Punky Brewster (1984) s01e16 Episode Script

Maybe the world is blind or just a little unkind.
Don't know.
Seems you can't be sure of anything anymore.
Although, you may be lonely, and then one day you're smiling again.
Every time I turn around, I see the girl who turns my world around standing there.
Every time I turn around, her spirit's lifting me right off the ground.
What's gonna be? Guess we'll just wait and see.
Woof! Last week on "Punky Brewster," Henry ran into his high school sweetheart.
-Maggie! -Henry! -Come on, Henry.
Admit it.
She pops your cork.
Henry and Maggie are in love.
See, if Henry and Maggie get married, they'll be a family.
I'll have a dad and a mom.
Here are your menus.
-Veal pajamas? I made this romantic evening for Henry and Maggie.
-Will you marry me? -Yes, Henry.
I will.
We were gonna be a real family.
Until-- -I have the perfect solution.
I know a marvelous boarding school in Switzerland.
-Boarding school? Absolutely not! I want Punky with me.
-Looks like it's time for us to hit the road again.
Nothing should stop Henry and Maggie from getting married.
Last time it was Pearl Harbor.
This time it won't be Punky Brewster.
And now, part two of "Henry Falls in Love.
" -Punky? Punky? -Cherie? Down here.
What took you so long? -Well, I couldn't sneak out until Grandma fell asleep.
She conked right out when Merv Griffin came on.
-Well, thanks for coming down.
-So what happened? Did Henry ask Maggie to marry him? -Yeah.
-All right! -Whoa, Cherie.
Whoa.
Let me tell you the bad news.
Henry and Maggie got in a big fight.
-What about? -Me.
Maggie wants to put me in a boarding school so she and Henry can travel around the world.
Henry got mad.
Said he couldn't because he had to stay here and take care of me.
-I don't want Henry to lose Maggie.
And as long as I'm around, they'll never get married.
So gotta split.
-Where are you gonna go? -West! -West? Why west? -Because I want to buy a wanch.
I mean, I wanna buy a ranch.
I'm pretty sure I can afford it.
I got $8 saved.
-Is $8 enough? -Sure! You always can buy things cheaper if you pay cash.
-Punky, I'll never see you again.
-Sure, you will.
You can come down to my ranch.
We'll punch cows together.
-I've never punched cows.
Do they punch back? -Of course not.
Punching them doesn't make them mad.
That's how you get milk out of them.
- Sounds great.
-Cherie, will you keep an eye on Henry while I'm gone? he's got a tricky ball gladder.
if he doesn't eat right, he may get ball stones.
-OK.
I'll watch out for him.
-Here, I want you to have my favorite-est thing in the world, next to Brandon, my dog.
-Wow, your skate key! Thanks, Punky.
I don't have anything to give you.
Wait.
Here.
I was eating this cupcake when you called.
I haven't got to the cream filling yet.
-Well, thanks.
I gotta go now.
You're the best friend any girl ever had.
-So are you, Punky.
I'm really gonna miss you.
-I'm gonna miss you, too.
Bye.
-Bye.
-See ya.
-So long.
Cherie? Punky! -Henry, don't wake her up.
-I can't wake her up.
-Why not? -Because she's not here.
-Here's a note.
-What does it say? -It says, there is a note in the toy chest.
Dear Henry, I don't want to stand in the way of you and Maggie getting married.
With me gone, you won't have to argue about boarding school anymore.
The rest of this note is in the closet.
Now that I'm gone, you guys can travel all over the world, France, China, even New Jersey.
I hope you and Maggie and are very happy together.
And Henry? As a foster dad, on a scale of one to 10, you are a 10,000.
I'll always love you.
Punky.
-Where could she have gone? -I don't know.
Maybe there's another note.
-I don't know.
Maybe there's another note.
Maybe there's another note.
-Don't be silly.
Maybe there's another note.
-Don't be silly.
If there was another note, she'd have left a note.
- Henry, this is all my fault.
-No, it's my fault.
-No, it's my fault.
-OK.
Sorry.
This isn't anyone's fault.
