INT. – CAC MEETING ROOM – DAY
[Bette sits at the table with a young man who’s doing a presentation from his laptop. He presses a key and on a flatscreen monitor on the opposite wall, a painting comes up.]
Man: He’ll do a large-scale painting for one of the lobby walls, based on Japanese anime. It’s an illicit exterior…
[He looks nervously at Bette. She’s clearly frustrated, resting her head against her hand as she flips through a booklet. She’s not even looking at the presentation.]
Bette: (irritated) Go on, I’m listening! I’m listening.
Man: An a illicit exterior installation, uh, just below the Sawtelle-405 freeway overpass –
[Bette looks at the presentation.]
Bette: You know I saw Noble’s performance piece where he crawled naked across a table, ranting about his weakness and perfidy. Who do you think is gonna fund that?
Man: (nodding) Oh, I applied to the Ahmanson Foundation.
Bette: Never gonna happen, they’re way too conservative.
[The man nods and stares at his laptop. Bette goes back to the booklet. James walks in. He puts a note in front of her that reads: “Candace Jewell on the phone.”]
Bette: (loudly) No!
James: (whispers) This is like the fifth time she’s called.
Bette: (angry) You tell her to fucking stop calling.
[James walks away. Bette sighs. She speaks to the man again, in a calm voice.]
Bette: Apply to the Peabody Foundation, they might fund a Noble project.
[Bette sighs and stares up at the monitor.]
INT. – HANK’S DINER – DAY
[Jenny, in an orange waitress uniform, walks with another waitress from the back.]
Waitress: Okay, so you do number three, and I will take two and five, okay?
Jenny: Okay.
Waitress: Are you okay with that?
Jenny: (smiles) Yes.
[Jenny walks up to customers at a table.]
Jenny: Hello, how are you? May I um, please take your order?
Customer: Uh, we have a few questions, are the burgers made with New Zealand or American beef?
[Robin walks into the diner.]
Customer: I’d like to substitute feta cheese for the American cheese…
[Jenny sees Robin and waves. Robin sits at a table near the front.]
Customer: … and mixed greens for the fries.
Jenny: (to customers) Um, will you please excuse me for a second? I will be right back.
[Jenny walks over to Robin.]
Customer: We’d like to order.
Jenny: Okay. (to Robin, smiling) Hi. What’s going on?
Robin: Uh, I just wanted to make sure you’re okay.
Jenny: I’m okay. I mean, I’m gonna be a shitty waitress, but… I’m okay, ya know.
Robin: You haven’t heard, obviously.
Jenny: Haven’t heard what?
Robin: (hesitating) Marina tried to commit suicide.
[Jenny stares blankly, then starts to shake her head.]
Robin: Yeah. She checked into the Bel Air Hotel. The Presidential Suite.
Jenny: You said she tried, she didn’t… kill herself?
Robin: No, apparently, uh… the people across the hall heard shouting, they thought a woman was getting hurt so they called the front desk. The bell boy, um…
[Jenny looks flushed, near tears.]
Robin: … found Marina alone in the room, with like 3 bottle of pills, totally out of her skull.
Jenny: (sadly) Oh, poor Marina.
Robin: They called me. (scoffs) I don’t know why, I guess my number was in her purse. I managed to find her mother, I remembered Marina telling me me she lives in Umbria, so…
Jenny: (nods) In a villa.
[Jenny looks down, sadly.]
Robin: Jen, I feel like maybe I shouldn’t say this, but… when I got to the hospital… (hesitates) she was calling your name.
[After a moment, Jenny turns and walks away.]
Customer: (snobby) Miss! We’d like to order.
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
[Tonya are walking down the sidewalk, holding hands. There are lots of stores on either side of the street and shoppers walking around.]
Tonya: Pookie, you won’t believe this!
[Tonya pulls her toward a store window.]
Dana: Whoa.
Tonya: Look at this.
Dana: (points) That?
Tonya: Isn’t this beautiful?
[Dana leans closer to the window.]
Dana: (reading) The Jura Capresso S8 Espresso Coffee Maker?
[We see an overgrown espresso maker sitting in the window, along with a price tag.]
Dana: (shocked) One thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine dollars? Tonya! We can’t register for that!
Tonya: Well Da – (flustered)… a few people might chip in together.
[Dana looks at her and scoffs.]
Tonya: Dana, do not second-guess the generosity of our friends.
[Dana looks at the espresso maker. Tonya looks at her watch.]
Tonya: Now, look, I wanna show you something at Geary’s.
[Tonya walks off. Dana crinkles her face up at the espresso maker, then follows. Her cell phone rings. Dana looks at the caller ID then answers it.]
Dana: (phone) Hello!
INT. – ALICE’S LIVING ROOM – DAY
Dana: (off screen) (phone) This is Dana Fairbanks.
[Alice is sitting in her living room with her knitting group. She gets up when Dana answers.]
Alice: (phone) Hi! Yeah, hi! Um… I – I think we should talk.
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
Dana: (phone) Uh-huh… (to Tonya) It’s Robbie, my old – tennis partner before Harrison…
Tonya: Oh.
INT. – ALICE’S LIVING ROOM – DAY
Dana: (off screen) (phone) I’d love to see you. Where, when?
Tonya: (off screen) (heard over phone) Honey, look…
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
Tonya: I think we need to think about some cut crystal.
[Tonya takes off for a nearby store.]
Dana: Okay! Uh-huh.
INT. – ALICE’S LIVING ROOM – DAY
[Alice is twitching and shifting the phone back and forth nervously.]
Dana: (off screen) (phone) Alright.
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
Dana: How bout tomorrow morning at Runyon Canyon?
INT. – ALICE’S LIVINGROOM – DAY
Alice: (phone) Th – uh… how bout I meet you at the gate at 10:30?
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
Dana: It’s a little early…
Alice: (off screen) (phone) Okay…
INT. – ALICE’S LIVINGROOM – DAY
Alice: (phone) Eleven. Eleven is fine.
Dana: (off screen) (phone) Okay, but you know –
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
Dana: (phone) – with traffic it’s – it might – the 405 –
Alice: (off screen) (phone) Um…
INT. – ALICE’S LIVINGROOM – DAY
Alice: (phone) Four o’clock is good, four, uh… four in the afternoon. I’ll see you at four in the afternoon.
Alice: (off screen) (phone) Okay.
EXT. – RODEO DRIVE – DAY
Dana: (phone) Okay, bye.
[Dana hangs up.]
INT. – ALICE’S LIVINGROOM – DAY
Alice: It’s good. Knit… knit away.
[Alice sets the phone down and sits down. She picks up her pink yarn and continues knitting.]
Alice: (smiles to herself) Talkin’. (mumbles) Fun-filled.
[One of the women nearby leans over to her.]
Woman: Dear, I don’t think you’re gonna be able to get anybody’s head through that thing.
[Alice looks down at the thing she’s knitting. She holds it up. It looks like a pink tube.]
Alice: You know, though. I think this would make a really good harness for a strap on dildo.
[Alice lays the knitting across her waist and grins. The woman looks at her.]
