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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.