The Internecine Project Page #5

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Jean, listen, I-I'll call you in

the morning, huh? Goodnight.

David, David, dammit, where are you?

Jean.

I'm sorry, I had to. I...

Well, listen, I uh...

What the hell? I told you I was busy.

Well, you gonna...

- Slam the door, or what?

- No, no, no, no. Come on in. I'm sorry.

Are you expecting somebody? I mean, do you have a date?

No, I don't have a date. I'm simply working on my speech.

Now, what is it that can't wait til morning?

What am I?

Am I a one night stand?

Oh, Jean.

Sorry.

- Listen.

- Don't look at me.

- Listen.

- Please.

C'mon.

Listen, you gotta get the hell out of

here so I can get back to work. Hmm?

C'mon.

Your phone's ringing.

Yes.

It's David.

Where've you been?

I was seen.

Some woman. She saw me.

Well, you get home as quick as you can.

Call me when you get there.

I've put you in a terribly

embarrassing position. I'm sorry.

No, no, no, it was just an associate that uh...

Jean.

There's no need to explain. Really.

No explanation is necessary.

David.

Christina.

Thatta boy Bert.

Yes.

Elliot?

Alex, what's the matter?

Yes, well I can't got through with it.

What?

I can't go through with it. I'm... I just

can't go do it, that's all. You'll...

You'll-you'll just have to find someone else.

Where are you?

I'm, uh, I-I'm outside the club.

Um... now, look, you-you must try and understand it.

Alex, you're going to go through

with it just as we planned.

I-I don't care anymore, you see.

I mean, what happens to me, it, it...

I-I just cannot go through with it.

Alex, I'll tell you what's going to happen to you.

You're going to be finished, wiped out.

I thought I made that clear.

We've been through all of this before.

Uh, you wouldn't do that, would you? I, uh...

You-you wouldn't do that.

You just try me.

Now, you go 'round the back of the club.

You wait for him. He should be there any minute now.

You do what you have to do, and then you

call me five times, just as we planned.

I know all that. It's, it's...

Listen to me, goddammit!

Now, it's either you or him. Now, what's it going to be?

Huh? Alex? Alright?

Alright, Alex?

Alright!

Alex, goddammit.

C'mon, Alex.

Alex?

Alex?

Elliot.

Why the hell didn't you call me?

Yeah, I-I...

Uh, I-I-I was, I was going to call you. Um...

I-I meant, I meant to call you. It was just that I um...

I um...

What the hell's the matter with you? Are you drunk?

- I-I just don't feel...

- You're sick.

I just don't fell too grand, and I was, and I,

uh... it's the diabetes, you know. It's a...

- Well, maybe you better take your injection.

- No, I did, I did, it's um, I-I...

Before I...

Um...

I...

Well, how'd it go?

- Uh, so, so I was...

- You what?

He um...

Did you do it?

Yes, I did it.

Did it. But...

I, um...

I, uh...

I...

I-I-I-I hit him and...

It was easier than I expected it.

We...

We've done it, Elliot.

We've done it.

We've done it, you see. We've done it.

It's done, Elliot, we...

Why do you think I sent you there?

Well, I understand your problem, but there must

be somebody who can take over this assignment.

Well, there isn't.

Well, I can't get anyplace with Elliot.

What's the hang up, Jean? Personal?

Personal, yes! I mean, it is, it's personal.

You don't want to believe Elliot sold out.

Yes.

- Am I wrong, Jean?

- No.

You're right, as always.

- Are you going to do your job?

- Yes.

- Tell Elliot he's on borrowed time.

- Whatever you say.

I'm sure it's something you'll be able to live with.

Yes, well, for eight hundred pounds, I certainly hope so.

It has an abstract quality which is

most original. Don't you find so?

Yes, it's quite interesting.

This just arrived by special delivery, professor.

- What is it?

- I have no idea.

Thank you.

- Here you are.

- Thank you, sir.

I-I'll take these bags down now, professor.

We are having an exhibition of Maritzberg in January.

I'm sure you'd be interested.

Thank you. I'll make a point of that.

- Well, good day to you, sir.

- Good day.

Your plane is at two o'clock which means you

must leave not later than twelve forty-five.

Twelve forty-five.

Oh, madam.

Ah, Ms. Johnson.

- Professor at home?

- Yes, he's in the study.

Well?

Hello, Jean.

You made it.

It just came over the telex. A special statement from

the P.R. Office of the white house. Congratulations.

Well, thank you.

I think that calls for a drink.

I got a two o'clock plane to catch. That

means I have to leave at one o'clock.

Okay.

You'll make it. You always do.

- Brandy alright?

- Fine.

Oh.

I am sorry about last night. Uh, I

realize I couldn't have been more wrong.

Oh no.

No, the only thing that you're

involved with is yourself..

To yourself. To your work.

I'll drink to that.

Well, when are you coming back to Washington?

Hmm?

They've really got ya, haven't they?

They've got their man right up there where it counts.

E.D.C. And Farnsworth can run the

government any way they want because...

Good old professor Elliot is right

in there next to the president.

I hope they're paying you a lot of money.

Yes, they are.

Oh.

Jean, there are a hell of a lot of things

in this world that need to be done.

And, to do them, the right man has to be

in the right place at the right time.

Are you the right man?

Yes.

You know, it's usual in a civilized society

to wait until your elected to a post.

Not smash your way through whether you're wanted or not.

That's why they...

The whole world is falling around all about us because

we're waiting for the right man to be elected.

That's called democracy. Don't you remember?

Yes, the whole world is governed by a

bunch of democratically elected amateurs.

There's no time for that anymore, Jean.

Or a little fascism can go a long way.

You don't seem to understand that

there are things that I believe in.

I believe in very deeply.

I'm not about to wait around for a

bunch of half-assed politicians

to screw things up when I know that I

can do a hell of a lot better job.

And that's not vanity or conceit

or a damn thing. That's...

- Pure honest conviction.

- The end justifies the means.

You know there's...

There's a lot of us poor, down-trodden

peasants who don't happen to agree with you.

That's why you're peasants.

This particular peasant doesn't intend to stay down.

Oh well, Jean, you're stuck in time.

That kind of an argument went out with

the cold war and flower children.

Well, there's something else. You know...

I've been digging up a lot of

stuff, and the more I kept digging

the more I kept finding out that you were involved.

I'm gonna write about it, Robert.

I'm gonna write about it.

I'm gonna throw the mud against the wall

and some of it is going to stick to you.

Well, write it then, Jean.

I damn well will.

I have never, ever really trusted you, Elliot.

And, it would be reasonable, therefore, to

suppose that should I die an unnatural death

you and your organization are likely to be responsible.

I've been working for some months

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