Wild Bones (2022) Movie Script
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[church bell dinging]
[winds blowing]
Fay.
[gasps]
[sniffles]
[taking deep breaths]
[yells]
[church bell dinging]
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[phone ringing]
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Hello.
ALICE: [on phone]
Fay, Dad left us a house.
He left us his house.
FAY: You've spoken to Dad?
ALICE: [on phone] No.
No.
Fay, he's gone,
you know that.
[whimpers]
ALICE: [on phone] Dad's
gone.
[wind blowing]
[sniffles]
[taking deep breaths]
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[wind blowing]
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[chuckles]
Where are we going?
I thought we could go for a
walk by the seaside maybe,
with a friend.
Maybe just say hi and
then we can get going.
- Hi.
- Who is he?
This is... this is Gary.
Gary, Fay.
I want to stay here.
But Fay, you love the beach.
That's what mom said.
You used to love it.
Remember?
GARY: Maybe in the summer.
The beach.
Well, is it okay,
if we stay here?
Even just five minutes
will be great, it's so cold.
Yeah.
I just want to spend
some time with you.
Okay, yes.
This is my kind of place.
I'd love to come here
and get away from it all.
What would you be
trying to get away from?
Nothing in particular.
It's just nice to go
somewhere new.
Yeah.
Somewhere fresh.
[chuckles]
I'd still like to go to
the beach sometime.
To be beside the seaside.
[chuckles]
The sea makes it look like
the Earth's been cut open.
It's like an enormous
wound that won't heal.
Where's the toilet?
It's just upstairs.
Do you mind if I just use it?
Yeah, okay.
Okay, cool.
Thanks. Won't be long.
[sighs]
[footfalls in distant]
[sighs]
Are you cold?
No, I'm fine.
So, you're Alice's
famous big sister?
What?
Alice, she's told me
about you before.
What did she tell you?
Nothing.
Nothing, really.
Yes, she did.
Of course, she did.
What did she say?
GARY: She said you're
an amazing dancer.
I'm not a dancer.
GARY: Why would
she say you were?
They wanted me
to be a dancer.
Didn't like the way I moved.
GARY: So not a dancer then?
[sniffles]
Alice doesn't know me.
GARY: Your mom was
a dancer, wasn't she?
No, my mom wasn't.
That's Alice's
mom, not my mom.
[sniffles]
[exhales]
GARY: I was always
told that love was wise,
and hatred was foolish.
What did Alice
tell you about me?
Nothing.
[Fay chuckles]
Okay.
You shouldn't believe everything
my sister tells you about me.
Not everything she
says is going to be right.
I won't believe what
she tells me about you
if you promise not to believe
everything she says about me.
She hasn't told me
anything about you.
Well, if she does.
Well, it looks like I've
got to get to know you
my own way, then.
I guess so.
Okay, first love?
What?
GARY: Who was
your first love?
My dad.
My first love was my dad.
It was always my dad.
GARY: Okay, that makes sense.
Tell me about him, then.
My dad?
My dad made me
feel safe, fearless.
He kept me from harm.
Are you close
with your family?
Close enough.
My dad used to say,
"The one thing you'll
always have is family."
You can lose everything
else in the world,
but you'll always
have family.
Which means you'll
always have love,
which means you'll
always be warm.
Not cold.
Warm.
Love is important.
It is.
It is important.
DAD: All three of us.
ALICE: He's gone.
Dad left us the house.
You know that?
FAY: What are you doing?
Sorry.
Sorry, I...
What are you doing with that?
[rattles]
Uh...
- Alice!
- It's dad, isn't it?
Yeah.
Are you okay?
FAY: I'm fine.
What was that song that
you said dad used
to sing to you?
FAY: Can't remember.
You can.
You can't of forgotten that.
I know the song,
I just don't know
what it's called.
ALICE: Will you
sing me a bit?
No.
Please?
I thought you didn't want
to talk about dad anymore.
I don't really care
what we talk about,
as long as you know,
as long as we're talking.
Sing for me?
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Here.
ALICE: Don't open it yet.
Just wait till I'm gone.
[chuckles]
ALICE: Have you thought
any more about the house?
FAY: What house?
Dad had a house.
