Come See the Paradise SCENE 1 MINI Why are we so early? LILY It's good to be early. MINI Do you ever worry that you won't recognize him, Mama? LILY You recognize me, don't you? Why shouldn't you recognize him? MINI Well, he might have grown a beard or a mustache or something, and I was so little...I only think I remember him. Do you think he'll remember me? LILY Well, he has all your photographs and all the letters that you wrote him. And he has all your school reports and... MINI You sent him my school reports? LILY Well, of course I did. I wanted to let him know how well you're doing. Come on, now. I've got some tea and some rice cakes here. We'll have a nice talk while we're walking, okay? Let's go. MINI How far do we have to go? LILY Not far. MINI If we have so much time, why are you walking so fast? I shouldn't have worn these new shoes. I think I have a blister. LILY Try not to think about it. You want to look pretty now, don't you? MINI Can we talk about Papa? LILY Okay. SCENE 2 Movie theater, Brooklyn, New York, 1936 SCENE 3 JACK It wasn't what was planned. It wasn't agreed in committee. BRENNAN Smoke bomb. Fire bomb. What the fuck's the difference, kid? JACK A bunch of people could have gotten killed. That's the fuckin' difference! BRENNAN Hey, look kid. You got the right interests but the wrong attitude. JACK It wasn't agreed in committee! BRENNAN Fuck the committee! Hey, this is Brooklyn, not Petrograd! It's just another way of negotiating. All these animals who own the theaters...this is all they understand. Augie, talk to this guy for Christ's sakes, will ya? AUGIE It's just a different way of doing business, Jack. JACK Business my ass! AUGIE The result is the same. You want to unionize these morons you gotta kick 'em in the crotch before you even get 'em to the table. Now it's like Mr. Brennan says, whatever way you look at it, it's negotiation. JACK Oh Augie, don't let him give you that... BRENNAN Here's three hundred. Take a vacation. Go read some more books, sonny boy. You're outta here. JACK What? BRENNAN Out! Bye-bye! Adios! AUGIE That pretty usherette with the doo-da hairdo got a pretty good look at you, Jack. And there ain't too many good looking Irishmen with burned hands in Brooklyn. JACK Just spit it out, Augie. AUGIE Things are different, Jack. To these guys you're trouble, okay? You know every statute on the law books by heart. But you've got principles. And you got politics. And that ain't how they want to do things right now. This is a different union and they're scared of you. JACK What, of these? AUGIE Of your mouth, Jack. Please, take the money. Else next time you might get burned so bad, you won't need bandages. SCENE 4 REIKO He says to thank your father for inviting them to perform in America. LILY Oh. Yes, Papa's crazy that way. ACTOR Why doesn't she speak Japanese? REIKO She only speaks Japanese at mealtimes. ACTOR Then perhaps I could take her to dinner. REIKO He says... LILY I know what he said...Tell him it's unlucky to make a pass on the stairs, okay? REIKO It doesn't translate! (TO ACTOR): I guess she just blew you away, buster. PAPA K This is Harry. He's an actor in American movies...thinks he's Sessue Hayakawa...but all he plays is Chinese houseboys, can you imagine? We've come all this way to be Chinamen? May I introduce my wife? This is Joyce. MAN She's very pretty. PAPA K This is Charlie...and this is LILY. Charlie is only interested in baseball. LILY has every man in Little Tokyo chasing her. But can she find a husband? LILY Papa...ssh. You shouldn't. PAPA K Frankie can't even speak Japanese. Mind you, his English isn't too good either. NISHI- KAWA Hiroshi. Are you going to talk all night when the cards are waiting? And we have to have photos taken. LILY Papa, no. You promised no cards tonight. PAPA K American manners, just listen to them. If I want to play cards, I play cards. DULCIE LILY, quick! Come quick! LILY What? DULCIE Just come! LILY It's Mrs. Ogata. Papa's projectionist's wife! REIKO Is he here? LILY Sure, he's at the bar. DULCIE He's drunk. He's always drunk. REIKO He'll kill her! SCENE 5 EMCEE And now, ladies and gentlemen...our very own movie star, who Hollywood has discovered but who will always belong to Little Tokyo...to sing for us...please welcome Harry Kawamura! SCENE 6 MARGE Jack? JACK Marge. MARGE Jack. Is it Jack? Why didn't you tell us you were coming? Gerry, look who's here! JACK Hey! MARGE It's Jack all the way from New York! Gerry! JACK Oh no, look at you! MARGE Where's your manners? You can't even get up from the table to welcome your own brother? SCENE 7 MR. OGATA You're making a complete fool of yourself! MRS. OGATA No, you are! And you don't have to shout! MR. OGATA I'll shout as much as I want! MRS. OGATA You're drunk! I don't want to spend my life married to a drunk! SCENE 8 JACK All I'm saying is if you're getting a dollar fifty an hour and some guy in a suit is getting ten dollars out of it, then it ain't fair. It's got nothin' to do with communism. GERRY It's got everything to do with it! JACK Gerry. GERRY I tell you, I'm glad to be workin.' JACK You don't know what you're talking about. GERRY We should all be lucky we're workin.' Every time I go through those gates I look up at that big sign and say God bless you. 'Cause some poor sucker who ain't got a pot to piss in is out there begging for a cup of coffee. JACK Gerry. GERRY Jesus, Mary and Joseph! You people just mess things up for everybody! JACK Gerry, you're missing my point! Sure it's good that you're in work. But what I'm sayin' is that someone has got to look out for the interests of the working man. MARGE You better believe it. If he could get out of workin' he would, the lazy son of a bitch. GERRY I work hard. I work damn hard! MARGE If the union people say he don't have to work so hard for the same money, he's the first to put his dirty hand up! GERRY You don't know what you're talking about. Your kids aren't exactly starving, are they? MARGE Only 'cause I work, too, pal. The money you hand over don't exactly pay for no fancy eating. GERRY I'm telling you. If you're going to stay here, you better not go causin' any trouble. JACK I'm not going to cause any trouble. GERRY Because if you're gonna stay here, I ain't gonna stay here under the same roof with no red. Brother or no brother! JACK Jesus, I am not a red! For Christ's