Page 232 - Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories

220 Jack Fritscher

SHOT OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA lying awake
and distant in their bed. TATIANA opens the door to the
room her parents share with their sickly son.

Tatiana: Father!
Nicholas: Tatiana?
Tatiana: I’m frightened, father.
Nicholas: Come in, my girl.
Tatiana: The noise. Outside. On the other side of the house.
Trucks are gathering. The soldiers are drunk and shouting. We
are all frightened, father. Anastasia is crying.
Nicholas: Again.
Alexandra: Anastasia cries enough for all of us. She is a silly girl.
Nicholas: Anastasia is young. Too young. For this.
Alexandra: You spoil our daughters.
Nicholas: (Chucking TATIANA’s chin) As beautiful young
Grand Duchesses should be.
Alexandra: You fill them with useless dreams, Nikki. The life we
knew is destroyed. Gone forever.
Tatiana: Mother!
Alexandra: These are hard new times, Tatiana. Because of these
drunken Red soldiers, I am no longer Empress and you are no
longer a Grand Duchess.
Nicholas: (To Tatiana) You will always be my little Duchess.
Alexandra: God has told me in a dream. We are the last of the
Romanovs...Tomorrow the soldiers will have us scrubbing
their lavatories.

A second KNOCK on the door. It is ANASTASIA.
As the door opens, the SHOT PANS to a CLOSE UP of
ANASTASIA.

Nicholas: (Voice Over) Anastasia! My Anya... What is it?
Anastasia: In our room. With Olga and Maria. Three soldiers.

ANOTHER ANGLE

Nicholas: I’ll have them shot!

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