All language subtitles for xxxxThe Miracle Worker

Man: No, no. They don't want that.

Lay it over there.

[Ringing Softly]

First, I'm going to cut out this border.

[Strains]

Percy: H-Helen?

H-Helen!

Stop!

Percy: Helen!

Martha: Stop it, Helen.

Why she stick her fingers in my mouth?

Because she mad at you talking all day when she can't hear nothing.

[Moans]

Percy: If she can't hear, then how she know talk coming out of my mouth?

I think she tying to talk.

Percy: Now she gone crazy,

eating herself.

You stop that.

Helen, stop it.

Helen. Helen!

Martha: Stop it. Ohh!

Percy: Help! Help!

Helen's trying to kill us!
She tying to kill us again!

[Muffled Yelling]

Helen?

Helen.

Stop it, Helen. Stop it.

Stop it.

OK, OK, give mother the scissors.

Helen.

Helen, give mother the scissors.

Helen.

OK.

OK.

There, now.

OK.

That's my pretty girl, huh?

Well, Father,

James: I hope you got your story ready.

What story is that?

The one you're going to tell when the little savage kills somebody.

James: "Your honor,

I had no idea that poor deaf and dumb child could be so violent."

Arthur: Your sister is none
of your concern, James.

Don't you have some occasion
you need to dress for?

Aunt Ev: Why don't I ever meet any of your young friends,James?

How can I invite people here?

Aunt Ev: But surely your friends don't think that Helen is any reflection on you.

Helen is the real head of this house.

She's probably just pretending
she can't speak or hear

so she don't have to answer to anyone.

Your jealousy of that
helpless child is intolerable.

Auntie.

[Bumps Table]

Oh, well, here we are.

Here's Father

and Aunt Ev.

Ha ha.

I saw James.

I hope the two of you
weren't quarreling again.

Arthur: No, no.

Aunt Ev: Oh, Katie, we all love Helen,

but surely you must see what an effect she is having on your household.

Why, James and Arthur
can barely speak a civil word,

and all your time is given over to the girl.

You hardly ever have time
for your new baby.

James is right.

Aunt Ev: You and Arthur must do something.. and soon.

What can we do, Evelyn?

The only thing left to do
is to take Helen to an asylum,

and Kate would never stand for it.

Well, have you tried..

We have taken her
to every hospital in 2 states.

No one holds out any hope.

Aunt Ev: what about that
Dr. Chisolm up in Baltimore?

I read an article in your very
own newspaper, Arthur.

Aunt Ev: They say he has cured

many cases of blindness that
other doctors have given up on.

Now, why not write to him?

And have Kate's heart broken again?

I'm prepared for my heart to break
any number of times, Captain.

Aunt Ev: I'll write to him
myself if you like, Katie.

There isn't going to be any cure,

Arthur: and the sooner we accept that fact,

the better off we'll all be.

I will never accept it, Captain.

Kate: I can't.

I'm going to the printers.

[Moans]

Now look. I can't turn
my back for a moment.

Aunt Ev: Arthur, Helen knows a lot more than you think about what goes on in this house.

Nothing is solved by running all over
the county every time some quack
doctor gets his name in the papers.

Kate: Nothing is solved
by running to the office, either.

Hmm.

Kate, darling,

what can anyone do?

The kindest thing we could do would be to find a sanitarium in a beautiful spot where she could be taken care of.

No. No, never.

Oh! She tore off my buttons.

Ohh!

Kate: It's eyes.

She wants the doll..
She wants the doll to have eyes.

I'm sorry, Evelyn.

Arthur: Just tell me what it'll cost
to have the buttons replaced, and I'll..

Kate: I know she does.

Oh, don't mind about that.

What are a couple of buttons
if it makes Helen happy?

I'll sew them on if you like.

Is that what you're trying to do?

Make Helen happy?

James: Nothing makes her happy.

James: Everything you give
her only makes her worse.

Arthur: She can have these little things that make her happy.

Oh, Helen!

Aunt Ev: The baby!

[Crying]

Helen...

Listen, you cannot do
things like that, OK?

James: Why? She can have the
little things that make her happy.

If you won't send her away,

then we must find some
way of confining her.

What, you want to lock her away in the attic like some sort of mad woman?

She wants to talk.

[Dishes Clatter]

Unh!

Helen, come here.

It's OK.

Aah!

It's OK. Look, I know.

All right.

I'll write to Dr. Chisolm.

Dr. Anagnos:
Dr. Chisolm could do nothing for the girl and referred them to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.

