(A massive crowd outside a big theater is gathered with excitement)

DR. SPARKS:

When Alice was young she was good
Parents you’ve all been warned
‍

But one little taste of amphetamines and
oh my good Lord!
‍
She was running and jumping and
screaming and moaning for more!
‍
(You know what of)

(Her audience leans in to hear)

Sex and then drugs and then worst of all:
hard rock and roll!

(Audible “GASP” from the audience)

(Well) Someone’s gotta warn these parents and
apparently no one will
‍
And so I wrote a little cautionary tale
about the dangers of just one pill!

(Suddenly all the banners fall and the spotlight goes off and she’s just back in her office with no fans at all)

After ten years of crazy success
I gotta up the ante even still

(She bursts into her publisher’s office screaming of her displeasure with her “ANONYMOUS” situation)

Cause I’m the
world’s most famous
ANONYMOUS author!

And when you’re nameless
no one bothers

You can sell
millions of books
and it’ll just be ridiculous

(Dr. Sparks assistant wheels in a chalkboard)

You’ve gotta get a plan that will
make you more conspicuous

(Dr. Sparks assistant writes a big “WE NEED A NEW…” on the board)

(And Dr. Sparks writes a big “ALICE” under it)

(And so)

I’m calling all parents out there
who want to make a difference!
‍
(In this world)

PAGE TURNER (DR. SPARKS ASSISTANT):

(Step one: Take out an ad in every paper in the country!)

DR. SPARKS

(…and say…)
I’m looking for journals from
deceased, troubled, teens!

‍
PAGE TURNER:

(And say we’re looking for wacked out kids’ diaries baby!)

DR. SPARKS, PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER:

It’s not mandatory but it’d be nice
if their deaths were self-in flicted

PAGE TURNER:

(I mean, who wouldn’t want their dead kid to be famous?!)

DR. SPARKS:

The last journal that I wrote about
made it on TV!
‍
(And William Shatner played the father, don’t you see...'cause)
‍
That’s what happens when you’re world famous
them’s the kind of “bennies” that you’ll get

You write a book and call it ‘Go Ask Alice’
Captain Kirk plays the father of your kid

(Incensed about it)

But don’t give ‘Alice’ too much credit
or no one’s gonna know the work you did

(Back to the reality check with publisher)

And you’ll be the
world’s most famous anonymous author
‍
And when you’re nameless no one bothers

You can sell millions of books And it’ll just be ridiculous
‍
So this time I’ve got a plan
that will make me more
conspicuous

PUBLISHER:

I don’t
mean to sound callous,

but if we

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER:

find this next Alice

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER, DR. SPARKS:

We could all have a palace

(Suddenly a random janitor employee joins them)

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER, DR. SPARKS, RANDOM JANITOR:

And a pony of our own (Our own!!!)

(Everyone is cashing in on this one!)

She’s Calling all parents out there who want to make a difference in this world

(The publisher jumps on the janitor’s back and rides him around in celebration of an anticipation of the crazy money that will come their way from the next book)

DR. SPARKS:

I can’t keep “me” all to “me”

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER, JANITOR:

She’s looking for journals from deceased, troubled, teens

DR. SPARKS:

I belong to the world

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER, JANITOR:

It’s not mandatory but it’d be nice if their deaths were self-in flicted

(The ad is placed and the presses start rolling)

DR. SPARKS:

You don’t hide this under a bushel you set it on a hill

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER, JANITOR:

The last journal that she wrote about made it on TV

DR. SPARKS:

And William Shatner played the father, if you will, I’ll tell you

That’s what happens when you’re world famous
Them’s the kind of “bennies” that you’re going to get!

You write a book and call it ‘Go Ask Alice’
And Captain Kirk will play the father of your kid!

But don’t give ‘Alice’ too much credit
or no one’s gonna know the work you did!

DR. SPARKS (with PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER and JANITOR):

And you’ll be the
world’s most famous anonymous author
And when you’re nameless no one bothers
You can sell millions of books
and it’ll just be ridiculous
So this time I’ve got a plan that will
make me [her] more conspicuous!!!

