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(F) UPPER DECK, AFT - /en6/ /en10/ TIME CODE: 28:30
Yang Richard and CYNDI hurry into the area.
CYNDI
I was talking to the captain, and I think he
knows us. He was captain of the sternwheeler
in New Orleans and--
YANG RICHARD
Damn, I thought I recognized him.
CYNDI
Why the hell didn't you tell me?
YANG RICHARD
Now hold on. So what? He can't prove
anything.
CYNDI
He can certainly make things difficult, if he
gets it in his mind that it was us.
YANG RICHARD
We'll be gone tomorrow. Out of sight, out of
mind.
CYNDI
We can't be sure.
YANG RICHARD
Cyndi, that was so long ago, the statute of
limitations won't let anyone touch us. Just calm
down.
CYNDI
We never should have gotten involved in this.
YANG RICHARD
Now you know it's easy money.
CYNDI
I don't like the risk.
YANG RICHARD
What risk?
CYNDI
To us.
YANG RICHARD
Don't get into that again. What's the
difference between this and what we've always
done?
CYNDI
It's not the same.
YANG RICHARD
Surely you're not jealous.
CYNDI
Times have changed -- I mean, think about it,
when you sleep with anyone any more you're
sleeping with everyone else who ever slept
with them. A rich bitch like her, who knows
what she's been into?
YANG RICHARD
I never planned to sleep with her.
CYNDI
How can you not?
YANG RICHARD
She likes to party and doesn't hold her liquor
very well -- I plan to keep her drunk.
CYNDI
Shå isn't even drinking. Even if she does, you can't
keep her drunb forever.
YANG RICHARD
Only until she transfers the funds to the
church. I'll file for divorce immediately --
in fact, I've already done the paperwork.
Relax, nothing is going to go wrong.
CYNDI
Everything's been going wrong. Ever since the
government got into it, I still want to know
how that started. It had to come from inside,
a dumb accusation like that, someone who wants
to get even for something. But who? And for
what?
YANG RICHARD
I've been thinking about that. I think it
must be a surrogate mother who wanted out of
the deal. There's probably lots of Baby-M
mothers around, not psychologically together
to keep their share of the bargain.
CYNDI
I don't remember anyone wanting to back out.
YANG RICHARD
Oh, quite a few bring up the subject,
actually, but they're easily persuaded
otherwise, once I threaten to take them to
court. I thought I've satisfied their
objections. But maybe someone had second
thoughts and so went to the Feds with this
drug nonsense.
CYNDI
As if we could do better with cocaine than
religion . . .
YANG RICHARD
The safest drug there is -- from our point of
view.
CYNDI
The cost of defending ourselves is getting out
of hand. How long is all this going to be in
court?
YANG RICHARD
As long as it takes.
CYNDI
But if the captain somehow got his information
about New Orleans to the Feds, that would
improve their case a good deal.
YANG RICHARD
He's not going to do that because we're not
going to give him any reason to suspect us.
CYNDI
He already does.
YANG RICHARD
He remembers us from New Orleans. I think we
should remember him back -- as tourists on his
riverboat.
CYNDI
He's closer to the truth.
YANG RICHARD
I know but once we admit knowing him, I think
he'll forget the whole thing.
CYNDI
You're amazing. So calm through everything .
. . .
YANG RICHARD
Because there's nothing to worry about.
Really. Now lighten up and enjoy the party.
CYNDI
You really didn't plan to sleep with her?
YANG RICHARD
Come on now: jealousy doesn't become you.
CYNDI
I know we've always had an open relationship,
and it isn't the sleeping with her so much but
how everything's changed, I mean you don't
know who has AIDS and who doesn't any more,
it's not like it used to be.
YANG RICHARD
I agree.
CYNDI
Is that why you're not sleeping with her?
YANG RICHARD
I do have tastes. I hope you remember. She's
the last person in the world I'd go to bed
with.
CYNDI
And she won't be suspicious?
YANG RICHARD
Hey, her type, partying is the main point
anyway, by the time she sobers up enough to
get romantic, I'll have filed the papers --
and, more importantly, we'll have increased
our assets considerably.
CYNDI
I never thought we'd need money. In the
beginning, even with all the competition --
I'll never forgive those damn Kree recruiters
and all the prospects we lost to the ashram up
here--
YANG RICHARD
They went under, don't forget.
CYNDI
The happiest day of my life.
YANG RICHARD
Listen, the surrogate motherhood business is
going to be the wave of the future and we're
on the ground floor of that -- our future is
very secure, believe me.
CYNDI
But this damn drug business--
YANG RICHARD
We're innocent.
CYNDI
That's what makes me mad, having to spend all
this money to defend ourselves when we're
innocent!
YANG RICHARD
You're cute.
CYNDI
Promise you won't sleep with her? She's going
to want to.
YANG RICHARD
Is that what's really bothering you?
CYNDI
I guess it is.
YANG RICHARD
Cyndi, come on, we've been together too long,
been through too much together, for you to act
like this. Give me a hug.
They embrace.
YANG RICHARD
We're going to join the party and have a good
time. Tomorrow we fly home and I'll bet you a
dinner at the restaurant of your choice, dear,
that before the week is over I've filed those
divorce papers.
CYNDI
Nothing ever bothers you, does it?
YANG RICHARD
It's called awareness.
CYNDI
No one's a match for you.
YANG RICHARD
Which is what I'm aware of. Let's join the
party.
They move toward the bar area, into G. /ex6/ /ex10/
TIME CODE: 31:30
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