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Episode 31
A Box of Memories
PART 1
1 CASEY APARTMENT, KITCHEN—NIGHT
2 Rebecca and Kevin sit at the kitchen table and open the box. They pull out official-looking papers. Rebecca
3 goes through them. She picks up a small envelope. She opens it and finds two keys with tags.
4 REBECCA Keys. (She reads the tag.) Fleet Bank. Safe deposit box number D-three-fifty-four.
5 Dad had a safe deposit box?
6 BANK—DAY
7 Rebecca and Kevin walk into a big bank. They make their way to a customer representative.
8 Rebecca and Kevin talk to a bank customer service representative.
9 BANK OFFICER May I help you?
10 REBECCA Hello. My name is Rebecca Casey. My father had a safe deposit box here. He died
11	recently, and we’d like to get into it. I have the key.
12 BANK OFFICER I’m sorry to hear about your father.. . What’s the box number?
13 REBECCA D-three-five-four.
14 The banker begins checking the number on his computer.
15 BANK OFFICER (as he works) Is your name on the account?
16 REBECCA Not that I know of...
17 BANK OFFICER Ah, that could be a problem.. . Yes, here it is. What was your father’s
18	name?
19 REBECCA Patrick Casey.
20 BANK OFFICER Casey, isn’t it? Yes, it’s a joint account with Rebecca Casey. Your signature is
21	right there. (He shows it to her.) You signed it nine years ago.
22 REBECCA Oh, my gosh! I completely forgot.
23 BANK OFFICER I guess your father was thinking of you. . . I’ll need to see a picture I.D. Do
24	you have a driver’s license?
25 REBECCA (looking for her driver’s license) Somewhere in here. .. (She finds it and hands it to him.)
26 The banker checks her license.
27 BANK OFFICER Thank you. Ms. Jackson will show you the way to the safe deposit box.
28 BANK—SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT
29 Ms. Jackson leads Kevin and Rebecca to the area where their box is. She takes the key from them and opens
30 the safe door. She then pulls out the box and gives it to them.
31 MS. JACKSON (as Rebecca hands her the key) Thank you. . .You can use the room to your right.
32 REBECCA Thanks.
PART 2
33 BANK—PRIVATE ROOM
34 Rebecca and Kevin sit down at the small desk and look at each other. Then Rebecca slowly opens the lid.
35 They both look inside. They take out papers, clippings, small boxes, and a large envelope.
36 KEVIN	I didn’t know Dad stashed all this stuff away.
37 REBECCA (looking in amazement) I had no idea he kept all this. Oh, it’s a letter from a woman
38	he saved in the hotel fire...
39 KEVIN	(leaning to read) What’s this?
40 REBECCA (picking up an old recital program) Oh, I can’t believe it—it’s a program from a recital
41	I was in when I was a little girl. I didn’t know he was so sentimental.
42 KEVIN	Lemme see...
43 Rebecca gives it to him and picks up a letter.
44 REBECCA . . . And a letter from Mom...
45 She reads it. Kevin reaches in and removes some papers.
46 KEVIN Here’s Dad’s discharge papers from the Boston Fire Department. . . Here’s his
47	birth certificate. . . Here’s Mom’s death certificate.
48 Rebecca takes out a photo of two young men. Their names are written in ink under them, Patrick
49 and Brendan.
50 REBECCA Look, it’s a picture of Dad and Uncle Brendan.
51 Kevin takes the picture from her and studies it closely.
52 KEVIN	They look so young.
53 REBECCA Just about your age.
54 Rebecca digs in the box. She takes out two old passports.
55 REBECCA Oh. . . Grandma and Grandpa’s passports from Ireland.
56 She opens each one to the photographs.
57 REBECCA These passports were processed at Ellis Island in 1920.
58 Kevin looks.
59 REBECCA They must have sailed in right past the Statue of Liberty. God, that must have
60	been something. Can you imagine what that was like?
61 Rebecca opens a small jewelry box. It’s a traditional Irish friendship ring—a Claddagh, a gold ring with two
62 hands holding a heart with a crown on top.
63 REBECCA It’s an old Irish ring. Isn’t it beautiful?
64 KEVIN I can understand what the heart means, but. . . what about the hands and the
65	crown?
66 REBECCA The hands mean friendship, and the crown means loyalty.
67 She looks to see if it’s engraved.
68 REBECCA There’s something engraved on it.
69 KEVIN	What does it say?
70 REBECCA I don’t know. It’s in Irish.
71 KEVIN	It must’ve been Mom’s.
72 REBECCA No. I never saw this ring on Mom’s finger. Maybe it’s Grandma’s.
73 Next, Rebecca pulls out a large stack of U.S. savings bonds.
74 REBECCA Look. . . U.S. savings bonds.. . There’s about forty here, and they’re each a
75	hundred dollars...
