Nicole:
Still, if it's all the same to you, I'd rather not hang over fried chicken.
Nicole:
[
It's a quiet night and Nicole, drinking something in a cup, is looking Mia lighting candles in an open-air altar of the school] What do your saints say?
Mia:
I'm brooding. I'm not praying.
Nicole:
Lost your faith, ah? I've never really had any to begin with, I guess. Never believed in any of it. God, the Virgin Mary, that life begins at 40... and the people are all just basically good inside.
Mia:
Pretty soon we'll be the same person.
Nicole:
See how nice things turned out?
[
She stops talking and seems to meditate briefly about something important]
Nicole:
I'm going inside.
[
about Mia's changing the terrible diet his husband used to martyrize the whole school before he was killing by Nicole and her]
Nicole:
You know? It wasn't too smart changing the food like that, he never would've done that if he was alive.
Mia:
What is the point in killing him then? I like making it better for the boys.
Nicole:
[
She starts to leave the place] Still, if it's all the same with you I'd rather not hang for fried chicken.
Mia:
Nicole, why did you kill him?
[
Nicole stops, with her back to Mia and staring at her above her shoulder]
Mia:
You could've left him. You could've left here.
Nicole:
I was understimated.
Nicole:
Killing him is a good thing. Like planting a tree.
Mia:
Maybe there is a God.
Nicole:
What are you talking about?
Mia:
I haven't believed fot so long... So when the pool was empty I thought: maybe there is a God. And He knows what we did. And He's coming for us.
Nicole:
It's not God, Honey. That's a lady detective with one breast.
Nicole:
Killing him is a good thing. Like planting a tree.
Mia:
Maybe there is a God.
Nicole:
What are you talking about?
Mia:
I haven't believed fot so long... So when the pool was empty I thought: maybe there is a God. And He knows what we did. And He's coming for us.
Nicole:
It's not God, Honey. That's a lady detective with one breast.
Mia:
You're always laughing at me. So was Guy. He must be laughing now.
Nicole:
I'm not laughing at you, Mia.
Mia:
You are. A little. Inside. It's lonely without God, isn't it?
Nicole:
It's just lonely... Period.
Mia:
I'm not gonna be able to do this.
Nicole:
Well, I suggest you try. It isn't like you burnt the toast, Mia. You killed your husband. It's all off the chart demerit-wise. Understand?
Mia:
You are so calm. Look at you. Your hair is done. You've got makeup on.
Nicole:
This is a day like any other day. We did what we have to do and it's done. Ok? It was self-defense. You've been taking it fot too long and you finally said fuck off. Good for you. Fuck him. Fuck them.
Mia:
Everything but fuck you.
Nicole:
Roughly. Now, come on!
[
clapping her hands like a teacher to a pupil]
Nicole:
Places!
Voguel:
My idea of the Heaven is a place where they screw you barefoot!
Nicole:
[
Laughing] You make me wanna pass a hat for it.
Voguel:
[
Smiling] Don't feel sorry for me!
[
about his ex]
Voguel:
I got him be left
[
Pointing her removed breast]
Voguel:
Every cloud has a silver lining, and he was too dull to kill
[
She stops to smile. About Mia]
Voguel:
What about her? Did she want to kill her husband?
Nicole:
Why would she want do that?
Voguel:
Maybe she found out you were sleeping with him
[
She walks to her car to leave]
Nicole:
[
Ironic] Oh, that's so clever! Who did you ask, one of the faculty or any of the students? Oh, I know! You read it in the brochure, all right?
Voguel:
So she knew?
Nicole:
Of course she knew! Ask her! Come on, she's not a murderer. She's an ex-nun, for Christ sake.
Voguel:
[
Laughing again] I remember them! They disappeared overnight, like dial phones.
[
Serious again]
Voguel:
Whay about you? What if he wouldn't leave her?
Nicole:
Honey, if I couldn't get a man to leave her I wouldn't kill him, I'd kill myself.
Voguel:
[
Going into her car] Well, he has lef her. Apparently. One way or another. Well...
[
about to start the car]
Voguel:
Unless there's anything else...
Nicole:
Yeah, there is, one more thing!
[
She goes to Voguel's car window in a satisfied, accomplice and smiling mood]
Nicole:
Guy did it barefoot!
Voguel:
[
She put a gum in her mouth pulling a face of sarcastic wisdom. Before starting the car and leaving the place] "Did", Miss Horner? Don't you mean "DOES"?
Mia:
[
the ex-nun defies] I can go to the police. I can tell them what we did.
Nicole:
What YOU did.
Mia:
We both did it.
Nicole:
Yeah, well. I don't think they'll see that as beneficial to me. They'll say the wife gets the school, the money, his investment, her freedom... And what did the other woman get?
[
Significative silence]
Nicole:
Nothing. That's how they'll look at it.
Mia:
[
Coming very close to Nicole, with complicity] I'll say we were lovers.
Nicole:
Well. You can take the girl out of the convent.
Mia:
I thought we had the same reason.
Nicole:
We did have the same reason
[
as for the money Mia has just found out that Guy cheated Nicole]
Nicole:
I just had an extra one
[
Caressing Mia with cherish]
Nicole:
I'm sorry I lied to you. I couldn't do it now.
Mia:
If you hadn't found this... you'd killed the one person who could have told you where it was.
Nicole:
He said we were partners. And then he acted alone
[
She kisses softly Mia on her neck]
Mia:
Am I alive?
Nicole:
No, you are dead, this is Heaven and I am Virgin Mary.
Nicole:
Why don't you take him off speed dial?
Nicole:
If you give him the school, he'll just sell it, and then where would all the future Lee Harvey Oswalds come from?
Nicole:
You knew about her?
Mia:
Yeah , from last fall , right after you came!
Nicole:
And why didn't you tell me about her?
Mia:
Why should I make hurt like I was?
[
Nicole lights her cigarette]
Leo:
Second-hand smoke kills, you know.
Nicole:
[
blowing smoke in Leo's face] Not reliably.
Voguel:
It's not your fault - it's *men*. Testosterone. They should put it in bombs.
Edie Danziger:
[
finds the black and white 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? playing on TV] Oh. Yeah. I'm gonna wait until this is in color.
Nicole:
One good drink oughta do it!
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