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(G) /en2/ /en11/ TIME CODE: 21:30
Jack and Maxine enter the area, to get alone.
YIN MAXINE
I don't have more to say, Jack. If you
won't believe me--
JACK (grabbing her)
You have a hell of a lot more to say.
YIN MAXINE
Let go of me!
JACK
Not until you tell me the truth.
YIN MAXINE
I have.
Jack lets her go.
YIN MAXINE
If you don't want to believe the truth,
that's your problem, not mine.
JACK
Mother hired you, more or less, to kill
Dad? Is that it?
YIN MAXINE
If you understood women . . .
JACK
What's that supposed to mean?
YIN MAXINE
How do you think she felt, watching his
perpetual affairs?
JACK
Including you.
YIN MAXINE
Yes, including me! Not that I'm proud
of it.
JACK
You're deranged, Maxine. First Dad, then
Trudy -- I'm surprised you never tried to
pick up on me.
YIN MAXINE
I prefer my lovers sober.
JACK
I'd have to be drunk, to look twice at you.
YIN MAXINE
I see no point in this--
JACK
I'm not done yet. I want to know about Trudy.
YIN MAXINE
I told you, she had nothing to do with it.
JACK
You said she joined the church in L.A.
YIN MAXINE
After meeting Yang Richard. He wooed her into
the church, Jack, not I.
JACK
Let's assume that's true -- isn't it an
incredible coincidence that both of you end up
in it?
YIN MAXINE
Okay, I was corresponding with her. She knew
I'd joined. Maybe that had a little to do
with it.
JACK
Are you two still lovers?
YIN MAXINE
No.
Jack just looks at her.
YIN MAXINE
It's the truth. We'd split up long before
Trudy left Raymond and met Yang Richard. We
parted friends, though, at least on my end.
I'll always feel close to her -- not like you
think, Jack. Jesus, you know nothing about
caring, do you? What I was doing, becoming a
surrogate mother, was very important to me, I
wanted to share it with someone I felt close
to.
JACK
Sorry, I forgot the violins.
YIN MAXINE
Screw you.
She starts away again, Jack stops her.
JACK
I want to know about Trudy.
YIN MAXINE
I can't help you, Jack.
JACK
You think her new husband got her to join
the church?
YIN MAXINE
Of course.
JACK
She would've joined even without your
letters?
YIN MAXINE
I think so, yes. She's obviously searching
for something, has been for a long time,
and the church provides what she needs.
JACK
And you? Does it provide what you need?
YIN MAXINE
It's given me a chance to become pregnant.
I owe the church a good deal for that.
JACK
You? Maxine, this is hard to believe.
YIN MAXINE
I've changed. I told you that.
JACK
Trudy plans to give her considerable share of the
estate to the church.
YIN MAXINE
It doesn't surprise me.
JACK
That suggests an ulterior motive in the
groom, don't you think?
YIN MAXINE
The church is very wealthy already. I
doubt if he'd marry just for money.
JACK
How well do you know him?
YIN MAXINE
Yang Richard is a very bright, a very
talented, lawyer. Very open-minded.
JACK
Open-minded! Don't tell me you buy all
that channelling back twenty-five-thousand
years bunk, High Priestess what's-her-face
and the wisdom of matriarchal whatever?
YIN MAXINE
Look around you, Jack. Who's to make a
judgment on what people believe or don't
believe. You believe in whatever works
for you.
JACK
I've hired a lawyer to challenge Trudy's
right to the estate.
YIN MAXINE
On what grounds?
JACK
That Dad was not of sound mind when he recorded his
will and that Trudy is mentally incapable of handling
her own financial affairs. Dad's will is on video,
for Christ's sake, it's a goddamn performance!
YIN MAXINE
You expect to prove Trudy is crazy just
because she joined the church?
JACK
For starters.
YIN MAXINE
You don't have a case.
JACK
I do if she was brought into the church
to exploit her inheritance.
YIN MAXINE
Yang Richard wouldn't marry her just for
the money.
JACK
You haven't known him very long to say
that.
YIN MAXINE
It's my gut feeling.
JACK
I consider the source, Maxine -- and the
source is a murderer.
Brad/Brenda has been trying to get Jack's attention by now,
gesturing for him to follow. Jack gets the message.
YIN MAXINE
Then what's the point in talking?
JACK
You're right -- there is no point. I'm out
of here.
He exits to follow Brad/Brenda but will be intercepted. /ex2/
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