(It’s all about to finally happen now for Dr. Sparks)

(Alden is still present, carefully watching over the process)

(Doyle is surrounded by all of Alden’s photographs and journal spread out on the living room floor as if piecing the story together still)

(Marcella enters staring intensely at the newspaper)

MARCELLA:

I can't believe my eyes

Doyle, do you realize

Come look at this ad
and just read these lines

(Doyle sees the ad and immediately joins Marcella's excitement)

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

It’s incredible timing!?!?

MARCELLA:

It's like she’s asking ‘bout our son
sure, It might be

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

a million to one but

MARCELLA:

his story we know

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

is not yet done

(Alden senses something important is happening)

MARCELLA:

And maybe the

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

stars and the sun
and the moon have aligned

(Alden can't believe the add either)

Dear God if this
one in a million is right

(They take each others hands and look to heaven as if praying)

And if
this is what you want done

(Marcella carefully crafts a response to the ad)

And the race we’re to run
‍
Then we’ll answer this ad
it’s all in your hands
‍
Yes Lord
we’ll answer this ad

DOYLE:

It’s all in Your hands

(When Dr. Sparks gets Marcella’s letter there is total pandemonium at the office)

(The publisher, assistant, and the janitor all start celebrating as if they’ve won the lottery)

(Dr. Sparks realizes she is about to finally get both the fame and credit she so desperately craves)

(Dr. Sparks is brought back to reality as her assistant hands her the phone)

DR. SPARKS:

Mrs Barrett I got your letter
you should know most people call me Doctor…

PUBLISHER:

(Call her doctor!)

DR. SPARKS:

I just hate those formalities

PAGE TURNER (ASSISTANT):

(She’s a therapist!)

DR. SPARKS:

But as a therapist, when I read
your words I admit I was intrigued

PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER:

(We’re all intrigued!
She’s an author, doctor, therapist!)

DR. SPARKS:

And after prayerfully considering literally (we’ve had)

DR. SPARKS, PUBLISHER, PAGE TURNER:

hundreds of other offers out there!

(SCENE CHANGE: All of them come bursting into the Barrett’s home in full movie star fashion)

DR. SPARKS:

I agree that it's destiny that you and I should meet!
‍
But we’veGotta take care of just a little bit of business

PUBLISHER:

(It’s just business)

DR. SPARKS:

cause it lets us do the good we’re gonna do!

PUBLISHER:

(Sign here please, would you?)

DR. SPARKS:

And that’s write about your boy according to your wishes
are we clear about what is owned by who?

(Macella and Doyle are so swept up in the spectacle and excitement they sign everything put in front of them without any questions)

PUBLISHER:

(This is us and that is you)

DR. SPARKS:

Of course we’re
Gonna need to change just a few small details
like his name and some other ones we’ll choose

PUBLISHER:

(We’ll choose, not you)

(Alden isn’t nearly as convinced but he too has no idea what’s going on)

DR. SPARKS, PAGE TURNER, PUBLISHER:

But this is trivial stuff
to make it world famous
trivial plots and trivial changes
trivial rights that you just gave us

DR. SPARKS:

so I can take that journal now and
do what he’d want us to do!!!

(Alden now realizes something is not right)

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

This is definitely what we’ve
both been praying for too

(Dr. Sparks and her crew take the journal and close the front door behind them)

DR. SPARKS:

One in a million don’t you
see what we’ve just landed!

(Alden follows after her)

It’s gonna be bigger than Alice ever dreamed!

I’m so excited and astounded at myself
I just can’t stand it any longer now cause

I’ll be the world’s most famous non-anonymous author
The world’s most famous non-concocter
A licensed therapist and even a doctor! If
anyone doubts me now this journal’s my proof!!!

NOTE: “Maybe” this last part with the lightning didn’t happen in real life. But if it was ever going to happen it would have happened right here.

(Everyone but Alden leaves)

(Alden stumbles around trying to make sense of everything he’s just seen)

(Back at home, Doyle and Marcella are clearly happy about this new possibility of having Alden’s story told by a world famous author)

(Doyle pulls Marcella into his arms like they’re a young couple again in love)

DOYLE:

Let’s go for a walk
Up ‘round the bend
To a place we can talk

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

Like we just became friends

DOYLE:

Or let’s go for a drive
To the end of the day
Where the sun says goodbye

DOYLE AND MARCELLA:

Over lovers that lay

‘Cause Sunday only happens once this week

(Doyle and Marcella notice the kids staring at them)

And Tuesdays only find us if we seek

(They invite them to join in but it takes some coaxing)

(what about…) Thursdays or Fridays?

DOYLE:

(Well…) they’re good days too

(For perhaps the first time ever, the family “dances” together)

DOYLE and MARCELLA:

But any’s a good day with all of you

(It’s both awkward and chaotic)

DOYLE and MARCELLA +KIDS:

And Sunday will only happen once this week

THE ENTIRE FAMILY:

Oh Sunday will only happen once this week

(The Barrett family hasn’t experienced happiness like this in what seems like forever)

(Outside the Rexall Bookstore in the center of town a shipment of books is arriving)

(It is entitled:
‍
“Jay’s Journal”
ANONYMOUS
‍
Edited by Dr. Beatrice Sparks
who also discovered Go Ask Alice)

(It quickly garners a lot of attention)

TOWNSFOLK #1:

Anyone hear about this boy named “Jay?”
It says he lived in town right up the way
And then he took his own life,
because he was possessed?
‍
(No way! Possessed?)

TOWNSFOLK #2:

Not sure about no boy named “Jay”
It sounds just like what happened down on Maple Lane?
Where Dr. Barrett’s boy took his own life
Ohhh, that was a mess

PRUDENCE, CONSTANCE, VERITY:

(As if almost thrilled about the connection of Jay with Alden)

Oh you’ve got to be kidding me!
How’s it possible we didn’t see!
We knew something in that house was wrong
but we didn’t know this!

TOWNSFOLK:

Ohhhhhhh! Ohhhh! Ohhhhhh! he was possessed

(The whole town is now fully engaged in this new sensational story about this kid named ‘Jay’ that most knew was Alden Barrett)

(Constance, Prudence, and Verity have their proof and march into the rectory seeking retribution on the Bishop)

PRUDENCE, CONSTANCE, VERITY:

Didn’t we tell you that there was something wrong!!
Didn’t we warn you then that something must be done!!
You better not go soft now
when you take a look at this!
Proof the Barrett boy was totally possessed!

BISHOP:

I don’t remember him this way

It is disturbing,
but I don’t know what to say

(Alden is suddenly “pulled” into the room)

I’ll have to read this for my self
and I just may come
to the same conclusions
but even then what would I say?

(Alden sees the book in the bishop’s hands)

PRUDENCE, CONSTANCE, VERITY:

Say why he ended his life!!!

(Alden sees they’re talking about him)

BISHOP:

But as your leader I must know for my
self that it’s true first

PRUDENCE, CONSTANCE, VERITY:

Cause “Non-Fiction” ain’t lies!!!

And with his own hand
he wrote the scarlet letter
on his own chest!

(Alden sees the name on the book)

(THIS IS THE BOOK DR. SPARKS WROTE ABOUT HIM!)

(Zoom out from Alden’s eyes as he watches in horror what’s about to happen back in his own home)

(A big box arrives at their door)

(Marcella excitedly realizes it must be the first copies of the book)

MARCELLA:

Everybody come down
the book just got here! It’s
Hard to believe it’s almost
been a whole year she’s been
writing the story of our boy
and here it (is?)

(Alden is frozen)

(He doesn’t know the full contents, but he knows it’s bad)

(Opening up the box and seeing the cover for the first time, Marcella looks confused)

What in the world?
This isn’t him
And this is nothing at all
like his story

He never wrote this down
or said this out loud
‍
What in the world?!

