Thoroughbreds Page #3

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so she knows

she has to return home

to her loveless

1940s marriage, and...

[CRYING]

The Technique.

Holy sh*t.

AMANDA:
Yeah.

You can just...

do that on cue?

Years of practice.

Can you teach me?

So you basically

have to learn

all the automatic,

like, processes

that get triggered when you cry,

and then sort of manually

generate each one.

It feeds back to the brain,

and then the tears

just come naturally.

You finished boarding school

by March.

Don't act like

this is confusing.

Okay.

Where does it start?

AMANDA:
Right here.

Tiny gulps of air.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

It's like

you're choking yourself...

from the inside.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

- LILY:
Is it working?

- AMANDA:
No.

MARK:
[CLEARS THROAT]

- LILY:
Hi, Mark.

- AMANDA:
Hi, Mark.

Where's your mother?

Some work-party thing.

What work-party thing?

I don't know.

Some work-party thing.

I didn't know your mom worked.

Come talk to me upstairs,

please.

Okay.

After the next commercial break.

- Now.

- I don't wanna leave

- Amanda alone.

- Amanda will be fine here alone.

I'm quite afraid of the dark.

How long are you here, Amanda?

My mom's gonna pick me up

around midnight.

Hmm.

Midnight's late for us.

Lily can give you

a ride home now.

Two teens in one car,

at night?

That's an accident

waiting to happen.

Yeah. I mean, we're always

turning up the radio

- super loud...

- Texting while driving.

I'll call your mom.

She can come pick you up now.

- She's busy.

- Doing what?

Chemotherapy.

[SWALLOWS]

'Night.

LILY:
[SCOFFS]

[SIGHS]

You ever talk to your mom?

- About what?

- Him.

What would I even say?

The way he makes you feel.

You'd think that

would matter to her?

- You'd think...

- [DOOR CLOSES]

Just grabbin' my juice.

His juice?

It's a cleanse.

Three weeks out of the month

he pounds steak,

and the last week

he juices exclusively.

- Is that healthy?

- I think

you're only supposed to do it

once a year.

Hopefully, one of these days

he'll just...

juice himself to death.

[ERGOMETER STARTING]

What's that?

The ergometer.

The what?

The ergometer.

It's like a rowing machine.

[SIGHS]

He's on that thing at all hours.

I think

it's a deliberate effort

to make me lose my f***ing mind.

PAULA [OVER TV]:

Tell me, Frank, what is it?

Give me a chance to fight back.

Just give me a chance.

LILY:
[SIGHS]

Come on.

Let's go steal

some of his wine.

You ever think about

just killing him?

I mean, no.

You could at least

consider it.

- No.

- Just weigh the pros and cons.

- LILY:
No.

- Why don't you consider

all options?

LILY:
Yeah. Not,

like, murder.

Yeah, sure it's outside the box,

but you can only get so far

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