Equus

So it is. 782 00:46:54,061 --> 00:46:56,563 Well, just because his mother reads him the Bible? 783 00:46:56,564 --> 00:46:58,437 Night after night. 784 00:46:59,108 --> 00:47:00,233 Fifty years ago. 785 00:47:00,234 --> 00:47:04,280 That would've been considered proper conduct for a mother. 786 00:47:05,781 --> 00:47:07,657 Mr. Strang, I know I'm being impertinent. 787 00:47:07,658 --> 00:47:10,953 I'm prying, and I'm nosy. 788 00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:16,618 But if you want to help Alan, you've got to help me. 789 00:47:17,585 --> 00:47:20,083 Anything will do, Mr. Strang. 790 00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:22,665 Any bloody thing! 791 00:47:45,404 --> 00:47:47,447 Your wife told me about the picture. 792 00:47:47,448 --> 00:47:49,776 No, it's not that, it's... 793 00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,871 It's about that. 794 00:47:58,084 --> 00:47:59,877 But it's worse. 795 00:48:03,923 --> 00:48:08,385 I wanted to tell you the other day, but I couldn't in front of Dora. 796 00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:10,136 Maybe I should have. 797 00:48:10,137 --> 00:48:14,808 It might show her all that stuff leads to, she drills into the boy, behind my back. 798 00:48:14,809 --> 00:48:16,101 What kind of thing is it? 799 00:48:18,562 --> 00:48:19,896 It's something I witnessed. 800 00:48:19,897 --> 00:48:21,314 Where? 801 00:48:21,982 --> 00:48:25,026 At home, 18 months ago. 802 00:48:25,444 --> 00:48:26,528 (PAPER CUTTING) 803 00:48:26,529 --> 00:48:27,821 Go on. 804 00:48:28,864 --> 00:48:31,066 It was, uh, it was late. 805 00:48:32,493 --> 00:48:35,788 The boy had been in bed hours, or so I thought. 806 00:48:36,163 --> 00:48:37,535 Go on. 807 00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:42,373 As I came out of the bathroom, 808 00:48:43,504 --> 00:48:45,206 I heard... 809 00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:47,924 I heard the noise of this chanting. 810 00:48:48,968 --> 00:48:50,260 Chanting? 811 00:48:50,261 --> 00:48:51,553 Yes, you know. 812 00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:56,015 By the Bible, you know, one of those lists his mother was always reading to him. 813 00:48:56,016 --> 00:49:00,312 Those "begat, so and so, begat..." you know, genealogy. But, uh... 814 00:49:00,479 --> 00:49:03,057 What did Alan's list sound like? 815 00:49:03,524 --> 00:49:06,398 Well, I remember the sort of thing I... 816 00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:11,861 The first word I heard was... Prince. 817 00:49:12,533 --> 00:49:15,031 <i>MARTIN: Prince? MR. STRANG: Yeah.</i> 818 00:49:15,578 --> 00:49:17,826 ALAN: Prince begat Prance. 819 00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:21,826 And Prance begat Prankus. 820 00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:27,256 And Prankus begat Flankus. 821 00:49:29,717 --> 00:49:31,919 And Flankus begat Spankus. 822 00:49:34,847 --> 00:49:39,052 And Spankus begat Spunkus the great, who lived threescore years. 823 00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:44,310 And Legwus begat Neckwus. 824 00:49:46,775 --> 00:49:49,979 And Neckwus begat Fleckwus, the king of spit. 825 00:49:54,241 --> 00:49:57,490 And Fleckwus spoke out of his chinkle-chankle. 826 00:49:57,495 --> 00:49:58,787 What? 827 00:49:58,954 --> 00:50:02,332 I'm sure that was the word. I've never forgotten it. 828 00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:04,251 "Chinkle-chankle." 829 00:50:05,961 --> 00:50:09,961 And he said "Behold, I give you Equus, my only begotten son." 830 00:50:11,842 --> 00:50:13,214 Equus? 831 00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:17,347 <i>MR. STRANG: There's no doubt of that, he repeated that word several times.</i> 832 00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:18,640 <i>"Equus...</i> 833 00:50:20,392 --> 00:50:22,469 "My only begotten son." 834 00:50:26,607 --> 00:50:28,150 And then... 835 00:50:28,442 --> 00:50:30,144 He took this... 836 00:50:31,529 --> 00:50:32,981 String. 837 00:50:34,532 --> 00:50:37,326 And he put it in his mouth, and... 838 00:50:39,245 --> 00:50:41,322 <i>With his other hand...</i> 839 00:50:43,207 --> 00:50:44,659 <i>He picked up this...</i> 840 00:50:46,710 --> 00:50:49,163 Coat hanger, this wooden coat hanger... 841 00:50:49,213 --> 00:50:52,041 <i>(ALAN WHISPERING) Equus.</i> 842 00:50:55,219 --> 00:50:57,137 (CRYING) And he... 843 00:51:00,641 --> 00:51:03,219 (WHISPERING) Equus. 844 00:51:05,145 --> 00:51:07,018 Equus. 845 00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:11,901 (GRUNTS) 846 00:51:13,612 --> 00:51:15,780 (PANTING) 847 00:51:20,828 --> 00:51:22,701 (GRUNTING) 848 00:51:24,498 --> 00:51:26,700 (PANTING) 849 00:51:30,796 --> 00:51:32,623 (PANTING) 850 00:51:41,348 --> 00:51:43,141 (BED CREAKING) 851 00:51:46,812 --> 00:51:51,351 Well, you see why I... I couldn't tell his mother. 852 00:51:52,401 --> 00:51:56,231 Religion. Religion is the bottom of this, don't you see? 853 00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:00,654 Did you speak to him about it later? 854 00:52:02,911 --> 00:52:04,158 No. 855 00:52:04,663 --> 00:52:06,539 I can't speak about things li