MARCELLA and DOYLE:

No, no, no, no!
‍
None of this is true at all
None of this! None of this!
None of this is true and yet
enough of it actually is!

DOYLE:

They’ll think Jay is our kid!

MARCELLA and DOYLE:

Page after page of clues
Make it all feel so true
Details about my boy’s life
make me feel like it’s his!

DOYLE:

It’s crazy stuff he never did!

MARCELLA and DOYLE:

No room for doubt
Everyone will find out
‘cause the story is clearly ‘bout him.
‍
What of the town
when the word gets around
what will we tell our own kids?

The lies and sounding
The rumors abounding
how could she do what she did?

(They must set the record straight - they go out into the town to confront this lie)

Our baby wasn’t like this

Our baby never did this

My baby didn’t die this way!

(But no one reading the book has the power to turn away from it)

(The same demons who were tormenting Alden arrive in celebration)

(Everyone reading the book is terrified, and almost effortlessly under their influence)

DEMONS:

Oohh...Oohh...Ahhhhh

Oohh...Oohh...Ahhhhh

(Alden arrives in time to see the worst of it)

(It feels as if the whole town is engulfed in fear but Alden is the only one who can see it)

(Meanwhile, given the contents of the book, everyone makes the connection between Alden and “Jay”)

TOWNSFOLK:

No room for doubt...ahhhhh
The story is out...ahhhhh
we know who it’s about...ahhhh

(The townspeople are starting to see Doyle and Marcella as “Jay’s” parents and turn on them)

MARCELLA:

Our baby wasn’t like this  

Our baby didn’t do this            
My baby didn’t die this way!

TOWNSFOLK:

But he ended his life!

MARCELLA:

No! It’s not how it looks! He was hurting!

TOWNSFOLK:

So he chose suicide?!

(The Bishop steps in between as if to stop the fight)

MARCELLA:

No! If you had any idea you wouldn’t!

TOWNSFOLK:

What? Go and end our own lives?!!!

(Alden tries to help as well)

MARCELLA:

Oh! It’s just an ‘incomplete’ upon his test!

(The townsfolk steamroll Marcella and Doyle and leave)

(Marcella collapses front and center as Doyle struggles to pick up remaining copies of the book and pages scattered around the street)

(Soft light on Doyle and Marcella front and center)

(The Barrett children stand at a distance)

(Alden just watches in disbelief)

(The Bishop is unsure of how to respond to any of this)

(He approaches as if to offer help but realizes how serious the situation is and gives Doyle and Marcella some space)

DOYLE:

Cella, calm down
We gotta keep it together and
somehow we’ll figure this out

MARCELLA:

There’s nothing here to figure out
we’ve just gotta fight back
and be ready to go the rounds!

DOYLE:

Stand, yes, our ground
But we’ve got three other kids still
and they’re going to need us now

MARCELLA:

No, no, no!

DOYLE:

More than ever

they’re going to need us now

(Marcella finally “comes to” and collapses into his arms sobbing)

(Doyle helps her up and they leave with their kids)

(Alden looks back at the bishop but then follows his family)

(Only the Bishop and a copy of Jay’s Journal remain)

(The Bishop stoops down and picks up Jay’s Journal and begins to read as he makes his way back to the rectory of the church)

(The more he reads, the darker it gets)

(Shadowy figures begin to loom in the background)

DEMONS:

Ooohhh, Ooohhh, Ooohhh, Ooohhh

BISHOP:

(Reading what he thinks are Alden’s words)

From far across the fields
Come riders in black

To shackle my heels
And carry me back

(The Bishop closes the doors behind him)

They escort me down
The bottomless well
Hog-tied and bound through the

BISHOP, DEMONS:

Gates into Hell
‍
Ahhh…

(From out of the darkness emerge a legion of dark figures)

It suits me so well

(It turns out the bishop isn’t the one singing at all)

Ahhh…

(One of the dark figures is slowly approaching the bishop)

Forever in hell

(This “leader” of the demons is the one singing)

LEAD DEMON:

And nobody knows,  
The heights of the walls,

Or the heat of coals that burn,
Except those who fall!

