TODD: Well, don’t look at me like that, you got cancer, right!?

VICKI: How do you know that?

TODD: Jessica told me.

VICKI: (getting it) That’s why you brought me the tape, right? (she turns away)

TODD: Yeah! That’s why I brought you the tape. (sarcastic) I was gonna bring you a...a greeting card, but I couldn’t find one that said, ‘Gee, I’m sorry you have cancer!’ (Vicki half smirks at his directness) Hey look, I can’t deal with this, alright? I mean I couldn’t even deal with my parrot dying and I....(cuts himself off, Vicki turns away)

I’m not going to walk out of here knowing that...that...that... (can’t finish)

VICKI: That you might never see me again. Oh no, you don’t want that. (she turns back to him) It’s alright. If you don’t see me again, it’ll be because you leave. (determined) I’m not going anywhere. Not for a very long time, okay? Do you think you could give me a couple straight answers.

TODD: (little uncomfortable) Maybe, I don’t know.

VICKI: Are you leaving town again?

TODD: (does not make eye contact) I don’t know.

VICKI: Does it depend on whether or not Sam helps you.

TODD: I don’t know if Sam can help me he’s busy helping his son. (looking down) I’m not so sure he’s going to be able to stick his neck out for me this time.

VICKI: Possibly because he’s had it chopped off too many times trying to help you. (he nods fidgeting nervously) You know, I knew you were here in February.

TODD: Really? (flip) Was I? I’ll check my calendar.

VICKI: There was a bomb threat at the country club, (he fidgets even more now, big sigh) and there were so many accidents that happened to RJ. (serious) Where is Tea?

TODD: (jumping on it) I don’t know where Tea is.

VICKI: What did you to her?

TODD: (getting very upset and angry building to the end) I didn’t do anything to her! Look, hey, she knew what she was getting into when she came with me and everything you told me to do, I did, I tried! I tried to be a better person, and you know what? She still split! And I don’t know where she is, and you know what else? I don’t care!! (he crosses away from her)

VICKI: (she is intense, upset and turns away from him, he is standing behind her) Okay, look, you know what, Todd, I have been very ill. And all my energy at this point in my life has to go to me getting well. (turns back to him, pointing) I don’t have the strength to deal with you right now. I just am not up to you and your games. (he starts to open his mouth but decides not to) You hurt me, so much. You took the deepest, darkest, most intimate secret of my entire life and you USED it, so that you would be acquitted. (he is listening intently) You made a JOKE out of it. You made a mockery of my illness for your own selfish needs. So that you could gain some sympathy. I can’t deal with you now! I can’t! (she turns away)

TODD: (like a little kid) What if I....what if I told you I that I....I mean if I apologized, would you get over it?

VICKI: With you Todd, words are empty. They don’t mean anything. What means things is what you do. (she runs her fingers through her hair in frustration, hair comes out in clumps, she looks down the hair stunned, then briefly at him, she starts to shake) Oh, my God! (she turns away with her hand on her head)

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(Vicki sinks to the ottoman looking at her hair in her hands, runs her other hand through and pulls out another clump, exclaiming out loud; ‘Oh, no! Oh, God!’ Todd leans on the chair, Vicki breaks down, sits and begins weeping. Todd does not know what to do, he starts to approach her stops, then turns to leave, stops abruptly, he cannot, he comes back in and stays, leaning down putting his body on the back of a chair letting Vicki cry, but he is still there)

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TODD: (Vicki continues to cry becoming louder, Todd can’t take it anymore, he crosses to the ottoman in back of her) Okay, that’s enough, you gotta cut it out right now, you gotta stop it right now. Look at me, look! Hey! I lost half my hair, you see me crying, huh? (he sits) Come on, we’ll get ya’ a wig, right, a red one or a blue one or..... (he tries humor to bring her out) Some....some of my favorite people are bald, you know? (she shakes her head) Yeah, uh....uh G. Gordon, that guy....Mussolini....Dr. Evil.... (she continues crying, gently he starts to put his hands on her shoulders) Come on, sis.

BEN: (out of nowhere Ben appears grabbing Todd by the coat yanking him up) Who the hell are you?! What the hell did you do to her?! (Vicki looks up startled through her tears)