Scene 45

INT. JAIL CELL - NIGHT
Frau Knobloch and Angelique are locked in a jail cell.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
This is all your fault.

ANGELIQUE
You did it.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
(realization setting in)
JR call the police on me.

ANGELIQUE
Me too. I loved JR.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
I wanted to have his baby.

ANGELIQUE
You are too old for that.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
I wanted to try.

ANGELIQUE
Me too.
(pause)
I was always jealous of you.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
Me?

ANGELIQUE
You were the one who do everything right. I had bad grades. Don’t go to university. No husband. Never succeed.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
I worked hard, gave up too much.

ANGELIQUE
You looked down on me.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
No. You were fun, prettier than me.

ANGELIQUE
True.

Frau Knobloch shoots Angelique an angry look.

ANGELIQUE
You marry Gustav Knobloch. Handsome, successful, great businessman.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
Too good to be true.

ANGELIQUE
You did not invite me to the wedding. Not even tell me.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
We married in secret. Nobody knew.

ANGELIQUE
You didn’t even tell me until after he died.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
I was afraid.

ANGELIQUE
Of what?

FRAU KNOBLOCH
Angelika, you were big Schlampe. Every time I introduced a boy, you took him from me.

ANGELIQUE
You had the best boys. But nobody was good enough for you.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
Everybody was good enough for you. You slept with every boyfriend I had, except Hans. Hans was good to me.

ANGELIQUE
I must tell you something about Hans and me.

Frau Knobloch shoots an angry look.

ANGELIQUE
Anyway, you got Gustav, the best man ever.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
But he die.

ANGELIQUE
Besides that, you always had it perfect.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
Angelika, I had so much fear that I fail. I work hard at university, at job, just work. No seeing the world. Then Jutta come, no more chance for fun. Und alone, always alone. You think that easy? I am jealous of you.

ANGELIQUE
I wasted my life.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
You always had fun, no matter how difficult the world. Big test in school, make study break, big party - celebrate test. Test go bad, celebrate bad grade. Fail school, party.

ANGELIQUE
But I failed.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
I always did the right thing, but never enjoy nothing. My life is like boring third rate TV drama. Goes on and on, season after season. You live life fun. Und you win the Emmy, not me.

ANGELIQUE
But you have Jutta. I always wanted a daughter. Someone who needs me. Too late now. I traveled the world in drug-induced trance. I don’t get awards for that. I just smoked too many doobies.

Pause.

FRAU KNOBLOCH
You have one now?

Angelique laughs, followed by Frau Knobloch.