Clean, Shaven

[Nicole is swinging alone on a swingset when she realizes that she's being watched by Peter, who is greatly agitated]

Peter Winter:
Hello, Nicole.

Nicole Winter:
Who are you?

Peter Winter:
I'm your father. Do you remember me?

Nicole Winter:
No.

Peter Winter:
My name's Peter. Your grandmother Gladys is - is my mother.

[she stares at him]

Peter Winter:
Do you always play by yourself?

Nicole Winter:
Sometimes.

Peter Winter:
Well, maybe... maybe we could play together.

[she thinks and decides to accept him]

Nicole Winter:
Maybe.

Nicole Winter:
[to her father, Peter] You don't have a very nice car.

Nicole Winter:
Is my mother really dead?

Peter Winter:
Yes.

Nicole Winter:
What was she like?

Peter Winter:
[close to tears] She was... She wasn't like anyone else. She was different. Really different. There's a lot of people out there who - who want to hurt you. And wherever, wherever, wherever you are. And she was good.

Peter Winter:
I was in a, in a hospital bed, and I had been operated on. And they had put a, a small receiver in the back of my head and a transmitter in my finger. You know what they are?

Nicole Winter:
A radio?

Peter Winter:
Yeah, a radio. Anyway, to get at the transmitter, I had to take my fingernail off.

[last lines]

[over the transmitter of a fishing boat]

Nicole Winter:
Hello, hello, Daddy, are you there? Hello, hello, Daddy, are you there? Hello. Daddy, are you there? Hello.