“Lamenting”–a script for Season 2 episode 1, part 2


Scene 17: Alice’s apartment, late afternoon

(Alice exits the bathroom, in a pink bathrobe with her hair up in a turban)

Alice:

Hey Tina, I know that you probably don’t want to, but I really think that you should come out with us to Radar tonight…

(She stops speaking as she sees Tina lying on the sofa, her back turned)

Alice:

God, you poor thing…

(Alice walks to her bedroom)

(pan over to the sofa and the front side of Tina. She is wide awake)

Scene 18: The Planet, evening

(Shane is still at the same table, staring absently at her sketch book)

(Dana approaches, looking haggard)

Dana:

Shane? Are you okay?

Shane:

Oh, yeah. I was just, um…

Dana:

You’re drawing again? God, it’s been awhile, huh? Bette will be thrilled.

(Shane quickly closes her sketch book and puts it behind her chair)

Dana:

Where are they anyway? They always get here first.

Shane:

Hasn’t Alice called you?

Dana:

Uh, no…haven’t heard from her. It’s been a strange day.

Shane:

(distractedly)

 Yeah…

Dana:

I broke up with Tonya.

(She waits for Shane’s reaction but doesn’t get one)

And she wouldn’t give the ring back.

(still no reaction)

And she took the microwave…

Dana:

Hello? Earth to Shane…engagement is off…ding, dong the witch is dead…

(Shane’s eyes are welling with tears)

Dana:

Jesus, Shane…what’s going on?

Shane:

Everything is falling apart.

Dana:

What are you talking about?

Shane:

True love is the biggest bullshit story ever told. Everyone is splitting up…you and Tonya, Bette and Tina, me and…

Dana:

(stunned)

Bette and Tina?…whoa…and you?…what the *****?

Shane:

Me and Cherie.

Dana:

I didn’t know there was a you and Cherie.

Shane:

Yeah, neither did she.

Dana:

But…Bette and Tina? Whoa…when did…who…what happened?

Shane:

I don’t know much…just that Bette was ***** around and Tina found out last night and then she left.

Dana:

Where is she?

Shane:

At Alice’s.

Dana:

Wow. But, I mean, come on…it’s Bette and Tina. They’ll work it out. Right?