will wait.
76] INTERIOR. DIMLY LIT ENTRANCE HALL OF MEIGHAN HOUSE.
Baby Doll turns from the screen door to the porch and stumbles along the vast and shadowy hall towards the dim light of the kitchen. As soon as she disappears, Vacarro is seen through the screen door. He jerks out a pocket knife and rips a hole in the screen
.
Baby Doll calls anxiously, out of sight
.
BABY DOLL [
from kitchen
]: What’s that?
77] THE PORCH.
Vacarro whistles loudly and casually on the porch. He now slips his fingers through the hole and lifts the latch
.
78] INTERIOR. KITCHEN OF MEIGHAN HOUSE. FULL SHOT.
Large, old-fashioned room with antiquated, but very capacious, equipment—large ice-box, large sinks and draining boards, large stove converted to gas
.
Baby Doll stands in the middle of the floor with an apprehensive expression, but as Vacarro continues whistling on the porch, her usual placidity returns. She notices a kettle of greens on the stove
.
BABY DOLL : Stupid old thing—forgot to light the stove.
[
She opens the ice-box for lemons
.]
Git me a Frigidaire one of these days.
[
The pan under the ice-box has overflowed and is swamping the floor
.]
Got to empty that pan.
[
Pulls it from under the ice-box with a grunt. A sound catches her ear, a sharp, slapping sound. She looks up anxiously, but the sound is not repeated. She takes out lemons, leaves the ice-box door hanging open. All her movements are fumbling and weak. She keeps rubbing her perspiring hands on her hips. She starts to cut a lemon, the knife slips and cuts her finger. She looks at the finger. It looks all right at first, then a drop of blood appears. She whimpers a little. The blood increases. She begins to cry like a baby
.
[
She makes a vague, anxious movement. Again the slapping sound followed by a soft human sound like a chuckle. She looks that way. Cocks her head. But the sound is not repeated. Still squeezing the cut finger she begins to wander toward the front of the house
.]
CAMERA PANS WITH BABY DOLL AS SHE WANDERS THROUGH THE HOUSE.
[
She passes through a bare huge room with a dusty chandelier. It was the dining room when the house belonged to the old plantation owners. She whimpers under her breath, squeezing the bleeding finger. Now the blood is running down the hand to the wrist and down the wrist to the forearm and trickling into the soft hollow of her elbow. She groans and whimpers at the sight of the great flight of stairs, but starts up them
.
[
Halfway up, at the landing, she hears the slapping sound again and the faunlike mocking laughter. She stops there and waits and listens—but the sound isn’t immediately repeated, so she goes on up
.
[
She goes into the bathroom and starts to bandage her cut finger
.]
79] INTERIOR. HALL OF MEIGHAN HOUSE. VACARRO DISCOVERED. FULL SHOT.
Vacarro is grinning up at the staircase. He slaps the banisters viciously with his whip, then chuckles
.
CAMERA PANS WITH VACARRO.
[
He strolls into the kitchen, sees the ice-box door hanging open. Helps himself to the remains of a chicken, tearing it apart and gnawing the meat off it. He notices lemons and bloodspots
—
laughs
.]
SILVA : Trail o’blood! Ha ha!
[
He empties the flooded ice-pan over dirty dishes in sink
.]
Filth! Disgusting!
[
He slaps the wall with his whip and laughs
.]
80] INTERIOR. THE MEIGHANS’ BEDROOM. BABY DOLL WANDERS IN FROM BATHROOM.
The finger is clumsily bandaged now, and she wanders across the room and examines herself in the mirror
.
BABY DOLL : Look ’a’ me! Big mess. . . .
[
There are dark stains of sweat on the watermelon pink dress. She lazily starts to remove it. Hears the slapping sound and laugh closer. Pauses, her mouth hanging open. Fumbling attempt to lockdoor. Key slips from her weak, nerveless fingers. She stoops, grunting, to pick it up
.]
81] INTERIOR. KITCHEN. VACARRO SQUEEZING LEMONS AND HURLING THE RINDS SAVAGELY AWAY.
