Scene 15 – The scene opens on the dinning room from scene 2. Eric sits in his seat his head in his hands. Marrissa is pacing across the room, her hair is dishevelled and she is holding the mirror.
Marrissa: It won't work. It won't work. It won't work. It won't work. It won't work.
Eric: (he looks up and says this pleadingly) Marrissa darling.
Marrissa: (turns towards him and talks like a child) Why won't it work?
Eric: Why won't what work?
Marrissa: (gets angry) The mirror you fool! It used to talk to me!
Eric: (looks exasperated) We've been through this before Marrissa. Mirrors don't talk/to you
Marrissa: (spitting out the words) Of course they don't! But this one is special. It's a magic mirror and it talks to me. (she turns her attention to the mirror) Michael where are you?
(Jenny and Ben enter and Jenny runs to her father's side, whilst Ben stands staring transfixed at Marrissa)
Jenny: Father?
Eric: Jenny! (they embrace)
Jenny: Is she any better?
Eric: She just talks about her mirror.
Jenny: (confused) Her mirror?
Eric: She says it talks to her.
Marrissa: (turns to them) It does talk to me! You think I can't hear you! You and your pathetic doctors! You and your pathetic daughter! I can hear you all!
Ben: Marrissa!
Marrissa: I can hear you as well Ben, and I can read the guilt on your face. This man (she points at Ben) I paid him to seduce your daughter.
Eric: Marrissa you don't know what you're saying.
Marrissa: (laughs) I know exactly what I'm saying! She's a whore and he's been sleeping with her! Other things you don't know, ummm let me think. I didn't have a miscarriage I had an abortion!
Eric: (shocked) Marrissa, why would you do that?
Marrissa: Well let me think, maybe because it wasn't your baby! (laughs and mumbles) It wasn't your baby. It wasn't your baby. It was my baby and I killed it!
Jenny: Father don't listen to her. She doesn't know what she's saying.
Eric: (turns to Jenny and looks much older and sad) Doesn't she? Why are you with him? Who is he Jenny?
Jenny: We're together father, that's what we came here to say. I love him.
Ben: And I love her.
Eric: Look at him Jenny, he's half your age!
Jenny: Marrissa is half yours!
Eric: (angry he pulls her towards Marrissa) And look at her Jenny! Look at her! I loved her and I thought she loved me. I was sadly mistaken and this is what has happened to her! (he throws Jenny towards Marrissa) Take a good look!
Marrissa: Such a pretty face I have.
(Jenny sobs)
(Chris enters)
Eric: Thank goodness doctor. She's much worse today.
Chris: Ok I'll take a look at her.
Ben: Wait a minute. He's not a doctor.
Eric: Of course he's a doctor.
Jenny: Dad wait, he's not a doctor. He's a private detective. (takes a deep breath) We hired him to find out who the father of Marrissa's baby was.
Eric: You did what?
Jenny: I know it was wrong. But I couldn't bear you not knowing and if we'd have found out for sure I could have told you.
Eric: So you never found out?
Marrissa: Never found out. Never found out.
Jenny: No.
Eric: (to Chris) So you're not a doctor?
Chris: No.
Eric: You're obviously not a very good private detective if you never found out who the father was.
Chris: I did find out.
(mass 'What!')
Ben: So who was it.
Marrissa: It was him! Chris is the father! He helped me to get an abortion!
Chris: She doesn't know what she's saying.
Eric: She knows exactly what she's saying.
Marrissa: I know exactly what I'm saying!
Eric: (to Chris) Get out of my house (gestures at Marrissa) and take her with you!
Chris: What?
Eric: You heard me.
(Chris and Marrissa leave)
Jenny: Father?
Eric: You're all I have now. You're to move back home. Take it slow with him.
Jenny: (takes Eric's hand) Of course father.
(end of play)