76 KEVIN	Four thousand dollars?
77 Rebecca looks in the box. She pulls out the insurance policy.
78 REBECCA Kevin, you were right. Dad did have an insurance policy!
79 She looks at it, talking to herself:
80 REBECCA Whole life…Patrick Francis Casey.. . face value, fifty thousand dollars...
81 KEVIN	Fifty thousand?.. . Fifty thousand big ones? That’s wild!
82 REBECCA (reading from the policy) Beneficiaries. . . Rebecca Casey and Kevin Casey.
83 Rebecca and Kevin look at each other, trying to understand what this means.
	
PART 3
84 STREET—DAY
85 Rebecca and Kevin walk down the street. Kevin seems thrilled by their good fortune.
86 KEVIN	I mean, would you look at us! Are we rich, or what?
87 REBECCA Kevin, we’re not rich. Dad’s insurance money will barely pay for college for one
	88		of us. Not to mention the rent, and bills, and...
	89	KEVIN	Are you kidding me?. . . Fifty thousand dollars! I could get a motorcycle. . . a
	90		laptop....
	91	REBECCA	Kevin, try to remember why we’re getting this money.
	92	KEVIN	I remember. . . So what are we gonna do?
	93	REBECCA	First, we cash in these savings bonds.
	94	KEVIN	Mm-hm.
	95	REBECCA	Next, we’ll call the life insurance company and see how we can cash in the policy.
96 CASEY APARTMENT
97 Rebecca is on the phone.
98 REBECCA Oh, no. One of those automated answering services.
99 KEVIN	Yeah, where did all the human operators go?
100 REBECCA They put me on hold. Maybe we should talk to Uncle Brendan and ask what
	101		would be better—a CD or some other kind of investment.
102 KEVIN Yeah, especially for the big money from the insurance policy.
103 REBECCA Wait a minute.
104 INSURANCE COMPANY OPERATOR For information on redeeming an insurance policy, please
	105		press three now.
106 REBECCA Press three...
107 INSURANCE COMPANY OPERATOR Hello...
108 REBECCA Yes, hello. . . my father died recently and I’d like to cash in his insurance policy.
109 INSURANCE COMPANY OPERATOR One moment. Can you hold, please?
110 REBECCA Yes, I can hold...
111	Kevin is sitting nearby, trying to figure out the words of the policy.
112 KEVIN (looking at the policy) Boy. . . beneficiary, fiduciary, underwriting. . . Every word
	113		they use is a mile long.
114 REBECCA I have a feeling this is gonna take some time...
115 CASEY APARTMENT—LATER
116 Rebecca is still on the phone, now talking to the insurance agent. She takes notes based on the phone
117 conversation.
118 REBECCA Yes. . . yes, I understand. Can I have your name please? Joan. . . Thank you very
	119		much, Joan. . . Bye.
120 Rebecca hangs up.
121 KEVIN	So?
122 REBECCA It’s not a big deal. They said we’d probably get the money in two to three
	123		months.
	124	KEVIN	One minute we’re broke, and the next minute we’re loaded.
	125	REBECCA	I’m exhausted.
	126	KEVIN	Look, I’ve been thinking about what you were talking about...
	127	REBECCA	Me too. I think that—
128 KEVIN Let me go first, OK?. . . Rebecca, I want you to go back to college. That’s what
129	Dad would want, too.
130 REBECCA I’ve been doing some thinking, too. I’ve decided that I can’t leave you here alone.
131 KEVIN I know this is hard for you to believe, but I’m not a littlekid anymore.
132 REBECCA Kevin, I don’t think of you as a little kid, I...
133 KEVIN (interrupting) Sure you do. . . Look, I’ve been talking to a few of my friends, and
134	they all have jobs. Three of them want to move in here with me. We’d split the
135	rent four ways.
136 REBECCA Sounds like a great idea, but aren’t these the same guys that got thrown out of
137	that apartment on Gardener Street?
138 KEVIN	It wasn’t their fault. The landlord was a creep.
139 REBECCA Sure. And what happens if you and your friends can’t cover the rent?
140 KEVIN	We’ll pay the rent. You’ll see.
141 REBECCA I don’t think it’s such a smart idea to live with these guys. It could lead to
142	trouble.
143 KEVIN	That’s what I’d be there for—to keep them in line.
144 REBECCA Oh, Kevin, be serious for once. I mean really...
145 Kevin gets up and starts pacing the room. He gets more and more upset as he yells.
	146	KEVIN	(mimicking) ‘Kevin, what happens if you do this? Kevin, what happens if you do
	147		that?’ When are you going to stop acting like my mother?
	148	REBECCA	 Kevin, let’s not start that again.
	149	KEVIN	No, let’s get this out in the open, once and for all. You don’t think I can do
	150		anything by myself. Rebecca, why don’t you just go back to San Francisco and let
	151		me live my own life?
	152	REBECCA Kevin, I don’t want to start another argument. I am too tired. I don’t have time
	153		for this.
	154	KEVIN	Rebecca.. . admit it. You just don’t want to go to San Francisco.
	155	 REBECCA Kevin, that’s not it.
	156 KEVIN	Sure it is. You’re using me as an excuse because you don’t want to go to college.
	157	 REBECCA Kevin, I want to go back. I should be there. I need to be there for a hundred
	158		reasons.
159 He sits next to her, and he thinks about how to talk to her. He tries to convince Rebecca to go.
160 KEVIN Then go back, Rebecca, go back.. . I can take care of myself, believe it or not.
161 REBECCA You’re all the family I have. We’ll be thousands of miles apart.
162 KEVIN What’s a few thousand miles? I mean, they have phones there, don’t they?
163 REBECCA Yeah, well. . . lemme think about it...