If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up (2024)

Willie Conway notices, with a discomforting mixture of embarrassment and fascination, that he is beginning to feel attracted to Marty, the thirteen‑year‑old daughter of his friend Michael. He recognizes the impropriety of any pursuit and, when he confides to Michael about his confusing feelings, Michael tells him bluntly that Marty's youth makes the attraction impossible and suggests that Willie's admission is really a symptom of his refusal to accept adulthood. The next day, Willie joins Michael, Michael's daughters, and a ring of friends at a frozen lake where Paul keeps his little ice‑fishing shack. While the others skate and fool around, Willie spots Marty gliding with a group of schoolmates. He moves over to speak with her away from the others. Marty explains that she has stopped dating a classmate named Andrew because he "dorked out" on her; when Willie asks if anyone new has taken his place, she replies that "he" has become her boyfriend. Willie reminds her of the obvious age gap and the legal impossibility of any future between them. Marty tells him she will wait five years, until she turns eighteen, and then they can be together. Willie shakes his head and tells her to wait all she likes, but he believes that five years will change her; she will grow through those years and the person she becomes will not remember the intensity of this moment. Marty, disappointed, skates away across the ice.

On the following day Tommy, who has been carrying on an affair with Darian, meets her at the town library and tells her in blunt terms that they must end their sexual relationship because it is making both of them unstable and because Tommy has a girlfriend, Sharon, whom he cannot keep betraying. Darian insists she has managed to steer Steve, Sharon's husband, away from their high school reunion the following night so they will be alone; Tommy replies bitterly that Sharon has already handled that problem because she knows about his infidelity. Darian leaves after warning Tommy that the reunion will reveal whether he has truly cut ties with her, and she smiles with a mixture of hope and threat as she departs.

That evening Willie is at the Old Johnson Inn, Stanley's dim bar, tinkling a piano when Andera, Stanley's attractive cousin from Chicago, enters. Willie attempts to flirt; Andera rebuffs him but accepts his later invitation to join Paul and him for ice fishing at Paul's shack. During the outing she and Willie exchange candid observations about romance: Willie confesses that he loves the rush of new infatuation yet fears its inevitable fade, and he tells Andera that his girlfriend Tracy is coming into town the next day for the reunion. Andera points out the reciprocal nature of jealousy -- Willie marvels at how someone else makes Andera glow the way another man must marvel at Willie's relationship with Tracy -- and then she prepares to return to Chicago. The next morning Tracy arrives at Willie's father Dick's house; Willie greets her with a warm embrace, his earlier ambivalence melting when he sees her. That evening, after dinner with Dick and Willie's brother Bobby, Willie looks out a window and sees Marty sliding her sled under a porch. He calls to her; Marty comes out, and Willie introduces her to Tracy. Willie kisses Marty on the right cheek as a farewell, tells her he hopes they can remain friends, and Marty thanks him before going inside.

Later, a group of friends -- Willie, Tracy, Paul, Michael, Stanley, Kev, Gina and Sarah -- gather at Michael and Sarah's house for a pre‑reunion get‑together. Tommy decides to skip the actual reunion rather than confront Darian and goes to the Old Johnson Inn to drink alone. Darian attends the reunion and runs into an old classmate who tells her that while she was beautiful in school she had been "mean as a snake," a remark that shakes her. At the bar Tommy discovers Steve among his friends. Steve confronts Tommy and tells him directly that he knows Tommy slept with Darian. Tommy, expecting a fight, tells Steve that he does not look like the type who handles his own battles, but he steps aside and leaves the bar. Once Tommy reaches his parked snowplow outside, Steve and his companions follow him out and attack. They beat Tommy savagely near his vehicle.

Frank, the bartender, comes out, finds Tommy slumped and bloodied in a booth, and brings him back inside. Tommy refuses Frank's offer to call the police but Frank telephones Michael instead and tells him that Tommy has been assaulted. The word spreads quickly; Michael, Paul and Willie drive to the bar to check on him. At Steve's house, Michael and Paul go to the door to confront him while Willie climbs into Tommy's snowplow. When Steve answers Michael's pounding on his door, his friends arrive in a heavy car to back him up. Willie maneuvers the snowplow, powers it forward, and pins the friends' car against a snowbank to keep them from joining the melee. Michael takes a swing at Steve and is ready to inflict more harm when Steve's young daughter appears in the doorway and asks her father what is happening. Seeing the child, Michael withdraws; he and the others leave after Paul orders Steve to stay away from their circle of friends and from Tommy. Darian arrives home shortly after to find the scene quiet in the aftermath.

Tommy is taken to the hospital. Sharon, having been notified by Gina, sits up with him in the emergency room; a doctor confirms that Tommy has suffered a concussion, two broken ribs, and required thirty stitches to close lacerations to his head. He will recover physically, the medical staff says, but the group waits anxiously. Kev excuses himself to go sand Tommy's lots outside; later, in the hospital's late hours, Tommy talks with Sharon. He confesses that he has been drifting through life and is not the man he imagined he would become; he says he wants to try to be the sort of man who deserves someone like her. Paul, moved by the night's violence and the emotional spillover, drives to the home of his ex‑girlfriend Jan and clears her driveway of snow rather than block it, a small act of contrition.

The following morning Willie visits Tommy in his hospital room to say goodbye before Willie and Tracy head back to New York City. He finds Sharon asleep in a chair by Tommy's bed and tells Tommy they will keep in touch. Michael arrives with his daughters to give Tommy their well wishes, and Willie exchanges one more farewell with his friend. Back at Dick's house, Willie and Tracy load their suitcases into Tracy's car under a gray sky. Paul stops by to say goodbye and reports he has learned that Jan is engaged to someone else, news he receives with a shrug. Marty comes out onto her porch as Willie and Tracy prepare to leave; Willie introduces Marty to Tracy and then leans forward to plant a brief kiss on Marty's cheek. Marty smiles. Tracy and Willie drive off together, the town receding behind them as they begin their long trip to New York.

