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Behind her, the two MOVING MEN bring in a matching blue leather<br />
armchair. In the armchair sits LYDIA DEETZ.<br />
LYDIA is the nec plus ultra of whatever is fashionable in<br />
sixteen-year-old SoHo girls -- this week that makes her a DEATH<br />
ROCKER. She's has on a black tunic emblazoned with alternating<br />
rows of skulls and crucifixes. She's also wearing a hand grenade<br />
baldolier and a necklace of human finger bones. Also around her<br />
neck are a couple of very expensive cameras.<br />
LYDIA is already taking photographs, not of the new house, but of<br />
the moving men. LYDIA is cool, LYDIA is sullen, LYDIA is her<br />
father's daughter by his first marriage.<br />
The MOVING MEN still hold up the chair, waiting for DELIA to<br />
decide w<strong>here</strong> she wants it. LYDIA calmly surveys the house with a<br />
cold eye.<br />
LYDIA<br />
We gave up sixty-five hundred<br />
square feet of prime loft<br />
space on Prince Street for<br />
this?<br />
DELIA<br />
Shut up, Lydia. You're too<br />
young to comprehend fluctuations<br />
in the real estate market on a<br />
nationwide or even regionwide<br />
scale. This place was a<br />
fucking steal.<br />
DELIA signals wearily that the MOVING MEN can put the chair down<br />
anyw<strong>here</strong>.<br />
DELIA (cont)<br />
Your first job is to get all<br />
this other crap out of <strong>here</strong>.<br />
LYDIA hops down out of the chair, and comes farther into the<br />
living room.<br />
LYDIA<br />
Jesus. Who lived <strong>here</strong>? Norman<br />
Rockwell?<br />
DELIA<br />
W<strong>here</strong> is Charles?<br />
LYDIA<br />
Checking out the kitchen.<br />
That's the cue for CHARLES DEETZ, who comes in through the<br />
swinging door, and across the dining room. He's holding a<br />
butcher knife in one hand, and a massive meat cleaver in the<br />
other.<br />
CHARLES is not exactly the equivalent of his wife, being at heart<br />
a basically pleasant man. But pleasant isn't in this year, and<br />
CHARLES does his best to be off-handed and brittle.<br />
CHARLES<br />
Only things in the whole damn<br />
kitchen worth saving. You<br />
wouldn't believe the kind of<br />
junk those people ate. I found<br />
bottled Thousand Island in the<br />
refrigerator. Hungry Man<br />
Dinners in the freezer. A<br />
whole case of Spam in the<br />
pantry. They probably died<br />
of gastronomic boredom.<br />
At the front door, the fourth member of the DEETZ family climbs<br />
over the moving ramp. This is CATHY DEETZ, nine years old. She<br />
is dressed totally SoHo, but t<strong>here</strong>'s something off about the<br />
outfit -- as if she's not quite comfortable with the look. She<br />
gazes around the living room with obvious pleasure.<br />
CATHY<br />
A real house. It's totally<br />
great. I can't believe it.<br />
CHARLES<br />
You really like this place,<br />
don't you, honey?<br />
CATHY<br />
You bet.