:33:02
What on earth would that be?
:33:04
Maybe... maybe the gooseberry bushes.
:33:06
The gooseberries are just fine,
thank you very much.
:33:09
No. Not yours. The ones that planted
themselves in the tall grass.
:33:13
We don't grow anything there.
:33:15
Exactly. A bit of tiding up.
:33:19
Who knows, those bushes might
one day bear fruit.
:33:23
Yeah. That's true! Who knows..
:33:26
All right, girl.
:33:29
Those alabaster hands of yours are
hereby engaged to weed the wild gooseberry bushes.
:33:36
Thank you!
:33:39
Around.. like this, you see.
:33:43
Anything to close them...
just be careful, that's all.
:33:47
[Narrator] After a few of the wild little
gooseberry bushes had given up the ghost
:33:51
in the care of Grace's as yet
unpracticed alabaster hands,
:33:56
things began looking up
with the weeding and the town.
:34:02
In fact it turned out there were not so few things
that the other townsfold of Dogville didn't need doing either.
:34:11
As Ben had no home, Grace's domestic
experiments were absolutely things he didn't need,
:34:17
but he put up with them anyhow,
appearing with astonishing punctuality
when the act of domesticity had been completed,
:34:24
no matter how unpredictable business
hours in the freight industry might otherwise have been.
:34:32
Olivia didn't need anyone to help June
to the toilet while she was at work,
:34:37
as hitherto they had coped splendidly
with Olivia's excellent diaper arrangement.
:34:44
If Jack McKay had needed a partner
for conversation he would surely have gone out
and gotten one for himself in the town.
:34:52
So it was not out of need that he allowed
Grace to sit with him in his dark parlor
:34:57
with the dramatic drapes on one wall
for lengthy discussions regarding
the underestimated qualities of the light on the East Coast.