Scene 10.08 - The Parlor
INT. Moms' Crib, Parlor Room
VYLENCIA
So you're sayin' my right side of my brain is dreamin' one thing while my left side is dreamin' something else? You say we all are really dreaming two different dreams at the same time?
STEPHEN
Perhaps many more! Also, there are several parts of your brain that are in dream-state all the time.
VYLENCIA
If after I die, I get reincarnated as one of my own brain cells, that would be the job I'd want to have -- sure as hell wouldn't want to have to keep the heart pumping or nothin'.
STEPHEN
I... never really considered it that way. Interesting.
SALVATORE
Gee, Vy, I thought you'd want to be the brain cell that got pickled repeatedly.
VYLENCIA
(Finishes drink:) I can always count on you for your honesty, Sal. Want another?
(She gets up from a chair and walks to the bar. With repaired bullet holes in the walls, quasi-gaudy furniture, and several ashtrays, it's obviously a mobby-lobby; the waiting room for a don.)
VYLENCIA (Cont'd)
Apparently, we have time.
HEINLEIN
How long you figure this is this going to take, Boss? They already know my Aunt Thelma, an' they know plenty about you already -- what's with all the fuss? Why they waiting-us-out like this?
VYLENCIA
Hsssph! Shhesh! I really don't know, Leo. It's not like they're getting a raw deal -- they're gettin' more than I've offered in a long time to anybody. Man, this stuff is killer! I feel like I'm halfway here and halfway in heaven or something.
SALVATORE
It's something.
STEPHEN
It's warm... an' wet.
VYLENCIA
X-Y-Z-P-D-Q. (STEPHEN looks downward. VYLENCIA throws him a bar towel.) You wet yourself.
(Men chuckle and STEPHEN is a little uncool about it, but VYLENCIA remains stoic as she smokes, resting at the bar, drink in hand, leaning away from them.)
VYLENCIA (Cont'd)
Relax. Rapid fluid loss -- tears, sweat, urine, saliva -- it's a common effect of the drug. Thankfully, women usually don't experience side effects -- menstruation's plenty headache enough for us gals already, believe me. (Finds a can of aerosol room freshener behind the bar and tosses it to STEPHEN, who has composed himself moderately from the embarrassing experience.) Don't let it faze you, Steve... be glad it stops at number one.
FTB