Part 9
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Mason is talking over the phone in the La Mesa, and notices Mary taking a seat at the table. He approaches her.
Mary doesn't want to talk to him. She says that nothing has changed since yesterday, and she doesn't have sympathy toward Ted. |
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| Mason answers that Ted is not only his brother and client but also just a young man who was unfairly accused. Mary is angry and is about to go away but Mason stops her and asks to listen to him. Mary takes a seat unwillingly. |
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| Mason asks her to tell Christie that he is going to advise Ted to be tested on a lie detector. Mary asks anxiously if he is really going to do this. Mason says that he is, and he adds that maybe if Mary warns Christie she will realize that the truth will come out and she will tell what really has happened that night. |
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| Mary assures that Christie tells the truth. Mason says that she may hardly remember the rapist or he may look like Ted. Christie may be sincere in her mistake. Mary asks why Mason didn't tell the same at the conference instead of telling that Christie sleeps with everybody. Mason says that Steve also called Ted hard names. Then he notices Ted in the cafe. Mary says that she is not going to talk to Ted. Mason says that it's time for her to get acquainted with a person she is going to toss into jail for 20 years. |
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Mary says that she has met Ted and she has nothing to tell him. She want to go but Ted stops her and persuades that he has to see Christie. He doesn't understand why she slanders him.
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| Christie is bored at home. Theda is comforting her massaging her shoulders. |
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| Christie says that she want to go out no matter where, she doesn't want to stay in the apartment. And Theda may look for a job. |
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Theda agrees unwillingly but reminds Christie Steve's words that she must stay away from Ted Capwell. Christie answers that it is not a problem.
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| Mary thinks that Ted is going to terrify Christie so that she would not testify against him in the court. Ted persuades her that he is not a rapist. |
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| Mason offers him a test on a lie detector. Ted agrees immediately, he hope that the test will prove his innocence. Mary says that Christie will also pass the test and prove that she tells the truth. |
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| Ted tells Mary about his relations with Christie: they were friends, he helped her, he bought perfume for their mother's Birthday, employed her as a nurse for Brandon. Mary asks why he raped her. She didn't show the attitude he wanted? Ted says he didn't do it and a day before it Christie came to him and offered to have sex. |
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| Mary shouts that he and Mason coined this lie to disgrace Christie's name. She hopes that Ted will get his due. He is abnormal and must be isolated. Christie will stay wounded all the rest life after such a rape. |
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| She goes away, Mason and Ted say alone. |