(The Lead Demon sings what the Bishop thinks are Alden’s words)

But everyone cheers
The conductor there,

And we strum out of fear
For Judas’ first chair

LEAD DEMON, OTHER DEMONS:

Ahhh… The conductor there
Ahhh… And Judas’ first chair

(The rest of the demons surround the Bishop)

(The bishop can’t put the book down)

(There’s a knock at the rectory door but the bishop doesn’t hear it)

(There’s a second knock but the bishop is too entranced with the book to notice)

BISHOP:

Now when I think back on him

I’m not so sure

that this book doesn’t show what was
written between the lines

(Demons muttering and lurking in the background like hyenas waiting for their prey to come out)

Had I known then that he was
writing this I am more than sure

I would have seen so clear the signs

All the signs, signs, signs, signs, signs, signs

(As if a light bulb moment)

Suddenly the dots connect
and his own journal speaks for itself!

(Prudence, Constance, and Verity enter the rectory)

Like the demons cast from the lunatic
‍
into the swine, compelled the swine
‍
to kill themselves!

(Each is accompanied by their own personal demon from the Legion of Demons)

BISHOP, CONSTANCE, PRUDENCE, VERITY, LEGION of DEMONS:

And that demon compelled that swine to kill himself!

(The “Lead Demon” steps forward and issues a command to “attack”)

(The demons run at the bishop and start lashing at him)

CONSTANCE (accompanied by the her DEMON):

You followed the lies!
You’re none the wiser!
Following lies!
And hypnotized by him!

(The Bishop can’t “see” the demons, no one can)

(But Prudence, Constance, and Verity do the exact same thing)

PRUDENCE (accompanied by her DEMONS):

You followed the lies
of a mesmerizer!
You followed the lies!
You’re compromised by sin!

VERITY (accompanied by her DEMONS):

You followed the lies
and the terrorizer
Offered the lies
through a dimwitted kid!
‍
And you know the

LEAD DEMON, CONSTANCE CAGE, PRUDENCY, VERITY, DEMONS:

Demons compelled that kid
to kill himself

(Now the demons all turn and sing to the unseeing humans)

LEAD DEMON, DEMONS:

Cause all demons
compel all pigs
just like yourself(selves)

(The Lead Demon steps in and binds the bishop up just like the others)

(The demons now begin puppeteering their subjects at will)

DEMONS, LEAD DEMON:

The pigs ain’t marching home again hoorah! Hoorah!

The pigs ain’t marching anywhere at all! Not at all!
‍
Those pigs can’t march, not even one
cause they drowned themselves
to the beat of our drum and they’re
all now dead and done! Done! Done!

(The demon-led caravan marches out of the church and up to Doyle and Marcella’s home)

DEMONS via CONSTANCE, PRUDENCE, VERITY:

You sat this one out with your heads in the clouds, and we all cried aloud,
while your kid beat the Devil’s drum!

(Marcella begs the Bishop to help as he’s done in the past…)

DEMONS via CONSTANCE, PRUDENCE, VERITY:

So just look around at the whole damned town, all that’s happening now,
how could you be so dumb!

(...but he steps back as if he’s almost afraid of her too)

(Marcella can’t understand why he won’t help)

(But the Bishop is crippled by fear)

DEMONS via CONSTANCE, PRUDENCE, VERITY:

Your kid marched right out of kingdom come, when he did himself in
with the devils gun!
‍
And your Alden is dead and done…

(Prudence, Constance, and Verity, victoriously accompanied by the Demons, all march off)

(Prudence, Constance, and Verity, victoriously accompanied by the Demons, all march off)

(The Bishop gives Doyle and Marcella one last look, then at the ground, and then follows the mob)

DEMONS:

And our work is all but done.

