Enough Said Page #8

ALBERT (CONT’D)

Is everything okay?

EVA:

This is actually pretty damn amazing.

He sits with her.

ALBERT:

How was work today?

EVA:

It was good. I had two massages.

ALBERT:

Tell me. Non stop talking? Barnacles?

Erections?

EVA:

It was a nice woman in Santa Monica.

(beat)

She talks a lot about her ex husband.

Long pause. Eva is about to tell him the truth.

EVA (CONT’D)

Albert -

ALBERT:

Let’s hope it wasn’t my ex wife!

She coughs, miserable. Stuck.

ALBERT (CONT’D)

(beat)

I have a little present for you.

EVA:

You do?

She’s nervous. He places a small box in front of her.

ALBERT:

Now, it’s just a little present.

Eva opens the box and lifts up a pretty, simple necklace.

EVA:

Oh my god.

ALBERT:

I just saw it and thought of you.

ENOUGH SAID 60

He caresses her neck.

ALBERT (CONT’D)

This beautiful, wonderful part.

He gets up and puts it on her, kisses her. He can tell

something is wrong.

EVA:

You like it on me? Thank you soooo much.

ALBERT:

Maybe I shouldn’t have. Is it too soon?

EVA:

No, it’s lovely. Thank you.

EXT/INT. ALBERT’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Eva and Albert are making love in the dark. He accidently

jabs her.

EVA:

Ouch!

ALBERT:

I’m so sorry.

EVA:

No worries.

He does it again.

EVA (CONT’D)

Sh*t. Ouch.

ALBERT:

What am I doing?

EVA:

It’s just - your elbow - that’s better,

oh.

ALBERT:

Good.

Eva giggles.

EVA:

Your beard - it’s so ticklish.

ENOUGH SAID 61

ALBERT:

Oh, sorry.

EVA:

That’s okay.

They kiss some more. He climbs on top.

EVA (CONT’D)

Ow! My hair! My hair!

Albert stops and reaches for the light, which he flips on.

ALBERT:

(upset)

Okay. I don’t know what I’m doing, but

this is not going well. Why don’t we just

stop.

He looks at her as she sighs deeply.

INT. ALBERT’S BATHROOM - LATER THAT NIGHT

Eva is standing in Albert’s messy bathroom. She looks at his

grimy sink. He has about SIX toothbrushes in his cup.

She bends down to the cabinet and opens it. Cob webs, dust.

Ancient things. About FOUR bottles of mouthwash with varying

degrees left. She stares at them, disturbed.

INT. ALBERT’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Eva comes out of the bathroom and sits on the bed.

ALBERT:

You look cute in my robe. Everything all

right?

EVA:

You have four hundred mouthwashes.

ALBERT:

Uh, yeah. I buy them, I forget to use

them, I buy more...

EVA:

Why do you have so many toothbrushes?

ENOUGH SAID 62

ALBERT:

I don’t know. I only use one.

EVA:

So why don’t you throw the others out?

ALBERT:

(beat)

They’re my friends?

Eva lies next to him and he snuggles in.

ALBERT (CONT’D)

Should we give it another shot?

EVA:

Oh, I’m just so tired. Is that okay?

ALBERT:

Yeah. It’s okay.

He goes to kiss her but she’s turning over, away from him.

INT. FAMILY ITALIAN RESTAURANT - NIGHT

PETER AND FRAN (Eva’s ex and his new wife), Ellen, Chloe,

Sarah and Will. The food has not yet been served.

PETER:

So proud of you, honey.

Everyone toasts to Ellen.

FRAN:

We are. Here’s some graduation money.

She hands her an envelope.

ELLEN:

Thanks so much you guys.

PETER:

(joking)

It’s in fives.

CHLOE:

Thanks for including me tonight.

EVA:

You had a fight with your mom?

ENOUGH SAID 63

CHLOE:

Huge.

EVA:

Where’s your dad?

CHLOE:

He lives in San Diego but you’d think it

was across the Pacific. He never comes

up. I don’t care. He remarried a really

weird woman. She never talks.