Maggie, there's something you don't know.
Before Punky came to me, she was abandoned by her mother.
- No.
Now I understand why you don't want to send her to boarding school.
-She hasn't been gone long.
Maybe I can catch her.
Maggie, would you mind staying here in case Punky calls or comes back? -Of course not.
I'll phone her friends and find out if anybody's heard from her.
-Thanks.
Whatever we do, we shouldn't panic.
-Henry, that's my coat.
-Well, what's it doing on me? -Come on, Brandon.
- Brandon.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know it was gonna be this cold.
I wish Henry would have fallen in love in July.
Boy, I'm so tired.
I've gotta take a little nap.
-Brandon! Hey, neat, a room.
It's sort of like a house.
Thanks, Brandon.
Maybe we shouldn't go in.
Remember what happened to Goldilocks? -Right, Brandon.
The only bears in Chicago are football players.
Hello? Anybody home? Brandon.
It's nice and warm in here.
We're gonna be snug as a bug in a rug.
Hold it.
A great place like this has to belong to somebody.
What if that somebody catches us here? -Hi-yah! -Hiya.
-Don't try anything, buster.
I know kara-tootie.
-That's karate.
-I know that, too.
-Relax, kid.
I'm not a weirdo.
- Yeah? Well, weirdos never look like weirdos! That's what makes them weirdos.
-Hey, you know, it's dangerous for a little girl to be all alone on the streets at night.
What's your name, anyway? -What's yours? -I asked you first.
-I asked you second.
-So you tell me first, and I'll tell you second.
-At the same time.
Go.
-Zack.
-Punky.
Hack? -You're Zunky? -I'm Punky.
-I'm Zack.
-Is this your place? -Yeah.
-It's really great.
-Thanks.
Decorations compliments of Mr.
Goodwrench.
-You've got everything you need right here.
-Hey, get your feet off my kitchen.
I gotta eat here.
-Sorry.
-What are you cooking? -My usual.
-I dump four packets of Cup-a-Soup in here.
And presto, I got Pot-a-Soup.
-Do you need dessert? I got half a cupcake.
-Punky, welcome to dinner.
-Thank you Mrs.
Kramer.
And you'll let us know if you hear anything? Anything.
Goodbye.
- Is she back? No, dear.
-Maggie! This is a sick world we live in.
I asked a dozen people if they'd seen Punky.
I told them she was lost in a blizzard.
They just looked at me and laughed.
Sick.
Sick! -Excuse me for barging in.
But it's about Punky.
-Have you seen her? -No, but Cherie knows something.
I can tell.
She's got that Tweety Bird look in her eye.
-Tweety Bird? -That's right.
I used to have a beautiful, hand-painted Tweety Bird plate.
I kept it sitting out on my whatnot shelf, the one in the corner, not the one behind the sofa.
-What does this have to do with Punky? -I'm getting to that.
So one day I come home and my Tweety Bird plate is not on the whatnot.
It had flown the coop.
So I said to Cherie, what happened to my Tweety Bird plate? And what do you think she said? -What? -Nothing.
She just looked at me with the same look she has on her face now.
And behind her back, she was holding the only thing that was left of that plate, a piece of Tweety's tail.
-Cherie, if you know something about Punky, tell us.
-If I tell you, are you gonna spank her? -No.
-Are you gonna spank me? -No.
-Just tell us.
Where did she go? -Well, all right.
She went west.
- So how'd you, come up with a name like Brandon? -I named him after the guy who played Superman's father, Marlo Brandon.
- That's Marlon Brando.
-It is? Shh.
Don't tell the D-O-G.
-OK.
So what's the story behind, you and Superman's father here? -We ran away from home.
-Well, I figured.
But, what was the problem? -I was in the way.
Did you have to sleep in a teeny room with a bunch of smelly brothers and sisters? -No, I had my own room.
It was really neat.
-Then your dad probably yelled at you all the time, right? -No, Henry's the nicest, sweetest man in the whole world.
I left because he wants to get married.
-I get it.
She's a mean, old bag who hates you.