sakes Gerry, I'm agreeing with you! I'm gonna get a regular job like everyone else! GERRY You never had a regular job! Look, this is a great country. Best country in the world...and if you fucking reds...excuse the language... JACK It's a great country...I ain't no red. GERRY ...didn't go agitatin' and causing trouble. Now you're lucky to be living here. Else you'd be living like a pig in shit pulling three dollars a week in Donegal. JACK Yeah, well that's why I feel so at home here, Gerry, because when it comes to shoveling shit, you're full of it. MARGE Shut up, the two of you! GERRY Jesus. No wonder your fucking wife left you. JACK She left because she missed Ireland, Marge. She's happy there. It was never gonna work out. You know that. MARGE She left because you spoiled it for her. You lost your faith in everything, Jack. You were so full of rage she got sick of it and stopped dreaming, too. JACK Maybe I shouldn't stay here. MARGE No. Don't even think of it. We're glad to have you. Go talk to Gerry. He means well. SCENE 9 GERRY You shouldn't have come here, Jack. You're my brother and I want to help you, but trouble sticks to you like shit to a blanket. I'm a content kind of guy, you know? I'm sick of trouble. JACK So am I. Honest to God, Gerry, all I want is a regular job. GERRY You're a politician, Jack. A sweat shop lawyer and the Chicago heavies have closed this town off to any outside union guys. JACK I know. I know. Don't worry, I'll be gone tomorrow. GERRY Where will you go? JACK I don't know. San Francisco, maybe. GERRY You don't want to do that. Maybe I can talk to some people for you. JACK No, Gerry, no. GERRY You see this yard? JACK It's a nice yard. GERRY You should see it in the daytime. It's beautiful. Really beautiful. I got geraniums, I got magnolias, I got sweet peas. I got a fountain. Hey, I'm even thinkin' of putting a pool in for the kids. JACK A pool would be nice. GERRY It's enough for me, Jack. JACK It's enough for me, too, Gerry. SCENE 10 PAPA K I bring in these Japanese films to play at my theater and they do okay. Good films. Big Japanese stars. But young people today, all they're interested in is tap dancing. Fred Gable and Jinji Rogers. FUJIOKA Fred Astaire. NISHI- KAWA Kawamura...We're here to talk about money, not tap dancing. PAPA K I know. I'll pay. I always do. NISHI- KAWA Not soon enough, Hiroshi. Now, Mr. Fujioka here has offered to settle your debts. PAPA K Fujioka? FUJIOKA Hiroshi...I've been thinking about remarrying. PAPA K Good idea. Your wife has been dead long enough. FUJIOKA I was thinking of your daughter. PAPA K Which daughter? LILY? FUJIOKA Yes, LILY. A beautiful girl. CHARLIE Papa! Papa! Excuse me, Mr. Fujioka, Mr. Nishikawa. Papa, it's Mr. Ogata! PAPA K Did the projector break again? CHARLIE No! No! Papa, he's killed himself! He's killed himself, Papa. I just found him. PAPA K You're right. I should be in tomatoes like you, Fujioka. SCENE 11 JOYCE Can you imagine killing yourself? DULCIE Do you have to? We're going to eat. CHARLIE It's the only thing he could have done. Why do you have to keep talking about it? LILY Mr. Fujioka? But he's old and he's sleazy! Papa, are you serious? JOYCE Why did Mr. Ogata have to kill himself? Why didn't he just kill her? CHARLIE Because of honor. DULCIE Why do you have to kill anyone? Why can't they just make up? Or why didn't he just leave her? MAMA K I knew his wife, Mrs. Fujioka. Nice woman. Died too young. LILY, he'd make a good husband. DULCIE Papa, you smoke too much! LILY But he's horrible. He's ugly. And he has bad teeth, Mama. He's... DULCIE Sleazy! CHARLIE He's rich. And Papa owes him money. LILY But I don't know him. PAPA K That's all right. All I knew of Mama was a picture. CHARLIE Listen to Papa. LILY You're not marrying anyone, I am! DULCIE Oh, you like the idea! LILY I do not! I hate the idea! MAMA K Just meet with him, for Papa's sake. CHARLIE For all our sakes. We could do with the money. And we need a new projectionist. MAMA K Do as your Papa says. What harm can it do? PAPA K You'll meet him. LILY But Mama, he's older than Papa! PAPA K You'll meet him and that's that! SCENE 12 MOTHER Have you ever been to Japan? LILY No. No, I haven't. MOTHER Where does your father come from? LILY Wakayama, quite near to Osaka. MOTHER Ah, is that so? We have a brother who lives in Osaka. FUJIOKA You prefer we speak English? LILY It's okay. I should prefer...I'm sorry. My Japanese isn't very good. FUJIOKA My mother doesn't speak English, so...I want you to know...I make you a good husband...I give you a good life...I have a good business and ah...I want you to know...I can... LILY I'm sorry? FUJIOKA I give you pretty babies. SCENE 13 CHARLIE We have five shows a day, six if the film is short, and it pays twenty dollars a week. JACK Seven days a week? CHARLIE Oh yes. JACK Good union hours. CHARLIE It's a Japanese custom. People expect it. And it's for one month. My cousin in Portland is coming to work here then. JACK Sounds good to me. CHARLIE First show is eleven o'clock. JACK Eleven o'clock, huh? CHARLIE Mm hm. JACK The last guy sleep here? CHARLIE Yeah, he uh, liked to take nap in between shows. JACK What happened to him? CHARLIE He died. JACK Overwork, probably. CHARLIE He committed suicide. He was disgraced. JACK What did he do? Miss a changeover? CHARLIE The projectors are very old, so you have to treat them like a woman. JACK With love? CHARLIE No, with patience. SCENE 14 Jack sings a Japanese song. SCENE 15 CHARLIE What did you say to her? JACK I don't know. It's in the third reel of the movie...Hey, who was that? CHARLIE No one worth knowing. JACK Are you kidding? CHARLIE She's not your type. JACK Oh, she's your girlfriend or something. CHARLIE Oh, no, no, no, no. Just a girl. JACK Just a girl! She's beautiful. CHARLIE She's my sister. JACK Wait a minute. You told me that your sister had a face like a plate of steamed dumplings. CHARLIE You should see her without makeup. JACK You said that she was four foot tall and squat. CHARLIE I've got a lot of sisters. JACK We're asking her to lunch. CHARLIE No, no, no. Listen. She's Japanese, Jack. We'll find you a nice American girl. JACK Uh, hi. I'm uh, Jack. I work with your brother Charlie. Are you Dulcie? CHARLIE Lily. Dulcie's my other sister. JACK Hi, Lily. LILY Hello. JACK Uh, we were just wondering if maybe you would join us for lunch? CHARLIE He was wondering. LILY What? CHARLIE Don't come with us...