ALICE: It went to
her and now it's ours.
I was hoping we
could go together,
maybe all three of us.
FAY: She doesn't deserve
a single thing of him.
ALICE: She does.
Fay she's got it.
She's got the keys to the
house and if you want them,
you're going to have to
go see her to get them.
[bell chimes]
[hums]
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[takes a deep breath]
Alice and her mum
are trying to convince me
I can't take care of myself.
Why is that?
They think that because
they can't understand
their own actions,
or they don't
understand what being...
I think I understand.
[objects clattering]
[fire crackling]
Gary said that you
might be seeing him.
I'm seeing him soon.
You like him, I can tell.
[chuckles]
He's fun, but nothing
more than that.
Is he helping to
make you feel better?
I feel better by myself.
Okay, that's good.
You don't like talking to me
about what's going
on with you, do you?
Not everything needs
to be talked about
and explained.
Is it true that when
you were little,
you never spoke
until dad left?
Didn't need to
speak till dad left.
ALICE: Why not?
Didn't need words.
CANDACE: Fay...
we worry so much about
you.
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CANDACE: Both of us do.
Have you thought any
more about the house?
Have you forgotten?
We're not going unless
you come with us.
[gasps]
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's just us?
Yeah.
[panting]
It's just us.
[takes deep breaths]
FAY: You ever been with her?
With Alice?
With Alice.
Would it bother you if I had?
Don't know.
Won't know till you tell me.
Does it bother you
to tell me the truth?
No.
The truth doesn't bother me.
What's Alice like?
What do you mean?
What's she like?
Tell me a story.
What kind of story?
A story without words.
[bell dinging]
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[chuckles]
I don't want to get
that on your teeth.
Go like that.
ALICE: I think that's okay.
Hang on.
You've grown up so much.
That's nice.
Will you sing me dad's song?
No.
Just tell me the first line.
Why?
I want a bit of him too.
I want to share.
Thank you.
[chuckles]
We should get ready.
Fay, could you just
tighten these for me?
Just a bit tighter.
- Like that?
- Yeah.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
You look really pretty.
Thanks.
Do you want to
put yours on too?
Yeah, okay.
All those hills
feel like dad.
[wind blowing]
[insects chirping]
Will it be able
to get to us here?
Should we walk
down and meet it?
Come on.
Let's go.
Wait.
No, we're not going tonight.
[fire crackling]
Alice.
ALICE: No.
Fay.
Alice, come on.
No.
Don't.
No.
Just...
I don't.
Just...
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CANDACE: Did you
make it disappear?
[takes a drag]
Didn't know you smoked.
Don't really.
Except when I drink.
[takes a drag]
[exhales]
I can put it out.
Sorry.
It's okay.
I used to love
watching you dance.
Mom always wanted
to dance with you more.
She loved the way
you're able to dance.
[gulps]
How are things with Gary?
I've asked him to
move in with me.
Really?
Yeah.
It's quite soon.
Is it?
Yeah.
Do you think I'm making
the right decision?
- No.
- Why not?
It's just...
I just think it's a bit soon.
Well, the cat's gone.
Where did the cat go?
I don't know.
Did you make it disappear?
What did you say?
You should bring him
around to meet mom.
The cat?
Gary.
I'm not going
to do that, Alice.
I wouldn't have brought
the fucking cat either.
You really need
to go and see her.
She really wants to see you.
She needs to see you.
You don't know
who she really is.
ALICE: Do you think it was
really mom who did those things?
FAY: Do you think I
wanted it to happen?
It was dad who left.
He didn't leave.
Mom told me
everything about him.
He was a violent man.
He left us.
Mom said both you and
him share wild bones.
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This is our first
night together,
just you and me.
We should make it special.
Okay.
We should tell each
other something
we've never told
anybody else before,
secrets that can be
shared just between us.
It means you're
locked together
by something only
the both of you know.
That's something
that's forever.
Okay.
You don't agree?
Secrets are things that just
come out and change the way
someone looks at you,
changes the way
people talk to you.
You're treated different
when someone knows
who you really are.
Every time we see each
other, I look at you
differently.
But that's only because I
feel closer to you each time.
I just want to be as
close to you as I can be.
I just want to be closer.
