In the kitchen, Sandra tells Billy's family that he missed a very important audition for the Royal Ballet School that day. "Who the fuck are you?" asks Tony, and Jackie invites her inside. As Billy, Tony, and Jackie return home, Sandra tries to talk to Billy, but he tells her not to. Sandra drives to Billy's house, and outside, a little girl stares at her. After a moment, Debbie hangs up the phone, which confuses Billy.Īt rehearsal the next day, Sandra waits for Billy but he never shows up, as he has gone to visit Tony. The cops beat Tony with their clubs and he gets arrested.īilly calls Sandra, but Debbie picks up, as Billy says, "I have a problem with the audition," thinking Sandra has picked up the phone. Billy calls to Tony as he runs from the cops, urging him to go back and turn himself in. The strikes get more and more violent, and we see a montage of Tony and others running from the cops as "London Calling" by the Clash plays. He doesn't respond, and simply asks, "Who do you think's better? Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers?" She asks if he fancies her and offers to show him her "fanny," but he declines and leaves the room.
Later, Debbie and Billy sit on a bench and she tells him she will miss him if he goes away to ballet school. He pours some in a cup and drinks.īilly rehearses with Sandra. Suddenly a vision of his mother appears in the kitchen and tells him not to drink straight out of the bottle. Then Billy goes to the fridge to drink some milk out of the bottle. She looks frightened as Billy tells her it's just him. That night, Billy watches as his grandmother has a delusional episode, screaming out in the middle of the night. Billy doesn't like the plot of the ballet and they get back in the car.
"And then one night, she meets this young prince and he falls in love with her and she realizes this is the one thing that will allow her to become a real woman once more," she says.
Sandra tells Billy the plot of the ballet, that a beautiful woman is turned into a swan. Later, she and Billy ride a ferry and listen to Swan Lake. She apologizes to him, but he yells at her, "You're the same as anybody else: all you want to do is tell me what to do!" He yells that he doesn't want to do the audition, that she only wants him to do it for her benefit, "because you're a failure." He goes on a tirade against her, telling her that she doesn't even have her own dancing school, that she's lost all of her own opportunities, and when he gets especially nasty, she slaps him in the face.īilly looks confused and Sandra is immediately regretful, holding him in her arms as he cries. When she tells him to do it again, he yells that he will not and leaves the gym.īilly runs to a changing room and hides on a bench, Sandra following close behind.
"You're not even trying!" she yells at him. The scene shifts and we see Billy practicing with Sandra, who scolds him about the fact that he isn't practicing enough. Staring at his father, Tony leaves the house, and Jackie yells at Billy to go to bed. At this insult, Jackie punches Tony in the face while Billy screams. When Tony refuses to stay home, Jackie stands between him and the door and Tony yells at him that he's been "useless" ever since their mother died. When Billy speaks up and asks what's going on, Jackie snarls at him to get back in bed. When Jackie questions whether his son is bringing the hammer, Tony insists that he's going to fight back, not just get beaten up at the strikes. In the kitchen, Tony takes a hammer out of a toolbox, but he is apprehended by his father, who is in the kitchen waiting for him. That night, Tony sneaks out of their room at 4AM, but doesn't tell Billy where he's going. Billy comes home from practicing with Sandra and makes some tea.
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