As the girl is young, and the parents are not willing to send her to us,

I have put you up
for the role of governess.

[lrish Accent]
Governess?

Or nursemaid.

We both knew you'd get rid
of me one of these days.

Dr. Anagnos:
You've accomplished so much here.

But when you first came to us,
you couldn't even spell your name.

Are your eyes still so painful?

No. It's my ears, sir.

Tell me about the child.

Is she bright...

or dull?

[Sighs]

Can she be taught?

She's given to tantrums, they say.

So am I.

Maybe you should warn
the Kellers about me.

I've told them nothing of your history
except your qualifications for the job.

Here is the money
for your train ticket.

And here is a gift from all of us,

Dr. Anagnos: with our love.

We're going to miss you.

Dr. Anagnos: This is my last
chance to counsel you, Annie.

You lack tact

Dr. Anagnos:
and the talent to bend to others.

You're hard to fool and harder to please,

but all the same, we are proud of you.

We're off to meet the train again.

Well, I hope the girl is on this one.

Oh, she will be.

Well, we'll see you at supper, then.

Giddy up.

Your mother's not here, child.

I'm here, though.

I'm your father.

I'm your father.

I used to swing you through the air,

and you weren't even
2 years of age yet.

I wonder if you remember any of that...

or any of us.

Here you are.

There's a piece of candy for you.

Mm-hmm.

You want your mama,
don't you, missy?

Captain Keller, wouldn't like this if he saw it,
but what's one little candy going to hurt?

Watch your step, sir.

Ma'am.

[Train Whistle Blows]

Man: Don't worry about it, sir.

[Horse Neighs]

Miss Sullivan?

Yes.

I'm James Keller.

I had a brother, Jimmie.

Are you Helen's...

Half brother. Do you have a trunk?

Yes.

Henry, Percy.

Kate: Miss Sullivan.

I'm so relieved. We were beginning
to get a little bit worried about you.

The man who sold me that ticket
ought to be tied to the tracks.

I'm Katherine Keller.
I'm Helen's mother.

You didn't bring Helen.

I was hoping you would.

Well her father wanted to spend the afternoon with her, actually.

Kate: They so enjoy their time together.

Kate, you should be ashamed.

Miss Sullivan, you'll find that in
the south we make up these little
stories just to amuse each other.

I hope you won't mind.

[Bell Rings]

[Train Whistle Blows]

Kate: How much can a blind and
deaf child learn, Miss Sullivan?

I don't know.

Does she communicate
with you at all?

Oh, well, I always know what she
wants if that's what you mean.

No, you don't.

All anybody knows that if you give Helen
a piece of candy, she'll be quiet for a while.

Can you teach her to
sit still, Miss Sullivan?

I'd have to teach her language first.

Language?

If she doesn't know words, how could
she know why you want her to sit still?

Miss Sullivan, perhaps you were
misled as to Helen's condition.

She can neither see nor hear.

But if it is her senses that are impaired

and not her mind,

she must have language.

Language is more
important to the mind

than light is to the eye.

But how will you teach her
if you can't talk to her?

Anyway I can.

Kate: We are going to do
everything that we can to help you.

I don't want you to think of
us as strangers, Miss Annie.

Annie: Strangers aren't
so strange to me.

I've been around them all my life.

James: Watch your step.

Welcome to Ivy Green, Miss Sullivan.

I trust you had a good journey.

Annie: I had several. Thank you.

Where's Helen?

Oh, Miss Annie?

We've put you in the upstairs corner room.
Now, if there is any breeze at all this summer, you're going to feel it.

I'll take my suitcase, thanks.

I have it, Miss Sullivan.

No, please, let me.

I wouldn't think of it.

I have something in it for Helen.

I needn't to be treated like a guest.

Now, when may I see Helen?

Well, there she is.

Kate: That's Helen.

Unh!

[Slaps]

[Sniffs]

Unh.

Unh!

Unh!

She seems very rough, Kate.

Why didn't she take her glasses off?

Well the institute said
that the light hurts her eyes.

Apparently, she was
nearly blind as a child.

Blind?

Well, she's had 9 operations on her eyes.

And they expect one blind
person to teach another one?

How long was she employed
at that school?

Well, she..
she wasn't employed there.

She was one of their best students.

Student?

James: Now you have 2 blind girls to take care of, Father.

You stay out of this.

James...

why do you have to be
so mean about Helen?

Why, to confirm my father's
view of me, of course.

Those are mine.

Yes, yes.

All right, then, Helen.

"Doll" will be your first word.

It's as good as any.

