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Olga: She is the wrong person.

MEDIUM OLGA AND LUGWIG
Ludwig: You are the wrong person, sister.
Olga: One can’t choose one’s relatives.

CLOSE UP LUDWIG

Ludwig: In Anastasia’s case—I can.
ANOTHER ANGLE MEDIUM OLGA AND LUDWIG

Olga: The poor girl. You will use anyone—anything—to restore
your power.
Ludwig: I have expensive tastes.
Olga: In horses and whores!
Ludwig: My niece, the restored Grand Duchess Anastasia, will
be most generous.
Olga: Except she denies she is Anastasia.
Ludwig: She lies...I truly believe, sister, that she is our niece.
She looks as the child Anastasia might look as a woman. But
more, in her gestures, in her face, ah, in her face is the face of
her father, Nicholas.
Olga: Is it now?

ANOTHER ANGLE OLGA AND LUDWIG
FEATURING KATHARINE

Katharine: I too see her resemblance to the Czar, Madame.
Olga: (Grinding out her cigar) If the truth be known...
Katharine: Yes, Madame?
Ludwig: ...nothing. Truth can never be known.
Ludwig: What truth?
Olga: I was closer to Nicholas than to Alexandra. Nikki confided
in me. Things...
Ludwig: What things?...Katharine, leave us.
Olga: Katharine, stay.
Ludwig: Olga, you are an insinuating woman.

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