“Limbo”–a script for Season 2 episode 2, part 2

Scene 13: Bette and Tina’s house, evening

(The clock reads 7:35 as Bette unlocks the front door and enters, closing it with her foot.)

(She has a brown paper sack in each arm.)

(She walks carefully through the dark living room into the kitchen and flips on the light.)

(She opens the first bag and takes out a bottle of vodka and 3 bottles of wine. She opens the second bag and removes two containers of Chinese take-out.)   

(She stares at everything spread out on the kitchen table for a few moments.)

Bette:

***** it.

(She grabs the vodka bottle, picks up a glass and fills it with ice, then heads out the back door to the patio.)

Scene 14: Pinetta’s, a small neighborhood Italian restaurant, evening

(Alice and Dana are seated across from each other at a table, playing footsy. Dana is doing naughty things to her straw as Alice watches her hungrily.)

Alice:

Please God, let me be reincarnated as a bendy straw…

(the front door opens with a jingle from the bells hanging on the door ***** as Tina enters)

(Alice and Dana stop flirting with each other and get into character as Tina approaches the table.)

Tina:

Hey guys…

Alice & Dana:

(in unison)

Hey Tina… 

Tina:

Where’s Shane?

Alice:

Haven’t heard from her yet. I left a voice mail for her around 4. I’m sure she’s off somewhere taking care of someone’s business.

Dana:

I’m just glad that she has recovered from hurricane Cherie.

(she giggles at her own joke, but no one else does)

Alice:

It really doesn’t get more pathetic than Shane with a broken heart.

Tina:

Hmmm…I don’t know. I think what I witnessed today trumps everything else in the pathetic category.

Alice:

Ooh, this sounds juicy. What’s up?

Tina:

Guess who was still working at the Center when I arrived this morning?

Alice:

No…

Dana:

What…who?

Alice:

Oh come on, Dana.

Dana:

I mean it, who?

Alice:

(whispers)

The password is: Candace

Dana:

(gasps)

No…