(TO JACK): Look, I'm in a hurry. She's busy. Let's go. LILY I can have lunch. (TO MR. MATSUI): Can I take my lunch now, Mr. Matsui? MATSUI Sure. Go ahead. LILY Thank you. (TO JACK): I can. JACK Oh, great. CHARLIE Great. FUMIKO Don't do anything I wouldn't do. LILY Fumiko, you have a big mouth. SCENE 16 JACK So, what are we ordering here, huh? LILY Can you read that? JACK Oh, yeah. My Japanese is getting better everyday. LILY It's in Chinese. It might help you if you turn the menu up the other way. JACK Maybe you oughta order then. CHARLIE Don't forget we're going to that game tonight. JACK Oh, yeah Lily, you gonna go with us? CHARLIE No. She hates baseball. LILY I like baseball, creep. CHARLIE Oh shit, did you lock up? JACK No, I gave you the keys. CHARLIE I'll be back. Talk about baseball. LILY So, you work in my father's theater? CHARLIE Yeah, projectionist. LILY The films must be boring for you. CHARLIE No. No. Some people would kill to get my job. The last guy even killed himself. LILY Are you from Los Angeles? CHARLIE No, I'm from Philadelphia by way of New York. I just got out here. And you? LILY Little Tokyo. By way of Little Tokyo. JACK Your father? LILY Ah, he's Issei. First generation. He's from Wakayama, Japan. JACK Issei. LILY Mm hm. But all us kids were born right here. Nisei. JACK Nisei. LILY Nisei. That's us. Second generation. JACK Oh. LILY What happened to your hands? JACK Oh, it's a long story. LILY Do they hurt? JACK Only when I use chopsticks. Um, you work in the costume shop long? LILY Uh, since school. JACK And uh, your father owns that, too, or...? LILY Oh no, and he only rents the movie theater. He's not allowed to own it. He's Japanese. It's against the law. JACK What, he never became a citizen or uh...? LILY That's against the law, too, for Japanese. JACK Well, I didn't know that. LILY Not many people do. JACK You're really beautiful, Lily. LILY Thank you. JACK I was expecting a plate of steamed dumplings. LILY To eat? JACK No. To have lunch with. Can I kiss you? LILY What? JACK Can I kiss you? LILY Shall we order? JACK What, the steamed dumplings? LILY To eat? JACK To eat...to have lunch with...to play baseball with...to kiss... LILY Just order. JACK Oh, I'm only serious. Can I kiss you again? LILY It'll give you indigestion. JACK Kampai. LILY Kampai. SCENE 17 DULCIE You let him kiss you, just like that? LILY Uh huh. DULCIE In a chop suey restaurant? Are you gonna tell Mama? LILY No. And neither are you. DULCIE You're gonna go dancing? LILY Uh huh. Maybe. DULCIE Are you gonna kiss him again? LILY Maybe. DULCIE Are you gonna...do it? LILY Do it? DULCIE You know...it. LILY Dulcie, I just met him! DULCIE You kissed him in a chop suey restaurant for God sake! LILY Well, if I did, I'm certainly not going to tell you. DULCIE I guess this means you're not going to marry Mr. Fujioka. LILY No, I'm not. DULCIE Papa's gonna kill you if he finds out. SCENE 18 Jack and Lily dance. SCENE 19 JACK Mr. Ogata left this behind before the rest of his spirit departed for heaven. LILY Poor Mr. Ogata. I never saw him sober...How did you burn your hands? JACK Oh, in a fire. It was a mistake. I was a sweat shop lawyer for the New York Projectionists Union. LILY What's a sweat shop lawyer? JACK Not a real lawyer. Nothing special. Just anybody in the union who can read. The Noris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act to the Wagner Labor Relations Act. I know them all. Every line, every comma. Got me into trouble. LILY Why? JACK Because we lost sight of what we were fighting for. It got too rough. I'm not proud of it, but it's in the past. Startin' over. From nothin' to nothin.' LILY Tell me about your wife. JACK Uh, we were eighteen when we got married and it didn't work. She went back to Ireland. LILY Why did she do that? JACK She had an accident. She worked in a shoe factory and her hair got caught in one of the machines...It wasn't serious but she was pregnant and the shock of it made her lose the baby. I wasn't there. I was at a meeting. She wasn't happy here so her sister paid for a ticket and she took the boat back home. Can't blame her. I guess she'd had enough of America...or enough of me...You don't like sake. LILY I hate it. JACK I'm gonna take you home. LILY No. It's better if I go on my own. I'll be fine. If Papa sees you, you'll be joining Mr. Ogata in heaven. JACK Good night. LILY Good night. SCENE 20 MINI Did you really kiss him in the chop suey restaurant? LILY Yes, I did. MINI Weren't you embarrassed? LILY A little, maybe...No, it seemed a nice thing to do. Come to think of it, I wasn't embarrassed one little bit. MINI Weren't people looking at you? LILY I didn't notice. MINI God, you were kissing him already and you hardly knew him! LILY Somehow it didn't seem to matter. MINI Did you love him? LILY Oh, yes. Very much. MINI Did you go to lots of nice places? LILY Some. MINI What did Papa Kawamura say? SCENE 21 PAPA K No. LILY Papa, let's just talk about it even. PAPA K No! LILY Papa. PAPA K No! No! No! No! LILY Mama? FAMILY Itadakimasu. SCENE 22 CHARLIE Come on. (TO JACK): Did you let him in? JACK No. (TO MAN): Come on, your Highness. The Prime Minister wants to tell you how the invasion of China is going. PAPA K *Yells at Jack and fires him. CHARLIE Did you get that? JACK It's about Lily, right? CHARLIE He says your not to see her again. And your fired. He wants you gone by Friday. It's best, Jack. For her and you. I told you Jack! Best to get yourself a nice American girl. SCENE 23 JACK Lily? Is Lily here? MATSUI No Lily. Sorry. She not work today. JACK What? FUMIKO She's gone to see her aunt on Terminal Island. JACK Thanks. SCENE 24 Lily thinks about Jack on Terminal Island. SCENE 25 JACK Mr. Kawamura? May I have a word with you, please? NISHI- KAWA I'll leave you to your domestic problems, Hiroshi! JACK May I sit down, sir? Mr. Kawamura, I'm sorry if I've offended you, sir. I still don't know why I've offended you...You see, I'm just a dumb mick from New York and I'm not aware of all your customs and your traditions and all...But I'm trying really hard to learn. And I would very much, like to see your daughter again, sir. PAPA K It's not possible. JACK To go out with her... PAPA K It's not possible. JACK To... PAPA K It's not possible! JACK You can keep saying "It's not possible" all night, Mr. Kawamura. Mr. Kawamura, I am trying really hard to be respectful, sir. Honest to God I am. I'm trying really hard to understand what this must mean to you. But I love your daughter. And I know you look at me and see some bum who works for you for twenty dollars a week and doesn't seem to amount to much, I know that. But I think that I can be better than that, sir. And dumb and stupid as this may sound, to you, what I can never be, not ever, is Japanese. But I couldn't love Lily more. SCENE 26 JACK How was Terminal Island? LILY Pretty. We had tea with my aunt. My mother and my sister stayed. I left. I took the ferry home. They're still probably looking for me out on the beach. JACK I have to leave. LILY I know. I heard. Where will you go? JACK I don't know. But I want you to come with me. I want to marry you, Lilly. SCENE 27 MINI You sat up and talked all night? LILY Yep. MINI What did you talk about? LILY Oh, lots of stuff. Your Papa knew so many things...about politics, history, and everything. MINI Did you kiss? LILY A little. MINI Did you have a big wedding? With Mama and Papa Kawamura? And Dulcie and Frankie and.... LILY No. No, we couldn't. MINI Why? LILY Well, for a start, Japanese aren't allowed to marry non-Japanese in the state of California. MINI Why? LILY Because it was against the California laws. MINI So where did you go? LILY Seattle. MINI Why did you go to Seattle? LILY Because it's not California and we could get married there. MINI Can we have a snowcone, Mama? LILY We've got tea. MINI But it's small. LILY Okay. But just a small one. MINI Didn't even Mama Kawamura come to the wedding? LILY No. No she didn't. SCENE 28 Lily leaves home. SCENE 29 MINI What did you wear? Were you pretty? LILY Oh, I had a beautiful dress...with a lace collar and cuffs...and I wore my hair special...with a bow just like yours. It was a beautiful day. It was the best wedding anyone ever had. We had flowers. We had champagne. It was the best day of my life. SCENE 30 JACK Come on. Come on. LILY Where are we going? JACK A party. They're playing our song. MINI (VO) You went to someone else's wedding? LILY (VO) No one seemed to mind. And for Papa and me, it seemed like everyone had shown up just for us. SCENE 31 LILY (VO) We were happy. So very happy. Those days it seemed that all we ever did was kiss. MINI (VO) What about me? SCENE 32 LILY (VO) You were born on Christmas Day, 1937. And we called you Minae, after Mama Kawamura's sister. And you went to your first school there. SCENE 33 LILY (VO) In Seattle your Papa got a job in a cannery as a fish masher. JACK I'm telling you they're going about it all the wrong way. It ain't enough to have something to say if you ain't got no one listening. Six guys ain't gonna speak for everyone. Only everyone speaks for everyone. One wet, slimy fish ain't gonna speak for all the rest of these fish. He might be a stinking fish. And even if the rest of these suckers were alive and well and kicking, which they ain't, that one guy ain't gonna scare no one. EDDIE They're pretty pleased with what they're doing. JACK There's a lot of things that are wrong around here. If you was to throw that switch right now you'd probably take off both of my legs, and no one would give a shit that I was suddenly two foot shorter. 'Cause the only way you're gonna get those guys upstairs in the suits to listen to ya, is when a big fish comes along, and he swallows up all the rest of these little fish, and this big fucking fish has teeth so huge, it scares the shit out of those guys upstairs in the suits! Because they know that it can bite off both of their arms and legs! EDDIE If your so smart, how come you don't do something about it? JACK Because I promised someone I wouldn't. EDDIE Who did you promise? JACK My wife. SCENE 34 JACK You have no right to do this! These people have a legal right to picket! MAN Says who? JACK Says the law! Under the Clayton Act of 1914, these men have the legal right to picket! They are workers from this company, and they have legitimate grievances! They were demonstrating peacefully! And you have no right to do this! These men were fighting for all of you, are you going to allow these people to get away with this? Would you get this man an ambulance? SCENE 35 JACK I'm not shouting! Look, I work in a place where for seventy eight cents an hour we stuff dead fish into cans. If we don't work Saturdays we get laid off. LILY I don't want to hear it! Why do you always have to see the bad in everything? JACK Because maybe things should be a little bit better, that's why. The people working down there... LILY But it makes you so angry! Why do you always have to be angry at everyone? JACK I'm angry because the people working there are so stuffed with shit they have to be grateful because they're not standing in soup kitchen lines anymore! So they stink of fish everyday! LILY But why does it have to be you? Why can't it be someone else? It's too dangerous for you Jack! JACK You don't think that if it was someone else, they don't have wives and husbands and kids to think about? LILY We're happy, Jack. JACK Happy? What in the hell does happy have to do with any of this? You're happy. Maybe I'm not so happy. Lily, it's not you. I swear to God, it's not you. It's just that maybe things bother me that you don't about. Maybe things bother me so much that I can't speak sometimes, I get so choke up with rage and I...I agreed to hand out a bundle of leaflets on a street corner and you act as if I'm going out to kill someone. LILY Because you know that one thing will lead to another and it will make you crazy! You can't spit against heaven, Jack! JACK Oh, don't give me that Japanese shit! Oh Lily, I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry, Honey. It's just a few leaflets. I promise. SCENE 36 Jack gets arrested at a demonstration. SCENE 37 Lily waits for Jack at the dinner table/Jack goes to jail. SCENE 38 LILY (VO) I don't know why I left your Papa that day. But sometimes you get pushed and pulled without ever knowing the reasons why. But I knew I couldn't stay. I had to be with Mama and Papa Kawamura. SCENE 39 DETECTIVE Do you have a history of labor union business, McGann? It is McGann, isn't it? JACK Yeah, McGann. No. No I don't. I work in the cannery. I'm a fish masher. DETECTIVE You people caused