"It is written." "" Go out into the world" "And proclaim the good news to all creation. "" " Let us pray now for three members of our Order... who leave us this day to carry on our work beyond these walls." " We ask you, oh Lord, to watch over Sister Michelle... and those two of Your servants whom she has chosen to accompany her." "  We ask you to guard over Sister Barbara." "  Thank you." " Look with favor, too, upon Sister Irene." " May You bless their efforts and grant them the strength and patience..." "To carry out Your will." " And may they find, through Your divine mission and sacrifice." " A continuing source of dedication... and inspiration." "#  If you're in old habits Set in your old ways #" "# Changes are a-coming#" "# 'Cause these are changin" days #" "# And if your head is in the sand #" "# While things are goin'on #" "# What you need #" "# What you need is a change of habit #" "# What you need is a change of habit #" "# Now if you're in the habit #" "# To let your temper fly #" "# When you talk with people #" "# Who don't see eye to eye #" "# And if you don't believe that there's a newer world ahead #" "# What you need #" "# What you need #" "# What you need is a change of habit #" "# A change of habit #" "# A change of outlook #" "# A change of heart #" "# You'll be all right #" "# The halls of darkness have doors that open #" "# It's never late to see the light #" "# So if you're in the habit #" "# Of putting people down #" "# Just because they're different From the wrong side of town #" "# Oh, don't count on any medals, son #" "# They're pinning none on you #" "# What you need #" "# What you need #" "# What you need is a change of habit #" "# A change of habit #" "# A change of outlook A change of heart #" "# You'll be all right The halls of darkness #" "# Have doors that open #" "# It's never late #" "# To see the light ##" "Hey, girls!" " On this street, I stop the traffic!" " Get out of here!" "#  Stop, look and listen, baby #" "# That's my philosophy #" "# It's called rubberneckin', baby #" "# But that's all right with me #" "# Stop, look and listen, baby #" "# That's my philosophy #" "# It's called rubberneckin', baby #" "# But that's all right with me #" "# Some people say I'm wastin' time #" "# They don't really know #" "# I like what I see I see what I like, yeah #" "# Give me such a Oh, hey, hey, hey #" "# The first thing in the morning #" "# The last thing at night #" "# I look, stare everywhere #" "# And I see everything in sight Hey, hey, hey, stop #" "# Stop # # Look and listen, baby #" "# That's my philosophy # # Yes, it is now #" "# It's called rubberneckin', baby #" " # But that's all right with me # - # It's all right #" "# People say I'm wastin' time, yeah #" "# But I don't really care #" "# I see what I like I like what I see, yeah #" "# And it gives me such a Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh #" "I must have said a million Hail Marys to get out of a neighborhood just like this." " I suddenly realize how safe I felt in my habit." " We argued that out before." " It's just a symbol of authority... like a policeman's uniform." " Yeah, well, you never see a policeman getting mugged." " We're gonna live the way other people live and dress the way they do." " For once in our religious lives, we're not going to be different." " There's a lot to be said for being different." " Don't you see, we can't be identified with the old Order." " If we're gonna reach these people, we've got be accepted first as women... then as nuns." " Yeah, well, I think we're about to be accepted as women." " Just ignore them." " Excuse us." " You want a little help?" " You want a little help?" " Wrong neighborhood." "#  Sittin' on the back porch All by myself #" "# Along came Mary Jane #" "# I'm with somebody else Hey, hey, hey #" "# Stop, look and listen, baby #" "# That's my philosophy #" "# It's called rubberneckin', baby #" "# That's all right with me Yeah, yeah, yeah, hey #" "# Some people say I"m wasting" time #" "# They don"t really know # # Ooh, ooh, ooh #" "# I like what I see I see what I like, yeah #" " Music to exercise evil spirits by." " Ready?" " Anytime you are, Sister Michelle." "#  The last thing at night # Oh." " If we don't want these people to know we're nuns..." "I think we better stop calling each other "Sister."" "  Right, Michelle." " #  Stop, look and listen #" "# Baby That"s my philosophy # # Yes, it is now #" "# It"s called rubberneckin", baby #" "# But that"s all right with me # # It"s all right #" "# People say I"m wasting" time, yeah #" "# But I don"t really care #" "# It"s called rubberneckin", baby #" "# That"s all right with me Yeah, yeah, yeah #" " # Hey, hey, hey, baby #" "The door's open, ladies." "  It's..." " Will you hold this, please?" " You just got to know the combination, that's all." " Thank you." " Thank you, sir." " You've been very helpful." " But I think we can manage now." "  I'm sorry, but the office is closed." "  But we have to see the doctor." " Hey, Doc?" " Doc?" " You left us hangin" in the middle of our thing, man:" "[Doc] Fake it for about 32 bars:" "L"ll be right back:" "Okay." " You"re the doctor?" "  You don't look like a doctor." "  Well... man doesn't live by bread alone, especially the kind of bread you make in a free clinic." " John Carpenter, M.D. Just like the sign says." "  Which one of you is in trouble?" "  I beg your pardon?" " Look, I know the whole story." " You don't want to go to your family doctor uptown... so you figure you'll come here and get everything straightened out, right?" " We were sent here." " You came to the wrong place:" "I won't do any more for you than I would any other kid who finds herself in the same fix." " Whichever one of you is the lucky girl, follow me." " I'll give you some vitamin pills and a diet sheet." " Just try not to gain too much weight, especially in the first three months." " All three of you?" " Uh, just out of curiosity, was it the same guy?" " Doctor, we were sent here by the Catholic Action Committee." " Don't try to con me, honey." " We were given to understand..." "That you were desperately in need of nurses." " That's my problem." " It's got nothing to do with you chicks." " We are the nurses they sent." " I am a psychiatric social worker with a degree in speech therapy." " Sis..." "Barbara is a laboratory technician." " Irene is a R:" "N:" "With a degree in public health:" "Great." " Just great." " I ask for three hard-nosed nurses and they send me Park Avenue debutantes." "  Which end of Park Avenue do you figure I'm from, Doctor?" " The last three nurses who worked here couldn't take it." " Two of them got raped." "  One even against her will." "  We are very hard-nosed." " Cute." " But not hard enough." " You"ll never make it in this neighborhood, ladies." " Never." " Well, Doctor, you don't exactly sound as if you were born and bred here." "  I'm from Tennessee." "  Obviously not on a diplomatic mission." " Honey, diplomacy starts and ends here at the point of a switchblade." "  Why don't you go back uptown?" "  We are here and we are going to stay here for two months... which is the length of our assignment." " Okay." " Okay." "  Have you got a place to stay?" "  We understand Father Gibbons... the local parish..." "has arranged for an apartment." " Okay." " We start work at 8:00 sharp." " See you then, all right?" " All right." " Oh, ladies, what are your names?" " Oh, I'm Michelle." " This is Irene and Barbara." " Last names?" " Oh." "  You do have last names, don't you?" "  Oh, yes." "  It's Gallagher." "  Gallagher." " Nice Irish boy meets pretty French girl and what happens happens, huh?" " Yeah." " Barbara?" " Bennett." " Irene?" " Hawkins." " Okay, ladies, that will be all." " See you tomorrow morning." " Good-bye." " Weirdos, man." " Weirdos." "  Just get out of our way." "  Washington Street is our turf, see?" " We have no designs on anything on Washington Street." " Now, if you'll excuse us." " Saints preserve us, it's a rumble." " There we are." " You get out of here, all of ya!" " I'll call the precinct." " Good afternoon." " Talk about the wages of sin." " Will you look at the duds on them." " Oh:" "We"re not what you think we are:" "Sure, and they're calling themselves "massosies" now." " I read it in the Enquirer:" "We don"t want any monkey business around here, I"m warning ya." "  We have friends at the precinct." "  We want to be friends too." " Call Father Gibbons." " He'll want to know what's coming into his parish now." " And tell him one of'em's black as the ace of spades." " Ooh-ooh!" " I think our neighbors are Catholic." " Yes." " It's too bad they're not Christian." "  What a mess." "  What a rotten mess." " Well, furniture would help." " We'll check that out with Father Gibbons when we go to evening prayers." " In the meantime, let's get this place next to godliness." " It's only 7:00." " This church keeps banker's hours." " All right." " All right, I'm coming." " I'm coming!" " You don't have to knock the door down." " Father Gibbons?" " Come in." " Come in." " Well, what is it?" " An accident?" " I don't fancy giving a conditional absolution on a long ride in an ambulance..." "And having to pay my own way back from the hospital in a taxi." " It's nothing like that, Father." " What then?" "  We wanted to come into the church to pray." "  Oh." " So it's you?" " The secret agents from the Little Sisters of Mary." " Well, uh, in a manner of speaking, yes." " You might say we're on a secret mission." " I don't like underground nuns who wear bobbed hair and silk stockings." " Oh, but they're nylon, Father." " Thank you." " Father, we're here to help." " For 43 years, I've managed without you." " The bishop told me to let you come into the parish and find a place for you to live." " And don't expect anything else from me." " Well, we'd like to pray." " Very well." " I keep the doors locked." " I'm not about to roll aut the red carpet... for every thief in the neighborhood to come in and steal our candlesticks... and anything else you can't nail down." " They've already made off with one of the Stations of the Cross." " Now, when you've finished, you'll find your own way out." " Thank you, Father." "  Father Gibbons?" " May I suggest you put away the candlesticks... unlock the doors and make it easier for those who wish to pray to our Lord?" " Flapper skirts on a bride of Christ." " I've been ordered by the bishop to countenance." " But I warn you, Sister, I'll have none of your arrogant lip." " You think it's twins?" " I think it's the Green Bay Packers, that's what I think it is." " Good morning." " Oh, good morning, ladies." " Back this way, please." " Where's Miss Teenage America?" " She gone back to mother already?" " The Catholic Action Committee is sending us some secondhand furniture." " Barbara's gone to wait for it." " She'll be here just as soon as she can." "  It'll be a relief to sleep in a bed again." "  Hmm?" " Yeah." " You'll take care of the house calls." " You'll work with me here in the office, all right?" " Yes, Doctor." " Now, about the house calls..." " You probably won't be able to make 'em all in one day." "  I'll make them." " I've shorted you on drugs." " I don't want you getting rolled for narcotics." " Doctor, I was born in a place like this." " I know where it's at." " Fine." " Just don't push your luck, huh?" " I got a patient for you." " What's she doing here?" " She sure doesn't act like she enjoys it." " She knows it's her duty." " Forcing yourself to like misery?" " That's her bag, huh?" " A girl like that should get married and raise a whole bunch of kids." " Turn her hang-ups into something worthwhile." " In fact, uh, I'd prescribe that for all three of you." " You said you had a patient." " In my office." " Don't you run off." " I'll be right with you." " Mr. Hernandez, Julio, this is Miss Gallagher." " How do you do?" " Hello." " Stand up." " Miss Gallagher's a speech therapist." " I want her to talk to Julio." " What good is to talk?" " He no talk back." "  Julio." "  What's the matter with you?" " He's got trouble, miss." " Trouble in school, trouble on the streets... all because he don't talk good." " Do they have a remedial speech program at the school?" " What school?" " He comes from the school with the high wall..." " bars on the window, that kind of school." "  I n-n-no g-g-go back." " You shut up!" " You don't talk until you talk good." "  You just listen!" "  Julio." " Maybe I can help you." " Maybe we can correct your speech problem." " W-W-Why... do I... do-do it?" " T-T-Tell me." " He talk like a dummy, but he ain"t no dummy." " Mr:" "Hernandez, we're not gonna get anyplace..." "Until you let Julio speak for himself." " Julio." "  That's sharp." "  It feels... good." " I feel good." " I... talk... better." " Julio, put it down." " You heard the lady." " Drop it or I'll smash your teeth in." " Julio, please," "For me." " You see, he knows what's good for him." " Julio, I'd like to see you tomorrow afternoon at 4:00." " All