The Big Blue Page #26

JOHANA:

(stopping her)

I know, I know! I'm a terrible

person...

(after a beat)

It's... I'm so damn, damn sad.

SALLY:

What is it honey... the frenchy?

JOHANA:

(tentatively)

Do you think I should have stayed?

Don't you think maybe I should

have stayed? I've been a jerk,

right?

(then, emphatically)

I should have stayed! I was

supposed to be in love... I was in

love! I am in love, why did I act

like a b*tch? He went swimming.

All the man did was go swimming!

I must be crazy. It was too good

to be true.

SALLY:

Vitamins, exercise, herb tea...

and see a doctor, will ya?

INT. DOCTOR'S OFFICE - JOHANA - DAY

The doctor enters with a folder, speaks to JOHANA

DOCTOR:

Well Miss Cross, herbs aren't going

to do the trick this time.

JOHANA:

(worried)

It's serious, right?

DOCTOR:

I think so. You're pregnant...

Congratulations! If that's in order?

JOHANA breaks into a wide grin.

JOHANA:

It's in order! Thank you. Thank

you.

DOCTOR:

I don't think it's me you have to

thank.

INT. DUFFY'S OFFICE - DUFFY - DAY

DUFFY is at his desk. His lunch is spread out in front of

him. Outside the window, the window-washers are eating

their lunch too. JOHANA hurries in.

DUFFY:

Good afternoon.

JOHANA:

(agitated)

I came to make a clean breast of

everything... the whole business.

DUFFY:

(bluffing, with his

mouth full of

sandwich)

Yes. Of course. Very wise.

JOHANA:

(in a rush)

Remember when I went to Italy and

canceled the policy on the new

stadium. Well, we weren't being

cheated by the Mafia or anybody

except maybe by me...

(she sees the window-

washers)

... Do they come for lunch everyday?

I really went on my own business,

to see a man that I happen to be

in love with... and I'm glad I did

it, but I'm sorry about the policy

and I'll be happy to make up the

money the company didn't get... of

course just now I don't have...

(she checks a note

she's holding)

One million, four hundred and ten

thousand dollars. But if you were

to dock my salary, say, twenty

dollars a week, in a few hundred

years we'd be even... and I think

this is where you fire me?

DUFFY:

(swallowing sandwich)

You're right. You're fired.

JOHANA:

Will that interfere with my getting

maternity leave? I'm pregnant.

DUFFY:

The Italian, I presume?

JOHANA:

No. He's French, he was just in

Italy for the competition.

DUFFY:

(smiling)

He seems to have won it.

JOHANA:

Yes, isn't it wonderful? I'm so

happy. I'll bet I'm the happiest

pregnant fired person in the world!

She starts to leave... calls out to the window-washers.

JOHANA:

Bon appetit and Adieu!

INT. JOHANA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

JOHANA stares out of the bay window of her Manhattan

apartment. Hesitant, she walks around her telephone.

Finally she makes up her mind, picks up her address book

and dials the number.

JACQUES (V.O.)

Hello?

JOHANA:

It's me... Johana.

INT. JACQUES' APARTMENT

JACQUES is on the telephone, in front of a little window

overlooking the sea. He is very glad to hear her voice.

JACQUES:

How are you?

INT. JOHANA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

JOHANA:

I got fired.

JACQUES (V.O.)

... That's funny... I had this job

with Enzo... we got fired too.

JOHANA'S face lights up with a huge smile.

DISSOLVE TO:

LATER:

JOHANA is still on the phone,

sitting in front of the bay window.

Day is dawning.

JOHANA:

(looking out at the

skyline)

It's getting light out.

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