:E4500 E / Justine and Susanne enter JUSTIN Captain, I was wondering if you have a phone to shore I could use? MATRE'D I found out about the drugs. JUSTIN Really? Maxine will slip away but before she can get too far, Wolf will grab her and force her into G. /ex11/ TIME CODE: 45:00 ?"Follow Maxine" ?"Stay" :"Follow Maxine" >.loadmark[G4530] :"Stay" MATRE'D Which is what we're here to talk about. Brad/ Brenda, you want to begin? JACK You're starting with a liar. LYLLA Jack, shut up. JACK I don't take orders from you. MATRE'D I'm fully prepared to call the police. JUSTIN You have a phone on board? MATRE'D Of course. JUSTIN Could I use it? It's urgent. MATRE'D I thought you'd want to be in on this. SUSANNE I could call, Justin -- there's no need for me to be in on it. JUSTIN Can she use the phone? MATRE'D It's that way. SUSANNE I'll see if she's home. JUSTIN Thanks, Susanne. Susanne goes to phone - in D?. /ex9/ TIME CODE: 45:30 ?"Follow Susanne" ?"Continue" :"Follow Susanne" >.loadmark[D4600] :"Continue" MATRE'D Brad/Brenda, I asked you to begin. JACK I don't have to stay here and listen to lies. MATRE'D I told you, I'm prepared to call the police. If you want to leave the story to Brad/Brenda and not contribute, fine. LYLLA He'll tell his version. JACK Damn right, I will. I never would have-- MATRE'D Please, I'd like to hear from Brad/Brenda first. Brad/Brenda . . . WAITPERSON It started about six months ago. MATRE'D You've been smuggling dope on my resort for six months? WAITPERSON You want me to explain or not? JACK He's been doing dope for years. LYLLA Wait your turn, Jack. MATRE'D Brad/Brenda . . . WAITPERSON Well, I was broke, you know. The wages aren't what keeps me working here, right? MATRE'D If you're going to try and use your pay as an excuse-- LYLLA Please, let him tell his story. WAITPERSON I love my job. That's why I don't want to lose it. MATRE'D Find time to think of that. WAITPERSON Then what's the point of talking, you know? JACK Especially lies. LYLLA Look, I also want to know what's been going on around here and I suggest we let each of them, Brad/Brenda and Jack, tell their story one at a time, and we refrain from interruptions. Is it possible to do that? MATRE'D I'm sorry. Go on, Brad/Brenda . . . WAITPERSON It was after my parents were in their wreck, actually, and their insurance wasn't covering everything. They didn't know how they were going to pay the bills. I've known Jack since college, off and on, we were even roommates for a while, and of course I'd heard through the grapevine that he was dealing-- JACK I'm going to deny-- LYLLA Jack! You'll get your turn. WAITPERSON Anyway, I ran into him and kind of inquired if he needed any help, you know, some way I could make a few bucks on the side. He got the idea of using the resort to store the stash he got in Astoria, off one of the mother ships, then I could take it on into Cascade Locks, where his boss could come off the mountain, off the Mt. Hood area, and pick it up there. Jack said he was worried about the current pickup site, he was getting paranoid, thinking the cops were on to him, watching him -- he'd been looking for another way to get the dope from the coast to the mountain, and Edgefied seemed like just the ticket to hide it at. And I could make some extra bucks on the side. Then later he had me bring it here, to Portland, he was going to handle it all himself. JACK May I tell you the truth now? LYLLA Is that all, Brad/Brenda? WAITPERSON No, there's more. Well, I did this for a few months, right, giving the money I was making, which was pretty good, and the risk didn't seem like much at the time, I was giving everything to my parents for their bills, well most of it anyway, and everything was fine until this wedding got scheduled. A couple weeks ago when the church people were out here checking out the resort and figuring out how to deliver the bride to the ballroom, and all that stuff, this church lady, Maxine, she started asking me about drugs, I don't know why, I don't know what she knew -- but it was too close for comfort, as far as I was concerned. JACK You never told me that. LYLLA Jack-- . . . go on . . . WAITPERSON I mean, that really spooked me. Did she know I was working with Jack and delivering dope from the coast or what? If not, why was she so interested in drugs? It was really weird -- and scary. JACK Maxine's crazy, man. WAITPERSON Tonight she approached me again -- she knew about Jack, and she said there was going to be a big transfer here tonight, Jack's sister was buying and he was delivering. She said that I should call the police, so they'd be waiting when we dock. JACK Then I think we need to find Maxine. LYLLA Not yet. Any more? WAITPERSON That's about it. Sir, I know I shouldn't have done this. As soon as Maxine started asking questions, suddenly I realized how crazy I'd been, how much risk I was taking, not only to myself but to you, to Edgefield and the rest of the staff. MATRE'D You should've thought of that earlier. WAITPERSON The only thing I can say is I was worried about my parents, I didn't know what the hell would happen to them, there's only me and I've never been much of a breadwinner, I'd always gone for jobs on the run and whatever, and now they really needed me and I couldn't help them. It never occurred to me to get into any of this until I ran into Jack. And then I thought . . . well, all the rest. LYLLA Thank you for being so cooperative. WAITPERSON I guess this means I'm canned, huh? LYLLA Not necessarily, I would hope. Perhaps the matre'd will find some extenuating circumstances. MATRE'D Right now I'd like to hear Jack's version. JUSTIN Can we ask questions? LYLLA Surely. JUSTIN Did you get the idea that Maxine was involved in any kind of drugs traffic herself -- or was she just asking general questions about drugs? The first time, I mean -- before tonight. WAITPERSON She just asked general questions. Did I know there were mother ships on the coast? Wouldn't it be easy to smuggle dope on the resort here? Stuff too damn close for comfort. JUSTIN She worked for the Brodeys, so of course she'd know about Jack's reputation. JACK Screw you, too. LYLLA Jack-- JUSTIN Unless she's into drugs trafficking herself -- if Jack were a competitor, so to speak, it would give her sufficient reason, beyond any kind of personal grudge, to want to remove him from the scene. Does that make sense? Set a trap for Jack and Trudy, in order to eliminate the competition. LYLLA Except Trudy isn't a customer -- at least, I don't think so. WAITPERSON I don't know anything about that part. She just wanted me to frame Jack and Trudy. JACK Of course she isn't a customer -- Jesus. LYLLA Jack, you want to tell your version now? /h2/ /h4/ /h5/ /h7/ /h8/ TIME CODE: 49:30 ?"Go on" ?"Bookmark" ?"Exit" :"Go on" Go on