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          (H)  - /en3/ /en6/ TIME CODE: 44:30

         Richard has come upstairs and surprises Trudy in H.

                        YANG RICHARD
                We got problems, sweetheart.

                        TRUDY
                Oh!, you scared me . . .

                        YANG RICHARD
                Cyndi's been telling me some very interesting
                things about you.

                        TRUDY
                I know -- I overheard some of what she was
                saying.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Is it true?:  That you've been spilling your
                guts out to that fat cat lady here, telling
                her you're not "really" in the church --
                things like that . . . . .

                        TRUDY
                Of course it's true.

        He grabs her arm.

                        YANG RICHARD
                This is not the game plan we agreed on.

                        TRUDY
                I've changed it -- let go of me!

                        YANG RICHARD
                You've made Cyndi suspicious as hell.

                        TRUDY
                For a reason--!  If you'd let go so I can
                explain--

                        YANG RICHARD
                Hey, I know what you're up to, just as you
                know what I'm up to -- which puts us in this
                charade together, okay?  Fine, we have
                different goals but if your way of reaching it
                interferes with my way of reaching mine, well,
                I don't call that playing fair.

                        TRUDY
                Just let go of me--!

        He does.  She rubs her arm.

                        TRUDY
                I wouldn't have done it if I'd known Cyndi was
                listening.  That wasn't the point, I'm not
                trying to screw anything up for you.

                        YANG RICHARD
                What did you think you were doing?

                        TRUDY
                I was setting up Justin and Susanne.

                        YANG RICHARD
                I need more than that.  Cyndi said you were
                upset and losing it.

                        TRUDY
                That's part of the act.  Christ, Richard,
                everything we do around here is an act.    I
                need Maxine to come to me, okay?  To think
                she's coming to me from a position of being in
                control.  She still thinks I care for her,
                that when I'm down, rock bottom down, she's
                the only one I'll turn to.  So I had to get
                the impression out that I'm upset, even near
                the breaking point -- because Maxine would
                believe she's the only one who can really help
                me.

                        YANG RICHARD
                I thought you joined in order to get to her.

                        TRUDY
                If I went to her now, all she'd do is reject
                me. I already laid the foundation of rejecting
                her -- but if you reject me, if you find out
                I've betrayed you, she'd come flying back to
                me because she'd be in control again. Maxine
                has to be in control.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Let me get this straight -- your object is to
                get close enough to Maxine to get some kind of
                revenge -- but to do this, you have to set up
                a situation where Maxine thinks you need her,
                even though you're rejecting her -- so that
                then she'll come to you . . . for what?  Why
                not just do what you have to do, straight out?

                        TRUDY
                Because I want her to suffer -- and to know I
                out-smarted her.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Is that what the phony surrogate stuff is about?
               I did my part in that, by the way -- without
                 Cyndi suspecting a thing.

                        TRUDY
                I do appreciate everything you've done.  I didn't mean
                to mess up your plans, Richard.  I don't think I have.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Cyndi instinctively knows that this marriage
                is a sham.

                        TRUDY
                Isn't that your plan?  That she thinks you're
                marrying me for my money?

                        YANG RICHARD
                Of course -- but I'm supposed to be running
                the sham, not you.  Couldn't you have set this
                up without mentioning the church, and Maxine,
                and the rest?

                        TRUDY
                The only ones I trust here are Susanne and
                Justin.  They have to believe I'm in trouble
                because indirectly they'll convince Maxine.

                        YANG RICHARD
                So I'm supposed to reject you?  Thanks for
                getting my approval.

                        TRUDY
                I don't have as much time as I thought -- I
                had to act tonight.

                        YANG RICHARD
                You weren't in such a hurry before.

                        TRUDY
                It involves my mother -- it's too complicated
                to explain.  I have to get even with Maxine
                tonight.  So we're going to have a huge fight,
                you and me, and Justin will protect me from you --
                and Maxine will come running.

                        YANG RICHARD
                That's as convoluted a plan as something that
                I'd come up with.  We seem to think alike.

                        TRUDY
                I doubt it, Richard.  And don't get any ideas.

                        YANG RICHARD
                You're tough as hell, aren't you?

                        TRUDY
                When I have something I have to do, yes.

                        YANG RICHARD (still coming on)
                And Cyndi thought you were spilling the beans
                from weakness.  It takes a good act to fool an
                old pro like her.  I like your talent, lady.

                        TRUDY
                Richard, don't think we're ever going to have
                a relationship beyond business.  I'm grateful
                that you went along with my marriage idea.  Of
                course, it fit into your plans as well.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Yeah, you came along at a perfect time.

                        TRUDY
                What can I do to help you with Cyndi?

                        YANG RICHARD
                Well, if we're having a blowout, that should
                do it -- except for the money.

                        TRUDY
                Cyndi's afraid of losing it, right?

                        YANG RICHARD
                That we'll break up before the transfer of
                funds is made.

