's what I said. I said " Get lost!" Ben Big deal. Everybody says stuff like that. " Get lost!" Here's the deal. "Make it take it to eleven." Got to win by two. Loser carries it up alone. Come on, man! Or, are you too tired to play? Come on, let's go! Beth They'll wake up the neighborhood. Patty Let them play. Beth Let's get some sleep.