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        B/ 5200   Evelyn enters

                        EVELYN
                Excuse me, I . . . I was going to use the
                phone . . .

        She goes to the phone on the wall and will start to dial,
        then hang up, not wanting to phone with people around.

                        EVELYN
                Well, I guess I can phone later.

                        CYNDI
                Did you want to be alone?

                        EVELYN
                Oh, no, it's all right, I can call later, it's
                really nothing.  No, that's not true.  I've
                just been through a terrible ordeal.

                        CYNDI
                You are upset.  Make your call, we'll move
                elsewhere.

                        EVELYN
                No, please.  You might as well know.  Well,
                maybe you already do.  I just lost my nerve
                for a moment -- not used to the big scoop, you
                know!  God, I can't believe this-- . . .

        She takes a deep breath, regaining her composure.

                        EVELYN
                I know about the drug deal happening here
                tonight.  And I aim to get to the bottom of
                it.

        She thinks she's telling CYNDI something the latter already
        knows but is met by blank stares.

                        EVELYN
                You do know what I'm talking about, don't
                you?

                        CYNDI
                No, I don't.

                        TRUDY
                Is this one of Jack's stunts?  I can't believe
                he'd do this at my wedding.

                        EVELYN
                Maybe, but I don't think so.  I think it
                involves someone in the church.  Yang Wolf,
                for example.

                        TRUDY
                Yang Wolf is selling drugs?

                        EVELYN
                Perhaps.

                        CYNDI
                What makes you so sure something like that is
                going on?

                        EVELYN
                I overheard the deal being made.  Angelo
                DiMarco, one of the guests, is in on it as
                well.  Very much in on it -- he threatened my
                life when I questioned him about it.

                        CYNDI
                Then that wasn't very smart of you.

                        TRUDY
                Is anyone else involved?

                        EVELYN
                Maxine, I think.  Or at least her name was
                brought up.

                        TRUDY
                I wouldn't put it past her to be the
                ringleader.

                        CYNDI
                I don't like talk like this.  The church does
                not deal in drugs.

                        EVELYN
                I don't mean to involve the church itself --
                but some of your members may be involved,
                without your knowledge.

                        CYNDI
                Drugs contradict church philosophy.

                        EVELYN
                Perhaps not all of your members believe church
                philosophy.

                        CYNDI
                Then why on earth would they join?

        She is baiting Trudy now.

                        CYNDI
                What would be the point?

                        EVELYN
                I just know what I heard.

                        CYNDI
                Yin Trudy, explain to her the seriousness of
                our spiritual purpose.  It would be absurd to
                join the church, to submit yourself to the
                spiritual discipline of the church, to embrace
                the difficult task of seeking primitive
                balance in a culture that has forgotten what
                balance means -- to join and not believe, not
                participate?  Tell her.

        Trudy is uncomfortable in this role.

                        TRUDY
                Well, it does involve discipline.  It really
                doesn't make much sense just to join for the
                fun of it.

                        EVELYN
                Not the fun of it -- to run a very profitable
                drug ring.

                        TRUDY
                You really think someone is doing that?

        CYNDI goes to greater extremes to trap Trudy now -- she
        begins her channelling meditation, humming.

                        CYNDI
                Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm etc.

                        EVELYN
                She's channelling, isn't she?

                        TRUDY
                Yes.

                        EVELYN
                Why, do you suppose?

                        TRUDY (worried)
                I don't know.

                        CYNDI
                Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm etc.

         Susanne enters from upstairs.  /en9/ TIME CODE: 54:00

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