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Marilyn Mickler

You’re home early.

Jack Mickler

How would you feel about, er, coming upstairs?

Marilyn Mickler

Go. Oh!

Jack Mickler

Okay, what do you think?

Marilyn Mickler

Over here now.

Jack Mickler

(Muffled)

Marilyn Mickler

Oh, what happened?

Jack Mickler

You’re no good at all.

Marilyn Mickler

No, I am too good, I got three, look. I got three.

Jack Mickler

Well…

Marilyn Mickler

Yeah, okay. When is it my turn? Yeah, you got five, well you’re better than me.

Jack Mickler

You get it?

Marilyn Mickler

Yes!

Woman Doctor

Okay, last but not least, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… Don Juan De Marco.

Jack Mickler

Well, er, in respect of that, I wanna say that, er, I’ve got a meeting with the kid, later on today. And I think that it might very well be the
definitive meeting.

Paul Showalter

Jack. Jack, this isn’t a treatment conference. This is a disposition conference. We have to know what to do with this kid on Monday when his ten
day paper expires. Do we ask the judge to commit him? Do we let him go? What?

Jack Mickler

Er, I, I don’t know. I… and I won’t know until I have the meeting with the kid.

Paul Showalter

Right. Jack, he’s a suicidal patient.

Jack Mickler

He’s not suicidal! It was a call for help, if it was anything.

Paul Showalter

You’re not suggesting that we let him go, are you?

Jack Mickler

No, I’m not suggesting that.

Paul Showalter

All right. Then obviously, first thing on Monday we have to get the judge over here for a hearing. Also, on Monday, we’re gonna have to transfer
him to another therapist, because that’s your last day, Jack. Bill.

Bill Dunsmore

Huh?

Paul Showalter

You think you’re up to it?

Bill Dunsmore

Yeah, if he’s on medication I could.

Paul Showalter

Jack? He’ll be on medication.

Jack Mickler

All right. Yeah, I’ll give him, uh, I don’t know, a hundred milligrams of Novak QID. And, er, Bill can begin to decrease it, once his anxiety
lessens about being attacked by your patient.

Bill Dunsmore

Could, could you tell him, could you tell him to stop. I, I mean…

Woman Doctor

And if he refuses, do we restrain him and give it to him by injection?

Jack Mickler

I’ll get him to take the medication, for Christ’s sake. I don’t know what’s the big concern here. He hasn’t been assaulted. Anyway, I’ve gotta go.

Paul Showalter

No, no. There’s one other piece of business. Okay! We’re ready!

All ?

For he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny.

Jack Mickler

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Come in.

Dona Inez

I am Dona Inez. The mother of Don Juan De Marco. May I come in, Don Octavio?

Jack Mickler

Ah, please.

Dona Inez

I came as soon as the Arch Diocese in Mexico City told me that my son had called them. What exactly is wrong with him?

Jack Mickler

Well… I am… I am very grateful, sister, that you’ve come, at this strange moment in time. Because there is so much crucial information that
I need in order to help your son.

Dona Inez

How can I be of help?

Jack Mickler

For instance, is it a fact that your son grew up with you and your husband in Mexico in a little small town?

Dona Inez

San Louis Quatsa Qualcos. It’s not very far from Esuca de Mata Morras, have you heard of it? Not many have, It’s very small.

Jack Mickler

You know, in order to help your son, I, I have to have some information. I need to know about Don Alfonso, about his father, Don, Don Antonio,
and about your relationship with both of them.

Dona Inez

I think it would be best if you would discuss these matters directly with my son. My vows to God do not allow me to talk… about certain aspects
of my past.

Jack Mickler

Er, I, I don’t think, sister, that I’m making myself clear. I’ve been to see your son’s grandmother… and she tells me that neither your nor your
son have ever lived in Mexico. She said that you met Tony in Queens, New York, and till recently she said she only saw her grandson once in her life,
when she was in Phoenix, Arizona. She also said that, er, five years ago, that, er, your husband died in a car crash. Now, in this… I’m sorry,
but you must understand, sister, that I need to know the truth.

