M. Butterfly Page #3

---

I'm just doing my job.

I mean, if you...

If you really thought you could get away

with your indiscretions forever...

...well, then, you were mistaken.

You listen to me.

You're nobody.

You're worse than nobody.

You're an accountant.

Mm.

If you're not careful...

...we'll break all your pencils in half.

I played with my father.

- You did?

- Yes.

- Was he a choirmaster?

- Ha, no.

- He wasn't?

- No, we were living...

No, for a while in India.

- Was it Punjab?

- Yes, how did you know?

- I've been to Ceylon.

- Really?

We visited India years ago.

But China is quite a transition, isn't it?

Yeah, do you miss Paris

as much as I do?

To tell you that truth,

I don't even have the time.

- No, but, I...

- We're still unpacking.

I have things to do.

And it's really, really very different.

I'm still trying to figure out, you know,

what the...

Did we fight?

I do not know.

Is the opera no longer of interest to you?

Please, come back.

My audiences miss the white devil

in their midst.

It has been six weeks since we last met.

And still I have not heard from you.

Sometimes, I hate you.

Sometimes, I hate myself.

But always, I seem to miss you.

Your rudeness is beyond belief.

Don't bother to call.

I'll have you turned away at the door.

Ren.

Ren, I think we've located

that diversion we were...

I am out of words.

I can hide behind dignity no longer.

What more do you want?

I have already given you my shame.

Look, if you're so certain

I'm overstepping my bounds, then fine.

Take it up with Ambassador Toulon

for all I care.

Funny, I already have.

Monsieur Gallimard.

The ambassador has been trying

to locate you for the past half hour.

The ambassador?

Look, Gallimard,

there's not much to say.

I've liked you from the day you arrived.

You were no leader,

but you were tidy and efficient.

- Thank you, sir.

- Don't jump the gun.

But over these past few months...

I don't know how it's happened.

- You've become this new

aggressive, overconfident thing.

The reports I've been getting on you...

Well, sir, I... I...

Well, I take my job, uh...

I take it seriously.

Well, well.

You see...

...our needs here in China are changing.

It's still an embarrassment

that we lost Indochina.

We are going to be doing a lot more

intelligence gathering in the future.

Some people...

...are just going to have to go.

Vice Consul LeBon is being transferred,

as is most of his staff.

Sir, if there's, um...

But not you.

Not me?

Scared you?

Mm. I think I did.

Cheer up, Gallimard.

I want you to replace LeBon

as vice consul.

Uh...

I need a new man to coordinate

a revamped intelligence division.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes