| III | | | | 1942 he went in, and in 1945, he was killed in Italy. |
| Two weeks later | | | | Tony has just received a Purple Heat by the |
| Well, Ella and Tony got married, do not leave St. | | | | Government for his son's bravery and valor in the |
| Paul, and Earnest, is still part of the team. They | | | | line of duty. He is fifty-two years old now, past |
| have just gotten back from their honeymoon, | | | | middle age, and is about the same age as Cory. |
| they went to Chicago, about four-hundred miles | | | | Lilly is also about their age. |
| from where they live; they took a train, and | | | | Tony's only daughter, Betty, has taken a liking for |
| enjoyed the city sites, the museum, and Navy | | | | Cory's son, Robert Gunderson (I know I have not |
| Pier. Mr. Nelson has provided a bigger apartment | | | | told you up until now, Cory had a son, but he |
| above the bar for them, at the same price as | | | | does); Betty is older than Robert by several |
| Tony was paying for the sleeping room. (He likes | | | | years. But they've been seeing each other at the |
| Tony, and I think this puts a thorn into the side of | | | | restaurant when Tony was gone. Earnest has not |
| Cory, and Mr. Nelson likes that.) He even got a | | | | said a word to anyone about it. And now Betty |
| toilet in his room, not like his previous sleeping | | | | has confronted her father, and he is most |
| room, a public one were the other two | | | | alarmed. And Robert has confronted his father, |
| apartments had to share. | | | | and is likewise, is somewhat historical over the |
| Cory is mad, he had expected Tony and Ella at | | | | matter. |
| least to face him, and had been so mad he went | | | | Cory Gunderson says no to the marriage, and so |
| and found that old man's daughter Lilly Olson, who | | | | does Tony, until Earnest comes out and says: "I |
| was pretty, not as pretty as Ella, but pretty, and | | | | think you've forgot how you met Ella, you two |
| married her on a whim. Now both Ella and Lilly are | | | | eloped, and now you are blocking two people who |
| pregnant, and Earnest Colman, has found himself | | | | love each other. What would Ella say?" |
| a girl named Anna, whom he will marry. | | | | Tony thinks about what Earnest says (and of |
| Tony has changed his name to Douglas, his other | | | | course he could say something more |
| name was too hard for everyone to pronounce, | | | | heartbreaking, should you want it to be). And |
| so he told his wife, and is much happier with that. | | | | Tony says, "OK, I'll give my blessing." |
| And so it is for his wife, Ella Douglas, and now | | | | But Cory doesn't, and will not. And Lilly will not |
| their new child, which is a boy, Frank Douglas. | | | | marry unless her father agrees to this. Out of |
| Cory's wife has a baby girl and they named her, | | | | spike he remains firm. |
| Rita Gunderson. | | | | In the mean time, Lilly marries a Jewish boy, |
| It is l918, and Tony has been drafted to in the US | | | | Peter Coddon, but her husband cannot have |
| Army (WWI is going on), and leaves for Europe, | | | | children, and of course this is not know at the |
| his wife Ella is with her second child. He is in a | | | | time, until it is brought out by the Veteran's |
| noncombatant area, a cook; Cory also goes into | | | | doctor (after several years of trying), who has a |
| the Army, he is a First Lieutenant, and Tony a | | | | theory it is not her but him, an old would from |
| Private. Cory finds himself in the trenches in | | | | WWII; a piece of metal had punctured his groin |
| France, Tony is still in England, and General | | | | area, when he was humping ammunition from one |
| Pershing have been talking to the Germans about | | | | trench to the other, and was blown several feet |
| an armistice. Thus, they will have only served | | | | in the air, and became a medical causality, where |
| perhaps 18-months each in the Service, by the | | | | he was then back to the United States. He had |
| time they are released. | | | | thought all was well of course, unless he lied. And |
| They both arrive home in 1919, and are | | | | now Cory is an old man of perhaps 65-years old, |
| discharged from the army; | | | | is steaming after finding out the news. He has no |
| Tony has found out he has a daughter by the | | | | grandchildren, nor will have. |
| name of Betty; and Cory has another daughter | | | | VI |
| as well, named after his wife Lilly (the mother | | | | Time: 1959 |
| being, Lilly Olson Gunderson). | | | | Tony is now 67-years old, as is Cory, neither |
| There remains a feud between these two people, | | | | have grandchildren, and Tony has now fired |
| it is played out silently, but is there nonetheless. | | | | Earnest, after learning he was taking home to his |
| IV | | | | wife and three kids, many products and pounds |
| Time: 1923 | | | | of meat (weekly), god knows how long he had |
| Ella dies, double pneumonia, her tombstone in | | | | been doing this. But it doesn't seem to faze him, |
| Oakland Cemetery reads: | | | | he is fine either way. He has three children as I've |
| 'Ella Colman Douglas | | | | mentioned, and they gave him three grandchildren |
| Born 1889-1923 | | | | each, andone of his grandchildren is seventeen, |
| Wife of Tony S. Douglas | | | | and pregnant, so he will be a great-grandfather |
| "She was the Best Part of my life" | | | | soon. Cory and Tony have remained enemy's for |
| It is 1924. It is Saturday morning. Tony has done | | | | most part, since they had met some 50-years |
| well for himself, he lives on Arch Street, in his | | | | ago. Betty, now aging, cleans the house for Tony, |
| own home with his two children. He continues to | | | | and does a lot of the chores. She has been dating |
| work as a painter, and has a restaurant, Ella's | | | | a man down the block, but never marries him: he |
| brother Earnest takes care of it when he is | | | | is married to a woman in another city who will not |
| working his other job. The restaurant is on | | | | give him a divorce because of a shared grocery |
| Wabasha Street, near Mr. Nelson's bar, | | | | store they both owned together, and this now is |
| matter-of-fact he helped Tony negotiate the deal | | | | her sole income. |
| to buy the place. He is thirty-years old now (he | | | | Cory's son, Robert, takes care of his business |
| was born in 1893; his deceased wife was older | | | | which Cory inherited from his father. |
| than he). | | | | Note: written in the form of a short version |
| V | | | | [skeleton] for the screen 3/4/2006; more dialogue |
| Time: 1945 | | | | can be put in of course. |
| Frank, has went into the Army, WWII, it was in | | | | |