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Behind him, the DRY CLEANING RACKS spin around wildly with an<br />

UNEARTHLY CLATTER.<br />

INT: STEAM ROOM - NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB -- DAY<br />

Full of steam. CHARLES and OTHO, swathed in towels, sit sweating<br />

on benches.<br />

OTHO<br />

What are you in town for?<br />

CHARLES<br />

I'm arranging the catering<br />

for Saturday night.<br />

OTHO<br />

Oh let me go with you.<br />

CHARLES<br />

We're having a sushi room,<br />

and a tapas room, and your old<br />

friend Alfredo is doing a<br />

chocolate construction.<br />

OTHO<br />

Christ, how much is that<br />

going to cost? Chocolate<br />

constructions don't come<br />

cheap, and once you start<br />

taking sushi across state<br />

lines you're talking real<br />

money.<br />

CHARLES<br />

Otho, what difference does<br />

it make? I'm writing this<br />

whole party off my taxes.<br />

And Delia's writing it off<br />

of hers. Our whole goddamn<br />

lives are deductible. Taxes<br />

are just a game that you play<br />

against the IRS and I always<br />

make sure that I win.<br />

OTHO<br />

I wish somebody'd teach me how to<br />

play.<br />

CHARLES<br />

It's easy. You just learn how to<br />

make them play by your rules. (Beat)<br />

Feels like it's getting hot in <strong>here</strong>.<br />

Let's go.<br />

CHARLES and OTHO get up and leave the steam room.<br />

At the far end of the room is a sudden, agitated billowing of<br />

steam.<br />

BEETLE JUICE, with STARING YELLOW EYES, steps forward. He is<br />

wearing a perfectly pressed, perfectly dry three-piece pinstriped<br />

suit. He's wearing round wire-frame glasses, and a<br />

narrow-brimmed hat. He is carrying a briefcase, with the<br />

initialled monogram IRS.<br />

He walks out of the steam room.<br />

INT: LOCKER ROOM -- DAY<br />

BEETLE JUICE / IRS, unnoticed, passes the shower room, w<strong>here</strong><br />

CHARLES and OTHO are slowly turning under adjoining taps.<br />

He passes a row of lockers, attracting the notice of a deeply<br />

tanned YUPPIE jock, who is about to open his locker.<br />

As BEETLE JUICE / IRS leaves, the YUPPIE turns back to his now<br />

open locker, just in time to be CLOBBERED ON THE CHIN by a boxing<br />

glove that shoots out of the locker on a spring. The YUPPIE is<br />

smashed against the opposite wall of lockers.<br />

The other men in the locker room do double-takes.

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