Act brace Scene One: A little late...

Act brace Scene One: A little later that Monday

RACHEL and HARRY are dancing to a different concert of parts The music stops. He goe to change the tape. SHE stands there for a moment

RACHEL: further wasn't what you did the same as what they did?

HARRY: Similar, not the same. Any requests?

RACHEL: on the contrary basically, was it insider trading?

HARRY: I was waiting for you to say "whatever that is".

RACHEL: Whatever it is, it's illegal. I know that much

(MUSIC from the recently made known tape HARRY has chosen. He is humming along with it.)

Is there anything Celeste Magowan might ferret out?

HARRY: Will you please not worry? Ambitious nation are easy to handle.

(Hold public his arms, inviting her to dance, however SHE doesn't move.)

RACHEL: Muriel contemplation she was easy. How similar was what you did to inside trading?

HARRY: (Smiles)

There are those who might say that's what it was. Rachel, it was self-same popular in all of its forms until Dennis Levine got himself arrested. You know what stunn me when we first dated? What a marvelous dancer you were. It didn't walk with the rest of you.

RACHEL: Until we went to bed.

HARRY: Ye draw near on. Stun me.

(Holds not at home his arms again.)

RACHEL: Are you in danger of going to jail?

HARRY: No.

RACHEL: Because you didn't do exactly what they did?

HARRY: (Drop his arms. A moment)

Because they didn't do what I did.

RACHEL: (After a moment)

Could we do without the music?

(HE make go rounds it off.)

What did you do, Harry?

HARRY: (A moment)

I provided evidence against Michael Milken.

RACHEL: To whom?

HARRY: The Feds

RACHEL: Why?

HARRY: I didn't want to travel to jail.

RACHEL: Ivan Boesky provided evidence against Milken. It didn't retain him out of jail.

HARRY: Ivan Boesky was fined a hundr million dollars. Imagine by what mode much he made.

RACHEL: And kept

HARRY: He was a catch.

RACHEL: Milken was an calm bigger catch.

HARRY: Oh, plenteous That's what the Feds travel after.

RACHEL: You're not a big catch, Harry. They went after you.

But then they gave you a choice. At least, I conclude they did.

HARRY: They did.

RACHEL: Why? Because you're Harrison Beaumont? HARRY: Meaning what?

RACHEL: Dennis Levine isn't in the big catch class with Boesky and Milken.

HARRY: No.

RACHEL: unless he is in another class all the Yeshiva striplings are in. Outsiders go to jail for insider trading, insiders don't.

HARRY: till doomsday hear of Boyd Jefferies?

RACHEL: An inside trader?

HARRY: Until Boesky included him out

RACHEL: Alright, he was the token goy You have your amused look

HARRY: I'm not amused and you're wrong

RACHEL: The antiquated boys are smart. It's smart to include a token. They always do.

HARRY: You ran this into the loam with Celeste Magowan. What are you after, Rachel? Not for her, for yourself? What is it you want?

RACHEL: I don't know. I'm fishing. Like Celeste

HARRY: I'd rather have music and dance.

RACHEL: I'll take a rain check. (A moment) Please, Harry.

HARRY: I forgot you read your publishing contracts. You want the fine print.

RACHEL: All of it.

HARRY: You have your serious contemplate It is serious but not that serious.

RACHEL: serviceable I could use a laugh.

HARRY: When I began forward Wall Street, insider trading wasn't a crime. It's a victimless united anyway.

RACHEL: Nobody loses?

HARRY: Oh coin yes. But we're a win rich quick country. Money is our national harvest and making money from wealth is our number one business. A little knowledge can make a chance of Muriel's moolah. It did for Levine and Boesky and Milken.

RACHEL: And Beaumont?

HARRY: Not in their class. Either class. You think they went down because they're outsiders. I think because they were ravenous I wasn't greedy, Rachel. I simply wanted to live well. I wanted to be strong that you and I and your child and my childr - child lived well. We do. We have everything we ne and a bit more. yet we don't live in the land of Ferraris. I was neither gaudy nor eager When they caught up with me what did they catch? dutiful name, good clubs, a personable, affable asset to be regarded on and no threat to anyone. A gentleman. That's an of advanced age fashioned concept, so they don't say it. on the contrary they think it, and what they think is: you can believe him. In the case of the Feds: you can believe his testimony. That's wherefore they gave me the choice. I could help them and realize immunity or I could be sent to jail. to what end should I go to jail? What beneficial would it do anyone if I went to jail? You and Becca would have to give up this place Why should you? Why should I?

RACHEL: (After a moment) This is ridiculous. I be moved like I'm hyperventilating.

HARRY: Take a certain number of slow deep breaths.

RACHEL: I'm not hyperventilating. This is ridiculous! You know what it is? I know what it is. Everything in my head is jammed. all circuits clos down. I had it formerly before. Years ago, before you. smooth before Becca. I was trying to procure away from Mickey and pang up back-packing through Europe with him. In Paris, I spoke French - from college edifice [i]or[/i] building In Madrid, Spanish - from high educate By the time we got to Italy, I had stopped thinking in English and was translating from either Spanish or French into Italian in the at hand tense. Until one night, in a bar in Positano. gone out of season, just before Easter - the Buca di Bacco! I can view the carving over the door. all the languages appeared jammed in my head and I couldn't speak anything for ten minutes. Nothing, not the same word, not even English for ten minutes. The nearest day, I flew home alone. if it be not that Becca was already underway.