The Baby (1973)

Ruth Roman: Mrs. Wadsworth

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• Ann Gentry : What about the family income?

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Just what the county gives us for Baby.

  Ann Gentry : Your daughters, are they employed?

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Are my daughters... no, they help out the best they can, but it doesn't come to too much. Alba gives tennis lessons in the afternoon and Jermaine...

  Germaine Wadsworth : Once in a while I do a TV commercial.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Sometimes I don't know how we make ends meet, but we always seem to manage.

  Ann Gentry : Isn't there any money from your husband's pension? Or his social security?

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Why no, how could there be?

  Germaine Wadsworth : [laughs]  She thinks he's dead.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : [laughs]  That man didn't die.

  Germaine Wadsworth : No such luck.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : It happened just before Baby was born. When I needed him most, he ran off and left us. But then all that's in the record.

  Ann Gentry : Oh I'm sure it is.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : My husband was a very weak man, Mrs. Gentry.

  Germaine Wadsworth : No character.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : None at all.

  Ann Gentry : And you've had no contact with him since he left?

  Mrs. Wadsworth : As far as I'm concerned, he might as WELL be dead.

• Ann Gentry : You do this every day, Mrs. Wadsworth?

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Have to, or the muscles'll go bad.

  Ann Gentry : His legs seem perfectly normal, I'm surprised he doesn't walk.

• Ann Gentry : Mrs. Wadsworth, if I could convince you that Baby is capable of growth and development, you wouldn't stand in his way, would you?

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Of course not, what mother would?

  Ann Gentry : Well then I think you should consider putting Baby into a special clinic for the retarded.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Clinic? You mean like a hospital?

  Ann Gentry : Oh no, not like a hospital. It's a day clinic, more like a school, where Baby could be with other people like himself, it's really the best way, maybe the only way.

• Mrs. Wadsworth : Are you going to be Baby's new worker?

  Ann Gentry : I don't mind telling you, Mrs. Wadsworth, I made a special effort to get this assignment.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Oh you did? And why is that?

  Ann Gentry : Well I, I heard about the case from one of the other workers, and it was impossible not to be interested.

  Mrs. Wadsworth : I see.

• Ann Gentry : I only thought...

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Maybe you think too much. When it comes to Baby, I do all the thinking.

• Germaine Wadsworth : That tricky bitch!

  Alba Wadsworth : She punctured it!

  Mrs. Wadsworth : She thinks of everything.

• Babysitter : Nothing really happened, honest!

  Mrs. Wadsworth : Nothing happened? With your damn tit in his mouth, and you call that nothing? Lying bitch!