The Paradise Page #7

Season #2 Episode #16

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His defiance falters: he is facing that very prospect.

SAM:

I could help you, if you want.

Sunday. I would only spend it

chasing girls up the river. Or

chasing girls down the river.

EDMUND:

Everything I know in this world is

right here.

EDMUND starts scrubbing at the old paint with real venom, and

SAM can see that all is not well.

15 INT. MORAY’S OFFICE. THE PARADISE - NIGHT 15

The lights are low. FENTON dominates the room as though it

were his own.

17.

MORAY:

I am concerned about Katherine. I

fear she might fall ill ...

FENTON:

That is all to the good. She will

depend upon you still m-m-more.

MORAY:

What I am trying to make clear to

you is that it is my fault that her

husband is jealous. Tom Weston is a

dangerously volatile man.

JONAS:

The pressure is telling on him.

FENTON:

All to the good.

MORAY:

My concern for Katherine is not a

calculated exhibition. I feel

genuinely distressed ...

FENTON:

Still b-b-better. She will s-see

that you are true -- she will s-ssense

it, and it will draw her

closer to you.

JONAS:

Mr. Moray, sir, if I may ... If we

make each of them feel that their

situation is rapidly growing worse

FENTON:

And then we approach Tom Weston

with our proposal -

MORAY:

What proposal?

A knock on the door stops them -

DENISE (O.S.)

John?

The door handle turns but the door is locked.

MORAY indicates the door at the back of the room.

MORAY:

Go through this way. I don’t want

her to find you here.

JONAS and FENTON leave through the back door ...

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And MORAY lets DENISE in.

DENISE:

Who were you talking to?

MORAY:

It has finally come to it.

(he laughs)

I must have been talking to myself.

They laugh and he draws her to him.

16 INT. KATHERINE’S BEDROOM. BELVILLE HOUSE - NIGHT 16

KATHERINE props a chair against the door handle, to keep it

secure.

She gets into bed.

17 INT. THE PARADISE - NIGHT 17

MORAY and DENISE on the move: he is nervous, unsettled.

MORAY:

Ballentine? He is spending all of

his money on a wife young enough to

be his daughter. The man’s mind is

addled with love.

DENISE:

And what is so wrong with that?

MORAY:

Nothing is wrong with that.

DENISE:

When he talks about business

matters he is as sharp as the best

of us. I believe that if we were to

approach him with a proposal -

MORAY:

He has a pretty bride who has taken

a fancy to the store -- darling,

those are not grounds for us to

believe the man is a suitable

investor.

DENISE:

Are you against it because I have

brought the suggestion to you?

MORAY:

I’m sorry. I’m not at my best ...

19.

DENISE:

What is it that is making you so

irritable, so distracted?

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