                        TRUDY
                Is there some way we can pretend to transfer
                them tonight?

                        YANG RICHARD
                You tell me.

                        TRUDY
                I could give you a check for the church as a
                wedding present -- before we have the blowout.
                It'd be a bad check, of course, but she
                wouldn't have to know until you'd already
                split.

                        YANG RICHARD
                I'm supposed to be confronting you right now.

                        TRUDY
                I could convince you that I'm legit, that she
                heard everything out of context.  Of course,
                you'd have to discover the other later, so we
                could do the fight.

                        YANG RICHARD
                She'd believe you could wrap me around your
                finger -- she thinks I've fallen for you.

                        TRUDY
                You've got to be kidding.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Hey, so it showed.  What am I supposed to do,
                cut off my feelings?

                        TRUDY
                There can be nothing between us -- nothing,
                Richard.  Not later, not ever.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Can't blame a guy for wishing.

                        TRUDY
                I am blaming you.  We both have very important
                matters to settle here tonight.

                        YANG RICHARD
                So, what's the plan?  You convince me, we
                exchange presents and I get a fat check for
                the church.  Then how do I find out you're
                really scum?

                        TRUDY
                If Cyndi isn't convinced, maybe she can change
                your mind.

                        YANG RICHARD
                What she's really worried about is the
                transfer of money.  Once the check is made out
                to the church, she may not care what I'm up
                to.

                        TRUDY
                Then you have it: you put the bad check in the
                church account tomorrow, take out the good
                funds, and split.  Go to Hawaii or whatever
                you plan to do.

                        YANG RICHARD
                I'm beginning my own church.

                        TRUDY
                You're not serious.

                        YANG RICHARD
                I'm very serious.

                                TRUDY
                You're going through all this just to exchange
                one church scam for another?

                        YANG RICHARD
                Trudy, let me explain something to you.  This
                church began as a sham, sure, with all Cyndi's
                channelling bullshit, probably the best acting
                job she's ever done -- but I'll tell you
                something.  The people who have joined the
                church, for the most part, are on a very
                sincere spiritual quest.  They deserve, in
                kind, an institution that speaks to that
                sincerity.

                                TRUDY
                Which is you, right?

                        YANG RICHARD
                I'm not talking about fraud here, I'm talking
                about physics.  Have you ever heard of the new
                physics?

                        TRUDY
                No.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Physicists have become very spiritual.  The
                scientific world, in its most complex and
                sophisticated investigations, has become very
                spiritual.  That's the foundation for an
                institution of worship, not sham and show.  I
                plan to explore in this direction, sincerely,
                rationally, spiritually.  I'm going to call it
                the Church of Quarks, after the subatomic
                particle that's the basis of everything.

                        TRUDY
                And you'll get rich in the process.

                        YANG RICHARD
                And survive in the process.  I'm not going
                into this for the money.

        This is a line he's telling her and she's almost falling for it.

                        TRUDY
                Then why leave Cyndi high and dry?

                        YANG RICHARD
                Cyndi will do fine.  Besides, there are
                personal components here that you don't know
                about.  This isn't the first crisis Cyndi and
                I have gone through over the years.

                        TRUDY
                Well, it's no business of mine what you do.
                We're agreed then?  I write you a bad check,
                we have a big hoopla about it being a wedding
                present, you get the true word about me -- but
                that's still a problem, if you don't find out
                from Cyndi.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Can I find out from Justin or Susanne, since
                they know you're frightened of me?

                        TRUDY
                Off hand, I don't see how that can be done.

                        YANG RICHARD
                Me neither.  Do we really have to have the
                blow out?

                        TRUDY
                Absolutely.  Maxine needs to think I've hit
                rock-bottom.  She needs to feel the full
                delusion of her power over me.

                        YANG RICHARD
                You two must have had an interesting
                relationship.

                        TRUDY
                We did -- but it's none of your business.

                        YANG RICHARD
                So when do we start?  Right now?

                        TRUDY
                Not yet.  You have to let Cyndi know that you
                know I'm sincere, that you're back in control.

                        YANG RICHARD
                And then?

                        TRUDY
                This is our wedding, dear -- we have to act
                like it is.  We mix, we radiate with
                happiness, and when the moment is right we'll
                do the big gift.  Let me lead into that one.

                        YANG RICHARD
                It's your show, baby.  I could use someone
                like you in the Church of Quarks.

                        TRUDY
                You're on a serious spiritual quest, remember?
                Don't let that brain between your legs get in
                the way.

                        YANG RICHARD
                You're tough as nails.
                        TRUDY
                I know what I have to do.

                                YANG RICHARD
                I'm still not sure what that is.

                        TRUDY
                Classical revenge, Richard. Pure and simple.

        She moves off. /ex3/ TIME CODE: 50:30 /h6/

        Richard spies on F, will intervene when Maxine is
        attacked.

?"Follow Trudy" ?"Stay with Richard"

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:"Stay with Richard"
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