Act 2 Scene 3

Question 1

(EN)

Answer 1

Millie?

Question 2

No, it’s me! I’m in the kitchen!

Answer 2

It’s a pretty colour. Will ya paint ours next?

Question 3

I still don’t quite know why I’m painting this one. Some misdirection for Kitty Sunderson.

Answer 3

You’re home early… and I like it.

Question 4

I took the afternoon off. Mildred’s out. Norma’s at the office. Let’s have a drink.

Answer 4

Are we medicating or celebrating?

Question 5

It was a very good day.

Answer 5

Well, hot dog! That is cause to celebrate! How come?

Question 6

There’s a drunken lout in the Swiss embassy.

Answer 6

There are probably several.

Question 7

… So guess who’s moving to Geneva?

Answer 7

You. Us! No, that makes no sense. Who?

Question 8

Barbara Goddamn Grant!

Answer 8

Oh, Bob! But how? Isn’t she still under investigation?

Question 9

… Even Barbara Grant deserves a better class of accuser.

Answer 9

You’re so charitable.

Question 10

And then there’s this other fellow, Truett Sharpe (cut)

Answer 10

Limp handshakes and ascots!

Question 11

He got rid of the ascots, still has the limp handshake. Truett just became engaged. To his Colombia housekeeper.

Answer 11

What a conveniently-timed and utterly implausible romance.

Question 12

… And lo and behold, he remembered.

Answer 12

You are very attractive right now.

Question 13

… Barbara Grant will be off the hook and on her way to Geneva, may that bitch fall off an Alp.

Answer 13

Holy cow, the girls are gonna love this.

Question 14

I said I’d take care of it. I took care of it.

Answer 14

Yes you did. Look at you. You’e so handy. Wanna go next door and play handyman?

Question 15

I should finish up in the kitchen.

Answer 15

Oh, come on, babe. What’s the use in hiding the fact that we’re deviants if we never… deviate?

Question 16

(Doorbell)

Answer 16

Sunderson.

Question 17

Kitty?

Answer 17

Ted.

Question 18

Closet.

Answer 18

Going.

Question 19

Good afternoon, sir. (EX Theo)

Answer 19

Oh my God. Bob, what’re we gonna do?

Question 20

What’d he want?

Answer 20

Better come out here, Millie.

Question 21

Trashing documents?

Answer 21

Has Norma been covering for people by disposing of their complaints?

Question 22

I haven’t the foggiest. Ask Norma.

Answer 22

She must have. No one else could have done it.

Question 23

Then ask her.

Answer 23

It doesn’t matter whether she was willing or not. The damage is the same.

Question 24

It matters to me. Her motives here matter.

Answer 24

All I care about is how we stay here.

Question 25

Bob, what’s happening?

Answer 25

Operator, Department of State switchboard.

Question 26

… Not just for Barbara Grant, but possibly others as well.

Answer 26

Bob Martindale’s office, please.

Question 27

But they can’t just disappear! It’s the State Department! Nothing there disappears unless we make it disappear!

Answer 27

Shhh! Hi Shirley, it’s Jim Baxter. Is Norma around? Oh. When was that?

Question 28

Brace yourself, babe.

Answer 28

Oh, Shirley, there she is, I forgot she had the beauty parlor today. Bye!

Question 29

I’m not moving to New York, and neither is Jimmy.

Answer 29

Damn right I’m not. I saw City Across the River, those kids come to school with switchblades.

Question 30

… You’d never stand for it if they were doing this to Black people (cut)

Answer 30

Oh, for Christ’s sake.

Question 31

Well, what if we said the same thing?

Answer 31

We’d be lynched.

Question 32

Well I’ve been speaking with Barbara Grant (cut)

Answer 32

Goddamn it. Can we please push that slut off a mountain?

Question 33

… Why not just admit it?

Answer 33

Why not just go to jail? Why not just get beaten to death in some alley? You have cracked your crock, Norma.

Question 34

Then we’d best work quickly. Millie, go get your purse.

Answer 34

Norma, you’re my wife. I need you. Don’t do this.

Question 35

You already know them, Bob.

Answer 35

Millie. Don’t.

Question 36

I feel sick.

Answer 36

We’ve got to fix this, Bob.

Question 37

What she said, isn’t true, Jim. I want the life I have with you, any life, no matter what the (cut) - IKTB, YFHTTM. TWWHTFT. INBN, SU, SM. SNUTSHFH.

Answer 37

I know that, baby, you don’t have to tell me. That’s why we have to fix this. I’m not blaming Norma, she’s upset, she’s misguided. She needs us to save her from herself.

Question 38

There’s nothing I can say, her mind’s made up.

Answer 38

Baby, this is not the time to be reticent.

Question 39

I’m not, but I don’t see what I can do to change anything.

Answer 39

Bob.

Question 40

Maybe Mildred, but she’ll just do what Norma wants, don’t you think?

Answer 40

Bob, listen to yourself, you’re smarter than this.

Question 41

I don’t know how to fix this, Jim.

Answer 41

Well, you’d better fucking think of something!

Question 42

I don’t know how to fight this!

Answer 42

You would let everything we’ve worked to build for the last four years fall to ruin (overlap) because those goddamn dykes decide they don’t wanna play the game anymore? It doesn’t work like that, Bob!

Question 43

What would you have me do?

Answer 43

Then we’ll leave them. We’ll divorce them and find another couple (cut)

Question 44

… We’ve just got to find a way to close ranks and keep each other safe until it’s over.

Answer 44

This isn’t going to end, Bob. Not ever.

Question 45

Don’t say that. things will get better with time.

Answer 45

How can it, Bob? Our own government is telling people, by official order, to despise us. To find us and remove us from society. I look at my students, spot the latents every year, buffing their fingernails and cutting pictures of Monty Clift out of magazines, and I’m so afraid. If it’s this bad for us, what’s it gonna be like for them?

Question 46

What do we do?

Answer 46

We have to remind the girls of why we’re the better option. How they’re protected, what they’d really lose… I say it’s time we acted like men and got some control over our fucking wives.