"Lamenting"–a script for Season 2 episode 1, part 1

Scene 1: Kit’s house, early morning


 

(phone rings, waking her)


 

Kit:

(sleepily)  Hello…hey baby sis…what’s wrong?…Oh, *****…where is she?…I’ll be right there…

(hangs up)

Kit:

(sitting up on side of bed, whispers)

Oh my God.

(Ivan stirs and sits up next to her)


 

Ivan:

What is it, sugar?

Kit:

It’s Tina.

Scene 2: Alice’s apartment, living room, early morning


 

(Tina is asleep on the sofa)


 

(Alice enters, picks up cell phone from the desk, dials a number and walks to her bedroom)


 

Alice:

Shane?…hey it’s Al…yeah, I know but this can’t wait…I’m living in the ***** twilight zone…well, for one, I kissed Dana last night…yeah, I know but that is nothing compared to what happened when I got home…Tina was here…she left Bette…she’s been banging that carpenter…no, Bette has…Candace, remember? At the CAC last night? Black hair, white top, great *****? Come on Shane get with the program…I don’t know. Tina didn’t say. Not long I guess. She’s only been working there for like a month…I know…7 years…she’s sleeping…no, not yet. Tina doesn’t want her to know where she is…Yeah, do that…call me back…Bye.

(she hangs up, walks back towards living room, stops in the doorway and leans against it and gazes concernedly  down at Tina)


 

Scene 3: Bette and Tina’s house, later that morning


 

(Kit knocks on front door)


 

(Bette answers looking disheveled, exhausted, obviously all cried out, and sporting a red and swollen cheek)


 

Kit:

Bette?

 (she reaches up and gently touches Bette’s injured cheek)


 

(Kit enters the foyer and her feet crunch on broken glass. She steps back and looks down)


 

Kit:

What the *****??

(Bette has walked off to the living room and is picking glass shards up off the sofa and putting them into a pile atop a large broken picture frame lying on the coffee table)


 

 (Kit enters the living room as Bette sits on the sofa)


 

Kit:

Bette, what happened here?

Bette:

(on the verge of tears)
I, um…I’ve made a huge…(takes a deep breath) I’ve been having an affair…and Tina found out and now she’s…she’s, um…

Kit:

She’s gone.

Bette:

(quietly with her head down)

Yes, she is.

Kit:

Did she do that?