(We see Blair in the bedroom, with the door closed trying frantically to reach Cord on the phone, Todd bangs furiously on the door)

TODD: Blair!! I’m gonna count to three you hear me??? One! Two! (he breaks in the doors)

BLAIR: You stay away from me!

TODD: Busy signal, huh? You should tell Cord to get call waiting. (he rips the phone cord out of the wall)

BLAIR: (screaming) You just stay away from me!!

TODD: (at the top of his lungs) YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!! THIS IS MY HOUSE!! AND YOU ARE MY WIFE, YOU DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!

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BLAIR: (faking bravado) You don’t....you don’t scare me. You’re nothing but a bully! Shouting orders, smashing things. What do you think that makes you a man??

TODD: (menacingly) Oh no, no I’m not a man, that’s what you said. I’m less than human. Those were your exact words. So what do I have to lose?

BLAIR: (taunting him) What are you going to do, Todd? Take a club and beat me and drag me back to your cave? (he looks away and strokes his goatee) God, you don’t just act like a Neanderthal, you think like one! No wonder you were flunking out of college even before your got arrested!

TODD: (deadly menacing) Oh, now, be careful.

BLAIR: You know what, you call yourself a newspaper publisher? A molder of the...the public image? Ha! Well, you’re nothing but a...a college dropout, Todd! A failure in everything you do!

TODD: (seething underneath her tirade) I’m warning you, Blair!

BLAIR: What....what’s that, Todd? More threats (she goes right up to him) That’s what you’re good at, aren’t you Todd? You know, but I actually thought that there was something inside you, a spark of something that you were gonna go somewhere, but (menacingly, pointing to scar on his face) besides that scarred face of yours, you’re nothing but a monster waiting to get out!

TODD: (low, building) Now I told you....(grabs her by the arms spins her around and throws her on the bed, she screams) Shut up!!!

BLAIR: (crying hysterically, rubbing her arm where he grabbed her, kicking her feet at him) Noo.....no!! Get out of here! Get out of this room!! (cowering) I’m never gonna let you touch me again!! Get out!! (he stands there coldly staring at her)

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TODD: (he slowly peals off his jacket) I’m nothing but a monster? So what does that make you, huh? (he kneels on the bed next to her) The monster’s whore!

(she tries to get up and in one swift move he pushes her back down pinning her arms above her head) (he straddles her and leans in close to her face) Tell me something. Doesn’t this scare you? Just a little bit, huh? (with a smirk he moves his hand and unbuckles his belt)

BLAIR: (begging, pleading) No, Todd....please.....

(At that moment Todd is looming over Blair he has a flashback of Marty’s face in the exact same position, crying when he raped her)

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(Scene comes up on Todd getting off the bed and buckling up his belt, his back to her on the bed)

BLAIR: How dare you! (throws a book at him) How dare you threaten me like that! What’s a matter, Todd, lover boy? Don’t tell me you had an attack of conscience. Why did you quit? After all I am your wife!! Your property, a little something you picked up after you got rich!

TODD: (does not look at her) Shut up, Blair.

BLAIR: You think you can just do anything to anybody, don’t ya? (kneels on the bed) Me, anybody!! You think I’m gonna pay, pay for everything, pay for everything I didn’t do! But you know what, we all know how you LOVE to pay back your women, don’t we Todd??

TODD: (warning, not looking at her) Don’t you push me, Blair.

BLAIR: What?? (throws her arms up spread out, taunting him) Come on, Todd, show me! Show me what you do best!! (he slowly sits on a chair against the wall, never looking at her, breathing heavily and trying to collect himself) You know why? Because you will be doing me a great big favor! Because I will have you arrested, I will have every stinking thing that you own!! God, that’ll be so much fun!!!

TODD: (stands walks to door, barely glances at her, calmly) I’m not gonna let you do this to me.

BLAIR: What??? (crosses after him) What!!?? Me, do this to you! (hysterical)

Am I the one who threw a woman on the bed and called her his whore? All set to rape her and watch her cry!! Why should today be any different, right Todd?

(shows Todd moving down the stairs putting on his jacket, we just hear her voice) Rapists always blame their victims. (he pauses on the stairs, her words ringing true)

Of course it’s my fault! (he exits out the front door, then we see her come running down the stairs) That’s right, you miserable freak, run, run!! I hope you never show your face in here again! (she collapses on the stairs, sobbing uncontrollably)