THE UNDOING
by William Mastrosimone
A poultry shop Ð Present - Lorr  (20's)


Lorr is the daughter of an alcoholic and has been enabling her mother's addiction.   She resents her mother for many reasons and here reveals to Berk, a man strangely determined to help her mother quit booze, that she never thought that her mother deserved a man like her father,  who was killed by a drunk driver.


LORR:   Don't believe one thing she tells you about Leo. [BERK:  Why not?]
LORR:   He was the best. 	The best.
[BERK:  Yeah?]
LORR:   She didn't deserve him.   He only stayed with her because of me.   The day I turned fourteen Leo towed an old Chevy on the lawn.  For a year he stripped that car down and built it back up from nothln'.   Everyday with sandpaper. And when I was fifteen he said, You like fresh air, Baby?   And I said, yeah, and he hacksawed the roof off and put on a convertible  top. 	And when I was sixteen he said, What color, Baby?   And I said, Red!  And that year he made that car  the most kickass candyapple  red you ever  saw. 	And he souped it up:   four on the floor,  V-8 fuel-injected engine,  mirrors, mags  and  double-chrome exhaust,   plush  bucket  seats,  C.B., and dolby ghetto blasters front and back.  And he took me out and taught me to shift and people used to stop and take pictures of my car and ask him how much he wanted and he said, you ain't got enough, and he put a sign out front:   CAR NOT FOR SALE.   And when I turned seventeen,  he gave me the keys and a map of the U.S.A. with five one-hundred dollar bills stuck in it, and he traced the roads I should
take with Magic marker, coast to coast, and he said,  Get lost,  Kid.
And Lorraine said, Over my dead  body!   And Leo said, Any way you want it.  And two days before me and my girlfriend are leaving, he  takes  the car  out  one  night,  to get  away  from  her,  and  some shitfaced  hotdog who's  got  no use for STOP signs takes Leo away from me.   (Pause.)   The best.