(Doyle collects Marcella back into the front room where the kids are at the dinner table but Marcella breaks down and runs to her room)

(Doyle stays with the kids somberly making dinner)

(Marcella, still upstairs, alone)

MARCELLA:

Dear God in Heaven, could it be that I’m not hearing
What You’re saying to me?
‍
You know I’d never question You
Or anything You’d choose, believe me!
‍
Tonight I’m just wondering
If enough
Is  not enough
The road is long and oh so
rough! I’m not complaining!
I’m really just wondering
‍
If you still hear
Me when I pray
Is there some different way I should say
“Won’t You please help me?”
Or “Can You not see me?”
‍
Or how long and oh so wrong it’s been
And I have nowhere else to go (Dear Lord!)
‍
Where or when
Will this all end?
You are the only one
who knows!

And hears all prayers
If You are there my
God why can’t I know?!

DOYLE:

Oh Marcella dinner’s on the kids are waiting
For you and me

Could you please spare us

(Marcella is oblivious to Doyle’s request)

just an evening where we’re safely
Still a family
‍
And after tonight
Resume this fight
That’s quite alright if just tonight
Life’s not so draining
We just want a dinner time
‍
Where we’re not alone
In our own home
Forget this long and brutal road
That’s all we’re saying
It’s such a long hill to climb
‍
Marcella please (MARCELLA: Dear God!)
I’m begging please (MARCELLA: Dear God!)
Remember you and me (MARCELLA: Can you not see?)

(It is Sunday morning. Congregants file inside the church almost zombie-like)

(A thick gloom has settled over everything)

(The demons stand guard like ushers)

CONGREGATION, DEMONS:

Only the righteous know that
righteousness protects us day and night!

(Constance is leading the terror-inducing sermon as the bishop sits by quietly)

And only the wicked feel the fear that
fills with fear deep down inside!

(At the Bishop’s side is the “Lead” Demon)

Master Mayhem is coming with his
minions lo already at the door!
No one is safe! No home is sound!
You know we’ve all seen this before!

(SLOW MOTION MONTAGE OF PREVIOUS SCENES…)

(...but this time you can see how the demons have been influencing the bad behavior all along)

EVERYONE:

Oh… Dear God please spare our precious town!
OOhh, OOhh, OOhhh

Let our hearts not faint or be cast down!

OOhh, OOhh, OOhhh

Let us never speak an unkind word!
OOhh, OOhh, OOhhh
‍
Let our light so shine to all the world!
OOhh, OOhh, OOhhh

(NOW BACK TO NORMAL SPEED)

(The bad behavior looks like it would in normal life)

(The Police are rounding up hippies and homeless people again)

(Johnny Lundgren is the next ‘Revolutionary’ to get caught)

CHIEF JUSTUS and COPS:

We’re cleaning up this town!
Gonna take the trash out!

And you might not like how we go about it
but the trains are on time!

(Davey Cage is finally captured, beaten and arrested)

They’re on time! On time!

PRINCIPLE FEER, MRS. BRUNT, and MR. MEANS:

A little heavy handed but discipleship demands that if a nail is sticking out
you gotta hammer it back in line!

(All the youth are made to dress the same and have their hair cut to “appropriate” lengths)

(To students: “Get in line! Get in line!”)

CONSTANCE CAGE (flanked by CHIEF JUSTUS and PRINCIPLE FEER):

(With megaphone in hand marching like the she’s leading the 3rd Reich)

Moral preservation!
How firm a foundation!

Like a beacon to the nations in the dark
is the light of our city!

GOOD KIDS:

(The “good” kids goose stepping behind her like Hitlers Youth)

One! Two! Three! Four!

One! Two! Three! Four!
One! Two! Three! Four!

PRUDENCE PETTY (flanked by CHIEF JUSTUS and PRINCIPLE FEER):

All the commies hanged!
And the hippies clean and shaved!
And the virtuous girls and boys are
strong and pretty!

GOOD KIDS:

One! Two! Three! Four!

(A new kind of “American” flag is now used to symbolize and qualify the “true” Americans)

One! Two! Three! Four!
One! Two! Three! Four!

