"(ship horn blowing)" "**" "(bell clanging)" "(men arguing)" "What's going on?" "It's all right, Captain." "I said, "What's going on?"" "This guy can't take a joke." "He said I was a peasant from the hills." "Get back to work, all of you!" "We got to get this ship unloaded." "Go ahead, Demo, get back to your job." "Come on." "Leave me alone!" "You know I don't allow fighting on my ship, Martakis." "If you want to let off steam, wait 'til we get into port." "You'll have a few drinks, some dancing." "I'll give you my share." "The deck officer needs some help." "Give him a hand." "(cranes clanking)" "Do you want some coffee?" "I just had some." "Have a cigarette." "No, thanks." "I'm sorry I spoke to you the way I did." "Forget about it." "Demo made me angry." "And I'm anxious about getting to New York." "Do you have relatives there?" "No-- there's someone I have to see." "A man I met in my village." "Does he have a daughter you can marry?" "No." "When you get angry, you don't let go." "Don't take Demo seriously." "Look... if you took all the guys I wanted to sock in my time, stood them shoulder to shoulder, and put slingshots in their hands, we could retake Constantinople tomorrow." "That's funny." "Demo." "Well, whatever it is, be a man-- forget it." "Don't do anything foolish." "I won't." "Hey, Demo." "What?" "Have you seen Martakis?" "No." "Where's the Captain?" "He's on deck." "Let's go." "Hey, what's this all about?" "You'll find out." "Wait a second." "You stay on watch tonight." "I stood watch on our last port." "Captain's orders." "All right." "Martakis." "Where you going?" "I'm going to make a call." "Call 'em tomorrow." "**" "**" "(no voices)" "**" "Pano Coupas?" "Pano Coupas?" "He's gone." "Ain't nobody here now." "You better come back Monday, mister." "Where'd he go?" "He don't tell me where he's goin'." "He just goes." "Sometimes he goes across the street for a cup of coffee." "Across the street?" "Yeah, on that coffee place over there" " George's." "I see him go in there all the time." "(general conversations)" "You're giving away the profits, eh?" "(woman) No, we're having a party." "(cash register dings)" "Well, have a nice weekend, Nike." "Thank you." "You too." "Excuse me, do you know Mr. Pano Coupas?" "Who?" "Coupas." "Pano Coupas." "Yes, I know him." "As a matter of fact, he was here a short time ago." "Why don't you try his office?" "It's right over there." "I was there and somebody told me to ask here." "I just arrived from Greece and I must see him." "From Greece?" "You've come to the right place." "Wasn't he expecting you?" "Didn't he tell you where to meet him?" "He didn't know I was coming and I haven't much time." "Do you know where he lives?" "Somewhere in Washington Heights." "Wash-- That's uptown." "Why don't you look up his address in the phone book?" "Here, I'll do it for you." "You work on the boats?" "Yes, I do." "Will you be here long?" "My ship is leaving Sunday." "Well then, you should call him and tell him you're here looking for him." "I'll call him for you and then you can talk to him." "No, no!" "It's no trouble." "It's already done." "(phone ringing through)" "I guess he mustn't have gotten home yet." "Well... here's his address." "Thank you." "You take the subway at the corner." "Take the A train and get off at the 175th street stop." "Thank you very much." "I hope you enjoy your visit." "**" "Hello." "I guess I didn't realize how confusing New York subways would be to a stranger." "I live up in that neighborhood and I'm on my way home." "If you want to come along with me, I can show you the way." "My name is Nike Vassos." "You're very kind, Miss Vassos." "I don't understand about A trains and all those other things you told me." "I'm sorry about that." "I was so busy getting these things together." "We're baptizing my cousin's baby on Sunday." "My mother wanted me to bring some food home." "Come on." "George, what's eatin' your jackass of a young friend?" "Who?" "Martakis." "What's wrong?" "He jumped ship." "On your word, I kept him onboard." "Andros, what's he up to?" "I'm not sure." "George, you've sailed with me for over 11 years." "You know you can tell me." "I think he's gone to settle a grudge with some guy." "I always get stuck with the crazy ones on my ship." "Why didn't you tell me this before?" "I wasn't sure what he was going to do." "I thought if we kept him onboard while we sailed, he'd forget about it." "He's a nice kid." "I didn't think it was that serious." "Well, it is now." "I'm going to have to call the port authorities." "Well, don't do that." "If they pick him up, it will go very hard for him." "What do you mean, "Don't do that"?" "Let me try to find him first." "You couldn't possibly find this loon of a boy." "Forget about it." "When those villagers get an idea into their head, you can't change it." "But this boy's young... give me a little time to find him." "George, you're crazy." "Okay, I won't report him to the port authorities