"COWARDS BEND THE KNEE or THE BLUE HANDS" "Chapter One SPERM PLAYERS" "GUY MADDIN Rover with the Winnipeg Maroons" "MO MOTT His best friend" "SHAKY Maroons Captain and Police Captain" "Guy's first headknock of the night" "Shaky's vengeance" "MADDIN SR." "Voice of the Maroons" "Guy's second headknock his girfriend, VERONICA." "In trouble..." "DR. FUSI" "Team physician..." "Patches up Guy's beleaguered head." "THE ALLAN CUP!" ""Be sure to visit the hospital."" ""Your mother asks for you."" ""Your mother."" ""I promise."" "Waiting..." "Delirious from his two knocknocks Guy tries to remember his mother, his dying mother while forces beyond his control conspire to shunt him off onto a depressing detour." "End of CHAPTER ONE" "Chapter Two A SQUEEZE OF THE HAND" "Fusi, Shaky  Guy take Veronica to the..." "NIGHT CLINIC" "The Glum Couple" "TWO LONG, TWO SHORT." "THE BLACK SILHOUETTE SALON" "Beauty salon by day..." "Bordello by night." "A piece of warm pie..." "The calling card of..." "LILIOM Proprietress and Shaky's sweetheart." "Fusi goes to work." "META Liliom's daughter" "The joy, joy, joy of meeting someone new!" ""No sugar before pie!"" "Meta never eats her mother's pie." "To stay or go?" "And so Guy forgets another mother... the mother of his child." "What sharp amnesias!" "Addled Guy unknowingly performs operations of his very own - upon human hearts!" "And without anesthetics!" "But, let's not worry too much about Veronica." "She's in the hands of experts." "End of CHAPTER TWO" "Chapter Three UPON A PILE OF HOCKEY GLOVES" "MAROONS DRESSING ROOM" ""I love you, Guy."" ""I love you, Meta."" ""NO HAND SHALL TOUCH ME..."" ""Until my father is AVENGED!"" ""MY FATHER'S HANDS!"" ""They're blue!"" ""We made prints in cement..."" ""We play-fainted!"" "DADDY!" "THE FINEST MAN!" "CHAS!" "The sweetest hairdresser!" "Murdered!" ""By my whore of a mother..."" ""And her foul paramour..."" ""SHAKY!"" ""MY FATHER'S HAND!"" "Tightly bound by wire!" "Severed!" "By Shaky!" ""These are my father's hands!"" ""I keep them always!"" ""They're blue!"" ""From his lovely hair dyes."" "BENEATH THE SINKS..." "THOSE ROARING CATARACTS!" "DADDY!" "Meanwhile..." "VERONICA!" "CHECKED OUT OF THE NIGHT CLINIC." "TO SEEK HER GUY" "So Guy's heart falls into the grasp of Meta, the new girl!" "He loves her strong sense of family, her fierce coyness, her deep nostalgias." "This quivering, leaping heart of his knows exactly what to do." "But how to do it with a head worried by such new complications?" "End of CHAPTER THREE" "Chapter Four META'S BEDROOM" "BLIND GRANDMA" "An Icelandic hand-charm" ""Happy birthday to you..."" ""Happy birthday to Liliom..."" ""Happy birthday to you..."" "DAUGHTER'S DEAF EARS" "META TAKES GUY TO STEAL FLOWERS" "AT THE GRAVEYARD" "Veronica's Ghost?" "!" "BACK SAFE IN BED" "UNWELCOME NOISES..." "FROM MOTHER'S BEDROOM" "ENTER DR. FUSI" ""Sew my father's hands onto him!"" ""IMPOSSIBLE!"" ""Do it!"" ""Yes, Meta."" "A QUEER PRANK" "A FAKED TRANSPLANT" "BLUE PAINT" "AFTER THE 'SURGERY'" ""They live!"" ""Gramma!" "Daddy lives!"" "End of CHAPTER FOUR" "Chapter Five FISTY" "LILIOM HIRES THE GHOST OF VERONICA" "THE NEW GIRL" ""TONIGHT!"" ""DADDY GETS VENGEANCE!"" "YOU..." "SHALL..." "SHAMPOO..." "MOTHER!" "You'll..." "KILL..." "MOTHER!" "GO!" "LILIOM CLEARS THE SALON..." "FOR A PRIVATE INTERVIEW" "GRAMMA'S MUSIC" "THOSE FATAL SINKS!" "BUT HANDS HAVE MEMORIES!" "OF A HONEYMOON?" "Guy wins a job at the salon." "CAUGHT IN A HAIR NET" "LILIOM'S CLAW" ""No more mirrors!"" "Jealous Liliom and Meta demote Guy from coiffuring grown women." "End of CHAPTER FIVE" "Chapter Six WAX TRYST" "On his way to visit his sick mother, Guy sneaks into