right?" " Al-All... r-r-right." "  I'll bring him." "  Alone, doctor Carpenter." " Alone, Mr. Hernandez." " Gracias." " It gets a little messy down here." " I thought you handled that very well, Miss Gallagher." " Well, you certainly have a way with a compliment, doctor." " It's Southern charm, we call it." " He seems to be taking it very well." " Yeah." " Well, you don't feel very much when you're on the stuff." " " H."" " Oh." "  Hello?" "  Hi." " Listen, the furniture came... but the men just dumped it on the sidewalk... and drove off before I could stop them." " Just a minute." " It's Barbara." " The furniture arrived and she needs some help getting it into the apartment." " Look, I got patients stacked up out there like jet planes over International Airport." " So I can tell Barbara what to do with her furniture." " Dr. Carpenter suggests that you rely on your own resources to solve this problem." " Ay, mama!" " Lily." " The hussy." " Massosie." " I have to get this furniture moved downstairs..." "And I need a man." " Oh, good." " All I have is 40 dollars." " But I'll get more." " I'll get the other 20." " Now, you borrowed 50, you owe 60, you pay back 40." " Now you owe 30." " I'll pay it back." " Friday, for sure." " I'm not worried." " I got good collateral..." "your arms, your legs... your wife and your kids:" "It's very heavy." " You think we're some kind of faggots?" "  I beg your pardon?" " Everybody says it's how she was born deaf:" "Well, there's no sign of any physical damage." " She doesn't respond." " Has she ever tried to speak?" "  I heard her whistle once." "  People learn to whistle by imitating the sound:" " But you got to be able to hear to do that:" " Maybe she can hear." "  Is Amanda your daughter?" "  My sister's kid." " She just come and dumped her on me a couple of years ago." " She-She never wanted the kid in the first place." "  I think she's autistic." "  Artistic?" " Nah." " She don't even lift up a crayon." " No." " Autistic." " Sometimes, when a child's rejected very early in life... they crawl inside themselves and shut out the whole world... as if they"re trying to punish the rest of us along with themselves." " Amanda?" " Hey." " Hey." " Hey, baby, look at me." " Come on, come on, look at me." " You see how she resists any kind of contact." " It"s typical of autistic frustration." " Well, she never likes anyone to pick her up or hold her." " First, I want to make sure she's not deaf." "  I think she ought to see a specialist." "  You're the doctor." " Hey, we got it all moved in, chula." " I don't know how to thank you." " Sure you do." " Hey, we're gonna have a party, huh?" " Hey, Tito!" " No, gentlemen, really." " I have work to do." " Hey, you got some wine?" "  And I will get the first dance." "  No, no." " I am the first." "  Oh, no, gentlemen." "  I really think you better go." "  After the party, eh?" "  No." " No, now, please." "  You heard the lady." " Out!" " Yeah, sure, we go." " Thank you very much, sir." " A girl with a shape like yours can do better than two-bit winos." " I'm The Banker." " Who gave you permission... to set up shop in my territory?" " The Catholic Action Committee." " Well, nowadays, everybody's got a piece of the action." " Did you stick something in your eye, Tomas?" " Mm-hmm." " Somebody put their fist into his eye." " Yeah, but I hit him good first." " I don't let nobody call my sister a dirty, stinking bitch." " She ain't dirty." " Well, you better let Desiree fight her own battles, because she ain't lost one yet, pal." " Hey, Doc, could I see you a second?" " I, uh, have a problem." " Okay." " Put two drops in your eye every four hours." " And you better put a patch on the champ's eye." " Yes, Doctor." " Desiree!" " Oh, Doc." " I have such a pain in my left chest." "  Your left chest?" " Now wait a minute." "  Mm-hmm." " A construction." "  A what?" "  A construction." " I swear it on my mother's grave." "  Your mother's alive." "  So, it could be something serious." " All right." " I better not take any chances." " There?" " Um... yeah, right here." " And it hurts when you breathe, right?" " Yeah, yeah, it hurts." "  Doc?" "  A very interesting case." " Well, what is it?" "  You know, you're lucky you came to me when you did." "  Oh, Doc, I was only kidding." " No." " I don't know how to tell you this, kid." " But-But... you've got to do something." " There's nothing I can do." " You mean, I ain't gonna get over it?" " Oh, you'll get over it." " Well, what's wrong?" " It's called Septum Decimises." " Huh?" " What's that?" " That means that you're 17 years old." "  Uh, Doctor?" " Mrs. Rodriguez is here." " Uh, that's all, Camille." " Yeah, for now." " Mm." "  Hello?" "  Doctor, I think you better get over here right away." " Yeah." " Okay." " You can stop the oxygen, Irene." "  Is she..." " No, she's breathing very well on her own now." " But it was touch-and-go for a while:" "Did you call the ambulance, Michelle?" " It's on its way." " Good." " You go back to the clinic with me." " We've done all we can do here." " Irene, you better stay until the ambulance gets here." "  Hey, Doc." " You call that specialist yet?" " He's supposed to get back to me by the end of the week." "  Miss Parker?" "  Yeah?" " I want to see Amanda in my office late Friday afternoon." " Okay?" " Whatever you say, Doc." " You bring order and organization into my life... and you're gonna ruin everything." " How are things at the hospital?" " Oh, just fine." " Miss Kempton goes home today." " Oh." " You really saved her life." " You were absolutely wonderful." " You were pretty good yourself, for a religious fanatic." " Well, I'll, uh..." "I'll have Irene put her on the visiting list for tomorrow, Doctor." " We have a rule around here." " Any nurse that lasts out a full week... gets to call the doctor by his first name." " Well, I'll try to remember that..." "John." " And we celebrate by having a drink." " Oh, we don't drink." " We don't drink?" " Well, uh, wh-what I mean is... a little wine, occasionally." " We..." "I..." "What I mean is I..." "I, uh, don't drink." " Well, if a nurse doesn't drink, then we usually have dinner." " Yes, I'll bet you do." " But there's no chance." " We're going to try to shame the landlord into painting the apartment." " You're gonna have to stop throwing yourself at me like this... or people will start talking." " Oh, by the way, you were right about Amanda." " She is autistic:" "She"s not deaf,"cause I heard her whistle:" "Well, I can start