until tomorrow." "But who's he looking for?" "How are you gonna find him?" "I don't know." "I know one way of trying to find out." "Let's see what is in his drawer." "Look at that." "It's Yianni, see." "And the girl must be his sister." "She looks just like him." "And that one in the American clothes?" "It could be the guy." "That's him." "You sure?" "If I can find him, I think I can find the kid." "**" "(no sound from buzzer)" "**" "(no sound from buzzer)" "(no sound from buzzer)" "(Martakis) He isn't home." "Well, I wondered what you'd do if he weren't." "I will wait." "But you don't even know when he'll be here!" "Why don't you come and have dinner with us while you're waiting?" "We only live over there." "I may miss him." "I thank you but I may miss him." "You can keep trying his number from our house." "You'd be more comfortable than standing out here." "You might starve to death." "That's too much trouble for you." "Oh, no!" "We always have plenty of food." "And it would make my mother and father very happy to meet someone who's just come from Greece." "I think it must be terrible to be in a strange city..." "Guess my mother must be in the kitchen." "Mama?" "We have company." "Oh." "How do you do?" "This is Yianni Martakis." "He's just come from Greece." "He's here to visit Mr. Coupas who lives down the street." "Oh, you just arrived?" "Yes, I did." "Did you know Mr. Coupas lives so near us?" "Mr. Coupas?" "You know him, mama." "He's on the church council and his office is just across the street from Uncle George's store." "Oh, yes, Mr. Coupas." "Well, when Yianni went to his apartment he found he wasn't there so I invited him to have dinner with us while he waits." "Good." "Very nice." "Sit down, please." "I'll go make some coffee." "Thank you." "Here are the things from the store." "Uncle George says the lamb is ready for the oven." "Will three pounds of chopped meat be enough?" "What do you mean, mama?" "You know what I mean." "Who is this man?" "I told you." "Yianni Martakis." "It isn't right for a young girl to pick up strange men and bring them into her father's house." "Should I have taken him to somebody else's house?" "Stop laughing at me." "It isn't right to do such things." "Mama, he's a relative of a neighbor." "A neighbor we don't even know." "And he's a sailor just arrived from Greece with no one to turn to for help." "You're the one who's always talking about Greek hospitality." "Well, now that he's here, why don't you act like a young lady around the house?" "Get him some cognac." "I'm sorry I had to leave you alone." "I had to help mama in the kitchen." "(Yianni) Oh, I've enjoyed it." "You have a beautiful house." "Just another apartment." "The city's full of them." "It's a palace." "It's just like everybody else has." "You're seeing it at its best." "We've been fixing it up." "All my mother's relatives are coming from Pittsburg for the baptism." "In my village, not even the richest man would have a home like this." "(door opens)" "Hello, Nike sweetie pie!" "Your father is home." "Hello, Papa." "This is Yianni Martakis." "Welcome, welcome." "Yianni Martakis?" "You are a Greek." "Yes, sir." "I just arrived." "You are very welcome." "Come, daughter, fill up the glasses so we can drink to the old country." "No, no." "I'll do it." "Go get your mother." "Mama?" "How do you like America, young man?" "Well, I've only been here a short time." "All he's seen is the A train, papa." "Great country." "Wonderful people, just like Greeks." "Are you going to stay here in America?" "It's a big place." "There is lots of room." "I don't think that will be possible." "A drink to your health, Mr. Martakis." "And may all your wishes come true in America." "Hey, hello, George." "How are you?" "Fine Tom, fine." "You look good." "Let me have an ouzo." "When'd you get in?" "Today... have any of the other fellas been in?" "You have a new girl." "Hold the ice." "I see this place is getting high-class." "You see this man?" "I'm trying to find him." "Do you know him?" "Do you ever see him?" "No." "What do you want him for?" "A friend of mine wants to find him." "It's a long story, Tom." "I'll tell you about it some other time." "I'm going to look in some of the other places." "Well, when you find him, come back here." "The place will be a lot more lively then." "Here, have another drink." "Can you keep this behind the bar for me 'til I get back?" "Give me one more." "(Nike) No, not for me." "I don't like it." "I think it's terrible." "She's too American, my little Nike sweetie pie." "Only a real Greek can drink and enjoy wine." "To me, it tastes like turpentine." "(papa laughs)" "Excuse me." "What is a "sweetie pie"?" "Oh, it means... it means that my Nike, she is so sweet that you want to gobble her up." "Papa." "Helen?" "Hello, mama." "Hello, papa." "I didn't know we were having company." "This is Yianni Martakis." "I'm sorry I was late." "We had to work overtime." "You were with your American