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WANDA:
Tucson? That tombstone? We don't have a
summer house in Tucson.
SPEAKERMANNING
: Wewillbytheendoftheweek.
And you'll be there by Sunday.
WANDA:
I don't know what I ever saw in you anyhow.
SPEAKER MANNING: (sarcastic) You were blinded by the
light.
WANDA
: I was drowning in the shit.
SPEAKERMANNING
: IfIcatchyouwithanotherdrink,
I'm committing you.
:
WANDAI'll scream my head off.
SPEAKER MANNING: No one's gonna hear you, dear.
She looks at him; for the first time tonight, she's afraid.
WANDA: (pouting) You know I hate Mozart. Why can't we
go dancing sometime, like Sam and Maxine?
SPEAKER MANNING: When we're the President and
First Lady, like Sam and Maxine.
WANDA
: You gotta be the President to go out dancing?
SPEAKER MANNING: In Washington you do.
HOME OF THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE - FALLS
CHURCH, VA - NIGHT
Speaker Manning exits the limo without waiting for his
wife, who allows the Chauffeur to open her door.
As Speaker Manning heads for the doorway of the
columned Georgian mansion: