***

The Planet

Kit: Ivan… I adore you. I really do. And you are the finest person I’ve ever had the privilege of spending time with… but this, it just doesn’t feel right.

Ivan: Uh, what doesn’t feel right about it?

Kit: I just don’t have anything to offer you in return.

Ivan: Oh, no. You offer me so much, you can’t imagine.

Kit: Please, please. Listen to me. You need to hear this. I’m a straight woman; a two-months-from-50-year lifetime heterosexual woman. You know, if you were a man, you would be the perfect man. And I know that there are people who could be better for you and just give you what you’re looking for.

Ivan: Do you know what you’re looking for, Kit?

Kit: No. No, not in the big-picture sense that you mean.

Ivan: Then how do you know I can’t give it to you?

***

Alice’s apartment

Alice stumbles into her apartment after leaving Dana. She’s muttering asking herself what the fuck is she doing when she notices Tina sitting on her living room coach.

Alice: Tina? What are you doing here? Hey are you OK? What …

Tina: I’m sorry. I just um … I just let myself in. I’m …

Alice: That’s OK

Tina: I was wondering if I could stay here for a little while

Alice: Yeah … Tina what happened?

Tina: B…

Tina stands up no longer able to speak. She goes over to a huge dry erase board that Alice has hanging on her wall. Alice calls it the Chart and it’s supposed to represent the interconnectivity in the lesbian community. Dozens of names are written on the board and there are lines connecting them to people they’ve slept with. Tina picks up the marker and draws a new line from Bette’s name; then she tries to write the name of the woman that was complicit in her lover’s betrayal but all she can get out is C A N before she collapses into Alice’s arms. Alice holds her as she cries.

Alice: I got you.

***

Shane: There’s something really wrong when God lets two people who are meant to be together come apart like that.

Alice: You believe in God?