boyfriend" "Maria." "Mama, please don't." "Not before our guest." "Excuse me." "I'll be right back." "Why were you so late?" "They're furious with you." "I had to meet Jack." "We started talking and I didn't realize how late it was." "Who's this Yianni?" "I met him at the store." "I think he's related to some man down the street." "Coupas-- do you know him?" "No." "He's cute." "You kind of like him, don't you?" "Well, I just met him!" "You sure got him here in a hurry." "Mom and Pop are pleased with their Greek suitor." "Why don't you bring Jack home so they can meet him?" "Then they'll stop their yelling and complaining." "Oh, no." "Well, it would be better than this way." "Sneaking around, meeting in cafeterias and movie lobbies." "Let them see for themselves." "He's not a monster." "Jack is very touchy." "They wouldn't make him welcome and he'd never come back." "But you got to face that situation sometime." "I mean, if you're really serious about him." "If you or I brought home a man that wasn't Greek they'd consider it a violation of their territorial rights." "They'd take it to the UN." "Oh, Helen." "I've heard them talk about it for years." ""Marry a Greek boy." "Marry a Greek boy."" "You're being very silly." "Oh, no, I'm not." ""My little Nike sweetie pie."" "(papa) Girls, your supper is getting cold." "Look, Nike." "I'm sorry." "I'm awfully upset." "There's something I want to talk to you about later." "It's important." "Jack wants us to go out with him tomorrow." "All right, later." "(papa) And I haven't been back to the old country since 1931." "Now your dinner is all cold." "I've had all I want." "I'll just have some coffee." "Shall I help you with the dishes?" "(mama) No, thank you." "You stay here with your guest." "Maybe Yianni would like to see the view from the roof." "We are right next to George Washington Bridge." "It's one of the wonders of the world." "Papa talks as if we owned it, he's so proud of it." "You're very kind, Mr. Vassos." "But I must go over and see if Mr. Coupas is back." "(Nike) Why don't you call?" "I would like to surprise him." "(papa) Fine, fine." "But you'll come back here if he isn't home." "**" "(no sound from buzzer)" "**" "(no sound from buzzer)" "(doorbell buzzes)" "Are you from the delicatessen?" "Who are you?" "You mustn't be so upset." "You've got to remember he doesn't know you're here." "How could he?" "You wanted to surprise him, so don't blame him if he's out somewhere having a big dinner." "Over this way, Yianni." "We can see the river from here." "New York's a city on waters." "Isn't Greece surrounded by water too?" "Yes, but I come from the hills where we only have streams." "My mother tells me the sky is bluer there... and at night there are more stars." "But then she says," ""We don't see so many stars in the sky here because we have so many of them on Earth"." "Our stars are the lights and the bridge and in the buildings." "Well, please don't feel so bad about Mr. Coupas." "How did you know what I was thinking?" "Well, I didn't." "It's just that you looked so bothered." "You're not thinking about that silly argument" "Mama and Helen had at dinner?" "Oh, that." "My mother used to say that family quarrels are just a test to show us how much we really love each other." "Now I know your family likes me." "Of course they like you." "But still, Mama and Helen shouldn't have argued that way in front of you." "I'm glad they did." "A family never argues when a guest is present." "It made me feel like one of them." "I'm so happy to hear you say that, Yianni." "I must seem very bold to you." "I suppose in your hometown girls don't talk this way to boys when they're alone." "I've heard people are different here." "You're different too, Yianni." "I've met many people from Greece and you're not like any of them." "I come from the hills." "Life is very hard there." "We don't have velvet sofas or A trains." "I don't think it's that." "In the mountains we have to depend on ourselves." "Each one must go his own way, be his own man." "I suppose so." "You're so quiet, so thoughtful." "You never seem to listen." "It's though you have something on your mind." "Is that what it means to be your own man?" "How can you ask me that when by myself I've come here?" "I stand just two blocks from Pano Coupas." "He will not question if I'm a man." "My father will know I'm a man." "Oh, I've said the wrong thing." "I didn't mean to make you angry." "You're very kind." "I often come up here and dream." "Dream?" "Daydream, I guess you'd call it." "About what I'd like to do tomorrow or next week." "Or what I'll be like ten years from now." "Don't you ever wonder?" "Looking too far ahead is something I've learned not to do." "You mean you've never, ever dreamed about something you want?" "A long time ago, yes." "I dreamed as boys do." "Being a soldier, a doctor." "Many things." "Often I'd dream just of growing up." "My father made me want that." "When I was a little