Tell me your secret.
Why don't you tell a secret?
Then I'll know how
much you trust me
and what sort of
secret I should tell you.
You want a secret?
I want your secret.
Alice's mom used to bend
my bones out of shape
and twist my arms and legs
till they were
close to snapping.
She used to stub her
cigarettes out on my arm
and she's the reason my dad
was taken and is still missing.
You shouldn't say
those kind of things.
It's not fair on me.
[taking deep breaths]
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GARY: Are you okay?
I'm fine.
GARY: I'm sorry
about earlier.
I think...
ALICE: Fay.
DAD: How could you possibly
know someone who's
been dead that long?
Mom said both you and
him share wild bones.
Fay.
Mom said both you and
him share wild bones.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this?
ALICE: Mom said both
you and him share wild...
DAD: For fuck sake, will you
please fucking say something.
CANDACE: All I ever
did was try to help you.
All I ever did.
I fucking saved you
from that monster.
All you've done
is try to punish me.
You're absolutely
nothing.
What's wrong with you?
You fucking dark evil
fucking piece of shit.
I've fucking tried to
do everything with you.
I cannot fucking
do anything else.
I don't know what the
fuck is wrong with you.
[whimpers]
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CANDACE: Fay.
[screams]
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[Fay panting]
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[grunts]
Okay, I'm going to let go.
I'm going to let go.
I'm going to let go, okay?
[pants]
If you promise me not to run.
Okay, do you promise?
We're going to look
after each other, okay?
We've got to look
after each other.
[both panting]
Okay?
It's me.
[both panting]
Okay.
Okay.
[taking deep breaths]
Okay.
I need to clean up.
I'll take care of it.
No, I've got it.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Yeah.
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What are you looking for?
GARY: A razor.
I'm looking for my razor.
Has it ever been in
that drawer before?
GARY: Yeah.
Well, yeah, that's
where I thought I left it.
It just disappeared.
You okay?
Yeah.
GARY: I'll miss
you while I'm gone.
I'll miss you, too.
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[pants]
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FAY: How have you been?
ALICE: Me?
FAY: Yeah, how
are things with you?
Hanging on, you know?
It's just me and mom
in that house now,
so just rattling
around, you know?
You should move out.
I can't leave her there.
You should.
But why would I want
to leave her there?
Doesn't she hurt you?
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We'll wash that
out now, I think.
Come here.
Head down.
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[fire crackling]
[Sobs]
A gypsy that lived
on a house by the sea
A gypsy that lived
on a house by the sea
He had daughters,
one, two, three
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
His daughters, they
walked by the oceans brim
Love balanced to me
His daughters, they
walked by the oceans brim
The oldest pushed,
the youngest in
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
Oh sister, oh sister,
please lend me your hand
Oh sister, oh sister,
please lend me your hand
And I will give you
house and health
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
I'll give you need
for hand not love
Love balanced to me
I'll give you need
for hand not love
Until you give me
back my first half
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
I wanted you to know
him like I know him.
ALICE: Fay, I need to
talk to you about Gary.
He's not an honest man.
[munches]
[grunts]
[slurps]
How was your trip?
Yeah, fine.
It was really boring.
Where were you?
Wisbech.
Yeah, two days in Wisbech.
[exhales]
Is everything all right?
I'm fine.
Not hungry?
I'm only peckish.
You should eat then.
[munches]
[moans]
[moans]
One of the last things
my dad said to me.
He told me at some
point when I was older,
I'd find myself alone.
He told me
the only person I'd ever really
be able to rely on is myself.
And he told me to promise him
that I'd do everything I
can to do the right thing.
He told me behind
doors are secrets,
and underneath
the skin is the truth.
No protection, just truth.
It's all skin is,
the thing stopping us seeing
what's inside of each other.
Your dad sounds
like a wise man.
Do you love me?
I love you.
Do you?
I'm tired, Fay.
That was really nice.
I'll let you finish.
[smooches]
[grunts]
My fucking tongue!
[pants]
Stop, please, stop.
I'm sorry.
What are you sorry for?
Who I am, my family.
Your family?
My daughter.
[sobs, grunts]
GARY: Let me tell you.
You're nothing.
GARY: You can help me.
I need you to help me.
