MorHER. Do you remember every GzoKoE. I'd remember pneumoni W my partner was going to patch up cylinder heals Wh t day, Joe? FRANE [enters briskly from driveway, holdi scope in his hand. He e y FRANK [extending his hand). Lydia told me, Pm Youlll have to pardon me. [Pulling Moturr over s got something amazing for you, horoscope, Momus: You'd be interested inthis, George. It's wonderful the way he can understand the Monge {ering from house). George, the gts on the phone .., Cate desperately]. He finished Larry's horoscope . Especially if 1 got it just the f aun won't argue with 1 Tn where in this world your brother MOTHER [instantly cunts. Because fo cunts]. Why isn’t it possible? te now. T' . Just let me ied on November twenty-fit Was his favorable day. cunts. Mothert Morir. Listen to him! rene kid ar yea When everything good was shining on him, ihe kind of day he should've married on, You one laugh at sancti Lean understand you laughing. But the odd sees @ man won't die on his favorable day, ’s known, Chris! Possible, why isn't it possibl Chris GEORGE [10 ANN]. Don’t you 2 FRANK [as he goes]. Sure thing, understand what she’s saying? az She just told you to go. What are you waiting for now? ‘Gunis. Nobody can tell her to go. [4 car horn is heard ] Morin [fo Frank]. Thank you, darling, for your trouble, Will you tell him to wait, Frank? Soran [cal ‘GzORGE [to ANN]. He simply told your father to ki covered himself in F caus, You'd better answer ‘soriER. I packed your bag, darling cums. What? ‘MOTHER. I packed your bag. All you've got to do is close it, ‘ann. I'm not closing anything. He asked me here and Tm staying till he tells me to go. [To zone} Till Chris telly hrist comes, about the case or Larry as long as I'm here! [To ann] No here, George! roxce [fo ANN]. Yo ferris turns t0 his mother:| ‘crs. What do you mean, you packed her bag? How dare you ack her bag? MOTHER. Chris. . ‘cHris. How dare you pack her bag? ‘MOTHER. She doesn't belong here. ‘unis. Then I don’t belong here. MOTHER. She's Larry'sMorina. Never, never in this world! BLLDR. You lest your mind? Morin. You have nothing to sayl KELLER [cruelly]. I got plenty to say. Three and a half years] you been tal ike a maniac— ee Morin [she smashes nothing to sty. No body has got to wail cams. Mother, Mother... ? How long? MomiER [rolling out of her]. Till be comes; forever and ever ‘cami. [as an ultimatum}. Mother, I'm going ahead with it, Moriien. Chris, Ive never said no to you in my life, now Tsay him go sl T do it, never let him go and you'll never let him go... Jet him go. I’ve let him go a long . fe momen {with no less force, bul turning from hin). Then let your ather go. (Pause, chins stands ansfced} ELLDR. She's out of er min Momiex, Altogether! [To ciRis, but not facing them] Your brothers alive, dacling, because if he's dead, your father led him. Do you tnderstand me now? A¥ i lve that boy lve. Gd does nat Teta son be led by his *. Now you see, doa't you? Now you see. Beyond con trol, she hurries up and into house.) belied! KELLER [cuRis has not moved. He speaks insinuating tioningly). She's out of her mind. “ canis fa broken whisper), Then «you dd i? KELLER [the beginning of plea in his voice). He never flew ror ‘]. He er flew a Cans (struck, Deadly). But the others ques. istently). She's out of her mind, (He takes a step : ALL MY SONS / ACT TWO toward cums, pleadingly.] cunts [unyielding]. Dad . . . you did it? xeLien. He never flew a P-40, what's the matter with you? Ccunss [sill asking, and saying}. Then you did it. To the others. [Both hold their voices down.) KELLER [afraid of him, ter with you? WI ‘canis [quiely, incredibly]. How could you do KELLER, What's the maiter ? KELLER, What, killed’? ccunis. You killed them, you murdered them. KELLER [as though throwing his whole nature open before unis}. How could I kill anybody? ccumis. Dad! Da KELLER [trying 10 sim. T didn't kill anybody! cunts. Then explain it to me. What did you do? Expl ‘me or I'l tear you to pieces! xeiter [horrified at his overwhelming fury]. Don't Chris, don't... ‘enais. I want to know what you did, now what You had a hundred and twenty cracked engi what did you do? KELLER. If you're going to hang me then I ccemis. I'm listening, God Almighty, I'm KELLER [their movements now are those of i 12. KELLER keeps @ step out of CHRIS’ i You're a boy, what could T do! I'm in busin id you do? you got a process, the process don’t work you're out of business; you don't know how to operate, your stuif is no ‘g00d; they close you up, they tear up your contracts, what the hell's it to them? You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what co! them take forty years, let them take my eracking.