: What?
FRANK
: You didn’t believe that static shock business, did you? He’s a carrier. He was sent here to do us in.
EMMA
: Sent here? Who would have sent him? I thought he was your friend?
FRANK
: He’s a traitor! He’s betrayed us all. A pretender. They look like us. They act like us. But underneath they’re deadly.
(EMMA rushes over to the potted plants and starts pushing them toward the door. She stacks them all up against the door to block it.)
What’re you doing?
EMMA
: (
as she works
) Nobody’s getting in here anymore. Nobody!
FRANK
: There’s going to be a meeting, Emma. Tuesday.
EMMA
: No meeting! No Mr. Welch! No Mr. Haynes! Nobody! We are closing our doors to the outside world! I don’t care if they set fire to Lake Michigan! This house is closed!
FRANK
: You can’t stop them.
EMMA
: (
still working
) That’s the whole trouble—the open-door policy. The friendly neighbor—the borrowing salt and sugar. All that’s gonna end. I can’t believe you’d sell us down the river like this, Frank! I can’t believe it.
FRANK
: What?
EMMA
: For a bunch of heifers! What’d he give you for those heifers, anyway?
FRANK
: (
still on couch
) It’s not that. It’s not that so much.
EMMA
: Well, what is it then? You were happy with those heifers, Frank. We were both happy with those heifers. Now they’re gone! For what?
FRANK
: For what they are going to contribute to the future security of this nation, Emma!
(EMMA stops cold, stares at him)
EMMA
: What?
FRANK
: You heard me.
EMMA
: Heifers? How are heifers going to contribute to the national security?
FRANK
: You’ll see. It’s all going to be revealed at the meeting. You’re going to be very proud of those heifers, Emma. I guarantee you.
EMMA
: (
charging
FRANK
) There’s not going to be any meeting!!!