" D..."

"O..."

" L..."

" L."

Doll.

Doll.

It has a name.

"D..."

"O..."

Annie: "L..."

James: Thank you, Henry.

Thank you, Percy.

So, what was that?

Some sort of game?

It's an alphabet for the deaf.

Each letter has a sign.

"D..."

"O..."

"L..."

"L."

Doll.

First, she will learn to imitate.

" D," "O..."

Ah!

James: Oh, she can
imitate things, all right..

like a regular little monkey.

A bright little monkey.

Mmm...

" D."

James: I think she wants her doll back.

She can have it back
when she spells it.

She has no idea
what words even are.

How can she spell them?

If her fingers learn the letters now,

then maybe someday

her brain will learn that
they have a meaning.

Did you make up this alphabet?

Me? No.

Spanish monks under
a vow of silence,

which, Mr.James,
I wish you would take.

[Helen Moans]

[Sighs]

[Sniffs]

"C..."

"A..."

"K..."

"E."

Cake.

"C..."

"A..."

"K..."

"E."

Annie: Very good.

Cake.

"D..."

"O..."

"L..."

"L."

Uhh!

Mm-mm-mm.

Uhh!

[Sighs]

"D..."

"O..."

"L..."

"L."

Very good, Helen.

Very good.

Good first lesson.

Very well done.
Very well done.

Ohh! Ohh!

[Tries Door]

Helen!

Annie: Let me out,
you wicked girl.

Helen!

Ohh!

Unh.

[Spits]

Ohh. And I wondered
if she was bright.

She's the brightest
one in this house.

Where is Miss Annie?

She's in her room.

Didn't anyone call her to supper?

Arthur:James, go upstairs
and bring her down.

Certainly. I'll get the ladder.

What?

I'll need a ladder.
It won't take long.

What are you talking about?

Well, Helen locked her in her
room and run off with the key.

[Sighs]

And I suppose you are going
to sit there and say nothing.

You told me it was none
of my business, Father.

I was just trying to
respect your wishes.

Miss Sullivan, are you in there?

Yes, sir, I'm in here.

Isn't there a key on your side?

[Whispering]
For God's sake.

No, sir. There's no key, sir.

Put that ladder away,Jimmy.

Whatever you say, Father.

Kate: Captain, we can't keep Miss
Annie locked up until we find the key.

James.

Bring the ladder back.

Whatever you say, Father.

I hired her to solve problems,
not create them.

Arthur: Hold it, Jimmy.

Thank you, Percy.

Miss Sullivan!

Yes, Captain Keller?

I hope this is not a sample
of what we can expect of you.

Arthur: Come out and
sit on my shoulder.

I'm perfectly capable of going
down a ladder by myself.

Do as I say, Miss Sullivan.

Ohh.

[Bystanders Laugh]

Very chivalrous of you.

This is not chivalry. This is practicality.
You're no good to us trapped in a room.

Woman: Ooh.

[Applause]

Not in the house 10 minutes.

Honestly, I don't see
how you managed it.

[Sighs]

I'll look for the key, sir.

Thank you. Just don't look in
any rooms that can be locked.

All right, everyone.
Excitement's over.

I'd better leave the L-A-D-D-E-R.

[Laughs]

Oh, you little devil.

If you think you can get rid of
me that easily, you're wrong.

I have nothing better to do

and nowhere else to go.

Annie: To the best of my knowledge,

no one in this house

has ever tried to control the girl,

but...

how can I discipline her
without breaking her spirit?

But...

if she won't obey me...

Oh!

Ohh.

Tsk.

Ink.

It has a name.

Pen.

Pen.

Uhh!

[Moans]

No, Helen.

[Gasps]

Annie: Ohh!

Bad...

Annie: girl.

Kate: No. Never you mind, Miss Annie.
It's.. It's not the first.

No, Helen.

The Captain thinks that your spelling
everything that Helen does

is like spelling to a fence post.

You talk to the baby, don't you?

Does she understand
what you mean?

Not yet, but she will someday

if she hears enough words.

I'm letting Helen hear the words.

Kate: How long will it take?

A million words, maybe.

Annie: Pen.

Did you see that?

Annie: I spelled "pen."

She spelled "cake."

She wants to see if
I can tell the difference.

There's is nothing impaired
in that head, Mrs. Keller.

Helen is smart... and angry.

I can use that.

Can you teach me those letters?

I'll start tomorrow.

If both of us are spelling to her,

that makes only about half
a million words each.

[Laughs]

Ow!

Helen!

