Where The Truth Lies Page #6

How do you know about Reuben?

He was in a lot of the material

I've been looking at.

No, I never had a Reuben.

Lanny always paid him directly.

He was Lanny's man.

Right.

You know, what I like is to...

...read...

...think.

It's to have the freedom...

...to get up and leave

without telling anyone about it...

...any time of day.

Or even having to say goodbye.

To be backstage, surrounded

by acrobats, actors, magicians...

...it was intoxicating.

You know, I was only 12 years old.

That's a...

That's a pretty impressionable age.

- To hear all these stories of touring...

- My father always told me...

... that nothing had meaning

unless it could be put on the record.

Yet things had changed.

As Vince had pointed out

at our first meeting...

... it had become fashionable

to put yourself into the story.

The question became

how far you were prepared to go.

- Excuse me. That's not mine.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

Aren't you Miss Trout?

We've met,

on the plane to New York.

- Reuben.

- Excuse me, sir.

Can I leave you

for just a second, please?

I'm so deeply sorry, Miss Trout,

the way you were treated.

- He could have left a note.

- Of course.

Miss Trout, I would like you

to understand something.

I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris.

He's treated me very well.

I'm very grateful.

He has done wonderful things

for many people...

...and I have been privileged

to work for him.

But I do have certain principles...

...especially about how women

are to be treated and respected.

Mr. Morris can be very attentive,

but once he has a woman...

Oh, God, I think

it's almost a sickness.

When he left you that morning...

...you may have felt bad,

but believe me, Miss Trout...

...to have him out of your life...

...is the best thing that

could have happened to you.

At that point, you may have felt

your life was wounded.

It wasn't.

It was saved.

Vince, I was very clear about this

from the beginning.

I'm not out to play games with you.

This is why you're being paid

a huge amount of money.

This isn't entirely about money,

you know.

A million dollars is more than

the gross of your last film.

I was somehow

under the impression that my life...

...might have been of more than

passing interest.

But if my fleeting encounter with

a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty...

...is all you really want to talk about,

then that's what we'll do.

I have to make an appearance

at the clinic tomorrow.

We can come back

and talk after that.

It's Wonderland.

I imagine you might remember that.

He was right.

I did remember Wonderland.

- You ready?

- Ready.

When I was a girl, the entire hospital

was devoted to children with polio.

Since that time,

it had become a clinic for kids...

... with a variety of different

physical handicaps.

Once a year, the children

would put on a pageant...

... playing different characters

from Alice in Wonderland.

Vince, in his continuing support

of the hospital...

... had hired a band and a singer.

Who is that?

I don't know.

She's good, whoever she is.

Karen, do you mind if we start

this conversation tomorrow?

I'm just...

I'm not feeling all that well.

- Vince...

- In fact, it won't make...

...any difference over there.

The office is closed.

They've been working late.

Then they've been working

much too hard.

First thing tomorrow. First thing.

I hope your editors were reasonable.

Reasonable? No, they weren't.

We can go as late as you like.

That's good.

It might take us

into the evening.

I had a feeling

that might be the case.

So I've ordered a hot and cold

smorgasbord to be brought in.

We can work through dinner.

- We'll be having company?

- Yes.

I have...

...a surprise for you.

Actually, this is a fairly big deal

for me as well.

I've asked Lanny to join us today.

Lanny?

Well, this is something.

Neuman and Newberry will certainly

be getting their money's worth.

I thought that if I was

going to discuss something...

...that had such an impact

on our lives...

...it would be fair for Lanny

to hear what I had to say.

Given that we've

never talked about it.

I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him.

When is he coming?

He should be here any minute now.

This is very exciting.

Sh*t.

- Yes?

- Bonnie, I have to talk fast.

I need you to do exactly as I tell you

and I can't tell you why, okay?

Sure.

Excuse me, that might actually

be him now.

Yes, hello?

Yes, thank you.

That was my office.

There's a woman...

A friend, a relative of yours?

She said she called

on a number you gave her.

She's gonna call back.

- Yes?

- Hi, kiddo.

Listen, your brother Clifford

has just been rushed to the hospital.

He was doing construction

when a thing...

- A steel girder?

- That's it.

You better come to the city

and make your peace with him.

You're booked on the next

flight to San Francisco.

I'm waiting here for you

in front of the terminal.

They reserved me a seat

on the next flight to San Francisco.

- I'll drive you there.

- No, no.

Sharon is waiting at the airport for me.

You can't stand Lanny up.

Please give him

my deepest apologies.

- Hey.

- Please, I can explain.

You've broken the law,

Bonnie-f***ing-Trout.

You've assumed

another person's identity...

...to get information

from a business competitor.

Obviously I lied about who I was.

I'm sorry.

It was a huge untruth.

It wasn't planned.

I was just freaked out about

suddenly being on the plane with...

With you...

How did you get the seat

behind me on the plane?

- It was pure coincidence.

- Bullshit!

It's true.

How could you..? How could you have

just left me at the hotel like that?

You were asleep.

Reuben woke me to say

I had to be a substitute performer...

...at a charity concert at the Hollywood

Bowl. I had to get the first flight out.

You could have left a note

or called.

- I did leave you a note.

- Where?

I don't know why we're even talking

about this. I don't like you.

All right? I wish we had never met.

Hello, Vince.

What the f***'s going on?

Vince, a few days after we first met...

...I found myself next to Lanny

on a flight to New York.

It was a complete coincidence.

- He asked my name...

- And she lied.

I had just finished reading the first

chapter of Lanny's own biography.

His lawyers had let me see it in the

hope of discouraging our own project.

As a reflex, since I knew he

would view me as the enemy...

...I gave him the name of a friend...

...whose apartment I was

staying at in Manhattan.

I thought I just had to get through

the awkwardness of the flight itself...

...but the trouble is...

- You slept with him.

- Vince...

- You slept with my ex-partner.

Technically.

Doesn't sound like things were

particularly technical.

Now, you listen to me, sweetheart.

Vince doesn't always do

what's best for Vince.

That's why he needed me

here today.

The story of this girl is the

most painful thing in his life.

What happened to her, Lanny?

Well, you're not gonna find out.

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