: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