Thursday 11 March 2021

VERGER




MASON VERGER :
 Cordell, to you, does that look like a wave 
Goodbye’, or ‘Hello’? 

So, What Do You Think? 

Does Lecter wanna fuck her
or kill her, or eat her, or what? 

CORDELL
Probably all three, 
though I wouldn't wanna predict in what order. 

[VERGER CHUCKLES] 

VERGER :
Here's What I Think — 

No matter how Barney might wanna romanticise it, 
or make it 
"Beauty and the Beast" -- 

Lecter's Object
as I know from personal experience, has always been 
degradation and suffering

Yes, but She is A Policeman —
You are a Pig.
As was Richard of Gloucester —Swine.

She’s a bold and plucky chaste and righteous  champion-protector of The Weak and defender of The Innocent —
You’re a cruel and boastful sado-masochistic  billionaire pervert and Rapist of Children —

Mason Verger doesn’t seem to understand how that makes the two of them any different as people in Lecter’s eyes...

Cordell, get this damn thing off me, 
I can't breathe in this thing. 

He comes in 
The Guise of A Mentor
as he did with me, and her, 
but it's distress that excites him. 

To draw him, she needs to be distressed

To make her attractive to him, 
let him see her distressed

Let The Damage He Sees suggest 
The Damage He Could Do

[ No, that’s not him, that’s you. ]

[SMACKING LIPS] 
[SLURPS] 

When The Fox hears The Rabbit scream, 
he comes a-running —
But not to help. 

KRENDLER: 
I don't understand. 

VERGER OVER PHONE: 
Well, there's nothing to understand, Paul. 

All you have to understand is 
What it's Worth to You. 

KRENDLER: 
No, no. 
I don't understand why she didn't turn this over. 
I mean, she's such a Straight Arrow. 

VERGER :
She didn't turn it over, 
Because she didn't receive it

She didn't receive it, 
Because it was never sent. 

It was never sent, 
Because Lecter didn't write it. 

He didn't write it, 
Because I did

KRENDLER: 
Oh! 
[LAUGHING]

VERGER :
So, what do you think? 

KRENDLER: 
I think you'd have been better off 
if you never got her out of Trouble in the first place. 

VERGER :
Oh, woulda, shoulda, coulda. 

I meant what do you think about The Money

KRENDLER: 
....Five. 

[LAUGHS] 

VERGER :
Oh, let's just toss it off, like, 
"Five." 

Let's Say it with 
The Respect it Deserves. 

KRENDLER: 
[ENUNCIATING] 
$500,000. 

VERGER :
That's better, but not much.
And will it work?

KRENDLER: 
It'll work.
It won't be pretty.

VERGER :
What ever is?
 
[CHUCKLES]

[DIAL TONE DRONING] 

Cocksucker

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