RayEvery story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning.
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NealWhen I'm not ready, you hunt me down. When I try and make it work, you're not interested.
Molly GunnYou know, ever since we met, it's about what I'm doing wrong... but I'm not the one with the problem here, Neal. You are, you and your selfishness. All you do is take and - I've got nothing for you right now, so... maybe it's time to start thinking about someone other than yourself. 'Till then...
RayWhen you work for me, you leave when I say you can leave.
Molly GunnFor your information, I do not work for you. I am employed by your mother.
RayOh, yeah? Take a look around. Do you see her anywhere? News flash - you're not gonna unless you make an appointment with her assistant, or hang around her bedroom door at 3:00 in the morning. In the meantime you're working for me.
Molly GunnThe last time I saw my mom and dad, I was eight going on nine... eight years, six months, and three days... almost as old as you are. They were going on tour and leaving me behind for the first time, because they didn't want me missing any more school, and they came to my room to say goodbye and I wouldn't open the door, so they left. I fell asleep and then the next thing I know, my nanny was waking me up in the middle of the night telling me their plane had crashed.
Lorraine SchleineYou're lucky... that you were mad. See, when you're mad you don't miss people and if you stay mad, it's like you never knew them at all... that way you don't have to feel sucky about it... You were lucky...
Molly GunnI wasn't mad, I was confused... everyone was talking, talking, talking at me and I couldn't understand a word they were saying, and then their voices became a blur and soon I couldn't even recognize their faces; they were like these blobs and they started to grow fangs and their eyes became green and I knew I had to run away. So I packed my knapsack, got on the train, and looked up at the map and decided I wanted to live on Coney Island. I thought it would be... you know... a real island. That I thought I could hide there like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin, but imagine my surprise... The teacups were the only ride they would let me on by myself, so I got on it and I started spinning around and 'round and 'round. But I feel like I am still there... spinning 'round and 'round and 'round... and the ride won't stop... You were right, Ray, I am scared. But you're scared too. You're scared as I am and I thought that maybe if we could go together...
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Molly GunnExcuse me, Thumbelina, but you're still a little underage to be clubbing, aren't you?
RayYou're a little overage to be wearing a lampshade in your hair. Bright idea?
Roma SchleineThat's right. Me and Ray. We. Goodnight, Miss Gunn.
Molly GunnI'm sorry, but I'm not leaving without an explanation.
Roma SchleineI don't know what's been going on between you and my daughter, but she has made it clear that she never wants to see you again.
Molly GunnShe must be going out of her mind with grief.
Roma SchleineActually, she's taking it rather well. I was at my afternoon staff meeting when I got the news about my husband. I came home to find Ray doing her homework. She's been very calm and level-headed about this whole affair.
Molly GunnYou call that taking it well? Do you know what étage your daughter's at in ballet, Mrs Schleine? Or that she was banned from her science class for stealing a formaldehyde pig so she could give it a proper burial on central park? And the tea set you got her - it's exquisite and beautiful, but do you know how she likes to have her tea, how many lumps - one lump, two - cream, sugar?
Roma SchleineAnd the point of your little tirade is...
Molly GunnThat you're right. You don't know what goes on between me and Ray because you don't know very much about your own daughter.
Roma SchleineI know my daughter well enough to respect her wishes.
Molly GunnYou don't give her respect. You give her whatever she asks for so that you don't have to deal wit her. She's eight years old.
[tears her check]
Molly GunnShe is not 28. Please remember that the next time you show her some respect.
[storms out]
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Neal[Upon seeing Molly's pet pig]What on God's earth is that?
Ray[Continues]Sometimes when Mu hears people walking by outside the door, he gets this funny expression and runs into the bathroom, like he thinks they're coming to get him.
Molly GunnAnd if we're gonna have fun, then we need to listen to some music that's fun, ok?
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Molly Gunn[of Neal's music video]This is so 80's it makes my hair poof.
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Ray[narration]Some fairy tales are true, most of there stories we make up to help us deal with real life; it all depends on your point of view, but here are the facts... there was once a princess, who lived in a castle, high above the streets of an enchanted kingdom. The king and queen were long gone but they left her with a treasure, that she would stay a princess forever. On the eve of her 22nd birthday a great celebration was planned...
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Molly Gunn[holding up a ballet costume]So, what do ya think?
Molly GunnNo, it's for a little girl named Ray. Her year-end recital is coming up and the costumes are so boring, so I'd thought I'd surprise with something spectacular...
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Molly Gunn[of Neal]Look at the one-hit wonder that slut turned out to be...
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RayShe always does this to me, she's not coming. Ow!
Roma SchleineWell, if you would stop wiggling your ass, it wouldn't have fallen off in the first place.
NealI haven't been able to write a single decent song since we last saw each other. Molly, I'm sorry. I was trying to take a step forward, but I took two steps backward instead.
Molly GunnWhy don't you take one step sideways? Then we can stop doing this silly little dance.
RayHay, you want to pick up bacterial meningitis or polio, you go ahead and be my guest. Whatever diseases you're already carrying probably make those sound like a joke, anyway.
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Ray[sarcastically]I think we got ourselves a Grammy!
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IngridMolly, focus for one second. Your electric has been canceled and so has your gas. Who pays your bills?
Molly Gunn[Waves hand dismissively]I don't know. My parents' guy Bob.
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Ingrid[Reading Molly's resume]"Dear prospective employer, although I've had no previous employment, ever, the following is a partial but significant list of personal recommendations, including contact information. The Dalai Lama, Tibet?"
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Molly Gunn[about her new, low-income apartment]It's got potential, huh?
HueyAs a detention cell for convicted felons, maybe.
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Molly Gunn[Outside Neal's apartment]I was just out shopping in the neighborhood.
Molly GunnYou don't know how to dry without destroying the environment! For every roll of paper towels you waste, a tree in the rain forest dies.
Lorraine SchleineI'm gonna die of botulism from the germs on that gunky towel, you tree-loving hippie.
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Lorraine Schleine[to Molly, about eating hamburgers]I'm not the one who's gonna get mad cow disease and go nuts, though you don't seem to have a brain to fry in the first place.
IngridYou spent all night at that guy's house doing God knows what, and then you come here and crash at work. I can't believe you did this to me after all the strings I pulled.
Molly GunnIng, I know that I am an undeserving creep, but can we please talk about it over lunch?
IngridNo! Our lunch date has been canceled because you can't afford lunch.