quite a stir. JACK It was a legal demonstration, sir. Perfectly within the constitution... DETECTIVE Well, all that striking stuff's over now, mister. When the Japs step on the beach, you think they're gonna take any notice of your banners? They'll stick a goddamn bayonet in your belly, grievance or no grievance. This is America, pal, so remember, you're an American. We're at war now. JACK What are you talking about? DETECTIVE Ain't you heard? The Japs just bombed Pearly Harbor. It's all over the radio. SCENE 40 DULCIE Lily! You never said you were coming! JOYCE I knew you would come back! LILY Joyce, you've grown! DULCIE Is that Mini? She's so cute! LILY Harry! HARRY Lily! It's good you came. It's great to see you. LILY It's nice to see you, too. Where's Mama? JOYCE She's upstairs. LILY Who are these men? HARRY FBI. They're searching the house. DULCIE They arrested Papa, Lily. LILY What? HARRY They've arrested many Issei. All the Kendo big shots. They say Papa's a potentially dangerous alien. DULCIE They've searched the house three times. LILY Papa? Dangerous? DULCIE Charlie's at the police station to find out what's happening. Where's Jack? LILY He's in Seattle. SCENE 41 LILY Mama? Mama? I'm so sorry. I'm sure things will be all right, Mama. They'll know Papa is a good man. He never harmed anybody. He didn't do anything wrong. They'll see that and...Mama. I wrote to you all these years and you never once wrote back. Dulcie told me that Papa wouldn't let you write. But it never upset me because all the time I pretended that you did...Every week I would write to you as if you were reading all my letters and sending to me all your news. I told you everything...just like we used to talk. If Mini had a cold, or fell over and cut her knee, I'd let you know. I know you wanted to write, Mama...I'm so sorry, Mama. I love you. Please, talk to me, Mama. MINI Mama? MAMA K Mini? Mini-chan? Come here. Come here. Oh, Mini-chan! I missed you, Lily. LILY I'm here now, Mama. SCENE 42 LILY Did you see him? CHARLIE He's okay. He's depressed, but he's okay. He's asked for his shaving stuff and some clean shirts and socks. He left without any socks. HARRY They're going to keep him here on Terminal Island for a day or two and then they're sending him away. LILY Where to? CHARLIE He thinks North Dakota. LILY But why? What did he do? CHARLIE They say he was a member of the Nippon Bunka Kyokai and Nichibei Kinema, so he's had direct contact with the enemy. LILY But they were only cultural societies. They were plays he was bringing over, not machine guns. CHARLIE And movies. Don't forget the crummy movies. They're a dangerous weapon. They can bore you to death. LILY What are we going to tell Mama? HARRY The truth. LILY But they could be home in a week. CHARLIE People say they're going send all of us away. LILY All of us? Nisei, too? CHARLIE All of us. SCENE 43 LILY We're not open. Mr. Matsui is not here. JACK Where's Mr. Matsui? LILY He's been arrested. So has my father. JACK Why? LILY They're Japanese. JACK I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry. LILY I heard you were in jail. JACK Probation. LILY What happened to your arm? JACK A horse. LILY You were on a horse? JACK Under it. LILY Oh, Jack! JACK Oh, Lily! Lily! I'm sorry. It's all right. It's all right. Oh, Lily. I missed you so much. SCENE 44 JACK They could break both of my arms and my legs and it could never hurt me as much as losing you, Lily. You have a happiness inside you that makes you so beautiful. It's as if someone gave you a little bag of magic that only you can dip into. And I see the way you look at Mini and in your eyes is something so perfect no one can touch it. No one can cheat you or steal it away from you because it's something no one else can have. I love you so much, Lily. You're braver than anyone I ever knew. You have everything that I never had. And I was still so blind and stupid I didn't see that you were looking at me the same way as you looked at Mini and that nothing else mattered. You were just giving me a little handful of that magic. And no one, and no thing, is ever going to take that away from us. No one. Never. SCENE 45 JACK So you're going to be really nice to him, okay? MINI Yes. JACK Now what you do is tell him who you are, and you tell them that you're the goodest girl in America, and then you just sort of slip in about what you want for Christmas, okay? And then he's gonna tell his elves. And his elves, they work for him. They work overtime for no pay. And they make all the toys for all the boys and girls in America. Did you know that? Here you go. Sit on Santa's lap. SANTA Scoot, pal. I ain't sitting no Japanese kid on my lap, for Christ's sakes. JACK Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Santa. We're the next in line here. SANTA No Japs. Sorry, fellah. It ain't my rule. Just read the sign. Japs don't have Christmas anyway, they're Buddhists. JACK No, wait. Just a second. Please ma'am. Please, just a second. Baby, come here, just for a second. I'm going to sit you down right here and Daddy's gonna talk to Santa. Okay? MINI Yeah. JACK Okay. Look, that little girl ain't no Buddhist, pal! As a matter of fact she's a Christian and she believes in Santa Claus. Now either you're going to sit her on your lap and let her tell you what she wants for Christmas or I'm gonna stuff this fuckin' beard down your fuckin' throat, fattso! SANTA Mickey! Will you get over here. A trouble maker! MICKEY Come on! Come on! Out! Out! Out! JACK Get your hands off of me! All I want is for my little daughter to sit on this jerk's lap! MICKEY We don't serve Japs here, pal. Read the sign. Read the sign. What, are you from an orphanage or something? JACK No, I'm not from an orphanage! She's an American and I'm her father! She's an American! Merry Christmas! SCENE 46 JOYCE Should we leave the latch up on the door Mama, in case Papa comes back and we're asleep? CHARLIE He won't be back tonight. DULCIE He might be. HARRY Jack, your turn. Everyone has to sing. JACK I don't sing. CHARLIE C'mon, Jack! Whoever heard of an Irishman who didn't sing? JACK I don't sing. LILY He can sing. JACK I do not. LILY Yes you do. He's just shy. Make him sing. JACK *Jack sings a song from an old 1930's Japanese movie. SCENE 47 CHARLIE 4C? Enemy alien? I can't believe this shit! HARRY "Friendly" enemy alien. CHARLIE