I was going to
tell you Fay...
I was going to tell you...
When I come back,
you better not be here.
If you are I'll fucking
turn you inside out
and show everyone
what you are.
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[screams]
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[screams]
Shh, please.
[screams]
No, no, I don't
know where I am.
And everything just
feels really dangerous
and it just grabs at the core of
me and throws me into space
and around the room and
it hurls me into the concrete
and into the floor
and into the wall
and I don't where I
am and it is constant,
and it comes in these
huge fucking waves,
these giant fucking waves.
It never ends.
It's a constant fight
and it never ends.
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Fay, you've got
to leave this place.
There's nowhere
else for you to go.
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She knows I've got someone here,
but she doesn't know it's you.
She knows.
And I know, you're hurting
because of Gary
and everything, but...
Gary is nothing.
It's dad, and it's her, and
it's the things she's done.
ALICE: All I've known is Mom.
She loved me and
she stuck around.
She's here for both of us.
Do you know what she did?
First we were at the
beach, that's why you think
I love the beach,
because that's where we
were, when he was gone.
We're there together.
Then we weren't.
ALICE: Why were
you at the beach?
Because he saw her.
She was hurting me and
he saw her, and he hurt her.
He took me away,
and told me he was going
to make everything better.
Then I turned around
and he was gone.
- You went back home?
- I went back, I went upstairs,
and held onto his things.
I just breathed them
in because I knew.
A part of me knew
he was slipping away,
and she called me outside and
she made me throw everything
he owned into the
fire and watch it burn.
- Why?
- Because then she had me.
It's all she's ever
wanted, control.
[Music plays]
[Gasps]
[music plays]
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[floor creaking]
[taking deep breaths]
Take your coat off.
[takes a drag]
[exhales]
CANDACE: I've
been waiting for you.
What for?
CANDACE: Sunday
lunch, Christmas.
I'm playing with you, love.
I'm pulling your fucking arm.
Did you hear about
Davina's Nathan?
Davina's Nathan, that boy.
Of course you don't remember.
He's not been seen
for six months now.
He's another one
they reckon is sleeping.
That's what we used to say
about about your Da' wasn't it?
We used to joke about it.
Him shutting his eyes, sleeping.
He's taken you to
some lonely places Fay.
A long list of lonely places.
Forever leading you
to that lonely spot.
I take it that's
why you're here.
FAY: What?
The house.
Dad didn't have a house.
CANDACE: Of course he did.
It was your father's.
And I thought it was time to
make you go there and see
who he really was.
- I know who he really was.
- No, you don't.
- Yeah, I do.
- No.
[gasps]
[whimpers]
[takes a drag]
[exhales]
Do you want one?
You were always
nicking my fags.
No, I weren't.
I know you.
I know you.
I know what simmers
inside,
and I know what's in
your body and in your guts.
Your Da' always told you
there was a light in there.
There was shit.
You and him were
a right pair of cunts.
There's always fucking
pain wherever you are.
You were pain.
All I ever did, was
try to help you.
I wanted to make
you a better person.
I wanted you to
be better, not this.
You used to burn me.
CANDACE: Oh, shut up, Fay.
[whimpers]
FAY: What are wild bones?
Tell me.
Wild bones belong to people
who aren't people at all.
They're people who are
animals wearing human skin.
FAY: That doesn't
mean anything.
It means everything.
You're not made up
like the rest of us, you,
or you're Da'. You're dirty,
you're filthy pigs.
You're animals,
you're not human.
And just you think about that,
you think about what that means,
because being
human is everything.
It's what gives us more to
live for than just surviving
and dying, but
those two things,
they are constantly swirling
around you and your Da'.
You're a typhoon
of fucking misery.
Being human means seeing
what's really there in front
of you and living
with that and working
to make things better.
Oh, he fucking had you.
He fucking had you.
He fucking had
you, he fucking had...
[screams]
[bell chimes]
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[whirring]
[fire crackling]
[takes a deep breath]
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[takes a deep breath]
[takes a deep breath]
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[gootfalls approaching]
[whimpers]
My love is just for you
If yours is just for me
[whimpering]
CANDACE: Fay?
