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MARY JANE: I need help.

STEVE: Well, you’re about to get 90 days of help. It’s a nice place. They’ll let the kids visit every Saturday. (mock excited) They even have a therapy dog named Curtis!

MARY JANE: Wow, can’t wait! (then) What about after that? When I come home?

STEVE: Well, maybe we could try helping each other. Like the therapist said.

MARY JANE: Yeah. She said we could help heal each other.

STEVE: I never meant to make you feel like work was more important than you and the kids. I didn’t realize how much I missed. I’m sorry. I’ve made so many mistakes. I’m such a mess.

MARY JANE: I’m detoxing from opiates. I win.

They hug. Nick enters (wearing different clothes, to show passage of time).

NICK: I pulled the car around.

MARY JANE: Where’s Frankie?

NICK: She’s downtown.

STEVE: She organized a big rally. It’s today.

MARY JANE: A rally? For what?

NICK: (hesitant) For Bella.

MARY JANE: Nick. I was wrong. Forget about what people think of us. You have to go to the police. Tell them everything.

STEVE: Mary Jane—he already did.

MARY JANE: (after a beat) Have you talked to Bella? How is she?

NICK: I don’t know if I can face her.