Irish Jam

Maureen Duffy:
[rushes to the docks and finds Jimmy about to leave] Jimmy McDevitt, will you stop being so bloody stupid? You're just gonna leave and that's it, you can't do that. You can't just mess with people's feelings like that. [Jimmy turns to her] God, what an idiot I've been, standing here thinking that you actually cared!

Jimmy McDevitt:
I do care!

Maureen Duffy:
No, you don't!

Jimmy McDevitt:
Yes, I do. You know, for a moment there, Maureen, I thought you and I had something...

Maureen Duffy:
We do.

Jimmy McDevitt:
You and Kathleen. But I was just fooling myself.

Maureen Duffy:
But...

Jimmy McDevitt:
No buts! I mean how many freebies do I have to give away in this village? You can't buy acceptance, Lord knows I tried, three times to Sunday. Yeah Jimmy's a likeable guy. But you know what? Deep down inside, they're all afraid of me. Afraid of who I am, what they think I represent, so I disappoint them. Pulled off the scam of a lifetime. But it's all over now. It's time for Jimmy to jam and get back to... familiar territory. Make another quick buck.

Maureen Duffy:
And then what? You spend it and you make another, and another, and another, and another. Where does it all end? Can't you see the emptiness of it all? Hurt. Stay. Come on, what do you've got to lose? You can't keep on running, Jimmy. What are you running from? Everybody loves you. Everybody loves you, just the way that you are. [crying] Are you going to make me say it? I love you! Okay, I love you. [sobbing] Please don't go. Please don't go.

Jimmy McDevitt:
[sadly] I've gotta go, Maureen. [he turns to leave]

Maureen Duffy:
"Once there was a time," my dad would always say before tellin' us stories that would send me off to my dreams. "Once there was a time when the land was taken from the people and split into parts to be ruled by kings and men and laws. But the people were protected by the magic ones, who sailed out from the mist on ships from the sky, full of light and music and beauty." And it said, by those who ought to know such things, that the magic ones no longer walked among us. But to hear me dad tell it, you need only know where to look.