| I never thought they'd ins420 God. I thought they'd stop ‘em before anybody took off. ‘Then why'd you ship them out? chem I thought I'd have show them they needed 'd let it go by. But weeks passed and I got no kkick-back, so I was going to tell them. ‘coms. They why didn’t you tell them KELLER. It was too late. The paper, it was all over the front Page, twenty-one went down, it was too late, They came with handcuffs into the shop, what could I do? [He sits on bench at center.| Chris . . . Chris, I did it for you, it was a chance and T took it for you. I'm sixty-one years ol when would I have another chance to make something for you? Sixty-one years old you don't get another chance, do ya? cunts. You even knew they wouldn't hold up in the air. KeLuer. I didn’t say that . cums. But you were gol KELLER. But that don't mean Tt means you knew they warn them not to use them... cams. You were afraid maybel God in heaven, what kind of you? Kids were hanging in the air by those h ‘You knew that! KELLER. For you, a business for y cunts [with burning jury], For me! Where do you live, where hhave you come from? For me!—I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddam business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that, the world—the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don’t you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal must I do'to you? I SK GREAT MODERN plays | AUL MY SONS / ACT TWO ‘own, What are you? What-| tear the tongue out of your | an what must I do? [With his fist he pounds down upon his father’s shoulder. He stumbles away, covering his face as he weeps.) What must I do, Jesus God, what must do? KELLER. Chris... My Chris...4p all night, dear, why don't you 1g for Chris, Don't worry about me, Jim, I'm} nuts. Money. Money say it long enough takes a silent laueh.] Oh, how] iat happenst 'er head}. You're so childish, Jim! Sometimes| ber 6 moment K You, He had an argue in the car and drove awa; = giat. What kind of an angen [Pause.] What happened?| nt with Joe. Then he got ALL MY SONS / ACT THREE aaa No, not Ann. Imagine? [Indicates lighted window above.] She hasn't come out of since he left. All night in that room. 0ks at window, then at her). Wh “Jim, Don't be afraid, Kate, I know. I've always known, ‘MoTHER. How? Chris would never know how kes a certain tal and I do, But not him. scot. What do you mean . ways made, In a pec does have a star. The your life gr again. T don't jent very far. He probably just ‘Wanted to be alone to watch his star go ou MOTHER. Just a3 sometimes to remember 'm a good husband; Chris i Joa. Thave a feeling he’s in Put her to bed, J exits up driveway KELLER [coming do)a8 MOTHER. His friend is not home, KELLER [his voice is husky, Com Toe: He knows, KtLttn leporehensiey| Yow de We know? MOTHER. He ‘sed a lon noe Morner [laughs dangerously, don't like . doing up there? MOTHER. I don’t kn MOTHER. Joe back... KELLER. What do you mean letly into the line). What yo me, what do I dot! TE he comes ACT THREE 425 if you sit him down and you... explain your- self, T mean you ought to make it clear to him tha you Know you did a terrible thing. [Nor looking into his eyes] + [mean if he saw that you realize what you did. You see? ELLER. What ice does that cut? “Motu [a little fearfully]. T mean if you told him that you want to pay for what you did. KELLER [sensing ... wouldn't ask you to go. But if you told him you wanted fo, if he could feet that you wanted to pay, maybe he would forgive you, KELLER. He would forgive me! For what? ELLER. I don’t know what you mean! You wanted money, s0 I made money. What must Ibe forgiven? You wanted money, didn't you? "t want it that way. xetter. I didn’t want it that way, either! What difference is it What you want? I spoiled the both of you. I shou! hhim out when he was ten like I earn his keep. Then he'd know how a buck World. Forgiven! I could live on a quarter a day mys Tgot a family so T. MOTHER. Joe, Joe... it don't excuse it that you did it for the family. KELLER. There’s nothin’ he could do Because he’s my son. Because I'm his father and he’ igger than that. And you're goin’ to tell ‘im, you understand? I'm his father and he’s my son, and