Holly and Alex: The Deal

Monday, July 2, 1990

SCENE: ALEXANDRA SPAULDING’S heavily decorated boudoir. ALEXANDRA has had a bad morning arguing with ROGER, and as she sits, still in her dressing gown, she hears a knock on the door. HOLLY enters with a purposeful step.

HOLLY: Do you know where Blake and Alan-Michael went on their honeymoon?

ALEXANDRA: No, why?

HOLLY: They’re having trouble already.

ALEXANDRA [exasperated]: What?

HOLLY [bitterly]: Blake just called me and she was crying, but she wouldn’t tell me why. She can only talk to "Daddy" about it. "Daddy’s" the only one who will understand!

ALEXANDRA: Isn’t Roger good at that, making people think that they can’t trust anyone but him?!

HOLLY: Egotistical, insufferable

ALEXANDRA: I know!

HOLLY: I was so convinced he was out of my life. Oh, who was I kidding? He has taken away the one precious thing in this world to me ... my girl.

ALEXANDRA: At least all he took away from me was part of my company ... and my self-respect.

HOLLY [quietly]: We can’t let him get away with this.

ALEXANDRA stands up, faces HOLLY, and says, “I don’t intend to. Let’s stop him.”

HOLLY, peering over horn-rimmed reading glasses, sits among scattered papers, reading and talking with ALEXANDRA.

HOLLY: You actually got this prenuptial agreement from Roger?

ALEXANDRA: Of course. He loved me.

A skeptical look flickers ever-so-quickly across HOLLY’S face, but ALEXANDRA is too buried in the papers to notice.

HOLLY: But if he is unfaithful to you, he loses everything: his stock, Henry’s stock, his job at Spaulding?

ALEXANDRA: That’s the point, Holly.

HOLLY [laughing]: Well, was he drunk when he signed it?

ALEXANDRA: No. I’m sure Roger had no intention of violating the terms of this agreement the night we signed it.

HOLLY: But now?

ALEXANDRA: Things change. People ... change. Only you can prove how much.

HOLLY: It says here that he would have to sign over his half of WSPR to you.

ALEXANDRA [smiles]: Yes.

HOLLY: I want it.

ALEXANDRA: You prove Roger’s unfaithful to me, you got it!

HOLLY stands with her back to ALEXANDRA, pondering the idea.

ALEXANDRA: So, can you do it?

HOLLY [uncomfortably]: Knowing Roger ... probably.

ALEXANDRA: I mean, will you? You’ll have to go pretty far.

HOLLY looks at ALEXANDRA, and paces the room.

HOLLY: Well, there must be some way, without actually doing anything.

ALEXANDRA: You have to convince me, Holly. I have to know ... if he’ll really do it. I have to!

HOLLY: Yeah, right.

ALEXANDRA: And I’ll need proof, because if he will, and we don’t bring him down, I think I’ll just die. Do you understand?

HOLLY [fiercely]: Yes.

ALEXANDRA: So, do we have a deal?

HOLLY and ALEXANDRA take a long look at each other; they shake hands in agreement.

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