:E0630 (E) /h4/ /h9/ TIME CODE: 06:30 JUSTIN and SUSANNE are alone. JUSTIN I can't find Helen. Have you seen her? SUSANNE No. JUSTIN I'm worried about her. SUSANNE She may be planning to make a surprise grand entrance. JUSTIN I thought I was giving her a ride. She wasn't home. SUSANNE Really? JUSTIN You think she plans to make a grand entrance? SUSANNE I'm sure that must be it. You know Helen, she's not going to let this be just another dull wedding. She probably made other arrangements to get her and forgot to tell you. JUSTIN It's hardly dull, given all the weirdos around here. SUSANNE But Helen won't let weirdos upstage her. JUSTIN I hope you're right. SUSANNE I'm sure I am. How can there be a wedding without Helen? It's unthinkable. So relax and tell me what you've been up to. JUSTIN Defending Helen, lately. I think her rivals are hoping she's guilty. They probably believe she did murder the doctor. SUSANNE Poisoned him, is what I heard. But let's talk about something more interesting. I heard you got divorced. JUSTIN Two years ago. SUSANNE Well, you haven't been home since then, have you? I bet there's a new woman in your life. JUSTIN Not really. SUSANNE Now that surprises me. JUSTIN And you? I heard you got divorced yourself. SUSANNE You are behind the times: I've married and divorced again since then. Me and Liz, we just don't seem to be compatible with matrimony. JUSTIN I think I'll try a live-in next time myself. SUSANNE I think even that may be too much for me. You know what it is? I really don't mind being alone. Men don't like that in a woman. Self-reliance threatens them. JUSTIN Then you've been with clingers. That was my problem, not having enough time to myself. SUSANNE Franklin, the last one, wouldn't even let me do the Sunday crossword in peace. I'd take it to the terrace, he'd follow me, reading the sports pages to me of all things. Follow me around the house like a puppy dog, throwing meaningless statistics at me, so-and-so walked in a run, the count was such-and-such with two outs in the ninth when pow!, someone or other belted it over the fence. No matter what I said, he refused to believe I was not interested in football. JUSTIN Baseball. SUSANNE Of course. JUSTIN I can sympathize with you. My ex kept me up to date with the strategies and whatall in her bridge club. I've refused to learn for years. SUSANNE I know just how you feel. A pause: and Susanne laughs. JUSTIN What's so funny? SUSANNE The two of us. Who would've thought we'd have so much in common? JUSTIN Do we? SUSANNE We need our privacy -- that's a significant common denominator in today's world. JUSTIN Susanne, are you making a move on me? SUSANNE Well, it has crossed my mind. What do you think? JUSTIN I didn't know you were so aggressive. SUSANNE I'm not proposing, for God's sake. But since you're in town for a while . . . JUSTIN Only until we win the appeal. Then it's back to San Francisco. SUSANNE I hope you're not possessive. JUSTIN Hardly. SUSANNE Then perhaps we can enjoy one another while we can. JUSTIN I'm flattered. SUSANNE Don't be. Just take advantage of the situation. JUSTIN Yes, perhaps I shall. SUSANNE Good. Now that that's settled, tell me what you really think of this wedding. JUSTIN I find it very suspicious. SUSANNE In other words, Trudy's lost her marbles. JUSTIN It's a possibility. I didn't think she'd remarry so soon after divorcing Raymond. SUSANNE Perhaps she's doing it to hurt Helen. JUSTIN How do you mean? SUSANNE I assume she believes Helen is guilty, considering how close she was to her father. She knows Helen is tough-minded enough to see through this cult, any cult, so naturally the way to get at her would be to give the estate money to one. Helen, bless her soul, is trying to go along with it, but what alternative does she have? It would be more of a scandal to turn her own daughter away, not to go along with the wedding at all. That's why I feel certain she'll be here. But inside, I know she's in pain. Trudy in a cult is just tearing her up inside -- and then giving most of the estate to the cult as well-- JUSTIN We don't really know she's doing that. SUSANNE Of course she is. JUSTIN Jack is challenging the will, at any rate. SUSANNE He is? JUSTIN This is just between you, me and the fencepost -- but that's what Lylla Morrison is doing here. Jack's retained her to challenge the will and also Trudy's sanity, her ability to handle her own affairs. SUSANNE That's the last thing Helen needs, her children fighting over the estate. JUSTIN I think she's on Jack's side. SUSANNE It still must be tearing her up inside. JUSTIN After what she's been through already, this is small potatoes. SUSANNE That poor woman. She's a wonder, how she bears up, then sending out those lovely wedding invitations. ANGELO joins them. /h4/ /h9/ /en13/ TIME CODE: 09:30 ?"Continue" ?"Bookmark" ?"Exit" :"Continue" Continue