boy I used to tend our sheep." "One day toward dusk, I was leading them home when a wolf jumped out of the thicket and grabbed one of the sheep by the throat." "I started to yell and scream." "My father heard me and came running." "He struck the wolf, his strong arms swinging a big stick." "The wolf ran off badly hurt, leaving the lamb behind." "But it was dead." "I began to weep for I felt I had failed in my duty." "My father put his arm around my shoulder." "The same arm that had held the stick." ""It's enough that you shouted," he said." ""When you grow up, you will be able to strike at a wolf."" "That night, we ate the lamb, and I was happy, for I felt that one day" "I would have the courage of my father." "Well, you must have made other plans too." "Will you work on ships all your life?" "The sea is not for me." "Then you'll have to settle down someplace." "I will go back to the mountains." "But you said you had no family in Greece." "Why don't you stay in America?" "I don't think that will be possible." "Maybe Pano Coupas can help you." "He has a good business and knows a lot of people." "If you wanted to stay here, maybe he could help you get a job." "Help me-- Coupas?" "You mean he wouldn't want to help you?" "(mama) Nike, where are you?" "I'm up here, mama." "It's getting late." "I hope it's all right if I stay here a little while longer." "The view is very beautiful." "Then I will be going." "That's all right." "You come and say good-bye before you go." "**" "Where is the young man?" "He's still on the roof." "He's disappointed because Mr. Coupas wasn't home." "Is he going back to his ship?" "I guess so." "I suppose he'll try to see Coupas tomorrow." "I just hope he remembers how to get there." "He doesn't understand about subways." "Who does?" "He could follow the smell of olive oil." "I'm serious." "Poor boy." "Maybe we ought to ask him to stay over." "Nike, I told you to be careful before you do anything." "(Nike) Why not, Mama?" "He could sleep in the little room." "There are my two daughters in the house, that's why." "Oh, come, Maria." "It would be wrong to turn the young man away." "I can't help myself-- do what you think is best." "Good, good." "We'll have him stay." "I'll run upstairs and tell him." "I'll be glad to have another man in the house." "For 20 years now I have been outnumbered." "(Helen laughs)" "Yianni?" "(doorbell buzzing)" "(doorbell buzzes)" "Where's Pano Coupas?" "He's not here." "What do you want?" "I want to see him." "When is he coming home?" "Who are you?" "A friend of his." "I haven't seen him in a long time and I'll only be in New York for a few days." "Hmm." "That's too bad." "He's down in Baltimore, loading a ship." "I'm using his apartment while he's gone." "When will he be back?" "He'll be here tomorrow afternoon around 5:00." "He's coming to pick me up." "Who will I tell him was here?" "What's your name?" "Hmm." "(woman laughs)" "Yianni!" "I didn't know you were going to leave." "You didn't say good-bye." "He isn't home yet." "There was a man there in his apartment who said he would be back tomorrow afternoon." "Papa said you could stay with us tonight." "Then you won't have to go all the way back to your ship." "Ship?" "That's very thoughtful of your father but I've already" "Oh, come on." "**" "(music playing inside bar)" "Hey, what do you mean, "no tie"?" "Have a good time." "Fine." "Nice party." "Come on, come on, everyone have a drink." "Everybody have a good time." "That's what we're here for, George." "I'm not here just for the fun of it." "I'm here on a mission... a very important mission." "Here, look at that." "You know who that is?" "No." "Who is he?" "I don't know." "Come on, come on." "Soon it will be time to open the restaurant." "When you have two daughters, you need a dozen bathrooms." "Those girls." "Sometimes they are in there for hours." "Bubble baths, shampoos, plucking their eyebrows." "What are they going to do next?" "At least you have your daughters with you." "Sometimes I wish they would leave." "You don't mean that." "Oh, you poor boy." "You are so serious about everything." "You didn't even realize I was joking, and that is very sad." "You are a young boy and your life is ahead of you." "Don't be so serious about everything." "I have found little to laugh about." "I was only six years old when the war began." "When it ended six years later, I had lived a lifetime." "I know you have lived through too much for a boy your age." "Maria, if you don't get those daughters of yours out of the bathroom, I am going to cut the door down." "(mama) Knock on the door." "They will come out." "What do you mean, "knock"?" "They are deaf in there." "Good night, papa." "Night, mama." "(mama) Good night." "You better go to sleep right away, Yianni." "We're going on a picnic tomorrow and you're coming with us." "Good night." "(Yianni) Good night." "Good night." "(mama) Good night." "(Yianni) Good night." "Come on, everything all right?" "It