SARAH:

(maybe a little drunk)

Hear, hear for second marriages.

Will gives his wife a strange look.

FRAN:

It’s kind of true, though. It’s good when

everyone is a little older and wiser.

SARAH:

Maybe second marriages work because

people have figured out how to

compromise.

EVA:

Or behave, perhaps.

PETER:

Thanks everyone!

EVA:

No one is talking about you.

SARAH:

Not you personally. In general. If I got

married again I’d be on the lookout for

what was going to be our inevitable

problems.

WILL:

Odd conversation.

SARAH:

It’s true. Everyone is crazy.

WILL:

So, maybe don’t get married again.

PETER:

Said the first husband.

ENOUGH SAID 64

SARAH:

I’m not saying I will. I’m just saying.

EVA:

(to Fran)

What was your first husband like?

FRAN:

He was actually a lovely man. Just not

for me.

EVA:

Oh. Very grown up!

FRAN:

He passed away. Two years ago.

Peter attracts a WAITER.

PETER:

Excuse me, could we have more bread?

WAITER:

Of course.

EVA:

Oh no, not more bread.

PETER:

Why not?

EVA:

I don’t want to eat it.

PETER:

So don’t.

(to waiter)

More bread, please?

The waiter leaves.

EVA:

Are you even going to eat it?

PETER:

I don’t know. But the others might.

FRAN:

I probably will.

WILL:

Me, too.

ENOUGH SAID 65

PETER:

Bread eater, another bread eater...

EVA:

Okay, sorry.

EVA (CONT’D)

(like an interview)

So, Fran. You eat bread.

FRAN:

It’s true.

EVA:

(to Peter)

Does that mean you can keep cookies in

the house?

PETER:

I can.

CHLOE:

What are you guys talking about?

EVA:

I have a little trouble controlling

myself when it comes to sweets or bread,

so when Peter brought something like

cookies or chocolate or good bread home I

would eat all of it and then hate myself.

PETER:

And me, for buying it in the first place.

CHLOE:

So, did you stop buying it?

PETER:

I did.

EVA:

But he was angry.

PETER:

I was not.

EVA:

Well, just a little.

WILL:

(to Peter)

You should be angry.

ENOUGH SAID 66

Why should you be deprived because she

can’t control herself?

SARAH:

Because she’s his wife and he’s trying to

help her?

WILL:

But is that really helping her?

SARAH AND EVA:

Yes!

WILL:

Not if we want her to learn how to

control herself.

EVA:

We??!

SARAH:

(rolling her eyes)

Oh my god, here it comes.

WILL:

It’s not fair to him.

SARAH:

Why does everything have to be fair?!

What are you, six!?

WILL:

Come on, let’s keep it nice.

FRAN:

(shrugging)

I just forget the cookies are there.

EVA:

That’s why you’re married to Peter and

I’m not.

The WAITER COMES BY and puts the bread on the table. Eva

takes some.

EXT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT

Everyone exits the restaurant.

ENOUGH SAID 67

EVA:

(to Peter)

Nobody ate the bread, by the way.

PETER:

You did.

EVA:

Exactly.

She starts to walk away but stops herself.

EVA (CONT’D)

What do you say to people when they asked

why we got divorced?

PETER:

I usually just say we probably shouldn’t

have been together.

EVA:

But Fran knows everything. I mean, you’ve

talked about me.

He looks at her as if to say “duh.”

EVA (CONT’D)

Of course. She’s your wife.

Eva and Peter join the others. While they all chat and laugh,

Eva stares at her ex husband, growing pensive and lonely.

INT. EVA’S HOUSE/LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Eva sits on the couch knitting a blanket. She’s also poring

over her and Peter’s WEDDING ALBUM. They look so happy and

young. Ellen and Chloe come through wearing pajamas.

EVA:

Do you know I started this blanket when

you were five. Somehow I liked this

color. But I’m going to finish it so you

can take it with you.

ELLEN:

Maybe I should buy another, just in case.

The girls glance at the wedding album.

ENOUGH SAID 68

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