Death Becomes Her Page #5

404

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in this world

obsessed with science.

405

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A tonic.

406

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A potion.

407

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What does it do?

408

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How old would you guess I am?

409

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I wouldn't...

410

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Come on.

Don't try to flatter me.

411

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Thirty eight.

412

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Oh, twenty eight.

Twenty... three?

413

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I am seventy-one years old.

414

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That's what it does.

415

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It stops the aging process

dead in its tracks...

416

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and forces it into retreat.

417

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Drink that potion and you'll

never grow even one day older.

418

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Don't drink it...

and continue to watch yourself rot.

419

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How much is it?

420

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The sordid topic of coin...

421

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I'm afraid is not so simple.

422

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The cost, you see,

it's different for everyone.

423

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Well, for me, how much?

424

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Well, thank you very much.

I think I should be going.

425

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Sit!

426

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Hold out your hand.

427

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What are you, nuts?

428

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Watch.

429

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Check okay?

430

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Fine.

431

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But you must make me a promise.

432

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The secret that we share

must never become public.

433

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You may continue your career

for ten years,

434

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ten years of perfect,

unchanged beauty.

435

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But at the end of that time,

before people become suspicious,

436

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you have to disappear

from public view forever.

437

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You can retire.

438

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You can stage

your own phony death...

439

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or...

440

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as one of my clients

simply said,

441

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"I vant to be alone, yah."

442

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No! She's not!

443

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Wow!

444

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Bottoms up.

445

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- Now, a warning.

- Now, a warning?

446

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Take care of yourself.

447

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You and your body are going

to be together a long time.

448

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Be good to it.

449

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Siempre viva.

Live forever.

450

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I can't believe...

Did you...

451

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Oh... I'm a girl!

452

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Shh.

453

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Ernest, oh, we gotta stop.

454

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I know we... I know we...

455

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Really, Ernest. Oh.

456

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Ernest, don't be angry with me.

457

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I'm fighting this as hard

as I can, but just...

458

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Look at you!

459

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She's already destroyed

your career.

460

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Now she's breaking

your heart,

461

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stealing your pride,

462

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flaunting her lovers...

463

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all over town.

464

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You know about that?

465

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Everyone does.

466

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At the party,

people spoke of nothing else.

467

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How can you love me, Helen?

468

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I've been so weak for so long.

469

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I should've divorced Madeline

a long time ago.

470

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By God, that is exactly

what I am going to do!

471

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The first thing

tomorrow morning,

472

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I am gonna go downtown and obtain

a divorce from Madeline Ashton.

473

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- Ernest?

- Monday. At the very least Tuesday.

474

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Divorce?

In California?

475

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That's exactly what

she wants you to do.

476

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You have no talent

for poverty.

477

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You can't let her

get away with that.

478

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Then there's nothing

I can do.

479

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Oh, yes, there is.

480

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Listen to me, Ernest.

481

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I've thought this through carefully,

and it's the only way.

482

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Tonight, while she's asleep,

you'll sneak downstairs quietly,

483

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and take one of each kind

of wine glass from the shelf.

484

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Then you'll take

this Narconal...

485

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and lightly coat

each glass.

486

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As you know, Narconal is a very

powerful alcohol-base tranquilizer,

487

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so you won't need much.

488

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Tomorrow, I'll call Madeline

to say good-bye.

489

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- I'll get her to invite me to dinner.

- Why don't you come to dinner?

490

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Then, at dinner,

we propose a toast.

491

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No matter which glass

she drinks from,

492

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Narconal will be

on the glass.

493

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You and I work together.

First, we finish dinner.

494

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Then we load her in the car,

take her to the top of Mulholland Drive,

495

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call the police and report we've seen a

drunk woman swerving close to the edge.

496

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Some drunk woman up here on Mulholland's

swerving dangerously close to the edge.

497

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We'll sit her up

in the driver's seat...

498

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and make it look like

she's had...

499

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just a little bit

too much to drink.

500

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We drop the car into gear,

501

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wedge her foot

down on the accelerator,

502

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clamp her hands

on the steering wheel...

503

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and send her on her way.

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