may not look it, but it's comfortable." "Sit down, sit down." "My boy, you know you are welcome in my home." "I am happy to have you here." "But you are a sailor." "You never stay long in one place." "And some sailors think a little differently about women." "My daughters are home girls, nice girls." "I wouldn't want" "You have nothing to fear from me." "Your daughters are like sisters to me." "Of course, of course." "But I had to say something for the girls' sake, for the mother's sake." "You understand." "Maria!" "Maria!" "Come on, I want to get in there." "Here, hang this up." "Sleep well, my boy." "**" "(man singing in Greek)" "(laughing)" "It's time you were going home, George." "Give me another drink." "Hey waiter, give us the check." "George, get out your money." "Hey, you got a picture of Pano here." "Picture of who?" "Pano, Pano Coupas." "Don't you know him?" "You got his picture." "Pano Coupas." "Pano..." "Coupas..." "Now I go." "Put him over in the corner there." "You'll get him back to the ship later." "**" "**" "(Yianni) Thank you." "Don't come home late." "Let them stay and help you." "The cousins are coming tonight." "They've been indoors all week." "Let them get some fresh air." "I'm gonna get my coat." "Maria, is there any more coffee?" "Give the boy a cup too." "No, thanks." "I better get my coat." "He's good looking, isn't he?" "It looks like your dream's come true." "Nike's found herself a nice Greek boy." "(Nike) Yianni, we're ready." "I don't need my gloves anyway, Mama." "It's not cold out." "All ready?" "Bye, Mama." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "Look after the girls." "Take care of them." "I will." "You never make enough coffee." "Come on, you with your coffee." "Finish up in there, I have to clean." "I didn't think we would get away with it so easily." "I love plotting." "I feel like a spy." "I hate this business." "If only mama and papa would understand." "There's Jack's car." "Jack's car?" "We're meeting Helen's friend, Jack." "The one your mother doesn't like?" "She's never even met him-- she never wanted to." "But you're doing this behind your mother's back." "He's only going to take us for a drive." "What's wrong with that?" "Your mother thinks we're going on a picnic." "Well, maybe we will, Yianni." "Hi." "(Helen) Hello, Jack." "(Nike) Hi, Jack." "This is a friend of Nike's." "Yianni Martakis, Jack Fields." "Hello." "Hello." "Where do you want to go?" "Anyplace suits me fine." "I really don't want to go on a picnic." "What do we do with all this food?" "Oh, we'll do something-- like eat it maybe!" "(laughter)" "**" "What a wonderful spot." "Mmm, I like it here." "Don't take too deep a breath..." "it's dangerous." "Dangerous?" "Yeah-- one part ozone, 99 parts garbage." "I don't think you understand the joke, Yianni." "People are always saying that the river's full of garbage." "I don't think that's very funny." "You just don't understand our way of kidding around." "Jack meant it as a laugh for all of us." "I'm not laughing." "Look, fella, nobody meant to hurt your feelings." "Oh, Yianni." "This whole scheme offends me." "What?" "You've deceived your mother and met with this man and you made me a part of it." "Is this guy for real?" "You've no right to talk that way." "We don't want to offend or harm anyone." "Oh, stop it, all of you." "Yianni, please let me explain." "Explain that I'm wrong?" "Please, Yianni." "Oh, brother." "Come on, everybody, let's walk." "Who is this fella, Jack?" "He works in the same office with Helen." "Has he known her for a long time?" "No." "They've only been out together a few times." "It's tough for her." "My mother doesn't like the idea of her going out with Jack so she has to meet him in secret." "In a way it's all so stupid." "Helen should respect your mother's judgment." "You can't say that." "(Helen laughing)" "I don't like this Jack." "Leave her alone!" "Say, what's the matter with you, fella?" "You should be ashamed of yourself." "Why?" "For having some simple fun?" "I was gonna drag her off into the bushes and make love to her." "This is not a game." "That's right, mack, it's not a game, and I'm getting tired of your creepy ideas." "Come on, Helen." "Keep your hands off her." "Say, what is this?" "Look fella, I don't know what's bothering you but you're asking for a punch in the mouth." "I don't think you will." "Listen, creep, I'll break your neck" "Yianni, please, come with me." "Oh, no!" "(Helen) Jack, stop!" "Jack!" "(smack)" "(Nike) Yianni!" "Boy, that guy's nuts." "(moaning)" "(Nike) We better separate." "All right, it's no good this way." "We can't leave Nike with him." "How is she gonna get back?" "Don't worry about me, I'll manage." "Helen, you better meet me at the corner near the house so we can go home together." "All right, 4:00." "You sure you're going to be all right with him?" "We could leave him here." "She'll be all right." "See you later." "Bye... thanks, Jack." "I'm sorry this