Meanwhile, in a different land, Glinda the Good arrives in Munchkinland to join the populace in a boisterous celebration of the death of the Wicked Witch of the West. She stands among cheering townspeople and, when asked about wickedness, she recounts the Witch's life in measured terms: the Witch--named Elphaba Thropp--was the child of Governor Thropp's wife Melena and a mysterious traveling salesman. Because a green elixir the stranger administered to Melena altered her newborn daughter's skin, townspeople ostracize Elphaba for her unnatural green complexion; they recoil from the display of her nascent magical gifts. Glinda admits that she and Elphaba crossed paths in youth and that their acquaintance shaped later events.

The narrative shifts back to earlier years on Shiz University's campus, where a green‑skinned Elphaba escorts her younger sister Nessarose to her first day of classes. Administrators patronize Nessarose because she uses a wheelchair, and their condescension sparks an emotional outburst from Elphaba that disturbs those around her. Madame Morrible, the Dean of Sorcery Studies, intercepts Elphaba and offers to enroll her and tutor her privately; Elphaba accepts, driven by a hope that once she serves Oz's ruler she might find a cure for her skin or at least acceptance. At Shiz she meets her roommate, Galinda Upland, whose preoccupation with popularity and social climbing leads to repeated clashes. Outside the classroom, Elphaba follows Dr. Dillamond, a talking goat and a respected history professor, to a clandestine meeting of Animals who are being stripped of their rights; Dillamond tells Elphaba in a worried voice that Animals are losing the ability to speak and fears for his teaching position. Elphaba promises Dillamond that the Wizard will intervene.

A rebellious transfer student, Fiyero Tigelaar, leads a group of undergraduates to a party at the Ozdust Ballroom nightclub. Galinda, intent on attracting Fiyero's attention, persuades Boq, a Munchkin who admires her, to invite Nessarose so that Galinda can attend along with Fiyero. At Nessarose's insistence, Elphaba convinces Madame Morrible to permit Galinda to study sorcery as well; at the Ozdust, Galinda plays a cruel joke by giving Elphaba an ugly black hat, prompting other students to mock Elphaba for her looks. Later Galinda, in remorse, dances with Elphaba and a tentative friendship develops.

Back in class Dr. Dillamond stands to tell students that Animals are no longer permitted to teach at Shiz. Guards seize him and remove him from the lecture hall; the faculty stains its hands further by replacing him with Professor Nikidik, who demonstrates a small lion cub caged mid‑class in order to teach that Animals must be domesticated and silenced. Elphaba reacts by scattering poppy dust across the room; several students lose consciousness, and she escapes the chaos with Fiyero. Outside, she and Fiyero liberate the caged cub and set it free in the forest. When they watch the cub bound away, Elphaba's face reveals both triumph and a private sorrow as she admits to herself that her feelings for Fiyero remain unreciprocated.

Shortly afterward Elphaba receives an invitation to meet the Wizard of Oz, conveyed by Madame Morrible. Elphaba travels to the Emerald City with Galinda, who begins to call herself "Glinda" after a well‑meaning misunderstanding by Dr. Dillamond. In the Wizard's chamber Elphaba, Galinda and the Wizard confront an unvarnished truth: the Wizard is an ordinary man, not a being of awe. Under Madame Morrible's watchful eye the Wizard urges Elphaba to perform a levitation spell from the Grimmerie, a sacred spellbook that only Elphaba can read. She complies; when she casts the levitation the Wizard's simian guards erupt painfully as wings force themselves from their backs, sending them into frantic, disoriented flight. The Wizard and Morrible laugh and clasp hands as they imagine using the winged monkeys as surveillance tools. Watching the transformation and hearing their celebration, Elphaba slows, grips the Grimmerie with both hands and comprehends the magnitude of the betrayal: the Wizard has used her magic to further a program of Animal subjugation and is content to conceal his lack of true power behind her abilities.

Realizing that she has been exploited to oppress those she cares for, Elphaba snatches the Grimmerie from the Wizard's table and bolts for the exit. Glinda follows her down corridors, calling for Elphaba to stop, but Elphaba will not turn back as Madame Morrible denounces her on public platforms and paints her as a traitor to Oz. Elphaba seizes one of the Wizard's contraptions--a balloon intended for the Wizard's public relations--and when the escape route becomes blocked and the balloon ignites she improvises: she repeats a levitation spell on a broom and lifts herself out of the burning airship. High above the city she rides the broom and flies westward. Glinda stands on the ground, watching, and although she wants to follow she does not; the two exchange a brief, intense farewell in which neither moves to force the other. Guards seize Glinda shortly afterward.

As panic ripples through Shiz and the city, Fiyero mounts a horse and rides out of the campus with other students amid an evacuation. Governor Thropp and his wife Melena, in the governor's residence, receive word of the turmoil and the news triggers a fatal heart attack in the governor. Nessarose, watching, reacts with horror. Elphaba arcs through the western sky on her broom and disappears toward uncharted territory, leaving Glinda and Madame Morrible behind as Oz reorganizes itself around the new narratives that will define the land. In Munchkinland the citizens continue their noisy festival for the death of the Wicked Witch of the West while Glinda remains among the celebrants, and Elphaba's solitary flight carries her away from the structures and people she has known. The story ends with Willie and Tracy on the road to New York, Marty watching Willie's car recede, and Elphaba vanishing over the horizon as Oz reshapes itself in the wake of her defiance.

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