Bette: Well, I’m not in a position to …

Franklin: Ms. Porter has six months remaining on her contract Peggy. We have every intention of honoring it despite what you may have heard about her being fired.

Peggy: Well let’s just forget about that then shall we? Do you have an option in the contract?

Franklin: Of course we do… 18 months I believe.

Peggy: I suggest you exercise it here and now. By the time Provocations debuts at the CAC Ms. Porter will have already been wooed by every museum in the country.

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Bette and Tina’s House – Celebration

Lenore: “Brava! … The conquering heroin.”

Shane: Congratulations

Bette: Thank you.

Tina: Cheers baby … I’m so happy for you.

Bette: For us.

Tina: For us.

There would have been no toast of wine that evening had they known that Bette’s hubris behavior and her celebratory coup of securing Provocations from the MOCA to the CAC would be a short lived conquest.

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Inside Jenny’s head

Jenny: I’m sitting in a chair writhing in agony; a demon a minor demon is pinning me there fucking with my head. Abraxas he says…

Demon: “I’m Abraxas the demon of lies and deceit, so what do you want to know about lies my dear?”

Jenny: I’m not a liar. I try again to get up this time I’m flayed … splayed. I feel myself screaming.

Demon: I’ll tell you about lies. There are white lies and black lies and many shades of grey lies. Some lies are justified … lies told out of kindness, lies that preserve dignity, lies that spare pain. Everybody is a liar dear. Look at that one. She’s about to tell her lover something patently untrue.

Tina to Bette: I just want you to know that whatever had happened tonight in the board meeting … we would have been fine.

Demon: Look at their gestures … See how they touch each other too intimately? How they avert their eyes and cover their mouths? They lick their teeth and hold their chins; they embellish their stories with far too much detail.

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Dana’s Condo

Dana: It’s open

Lara: It’s me

Lara: God you look great. OK I need help. I didn’t know what you were wearing and I didn’t want to end up looking like twins you know it’s like saying I’m so cute, I want to go out with me.
Harrison: Oh … hi