SURVEILLANCE OFFICER Your child is kidnapped, Signora.
How can you think about eating?
This stings.
GAIL:
Do what you have to do.
In the living room, Chace is examining her belongings:
theapartment is simple but stylish as Gail herself. Gail's daughter Ariadne walks in in her pajamas, rubbingsleep from her eyes. Chace is awkward.
CHACE:
Hi there.
GAIL:
Back to bed, darling.
CHACE:
All these strange men in her house.
Gail tucks her daughter back into bed. Meanwhile, Chaceenters Little Paul's room. When Gail re-enters, she findsChace rifling through books on the bookshelf.
CHACE (CONT'D) Did Paul do any drugs? Marijuana?
GAIL:
He was a teenage boy. He had teenageboy problems. He made teenage boymistakes.
CHACE:
I'm just trying to find it beforethose guys in the kitchen do.
GAIL:
They've already searched this room.
CHACE:
He'd gotten in trouble at school, amI right?
44.
GAIL:
A boy needs a father, and his wasstrung out in Marrakech with MickJagger. It was all I could do to get him to come home at night.
He opens a copy of "Watership Down" and a tiny bag of hashishfalls out. He pockets it. He finds Paul's address book.
CHACE:
Can I take this?
Gail eyes him warily.
GAIL:
Do you carry a gun, Mr. Chace?
(off his look) You said you used to be a spy.
CHACE:
That's not how I put it on my taxreturn, but yeah.
GAIL:
Spies carry guns.
CHACE:
I never bothered. Ruins the line of your suit. Guns are for people whodon't have money.
(a beat) All that spooky paperback stuff -chasing around blowing poisoned dartsat the KGB in the Arab Quarter -- that's not what I did for a living.