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- Will Ethel be all right now, Doctor?

- Your granddaughter's case is a very strange one,

Mrs. Janowski. Severe paranoid manifestations,

long periods of depression, violent outbursts.

Quite frankly, it's against my better judgment

that she's being released.

- I see.

- I'm going to make weekly appointments

for Ethel to have further electro shock treatments.

I want you to make certain that she keeps them.

- Yes, I will.

- Mrs. James, will you set up four weekly appointments,

starting this Thursday, for Ethel Janowski?

- [Mrs. James] Yes, Dr. Gerard.

- There's one other thing, Mrs. Janowski.

- Yes?

- Try to encourage her to do something about her weight.

Those pounds put a massive strain on her heart.

- And Dr. Gerard said he'd help us

at the unemployment office.

I mean, he'll explain that you can't

go back to work right away.

Everything's gonna be fine again. I know it will.

- I have a nice surprise for you.

You'll see it as soon as we get home.

Do you know who stayed at the house last week?

Rosalie. She was all beat up.

She said she didn't have any money for her room,

so I let her stay.

I finally had to tell her to leave.

She brought men home with her, different men every night.

- Afternoon, Mrs. Janowski.

- Good afternoon, Mrs. Kendley.

- How's Ethel feeling?

- Fine. She's had a lovely rest.

Help you, dear? Just what she needed.

- Well, I hope she's over those terrible rages.

- I thought I smelled bacon frying.

I'll just have some black coffee, though.

A person's never too old to watch her figure.

Did you like your spread, dear?

Woolworths had a sale on Monday.

It's a pretty color, isn't it?

I thought it'd be just the right touch for your homecoming.

- Did you know they tried to kill me?

That goddamn Jew doctor gave them orders

not to give me enough to eat.

Two lousy boiled eggs

and a piece of dry toast for breakfast?

They were trying to save money

and starve me while they were at it.

- Dr. Gerard just wants you to lose a little weight.

- Why? What do I need to lose weight for?

- For your heart, Ethel.

- My heart's just fine as long as my stomach's not empty.

- Goodnight, Granny.

- Ethel!

- What's the idea of locking up the food?

- We'll have no fresh meat, or milk,

until you learn to curb your appetite.

- What?

- You'll eat three times a day and three times only.

Everything we eat will come from this cabinet

and I will have the only key.

When you learn not to stuff yourself,

we can use the icebox again.

- Do you think I'm gonna let you starve me?

- Do you realize how much you've been eating?

It costs a fortune to feed you.

The unemployment checks aren't half enough.

Gimme the key.

- You keep this up and you're gonna wind up

right back in the hospital.

- I wanna eat. Gimme that key.

- Do you want me to phone Dr. Gerard?

I'm getting the phone.

- You and that thief are trying to starve me to death.

Well, you're not gonna do it!

I want that key!

I want that key!

I want that key!

- This is Ethel Janowski and I want to place our order.

Look, we gotta eat.

Okay, okay. We'll pay for everything.

The old bills too.

Just have the boy bring the groceries

and I'll pay for them, okay?

Yeah, our regular weekly order.

But give me four half gallons of ice cream instead of two.

- Caruso says I'm supposed to get $80

before I leave your order.

- Well, bring it in. Just set it down there.

- Well, Mr. Caruso says I've gotta get the $80 first.

- I don't have $80.

I've only got $4.50.

- You're nuts!

- Jesus, it's about time.

I don't believe it, but I think you've gotten even fatter.

What'd they feed you in that nut house?

Where's grandma?

- She's not here, Rosalie.

- Where is she?

- Uh, she's gone to visit somebody.

- Well, I'll be staying here for a few days.

What's this blood all over the floor?

- I out myself on a broken bottle.

- I've been staying with Mama.

She told me to tell you hello.

She's still living with that Filipino, near to Stockton.

Anyway, I guess she's better off sleeping

with that little brown man than being drunk all the time.

How've you been, Ethel?

Did they help you at all at that hospital?

- They don't help you in those places.

- I'm gonna stay here a while

and I want you to do me a favor.

- All right.

- There's this guy that I don't wanna see,

his name's John.

And if he comes here looking for me,

tell him I don't ever wanna see him again.

- Why not?

- 'Cause he beat the shit outta me, that's why.

- Keep it down, huh?

- Okay, honey bunch. Hmm.

Who's that? The madam?