Yeah, what about the Germans and the Italians? Is Joe Di Maggio an enemy alien for Christ's sakes? HARRY Shikataganai! CHARLIE Shikataganai, shit! It's wrong, Harry! It's terribly wrong! SCENE 48 LILY (VO) Those were very bad days for us. At the time, the Japanese Army seemed to be winning all the battles. And every time a couple of whales popped their heads up from the ocean, someone said they were Japanese submarines about to attack California. SCENE 49 LILY For us the war was so far away. We were in Los Angeles and we were Americans. Or we thought we were Americans. But people looked at our faces and we weren't Americans anymore. We were the enemy. MINI Were you frightened? LILY No, not really. Because we really couldn't believe what was happening. And then Mr. Roosevelt signed the "Executive Order Number 9066" saying that all Japanese families must be sent away. MINI To the camps? LILY At first we didn't know where, and suddenly in March, they told us that we had six days to go. MINI Six days? LILY Six days, to pack up everything and leave. MINI I remember that part. SCENE 50 Mini has to leave school. SCENE 51 DULCIE If there's not going to be thyphoid where we're going, why do we have to have typhoid shots? JOYCE What's typhoid? DULCIE I'll be scarred for life. I heard some people got crippled from these shots. LILY Stop it, Dulcie. Don't exaggerate. DULCIE It's true! Judy Hayashi told me. JOYCE Do we have to get rid of everything, Harry? HARRY We can only take what we can carry. Seventy pounds. The rest has to go. FRANKIE Everything? HARRY Everything. FRANKIE What about the chickens? HARRY We'll leave the chickens. DULCIE The Ogawas had to kill their chickens. JOYCE How about the dog? FRANKIE We can't take the dog? LILY Mrs. Fu is taking the dog. DULCIE Don't Chinese eat dogs? FRANKIE What about my mitt? Can I take my mitt? DULCIE Sure you can take your mitt. Wherever we're going, they're not going to stop you from playing baseball. Are they? CHARLIE Uh, this gentleman wants to see the piano. HARRY Certainly. Come on Joyce, show this gentleman what a fine piano it is. CHARLIE I got fifteen dollars for the Bendex. SCENE 52 LILY Are you okay? JACK I'm going to take Mini for a walk. Okay? SCENE 53 LILY You okay, Mama? MAMA K Mm. LILY What are you burning? MAMA K Just stuff. We cannot take it with us and it's too...precious to leave behind. I don't want people going through our things. How many things you keep. In Japan, people don't have so many things. You know, when I first got off the steamer at Angel Island...pretty name, isn't it? ...all I had was the clothes I was wearing, a small bag, a pretty hat and a parasol. Things I hate burning most are your school reports. How are people going to know how well you did? LILY They'll know, Mama. They'll know. SCENE 54 LILY The man didn't buy the piano? HARRY He didn't offer enough. LILY How much? DULCIE Ten dollars. HARRY I got him up from five. I said I'd sooner burn it. FRANKIE How do you burn a piano? DULCIE What are we going to do with these old records? They're all Japanese. No one's going to buy them. LILY Break them. JOYCE Break them? LILY Sure. Break them. SCENE 55 DULCIE Good bye, Jack. LILY When will you get back from Seattle? JACK Just a couple of days. A week at the most. I'm just gonna check in for my parole and then I'm coming. LILY If only we knew where we were going. JACK I'll find you, Lily. Good bye, Mama. Don't worry. This won't be for long, I'm sure. DULCIE Why are the blinds down? HARRY So we won't know where we're going. JACK You okay? MINI Yes. JACK Okay. SCENE 56 Jack walks around deserted Little Tokyo. SCENE 57 MAMA K Rattlesnakes? WOMAN And rabbits... MAMA K Huh? WOMAN ...that bite. DULCIE I want to throw up. CHARLIE You don't want to throw up. WOMAN And mosquitoes. DULCIE I want to throw up. JOYCE You don't want to throw up. WOMAN Big mosquitoes. The size of sparrows that suck your blood. CHARLIE Oh shit! She did throw up. SCENE 58 JACK Hey! Hey, get out of here! You get out of here! Fucking little vultures! SCENE 59 CHARLIE I can't bring my camera? SOLDIER Sorry, it's on the list. SCENE 60 FRANKIE Thanks for coming with me, Lily. LILY That's okay. I was scared to come on my own as well. FRANKIE Do you think they'll shoot us? LILY No, of course not. FRANKIE Do you think they'll send us back to Japan? LILY I don't know. I truly don't know, Frankie. FRANKIE I've never been to Japan. LILY Me either. LILY (VO) We stayed at the race track for two months...until they moved us to a new home, way out in the desert. SCENE 61 LILY (VO) The journey on the bus seemed to go on forever. And finally we arrived. But all I could remember was the mountains, the cold, and the dust. SCENE 62 CLERK Next! You have twenty-four hours to report for drafting, Mr. McGann. Your parole is annulled under Section 472 of the War Powers Act. JACK But, um, I need to go to Los Angeles. CLERK Don't think so. It says Tacoma. Yep, Tacoma. You report tomorrow. It's pretty clear, else... JACK Else what? CLERK Else you'll find yourself in jail instead of the Army, mister. Next, please. SCENE 63 LILY (VO) We lined up for everything. We seemed to spend half our lives lining up for something or other. Our lives had changed completely and we spent our whole time pretending they hadn't. SCENE 64 Jack completes army training. SCENE 65 MAMA K What is it? DULCIE Something about stealing food. There's a man with blood all down his apron. I think he got punched. FRANKIE You wanna play one on one after, Charlie? CHARLIE No. DULCIE There's a guy with his nose split wide open. CHARLIE Michi Hokoda saw ten sides of beef under a sheet in the back of one of the administrator's trucks. JOYCE Maybe they're starving us to death. DULCIE "Too much slop suey gives you spots, makes you pooey!" HARRY We have enough to eat. MAMA K Gambare. Shikataganai, ne? CHARLIE It's got to be stopped. Or else someone's going to get their throat cut! HARRY It's hard feeding all these people. It's a fucking camp for Christ's sakes! LILY Don't swear in front of Mama. HARRY She doesn't know the word. MAMA K I know the word. CHARLIE It's not a camp. A camp is where you go fishing. Sit around fires made from rubbing two sticks together. This isn't the fucking Boy Scouts, Harry! JOYCE Charlie, please don't swear in front of Mama. CHARLIE She's Japanese! She doesn't understand the