He finds gin bottle and sloshes gin into pitcher. Takes ice pick and chops
76] INTERIOR. DIMLY LIT ENTRANCE HALL OF MEIGHAN HOUSE.
Baby Doll turns from the screen door to the porch and stumbles along the vast and shadowy hall towards the dim light of the kitchen. As soon as she disappears, Vacarro is seen through the screen door. He jerks out a pocket knife and rips a hole in the screen
.
Baby Doll calls anxiously, out of sight
.
BABY DOLL [
from kitchen
]: What’s that?
77] THE PORCH.
Vacarro whistles loudly and casually on the porch. He now slips his fingers through the hole and lifts the latch
.
78] INTERIOR. KITCHEN OF MEIGHAN HOUSE. FULL SHOT.
Large, old-fashioned room with antiquated, but very capacious, equipment—large ice-box, large sinks and draining boards, large stove converted to gas
.
Baby Doll stands in the middle of the floor with an apprehensive expression, but as Vacarro continues whistling on the porch, her usual placidity returns. She notices a kettle of greens on the stove
.
BABY DOLL : Stupid old thing—forgot to light the stove.
[
She opens the ice-box for lemons
.]
Git me a Frigidaire one of these days.
[
The pan under the ice-box has overflowed and is swamping the floor
.]
Got to empty that pan.
[
Pulls it from under the ice-box with a grunt. A sound catches her ear, a sharp, slapping sound. She looks up anxiously, but the sound is not repeated. She takes out lemons, leaves the ice-box door hanging open. All her movements are fumbling and weak. She keeps rubbing her perspiring hands on her hips. She starts to cut a lemon, the knife slips and cuts her finger. She looks at the finger. It looks all right at first, then a drop of blood appears. She whimpers a little. The blood increases. She begins to cry like a baby
.
[
She makes a vague, anxious movement. Again the slapping sound followed by a soft human sound like a chuckle. She looks that way. Cocks her head. But the sound is not repeated. Still squeezing the cut finger she begins to wander toward the front of the house
.]
CAMERA PANS WITH BABY DOLL AS SHE WANDERS THROUGH THE HOUSE.
[
She passes through a bare huge room with a dusty chandelier. It was the dining room when the house belonged to the old plantation owners. She whimpers under her breath, squeezing the bleeding finger. Now the blood is running down the hand to the wrist and down the wrist to the forearm and trickling into the soft hollow of her elbow. She groans and whimpers at the sight of the great flight of stairs, but starts up them
.
[
Halfway up, at the landing, she hears the slapping sound again and the faunlike mocking laughter. She stops there and waits and listens—but the sound isn’t immediately repeated, so she goes on up
.
[
She goes into the bathroom and starts to bandage her cut finger
.]
79] INTERIOR. HALL OF MEIGHAN HOUSE. VACARRO DISCOVERED. FULL SHOT.
Vacarro is grinning up at the staircase. He slaps the banisters viciously with his whip, then chuckles
.
CAMERA PANS WITH VACARRO.
[
He strolls into the kitchen, sees the ice-box door hanging open. Helps himself to the remains of a chicken, tearing it apart and gnawing the meat off it. He notices lemons and bloodspots
—
laughs
.]
SILVA : Trail o’blood! Ha ha!
[
He empties the flooded ice-pan over dirty dishes in sink
.]
Filth! Disgusting!
[
He slaps the wall with his whip and laughs
.]
80] INTERIOR. THE MEIGHANS’ BEDROOM. BABY DOLL WANDERS IN FROM BATHROOM.
The finger is clumsily bandaged now, and she wanders across the room and examines herself in the mirror
.
BABY DOLL : Look ’a’ me! Big mess. . . .
[
There are dark stains of sweat on the watermelon pink dress. She lazily starts to remove it. Hears the slapping sound and laugh closer. Pauses, her mouth hanging open. Fumbling attempt to lockdoor. Key slips from her weak, nerveless fingers. She stoops, grunting, to pick it up
.]
81] INTERIOR. KITCHEN. VACARRO SQUEEZING LEMONS AND HURLING THE RINDS SAVAGELY AWAY.
He finds gin bottle and sloshes gin into pitcher. Takes ice pick and chops
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