Helen: Uhh!

Helen.

[Moaning]

[Stops Moaning]

Why does she get a reward
for stabbing me?

I.. I don't know.

I'm..I'm sorry.

[Rooster Crows]

James: Miss Sullivan,

breakfast is ready.

Shall I get the ladder?

That's enough,Jimmy.

Oh, good morning, Miss Annie.

Good morning.

Morning.

I hope you've settled in
comfortably, Miss Sullivan.

Thank you, Captain. I have.

Arthur: Please, help yourself.

Miss Annie, if there is ever anything
that you need, please let us know.

Tobacco prices are up, Father.

We should earn a nice profit
this year for a change.

Arthur: It used to be that a man could
make a good living running a farm.

James: Well, perhaps if you'd leave your pet newspaper and come show me my business,

...we could make some real money.

Arthur: Not in front of Miss Sullivan.

Why not in front of Miss Sullivan?

Kate: Miss Annie,

Helen is used to helping
herself from our plates.

I'm afraid I'm not used to it.

Arthur: No, of course not.

Viney, please bring Miss
Sullivan another plate.

There's nothing wrong with my plate, Captain,
only that Helen's hands don't belong in it.

One plate is hardly worth
spoiling our breakfast over.

Kate: You see, she's just going to
keep trying until she gets her way.

Arthur: I must insist that
you let the girl go.

Unh!

Arthur: Thank you.

Unh!

- [Kicks]
- Oh!

[Moaning]

Oh, look, now she's hurt herself.

No, she hasn't.
I know a tantrum when I see one

and a badly spoiled child.

Miss Sullivan.

Please, show some pity.

For this kind of behavior?

Annie: Pity's the one thing
she doesn't need.

The whole house waits on
her hand and foot.

- Hear, hear.
- You stay out of this.

Letting Helen have her own way..
it's really such a small thing.

Small? It's seems you've all decided

it's easier to feel sorry for Helen

than to teach her how to behave.

Well, I've not seen that you've taught her anything yet, Miss Sullivan.

Quite right, Captain.
Well observed.

I'll start right now
if you'll leave the room.

Leave the room?

Annie: Yes.

Please, Captain.

Right now, if you'll
leave the room.

Miss Sullivan..

If you're not willing to stand up to one
tantrum, I cannot teach her anything.

Unh!

Mrs. Keller, you asked if there
was anything I needed.

Yes, but I..

I need to be alone with Helen.

[Moaning]

Annie: Right now.

Miss Sullivan..

Kate: Captain.

Kate: James.

Captain, may I speak
with you outside?

Give us a moment, please.

Oh...

[Helen Continues Moaning]

This is absurd.

Arthur, I'm sure that she is
only trying to do what is best.

I will not have my house
turned into a circus.

[Moans]

Unless there is a change in attitude,
Miss Sullivan is dismissed.

Arthur, and then what hope
do we have for Helen?

No less than we had before,

and then perhaps we
can regain some quiet.

[Helen Moans]

[Helen Tapping Floor]

Ow!

Ow!

Shh. Shh.

Ohh!

[Cries]

Shh, shh, shh.

[Moaning]

[Doorknob Rattles]

[Sighs]

Helen.

[Helen Banging On Door]

Oh, God.

[Both Breathing Heavily]

[Helen Hits Table]

[Moans]

[Spoon Clatters]

[Spoon Clatters]

[Spoon Clatters]

[Moaning]

[Stops Moaning]

[Moans]

[Spoon Clatters]

[Spoon Clatters]

Ahh!

Good.

[Sighs]

Ahh!

[Church Bell Ringing]

What you want me to do, Miss Kate?

It's noon time, and the breakfast dishes ain't been cleared.

[Objects Clatter]

[Door Closes]

- [Crying]
- Hush, now.

Come on.

Viney: Shh.

[Moaning Softly]

Helen...

ate from her own plate

with a spoon

Annie: all by herself...

and she folded her napkin.

The room's a wreck,

but she folded her napkin.

I'll be in my room, Mrs. Keller.

Viney: Shh, shh.

Oh, Helen.

Viney: Don't be long now, Miss Annie.

Lunch going to be ready right away.

Mm-hmm.

My Helen folded her napkin.

What are you reading?

[Annie Sighs]

Dr. Howe's account of his
patient Laura Bridgman.

She was deaf.
blind, and mute from the age of 2.

Did he succeed with her?

He did.

Then it is possible.

Annie: With patience, I suppose..

something they did not give me a certificate for at Perkins.