word. MAMA K I know the word. LILY Mama. It's Papa! PAPA Mini-chan? Mini-chan! Oh! Oh! LILY Kiss your grandpa. PAPA Oh, thank you! SCENE 66 The Kawamura family walks to their barracks. SCENE 67 LILY (VO) Papa Kawamura never was happy at the camp. People whispered and whispered. Silly, spiteful rumors that he had given information to the FBI when he was at Fort Lincoln. It wasn't true, but it didn't matter. In those days, people only believed the worst. No one would talk to him and he got lonelier and lonelier. Sadder and sadder. SCENE 68 JOYCE Alice Noguchi! How could they pick her? She's got a face like a latrine bucket. DULCIE Big tits! They always pick the one with big tits. FRANKIE They're not so big. SCENE 69 Mr. Kawamura sings to Mini. SCENE 70 A man is attacked in the camp. SCENE 71 JACK Thanks for stopping. MAN If you can find room back there, you're more than welcome, soldier. You all right? JACK Yeah. SCENE 72 MPs Hey, Kenji! Come on! Let's go! SCENE 73 HARRY One of the JACL-ers has been beaten up. They're blaming the kitchen union people. There's going to be trouble. We should get home, Mama. MAMA K Where's Charlie? HARRY I don't know Mama. SCENE 74 MAN Where you stationed? JACK Fairmont. MAN On a 24-hour? JACK What's left of it. MAN You got friends down at the camp? JACK Yeah, kind of. MAN Real good people, some of them Japs. Had a couple of them working for me. Real hard workers. Trouble is, you don't know which ones to trust, which ones will shoot you in the back. Hard problem. Beats me. SCENE 75 Demonstration at the camp. SCENE 76 MAN What's going on here? SOLDIER Road's closed, sir. You're going to have to back up. JACK What's going on? SOLDIER The Japs in the camp are rioting. They say a whole bunch of them have been shot. It's a mess down there. Okay, sir. Back it up. Try again tomorrow. SCENE 77 MAMA K I heard guns. I definitely heard guns. JOYCE I think I saw tanks. FRANKIE They were trucks. Tanks have guns sticking out, stupid. JOYCE I know what a tank looks like! LILY Charlie will be okay, Mama. HARRY God willing. LILY Stay away from the window, there's nothing you can do. MAMA K I heard more guns. JOYCE I wish they'd stop that chanting. It's kind of scary. LILY Charlie will be home soon, Mama. MAMA K Charlie would never get into any trouble. HARRY That was before they took him off hamburgers. Now are "All American" has a rising sun tattooed on his backside. He's changed, Mama. LILY No one changes inside. SCENE 78 Charlie demonstrates. SCENE 79 LILY (VO) When they finally opened the camp two days later, your Papa could come visit us. We hadn't seen or heard from him for seven whole months. SCENE 80 JACK So was Charlie hurt bad? JOYCE No, he got hit on the head with a rifle. DULCIE He says he's okay, but they put him in the camp hospital anyway. More tea, Mama? MAMA K No. I have to go to the lavatory. That tea does terrible things to my bladder. DULCIE Come on, Joyce. Let's take Mama to the bathroom. JOYCE It's a long walk. DULCIE I don't care. Get your coat on. You're coming. Mini, you wanna come, too? MAMA K Jack, don't go before you say good-bye. JACK All right, Mama. I'll be right here. LILY She'll be twenty-two minutes. JACK Twenty-two minutes? LILY Uh huh. Mama looked all over the camp for a toilet she liked that wasn't broken and had partitions, and it's on the K block. It takes her eleven minutes to walk there, and eleven minutes to walk back. Why do you think we gave her so much tea? JACK Frankie? LILY School. JACK And your Papa? LILY He's at the hospital with Charlie. He sits there all day in a chair next to his bed. Neither of them will talk. JACK Why? LILY Because Charlie thinks that Papa gave the FBI information at Fort Lincoln. Papa hates him for believing it. JACK So, we have twenty-two minutes? LILY Twenty-two minutes. And then I have to get back to work. JACK Work? LILY Mm hm. Camouflage nets. We make five nets or work eight hours. For fourteen dollars a month. JACK Fourteen dollars a month? LILY Don't fret! Doctors only make nineteen a month. People say they've been giving us Army K rations, with all that salt peter...to reduce our sex drives. JACK They have? LILY It's not true. SCENE 81 Mama, Dulcie, Joyce and Mini walk back from the bathroom. SCENE 82 Papa sits quietly by Charlie's bed. SCENE 83 JACK Bye-bye Mini Mouse. You gonna be okay? MINI O.K. DRIVER Come on, fella! Are we goin' or what? JACK Okay. DRIVER Come on! Come on! I got a schedule to keep! SCENE 84 MINI Did Papa get into trouble? LILY A little. By the time he got back to Fairmont, he was three days absent without leave. But he was okay. MINI And Papa Kawamura? LILY He just wouldn't talk to anybody. MINI Why was he so unhappy? LILY Because every day he was in America, he talked of one day going home to Wakayama a rich man. But any money he'd have he lose. He'd lost his shirt so many times it never mattered to him. "Shikataganai" he'd always say. But once you lose your self- respect, only then do you truly have nothing. MINI Poor Papa Kawamura. He must have been so sad. SCENE 85 LILY (VO) For a whole year, he just dug away in his vegetable patch. Or he'd work on his chair. When the chair was finished, he just sat there for hours. We all wanted so badly to have a life here. It's a beautiful country, if only you have eyes to see it. But suddenly, we all felt like a blind man peeping through a fence. SCENE 86 DULCIE I don't get it. We all have to sign this thing? LILY Everyone over 17. DULCIE Read it again. LILY Answer yes or no. Number 27: Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered? JOYCE We have to go in the Army? DULCIE No! Answer no. I don't want to go in the Army. It's bad enough they put us in here! LILY Wait. There's worse. MAN Lily, can I have a word with you, please? Your mother is not allowed to work. She's a Japanese national. LILY We know that. MAN Then could you ask her to leave? LILY No, why should she? She's not getting paid. She's bored. She has nothing else to do. She's just sitting here with her family. MAMA K Is there something wrong? LILY No, Mama. Sit down. MAN Sorry, it's the law. LILY The law? Don't talk about the law. What law protects innocent American citizens from being locked up for no crime? MAN #2 Your mother cannot work. She's Issei. Foreign nationals cannot do war work. LILY She's not working! MAN #2 Then ask her to leave. MAMA