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opposite him. They are in the midst of a SMALL PRESS
RECEPTION.
Olga: Caviar for the dog?
Borodin: The animal, Olga, has no way of knowing the Great
Days are gone.
Olga: But not forgotten.
Borodin: (Baiting OLGA) And perhaps soon revived. A restora-
tion. A return of the Romanovs.
Olga: Nonsense, Borodin.
Borodin: Ernst Ludwig believes he has found her.
Olga: Ernst Ludwig grasps at straws. The way he caters to these
foreign reporters...

ANOTHER ANGLE REVEALING
THE THREE REPORTERS
WILSON, ROBERTS, AND LORRE

Roberts: My London editor thinks this new girl an equal fraud.
Lorre: Frankly, so do I.
Roberts: In the last six months, I’ve interviewed three Tatiana’s,
one Maria, and a dwarf Czarevitch Alexis.
Lorre: Ja. Imagine a dwarf Czarevitch!
Roberts: Sounds economical. He could be his own court jester...

SHOT catches WAITER with tray and PANS with him
from REPORTERS as he offers tray to BORODIN and
OLGA.

Borodin: ...But what of the Russian throne? What if poor little
Anastasia survives alone. Penniless. Terrified.
Olga: I have no more politics. And no more pity.
Borodin: Think of the money Anastasia may claim in the Bank
of England.
Olga: Mere rumor! Nicholas had no secret accounts. I would
have known.
Borodin: Ah, yes.
Olga: Believe me, if Anastasia had the good fortune to survive,

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