Kate: After this morning's lesson...

the Captain wants me to dismiss you,
but I am going to insist that you remain.

Thank you.

Where is your family, Miss Annie?

My brother Jimmie
was the last I had.

He died 12 years ago.

I'm sorry. I..

I tried to protect him.

I failed.

It's no use trying to protect
or speak for other people.

Not really.

The only hope

is to teach them to do
it for themselves.

Annie: That's what I'm
trying to do with Helen.

What you demand of her now

is all she'll ever be.

Step.

Unh!

[Sighs]

Captain.

And if what happened this
morning wasn't enough,

Helen can't stand to be near her.

Things have gotten worse,

and I want you to give her notice.

No.

[Sighs]

Well, if you won't, I must.

Annie: Good evening,
Captain, Mrs. Keller.

Uh...

Miss Sullivan...

I find that I am not
satisfied with this..

That is, this arrangement..

Arthur: Will you please take off
your glasses? I find it very difficult
to speak to you with them on.

Annie: Well, of course.

If you must, keep them on.

Now, Miss Sullivan..

Annie: Please tell me, Captain,
is the little house in the grove of
trees being used for anything?

The garden house?

Arthur: This is just what
I am talking about.

Miss Sullivan, if you expect
to stay on here,

there must be a change
in your manner.

Arthur: And you must convince me that there is the slightest hope of teaching a child who flees from you like the plague.

You could show some sympathy.

You're absolutely right, Captain.

There is not the slightest possibility

of teaching a child who
runs away from me.

It is hopeless here, and
the sooner we realize that,

the sooner we can get to a solution.

It is not hopeless!

Helen could talk by the time
she was 10 months old.

Before this illness,
she was such a good child.

Yes, she was an extraordinary child.

I believe that,

but she's not that child anymore.

I've seen pets behave better than she does
and it's your pity that's the cause of it.

I beg your pardon!

I'm afraid your love for Helen

is a greater handicap to her
than her blindness or her deafness.

Annie, before you came, we spoke
of putting Helen in an asylum.

Please don't give up.

Obviously, Miss Sullivan
thinks it's hopeless.

Here! It's hopeless here!

I'm only just beginning!

[Sighs]

Please let me show you.

Please follow me.

[Frogs Croaking]

God knows what this has
to do with anything.

Captain: This is ridiculous.

I believe I can only make
progress with Helen

If I have complete charge of her.

But you already have that.

Annie: No. I mean day and night.

She must depend on me.

For what?

For everything! Her food,
her clothes her play time, her sweets.

All of these things are tools

Annie: that I can use to reach her.

And how do you propose to do that
when she runs away from you?

If she can run to you,
I have no hope.

Annie:Which is why I must live
with her somewhere else.

Annie: You can bring Helen
here after a long carriage ride.

She won't know where she is,

Annie: and you can still
see her every day,

provided she does not
know you're here.

How long would you keep her?

Annie: As long as it takes.

I know this is the way!

And, Captain,
I cannot be rude to you

if you're not around to
interfere with me.

Am I to understand that
if I say no to this,

you will abandon your
charge to an asylum?

An asylum is no place
for Helen, Captain.

Believe me, I know.

I grew up in an asylum..

in the state poorhouse,

my brother and I.. until it took his life.

Our playroom was the dead
house where they kept the bodies
until they could dig the graves.

Annie: It made me strong,

but Helen is strong enough already.

Please give me this chance.

Give her this chance to save herself.

Miss Sullivan, do you like this child?

Do you?

Captain...

with your permission.

I'll give you 2 weeks.

Arthur: You have 2 weeks to
get the child to tolerate you.

Kate: Percy could stay here.
He could run errands for you.

2 weeks is not enough.

2 weeks is what I am offering.

I'll take it.

[Pigeons Cooing]

Where would you like your
suitcase, Miss Sullivan?

Oh, anywhere is fine.

How do you expect to win
her over in this place?

James: You plan to tie
her to the chair?

How is it you have
no pity for Helen?

To have pity for someone
is a waste of energy.

Feeling sorry for ourselves
is even worse.

Well, I hope you win, Miss Sullivan.

Unh!

Kate: Well, we rode in
the country for 2 hours.

For all she knows she
could be in another town.

Bring her inside, please.

Oh, she wants me.

She can have you back in 2 weeks.

Miss Annie, please
take good care of her.

I will.

[Helen Moaning]

Aah! Hush, hush, hush.

Hush, hush.

Unh!

[Moaning]

Oh.

[Helen Crying]

[Moans]

Annie: Percy!