happened." "Think nothing of it." "I needed the exercise." "Are you all right?" "I hope you're happy now." "You don't understand these things." "I cannot explain them to you." "Your sister is a foolish girl." "My sister's not at all foolish." "She's very capable when it comes to looking after herself." "I'm the one that's foolish, very foolish." "I'm sorry I've made you unhappy." "I did what I thought was right." "Not too serious, I guess." "We could have had such fun, all of us together." "Jack's a very funny guy sometimes." "Well, we'll have a good time anyway." "Let's see some of the sights." "Whatever you like, Nike." "I think I would like it if you smiled once in a while." "Very well." "I will smile once in a while." "Good." "**" "**" "(no voices)" "**" "This was an aquarium." "It used to be filled with fishes." "I loved coming here when I was a little girl." "They swam 'round and around their tanks, made ugly faces at the people." "Nike, don't twist your face like that." "I'm a fish." "No, you're not." "Well, I'm not a fish-fish." "I'm a girl fish." "You're a boy fish." "You're so silly." "No I'm not, it's just you don't know anything about fishes." "Sure I do." "I just came across the ocean." "It's getting late." "We better be going." "Let's not go home yet." "(Nike) Give us a ride, mister?" "Give us a ride, mister?" "Nike, what are you doing?" "We're gonna get a ride." "Please give us a ride, mister." "This ain't no passenger boat, miss." "It's a work ship." "Nike, don't bother the man." "Your boat's so beautiful, captain." "She ain't no bother." "Young lady, you know, you just can't come up and ask for a ride." "How can I give you a ride?" "I bet it would be easy for you." "Oh, you do, do you?" "You have some girl there." "I'm not his girl." "We're just friends." "Oh, he's got bad eyesight, huh?" "No, we just met yesterday." "Nike, I don't think you should bother the man." "He has his work to do." "Wait a minute." "Young lady, you really wanna go for a ride?" "(Nike) Yes!" "Well I'm going up the river a ways." "If you want to come along I guess it can't hurt." "You can even bring your friend." "**" "(Nike) Come on, Yianni!" "He's a nice man, isn't he?" "And you're a very bold girl." "Ahh." "In my village, they would call you a wicked woman." "What would you call me?" "I don't know." "You do so many things that girls are not supposed to do." "Who decided what girls are supposed to do?" "I don't know who decided." "The way you act, I think you did." "Am I so different from the girls you've known?" "I have not known many girls." "Don't tell me the only girl you ever took to a carnival was your sister." "My sister?" "I had a sister." "As I think about her, she was like you in some ways." "Full of life, very kind, a good person." "Life was not as kind to her as it has been to you." "But she always carried herself with a proudness that I will never forget." "What happened to her?" "She took her own life." "She had a great disappointment." "After that, she didn't want to go on living." "She could have and" "Where is your ship?" "There." "When are you leaving?" "Tomorrow night we're going to South Africa." "Oh." "This ride is longer than I thought it would be." "It's getting late." "It's only a quarter to five." "Coupas will be leaving by 5:00" " I must be there." "Captain!" "Captain!" "Captain, when can we get off?" "Right now." "I can let you off by the bridge, okay?" "Yes." "I must run ahead." "Please, it's important." "**" "Hey, where ya goin'?" "Good-bye!" "Yianni, wait!" "Wait for me!" "(panting)" "Yianni!" "(no sound from buzzer)" "(no sound from buzzer)" "(man) Come on, Coupas!" "Hurry up, let's go!" "Yianni, what's the matter?" "I just missed Coupas." "Yianni, what is it?" "What do you want from Mr. Coupas?" "Nothing." "I can't tell you." "Come, I'll take you home." "All right, if that's what you want." "Let's meet Helen." "Okay, but for a couple minutes, that's all." "All right." "Here they come now." "Where have you been?" "We've been waiting for you." "I'm sorry, Jack, about what happened before." "Well, that's all right." "What happened?" "It's been a long day." "We'll talk about it later." "Good-bye, Jack." "He's coming up with us, we've decided." "I've decided." "I'm glad." "I'll charm the family with my magic smile." "He's calmed down." "(dripping)" "(door opens)" "I'll take your coat." "Now, just be natural." "Hello, mother." "This is Jack Fields." "You remember, I told you about him." "We both work in the same office together." "How do you do?" "Hello." "How are you?" "Sit down, please." "We had a wonderful day today." "Wasn't it fun?" "Yes." "It's getting chilly out." "Maybe the boys would like some brandy." "Jack's in the accounting department in Helen's office." "I'll get the cognac." "Accounting?" "Accounting, yes." "We keep a record of all the money that comes in and goes out of the office." "A funny thing happened last week." "Did Helen tell you about it?" "Well, this fella