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Karen: Uh huh, i think so too.
Gabe: Now wait a minute, we dont know the whole story.
Karen: He cheated on her.
Gabe: Yeah yeah but it cant be as simple as that, Karen. You know that it never is.
Karen: That snake.
Gabe: Honey, you’re talking about someone who up until like two hours ago you thought was salt of the earth.
Karen: What does this say about my judgement?
Gabe: Karen, come on. He’s the same person youve known and loved for years
Karen: He was never that person.
Gabe: Honey.
Karen: He never cared at all
Gabe: Come on.
Karen: What a simpatico guy: decent, loving, hard-working, a good father…
Gabe: He is all of those things. so he made a transgression
Karen: a transgression???
Gabe: It’s still the same old Tom.
Karen: This is more than a mere transgression! How could I ever look him in the eye again? I can’t. After what he’s done to Beth and the kids?
Gabe: So what do we do, abandon him? He is my oldest friend.
Karen: I cant look at him anymore
Gabe: Maybe he’s really in trouble. Maybe he is. What kind of friends would we be if we went and punished him? I’ve got a feeling Beth is doing a pretty damn good job punishing him herself.
Karen: She is the injured party
Gabe: So what does that mean? She’s the injured party so we can only stay friends with her?
Karen: Not to be trusted.
Gabe: You are so strict
Karen: One of those words.
Gabe: Okay, I’m sorry.
Karen: Principle
Gabe: But doesn’t forgiveness enter into it for you? Or are you just too principled for that?
Karen: This is not forgivable
Gabe: Boy
Karen: Consequences
Gabe: Remind me not to get on your bad side
Karen: You are out of here
Gabe: Really?
Karen: None of that sleeping in the den shit
Gabe: It’s for the kids sake. That’s what she said. I can understand that
Karen: I’m sorry
Gabe: But it’s for the kids
Karen: He lost that privilege
Gabe: Wow, you are really tough
Karen: Throw him the hell out
Gabe: So if in a moment of weakness I sleep with a check out girl or something and am foolish enough to confess to you and beg for your forgiveness, you’d tell me what? To go fuck myself?
Karen: That’s right.
Gabe: You mean we couldn’t still be friends?
Karen: Are you kidding?
Gabe: You mean we couldn’t even be civil with one another? At least now i know where you stand.
Karen: As if you had any doubt
Gabe: The thing is, you never know what couples are like when they’re alone; you never do. You know that: there’s no way of knowing. It’s all very mysterious.
Karen: There goes the Vineyard.
Gabe: Oh, God, you’re right. How would we work that?
Karen: We couldn’t. What, we’d have Beth come with the kids for two weeks, then she would go and Tom would take over? That’s ridiculous.
Gabe: It sounds awful.
Karen: What a mess
Gabe: It’s like a death, isn’t it?
Karen: Why were you so quiet tonight?
Gabe: What? What do you mean?
Karen: When Beth was telling us. You were so silent.
Gabe: I wasn’t silent. I was shocked, I was stunned.
Karen: You let me do most of the talking
Gabe: That’s not unusual. Hey! No, I mean it, you do most of the talking.
Karen: I do not.
Gabe: Yes you do. You generally have more to say on any given subject than I do. That’s why we work well together: you talk, I write, you edit me.
Karen: You’re evading.
Gabe: No, I’m not. Evading what?
Karen: I think what Beth was telling us… I think it was very hard for you.
Gabe: Of course it was hard. No one wants to hear about his closest friends going through something like this.
Karen: No, no, that’s not what I mean. Don’t get defensive. It’s just, I think, all this… marital talk… It’s too close to home. I think it made you very uncomfortable.
Gabe: Made me uncomfortable.
Karen: Yes.
Gabe: Well, like I said, it’s not the most pleasant of topics.
Karen: Don’t play dumb with me Gabe.
Gabe: What?!
Karen: You’re playing dumb.
Gabe: No, I’m not, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Karen: You do that, you know, whenever I want you to talk to me about something like this, something important…
Gabe: Oh, great, you trying to pick a fight with me, or what?
Karen: No, Gabe…
Gabe: What do you want me to say, that this whole thing scares the shit out of me?
Karen: Yes!
Gabe: Well, it does. Okay?
Karen: It does me, too. You think you’re safe, on solid ground, then all of a sudden the earth cracks open.
Gabe: Who the hell is that? Oh, shit, you re not gonna believe this, I think it’s Tom.
Karen: You’re kidding. (Tom outside)
Gabe: It is Tom.
Karen: He’s supposed to be in Washington.
Gabe: Well, he’s not; he just pulled into our driveway.
Karen: I don’t want to see him; tell him I went to bed.
Gabe: Karen, come on, you can’t do that.
Karen: He’s not here to see me, anyway, he’s here to see you; he’s your friend.
Gabe: That’s not true. You love Tom.
Karen: No, I thought I did.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Gabe: Karen. Please? (Another knock; childlike) Don’t leave me alone with him?
(Gabe goes to the door and opens it)
