PROTAGONIST (CONT'D) She takes it, suddenly interested...
KAT:
Wow. It’s extraordinary.
She lays the drawing on the table and grabs a loupe –
PROTAGONIST:
What’s it worth?
KAT:
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
There’s a lot of work before any kind of valuation – provenance, microscopic examination, X-rays... She is bent over the table, peering through the loupe.
The Protagonist studies her reaction as he –
PROTAGONIST:
But what does your heart tell you?
She steps back. Something about the drawing BOTHERS her...
KAT:
I’m sorry, where did you say you acquired this drawing?
PROTAGONIST:
Tomas Arepo.
Kat rises and turns to face the Protagonist. Cold.
KAT:
What do you want?
PROTAGONIST:
What I want is complicated.
KAT:
Do you work for my husband?
PROTAGONIST:
I’ve never met your husband. That’s the reason I’m here. Is there somewhere we can talk?
KAT:
In London? Not really.
INT. RESTAURANT – NIGHT The Protagonist and Kat sit at a corner table.
PROTAGONIST:
I bought my Goya for cents on the dollar from an irate Swiss banker.
Traced it to Arepo, and realized I’d scored a bargain when he told me who’d paid top dollar for another one of his pictures. Your husband.
KAT:
Where’s the bargain? Your drawing’s an obvious fake.
PROTAGONIST:
My drawing’s a very good fake – you know that better than anyone. The information’s the bargain.
KAT:
The information that I helped defraud my own husband?
PROTAGONIST:
He and I are in related businesses, but he’s a hard man to meet. If you and I were to make an arrangement –