Chapter Text
This episode begins where the previous one left off.
SCENE ONE
The scene is the Arts and Crafts Center in Foster Park. A woman with graying hair is seated at a table in the front,
handing out the prizes
WOMAN: Second prize goes to Elaine Green for her excellent sculpture, Three Horses.
BONNIE: That's a good sculpture.
DANTE: Yes, but yours is the best.
(Elaine has reached the table.)
WOMAN:(handing Elaine her prize) Congratulations, Elaine.
ELAINE: (accepts prize without a "thank you", walks off muttering) I should have gotten first prize. If that cripple won
WOMAN: And first prize goes to Bonnie Bennett for her delightfully whimsical Monkey and Banana
DANTE: (whispers to Bonnie) I told you yours was the best.
ELAINE: My clay model is lots better than yours! You just got first prize because you're a cripple!
BONNIE: Don't call me that!
ELAINE: You won because the judges felt sorry for you!
DANTE: She won because her sculpture was the best!
ELAINE: No! Mine was! I'll show you what I think of that stupid monkey on a banana!
(Goes to shelf where sculptures are displayed, and before anyone can stop her, grabs Bonnie's sculpture and throws it down, smashing it to smithereens. Bonnie gasps and begins to cry. The crowd starts murmuring.)
DANTE: (has never been angrier in his life, hollers) Elaine, if you were a boy, I'd knock your teeth out!
BONNIE: (looking troubled) But... (voice trembles) what if she's right? What if I did win because the judges felt sorry for me?
DANTE: She's not right. She's just jealous.
WOMAN: May I have everybody's attention please? Especially yours, Elaine Green! (everyone grows quiet.) In order make the judging completely impartial, the judges were from out of town and knew absolutely nothing about the contestants, not even their names. Each sculpture was judged strictly on its own merits.
(Mrs. Green, a slightly overweight woman with auburn hair, takes Elaine's hand and leads her to the table.)
MRS. GREEN: I apologize for my daughter's behavior, and I assure you she will be punished. First of all
(turning to Elaine) you will take that money to Bonnie,
and apologize to her.
ELAINE: That's not fair! She already got first prize! Why should she get more than that?
MRS. GREEN: It's called restitution. And it can hardly make up to her for what you did!
ELAINE: She can make another stupid monkey on a stupid banana!
MRS. GREEN: Then you wouldn't care if somebody smashed your Three Horses sculpture?
(Elaine looks down without answering)
I see. So now do you understand how Bonnie feels?
ELAINE: (Stubbornly) I don't care. Everyone is so nice to her just because she's a cripple!
BONNIE: Don't call me that!
DANTE: People were nice to Bonnie before the accident, because she's nice!
BONNIE: (thinking) But I'm through being nice to Elaine. I'm going to get even with her. This is war!
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