:G2130 (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/ TIME CODE: 24:30 ?"Follow Jack" ?"Stay here" :"Follow Jack" Follow Jack :"Stay here" Stay here