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MEDIUM ANNA AND TEUFEL

Teufel: Hear me, Duchess...

TEUFEL pulls at ANNA’s shielding pillow.
Teufel: Anastasia’s jaw was broken by a rifle butt.
Anna: No!
Teufel: Your jaw has been broken.
Anna: In a train accident in Poland.
Teufel: When?
Anna: Ten years ago.
Teufel: The year the Imperial Family was shot.
Anna: You’re a crazy old woman. You scrub toilets in an asylum.
Teufel: I am Head Nurse of this section.
Anna: No one will believe anything you say.

CLOSE UP TEUFEL

Teufel: I say exactly what the American newspaperman says. The
Grand Duchess Anastasia is alive and she is in hiding. She
fears the Red Communists still wish her dead. The American
thinks Anastasia hides in a German convent.
CLOSE UP ANNA

Anna: The Grand Duchess is not in a convent.

CLOSE UP TEUFEL

Teufel: No. She is like you in an asylum.

TIGHT CLOSE UP ANNA
Anna: Anastasia is dead.

TIGHT CLOSE UP TEUFEL

Teufel: You are Anastasia.

CLOSE UP ANNA

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