MALCOLM You want to sit? Cole nods very softly, \"No.\"MALCOLM Don\'t feel like talking right now? Cole nods again very softly, \"No.\"MALCOLM How about we play a game first? Cole looks a little more interested.MALCOLM It\'s a mind-reading game...Did Imention I could read minds? Cole nods, \"No.\"MALCOLM Here\'s the game.I\'ll read yourmind.If what I say is right, youtake a step forwards the chair.IfI\'m wrong, you take a stepbackwards the doorway.If youreach the chair, you sit.If youreach the door, you can go.Deal? Cole tilts his head, then nods, \"Yes.\"MALCOLM Just after your mom and dad weredivorced, your mom went to a doctorlike me and it didn\'t help her.And so you think I\'m not going tohelp you.Beat.Cole, surprised, takes a small step forward.
You\'re worried because she said shetold him things.Things shecouldn\'t tell anybody else.(beat) Secrets.Cole takes a step.Malcolm opens his eyes.He looks right atCole.MALCOLM You have a secret.But you don\'twant to tell me.Beat.Cole takes another step.The next step will put him atthe chair.Malcolm lowers his fingers from his temple.MALCOLM(whispers) You don\'t have to tell me yoursecret if you don\'t want to.tell meMALCOLM Your father gave you that watch asa present before he left.COLE He forgot it in a drawer.Itdoesn\'t workMALCOLM You don\'t like to say much atschool.You\'re an excellentstudent however.You\'ve never beenin any kind of serious trouble.Beat.Cole takes a slow step back.Beat.COLE We were supposed to draw a picture.Anything we wanted...I drew a man.He got hurt in the neck by anotherman with a screwdriver.
AN UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE OVERTAKES THE DEN.MALCOLM You saw that on T.V., Cole? Cole answers by taking a small step back.Beat.COLE Everybody got upset.They had ameeting.Momma started crying.(beat) I don\'t draw like that anymore.MALCOLM How do you draw now?COLE I draw people with smiles, dogsrunning, and rainbows.(beat) They don\'t have meetings aboutrainbows.MALCOLM(soft)no I gue they don\'t.COLE(whispers) What am I thinking now? Malcolm takes his time before speaking.He just stares.Nofingers to the temple.No games.He just stares.Beat.MALCOLM(beat) I don\'t know what you\'re thinking,Cole.Cole quietly takes a step back into the doorway of the other room.
(whispers) I was thinking...you\'re nice.(beat) But you can\'t help me.
