City of Ember (2008)

Mary Kay Place: Mrs. Murdo

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• [after Granny passes away, Lina and Poppy have to move into Mrs. Murdo's place. Mrs. Murdo shows them a clean room with a single bed] 

  Mrs. Murdo : You and Poppy have to share, but I think the bed's big enough. Poppy, let's make some dinner and get your sister get settled.

  [Lina, with a box of her belongings in her arms, stares unhappily at her new room] 

  Mrs. Murdo : [Cut to the dinner scene, when there are rumblings from below and bits of ceiling falling from above] 

  Mrs. Murdo : [Mrs. Murdo, oblivious to the destruction all around them, says to Lina:]  Do you know your part?

  Lina Mayfleet : Um, I, I think I remember it pretty well from last year.

  Mrs. Murdo : [enraptured]  Oh, the Great Day of Singing is *so* important! Ah, it lifts all of our hearts! How lucky we are.

  [Mrs. Murdo is equally oblivious to the fact that Lina and Poppy are grieving for Granny] 

  Lina Mayfleet : I don't feel very lucky, lately.

  [Mrs. Murdo lifts a finger grandly, as though to dispense great wisdom] 

  Mrs. Murdo : There's nothing to worry about.

  Lina Mayfleet : The blackouts worry everybody.

  Mrs. Murdo : Help is coming.

  Lina Mayfleet : [frowns:]  Help?

  Mrs. Murdo : Mm-hm! Who built our City, dear?

  Lina Mayfleet : The... Builders?

  Mrs. Murdo : That's right. And the Builders will come again and show us the way.

  [Even Poppy looks incredulous. Lina realizes she has been talking to a crazy person, so she only nods]