:E1930x
E / Time: 1930x
Maxine enters. /en11/ TIME CODE: 19:30
YIN MAXINE
Hello, Jack.
JACK
Maxine.
YIN MAXINE
Long time, no see.
JACK
You got that right.
YIN MAXINE
Surprised to see me?
JACK
Should've guessed it -- where goes
Trudy, can Maxine be far behind?
YIN MAXINE
Wrong guess, actually. I joined the
church before Trudy did.
JACK
You lured her into it, then?
YIN MAXINE
Wrong again. I was in the Bay Area
region. Trudy joined in Los Angeles.
Yang Richard wooed her, not I.
JACK
Don't tell me you two haven't renewed
old acquaintances?
YIN MAXINE
We've both changed a good deal, as a
matter of fact.
JACK
I don't think you're the type that
changes very much, Maxine.
YIN MAXINE
You'd be surprised. What if I told
you I'm going to become a mother?
JACK
A mother! Fat chance.
YIN MAXINE
Well, it's not mine. I mean, not mine
to keep.
JACK
What's that supposed to mean?
YIN MAXINE
I'm a surrogate mother. I'm three
months pregnant this very moment.
JACK
A surrogate mother? You?
YIN MAXINE
For the church. It's one of our most
successful programs.
JACK
The church specializes in surrogate
mothers, right. Now I've heard everything.
YIN MAXINE
We believe spiritual inheritance is as
important as genetic inheritance. We
get the top rate in the market, as a matter
of fact. We have a larger demand for
surrogate mothers than we can provide.
JACK
You're putting me on, right?
YIN MAXINE
Lots can change in a year, Jack.
JACK
Tell mother that.
YIN MAXINE
I'd like you to understand why I did what
I did.
JACK
I can guess. What I'd like you to know is
you're not going to get away with it.
YIN MAXINE
After your father died, I expected to retain
the same place in the household as I had
before. That was the agreement I thought I
had with your mother.
JACK
Obviously she didn't think so.
YIN MAXINE
When she kicked me out of the mansion, I had
no choice but to go to the police, Jack. It
was a terrible burden of guilt I was carrying.
JACK
You don't know the meaning of guilt.
YIN MAXINE
Yes, I do. I poisoned the cheesecake that
killed your father under direct orders from
Helen. Yet she planned to cast me out,
probably planned to blame the death on me.
The autopsy identified the cause of death,
after all -- where there's poison, there has
to be a poisoner. I did it but I was paid
to do it, more or less. So I had no choice
but to go to the police and make a deal
with them.
JACK
I don't believe you.
YIN MAXINE
I'm sure you don't. But it's the truth. I
swear by Universal Balance.
JACK
Universal bullshit! And I'm going to make sure you
don't get away with it.
YIN MAXINE
I just wanted to let you know the truth. It's
all I can do.
JACK
Trudy had nothing to do with with my father's
death?
YIN MAXINE
Heavens, no. It was Helen's idea, from top
to bottom.
JACK
Why would mother want to kill him?
YIN MAXINE
Surely you can answer that yourself, Jack.
JACK
This way . . .
The matre'd approaches. Jack and Maxine move off to
G. /en7/ /ex2/ /ex11/ TIME CODE: 21:00
"Follow them" ERROR CODE GO TO DISK2
?"Follow them" ?"Stay at bar"
Open Part 2 and select character.