Objective: Trying to get the liquor store man to give her alcohol for free because she is a regular customer.
Super-objective: She wants to get drunk to forget her son and her problems.
Outcome: She dashes out of the liquor store with the wine.
ACT 1
In the liquor store Candace frequently goes to. She is trying every method she knows to convince the store worker to give her free alcohol. It is about two in the afternoon.
CANDACE: No, I was going to pay. I really was!
Removes two bottles of wine from the bottom of her pants.
I like your shirt. Buttons are sexy. You’re so... muscular.
Thinks for a moment, unzips her jacket, and slowly takes it off.
You don’t see a body like this one every day, do you?
Runs one hand down her side, still holding the wine bottles in her other hand. She stares into his face for a while, and then suddenly realizes that he isn’t turned on by her.
Okay look. I need this wine okay? It’s just two bottles, and it’s the cheapest kind.
This liquor store makes so much money every day that no one will notice if these bottles are gone.
Besides, you don’t even run the store. The manager will never find out. I think that as a regular customer, you owe it to me to treat me to it this time.
She pauses as she sees him pick up the phone and begin to dial.
I can pay you back eventually. No, I really will.
Listen to me. When I get my next Welfare cheque I’ll pay you first. Personally. I’ll leave cash on your doorstep!
Don’t look at me that way. I’ll pay you back if I say I will.
Here, take this as collateral.
She places an expired credit card on the counter as well as a cheap, knock-off Rolex watch.
You sit here, and every week you exchange my money for something that will disappear in just a couple of days. Why don’t you just give it to me!
She glances toward the door.
Thank you darling, I knew you’d let me.
CANDACE dashes out of the liquor store with the two bottles and runs head on into two police officers who are just about to enter the store.
