[Hospital room]
(Estelle is on a hospital bed. George, sitting back in a chair, is visiting her)
ESTELLE: I don't understand you. I really don't. You have nothing better to do at three o'clock in the afternoon? I go out for a quart of milk, I come home, and find my son treating his body like it was an amusement park! (07:34)
GEORGE: (stern, trying to shut her up) Ma.
ESTELLE: Don't give me "Ma". It's a good thing I didn't hit the table. I could've cracked my head open.
GEORGE: Ma, people can hear you. (07:44)
ESTELLE: (heavy in sarcasm) Too bad you can't do that for a living. You'd be very successful at it. You could sell out Madison Square Garden. Thousands of people could watch you! You could be a big star!
GEORGE: (getting up) All right, Ma, that's enough! (08:02)
ESTELLE: I want you to go see a psychiatrist.
GEORGE: No! I am not going to see a psychiatrist!
ESTELLE: Why? Why not? Why won't you go? (08:08)
GEORGE: (like a kid) Because I don't want to.
ESTELLE: I want you to go see somebody.
GEORGE: Well, I am not going.
ESTELLE: It's a good thing your father's in Chicago. (08:15)
(George's cousin, Shelly, enters.)
SHELLY: Hello, Aunt Estelle. Look at you, how did this happen?
GEORGE: (snapping) Is that important, really? What is this, a police investigation? The woman's been through enough. She has to relive the experience now! (08:27)
(On the other side of a curtain divider, the silhouette of a shapely nurse can be seen entering.)
NURSE: Hi, Denise. Six-thirty, time for your sponge bath.
(The shadow of a patient awakening can be seen.)
DENISE: Mmm, is it six-thirty already? I fell asleep. (08:36)
(The two women go about preparing the sponge bath. George is visibly affected - breathing heavily, and staring at them through the curtain.)
SHELLY: So, George... What are you doing now? I hear you got some kinda television writing thing? (08:49)
GEORGE: (slowly backing away, he's not at all committed to the conversation) Yeah, television.
(The patient, Denise, is trying to get her gown off)
NURSE: Let me help you out with that. Here, just slip it over your head. (08:55)
DENISE: Oh, thank you.
SHELLY: (nodding) Well, it's about time. We thought you were gonna wind up on the street.
(As the bath is going on, George is now completely mesmerized)
So, what is it you're doing exactly? (09:10)
(A moment passes. George seems not to have heard his cousin)
ESTELLE: George, your cousin Shelly is talking to you! (09:17)