Dona Inez

The truth is inside you, Don Octavio. I cannot help you find that.

Don Juan

Isn’t she exactly as I described her, Don Octavio?

Jack Mickler

Yeah. Exactly.

Dun Juan

Dona Julia has become a nun at the same convent.

Jack Mickler

So it seems.

Don Juan

I told my mother she could go back today, but I will miss her. She really has a way of putting me in touch with what’s real.

Jack Mickler

Erm, why are you so certain, that your mother was not having an affair with Don Alfonso?

Don Juan

My mother was not having an affair!

Jack Mickler

Well, I think you, you can understand how the thought might have occurred to me. When you told me how your father died, it’s never been clear to
me what, er, what your mother meant when she cried out, “I will lose both of them.” Did she mean, both her husband and her son? Or both of her lovers?

Don Juan

My mother, was not having an affair!

Jack Mickler

Do you understand why it’s necessary?

Don Juan

Shut up! You think I don’t know what’s going on with you, Don Octavio? But I do, you need me… for a transfusion, because your own blood has
turned to dust and clogged your heart. Your need for reality, your need for a world where love is flawed, will continue to choke your veins until
all the life in you is gone. Well, my perfect world is no less real than yours, Don Octavio. It is only in my world, that you can breathe, isn’t it?
Isn’t it?

Jack Mickler

Yeah. You’re right, my, er, my world is, not perfect.

Don Juan

What is this thing that happens with age? Why does everyone want to pervert love and, suck it bone dry of all its glory? Why do you bother to call
it love anymore?

Jack Mickler

This’ll be our, our last session. I’m, er, retiring on Monday.

Don Juan

Then I will tell you about Dona Ana. And you will decide if I should be set free. On the second day, after I left the Sultana, our ship was caught
in a typhoon…

Don Juan (voice)

I alone survived. After days drifting at sea, I found myself on the island of Eros. She was seventeen, and nature’s pride, fresh and fair, and
unacquainted with the miracle of physical love. Her beauty was not made of shapes and forms, but shined from within like a star. There are those
who do not believe that a single soul, born in heaven, can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth. Where over oceans and
continents, their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But how else do you explain love at first sight? We were convinced that
there was no other life beneath the sky but ours. We believed that we would never die.

Dona Ana

You must promise me, that we will be together for all time. That we will live here on this beach, always. And that, should circumstance ever
separate us, it is here we will come, to wait all eternity, for the other to return.

Don Juan

I love you.

Dona Ana

Promise me.

Don Juan

I promise.

Don Juan (voice)

One day, I asked her to be mine.

Don Juan

I love you too much. But I cannot love you any less.

Dona Ana

It’s of no great consequence, but, will you be wearing your mask throughout our lives together?

Don Juan

I have sworn to do so.

Dona Ana

Then, I ask only that you tell me what has led you to make such a vow.

Don Juan (voice)

I related the sad tale of my Dona Julia, never guessing for a moment that my sweet Dona Ana believed that I had saved myself for her, as she had for me.

Dona Ana

Very well, my love. I will accept that I am not the first if you will tell me, with the same honesty, how many others, there have been.

Don Juan (voice)

This would have been a very good time for me to lie, but truth is a terrible habit.

Don Juan

Including you, there have been, exactly, one thousand-five-hundred and two.

Don Juan (voice)

I could see, that this was a sound substantially greater than the one she had in her mind, and not easy for her to assimilate, try as she might.
As her pain struck at my heart like a dagger, I begged to be forgiven. I removed my mask as a gesture of remorse, but it was to no avail.
To hide her humiliation, she took of the mask and left forever. And so my adventures came to an end, and with them, the chance that one day,
like my father… I would die in the arms of the woman I loved.

Don Juan

Who am I?

Jack Mickler

Sit down. You, are Don Juan De Marco, the greatest lover the world has ever known.

Don Juan

And you, my friend, who are you?

Jack Mickler

Who am I? I am Don Octavio de Florez. Married to the beautiful Dona Lucita, the light of my life. And you, my friend, you have seen through
all of my masks.

Chemist

Here’s your order, Doctor.

Jack Mickler

Thank you.

