Margo is at her desk doing paperwork. Gina knocks and enters.

 

GINA

Hi.
 
 

MARGO

Good morning, Gina. What brings 

you here so early?
 
 

GINA

Personal problem. I could use 

some professional advice.
 
 

MARGO

Travis?
 
 

GINA

Me.
 
 

MARGO

Tell me about it.
 
 

GINA

I'm having a lot of feelings I can't

handle. I'm afraid sex is going to

start interfering again.

 

GINA

I know, I know, this just proves 

your theory that I have to have 

sex. Margo, I want some help.
 
 

MARGO

What if I gave you help? It 

wouldn't work; Travis is proof of

that.
 
 

GINA

But isn't there a pill you can 

give me, or maybe some little cut *

you could make?

* This idea and section are in here for educational reasons - due to the routine mutilation of women in some cultures, which is pointless since it will have little effect.

MARGO

Shave your head.
 
 

GINA

What?
 
 

MARGO

That's where I would have to cut.

Little cut sounds like some madness

out of Persia. You don't understand 

the magnitude of the problem. 

Gina, picture for a minute the

male sex organ. For everything he

has there, you have tissue that 

corresponds; most of it hidden 

beneath the skin, full of nerves, 

responding, engorging - just like 

his. 
 
 

GINA

But can't you do something 

somewhere? This is driving me crazy.
 
 

MARGO

It all responds to your brain.

If your brain tells it to work, it

does. Your brain is your biggest 

sex organ. If your brain tells it 

not to work, it doesn't. So I can't

make a little cut and solve the 

problem. Do you want me to remove 

your brain?
 
 

GINA

So, what you're saying is you can't

give me any help?
 
 

MARGO

Yes, I can. Human beings are 

sexual by nature. I believe God 

made us this way. The question is 

why are you having to fight it so 

hard?
 
 

Kenrick is seated behind his desk. Gina and Travis are seated in front of it. 

 

GINA

Success in every one of these towns

has been overwhelming. I've beefed

up training, but at this rate, I'll

need a manager just to keep up with

staff hiring and training. I think 

if we wait to go nationwide with 

this, the competition is going to 

clamp onto this like a lobster.

And most of it is due to Travis.

He can't quit selling.
 
 

KENRICK

Travis, do you want to dispute any

of this?
 
 

 

KENRICK

How would you feel about managing

this venture yourself? You would

staff and train your sales people 

and I could get Gina going on other

projects.
 
 

TRAVIS

I would like that very much.
 
 

KENRICK

Then it's done. Good work.

And as for you, Gina, you've

outdone yourself. 
 
 

GINA

Thank-you.
 
 

KENRICK

I knew you had it in you. For your

reward, I have a new assignment for 

you. Nightclubs. I think we'll

sell product there. Think you can

handle that?
 
 

GINA

That sounds like fun! I'll find 

time.
 
 

KENRICK

And, I want you to coordinate all 

these businesses.
 
 

GINA

What about Jordan Wells?
 
 

KENRICK

Jordan has his hands full keeping

the clubs afloat. 
 
 

GINA

Well. 

(Shrugs)

I'll find time.
 
 

KENRICK

I knew I could count on you.
 
 

INT. ARABELLA'S BEAU MONDE CLUB - DAY

Arabella is watching through the observation window into thedancercize room where Tracy is explaining a muscle workout to the instructor. Arabella is copying the movements. Arabella sees Travis enter the Atrium. She goes to meet him.

 

ARABELLA

Travis! Nice to see you. What 

brings you back to your old stomping

grounds? Missing the old place?
 
 

TRAVIS

Too busy for that. Nice to see you,

Arabella. How is it going?
 
 

ARABELLA

As if you didn't know. We're still

tops financially, and still way ahead 

of my old boss, Mark.
 
 

TRAVIS

Be sure and mention that to him. A

little competition wouldn't do him

any harm.
 
 

ARABELLA

So, what's up?
 