working with her right away." " I'll have to gain her confidence." " Show her love and affection." " There are new techniques that get results a lot faster." " You mean rage reduction?" " I'd rather try patience and love." " I hope we got that much time." " Y" " You f-forget me." " No, of course not, Julio." " Just go into the office." " I'll be right with you." " You be all right?" " We'll be fine." " It's too bad about dinner." " I was even gonna pick up the check." " So much?" " 8,65?" " Oh, that's sheer highway robbery." "  You ought to take out a license to steal, mister." "  Butt out, kid." " You are a walking social injustice." " Every week I try to save money come Feast of Juan de Cheguez... so I can buy gifts for the little ones." " San Juan de Cheguez?" " Hey, isn't he the patron saint of Caribbean fisherman?" " Oh, you know him?" " Yeah." " Oh, in Puerto Rico, we have big fiesta... parade in the streets, bless the boats." "  Here, they do nothing but try to steal from you." "  You're holding up the line." " Wait a minute." " She gave you a 10 bill dollars." " Oh, gracias." " Muchas gracias, senorita." " Oh, for the Feast of San Juan de Cheguez." " Oh, muchas gracias." " Mm." " Noodle ring again, huh?" " Mm-hmm." " Noodle ring again." " Got it!" " Yeech!" " Uh, if you don't like my noodle ring... you should have accepted Dr. Carpenter's invitation to dinner." " I would have." " That'll be five Hail Marys." " Nuns and men don't mix." " Oh, I think he's cute." " Fifteen." " Honest." " He's groovy." " Twenty-five." " Evening, ladies." " Evening." " Brown paper bags." " I could hear the muscatel bottles rattle." " All right, out of the way, girls, unless you want to get painted." " Luis, Raoul, start moving the furniture away from the walls." " Chino, you"ll mix the paint:" "I know your landlord." " He doesn't shame so easily." " It's too bad Chino and the rest of the boys couldn't stay for dinner." " Maybe they're not partial to noodle ring like I am." " Tell me, as a doctor... would you diagnose what's happening today..." "the riots, the student unrest... as not really the death throes of an old Order..." "But the birth pains of a new one?" "  I didn't know I was making a house call." "  Oh, well, I mean... don't we all, each in our own way, have to man the barricades?" "  At the Ajax Market?" "  Um.." "If we're all finished?" " In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." " We give Thee thanks, Almighty God... for all Thy benefits which we have received from Thy bounty... through Christ, our Lord, amen." " In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." "  I hear it's good for the digestion." "  It is." "" Fiesta San Juan de Cheguez." " August 3, 4:00 to whatever." " Free food, soft drinks." " Support your local patron saint." " What is that?" "  Well, we're sponsoring it next Saturday." "  I'm against this." " I think we're here to do a job, not get involved." " Well, I'm for it." " It'll make an awful lot of people very happy." " And happy people are closer to God." " Look, I don't get it." " What are you, nurses or missionaries?" " I think you should drop the whole thing." " The hospital can't handle the usual casualties on Saturday night." " Oh, look, Chino forgot his guitar." "  Won't he need this?" "  He could always steal another one." "  Oh." "  Do you think there'll be trouble?" " Trouble?" " At the fiesta?" " You know how it is on a Saturday night down here." " You get everybody together... blowing out their skulls, and all the old hates come out... and you may wind up with World War III on your hands." " Oh, please don't say that." " It's important to us." " Okay." " Go ahead and have your party for old Sam Chavez." " But if you really want to get to know some of the kids around here... why don't you come down to the park on a Saturday afternoon... when we play touch football?" " Oh." " Let me show you how to do this." " Put these three fingers right here, honey." " Like that." " Go ahead." " That's right." " Now this one right here." " Very good." " Now these three here." " What?" " These three right here." " Now you got a complete chord change." " Now, see, go back to this one." " Um..." "Right." " Now back to this one." " Disgusting movie." " You were right making that man give us our money back." " When you see pictures like that... you realize what a great force for good Irene Dunne was." " Say, I didn"t know you could do that." " At this hour." " It's got to be an orgy." " Hey, this is fun." " Father Gibbons will certainly want to hear about this." " I'm not ready." " I'm not ready." "  Ah, come on." " Come on." " That was really terrific." " Um, give me a hand." " Let's get this picture up." "  I'll help." "  That's okay." " We can do it ourselves." " Thank you." " It's okay." " I'm better in the kitchen anyway." " What do you know?" " We're finally alone." " John, uh, please don't." " I get the feeling there's a message here." " Like maybe there's somebody else?" " You..." "you could say that, yes." " Message received." " Good night, Michelle." " Why don't you join the Y.M.C.A?" " You'd save us both a lot of wear and tear... if you'd learn to duck every once in a while, okay?" " Okay, Miss Parker." " Come on." " Mandy." " Mandy, come on." " Barbara, take over." " I don't want to be disturbed... unless it's an emergency." " Do you see that?" " Put it right there in that hole." " Come on, darling, take it." " Take it." " Put it in your hand." " That's a girl." " Now put it right..." "Ah." " Mm-hmm." " Let's try that one more time." " Put it right here." " Come on, put it..." "No, no, no." " No." " Put it..." "All right, Amanda, let's try again." " Put it right... there." " Amanda, put it there." " You can do it." " Come on." " You're doing it." " Come on, baby." " Good girl, Amanda." " Very good..." " It's not gonna work, Michelle." "  I don't expect to make too much progress at first." " She's hiding behind a wall of anger." " It's not gonna work." " I'll take over." " We'll try rage reduction." " Take her doll away from her." " No, Amanda." " No more toys, baby." " You got to learn to start loving people." " I'm gonna hold you till you get rid of all your hate." " Get as mad as you can." " Then you can start to give love and take love." " Try to get away from me, baby." " Try and get away." "  I love you, Amanda." " Don"t you like when people love you?" " Come on." " I want to see you get as mad as you can get." " Get all that hate out of you." " Miss Gallagher?" " He