Don Juan

You said that you believed, Don Octavio.

Jack Mickler

I believe that you are Don Juan, but there are a lot of people who don’t.

Don Juan

Then I will do as you ask, my friend.

Jack Mickler

Vamoose.

Marilyn Mickler

You’re retiring on Monday, what are we gonna do?

Jack Mickler

We’re gonna get airborne, kid, I’ll tell you that.

Marilyn Mickler

I’m trying to tell you something. I like it here, I like my garden…

Jack Mickler

We need to be a flight of eagles.

Marilyn Mickler

I don’t see myself in that picture.

Jack Mickler

Oh, what’s the matter with you? What are you talking about?

Marilyn Mickler

I don’t know.

Jack Mickler

I need to find out who you are.

Marilyn Mickler

Jack, you know who I am. Who’s brought you coffee for the last thirty-three years?

Jack Mickler

Listen, I know a lot about dirty coffee cups and I know a lot of facts. But I need to know, all about you.

Marilyn Mickler

What do you wanna know?

Jack Mickler

I wanna know… what your hopes, and your dreams are. They got lost along the way, while I was thinking about myself. What’s so funny?

Marilyn Mickler

I thought you’d never ask.

Security Guard

Hey, Doc. Morning!

Judge

Do you understand why you’re here, young man? Okay, then. I’d like for you to tell me a little about yourself. Where you grew up.
What made you want to kill yourself. How you feel now.

Don Juan

I was born in… in Queens. Me and my parents moved to, er, Phoenix when I was a kid. I hated it. When I was sixteen, my father was, er,
killed in a car accident just outside of town. My mother, she’d been having these affairs, and, my father knew. Anyway, she felt so guilty
she decided to become a nun. So within three weeks of my father’s death she was… in a convent, somewhere in Mexico. And there I was…
I had nowhere to go, I didn’t know what to do. So, one day I was, um, looking at this magazine, and there was a centrefold, and I, I knew she
wouldn’t go for me the way that I was, you know, so I, deci… I’d been reading a book, this book, and er, I decided to become Don Juan. So,
I called up the magazine. They wouldn’t help me, they wouldn’t give me any information, so… I was about to give up, and… one day I reachedthis woman who worked there, I think she was a temp, or something, but… The woman took pity on me and she gave me the girl’s number. I called
her up. I said that we were meant to be together and… she called me a creep and then she hung up. I just decided that my life was over, so I…
was gonna kill myself. Or at least I was gonna make people believe that I would kill myself so that I could get some attention or something.
I never really had any intention of… killing myself.

Judge

Thank you. This has been very helpful. Someone will show you back to your room now.

Don Juan

Thank you.

Jack Mickler

Through there.

Judge

Doctors… this seems like a perfectly normal kid to me. I have a couple of centre-fold fantasies myself, and I’m certainly not going to commit
him to a mental institution for his.

Paul Showalter

Er, your honour, I, I, I, I, think his behaviour is…

Judge

Let him go.

Paul Showalter

Er, your honour, I have to recommend…

Jack Mickler

Thank you. As his doctor I concur with your views and I thank you. I will call you later, and thank God for medication.

Paul Showalter

Yes, all right, Jack. Have, have a wonderful vacation.

Jack Mickler

Goodbye, Bill.

Woman Doctor

Goodbye.

Paul Showalter

Your honour, I think the boy’s…

Woman Doctor

Now, listen, your honour… Doctor!

Paul Showalter

Please, as head of the hospital, let me speak.

Jack Mickler

My name is Don Octavio de Florez, I am the world’s greatest psychiatrist. I have cured over a thousand patients, and their faces linger in
my memory like summer days. But none more so than Don Juan De Marco. And so it was not so insane that we all found ourselves on an aeroplane
flying to the island of Eros. It was like a garden before the fall. Everything seemed possible. And how does our fable end? His Dona Ana,
his centre-fold… was she waiting all eternity on the beach for him to return, as they had promised each other? Why not? I must report,
that the last patient I ever treated… the great lover, Don Juan De Marco, suffered from a romanticism which was completely incurable.
And even worse, contagious…