Wake up.
I need your help.

Ohh.

[Moans]

Try again.

Try again.

[Moans]

[Sniffs]

Good.

Let me go.

She gonna pinch me.

I think she's trying to talk.

She can talk, but she's
got to use her hands.

Here. Let me show you.

Aah!

She's mad at me now,
so she doesn't want to play,
but she knows a lot of letters.

"C..."

"A..."

"K..."

"E."

Annie: Cake.

"C..."

"A..."

"K..."

"E."

[Moans]

She spells cake, she gets cake.

She doesn't know what
the word means yet...

but she will.

Percy.

We don't need her.

How would you like to learn
one she doesn't know?

Annie: "M" is easy.

"I" is even easier..
Just the pinkie up.

Annie: "L."

" K."

" M." Why should I talk to you?
I'm teaching Percy.

M-I-L-K.

No.

I'm teaching Percy.

Ooh, you're jealous.

[Moans]

"M..."

"I..."

"L..."

"K."

[Sighs]

Annie: At least I'm back to
where I can touch you.

You can go back to bed, Percy.

Thank you.

[Sighs]

I never thought that
life could be so quiet.

I miss her, too.

♪ Hush, little baby♪

♪ Don't say a word ♪

♪ Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird ♪

♪ If that mockingbird don't sing ♪

♪ Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring ♪

Jimmie: Annie.

I can't sleep, Annie.

There are rats in my room.

Can't we live somewhere else?

We don't have anywhere else,Jimmie.

Please, can I sleep with you?

Just for tonight.

[Baby Crying]

♪ Hush, little baby♪

♪ Don't say a word ♪

♪ Mama's gonna buy you ♪

♪A mockingbird ♪

Annie: ♪ And if that Mockingbird ♪

Doesn't sing?

♪ Mama's gonna buy you,

♪ A diamond ring ♪

[Sniffs]

Flower.

Leaf.

Water.

No.

Not "apple."

Water.

[Sighs]

Why is it so hard to understand?

We were just about to have lunch.

How is she, Miss Annie?

Fine.

Annie: I taught her
that stitch yesterday.

Now I can't get her to stop.

It's so quiet in the house without her.

Kate: Well, when the Captain and
James aren't bickering, that is.

I noticed they don't get along.

Oh, well, they used to when
James mother was alive.

Kate: But then Helen
came along, and...

well, she takes up so
much of our attention.

Soup.

Annie: Ooh, such a lady.

She'd rather starve than
eat without a spoon.

You have taught her so
much in a week and a half.

Annie: It's not enough.

Obedience is not enough.

She knows so many words.

If only she knew what they meant.

Kate: And how will she learn?

The way a bird learns to use its wings.
It has to come.

But how, Miss Annie?

I...

need...

more...

time.

Alone with her?

Annie: Yes.

Why not?

Because I can't.. I ..

Annie: Spell it.

If she ever learns,

you're the first person
she's going to want to talk to.

Annie: She...

needs...

me.

She needs me, too.

No.

You have 3 days, Annie.

That's all you have.

E-G-G.

Egg.

The word is the thing.

It has a name.

[Cracks Egg]

[Gasps]

[Chirping]

Bird.

The bird is coming out
of its shell, Helen.

You..You come out, too.

[Annie Gasps]

Annie: Ohh.

Well, Francis,

I believe we're onto something here.

[Horse Neighs]

James: Father?

Hello, Francis. James.

Captain.

Thought I'd come
take a look around.

We had an idea last year
and tried something,

and it looks like 22 inches between the plants gives us about twice the yield.

Twice the yield?

Francis: We had that blue
mold pretty bad last year, sir.

We think it's carrying over
the winter in the roots

so we're going to try to get all
the roots and stalks out of
the ground after the harvest.

Well, with the roots gone, we
get a bad rain, we stand to
lose a whole layer of topsoil.

Well, I was thinking of that, too.

Let's plant some low
grass for the winter.

Look for some, would you, Francis?

Did you need something, Father?

I think I have it, Jimmy.

Sorry to interrupt.

Horse.

Horse...

eats...

apple.

How I have waited for this day.

Arthur: I only hope we
won't be disappointed.

Helen doesn't ever
disappoint you, Father.

Why are you jealous, James?

I'm not jealous.

I'm envious.

It's not only Helen who
needs to learn how to talk.

Things will be very different
here if Helen is better.

I know.

Who will I blame then
for my unhappiness?

Annie: If only there was
someone to help me.

I feel I need a teacher as
much as Helen does.

