Alicia's Script - (Part of) Scene 2

Scene 2

A ship cabin.  TREVOR is in the shower.  CASSIE is sitting on the bed, her back facing the cabin door when MARTHA quietly enters.  She shuts the door and CASSIE jumps. 

CASSIE

Oh my god, Martha!  You scared me so bad I almost got frightened.

MARTHA

(pause)

You know that's the same-- nevermind.  I told you I was coming.

CASSIE

I thought you meant eventually.

MARTHA

I specifically said, "I'm coming over now."

CASSIE

I didn't know you meant right now.

MARTHA

Again, that's the same-- forget it. 

MARTHA begins searching the cabin for an item.

MARTHA 

Anyway...I saw you two sitting across from each other, doing the whole staring-into-each-other's-souls and such.

CASSIE

Marty, you know it's an act.  I'm here because you asked me to be here, not him...Well, technically I am here because he asked me.  And you're here because I told you that he asked me...hmm, so we're both here because of him...he just doesn't know that you know about us (gesturing towards the bathroom door) and that there really is no us, but there kinda is an us (gesturing to the two of them) and we intend to ecck (makes a slashing gesture across her neck) to him.  He's really not a very nice man.

MARTHA

I'm just making sure you're not getting some kind of feelings for my husband again.

CASSIE

You finding out about me and Trevor was the best thing that ever happened to me.  Any other woman would've divorced Trevor or destroyed my beautiful face so I could never use it on another lonely, unfulfilled husband, but not you.  You've taught me so much about forgiveness, self-worth, and what it really means to truly have unconditional love for someone.  I would never steal your husband again.

MARTHA

That's so sweet.

CASSIE

So, have you decided how we're going to do it?  I still think drugging him and pushing him overboard is our best and quietest option.  Plus, blood makes me kind of queasy.

MARTHA

Yes.  We'll drug him with his own sleeping pills.

MARTHA pulls a bottle of pills from Trevor's bag. 

CASSIE

Sleeping pills?  But that will only put him to sleep, not kill him.  We do want to kill him like for real, right? And not like, figor-- figora--

MARTHA

Figuratively!  Yes!  We want to-- (quieter) We want to kill him, but we'll let the ocean do that.  We drug him with the pills, so that way when he "accidentally" falls overboard he'll just go sleepy-bye right there in the water, and drown in its salty goodness.

CASSIE claps excitedly.

CASSIE

We should be on one of those crime shows.

MARTHA

CSI? I thought so to, but the killer rarely gets away in those shows.

CASSIE

(gasps)

We’d be the ones with like “to be continued”s!

MARTHA

(pauses, then looks at Cassie)

They still die or get caught.

CASSIE

Yeah, but they at least get like two or three episodes.