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Clips from Nell

"You'll be all right now, honey. He's on his way. He's a-coming"
Nell
"Thanks, Sally"
Nell
"It's okay, sweetheart. It's okay. I'm here now"
Nell
"Why'd you get upset?"
Nell
"Hey!"
Nell
"Come on... come on. There you go"
Nell
"Okay, folks, the show's over"
Nell
"- You guys okay? - Yeah, yeah. We've been here before"
Nell
"Hi"
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"You found me"
Nell
"Early"
Nell
"Yeah, I'm always early"
Nell
"Not a bad day"
Nell
"What happened to her?"
Nell
"Nothing and everything"
Nell
"It hits her once in a while"
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"- Is there any obvious cause? - You want a list? Life's tough."
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"But she's luckier than some. She's got a good husband there"
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"Ready to head for the woods?"
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"The things people do to their kids. Jesus"
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"She's not like that when she's on her own"
Nell
"Strangers scare her"
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"How do you know?"
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"I've been watching her"
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"She's been, uh, completely isolated. Almost certainly mentally retarded"
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"A blood test will pick up childhood disease, any kind of metabolic disorder"
Nell
"Oh, you carry a blood kit?"
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"You think she's gonna sit there and let me stick a needle in her?"
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"I'll hold her"
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"It's okay, darling. It's okay"
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"Do it"
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"Do it"
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"Shh... shh. It's okay"
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"If you're right... a big if..."
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"if she's never left this cabin or this part of the forest"
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"never known anybody but her mother..."
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"never encountered any of the images of the modern world,"
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"never seen a car, a television a gun, a Hershey bar..."
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"never heard rock'n'roll music or But now you said she can talk"
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"Yeah, but it's some kinda language of her own"
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"Well, we haven't had a true wild child in this country for sixty years"
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"She's not a wild child"
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"It's just a shorthand term, Dr. Lovell"
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"She's not a child"
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"No. That's what makes this case so unique"
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"This is not your field, I know"
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"Bur let me tell you what we're dealing with here"
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"Some pretty fundamental issues"
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"How was the personality formed? We don't know"
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"How much is innate, how much is learned? We don't know"
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"Where do gender roles come from? We don't know"
Nell
"Because you can't take a baby and have it grow up in a lab..."
Nell
"- and monitor and control every influence... - You want to have her grow up in a lab?"
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"Grow up in a lab? No"
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"Dr. Lovell thinks you're gonna do a Frankenstein number on her, Al"
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"Oh, well, uh... all right..."
Nell
"Let me ask you this, Dr. Lovell"
Nell
"Can she survive on her own?"
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"Well"
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"I don't know"
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"Yeah, well, all right, suppose she cannot"
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"Who's gonna look after her? You?"
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"Me? Why me?"
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"All right, so who's volunteering?"
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"I can tell you this much"
Nell
"It's gonna be somebody with an ulterior motive"
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"Everybody who cares for someone has an ulterior motive"
Nell
"Even Mother Teresa"
Nell
"She wants to know that her life has been of some use to others"
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"And so do I"
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"Excuse me"
Nell
"Oh, shit"
Nell
"Yeah, I'm on my way"
Nell
"Well, Lovell, did I wake you up?"
Nell
"Hey, Todd, it's okay. I overslept. What's up?"
Nell
"I'm looking at a commitment order that's just been issued for Nell"
Nell
"What does that mean?"
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"Well, it means they're gonna take her away"
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"It's a court order, Jerry. I have to enforce it"
Nell
"When, now?"
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"Well, that's what it says"
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"Can you give me some time?"
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"- I guess I could hold off till after lunch - Try and make it a long lunch, will ya?"
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"Well, what do you say there, Don?"
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"Not fishing today?"
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"Todd"
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"Sorry about this, Jerry?"
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"Hi"
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"Well, we've... come to pick Nell up"
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"Yeah, I heard"
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"I've got the court order"
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"You do know it's in her own best interests right?"
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"Did you ask her?"
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"Well, you know that's impossible"
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"Tell 'em, Don"
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"Well, I have a court order here that says..."
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"if you don't get Nell's informed consent, you're violatin' her rights"
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"And if you do that, I'm gonna sue you all the way to the Supreme Court"
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"How can she give her informed consent?"
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"She doesn't even speak English!"
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"If she doesn't speak English, she has to give her consent through an interpreter"
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"What interpreter? This is crazy!"
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"There isn't anybody who speaks her language!"
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"Then I guess somebody's gonna have to learn"
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"Dr. Lovell's view seems to be that this woman's natural habitat is..."
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"a primitive cabin in the heart of the forest. Well, I take a different view"
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"I see... a victim of abuse... and neglect..."
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"I see a mature woman who's been robbed of half her life"
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"Her mother never gave her a choice. Isn't Dr. Lovell doing the same thing?"
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"Hiding her away as his own private pet in the woods?"
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"We all know what happens to these freak cases, Your Honor"
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"They get a year of celebrity"
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"A starring role in a few academic papers"
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"Then they get to spend the rest of their lives in a state institution..."
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"abandoned... by the very doctors and scientists who claimed to be helping them"
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"Nell has a home. She has a life. She's not asking for any help"
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"So just be sure she needs care... before she gets cared to death"
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"If she's ever gonna leave that cabin"
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"she's gonna need skills she doesn't presently possess"
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"How do you know she wants to leave the cabin?"
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