[Horse Neighs]

Arthur: Whoa.

[Sighs]

[Dog Barking]

Ohh.

Captain.

Miss Sullivan, I've brought
Helen a playmate.

A kind of graduation present.

Please, wait outside, Captain.

Dog.

Well, Miss Sullivan,

the 2 weeks are up.

Not until 5:00pm.

Oh, what difference can
half a day make?

You don't know how eager
we are to have her back.

I do know.

It's my main concern.

You've done wonders for her,

and you've done us a great service.

I've actually missed her.

I owe that debt to you.

Pay it to Helen, Captain.

Give her another week.

Look what you've
done for her already.

She's well-behaved. She seems
quite contented. Certainly cleaner.

She's cleaner?

Is that what you care about?

She's learning to talk, Captain.

The words are in her fingers already.

I can't risk her unlearning it when she
goes back to her old life in the house.

Oh, look.

Arthur: What is she spelling?

Water.

[Laughs] Miss Sullivan...

that dog doesn't know what words
are any more than she does.

Arthur: The dog's happy
enough, though.

God may not have meant for
Helen to speak, Miss Sullivan.

I mean her to, Captain.

Give her half a week.

You have until 5:00 pm.

Kate cannot bear to be separated from her for another night.

Where is she?

Your Miss Sullivan insisted
on keeping her until 5:00 pm.

[Sighs]

[Sighs]

No.

Not "water."

Dog.

Dog.

[Sighs]

This...

This.. This is water.

How do I make her understand?

How do I tell you?

I don't know anything.

They're satisfied.

Give them back their child

and their dog...

both housebroken.

Everyone's satisfied.

Everyone but me...

Annie: and you.

Reach!

Reach!

Oh, what I wanted
to give you, Helen.

Everything in the earth, everything
that we are, what we dream of.

what we leave behind,

what we think and feel
and know and share..

it's all in words.

If I could give you one word...

[Sighs]

One word, I could give
you everything.

Wool.

It means this.

Chair.

Napkin.

Dress.

Face.

[Sighs]

[Crying]

Ohh.

Tears.

[Clock Chimes 5:00 pm]

Let's bring her home.

Hmm?

Let's put your things away.

Put them away.

Good.

You are going home.

Helen...

is going home.

That's right.
Put your things away.

Arthur: Whoa.

How is she?

Please. Please give
me more time.

I can't.

Helen?

Ohh.

[Sniffs]

Helen.

Ohh.

Oh.

[Laughs]

Oh.

[Sighs]

Jimmie: Annie I'm so hot, Annie!
Can you bring me some water? Annie

I have to go to him!

He's got no one on
the earth but me!

Do you think I want an
epidemic on my hands?

Jimmie: Annie!

- Proctor: You can't
- Annie: Jimmie!

Jimmie: Annie

Jimmie!

Proctor: We're doing the best we can.

I'll come and get you when I can.

Jimmie!

Jimmie: Annie

I tried, but they wouldn't let me in.

Jimmie: Annie

- Annie
- Jimmie!

Annie: Jimmie!

Jimmie: Annie

Annie

[Sobs]

[Sniffles]

May I escort you?

I'm not very good
company right now.

Oh, I didn't come to
keep you company.

I came to keep you from
getting lost in the dark.

Maybe that's just what
I was looking to do.

Are you feeling sorry for yourself.
Miss Sullivan?

Just this once.

Yes.

My father has a great respect for you,

and that's not easily earned.

He fought at Vicksburg.

He edits the newspaper.

And he's always daring
you to measure up.

If you have any advice for me,

I wouldn't mind hearing it.

I never really had a father,
so I'm the last person to ask,

but you've got to
stand up to the world.

That's all I know.

Well, what if he's the world?

Then you can just look around, James,
and see how much bigger it really is.

He's a man, James.
That's all.

So are you.

[Knock On Door]

Aunt Evelyn.
Well, come in. Come in.

It is so good to see you.

You have come and
see our Helen now.

[Sniffs]

The sweet child.

Miss Sullivan must be a wonder.

Arthur: Miss Sullivan.

I've brought you your
first month's salary.

[Sighs]

You've done quite a job.

You've taken a wild thing
and given us back a child.

I taught Helen one thing..

"No."

Don't do this. Don't do that.

I wanted to teach her "yes."

Well, you'll have all the
time you need now.

Will you help me, Captain?

Yes. How?

Don't undo what I've done.

The world is not an
easy place for anyone.

Annie: To give Helen
her way in everything

is a lie to her.

You've got to stand between
her and that lie.

Annie: Don't give in.

We're certainly going to try.

I used to wonder how
I would earn a living.

Now, the question is,
can I survive it?

I'll see you at supper.

[Sniffs]

Oh...

we glad to have you back, missy.

What, Helen? What?

Oh, yes.

Keys. Yes.

I'll keep the keys, hmm?

I think we've had enough of
locked doors around here.

Here they are.

That's right.

James: "And Jacob was left alone

for the breaking of day,

James: and he wrestled with an angel.

And the angel said, "Let me go,

for the daybreaks"

And Jacob said, "I will not let you go until you bless me."

Amen.

- Arthur: Amen
- Aunt Ev: Amen.

Kate: Amen.

That's a very strange grace,James.

I thought it was a very fitting grace

considering the circumstances.

So, you're an expert now on the Bible

Arthur: and tobacco,
is that right,James?

Kate: Pickles, Aunt Ev?

Aunt Ev: I should say so.

You know my opinion of your pickles.

Well, this is the last of them, I'm afraid.
I didn't put up nearly enough last summer,

but this year, I intend to.

Arthur: Reverend Tompkins stopped by the office today to complain about his weevils.

I told him...

James: Did you tell him to..

I told him to talk to you
about his weevils, James.

Aunt Ev:
I think it's marvelous what a successful
farmer you have turned out to be, James.

Ohh.

Miss Annie, no.

[Moaning, Kicking Table]

- No.
- Kate: Please?

I have hardly had an hour with her.

Captain?

Katie...

We...

Arthur: we had a little talk.

Miss Sullivan feels that
if we indulge Helen in..

Aunt Ev: But what's the child done?

Annie: She's learned not to throw
things on the floor and kick.

Well, it's only a napkin.

It's not as if it were
something breakable.

Either give Helen to me,
or you keep her from kicking.

Please.

What do you want me to do?

Let me take her from the table.

But this is her first evening back.

Kate: Will once hurt so
much, Miss Annie?

I have made all of Helen's
favorite foods.

She's testing you.

She's testing you.

Annie: I know!

Well she's not kicking now.

This is what I was worried about.

Is this what you promised
me less than an hour ago?

Give in to her, then.

She's the one who will pay for it.

Annie: Please pass me more
of Helen's favorite foods.

Take her, Miss Annie.

Thank you.

There. Take her.

[Helen Moaning]

Arthur: No.

I won't have this.

I don't see that we need to
send her from the table.

Let me hold Helen to what she's
learned, and she will go on learning.

Take her out of my hands,
and it all comes apart.

She is the guest of honor.

[Moans]

Bring her plate back.

If she were a seeing child,
you would not stand for this.

Well, she's not.

I think some allowances are called for.

Arthur: Bring her plate back, please.

Thank you.

Unh!

There.

Now let's start all over.

No.

- No.
- [Moans]

Annie: Mm-mmm.

No.

No.

Uhh!

[Helen Moaning]

Don't get up!

What are you doing?

I treat her like a seeing child
because I ask her to see!

I expect her to see!

Where are you taking her?

To make her refill this pitcher!

[Moaning]

Uhh!

You let her speak to
you like that, Arthur?

[Helen Crying]

No, I don't.

Let her go!

What?

Let her go.

She's right.

She's right, and Kate's right.

If you drive Miss Sullivan away
from here, then we're lost.

No.

Helen is lost.

Captain, please.

Jimmy...

Thank you.

[Moaning]

Know where we are?

You recognize this place?

Pump.

No.

Your mother's...

not here.

Ah.

Pump.

[Water Pouring]

Annie: Water.

W...

Helen:Wa...

Wa...

Wa...

Wa...

W...

W...

W...

Water.

Yes.

Water.

It has a name.

Water.

Annie: Yes. Yes.

W-W...

W...

Annie: Yes. Yes.

Wa...

Wa...Wa...

Yes. Yes.

Water.

Yes.

Pump.

Ground.

Yes.

Bush.

Flower.

[Laughs]

[Moans]

[Bell Rings]

Annie: Captain

Mrs. Keller, come quickly!

She knows!

Annie: Mrs. Keller...

she knows!

She knows!

Mother.

Yes.

Kate: Yes.

Annie: Captain.

Papa.

Kate: Good.

[Sighs]

Teacher.

Yes.

Teacher.

Keys?

She wants the keys.

Here you go.

There.

OK.

"K..."

"E..."

"Y."

Key.

Teacher.

Kate: Teacher.

Kate, darling.

I...

love...

Helen...

so much.

So much.