Scene 6

INT. FRAU KNOBLOCH’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY
Doorbell rings. Frau Knobloch appears wearing the same bathrobe from the previous evening. Jutta follows.

JUTTA
I’ll get it. Uhm, weren’t you gonna’
fix yourself up?

FRAU KNOBLOCH
What is the problem?

JUTTA
Change your clothes? Fix your hair up?

FRAU KNOBLOCH
You want hair up?

JUTTA
Mutti, this is important. Relax and be
yourself ... OK, don’t be yourself. Be
warm. Be nice.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
I put hair up. If he nice, I nice.

INT. FRAU KNOBLOCH’S HOUSE, ENTRYWAY - DAY
Jutta answers the door. Chris enters, very upset.

JUTTA
You look terrible. Didn’t you sleep?

Jutta picks a piece of lint off Chris’s shirt.

CHRIS
Jutta --

JUTTA
Stop slouching.

Jutta taps Chris on the back. He stands up straight.

CHRIS
Jutta, your Tante Angelique is a little
weird.

Jutta notices something on Chris’s face. During the conversation, she spits on a tissue and wipes off his face.

JUTTA
Isn’t she fun?

CHRIS
She keeps saying “Amis spinnen. Amis
spinnen.” What does that mean?
   SUBTITLES
   Americans are nuts. Americans are nuts.

JUTTA
Americans are ... cool.

Jutta leads Chris into the living room.

INT. FRAU KNOBLOCH’S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM - DAY

JUTTA
Don’t be nervous. My mother’s a warm,
caring person.

CHRIS
She forced you into military duty.

JUTTA
Best two years of my life.

CHRIS
You already told me what she did to the
last guy you introduced.

JUTTA
She was in a weird mood.

CHRIS
Weird mood? You went to the bathroom,
and by the time you got back, the “Polizei”
were there arresting him for breaking and
entering.
   SUBTITLES
   ... police

JUTTA
He slurped his coffee.

CHRIS
Huh?

JUTTA
She has a theory. You can tell how a man
treats a woman by the way he drinks his
coffee.

CHRIS
Coffee?

JUTTA
Milk implies you’re tender and caring.
Sugar means you hide the truth. And
artificial sweeteners really get her going.

CHRIS
What if I insist on fair trade organic coffee?

JUTTA
And don’t drink too fast. Impatience means
you’re only interested in one thing.

CHRIS
The last guy slurped? Did that mean he --?

JUTTA
OK, my mother was right about him.