K Lily, maybe I should go. LILY No, Mama. Sit down! She will not leave! Why should she? MAN #2 Camp rules. LILY Rules? MAN #2 Camp rules. LILY Camp? You call this a camp? This is a goddamn outdoor jail! SCENE 87 HARRY Number 28: Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces...and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese Emperor, or to any other foreign government, power or organization? Answer yes or no. MAMA K But how can we do that? We can't be U.S. citizens. It's against the law. If we say "yes," we won't have any country. CHARLIE So say "no." HARRY If we say no, they'll keep you in the camps forever. CHARLIE If you say yes, you'll be in the Army shooting at other Japanese. Or end up being sent home in a wooden kimono. HARRY But we're Americans. CHARLIE We stopped being Americans the moment they put up the barbed wire! HARRY We have to say "yes," Mama. Papa? Charlie? CHARLIE No. No. What about you? HARRY I'm gonna go in the Army. SCENE 88 JACK Joycie? JOYCE Jack! MINI Papa? JACK Mini? Mini! Oh, Mini! Mini! You're so big I didn't even recognize you! JOYCE Hi. JACK Did you lose a tooth? MINI Yes. JACK You did? Where's Lily? No one's home. JOYCE They're at the hospital. Papa's sick. SCENE 89 JACK Lily? LILY Jack! Oh, Jack! You didn't tell me you had leave. JACK It was sudden. They ship us out in a week. LILY Where? JACK They won't tell us. LILY Mini? I'm going to take you home now, okay? JACK I'm gonna stay here with your father for a while. LILY Okay. PAPA K Water. Water. JACK It's Jack, Mr. Kawamura. I need your help, sir. You see, I'm not here on leave. I ran away from the Army. God knows why, but I thought that if I could be here with all of you that maybe I could help. But then when I came through those gates back there I realized I can't help, not one little bit. And I just know that this whole terrible thing that's happened is my fault...the big part and the little part. But I just wanted to say that...even if you don't want to hear it...I love you all so much. PAPA K You go back. JACK I can't. PAPA K Go back. JACK I can't leave you all here. I have to do something. PAPA K Just love Lily. That's enough. JACK Papa. SCENE 90 Jack leaves the camp. SCENE 91 CAPTAIN You were married in Seattle? JACK Yes, sir. CAPTAIN Your wife is Lily Yuriko Kawamura? JACK Yes, sir. CAPTAIN And you were drafted May 11, 1942? JACK Yes, sir. CAPTAIN You're in a whole lot of trouble, soldier. JACK Yes, sir. I know, sir. CAPTAIN Would you say you had pro-Japanese sympathies? JACK Yes, sir. I married one, sir. CAPTAIN The way the Army sees it, soldier, you're either pro-Japanese or you're pro-American. There's no in-between. Not anymore. It's not like being a Red Sox fan in a Pittsburgh/New York World Series. JACK My wife is an American citizen, sir. CAPTAIN You think the camps are wrong? JACK Yes, sir. I do. CAPTAIN Well, for what it matters, soldier, I agree with you. It's like burning down Chicago to get rid of the gangsters. JACK It's a God-awful mistake. CAPTAIN That scared people fighting wars often make. But there are also a lot of apple pie Americans out there who wouldn't hate a soul before all of this, who've got kids being slaughtered by the Japanese Army. Everyday they hear about another Japanese unit going Banzai and bayonetting women and kids. Maybe locking your people away is the best place for them. JACK It's unconstitutional. They had their rights taken away from them. The Nisei who were born here are American citizens. CAPTAIN So are you, soldier, and you went AWOL. So a lot of American kids are dying instead of you. AGENT How do you spell your name, McGann? JACK M, small c, G-a-n-n. AGENT You ever spell it M, small c, G-u-r-n? Were you ever Jack McGurn? Were you ever a member of Local 306 of the New York Projectionist Union? JACK Yes I was. AGENT I think you're in a lot of trouble, soldier. SCENE 92 The Kawamura family is watching a movie in the camp. SCENE 93 Papa Kawamura dies. SCENE 94 MAMA K We had a cousin who knew Papa's family in Wakayama. She sent my picture to your Papa. With your Papa, it was one day new shoes for everyone. The next day, we sell the radio. Once he bought me a new coat in the morning, and we had to sell it by suppertime. All on the flip of a card. Seven times down, eight times up. But now, after all of this, for Papa it was seven times up and eight times down. Sometimes, it's better to die than to give up on life. SCENE 95 LILY (VO) Then it seemed all we did was say good-bye. Dulcie volunteered to help with the sugar beet harvest in Idaho. At least Dulcie was free, for a while. SCENE 96 LILY (VO) Charlie was sent to a special camp at Tule Lake with all the others who had answered "no" on their loyalty questionnaires. They were called the "No No Boys." CHARLIE Bye Frankie. FRANKIE Bye Charlie...Hey Charlie, don't take any wooden nickels. SCENE 97 JOYCE Why are you throwing up, Dulcie? You're not even on a bus. LILY (VO) Dulcie came back from the Idaho Sugar Harvest with a nice sun tan, sixty dollars pay, and a baby inside of her. Mama was furious. SCENE 98 LILY (VO) Then in December, the Supreme Courts ruled that the camps were unconstitutional. WOMAN Endo won his case! They can't keep us here anymore! We can go home! LILY (VO) It seemed that all of our troubles were over. Shikataganai. We had gone through the worst. We had lost everything we owned and everything we loved. It wasn't possible to lose anymore. But Mama says a wasp always stings a crying face... SCENE 99 LILY (VO) ...because we also lost Harry. It was our last winter in the camp. And our darkest. SCENE 100 Mama Kawamura scrubs Harry's bed. SCENE 101 LILY (VO) Charlie decided to repatriate to Japan. There was a big exchange for American prisoners of war. Poor Charlie. He had never been to Japan before. He hardly spoke Japanese. SCENE 102 The Kawamura family leaves the camp. SCENE 103 LILY (VO) We had no home to go back to in Little Tokyo. So we went to stay with Mama Kawamura's cousin, Sahoko, on the strawberry farm here in Florin. SCENE 104 LILY On August 6th, they dropped a bomb on Hiroshima. It was a big bomb. They called it the atomic bomb. In nine tiny seconds, two hundred thousand people were killed. It had to be the end. No one could endure more. MINI Mama! It's the train! LILY Let's go. SCENE 105 LILY Jack! Jack! JACK How ya doin'? MINI Okay. 1