[Fay sobs]
[whimpering]
[wind blowing]
[church bell dinging]
[winds blowing]
Fay.
[gasps]
[sniffles]
[taking deep breaths]
[yells]
[church bell dinging]
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[phone ringing]
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Hello.
ALICE: [on phone]
Fay, Dad left us a house.
He left us his house.
FAY: You've spoken to Dad?
ALICE: [on phone] No.
No.
Fay, he's gone,
you know that.
[whimpers]
ALICE: [on phone] Dad's
gone.
[wind blowing]
[sniffles]
[taking deep breaths]
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[wind blowing]
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[chuckles]
Where are we going?
I thought we could go for a
walk by the seaside maybe,
with a friend.
Maybe just say hi and
then we can get going.
- Hi.
- Who is he?
This is... this is Gary.
Gary, Fay.
I want to stay here.
But Fay, you love the beach.
That's what mom said.
You used to love it.
Remember?
GARY: Maybe in the summer.
The beach.
Well, is it okay,
if we stay here?
Even just five minutes
will be great, it's so cold.
Yeah.
I just want to spend
some time with you.
Okay, yes.
This is my kind of place.
I'd love to come here
and get away from it all.
What would you be
trying to get away from?
Nothing in particular.
It's just nice to go
somewhere new.
Yeah.
Somewhere fresh.
[chuckles]
I'd still like to go to
the beach sometime.
To be beside the seaside.
[chuckles]
The sea makes it look like
the Earth's been cut open.
It's like an enormous
wound that won't heal.
Where's the toilet?
It's just upstairs.
Do you mind if I just use it?
Yeah, okay.
Okay, cool.
Thanks. Won't be long.
[sighs]
[footfalls in distant]
[sighs]
Are you cold?
No, I'm fine.
So, you're Alice's
famous big sister?
What?
Alice, she's told me
about you before.
What did she tell you?
Nothing.
Nothing, really.
Yes, she did.
Of course, she did.
What did she say?
GARY: She said you're
an amazing dancer.
I'm not a dancer.
GARY: Why would
she say you were?
They wanted me
to be a dancer.
Didn't like the way I moved.
GARY: So not a dancer then?
[sniffles]
Alice doesn't know me.
GARY: Your mom was
a dancer, wasn't she?
No, my mom wasn't.
That's Alice's
mom, not my mom.
[sniffles]
[exhales]
GARY: I was always
told that love was wise,
and hatred was foolish.
What did Alice
tell you about me?
Nothing.
[Fay chuckles]
Okay.
You shouldn't believe everything
my sister tells you about me.
Not everything she
says is going to be right.
I won't believe what
she tells me about you
if you promise not to believe
everything she says about me.
She hasn't told me
anything about you.
Well, if she does.
Well, it looks like I've
got to get to know you
my own way, then.
I guess so.
Okay, first love?
What?
GARY: Who was
your first love?
My dad.
My first love was my dad.
It was always my dad.
GARY: Okay, that makes sense.
Tell me about him, then.
My dad?
My dad made me
feel safe, fearless.
He kept me from harm.
Are you close
with your family?
Close enough.
My dad used to say,
"The one thing you'll
always have is family."
You can lose everything
else in the world,
but you'll always
have family.
Which means you'll
always have love,
which means you'll
always be warm.
Not cold.
Warm.
Love is important.
It is.
It is important.
DAD: All three of us.
ALICE: He's gone.
Dad left us the house.
You know that?
FAY: What are you doing?
Sorry.
Sorry, I...
What are you doing with that?
[rattles]
Uh...
- Alice!
- It's dad, isn't it?
Yeah.
Are you okay?
FAY: I'm fine.
What was that song that
you said dad used
to sing to you?
FAY: Can't remember.
You can.
You can't of forgotten that.
I know the song,
I just don't know
what it's called.
ALICE: Will you
sing me a bit?
No.
Please?
I thought you didn't want
to talk about dad anymore.
I don't really care
what we talk about,
as long as you know,
as long as we're talking.
Sing for me?
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Here.
ALICE: Don't open it yet.
Just wait till I'm gone.
[chuckles]
ALICE: Have you thought
any more about the house?
FAY: What house?
Dad had a house.
ALICE: It went to
her and now it's ours.