the Arena for old times' sake." "Up in the rafters..." "A FORGOTTEN WAX MUSEUM" "THE HALL OF THE ALL-TIME MAROONS" "His precious hockey cards..." "His tarot." "The new girl!" "The joy, joy, joy of meeting someone new!" "Sweet oppression of fresh love!" "Un-trysting themselves, Guy and ghost return..." ""I've been visiting Mother." "She's doing well."" ""That's interesting." "She died last night!"" ""You poor, poor man."" "FEEDING TIME AT THE WAX MUSEUM" "DESPERATE TO PLAY HOCKEY AGAIN!" "Guy promises to strangle Shaky, if only he can rejoin the Maroons." "The Soviets arrive to challenge for the Allan Cup." "The fear, fear, fear of playing someone new!" ""Shaky dies!" "...Tonight!"" ""You said that dead girl wasn't your girlfriend!"" ""She wasn't!"" ""Then quit staring at that spot!"" "SHAKY GRABS SOME GOOD LUCK" "THE SOVIETS TAKE A 9 - 0 LEAD" ""You ought to be ashamed!" "You're a coward!"" "End of CHAPTER SIX" "Chapter Seven THE BLUE HANDS OF VENGEANCE" "Maddin shoots!" "Scores!" "Celebrations!" "A perfect time for revenge!" "A MURDER UNNOTICED!" "Checking for pulse..." "NONE!" ""You always did have soft hands around the net!"" "TWO LONG, TWO SHORT." "ICE BREATS" "WRACKED WITH GUILT" "GUY FOLLOWS BEST FRIEND MO TO THE POLICE STATION, TO CONFESS!" "I killed Shaky" ""Mo!" "Sorry!"" ""Sorry!"" "End of CHAPTER SEVEN" "Chapter Eight ANOTHER WAX TRYST" "With Meta sent out on an errand, Liliom orders Guy to wax her legs." "LATER..." "Guy tries to stop the ghost from having an abortion." "WITH MOTHER?" "!" "FINALLY!" ""Are you happy NOW?" "!"" "Liliom dispatched!" "Guy's promise kept!" "... ...He now believes his obligations to the vengeful daughter are complete." ""PLEASE CUT THESE WRETCHED MURDERERS OFF ME!"" ""You silly boy!" "These are your own hands!"" ""The transplant was a hoax!"" ""You silly, silly fool!"" "Capricious Meta awakens from her swoon to a world hung in black." "META CHEWS SLOWLY..." "THE LAST PIECE OF PIE..." "BAKED BY HER MOTHER..." "BEFORE SHE DIED." "End of CHAPTER EIGHT" "Chapter Nine HANDS OFF!" ""We're through, Guy!"" ""Just confess." "You love the new girl."" ""Well, I guess..." "I do."" ""Then I want my father's hands back!"" "MINUTES AFTER THE OPERATION" "NEWLY FREED GUY GOES DIRECTLY TO THE ARENA" "THE CARDS FORETELL A MYSTERIOUS APOCALYPSE" "MEANWHILE..." "BACK WITH HIS BUDDIES" ""I see you still need your hand held."" ""You're as cold as I am!"" ""I LIKE IT, SOMEHOW!"" ""Tonight you shall know how it feels to have a slain father!"" "MAROONS SWEAR VENGEANCE ON SOVIETS!" "Up on the catwalk, a game of a different sort." "Veronica's ghost traces and retraces her steps high above the rink stepping cruelly across the surface of Guy's fevered brain and onto his panting, aching breast." "End of CHAPTER NINE" "Chapter Ten THE FURIES" "THE SUMMONS OF THE ICE BREAST" "TO THE CATWALK!" "LOOKING FOR A KILLER." "GUY'S BELOVED!" ""SON, MEET YOUR NEW MOTHER."" ""Please, my love." "Remember your heart."" ""I've loved your father my entire life!"" ""Wax Maroons!"" ""Immortals!"" ""Awake!"" ""Put an end to this travesty!"" ""Julian Klymberger!" "Awake!" "I need you!"" "Hind Bauer!" "Awake!" "I need you!" ""The rest of you!"" ""Great men!"" ""WAXMEN!"" ""Hear my pleas!"" "Awake!" ""Father?"" ""Daddy!"" "THE WEIGHT OF A DAUGHTER..." "TOO MUCH FOR A FATHER WITH NO HANDS." ""Wait..."" ""NO!"" "NEXT SEASON" "THE NEW FIXTURE" ""Like the French Foreign Legion, the Museum is a sanctuary in this case, for cowards, for husbands afraid to face the burdens nay, the terrors... of living with wives and families.."" "(Maddin Sr.)" "End of CHAPTER TEN english subtitles transcribed by .:" "Norgen (norgen@centrum.cz) :."