Eraserhead

Are you Henry?

Yes.

A girl named Mary called on the pay phone.

Said she's at her parents' and you're invited to dinner.

Oh, yeah?

Thank you very much.

You're late, Henry.

I didn't know if you wanted me to come or not.

Where have you been?

You never come around anymore.

Dinner's almost ready.

Come on in.

Hello there.

Hello.

I'm very pleased to meet you.

Sit down.

It's Henry, isn't it?

Yes.

Mary tells me you're a very nice fellow.

What do you do?

Oh, I'm on vacation now.

What did you do?

Well, I-I work at Lapelle's factory.

I'm -

I'm a printer.

Hen-Henry's very clever at printing.

Yes, he sounds very clever.

I thought I heard a stranger.

We've got chicken tonight.

Strangest damn things. They're man-made.

Little damn things - smaller than my fist.

They're new!

I'm Bill.

Hello. I'm Henry.

Henry's at Lapelle's factory.

Oh, printing's your business, huh?

Plumbing's mine. Thirty years.

I've seen this neighborhood change from pastures...

...to the hellhole it is now.

- Dad! - Bill!

Well, they sure as hell don't. Look at my knees!

Look at my knees!

Bill, please.

- Are you hungry? - Bill.

The-The girls have heard this before...

...but 14 years ago...

I had an operation on my arm here.

Doctors said I wouldn't be able to use it.

"Well, what the hell do they know?" I said.

And I rubbed it for a half hour every day...

...and I got so as I could move it a little.

And then I got so as I could turn a faucet.

And pretty soon, I had my arm back again.

Now I can't feel a damn thing in it.

All numb.

I-I - I-I'm afraid to cut it, you know?

Mary usually does the carving, but...

...maybe tonight you'll do it, Henry.

All right with you?

Of course.

I'd be happy to.

Do I just, uh -

...just cut them up like regular chickens?

Sure, just cut 'em up like regular chickens.

She'll be all right in a minute.

Excuse me!

Well, Henry, what do you know?

Oh, uh -

I don't know much of anything.

Henry, may I speak to you a minute?

Over here.

Did you and Mary have sexual intercourse?

Uh - Why?

Did you?

Why are you asking me this question?