- Shut up, will you? Come on.

We're going upstairs.

- Shit!

- Hello?

- [Mrs. Woods] This is Mrs. Woods, from Dr. Gerard's office.

Would you please hold on for a moment?

- Hello? Mrs. Janowski?

- Look, my grandmother doesn't want to talk to you.

- [Dr. Gerard] Ethel?

- I told her what you did to me.

My grandmother doesn't wanna talk to you.

- Did you smell what's upstairs?

Grandma must have shit all over her bed before she left.

- I didn't smell anything.

- Well, you wouldn't. You're too busy cooking or eating.

- Who was that man last night?

- Look, Ethel, I've got a lot of friends here

and I might be bringing them home.

Know what I mean?

I wanna give you some money for letting me stay here.

- Thanks, Rosalie.

- That soil's no good, Ethel.

- What?

- I told your grandmother when she planted that flowerbed,

all she'd get would be weeds.

- Well, I'm not planting flowers.

- I gotta bury a dead cat.

- Well, why don't you put it out with the garbage?

- Because it stinks too much.

- That ground's too rocky.

You won't be able to dig very deeply.

- Well, good luck.

I Sometimes, I wonder if time passed me by I

I Or never had me found I

I Sometimes, I wonder if I flew too high I

- Hi, lovely.

- Get lost.

- I don't blame you for being angry with me, baby.

- Leave me alone, you dirty son of a bitch.

- Now, sweet. Can I just explain?

- Let me alone!

- Rosalie, I love you.

So could I just explain?

- I'm not listening to you.

- Rosalie, that woman didn't mean a thing to me.

- I'm not listening. I'm not listening to you.

I'm not listening. I'm not listening. I'm not listening.

I'm not listening.

- Look, I told you, that woman didn't mean a thing to me.

I only went to LA with her for the money.

- So where's the money?

- Well, that's it. She didn't have any.

She was just giving me a line,

promising me she'd get me into films.

That lying bitch.

You know you're the only one I love.

- Bullshit.

- Look, I want some good loving, not some old bag.

- There's a knot hole in the back fence. Try that.

- Come on, Rosalie. You know that I love you.

- If you love me so much,

how come you beat the hell outta me?

- Rosalie, I'm gonna tell you the truth for once, okay?

You need a good beating every once in a while.

All women do. And you especially.

Okay?

- Oh, good morning, Ethel.

I've come to see your grandmother.

Ethel, go get your grandmother!

- Mrs. Janowski?

Ethel, where's your grandmother?

Ethel, answer me.

Ethel, answer me. I know that you're in there.

I'm going away for the weekend

and I want to talk to you and your grandmother before I go.

Ethel, you've missed three electroshock treatments in a row,

and I want to know the reason for it.

- Ethel.

Ethel?

Is that you, Ethel?

Hi, sweet boo.

- Hi.

- How'd you sleep?

- Lousy.

Jesus.

- John, I want you to meet my sister, Ethel.

- What the hell have you been eating?

- John, she's my sister. Please, don't be mean.

It's her house. - Okay, okay,

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry, y'all.

I'm glad to know you.

Can you spare one of your sweet rolls?

Are you sure?

- What are you laughing at?

Goddamn it, stop laughing.

I'm sorry.

I've seen a lot of things,

but never a man putting on makeup.

- Look, dummy, that old chick I went off with

works in a Hollywood studio and she told me

all those big stars wear makeup.

That's why they look so good. Like they've got a suntan.

You stupid whore!

You're so beautiful.

- Just about to use some (indistinct)

What's that stuff?

- Some nasal medicine the doctor prescribed.

John and I both got sinuses.

- Oh.

- Hmm. This sure is nice.

And I do wish it could continue,

but it's getting dark out now.

You've got to get to work, lazy girl?

- Ha!

If that's who I think it is,

I might not have to go out tonight.

- You got a regular trick? - Uh huh.

- Evening, I'm with the police department,

Missing Persons Division.

My name is McDonough.

- Maybe I better get my sister. This isn't my house.

I'm just visiting.

Ethel. Ethel, Ethel.

- This is my sister. She's the one that lives here.

- Hello. I'm Detective Sergeant McDonough.

I'm investigating the disappearance of Glen Dickey,

the kid who works for Caruso's Market?

- Well, I don't know anything about that.

- Caruso says he never came back to the store

after making a delivery to your house, three days ago.

