She asks why - and if - he goes to the movies every night.

She tells Tom that Laura thinks he is unhappy. She exhorts him to eat, but he refuses everything except for black coffee, implying that he is hungover.Īmanda is concerned. Amanda also asks Tom to promise that he will never be a drunkard. She believes that if Tom applies himself he will succeed the idea of her children's success is an exhilarating one for her, and she becomes breathless just speaking about it. Amanda also tells Tom he cannot fail without him, she cannot keep the family together. Tom tries to tell her that he doesn't hate her and that he understands her feelings.

Amanda feels that she suffers and struggles for the sake of her children, and that her efforts go unappreciated by Tom. The noise gives Tom and Amanda a scare, but Laura seems to be fine.Īwkwardly, Tom tries to apologize to Amanda as he takes his morning coffee. Laura, exiting on the fire escape, slips and cries out. Meanwhile, Amanda is calling out from the kitchenette for Laura to go get butter from the grocery store. Laura, who has been sent to wake him, begs Tom to apologize to Amanda. After the church bell strikes six times, we hear Amanda calling out 'Rise and Shine!' After just an hour of sleep, an exhausted Tom stumbles out of bed for another day of work at the warehouse. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?'Ĭut to one hour later. Tom is awestruck by the trick, and shares his wonder with Laura: 'You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. The magician's most impressive trick was to escape from a coffin without removing a single nail. He gives her a rainbow colored scarf as a souvenir from the magic show. When Laura expresses doubt that her brother could really have been at the movies all this time, Tom tells her about the length of the program and the magician that he went to see. Tom insists that he has been at the movies all night. Laura, who sleeps on the couch, hears him and opens the door for him. The script does not make clear exactly how much time has passed between Scene Four and the argument that ended Scene Three, but it has been no more than a few days. As the church bell strikes five am, a drunken Tom stumbles home.

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