(The entire town finds itself bowing to the power and influence of the neo-conservative, fascists now fully empowered and in control)

CONSTANCE CAGE (flanked by CHIEF JUSTUS and PRINCIPLE FEER):

(Finally "safe," having won the “great battle” for goodness)

And now at last we’re sure
That this town will be clean and pure

Not one hair will be out of line
And the trains will run on time

(Almost weepy in the peace of knowing how “good” the town has finally become)

They’ll run on time

(Marcella is at the radio listening to yet another Dr. Sparks interview)

(She’s distant from the family and unaware of how disengaged she has become)

(The kids are alone in the other end of the home)

(Doyle is in the bedroom)

DOYLE, MARCELLA, and SPIRIT ALDEN:

(Sadly. Apart. Distant. From opposite ends of the house)

The dream is over
the world seems colder

(Doyle comes out of the bedroom with his suitcases packed)

The family’s dying

(Alden looks up from across the room)

out of tears from crying

(Doyle places his bags by the front door and approaches Marcella who still doesn’t notice)

DOYLE:

Marcella you were like the wind through my hair

MARCELLA:

Did you say “were” right there?

DOYLE:

When I thought of you

MARCELLA:

And “thought” there too?

DOYLE:

Just the thought of you, and everything you’d do was with me there too

MARCELLA:

It’s ‘cause I’m always with you

DOYLE:

Just “me and you”

MARCELLA:

Okay I’m listening to you?

DOYLE:

And the sky was blue
and everything was true
and life was so simple
‘cause I always knew

I meant everything to you

MARCELLA:

Well babe you still do!
It’s all still true!

I really want to be with you!
But right now we gotta do
what any mother’s gotta do!
We gotta bring out this truth
I mean: what else is there to do?

DOYLE:

Drop this fight and let it go

MARCELLA:

Are you kidding me?
‍
I just can’t do that!
Don’t you know?
A mother can’t let go!

DOYLE:

Then I just can’t do this anymore

(Doyle shakes his head at the ground and then looks over at his bags as if to tell Marcella the truth)

MARCELLA:

Why did you look at the door?

(Slowly realizing that Doyle is serious this time)

And what are your bags packed for?
Doyle? Doyle?

(Doyle puts his coat on)

(Alden is staring on in desbelief)

(Marcella moves hastily over to Doyle)

MARCELLA:

Doyle? Doyle?! Doyle!!!

(Doyle then puts his hat on)

DOYLE:

Our time has gone
Our time has passed
oh how  I once felt for you!
I felt for you
like the air
your bird glided through
And made one from two
me and you,
one from two!

MARCELLA:

Doyle Please!
But I still feel for you!
I’ll always feel for you!
Weren’t you there?
Don’t you even care what our son went through?
But my bird’s still true!
I’m made just for you!
Yes, me and you! Me and you! I’m made just for you!)

(Doyle arranges his jacket methodically and slowly makes his way to the door while Marcella continues to try to hold him there)

DOYLE:

Me and you
we can’t fly through
we can’t pull through
if we’re torn in two

(Alden stands by powerless)

DOYLE:

Me and you
it can’t be true
that we can’t be one
and we can’t be two
‍
Me and you
we can’t fly through
we can’t pull through
if we’re torn in two
‍
Me and you
it can’t be true
that we can’t be one
and we can’t be two

MARCELLA:

Baby please!
‍
Not “me and you”!
‍
This ain’t what we’re
supposed to do!
‍
Not me!
‍
Not you!

DOYLE:

One more time
As if it were true
‍
Me and you
‍
Torn in two

MARCELLA:

One more time!
Let me hold on to you!
I’ll hold on to you!
And make you feel it’s still true!
Give me one more chance!
Please! Baby please!
Don’t go, no, no, no, no!
NO! NO!

(Doyle leaves and closes the door)

(The family scatters to their respective rooms while Marcella collapses on the floor in tears)

(Alden can bear no more and flees)

(Doyle makes his way to the train station)

(And settles into a tiny apartment the next town away)