An Inciting Incident

The Miracle Worker (1962): Opening scene

Quack-Physician :

She'll Live. I can tell you now, 

I thought she wouldn't. 

Captain Bollocks :

I've brought up two of them. 

This is my wife's first. 

She isn't battle-scarred yet. 

Doctor? Will my girl be all right? 

Quack-Physician :

By morning she'll be knockin' 

down Captain Keller's fences again. 

Is there nothing we should do? 

Captain Bollocks :

Put up stronger fencin'. Hm? 

Quack-Physician :

Just let her get well. She knows how better than we do.

 These things come and go in infants. Never know why. Call it, 

acute congestion of the stomach and brain. 

Captain Bollocks :

I'll see you to your buggy, Doctor. 

Main thing is the fever's gone. 

I never saw a baby with more 

vitality. That's The Truth. 

(baby cries) 

Hush... Don't you cry now. 

You've been Trouble enough. 

"Call it a cute congestion" indeed! 

I don't see what's so cute about 

a congestion just cos it's yours. 

We'll have your father run an editorial in his paper. 

"The wonders of modern medicine." They don't know 

what they're curing even when they cure it. 

Men! Men and their battle scars. 

We women have... Helen? 

(clicks fingers) Helen! Cap'n! 

(screaming) Cap'n! Will you come? 

Katie! What is it? What's happened? - (screaming) - 

Katie! What is it? What's wrong?

Look! She can't see. Look at her eyes. She can't see. 

Helen! 

Or hear. When I screamed  she 

didn't blink.Not an eyelash!

Helen!

She can't hear you!

Helen! Helen!