:A0700 (A) TIME: 0700 MATRE'D I have things to take care of myself. CYNDI Please don't leave. MATRE'D Something you want? CYNDI Yes. MATRE'D Name it, I'll see what I can do. CYNDI I have to know more first. This is so sudden. MATRE'D What is? CYNDI Do you realize how rare an insight that is, to judge direction by the river? MATRE'D Sailing is my hobby. Navigation has been second-nature so long, I haven't really thought about it. Most people do judge "up" by the map, though. CYNDI The artificial map, the man-made map, while the map of Mother Nature is forgotten. MATRE'D The world we live in, I guess. CYNDI What do you think of that world, Mr. . . .? MATRE'D Watson. How do you mean? CYNDI Is it moral, calling "down the valley" upriver? MATRE'D I haven't thought of it as a matter of right and wrong, really. CYNDI In your heart-of-hearts, it doesn't disturb you, to hear people speak such ignorance? MATRE'D Oh, I suppose I get a chuckle out of it now and then. Like people saying "irregardless." It's nonsense but it's become habitual. CYNDI Exactly: we have the habits of falsehood, everywhere you look. MATRE'D This is really an important matter to you, I take it. CYNDI If we ignore the primitive balance of nature, we are doomed. Yes, I think that is an important matter. MATRE'D I confess I don't know much about your religion, I believe it's a religion, but I take it you're a back-to-nature group, concerned with the environment and all that . . .? CYNDI The Universal Church of Primitive Balance. We are concerned with everything the name implies. MATRE'D I can sympathize with your concern for nature. On the other hand, there's not a lot you can do about the way things on. Corporations rule the roost. CYNDI I'm sorry to hear you say that. I had an impulsive reaction a moment ago, quite contrary to my first impression of you. At first I saw you as a military man. More correctly, a military mind. The Matre'd, the Official Host, the Man in Charge, the Captain of the Lodge. But then when you understood, as a matter of course, a matter of such importance, that direction depends on the river, not on the map -- the map is not the territory, as they say -- I had a glandular impulse, I felt the chemistry of insight, that you truly belonged in our church, you were one of us-- . . . MATRE'D Wait a minute, you're going too fast for me. CYNDI I speak of love, Mr. Watson. The spiritual love sharee by kindred minds. But perhaps I was wrong. MATRE'D Frankly, I think so. CYNDI Which saddens me. You like to sail? Well, we've got a yacht we harbor in Southern California, and it could use a permanent captain. I was beginning to think you were the perfect man for the job. MATRE'D I love my job right here. CYNDI I suppose you do. MATRE'D Well, I'm sorry to have disappointed you. CYNDI It's very sad, that you have such wisdom but are afraid to act on it. MATRE'D I have guests to look after -- which I'd better get to. So if you'll excuse me . . . CYNDI I'll always remember the possibility of you. I haven't had such a strong glandular response in months. For a moment, you seemed to be in perfect primitive balance. MATRE'D I don't know what to tell you . . . He moves off, to area . /ex7/ TIME CODE: 09:00 /h10/ ?"Follow Matre'd" ?"Stay here" :"Follow Matre'd" Follow Matre'd :"Stay here" Stay here