Scene 3: 22 Heathfield Gardens: 1945

(Mrs. Walker is celebrating her birthday with her
4 year old son Tommy, and her new love. With his
shirt off and very much at home, the Lover watches
as Tommy impatiently waits for his piece of cake.)

Twenty-one:

Mrs. Walker (to her lover)
Gotta feelin' twenty-one
Is gonna be a good year…
Especially if you and me
See it in together.

Lover: (to Mrs. Walker)
Now you're twenty-one
You're ready for a new year.
Let's marry now
And celebrate forever.

Mrs Walker:
I had no reason to be over-optimistic,
But somehow when you smile
I can brave bad weather.

(Mrs. Walker puts Tommy to bed in the
back of the bedroom, where he gives her a flower.)

Four-year Old Tommy
Happy birthday, Mum.

Mrs. Walker: ( to Tommy)
I had no reason to be over-optimistic,
But somehow when you smile
I can brave bad weather.

(Mrs. Walker kisses Tommy goodnight and
rejoins her lover in front room- who is waiting
with a bottle of champagne)

Mrs. Walker & Lover:
I had no reason to be over-optimistic,
But somehow when you smile
I can brave bad weather.

Instrumental

Returning unexpectedly from the war, Captain Walker appears at the door late at night to find Mrs. Walker and
her lover in an embrace.

The lover attacks Captain Walker...

...and the 4 year old Tommy is woken up by the commotion.

Mrs. Walker tries to turn him away from the violent scene
but he faces a mirror in which he witnesses the lover
slapping his mother ...

and threatening to attack his father
with a chair.

The father shoots the lover in the head.

The Walkers embrace, helplessly, then realize that
Tommy has seen it all in the mirror
.

Mrs Walker:
What about the boy?

Captain Walker:
What about the boy?

Both:
What about the boy?
He saw it all!

You didn't hear it,
You didn't see it,
You won't say nothing to no one
Ever in your life.

You never heard it.
How absurd it'll
Seem without any proof.
You didn't hear it,
You didn't see it,
You never heard it, not a word of it.
You won't say nothing to no one.
Never tell a soul
What you know is the..

You didn't hear it,
You didn't see it,
You won't say nothing to no one
Ever in your life.
You never heard it.
How absurd it'll
Seem without any …
You didn't hear it,
You didn't see it,

You never heard it, not a word of it.
You won't say nothing to no one.
Never tell a soul
What you know is the truth.

Captain Walker:
What about the boy?

(Police pour on the scene, examine the body
and take Mr. Walker into custody)

Mrs. Walker:
Tommy. Everything is going to alright.
Do you understand?

(Tommy doesn't respond)


Mrs Walker:
You needn't be afraid love. Tommy?
Do you hear me?

(Tommy doesn't answer)

Tommy do you understand Mummy?
(Tommy walks to the mirror on the wardrobe.
The objects he sees in it seem to defy the laws
of gravity and space. A chair flies into the air.
Doors take on a new positions. The view outside
of the windows become scrambled)

Mrs. Walker:
Tommy! Tommy!

(Tommy just stares at the mirror. The police
separate the Walkers for questioning while the
older Tommy, our narrator, appears on the top
of the wardrobe as if by magic.)

Amazing Journey     real audio

Tommy:
Deaf, dumb and blind boy…
He's in a quiet vibration land.
Strange as it seems, his musical dream
Ain't quite so bad.

Four years old
With thoughts as bold as thought can be;
Loving life and becoming wise
In simplicity.

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know.

A vague haze of delirium
Seeps in his mind
Soaring and flying images blind.
I'll be your leader;
I'll be your guide.
On the amazing journey, together we'll ride.


Nothing to say
Nothing to hear,
Nothing to see.
Each sensation makes a note in his symphony.

Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go.
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know.

His eyes are the eyes that
Transmit all they know.
The truth burns so bright
It can melt winter snow.
A towering figure,
So brilliant so high…
A white sun burning
The earth and the sky.

(The narrator vanishes and the house disassembles)


Scene 4: An English Courtroom:1945
(Against the backdrop of a huge Union Jack,
the Walker family stands to await the judge's verdict.
Captain Walker, still in uniform, is in the prisoner's docket.)

Judge:
Captain Walker, after much consideration, on the
grounds of justifiable homicide, this court find you…Not Guilty.

(There is elation in the courtroom,
but Tommy doesn't move.)

Judge:
Little boy, your parents have had
some very good news indeed.
I hope that you can appreciate that fact.

(There is no response from Tommy.
The flag seems to melt. The words
spoken to him by the grown-ups start
to seem like some sinister, unrecognizable, otherwordly language.)


Little boy, what about a small smile
in celebration of this
most happy turn of events?

First Barrister:
Do you hear, my boy?
The magistrate is speaking to you!

(As he becomes the center of attention -
Tommy just stares blankly ahead)

Mrs. Walker:
My God Tommy…
what ever is happening to you, my love?

The Walkers kneel by Tommy and begin to realize
what they may have done to their son. As Uncle Ernie
sneaks a shot out of a flask, they lead Tommy off to get
medical help.)

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