won't hurt her." " Let's see how mad you can get, baby." " Oh, um, I'm sorry." " The doctor's tied up right now." " I come back tomorrow." " Get mad." " Come on, let it aut." " It's Amanda." " I can take over here." " Why don't you go in and help them?" " Okay." " I love you, Amanda." " I love you." " Love you, baby." " Is that as mad as you can get?" " Michelle." " Get as mad as you can get." " Hold her feet." "  It's okay." " We're not gonna hurt her." " Come on, show us how mad you can get." "  Get mad." "  I love you, Amanda." " Come on, fight." " You can do better than that.." " For somebody who loves you." "  Is that as mad as you can get?" "  Come on, that's a girl." " Good girl." " Come on, Miss Parker, we'll wait outside." "  Look at me." " Look at me." "  Get good and mad, Amanda." " Get mad." " Love you." " I love you, Amanda." "  Is that the best you can do for somebody who loves you?" "  We love you, Amanda." " Come on, that's it." " Fight." " Get mad, Amanda." " Come on, show us how mad you can get." " Get as mad as you can, Amanda." " Come on, you can do better than that." " Let it aut." " Yell." " That a girl." " Let it all aut." "  We love you, baby." "  Let it go." " Come on, baby." " Get mad." " Mad." " Big girl." " You can talk, Amanda." " Mad." " Mad." " Mad." " That's a girl." " Say it louder." " Mad!" " Mad." " Very good." " Say it as loud as you can, mad!" " Mad!" " Oh, Amanda, we love you." " Love you." " Love you." " Love." " Love." " Love..." "Love... you." "  You." " Love you." " Love you." " Love you." " Love you." " Yes, that's a big girl." " Big girl." " Big girl." " Big girl." " Yeah." " Yes, sweetheart." " Yes." " I want you to show them how you can get real good and mad, like a big girl." " I want you to hit my hand as hard as you can." " Come on, you can do better than that." " Hit it hard." " Good, baby." " Hit it again." " Very good." "  Hit it again." " Good." " Good, baby:" "Hit it again, one more time:" "Good girl." " That's a big girl." " You gonna give me a hug?" " You wanna go home?" " Home." " Amanda?" " Come." " Oh." " Hungry." " You did it." " We did it." " Um... excuse me." " Those two trees are the goals at that end... these two trees are the goals down here." " Trash cans are out of bounds." " Two hands below the waist." " You understand the rules?" " In the words of the master, fake it for 32 bars." " Let's go." " Hey, where's Irene?" " She has too many house calls to make." " Here we go." " I fell." " You understand?" " I fell." " You've been beaten." "  I'll have to report this to the police." "  No!" " They will kill him." "  Who will kill him?" "  The Banker." " You don't know how..." "You listen to me now." " You fix my ribs, you give me pills." " This your job." " Anything else, we all get hurt." " You'll have to keep him in bed." " He cannot go to work in this condition." " He has to." " They will come back for the money on payday." " Cool it." " Junk ain't our bag, sister." " Hey, brother:" "She don't want to be our sister:" "If you'll excuse me, I have calls to make." " They'll wait." " We gotta know where you stand." " I'm a nurse." " That's where I stand." " There's no room down here for innocent bystanders:" "You're either part of the problem or you're part of the solution." " We've got a feeling you're neither." " Well, I'm a Negro." " I think that's pretty obvious." " Now where you been, sister?" " We ain't Negroes, we're black." " Not her." " She's just been dipped in maple syrup." " You don't talk to me about being black." " I've been black all my life." "  So I don't want to hear that." "  Everything but the soul." " You copped aut." " I never have." " I've done my part." " For you." " Not for us." " See, you're locked in with those ofay chicks." " Well, you can't have it both ways." " Get it together or get out." " You're too pretty not to stay pretty." " Hike!" " Cut back, Carlos!" " Touchdown!" " Atta way, Carlos!" " Oh, you should have had it." " You should have had it." " Oh, no!" " I'm sorry!" " Where'd you learn to pass like that, kid?" " I had five brothers." "  They taught you?" "  No, I taught them." "  Oh." "  We gotta kick off." " Ah." " Okay, gang, let's go." " Here we go." " Block their defensive tackle coming in this time." " If he tries to get past me..." "Pffft..." "I cut him." " Cool it." " Fifteen-yard penalty." " Illegal use of knives." " Now look, you guys block, and you go short right over the line." " Okay, break!" " Red dog that passer!" " Okay, down Set." " All right, go team." " Come on!" " Hike!" " You blindsided me." " Oh, I'm sorry." " I'm a little overtrained, kid." " Okay, the Slum Bowl Game is now part of sports history." " So how about an ice cream cone, huh?" " Oh, I'd love it." " Hey, let's find Amanda." " She loves ice cream." " Okay." " A few hours on a Sunday afternoon, and then back to Washington Street." " Washington Street." " It sounds as if it should have elm trees... and frame houses with big white pillars in front." " What brought you to the clinic?" " A sergeant in my outfit in the army named Cal Edwards." " He was from Washington Street." " You don't want to hear about it, do you?" " Cal Edwards." " He's not one of our patients, is he?" " He was killed on the other side of the world." " Where's the ice cream stand?" " He must have been a very good friend of yours." " He saved my life once." " So I figured I owed him and Washington Street a few of the years he gave me." " Anyway, I learned more here than I would in the suburbs... giving out diet pills and vitamin shots." " Say it, Amanda." " Go on, say it." " Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream." " Good girl." " Let's get some." " Up we go, baby." " That's a girl." " Amanda wants strawberry." " Make that two." " And for the missus?" " Uh... chocolate." " Here you go, kiddo." " What do you say?" " Good." " Good." " Very good." " That'll be 30 cents." " Amanda, how about a nice, big smile?" " A little smile?" " How about a grin?" " This calls for a special kind of magic." "#  Now once it was told to me #" "# We're born with the magic key #" "# It opens the door to miracles of spring #" "Smile, Amanda." "#  It takes you to wishing wells #" "# To ice cream and carousels #" "# And yet this magic key won't unlock a thing #" "# Unless You have a happy #" "# You have a happy #" "# Mm, have a happy #" "# Warm smiling' face #" "# Now start believin' #" "# In believing' #" "# Let your address #" "# Be Sunshine Place #" "# There's love and there"s joy