Miss Sloane Page #3

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Elizabeth enters a stall and latches the door.

ELIZABETH:

You didn’t follow me into the crapper

to gloat about freedom. Talk to me

about the Nutella tax.

Elizabeth reaches into her handbag for a bottle of water. She

takes two pills out of the TRINKET BOX we glimpsed earlier,

and gulps them down.

JANE:

We’re really calling it ‘Nutella

tax’?

ELIZABETH:

Palm oil is a key ingredient in

Nutella. If the Federal Government

taxes it at 300%, it’ll cost more for

us to gorge ourselves on it.

JANE:

Isn’t palm oil in pretty much

everything?

ELIZABETH:

We could have called it Soap Tax, but

the public cares more about Nutella

than it does soap. Ross did surveys.

JANE:

OK, Estevez, Frame and Albert are in

the bag, Hodges-

ELIZABETH:

See, that should elicit some kind of

reaction, but it just doesn’t.

JANE:

-is under pressure. The F&B sector

are organized. They represent 7% of

the North Carolina economy and

accounted for two thirds of job

growth over the last twelve months.

They’re getting loud and he can’t

afford to ignore them.

ELIZABETH:

Sounds like critical mass to me.

JANE:

What are you gonna do?

Elizabeth FLUSHES the toilet (she never went) and exits.

ELIZABETH:

It’s time we made our move on the

sallow little gimp who’s sponsoring

this larceny. Tell the Kenyans

they’re going to host Senator Davis

on an all-expenses-paid field trip to

one of their plantations.

7.

JANE:

You never washed your hands.

Elizabeth shrugs it off and washes.

ELIZABETH:

He’ll take the wife and kids, and

whatever luxuries the Kenyan

government confer on him will stay

between he and them. He’ll come back

hailing their conservation efforts

and his bill will die a quiet death.

They exit the ladies’ room into -

INT. COLE, KRAVITZ AND WATERMAN LLP - DAY - PAST

-- a stuffy, conservative stalwart of the D.C. legal industry.

Walk and talk:

JANE:

That’s legitimate? They can ply him

with champagne and truffles?

ELIZABETH:

And diamonds, gold watches, and

whatever else. The Congressional gift

ban doesn’t apply to sovereign

states.

JANE:

So a Congressman can technically get

rich by sponsoring bills that screw

foreign governments and wait for them

to buy him off?

ELIZABETH:

That’s a little too much work for a

class of people who exempt themselves

from insider trading laws.

JANE:

You see? This is why I’m thinking

about post-grad.

ELIZABETH:

Jane, we go to school because it

prepares us for the real world. You

happen to find yourself at the sharp

end of the real world at the age of

twenty-nothing.

JANE:

I’m not so sure I like the ‘real

world.’

ELIZABETH:

So you’re going to bury your head in

the Socrates?

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