Fact1: charm turns sadistic and frequently lands for battery, Fact2: Berry-Berry is arrested second time for beating up woman, Fact3: Ralph 's wired for Berry-Berry first time, Fact4: Echo Though has never married beautiful, Fact5: Clinton 's concerned about rain and late hour
Output: BerryBerry Willart Beatty is a young, handsome hedonistic drifter who has no trouble living off the women of all ages he seduces. When the women become too attached to him, his charm turns sadistic and frequently lands him in jail for battery. BerryBerry is always on the road far from home, is rarely seen by his drunken father Ralph Karl Malden, his adoring but controlling and manipulative mother, Annabel Angela Lansbury, or his sixteenyearold brother Clinton Brandon deWilde. The story follows Clinton, who idolizes BerryBerry, despite having to bail him out of jail in Florida, and later accompanying Ralph to Western Union to wire bail money when BerryBerry is arrested a second time for beating up a woman. Remarks by Ralph indicate this isnt the first time hes wired bail money for BerryBerry. Clinton is infatuated with Echo OBrien Saint, the 31yearold daughter of a family friend who stays with them when she comes to town for a visit. Though beautiful, Echo has never married, and is getting over the suicide of her troubled longtime boyfriend over a year ago. She is friendly toward the much younger Clinton, referring to him affectionately as my guy. But when she meets BerryBerry, theres an instant mutual attraction between them, and they abruptly leave a family backyard cookout that evening to be alone together. BerryBerry asks Clinton for permission to be with Echo, saying that he wants her and she wants him, but acknowledging that Clinton saw her first. He says hell back off if Clinton doesnt give the okay. Clinton, knowing he has no real chance with Echo, just tells BerryBerry to treat her nice. After this, BerryBerry and Echo are constantly in each others company. When they return home after an evening out some time later, BerryBerry finds out that Echo is pregnant. She tells him that she doesnt expect anything from him; that she took a gamble that someday he would love her, not that hed marry her, and she lost. As she tells him hes free, he runs out of the house and drives off in the rain, leaving her in tears. Clinton, who had been eavesdropping, witnesses the whole exchange. Echo decides she must leave the Willarts house immediately. She assures Clinton, whos concerned about the rain and the late hour, that she loves driving at night. But the Willarts are awakened later by a call from a state trooper, reporting that Echo had driven off the road and been killed in the ensuing crash. Ralph tells Annabel and Clinton that Echo was too good a driver for her crash to have been an accident, and that BerryBerry must have had something to do with it. Clinton suddenly throws BerryBerrys framed portrait to the floor and stomps on it. Annabel pushes him away, picks up the portrait and holds it closely, shrieking that she doesnt care what BerryBerrys done, shell love him always. Clinton sneaks into BerryBerrys room when his brother is out, and gets the latters pistol which BerryBerry had shown him earlier and waits behind the curtains for BerryBerry to return. But hes surprised to see BerryBerry, when he finally returns, collapse onto the bed, sobbing. Clinton returns the pistol where he found it and leaves, seeing BerryBerry as someone to be pitied.