untold #" "# Much more than your heart can hold #" "# It's there like the ring you grab on a merry-go-round #" "# The world isn't half as gray #" "# With friends on a rainy day #" "# But people keep away when you wear a frown #" "# You've got to have a happy #" "# Yeah, have a happy #" "# Have a happy #" "# Warm, smiling' face #" "# Mm, start believin' #" "# In believing' #" "# Let your address #" "# Be Sunshine Place #" "# Let your address #" "# Be Sunshine Place #" "# Let your address #" "# Be Sunshine Place ##" "Hey, Julio!" " Well, now, why do you suppose he ran off like that?" " Julio's a boy with big problems." " It's his stuttering, makes him feel inadequate." " I am making headway with him." " You take away his stuttering, you're going to find he has a deeper problem." " I don't think you want any part of that." " Oh, thank you." " Maybe you're wrong about Julio." " You were wrong about Amanda." " I hope so." " There's one thing I'm not wrong about, Michelle." " The other night when I put my arms around you, it was no accident." " It was intentional." " And I learned something from it, 'cause you didn't quite level with me." " There isn't anyone else." " Thanks for an absolutely marvelous day." "  Now you know how the other half plays." " Well..." "Me for the sack." " And me for the sackcloth and the ashes." " Church?" " I gotta talk to somebody." " Oh, you're not going all the way uptown to the convent at this hour?" " No, we have a church right here in the neighborhood." " Father Gibbons?" " He will burn you at the stake." " Not exactly an apostle of the ecumenical movement." " Uh, no, more the Inquisition." " But still a priest." " I better get changed." " A lovely supper, ladies:" "I"ll look for you at early mass." " Father Gibbons, I'm so glad I ran into you." " Oh, we were playing touch football in the park." " Notre Dame, French for "Our Lady."" " But I don't think Our Lady'd be very proud to claim you now." " Father, we've done nothing to be ashamed of." " Men in your rooms." " Late parties." " Profane music till all hours." " Forsaking the habit was one thing, but now you're not even dressed like females." " Father..." "I've had enough of you:" " I want you out of my parish." "  Oh, please don't say that." " I'll have none of your arguments." " I've called Bishop Finley... and we're seeing him at 11:00 on Monday morning." " If you feel you can make a case for your conduct, do it then." " Good night..." "Sisters." " Hello, I was looking for you." " I can't help you, Banker, I'm not a veterinarian." " That's funny." " No, you shook down a manager of the Ajax Market." " That's not so funny." " You stay away from my clientele." " You stay away from my clinic." " Oh, I got clientele in your clinic." " You ask that nurse that's working for you." " Good morning, doctor." " Good morning." " I'm going to help you out with early customers." " Michelle and Barbara had to go uptown." " Some kind of meeting?" " Mmm... some kind of meeting is right." " What business do you have with The Banker?" " A hundred dollars worth." " It's my contribution to the Feast of San Juan de Cheguez." " You can't borrow money from The Banker:" "Oh, I thought it was practically a neighborhood tradition." " So is knife fighting and joy popping." " Well, I have a week to pay him back, until the fiesta." " Let's see, six-to-five, that's 120 for the 100." " And if the borrower doesn't pay back, The Banker usually breaks a leg or a head." " You're really asking for trouble, Irene." " Yes, I am." " I have no intention of paying him back." "  You don't understand..." " No, it's you who don't understand, Dr. Carpenter." " You see, I've decided Barbara's right." " We have to get involved." "  I've been running from reality." "  Oh, come on." " A nurse is usually up to her ears in reality." " No." " I have to face it." " I have used my vocation to get away from all the things I've ever known." " Doctor, do you know what it is to be really poor?" " I mean, hungry and frightened?" " To be black?" " I've been all those things, except black." " While little white girls were playing with dolls and wearing party dresses..." "I was dodging drunks in dark hallways... praying I could get away from the stench of the ghetto... so I could be somebody, not just another nigger in the streets." " Good morning." " Oh, Miss Parker, Amanda." " Just have a seat in the waiting room." " I'll be with you in a minute." " Irene, it's not my place to tell anybody when to fish or cut bait." " Let's just hope it doesn't turn out to be fish or get your throat cut." " They shame the other fine Sisters of the cloth, who know their place." " Our place is where we're needed." " How we dress in unimportant." " You're no longer needed in my parish." " Something is needed in your parish, Father Gibbons:" "There are new methods, innovations." " For instance... you might try bringing more people back into the church by having a mass in Spanish." "  Or a folk mass." " Don't instruct me, Sister." " I've preached more sermons in my time than you'll ever hear." " Yes, I'm sure we can always count on you to tell it like it was, Father." " I apologize to you for that, Father." " I approved this project in the first place" "Because we all realized that we need new methods, new forms to reach this generation:" "But some of the incidents that Father Gibbons has been describing to me." " But no one knows we're nuns, Your Excellency." " You know, Sister Barbara." " Tell the commissioner I can see him at 2:00 this afternoon." " Yes, sir." " I realized it was a great risk sending them out to mix with the world..." "And not have them mixed up by it." " Inexperienced people who get emotionally involved can often do more harm than good." " Among our first lessons is the importance of order, discipline." " Not license and wantonness." " I want them out of my parish and I want this festival they've dreamed up canceled." " The whole neighborhood's been sharpening their switch knives." " And polishing their brass knuckles for the past two weeks." " Maybe we should consider canceling this celebration... before it endangers the whole project." " We can't do that, Your Excellency." " These people are counting on celebrating the Feast Day of San Juan de Cheguez." " We must not disappoint them." " All right, Sister." " You can go ahead with it." " If you'll excuse me, Your Excellency:" "You're excused, Father Gibbons." " San Juan de Cheguez..." "I doubt he ever drove a single snake out of Puerto Rico." "  