I was hoping we
could go together,
maybe all three of us.
FAY: She doesn't deserve
a single thing of him.
ALICE: She does.
Fay she's got it.
She's got the keys to the
house and if you want them,
you're going to have to
go see her to get them.
[bell chimes]
[hums]
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[takes a deep breath]
Alice and her mum
are trying to convince me
I can't take care of myself.
Why is that?
They think that because
they can't understand
their own actions,
or they don't
understand what being...
I think I understand.
[objects clattering]
[fire crackling]
Gary said that you
might be seeing him.
I'm seeing him soon.
You like him, I can tell.
[chuckles]
He's fun, but nothing
more than that.
Is he helping to
make you feel better?
I feel better by myself.
Okay, that's good.
You don't like talking to me
about what's going
on with you, do you?
Not everything needs
to be talked about
and explained.
Is it true that when
you were little,
you never spoke
until dad left?
Didn't need to
speak till dad left.
ALICE: Why not?
Didn't need words.
CANDACE: Fay...
we worry so much about
you.
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CANDACE: Both of us do.
Have you thought any
more about the house?
Have you forgotten?
We're not going unless
you come with us.
[gasps]
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's just us?
Yeah.
[panting]
It's just us.
[takes deep breaths]
FAY: You ever been with her?
With Alice?
With Alice.
Would it bother you if I had?
Don't know.
Won't know till you tell me.
Does it bother you
to tell me the truth?
No.
The truth doesn't bother me.
What's Alice like?
What do you mean?
What's she like?
Tell me a story.
What kind of story?
A story without words.
[bell dinging]
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[chuckles]
I don't want to get
that on your teeth.
Go like that.
ALICE: I think that's okay.
Hang on.
You've grown up so much.
That's nice.
Will you sing me dad's song?
No.
Just tell me the first line.
Why?
I want a bit of him too.
I want to share.
Thank you.
[chuckles]
We should get ready.
Fay, could you just
tighten these for me?
Just a bit tighter.
- Like that?
- Yeah.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
You look really pretty.
Thanks.
Do you want to
put yours on too?
Yeah, okay.
All those hills
feel like dad.
[wind blowing]
[insects chirping]
Will it be able
to get to us here?
Should we walk
down and meet it?
Come on.
Let's go.
Wait.
No, we're not going tonight.
[fire crackling]
Alice.
ALICE: No.
Fay.
Alice, come on.
No.
Don't.
No.
Just...
I don't.
Just...
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CANDACE: Did you
make it disappear?
[takes a drag]
Didn't know you smoked.
Don't really.
Except when I drink.
[takes a drag]
[exhales]
I can put it out.
Sorry.
It's okay.
I used to love
watching you dance.
Mom always wanted
to dance with you more.
She loved the way
you're able to dance.
[gulps]
How are things with Gary?
I've asked him to
move in with me.
Really?
Yeah.
It's quite soon.
Is it?
Yeah.
Do you think I'm making
the right decision?
- No.
- Why not?
It's just...
I just think it's a bit soon.
Well, the cat's gone.
Where did the cat go?
I don't know.
Did you make it disappear?
What did you say?
You should bring him
around to meet mom.
The cat?
Gary.
I'm not going
to do that, Alice.
I wouldn't have brought
the fucking cat either.
You really need
to go and see her.
She really wants to see you.
She needs to see you.
You don't know
who she really is.
ALICE: Do you think it was
really mom who did those things?
FAY: Do you think I
wanted it to happen?
It was dad who left.
He didn't leave.
Mom told me
everything about him.
He was a violent man.
He left us.
Mom said both you and
him share wild bones.
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This is our first
night together,
just you and me.
We should make it special.
Okay.
We should tell each
other something
we've never told
anybody else before,
secrets that can be
shared just between us.
It means you're
locked together
by something only
the both of you know.
That's something
that's forever.
Okay.
You don't agree?
Secrets are things that just
come out and change the way
someone looks at you,
changes the way
people talk to you.
You're treated different
when someone knows
who you really are.
Every time we see each
other, I look at you
differently.
But that's only because I
feel closer to you each time.
I just want to be as
close to you as I can be.
I just want to be closer.
Tell me your secret.
Why don't you tell a secret?
