America Ferrera: Carmen
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Carmen : [At her house, sitting at a table across from Tibby. Awkwardly, shifting in her chair, Carmen speaks into the phone] Um... I just... I wan - .
Al : [At his house, Al walks from the dining room where Lydia and the kids eat dinner, to a small den and speaks to Carmen at a whisper] I-It's alright. You don't - you don't have to apologize, sweetheart. You were... upset, I know.
Carmen : Um... no dad. You don't know. That's just it, you've never known. Because I've never been able to tell you.
Al : T-Tell me what?
Carmen : That I'm angry with you, Dad!
[She stands and walks across the room and begins to pace]
Carmen : This entire thing about you, and Lydia, and... and the kids!
Al : It's my fault.
[He sits at a small table]
Al : I, I should have told you about them before... and I'm - I'm sorry.
Carmen : Yeah, you should have warned me, but it's more than that. It's, it's the fact that you've found yourself this new family and I feel like some outsider that doesn't even belong to you anymore.
[Carmen begins to cry, softly]
Carmen : It's like you traded me and mom in for something that you thought was better. And I wanna know why. Are you ashamed of me? Are you embarrassed?
[Cut to Al, listening to Carmen through the phone]
Carmen : Just tell me, Dad. What did I do wrong?
[Back to Carmen, crying much harder now]
Carmen : Why did you leave? Why did you have to go? And then tell me that we were gonna be closer but that never happened! And why does Paul visit his alcoholic dad every month, but you only visit me twice a year? And I know you... you just seem so happy about being Paul and Chris's dad, but you never even had the time to be mine.
Al : [Cuts to Al, still sitting. Very quietly] I'm sorry. I... I'm so sorry...
Carmen : [Back to Carmen] I wish that were enough, Dad.
[Hangs up]
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Carmen : [voiceover] It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now I feel like our lives changed because they had to, and that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us together when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again.
[pause]
Carmen : Some things never would be
Lena : But we know now that no matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths...
Bridget : Somehow we would always find out way back to each other.
Tibby : And with that, we could get through anything.
Bridget : To us. Who we were, and who we are. And who we'll be.
Tibby : To the pants.
Lena : And the sisterhood.
Carmen : And this moment, and the rest of our lives.
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Tibby : Hey, do you know who would have loved this P, Bee? Your mom.
Bridget : Yeah. I remember this one time she decided that she'd make one herself. She always woke up starving after one of her episodes. I was just sitting in the kitchen doing my homework and she just walked in and just started making this thing. You know, I don't even know if you could call it a pizza. It was more like the entire contents of our refrigerator on a round crust.
[They all laugh]
Bridget : Craziest part is we actually ate it.
Carmen : Of course you did.
[Tibby laughs]
Bridget : We ate every single bit of that pizza in like 10 minutes.
Tibby : Yeah.
Bridget : And we were laughing the whole time. It was great. I remember thinking that maybe there won't be any more bad spells. Maybe she'll just be happy like this forever.
Carmen : It's okay to miss her, Bee. I mean, as hard as it is to be sad about it don't you think maybe it's harder not to be?
Bridget : [Crying] You don't understand.
Tibby : [long pause] Bridge...
Bridget : I can't. It hurts too much.
Carmen : I know.
Bridget : No, you don't know. I just want to feel good and happy and alive. Because if I feel alive then it doesn't seem like she's dead. And if I'm not sad then it proves that I'm not like her.
Carmen : Bee, you don't have to prove that to anybody. I mean, you have a strength in you that your mom never had. As much as she wanted to, she couldn't find it.
Tibby : Yeah, and you have something else too.
Bridget : What?
Tibby : You have us. And we're not gonna let you go anywhere, okay?
Bridget : Thank you.
Carmen : Come here.
[Carmen hugs Bridget and Tibby holds her hand]
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Carmen : [to Tibby] Why are you giving me this hypocritical lecture? When you're the one who walks around saying screw the world because that's easier than having to feel something!
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Carmen : [after trying out a bridesmaid dress for the wedding] ... And you know what, Lydia? Just forget about the dress. We can tell everybody that Carmen's Puerto Rican. And it never occurred to you she might be built differently. Or that, unlike you and your daughter, she has an ass that the tailor didn't have enough bolts of material to cover, or better yet, just tell everyone there is no Carmen. Carmen doesn't exist!
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Carmen : I am mad at my dad. I am *mad* at my dad. Why is that so hard for me to see, Tibby? I have no problem being mad at you.
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Carmen : Is it fair to bribe the driver to turn around and go back home?
Bridget : Oh yeah, with what money? Cause Tibby is the only one of us working this summer.
Tibby : Hey, hey, hey. I actually stacked my last shelf at Wallmans, thank you very much.
Lena : Congratulations!
Bridget : Does this mean there's gonna be a ceremonial burning of the smock?
Tibby : No, actually, Duncan took the smock, but I do have my nametag.
Bridget : Can we burn it?
[they all laugh]
Lena : Hey, how did your suckumentary turn out?
Tibby : Uh... uh... well, it actually evolved into something quite different than I expected, so...
Bridget : What are you gonna call it?
Tibby : [thinking for a minute] Hmmmm... Bailey.
[Tibby smiles and looks to Carmen, who smiles back approvingly]
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[first lines]
Carmen : [narrating] I'd like to think that fate had a hand in what happened that summer. That is was the pants' destiny to find us. Where they came from and why they chose us. Well, that will always be a mystery. But perhaps that was part of their miracle, that they sensed in that moment how much we needed them, how much we needed some little bit of faith to hold on to, when it seemed like everything we believed in was about to slip away.