Thank you, Your Excellency." "  Thank you." " I do think, however, that the Sisters must resume wearing their habits." " I can't think of one good reason." " Well, may I give you two?" " First, none of us wants to embarrass the church:" "Equally important..." "Wearing your habits guarantees you a certain amount of personal safety." " After all, the church doesn't need martyrs in wholesale lots." " But there's so much we haven't accomplished yet as women." " It's either that or you return to the convent." " Thank you, Your Excellency." " Mother Joseph." " Mother Joseph." " Rose!" " For the love of heaven, you've got to see this." " Good morning, ladies." " They're nuns." " Saints preserve us, they're nuns." " Wild parties, pagan music, men at all hours." " Whatever they done, they must've had good cause." " Good morning, Desiree." " Oh, uh... if you like, I have a dress you might want to wear to the fiesta tonight." " Yeah, sure." " Okay." " We can hardly wait." " We're really going to blow this block apart." " As a favor to us, I fervently hope that you don't do that." " And I was worried about you and the doc." " Yes, well, then, if you'd like to come over this afternoon." " Uh, Sisters, why don't you go on to the clinic without me?" " Please, tell doctor Carpenter I'll be there as soon as I can." " I have a rendezvous with destiny at the Ajax Market." " Sister Barbara!" " I know." " Order and discipline." " Well, I'm being willfully disobedient." " That is called doing your own thing." " Are you sure you don't want me to go to the clinic with you?" " No, no." " You've got your calls to make." " A dollar-seventeen." " For you, Sister, 85 cents." " Oh, well, thank you, sir." " You're welcome." " Oh, it's you!" " John?" " Oh, you're early." " Good." " John, I want to talk to you." " We got those polio shots today." " We'll have kids coming out of the woodwork." " John, please." " You gotta be kidding." " I'm a member of the Order of the Little Sisters of Mary." " We were only going to be here for two months." " John, please say something." " I'll be damned." " I'm sorry." " We would've gone away, and you and I would never have seen each other again." " You could've told me, you know." " I couldn't." " It was an experiment." " We weren't to tell anyone that we were nuns." " Even after you saw I was getting hung up on you." " That was wrong for both of us." " I took vows." "  Didn't you take a vow of honesty?" " Hello?" " Excuse me, please." " Thank you." " Excuse me." " Excuse me." " Thank you." " Uh, pardon me, please." " Thank you." " Get the fire hoses and the police dogs." " We are not moving." " We are here to end the discriminatory practices in the Ajax Market." " I don't employ obsolete tactics to deal with a contemporary situation." " Buenos diás, Señora Gavilan." " Buenos diás, Señor Officer." " Mm-hmm... do you hear him threatening her?" " He asked her how her legs felt." " Call in your goons." " Fire your tear gas bombs." " In a potentially violent confrontation, it's imperative law enforcement officials... should conduct themselves with calm and understanding." " Club us!" " Load us into that paddy wagon out there... and we will bear our scars proudly." " The only scars you'll bear will be splinters, Sister Barbara." " A law officer should always remember to keep his own good umor..." "Even in the face of vituperative comment and obscenities." " Dirty establishment fink!" " I destroyed property." " I fermented a riot." " I demand to be arrested." " You're not going to get your wish." " Where are the reporters and the television cameras?" " I want to be dragged out by my heels." " If you care to come by the station house... we might discuss environmental social pressures and how they affect present-day society." " Ooh, police brutality!" " Come on." " Let's go." " Hmph." " Who's there?" " St" " Statue." " Stay where you are!" " For fiesta." " Dirty, little thief!" " Come back!" " Thief!" " Robber!" " Vandal!" " Come back here!" " You want mustard?" " All right, two with mustard." " Lieutenant." " Everything's quiet so far." " No sign of the Hernandez kid, Julio." " When you find him, try to take him quietly." " Yes, sir." " Hello, John." " I'm glad you decided to come tonight, John." " Yeah." " Well, what do you think of our party?" " I can feel the lid rattling." " When it blows, you're gonna need a doctor." " Hello, Amanda!" " I've been looking all over for you." " Hello, Miss Parker." " Hello." " You having a good time?" " I think you've been having hot dogs." " I see a little mustard here and there." " Isn't it just terrific?" " I never thought we'd get this many people." " The magic combination:" "Sam Cheguez and free booze." " Alcohol?" " Where did that come from?" " I got an idea." " Oh, I see." " I see." " Mother Joseph!" " Oh, I'm so glad you could come." " Well, the fishing catch of Puerto Rico should reach record proportions this year." " This is Amanda." " She's a little shy with strangers." " Sometimes she likes her puppet to do the talking for her." " Hello, dear." " And what is your name?" " My name is Irene." " When little white girls was playing with dolls..." "I was praying I could be somebody... and not just another nigger in the streets." " Oh, dear." " You borrowed money." " I want it back." " You're not gonna get it." " You have made a donation." " Now look here, Sister..." "whatever it is you are... your time"s up." " I've declared a moratorium on that debt." " A moratorium for the whole neighborhood." "  You better cool it, Irene." "  Butt out!" " Stop the music!" " Stop the music!" " In honor of San Juan de Cheguez..." "All debts to The Banker are hereby canceled." "  You sure do like trouble, Irene." "  She's gonna get it." " What are you gonna do?" " Beat up the whole neighborhood?" " Break a hundred arms?" " A thousand legs?" " It's lucky for you you're wearing that gunnysack, dinge." " Well, don't let that stop you." " You keep talking, it won't." " Go ahead, beat up a nun." " Great public relations, you." " You small-time gorilla." " You looking for trouble..." "Break it up!" " Right along the barricades." " Along the barricades." "  Cool it!" " Cool it!" " Stay put till I call you." " Break it up." " Move it." " Nobody sent for the fuzz, man." " We're just naturally interested in any kind of trouble." " There ain't no trouble here, man." " You"ve got my gilt-edged, triple-bonded guarantee..." "Lieutenant." " I'll settle for that." " Excuse me." " Excuse me." " Come on, man:" "Now cool