Then I'll know how
much you trust me
and what sort of
secret I should tell you.
You want a secret?
I want your secret.
Alice's mom used to bend
my bones out of shape
and twist my arms and legs
till they were
close to snapping.
She used to stub her
cigarettes out on my arm
and she's the reason my dad
was taken and is still missing.
You shouldn't say
those kind of things.
It's not fair on me.
[taking deep breaths]
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GARY: Are you okay?
I'm fine.
GARY: I'm sorry
about earlier.
I think...
ALICE: Fay.
DAD: How could you possibly
know someone who's
been dead that long?
Mom said both you and
him share wild bones.
Fay.
Mom said both you and
him share wild bones.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this?
ALICE: Mom said both
you and him share wild...
DAD: For fuck sake, will you
please fucking say something.
CANDACE: All I ever
did was try to help you.
All I ever did.
I fucking saved you
from that monster.
All you've done
is try to punish me.
You're absolutely
nothing.
What's wrong with you?
You fucking dark evil
fucking piece of shit.
I've fucking tried to
do everything with you.
I cannot fucking
do anything else.
I don't know what the
fuck is wrong with you.
[whimpers]
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CANDACE: Fay.
[screams]
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[Fay panting]
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[grunts]
Okay, I'm going to let go.
I'm going to let go.
I'm going to let go, okay?
[pants]
If you promise me not to run.
Okay, do you promise?
We're going to look
after each other, okay?
We've got to look
after each other.
[both panting]
Okay?
It's me.
[both panting]
Okay.
Okay.
[taking deep breaths]
Okay.
I need to clean up.
I'll take care of it.
No, I've got it.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Yeah.
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What are you looking for?
GARY: A razor.
I'm looking for my razor.
Has it ever been in
that drawer before?
GARY: Yeah.
Well, yeah, that's
where I thought I left it.
It just disappeared.
You okay?
Yeah.
GARY: I'll miss
you while I'm gone.
I'll miss you, too.
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[pants]
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FAY: How have you been?
ALICE: Me?
FAY: Yeah, how
are things with you?
Hanging on, you know?
It's just me and mom
in that house now,
so just rattling
around, you know?
You should move out.
I can't leave her there.
You should.
But why would I want
to leave her there?
Doesn't she hurt you?
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We'll wash that
out now, I think.
Come here.
Head down.
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[fire crackling]
[Sobs]
A gypsy that lived
on a house by the sea
A gypsy that lived
on a house by the sea
He had daughters,
one, two, three
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
His daughters, they
walked by the oceans brim
Love balanced to me
His daughters, they
walked by the oceans brim
The oldest pushed,
the youngest in
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
Oh sister, oh sister,
please lend me your hand
Oh sister, oh sister,
please lend me your hand
And I will give you
house and health
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
I'll give you need
for hand not love
Love balanced to me
I'll give you need
for hand not love
Until you give me
back my first half
My love is just for you
if yours is just for me
I wanted you to know
him like I know him.
ALICE: Fay, I need to
talk to you about Gary.
He's not an honest man.
[munches]
[grunts]
[slurps]
How was your trip?
Yeah, fine.
It was really boring.
Where were you?
Wisbech.
Yeah, two days in Wisbech.
[exhales]
Is everything all right?
I'm fine.
Not hungry?
I'm only peckish.
You should eat then.
[munches]
[moans]
[moans]
One of the last things
my dad said to me.
He told me at some
point when I was older,
I'd find myself alone.
He told me
the only person I'd ever really
be able to rely on is myself.
And he told me to promise him
that I'd do everything I
can to do the right thing.
He told me behind
doors are secrets,
and underneath
the skin is the truth.
No protection, just truth.
It's all skin is,
the thing stopping us seeing
what's inside of each other.
Your dad sounds
like a wise man.
Do you love me?
I love you.
Do you?
I'm tired, Fay.
That was really nice.
I'll let you finish.
[smooches]
[grunts]
My fucking tongue!
[pants]
Stop, please, stop.
I'm sorry.
What are you sorry for?
Who I am, my family.
Your family?
My daughter.
[sobs, grunts]
GARY: Let me tell you.
You're nothing.
GARY: You can help me.
I need you to help me.