in the office, Jim Kelly, put down the date as the figure for the accounts receivable and was $15,000 short in his accounts." "(Jack and Helen laugh)" "Well, a toast, to the accounting department and the Greek Merchant Marine." "Excuse me." "I have to go in the kitchen." "I'll play some American jazz records for you, Yianni." "What's the matter, mama?" "I'm afraid of this boy." "Afraid of him?" "Why?" "He's hiding something." "Jack?" "No, not Jack." "The other one." "What do you mean, Mama?" "(papa) Oh, boy." "I'll remember the baptism of this little one for a long time." "Look, blisters almost." "The groceries, the olive oil, the olives, cheese, some sardines." "Hey, your relatives eat even more than mine." "Hey, Maria." "This Jack is a big boy." "I forgot, George will be late." "I want" " I want to talk to you." "(doorbell jingles)" "(woman) Hello." "(Nike) Hello." "How are you?" "Hello, Uncle Peter." "(woman) Hello, Nike." "How are you?" "(overlapping greetings)" "(papa) Hello, hello... (overlapping conversations)" "Hi." "(overlapping conversations)" "Are you looking for this?" "It was my father's." "Take it and go." "He gave it to me before he died." "Guns have no place in our home." "(Nike) Yianni?" "Hey, this is the boy who just arrived from Greece." "My cousin, Jim." "What did you say to him?" "I told him to leave." "(papa) Nike!" "(Nike) Yianni, wait." "I have to go." "I must talk to you." "No, I have to go." "Yianni, I know what you're going to do." "I know you're going to kill Pano Coupas." "He deserves to die." "That's insane, Yianni." "I don't know why you want to do this, but you can't." "I don't think you can understand these things." "You better go back inside." "I can't let you do this." "Why are you so stub" "He must pay for the death of my sister." "Coupas was born in a village next to ours." "He left when he was a boy and came to America." "When he was rich and fat he came back to find a wife." "So my sister asked my father's permission to court her." "My father didn't want to at first, but we are very poor, and he thought if Coupas married her she would have a good life, so he agreed." "I don't understand." "She couldn't face the disgrace." "Disgrace?" "He dishonored her." "He never intended to marry her, just to satisfy his lust." "Yianni." "My sister couldn't look into her mirror again." "She knew where my father's gun was kept." "She knew how to use it." "No." "One night after we had gone to sleep, my sister took the gun and went to the kitchen." "I saw many horrible things during the war, but nothing like what we found after we heard the shot." "Awful." "How would you know?" "Well, Yianni..." "You can't go out and kill this man." "You don't understand." "You can't judge him." "I do not judge him." "Any man would do the same." "Listen to me, Yianni." "I know what you feel, but you mustn't do this thing." "Why are you so concerned with Coupas?" "I'm not." "I'm worried about you." "Now it's you who doesn't understand." "Yianni." "It happened to you too." "So many things have happened all at once." "What's happened to us is what's important." "I wish..." "You'd be throwing your life away." "I cannot live unless I do this thing." "I cannot stand by my father's grave." "You do not know what honor means!" "Yianni." "Leave me alone!" "You don't have to do this." "How can you kiss me and go out and shoot this Coupas?" "Are you some kind of a monster?" "You're afraid to give up this idea." "You can see things only one way." "You belong to your village and to your gun." "You're not your own man." "(slap, Nike gasps)" "**" "Andros!" "You fool-- what do you think you're doing?" "How did you find me?" "You didn't stay on your watch." "What are you doing here?" "Jimmy had to take your place." "You better go away." "Leave me alone." "You know, on a ship you're supposed to do your job." "It wasn't my turn." "You told our captain to put me on." "I had to do something." "You're muddling in something that doesn't concern you." "You're going in there to kill a man and it doesn't concern me?" "Nobody will stop me." "You can get away with that in your mountains but here they got laws and police." "In my village, I will be safe." "My people understand what has to be done." "You'll never get back there." "Life is not just one big thing, like your vendetta." "It's a lot of little things." "Like having a home and a wife to share it with you." "Love... kids to carry on your name." "It's a lot of thing you never even tasted, Yianni." "My father would have done it this way." "So would mine." "But our fathers never traveled 20 miles from their villages." "Sometimes you gotta change the rules." "Let's go back to the ship." "I'm all mixed up." "You can think there." "Coupas will be here if you still wanna come back." "Come on." "Wait a minute." "There are some people I want to say good-bye to." "They were very nice to me." "You wanna bother?" "Yes..." "there's a girl." "All right." "(overlapping