it:" "Everybody cool it." " Let"s have a good time." " Come on." " Break it up." " Go on, dance." " Have fun." " Start the music." " Um, I'd like to thank you." " We help our own, Sister." " Are you all right?" " Yes, I'm quite all right." " Sister Michelle, I'd like all of you to make arrangements... to return to the convent." " Tomorrow will be soon enough." " But Mother Joseph, the worst is over." " Or yet to come." " Hey, Sister." " Sister?" " How do you like what I did to that dress you give me?" " I made what they call a few alterations." " And everybody said I looked like a real lady." " I mean, like..." "Thanks, Sister." " Sister Barbara, Bishop Finley told us to wear our habits or else." " Well..." "I guess I've chosen or else." " I'm going uptown to tell Mother Joseph." " I would have told her earlier, but, l-I didn't want to spoil the party." "  Barbara!" "  Sister Michelle, I am too limited as a nun." " Everything in life has limitations." " I know." " I know." " But I want to pick my own." " I want to grow up in my own way." " We'll miss you." " I'll be back." " I may be giving up the religious life, but I'm not giving up the fight." " L"ve organized a political advancement committee right here in the neighborhood:" "And we have our first meeting tomorrow morning." " Look, we've scored two victories today already." " The Ajax Market and The Banker." " And now is no time to stop." " You are... too much." " Put that down." " No." " Knife make me... big man." " I want to help you." " Bring statue back for you." " Priest want to put me in jail." " Go to the police." " Give yourself up." "  No go back." "  I'll explain to them." " Not my friend." " No more." " You lie:" "Make a fool of me." "  No." "  Show what kind of man I am." " Please!" " No!" " Julio, please." " No!" " Julio!" " No!" " Oh, God!" " It was appropriate, wasn't it, delivering a baby on this special night?" " Well, I come from a long line of people... who believe in getting married, having kids, raising a family." " Our church believes in that too." " Not for nuns." " Oh... please... no!" " Oh, please!" "  That's Michelle." " Call the police, quick." " Shut up!" " I kill you!" " John, don't hurt him." " Are you all right?" " I tried." " I tried." " It's okay, honey." " It's all over now." " It's okay." " Sometimes making a decision can be terribly painful." " I should have come to you sooner, Mother Joseph." " Well, you need time to explore your own feelings." " You've got to choose the kind of love you want." " Physical love, or the love you can find only through prayer." " From my own experience, I can tell you... that nothing is more painful than no decision." " I'm finding that out." " Well, perhaps an outside stimulus will help you." " Dr. Carpenter is here." " Hello, John." " Michelle." " It's been a long time." " A long time." " How's Julio?" " Father Gibbons is coming out of the Middle Ages." " He's not going to press charges." " And Julio's under psychiatric care." " I'm so glad." " When he gets out of the hospital, he's still gonna need a speech therapist." " You'll find someone." " Look, I don't know if I'm breaking any rules about being here or not..." "Oh, of course not, John." " Or if you have a rule against the way I feel about you." " Well, the fact that I'm a nun doesn't stop me from being a woman." " And it doesn't change the way I feel about you." " On the way up here I had it all figured out." " I was just going to lay all my cards on the table." " But this place can slow you down, you know what I mean?" " I wish there were an easy answer." " Would you be committing a sin if you were to leave here and get married?" " In marriage, you love God through one person." " As a nun, I made a commitment to love God through all people." " But this place is not a prison." " You can get a release, you know." " But, in leaving..." "in marriage..." "I'd be giving up the freedom to dedicate myself... to people who need me desperately." " Let's try to find a way, Michelle." " I thought I'd found my way..." "until I met you." " Things are different now, you said that yourself." " Because I love you." " And no matter what I do, I'll still love you." " Even if I stay in the Order, nothing's gonna change that." " If you stay in the Order?" " John, I know it's not fair not to give you an answer." " But I honestly don't know if I can." " Why don't you try?" " John, I have to go." " Please?" "" Believe it or not I'm still down here on Washington Street:" "I'm working every day with my group, and are we way out!"" " It's from Barbara." " What's an "infrastructional sphere of mechanistic behaviorism"?" "  You think she's a communist?" "  Oh, no, no." " Well, whatever it is, she's happy with it." " You seem happy too." "  Peace." " Sister, it's wonderful." "  So I've heard." " You are never going to be able to fish or cut bait until you see that young man again." " Shall we go?" " Go where?" " Where do all good little nuns go on Sunday?" " To church." "#  Come praise the Lord for he is good #" "# Come join in love and the brotherhood #" "# We'll hear the Word and bring our gifts of bread and wine #" "# And we'll be blessed beneath the sign #" "# So let us # # Pray together #" "# Pray together #" "# Pray with one mighty voice #" "# And let us sing together #" "# Sing together #" " # Pray and we'll rejoice # - # We"ll rejoice #" "# When strangers reach out for your hand #" "# For your hand #" "# Respond to them and understand #" "# Having the faith to understand #" "He moves in mysterious ways." "#  Outside the gate # # We'll calm the storm #" "# With faith in Him we won't be late # # Never late #" "# So let us pray together #" "I don't know what it's all about." " Give me the old days when you could go to mass and not think about a thing." " #  And let us # - # Sing together #" "# Sing together #" "# Pray and we"ll rejoice #" "# We"ll rejoice We"ll rejoice #" "# The love of God is on our side # # Love is #" "# Love is on our side # # We have the strength to move the tide #" "# We"ll move the tide #" "# The world was saved so there'd be peace and love for all #" "# Love for all # # We must hear our brother"s call #" "# So let us pray together #" "# Pray together #" "# Pray with one mighty voice #" "# And let us sing together #" "# Sing together #" "# Pray and we'll rejoice #" "# We'll rejoice #" "# Love for all to the Lord #" "# We'll rejoice Love for all to the Lord #" "# We'll rejoice Love for all to the Lord #" "# We'll rejoice #" "# For the Lord ##"