I was going to
tell you Fay...
I was going to tell you...
When I come back,
you better not be here.
If you are I'll fucking
turn you inside out
and show everyone
what you are.
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[screams]
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[screams]
Shh, please.
[screams]
No, no, I don't
know where I am.
And everything just
feels really dangerous
and it just grabs at the core of
me and throws me into space
and around the room and
it hurls me into the concrete
and into the floor
and into the wall
and I don't where I
am and it is constant,
and it comes in these
huge fucking waves,
these giant fucking waves.
It never ends.
It's a constant fight
and it never ends.
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Fay, you've got
to leave this place.
There's nowhere
else for you to go.
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She knows I've got someone here,
but she doesn't know it's you.
She knows.
And I know, you're hurting
because of Gary
and everything, but...
Gary is nothing.
It's dad, and it's her, and
it's the things she's done.
ALICE: All I've known is Mom.
She loved me and
she stuck around.
She's here for both of us.
Do you know what she did?
First we were at the
beach, that's why you think
I love the beach,
because that's where we
were, when he was gone.
We're there together.
Then we weren't.
ALICE: Why were
you at the beach?
Because he saw her.
She was hurting me and
he saw her, and he hurt her.
He took me away,
and told me he was going
to make everything better.
Then I turned around
and he was gone.
- You went back home?
- I went back, I went upstairs,
and held onto his things.
I just breathed them
in because I knew.
A part of me knew
he was slipping away,
and she called me outside and
she made me throw everything
he owned into the
fire and watch it burn.
- Why?
- Because then she had me.
It's all she's ever
wanted, control.
[Music plays]
[Gasps]
[music plays]
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[floor creaking]
[taking deep breaths]
Take your coat off.
[takes a drag]
[exhales]
CANDACE: I've
been waiting for you.
What for?
CANDACE: Sunday
lunch, Christmas.
I'm playing with you, love.
I'm pulling your fucking arm.
Did you hear about
Davina's Nathan?
Davina's Nathan, that boy.
Of course you don't remember.
He's not been seen
for six months now.
He's another one
they reckon is sleeping.
That's what we used to say
about about your Da' wasn't it?
We used to joke about it.
Him shutting his eyes, sleeping.
He's taken you to
some lonely places Fay.
A long list of lonely places.
Forever leading you
to that lonely spot.
I take it that's
why you're here.
FAY: What?
The house.
Dad didn't have a house.
CANDACE: Of course he did.
It was your father's.
And I thought it was time to
make you go there and see
who he really was.
- I know who he really was.
- No, you don't.
- Yeah, I do.
- No.
[gasps]
[whimpers]
[takes a drag]
[exhales]
Do you want one?
You were always
nicking my fags.
No, I weren't.
I know you.
I know you.
I know what simmers
inside,
and I know what's in
your body and in your guts.
Your Da' always told you
there was a light in there.
There was shit.
You and him were
a right pair of cunts.
There's always fucking
pain wherever you are.
You were pain.
All I ever did, was
try to help you.
I wanted to make
you a better person.
I wanted you to
be better, not this.
You used to burn me.
CANDACE: Oh, shut up, Fay.
[whimpers]
FAY: What are wild bones?
Tell me.
Wild bones belong to people
who aren't people at all.
They're people who are
animals wearing human skin.
FAY: That doesn't
mean anything.
It means everything.
You're not made up
like the rest of us, you,
or you're Da'. You're dirty,
you're filthy pigs.
You're animals,
you're not human.
And just you think about that,
you think about what that means,
because being
human is everything.
It's what gives us more to
live for than just surviving
and dying, but
those two things,
they are constantly swirling
around you and your Da'.
You're a typhoon
of fucking misery.
Being human means seeing
what's really there in front
of you and living
with that and working
to make things better.
Oh, he fucking had you.
He fucking had you.
He fucking had
you, he fucking had...
[screams]
[bell chimes]
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[whirring]
[fire crackling]
[takes a deep breath]
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[takes a deep breath]
[takes a deep breath]
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[gootfalls approaching]
[whimpers]
My love is just for you
If yours is just for me
[whimpering]
CANDACE: Fay?
[Fay sobs]
[whimpering]
[wind blowing]