 

TRAVIS

Gina asked me to drop off some new

promotional material, since I

was driving through the area.
 
 

ARABELLA

What's the matter with Gina?
 
 

TRAVIS

She has a new project.
 
 

ARABELLA

A new one! What is it?
 
 

TRAVIS

I'll have to let her announce it

herself.
 
 

ARABELLA

Oh, come on, Travis. You know how

it is for us little people; we hang

on every rumor. 

 

TRAVIS

Be sure to get these up today.
 
 

ARABELLA

Today's Friday. I'm taking a good

weekend off, and I'll get them up

Monday.
 
 

TRAVIS

You're going to miss our best sales

days? Come on, Arabella, where's 

your head?
 
 

ARABELLA

Travis, you know how it is out here.

You're beginning to talk like a 

manager. Give me a break!
 
 

TRAVIS

I am a manager. I was promoted to

National Manager yesterday. The 

announcement is in the mail. But 

you don't have to be a manager to 

know the business is failing and we

need all the sales we can get.

 

ARABELLA

I need the damned weekend. I'm not

some kind of machine!
 
 

TRAVIS

It doesn't take any time to put out

promotional material.
 
 

ARABELLA

By the time I get someone to come 

with a ladder and put wires from the

ceiling, I'm going to miss my ride.

They won't wait! I've had this trip

planned for weeks. 
 
 

TRAVIS

You're still wet behind the ears.

Your job has first priority. You 

want to make it in this company, 

you put the job first.
 
 

ARABELLA

Yeah? And just who do I have to 

sleep with to become manager?
 
 

TRAVIS

I'm not sleeping with Gina.
 
 

ARABELLA

Her closet is full of your clothes!
 
 

TRAVIS

We work closely together!
 
 

ARABELLA

In accounting, two and two still 

make four. I suppose in Beau Monde

it equals something else? You're 

not fooling anyone but yourself!

 

TRAVIS

(Calls after her)

Tracy!

(Turns to Arabella)

Now you've done it.
 
 

ARABELLA

Now you've done it.

Tracy hurries out the door and gets in her car as Travis comes out the door. She angrily drives past him without looking at him.

INT. MARGO'S SALON - DAY

Gina's dream. Travis is leaning back in a beauty chair, a white gown draped over his nude body. Margo is arranging surgical instruments on a tray at the chair side. Gina is sitting beside him, holding his hand. Kenrick is pacing back and forth. Wells is standing nearby, smugly waiting.

 

TRAVIS

Is this going to hurt?
 
 

MARGO

Only your pride.
 
 

KENRICK

Are you sure this will work?
 
 

MARGO

Always does. Takes that 

aggressiveness away. He won't tell

Arabella off again.
 
 

KENRICK

But I need him aggressive.
 
 

MARGO

He'll still have one left. And

you won't have to worry about him

seducing women anymore.

 

KENRICK

Don't you need surgical gloves and

masks?
 
 

MARGO

Nah, I'll just do a simple 

beautification procedure. This will

make Travis a much nicer person.

Gina, hand me the hair remover.
 
 

 

TRAVIS

I didn't know beauticians could do 

castrations.
 
 

MARGO

We didn't know you could cause all

the trouble you have caused.

Jordan, hand me the scissors.
 
 

TRAVIS

Aren't you going to make an incision?
 
 

MARGO

This is faster. One snip and it's

gone. Just a little cut for Gina, 

A little super glue and you're on 

your way. You won't bother Gina

anymore.
 
 

JORDAN

What are you going to do with his

nut?
 
 

KENRICK

It's medical waste. It has to be

disposed of.
 
 

MARGO

I'm doing a beauty procedure, 

remember. I'll probably put it in

a specimen jar and keep it on my

desk.
 
 

JORDAN

I want it. It will make an erotic

charm for my wife.
 
 

GINA

I need a trophy. I've resisted him

so far, so I need something to 

reward myself. 
 
 

KENRICK

It's a power symbol. It's mine.

