HANA
Are you ready to talk now?
MALLORY
I don’t think I have much of a choice.
HANA
We don’t have to talk in specifics, but I do need some information to make a plan.
MALLORY
Mmhmm.
HANA
Okay, so… where is he?
MALLORY
The living room. I was trying to leave, almost at the door and he came after to me and I just…
HANA
Okay, okay. Do you remember if the curtains were closed? What lights were on?
MALLORY
Just the hall light and yes, he made sure the curtains were closed.
HANA
[under her breath]
Of course the bastard would.
[to MALLORY]
That’s good, though because we can claim self-defense. We’ll clean you up and get you in some warmer clothes and we’ll just… go see a lawyer.
MALLORY
I don’t have money for a lawyer, Hana. He spent everything.
HANA
What?
MALLORY
He lost his job four months ago and just spent through our savings without telling me. We’re so close to being foreclosed on. I can’t afford a lawyer.
HANA
Okay. Okay. Let me…
MALLORY
I shouldn’t have come here. I’m so sorry, Hana, I can’t involve you in this. I should just go to the police.
HANA
No. No police. Especially without a lawyer. Wasn’t Bern’s best man an officer? We cannot trust the police in the best circumstances.
MALLORY
Shit.
HANA
Just let me think. We can figure this out.
[Pause}
Who knows he lost his job?
MALLORY
As far as I know, just me and his work?
HANA
And he was supposed to go on a work trip soon? I felt like he used to be gone a lot.
MALLORY
I don’t know if that was actually because of work anymore but, yes. He was away a lot.
HANA
Okay. We can work for that.