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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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