-No, she's nice and pretty and very rich and likes to buy me lots of neat things.
-Let me get this straight.
Your dad's the nicest guy in the world, and the woman he wants to marry is rich and wants to buy you nice things? -Yeah.
-And you ran away from home? -What are you, nuts? -You just don't understand.
Henry won't get married because he's stuck with me.
-That is the worst reason I've ever heard for running away from home.
-Well, what's a good reason? -I could give you 100, from personal experience.
-You ran away from home, too? -No, I'm just here on the Junkyard Exchange Program.
-Why did you run away from home? -Because bad things were happening at my house.
-What kinda things? -Just bad things, things that I don't wanna talk about right now, OK? Anyway, I can't go home.
But you can.
-No, I can't.
Henry says when you make up your bed, you have to lie in it.
-Punky.
-Speaking of bed, aren't you tired? -No.
-I am, too.
I'm pooped.
-Listen, kid, your old man must be real worried about you.
So why don't you just tell me where you live, and I'll take you home? I wish you could talk.
- Something smells good.
What is it? -It's one of the international cocoas.
It's their Swiss mocha harvest blend.
All the rich, classy people drink it.
You want some? -Sure.
-All right.
-Thanks, Zack, for everything, a place to sleep, the cocoa.
You're a real good friend.
And nobody would ever think of looking for me here.
-Punky! -Young lady, I should take you over my knee.
But first, I want to hold you in my arms.
-What are you guys doing here? -What do you think we're doing here? -You got eloped and came to tell me the good news! -No, we're here to take you home.
-Thank you for calling us, Zack.
-What? You called them? How did you know my phone number? -Brandon told me.
-He did? I knew he was smart but not that smart.
-Your number's on his dog tags.
So I just got on the horn to Henry and gave him directions here.
- Some directions.
Turn right at the burned-out Studebaker, hang a left at the Olds Cutlass, and look behind the pile of Pintos.
-I drove right past the Pintos.
- Most people do.
-Zack, I don't understand.
Why did you rat on me? -Hey, I did you a favor.
You shouldn't have run away.
-But you ran away, and you've got great life.
-Think again, kid.
This might seem like a great life after one night, but try being out here for six months.
It's tough being all alone.
One time, I got real sick.
And there was no one there to take care of me.
I'll tell you something else, too.
A lot of people will take advantage of runaways.
I've gotten robbed and beat up.
Most nights, I go to sleep hungry.
Look, Punky, be grateful you have a choice about going home, because I don't.
Believe me, I would trade places with you in a second.
-Punky, let's go home.
-But I'll just be in the way.
-Of what? -You and Maggie getting married.
-Punky, Maggie and I now agree you should not go to a boarding school.
-Yippee! Does that mean you guys are getting married? -No.
-No.
-You're not? -Honey, Henry and I have several differences that need to be resolved, things that have nothing to do with you.
So we've decided not to jump into marriage.
-That's right.
Now maybe things will work on for us, or maybe I'll have other lady friends.
-What? -Or not.
But no matter what happens, I don't want you to run away ever again, OK? -OK, I'm sorry, Henry.
I'll never run away ever again.
-Way to go, short stuff -Thank you, Zack.
- Forget it.
-Zack, why don't you go home? Don't you think your parents might be worried? -The only thing that they're worried about is that I might come back.
-Why don't you give them a call? You might be surprised.
-Yeah, maybe sometime.
-How about right now? I have a phone in my limo.
-You have a limo? -Yeah, a Roller's Royce! -I guess I wouldn't mind making a call from there.
And then maybe after, we could take your car for a little spin? -Sure.
And we could stop at a place called Fenster Hall.
That's a shelter where you can get a warm meal and a decent place to sleep.
-That sounds OK.
I bet I'd be the first kid to show up in a Rolls? -There's only one way to find out.
-Can I drive us there? -You know how to drive? -There's only one way to find out.
-Well, Punky, ready to go home? -Yeah.
-Good.
-Home is where the heart is.
-You know what I think? -What's that? -I think home is where Henry is.
Come on, Brandon.