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SCENE 5

Living Room. Blanche enters from the kitchen and heads towards the bedroom hallway. Rose is sitting on the couch.

Rose
Hi Blanche.

Blanche
Oh, I am so mad.

Rose
Blanche, I can explain.

Rose And Blanche In the Living Room

Blanche
Explain what? It's got nothing to do with you. It's Laszlo. I just saw some of the sketches he's been doing of me, Rose. He never lets me see them. So today I looked through his things and I found some. They're horrible. The hair is all big and frizzy, the body is all droopy and saggy. The woman in those sketches is a dog.

Rose
Blanche?

Blanche
She's a clown.

Rose
Blanche?

Blanche walks towards Rose and throws her purse on the couch. She then takes a seat next to Rose.

Blanche
She's just a hideous, wrinkled old bag.

Rose
The woman is those sketches is me.

Blanche
I know she sounds like you honey, but she's not.
Blanche Is So Upset

Rose
Yes she is... look.

Rose holds up her key to Laszlo's studio. Blanche is stunned.

Oh, I wanted to tell you about this all week but I couldn't. I've been posing for Laszlo too.

Blanche
Oh dear lord... strike me dead right here and now if that man prefers Rose Nylund over me.

Rose
Blanche, you can't take it personally. Laszlo just decided he wanted someone with more... innocence.

Blanche
With more cellulite is more like it.

Rose stands up.
Rose Shows Blanche Her Laszlo Key

Rose
Take that back.

Blanche stands up and faces her.

Blanche
I will not.

Rose
Yes you will.

Blanche
I will not.

Rose
You will too.

Dorothy enters from the Kitchen door.
Rose Gets Mad

Dorothy
Girls, girls! What is going on here?

Blanche
Nothing, Rose is just stabbing me in the back.

Rose
I did not.

Blanche
She's been posing for Laszlo too.

Rose
He asked me too.
Dorothy Rose and Blanche discuss Laszlo

Blanche
I don't know why, he could go to SeaWorld if he wanted to see a naked whale.

Rose
Or your bathtub.

Blanche
Oh, that does it missy. All right, this means war. We'll both keep going. We'll just see who he picks for his sculpture.

Rose
Fine, it's going to be me.

Blanche
No it's not. It's going to be me.
Rose And Blanche Slinging Mud

Dorothy
Girls, girls, I think I can settle this.

Blanche
All right Dorothy, tell her who it's going to be.

Dorothy pulls out her own key to Laszlo's studio and proudly displays it to the other two girls.

Dorothy
It's going to be me.

Off Dorothy's confident expression... fade to black. Cut to exterior, house.
Dorothy Proudly Displays Her Own Laszlo Key


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