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(A hotel room) |
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KIM |
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Good evening, ma'am |
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ELLEN |
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Don't turn the bed yet |
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KIM |
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I'm not the maid |
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ELLEN |
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What do you want then? |
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KIM |
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They must have written the room number wrong |
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I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott |
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Three-seventeen, oh I'm sorry... unless |
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Well, you must be, of course, you're John's wife, are you not? |
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ELLEN |
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Oh God, I see |
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It had to happen |
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You must be Kim |
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Chris went to find you |
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Please come inside |
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No one will hurt you |
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I'm Chris's wife |
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My name is Ellen |
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(KIM doesn't move) |
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ELLEN |
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In a way, I am glad I am meeting you first |
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Understand, you were only a name till tonight |
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I don't know how I'd feel if our roles were reversed |
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Please won't you sit down |
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KIM |
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Tell me you are lying |
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ELLEN |
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We've been married a year, I am sorry, it's true |
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KIM |
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He said he'd come to get me |
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ELLEN |
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He says he tried to reach you, but what could he do? |
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KIM |
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Please tell me you're not married |
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You don't know, you can't know what I've done to be here |
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ELLEN |
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You don't know how he needed a new start |
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KIM |
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I feel walls in my heart |
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Closing in |
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I can't breathe |
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I can't win |
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ELLEN |
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As for the child |
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You say it's Chris's |
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KIM |
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Oh yes, Madame |
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My son is Chris's |
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I had a dream for my son to belong |
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And not live his life in the streets like a rat |
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ELLEN |
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We aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load |
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Chris and I are totally together on that |
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KIM |
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Then you must take Tam with you |
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ELLEN |
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Take a child from his mother, impossible Kim |
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KIM |
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You will take Tam with you |
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Then he'll get what I wanted for him |
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ELLEN |
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But Kim, your child needs you |
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Chris is married to me, we want kids of our own |
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KIM |
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Tam's chance lies with you now, not with me |
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BOTH |
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No! |
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Can't you see |
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It won't work |
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It can't be |
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KIM |
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If you're saying that because you've made him change his mind |
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Chris must go away and leave me and his son behind |
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If you're saying that because my husband has another wife |
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My child has no future, like the dust of life |
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He must come tonight to my place |
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Tell me so to my face |
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(KIM exits) |
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ELLEN |
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I don't want this |
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I didn't come here |
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To meet a girl |
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Who loves my husband |
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I came here to help, but what do I do? |
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Now, after this, what do I ... |