conversations)" "(doorbell jingles)" "I would like to speak to Nike." "Nike?" "Nike?" "This is George Andros." "We're shipmates." "How do you do?" "I want to say good-bye." "I've decided to go back to my ship." "Please stay." "I'm glad you've come back." "You are a seaman?" "This is my first trip." "He's been trying to see Pano Coupas." "Coupas?" "Oh, Coupas." "He'll be in church tomorrow." "He, with his candles." "(laughs)" "I met him on the street." "Had a little talk with him." "Thank you." "I think you had more to do with it than I did." "Come in." "Papa, this is George Andros, a shipmate of Yianni's." "Welcome, welcome, sir." "Nice to know you." "This is Jimmy Pappas, my father's friend." "Hello." "This is George Andros." "Welcome." "Mr. Dimitris." "Mr. Alexander." "(man) Come on, Helen!" "Put on a record so we can dance." "(Helen) All right." "It's all right, mama." "**" "Opa!" "**" "(papa) Come on, boy." "Come on." "(no voices)" "**" "You like Jack?" "Invite him to the baptism." "(papa) Come on, Maria." "Get into the dance." "All right, dear, come on." "(man) Opa!" "We'll make a real palikari out of you." "What's that?" "Palikari is a man like a Evzone." "Come here, I'll show you." "This is an Evzone sword." "When I was a corporal in the Greek army, they sent me with a new lieutenant to lead some Evzones who were fighting in the mountains." "They are the best fighters in the world, but most of them couldn't read or write." "This lieutenant, he came from military academy and he fancied himself a Napoleon." "So he told the Evzones one day," ""We have the enemy in those hills, and we have to outflank him."" "But the Evzones just looked at one another and wondered what was said." "So I said, "Captain, let me say what you want," ""so they can understand." ""Boys," I said, "when a wolf comes down to eat your lambs," ""what do you do?" ""You crowd them against a cliff" ""and you put your flag behind you." ""Then you whistle to one dog to go to the right," ""and you shoo the other dog to the left." ""And you stand in the middle." ""If he tries to get away, he can't climb the cliff." ""If he goes to the right, woof!" ""If he goes to the left, woof!" ""And the other dog will have him by the throat." "If he comes for the flag, then he must face your gun."" "This sword, the Evzones gave me after the battle because I told them what the lieutenant meant." "That other one the lieutenant gave me." "He says to me, "Niko, I am going to quit fighting and go back to learn more strategy."" "And I said, "Are you going back to military academy, lieutenant?"" "He says, "No!" "I am going to take up sheep herding."" "(laughter)" "When I got this, I was your age." "**" "Come on in, come on." "Come on in..." "Come on." "Go on." "Come on, come on." "Oh, here he comes." "(clapping)" "**" "(man) Opa!" "Bravo!" "(man) Bravo, Yianni." "Bravo, bravo, excellent, excellent." "Where are you going?" "I have to go back to the ship." "I'm in trouble there." "I'll see you tomorrow." "George, Yianni's gone." "Yianni went back to the ship." "Look at George." "He's so tired." "He drank too much." "Sailors work very hard." "We should let him sleep on the sofa." "What?" "This is becoming an old sailor's home." "He could come to the baptism." "Is Yianni coming?" "I don't know." "He said he'd see me tomorrow." "I don't like this." "**" "**" "(choir singing in foreign language)" "(priest praying in foreign language)" "(choir singing in foreign language)" "(priest praying in foreign language)" "(choir singing in foreign language)" "(priest praying in foreign language)" "(choir singing in foreign language)" "(priest praying and choir singing)" "Pano Coupas?" "Martakis!" "Martakis!" "(gunshot)" "(Nike) Oh, George." "He's dead." "Where did he go?" "Back to the ship, probably." "I'm going to call the police." "No, don't do that." "They'll pick him up before the ship reaches Portugal." "It's better this way... before he shoots someone else." "Taxi!" "**" "It's done." "It's done, over, finished." "Why did you come here?" "Did you come to stare at me?" "I don't know why." "My ship is leaving in an hour." "You will be rid of me." "I wish I never met you." "You hate me now." "I don't know." "You killed Coupas." "You killed" "It had to be this way." "I had to do it." "No, you didn't." "You didn't." "I tried to do what you wanted, I tried." "I have to carry my name." "I'm part of my family." "If my father were alive" "(police sirens approaching)" "It's Andros." "(Andros) Put away that gun, Yianni." "You were my friend." "I'm still your friend." "That's why I'm telling you to put away that gun." "No!" "Please, Yianni." "It'll be easier this way." "Get out of there, lady." "Do what he says." "They'll get you anyway." "Don't come any closer." "You stop this!" "Leave me alone!" "(gunshot, Nike gasps)" "(Andros) How is he?" "Any chance?" "How does it look?" "I" " I only wanted to stop him." "I didn't mean to hurt you, Yianni." "(ship horn blows)" "**"