Catwoman Page #2

Season #1 Episode #2

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PATIENCE:

Guess I wouldn't need the cat if...

Patience forces a laugh, fills in a ZERO and passes theclipboard to EDNA. The woman puts down the cat food, slipson the reading glasses she wears on a chain around her neck.

EDNA:

The application is mostly a formality. I have a

sense about people.

PATIENCE:

Well, I've always liked animals.

(not enough)

Cats specifically. I mean, I love them... worshipthem, even.

EDNA seems satisfied, returns to reading Patience's answers.

THE MAU, meanwhile, comes around a corner into the room,

peering curiously at Patience --who dangles her handinvitingly. He rubs his face against her hand.

PATIENCE smiles, coos at the cat --which grabs her hand hardin his CLAWS. PATIENCE stifles a yelp, yanks her hand back.

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5.

CONTINUED:

PATIENCE:

Son of a -

EDNA:

Excuse me?

PATIENCE:

Nothing... handsome cat. I've never seen one like

him.

THE MAU jumps into Patience's lap, settling in. Edna,

surprised and almost suspicious, eyes the cat.

EDNA:

Her. That's Midnight, an Egyptian Mau. Normallyshe doesn't trust people -

EDNA reaches a hand toward MIDNIGHT --the cat's fur stands

up, she HISSES and SWIPES at Edna.

EDNA:

See? Even I can't get near her... Very strange.

(glancing at theapplication)

So. You left out your parents' address.

PATIENCE:

Well... they're both dead.

EDNA:

No hereditary illnesses, I hope.

PATIENCE:

Private plane crash. I was eleven. Actually, thelast thing they gave me was a kitten... Fatso.

EDNA sucks her breath in at this insulting name.

PATIENCE:

He was very round --not from overfeeding oranything, just --really, he didn't mind. Anyway,

he was with me a long time, till early this year.

He didn't come at the sound of the can-opener,

which kind of freaked me out... I found him just,

curled up there in his little bed...

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6.

CONTINUED:

PATIENCE is getting a bit emotional. EDNA reaches across and

squeezes her hand, with genuine sympathy. MIDNIGHT snugglesinto Patience's lap, PURRING as she strokes the cat.

EDNA:

It's very hard, dear, I know... you must be in somuch pain.

Midnight digs her long NAILS into Patience's thigh, kneading.

PATIENCE winces, tries to dislodge cat's claws from her leg

--Midnight "playfully" attacks her hand. Stifling a gasp:

PATIENCE:

Mm-hmm.

EDNA:

Funny how cats get under our skin. They do exactlyas they please, they don't care what anyone thinks

about them... they're the ultimate predators. So

self-contained, so independent, so wild...

sometimes I wonder, why do they even put up withus?

PATIENCE:

The free food?

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