Kees can’t sleep at night. Fear of needles and his pain drives him to the clinic, shivering like a chihuahua. Luckily, John is his support and his rock to hold his hand, but it really just makes it worse. “You have some pain at first, sure, but when he’s numb you don’t feel it anymore. But those injections…,” John begins of the treatment. “Yeah, but shut up. You keep yelling it,” the tense Kees snaps at him.
Arriving at the haircut clinic, John gets a little sentimental. “I’m proud of you for that. I wish I could take all your pain, Kees. But you can’t, boy.” When the doctor is also stuck in a traffic jam, Kees is short of breath. He actually wants to escape, but luckily the doctor arrives just in time and takes care of Kees’ head right away.
First his head is shaved and then a new hairline is drawn. This causes the necessary emotions for Kees. “How bad. Now I can actually sit and cry.” He hasn’t said the words yet or the waterlanders are already in his eyes.
It’s time for the real work to begin, or rather, the work that Kees is so afraid of – anesthesia. As the doctor sticks needles into the back of his head at a good pace, Kees screams. “Pussy, tuberculosis, typhus, damn it”, he plays in the operating room.
John is sweating carrots in the waiting room, but word of the ransom soon comes. “It went well,” says one of the hostesses. However, John gets too angry and tears flow into his eyes. “Now I have to cry too. Terrible.”
John turns out to be a true romantic. He made the cake, but the baker made a mistake. On the cake there is the pontifical inscription “proud of you”. “Proud of you isn’t with a ‘w’, is it? Very smart baker, who attended OLO: Very Low Education. I called, ‘Can I have a cake with ‘proud of you’? a W’?”
Fortunately, all is forgotten when Kees emerges from surgery. This time even smiling and it’s for the first time today. He is allowed to leave the clinic and John poses as a romantic other half. “You don’t have to do anything,” John tells him. He even went shopping. He shouldn’t get any crazier. “I can be a little romantic, but then you must be almost dead,” laughs John.
The beavers can be seen every Wednesday at 20:30 on RTL 5 and Videoland.
