No. 7: Heaven Right Now

No. 7: Heaven Right Now
(Rab, Young Rab
&
Margaret)
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YOUNG RAB:
She's
the
one
CUE: MARGARET: Let me tdke that with me. Please . . . (COLINT 2, 3, 4,) . . . Please
Gently
):
ne
YOUNGRAB:
mar -
ery-thing
ied
ried
too
man should look
to
you
vou
feel
and
for
And if
girl-
1na
of
that's
now_
the
thrill
YOUNG RAB:
She's
the
one
*rai
maks
all
rishr-
Fia
YOUNGRA&
I - DIS
vou
l-bl
it's
war - er
you
- tight
-
old
e-nough
to
know
of
love
and know
that
this
is
noI_
feel
No. 7: Heauen Right Nou'
YOIING RAB:
the one
that
makes
you
feel
YOUNGRAB:
wat-er - tight-She's
YOUNG
RAB:
3:----1
1-3
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RAB:
-
And if
you get
caught
you're
go - irg
But it's
to
thrill
MARGARET3
-I
RAB:
______7._r_+
YOUNGRAB:
you
feel
RAB +
YOIING RAB:
Hea -
ven right
)6
-ed.
to. I hope you found rhe happir;-..
Margaret."
\ours
ahvays.
(Ren is shocked. As he absorbs tl:e iii-t'iri,.,;.;;r-,r; -;.i;4' ,,,,tciilbers,
YouNc Res - also in his earl1, tu,enrje: - eitr.rt tt'iilt nL,o ice cream
cones. He is wearing a Scotland jbotball sltirr - ir is 19.79, He giues
one con€ /a Mencannr.)
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R-re
R-re
I-tRG,\RET
Youxc Res
You've left him? \X/alked out? Just like that?
:-:--
Mancen.sr
I couldn't take it any more. He was nothing but a bully.
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. , - - , - --
YouNc Res
He was yer husband.
MencenBr
So? \What else
YouNc Res
Does he know where you are?
Mancennr
I bloody hope not!
could I do? He hit me. I couldn't stay.
(YouNc F.l.s looks arownd
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a bit neruous.)
Mancenrr
No. He doesn't know where I am. Or where I'm going.
YouNc Ree
Where are yov going?
MancerBr
Away. Far away. London to start with. On the train tomorrow.
After that . . . who knows. I'm not coming back, Robert. I'm never
coming back.
YouNc Ree
So what's this? Ye wanted
MencenBr
No. I wanted to ask you to come with me.
YouNc Res
\7hat?
MeRcenBr
Just think about it for a minute . .
YouNc Rae
I can't. You know I can't.
Mencensr
\7e were h"ppy before. We could both start again. Somewhere
Somewhere better. Somewhere we could do something.
to say goodbye?
.
SuNsnrNr ON Lornr
d. Yours always.
You dumped me, Maggie. You took up wi someone else. Christ,
you married himl
td remembers,
r _. ..:.:
'ith two ice cream
i:
I
. i-re
1979. He giues
i . .,-r.FT
,,
1rn
I made a mistake. I'm sorry. I should
never have left you.
But I'm wi ]ean now.
This isn't about, Jean. It's about us.
Not about
her?! She's my wife! She's having my baby.
a bullv.
r .-.-i.ET
But, don't you see? \7e have a second chance. Right now. \(/e can
take it. If you want ro. You just have to wanr ro.
:;:- R,rs
No.
. -.{RET
No, you don't want to
r;; Res
V/hat difference does it make?
(Mencaner
.--,:,1*-{RET
rlno
-"5'
--
: iomorrow.
,,trrrr. I'm never
xc Ree
r-i.C.tRET
-
xc Ree
I'd
never do anything to hurt her.
Does she know you're here?
shakes his head
-
guilty.)
She's away at her sister's.
(Marcenn'r
,\,,1-rRcene:r
realises she's not going t0 persuade hlm.)
Sorry. You're right. I shouldn't have expected anything else. Not
now. Not with Jean.
(Rrt
:,
or no, you can't?
sees A
glimmer of bope.)
So this is our secrer. Our last secrer. And if she doesn, t know
you're here, she'd never know if you were to stay with me tonight.
Just tonight. One last time.
(YouNc Ri;r_ realises what
here else.
\'f encenEr
she's
proposing.)
I'm leaving tomorrow. It'd be a memory. That,s all. A snapshor. Ler
me take that with me. Please.