:H4430 (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" :"Follow Trudy" Follow Trudy :"Stay with Richard" Stay with Richard