Margo, pickle it and put it on my

desk. It will impress the Hell out

of everyone. 

 

GINA

Now that's pretty. What should we

do with it?
 
 

 

KENRICK

Oh, forget it. It has to be an

angry red meat to impress anyone.
 
 

Gina races down the street for her church in her car. The big wooden front doors are chained closed. She bangs on them, but no one comes. 

 

GINA

Go ahead, hide from me. Laugh at me.

 

MAN

Is it closed?
 
 

 

MAN

You can never find a Church when you

need one? Mind if I sit by you? 

Misery loves company.
 
 

 

MAN

Do you mind if I talk. 
 
 

 

MAN

I'll take that as a go ahead, I'm

really desperate. I'm about

ready to leave my job. I'm so

fed up I don't know what to do. 

I'm.... a failure.
 
 

GINA

(Sullenly)

God doesn't create failures, just

people with oversize shirts. More

room for growth. Opportunities in

today's language. A Nun told me 

that. She was my best friend. The 

only person in school who could put 

up with me.
 
 

MAN

You sound like my therapist. 

Are you Catholic?
 
 

GINA

I went to a Catholic school.

My mother wouldn't let me go to 

public school. I'm Methodist, if I 

have to declare. 
 
 

MAN

I'm Episcopalian. 
 
 

GINA

Your problems sound worse than mine.

Why aren't you seeing your therapist?
 
 

MAN

What's a therapist good for? They

don't tell you what to do. 
 
 

GINA

Are they the world's policemen?
 
 

MAN

No. 
 
 

GINA

Are they fountains of wisdom?
 
 

MAN

(Laughs)

Who is?
 
 

GINA

If they take your pain and problems

away, can you still grow?
 
 

MAN

Well.... No.
 
 

GINA

Then how can they do more than help

you see your opportunities?
 
 

MAN

Well, what are you doing out here?
 
 

GINA

Looking for a fountain of wisdom 

who can tell me what to do and take

all my pain away.
 
 

MAN

Then we fools are in good company.

So what's troubling you?
 
 

GINA

I'm kind of a mystic, and I'm kind

of out on a limb, and I'm being 

driven crazy by lust, and I have 

this vision that I'm going bananas

trying to interpret, and I work at

this business that works everyone 

into the grave....
 
 

MAN

Whoa! I can't take all that in, 

especially in my state. Just what

was the final straw that drove you

to this door?
 
 

GINA

I think it was the lust. Yesterday 

I went to see a doctor to see if she

could do something - a pill, 

surgery, anything - to get me to 

quit climbing the walls for this 

guy I'm in love with, but can't

marry.

Then I had a dream and in it some

friends of mine and I cut a 

testicle off this guy. I want to 

stop this craziness and get on with 

my life. 
 
 

MAN

Are you going to stop being human?

I thought lust just came with the

territory.
 
 

GINA

Well, I suppose. But a couple of

years ago I lost it. I had a steamy

affair with a coworker and we 

ended up duking it out and shaking 

the company to its foundation.
 
 

MAN

What did you do about it?
 
 

GINA

I abstained. But I haven't 

abstained from men, just sex, and I

can't handle it.
 
 

MAN

So did you act responsibly?
 
 

GINA

I guess so. I thought so at the 

time.
 
 

MAN

What more can anyone ask?
 
 

GINA

But it doesn't seem right, it's 

such a big sacrifice.
 
 

MAN

Did someone make a law that when

you have to choose between two 

things you wouldn't have to 

sacrifice?
 
 

GINA

No. But I'm at the point I'm 

paralyzed. I can't function.
 
 

MAN

Then look for your opportunity.
 
 

GINA

What opportunity?
 
 

MAN

The one you told me about.

You find your own opportunities.
 
 

GINA

Oh, God! Caught in my own trap. 

It never ends!

 

MAN

Go ahead, you deserve a good cry.
 
 

 

GINA

(Shouts)

Hey, don't give up, you're a good

person.

(Weakly)

Oh, was this just another dream?

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