- All I know is he brought me the food and I paid him.

How much was that?

- What? - How much did you pay him?

- Uh, $80, I think it was.

- Did the boy seem upset or act strangely?

- No. - Which way did he go

when he left? - I didn't see.

- Well, he'll probably show up in a day or so.

I expect he's having a fling with your $80 in Tijuana.

- Yeah, I guess so.

- In any case, thanks for your time. Good night.

- Good night, Detective Sergeant.

- Good night.

- Ethel, what's that all about?

- Dummy, didn't you hear what the cops said?

The kid went to Tijuana to get laid.

- I'm gonna watch "Gunsmoke."

- Now quit wasting valuable time.

- Okay, okay. I'm just curious.

Besides, I gotta get a coat. It's cold outside.

- Hmm, you don't need no coat, shouldn't cover

up that cute little rump of yours with that coat.

Time's a wasting.

- Hey, what's that smell?

- I don't know. I smelled it the other day too.

Near Granny's room.

- Smells like something dead.

God almighty. There's something dead in there, all right.

It's locked.

- I'll go get Ethel. She must have a key.

Ethel.

Ethel?

- Uh, what is it, Rosalie?

- We've got to do something about that stink

in Grandma's room.

It's so strong, we can't sleep.

- I don't smell anything.

- Jesus, come over here then.

- Have you got a key? It's locked.

- Grandma's got the key.

- There must be a dead animal in there. A cat or something.

I'm gonna have to break it in.

- Don't do that.

- Well, we can't live here with a stink.

- Grandma will probably be back tomorrow

and we can go in without wrecking her door.

- Well, if she isn't I'm gonna break it in.

- Oh my god.

- Gonna have to kill you both. - No, Ethel.

- You shouldn't have tried to go

into Grandma's room, Rosalie.

- No, Ethel, no!

Not me, Ethel, not me.

Oh, don't hurt me, please?

Ethel, please don't hurt me, Ethel!

Ugh!

- These damn stairs are killing me.

- We're gonna have to do something about grandma tomorrow.

Spray a room or something.

Aren't you glad I didn't put you in there with all

that stink and everything?

I'm gonna leave you all in here. Just like before.

I won't disturb you.

I know you want to be alone

sometimes I could hear you.

I know what you were doing with John, Rosalie.

- I want to see Rosalie!

- Rosalie! Honeybunch!

Rosalie, Honeybunch!

- Not doing much good, Granny.

- It's no damn good at all!

- Hello El. - Somebody forgot to close your front door.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you.

- That's okay. You didn't startle me.

I was just gonna chop some firewood.

- I'd like to ask you a few more questions

about Glenn Dickey's disappearance.

The boy's mother's overwrought.

So I promised her that I'd go over all the ground

that I'd covered one more time.

At first I thought the boy had gone off somewhere

with friends and now I don't think so.

- Well, maybe he stole the $80 and he's afraid to come back.

- That wouldn't be in keeping

with what I've learned about the boy.

He's definitely no thief.

- He was a smart aleck kid.

- Most kids are at that age.

I'm worried the boy might have been mugged.

We've had two or three incidents in this neighborhood.

Think back. Could anybody see you give Glen the $80?

- Yeah. There's this guy down in the street,

and he had a gun.

- He had a gun and brought daylight.

And you didn't call the police?

- Well, I didn't see the gun,

but he had his hand in his pocket like it was a gun.

I didn't see too clear.

- So you paid the boy. Then what happened?

- I paid him the $80 and then the guy

followed him down the street.

- Which direction?

- To the right.

- In the direction of the store?

- Yes.

- Why didn't you mention all this to me the other night?

- I forgot.

- Describe the man that followed Glen Dickey.

- He was colored.

- Short or tall?

- He was short, I think.

- What was he wearing? - I don't remember.

- I want you to come downtown with me

to see if you can identify the man you saw.

- Look, I told you I didn't see him too clear.

Besides, I don't know anything about that kid disappearing.

- Well, I think you do, Ethel. - That's not true.

- Well, all right, we'll leave it at that

for the time being anyway.

You know it really would be a good idea

if you kept that front door locked.

Like I said, we've had trouble in this neighborhood before.

- You Granny, you stink the worst.

- Hi, Ethel! - Hello.

- When's your grandmother coming back?

- Soon. Next week I guess.

- Shit.

- My god.