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             Teufel: Because of Anna, Wilson, we shall both be able to afford
                fumigation.
             Wilson: You’re a tough old doll.

                                CLOSE UP TEUFEL

             Teufel: Armies have marched over me.

                               CLOSE UP WILSON
             Wilson: I couldn’t have stated the obvious better.

                                CLOSE UP TEUFEL

             Teufel: I intend to survive, Wilson. This is Berlin, 1928, and I
                am a common woman. I am not like the frightened, coddled
                woman you seek. A woman left over from a world of royalty
                dead and gone. I take my life into my hands. Red blood, not
                blue, runs in my veins. Long after the world has forgotten
                there ever were Grand Duchesses, women like me will survive.

                         MEDIUM WILSON AND TEUFEL

                 TEUFEL rises, smiling, self-satisfied.
             Teufel: Good-night, Wilson.

                 TEUFEL exits.

                          SHOT SLOWLY TRUCKS INTO
                     TIGHT CLOSE UP of a reflecting WILSON

                                    DISSOLVE
                       INT. KINO MOVIE THEATER—DAY

                          MEDIUM ANNA AND TEUFEL

                 ANNA and TEUFEL are discovered watching a film.
                 Light from the projector triangles down through the
                 darkness over their heads. Behind them an anonymous


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