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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.

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