The Miracle Worker (1962)

Grant Code: Doctor

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• [first lines] 

  Doctor : She'll live.

  [Captain Arthur and Kate Keller embrace tenderly and thankfully at the seemingly good news] 

  Doctor : I can tell you now I thought she wouldn't.

  Captain Arthur Keller : I thought too I'd miss my wife's first. It's a battle scar

  Kate Keller : Doctor, will my girl be alright?

  Doctor : By morning she'll be knockin' down Cap'n Keller's fences again.

  Kate Keller : Oh, is there nothing we should do?

  Captain Arthur Keller : Put up stronger fences, huh?

  Doctor : Just let her get well. She knows how better than we do. These things come and go in infants, never know why. Probably acute congestion with sunken brain procedure.

  [Captain Keller escorts him out of the room] 

  Doctor : The main thing is the fever's gone. I never saw a baby more vital.

  Kate Keller : [Helen starts to cry and Kate lovingly tries to subdue her in a happy but emotional state]  Shh, don't you cry now. You've been trouble enough. Call it acute congestion indeed. I don't see what's so cute about a congestion just cause it's yours. We'll have your father run an editorial in his paper: the wonders of modern medicine. They don't know whether they're cured even when they're cured. Men, men and their battle scars; we women have...

  [trails off as she notices something's not right with Helen] 

  Kate Keller : ... Helen?

  [snaps her fingers feverishly] 

  Kate Keller : Helen? Cap'n! AHHH!

  [shreiks for her husband] 

  Captain Arthur Keller : [rushing back inside the house and up to Helen's room]  Kate, what is it? What's happened? Kate, Kate...

  Kate Keller : Look at - look, she can't see! Look at her eyes, she can't see!

  [Captain Keller waves the lantern in front of Helen's face] 

  Kate Keller : Uh, or hear! When I screamed she didn't blink! Not an eyelash!

  Captain Arthur Keller : [frantically clapping his hands in front of Helen's face trying to get her attention]  Helen! Helen!

  Kate Keller : [in hysterics]  She, can't, hear, you! AHHH!

  [they both shreik in hysterics and the scene fades out]