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29 Cards in this Set
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What the **** is going on?
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Were you… watching the house?
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Did he bring her here? I’ll kill him…
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He had to bring her; she’s on suicide watch.
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Get her out of here. Now.
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Don’t give me orders, Max!
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I’m here taking care of your mother! I’m spending time I do not have-
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You can leave. I can handle it. You got the lawyer, Andrew is here. You can go.
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No. I used my good name to get us a lawyer. I’m not gonna turn him over to your indie-rock boy-toy.
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He’s my husband, Max. (After a beat.) And that is… permanent.
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Why are you looking at me like you’re breaking up with me?
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Max, stuff is gonna have to change with us.
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What “stuff”?
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Andrew and I just made an agreement. He can’t be alone with Becky, and I can’t be alone with you…
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What?!
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It’s not appropriate for us to be emotionally intimate when I’m married to Andrew.
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Emotionally intimate? According to you, I’m not capable of that.
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We can talk on the phone, but… we can’t be alone, it just gets too blurry.
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This Is because of Becky.
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Not entirely--
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It is. God, I ******* hate that woman. She’s a nutcase, so our relationship has to change?
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Yes.
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How? How does a twenty-five-year friendship change because of her?
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Up until this… I had doubts. I thought maybe we should be together. But now I don’t have them. Doubts.
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If you don’t have doubts, then why are we blurry? (off her silence.) I’ll rephrase the question. What are your “Doubts” about me?
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(Careful.) You have always had the ability to tune out other people’s pain when it inconvenicences you.
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Excuse me?
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Not mine. You have always been there for me and for my parents. I’m talking about other people… Iraq is not your problem, Becky is not your problem…
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That’s right. They’re not. And I make no apologies. Unless you’re Gandhi or Jesus, you have alimited sphere of responsibility. You have a plot of land and the definition of a moral life is tending that plot of land--
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You need new material. I’ve heard the “plot of land” speech.
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Becky Shaw is not my plot of land! You are. And I tend my plot. I will always tend my plot.
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You make me sound like an obligation. Am I more than that to you?
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Yes! If I didn’t want you on my plot, I would rip you out and compost you. I want you on my plot (After a beat.) Bring Becky in here and I’ll apologize. We’ll put this behind us.
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It’s not that simple
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I will apologize! I will pay her damages, whatever you need. I want her erased from our lives.
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This is exactly what I’m talking about, Max! You erase people. That’s wrong.
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Give me another example. Aside from the war and Becky, how do I “erase” people?
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You watch pornography.
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What? You watch it, too!
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But I feel guilty when I watch it! You don’t.
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Are you ******* kidding me? I’m gonna lose you because I don’t feel guilty when I watch porn?
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Pornography makes Andrew cry.
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That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
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I don’t think it is.
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Does pornography make you cry?
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No, but it should and I wish it did.
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This is completely insane.
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Why don’t you go back to Boston, and we’ll talk in a few days.
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I can’t I’m busy.
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Max--
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I have a very full schedule between… laughing and rape videos and sneering at the troops.
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That isn’t fair.
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No. This. This. Isn’t fair. Anything else you want to say, you better say now. (He could cut her off and she knows it. The time is now if there’s anything left to say.)
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Today is Saturday, right? It’s the third?
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(Totally perplexed, but he checks his cell phone…) I don’t *******… Yeah, it’s the third. You need anything else before you wash your hands of me? You want the weather? Stock quotes? Horoscope?
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I don’t want to wash my hands of you.
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You just did.
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(End Scene)
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