INT. TREATMENT CENTER DAY ROOM - DAY

               The Demented Woman who talks to cigarettes, strides
               purposefully up to Alex, who is staring out the window and
               writing notes in a personal journal.  Alex sees her coming
               and quickly closes the journal and clicks the cover's lock
               closed.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         We need to talk.

                                   ALEX
                         What do you need chief.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Don't call me that.

                                   ALEX
                         You asked me to call you that last
                         week.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         I'm not him anymore.  I'm me
                         today.

                                   ALEX
                         Ok.

               The Demented Woman drags Alex to a unoccupied corner and
               her eyes flit around the room before she focuses in on
               Alex.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         You need to tell me something.

                                   ALEX
                         What.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         You tell me.

                                   ALEX
                         Tell you what?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         You fretting again.

                                   ALEX
                         I'm lost here honey.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Maybe you need to talk to him and
                         not to me.

                                   ALEX
                         Him?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Your man.

                                   ALEX
                         I don't have one.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         I'm crazy, but not that crazy.  I
                         saw it.  In this very room.

                                   ALEX
                         Ok Sweetie, what ever you say.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         I know why you are afraid.

                                   ALEX
                         I'm not afraid.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         You have been since you got here,
                         waiting for them to find you.
                         But it's worse now.  Now you have
                         something to lose.  You need to
                         talk to someone.  If it's not
                         him, it should be me.

                                   ALEX
                         I really don't know what you
                         want.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Do you know why it's good to talk
                         to a crazy woman?  You can tell
                         us anything and no one would
                         believe us if we told them.

                                   ALEX
                         Who do you talk to?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         My cigarettes.

                                   ALEX
                         Why?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Cause I can tell them anything,
                         they listen, then I smoke em so
                         they can't tell anyone else.

                                   ALEX
                         Good strategy, I guess.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Want to know my secret?

                                   ALEX
                         Sure.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         I hate to smoke.  I just do it to
                         kill them so they can't rat me
                         out.

                                   ALEX
                         So, your secret is you are a
                         killer?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Just like you.

               ALEX freezes.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN (CONT'D)
                         You did it for your Daddy.

               Alex just sits in stunned silence.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN (CONT'D)
                         See, you need to talk.

                                   ALEX
                         Let's say I do.  Can you keep a
                         secret?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         I tell everything to my
                         cigarettes.  I'll smoke em fast.

                                   ALEX
                         I can't tell you some things.
                         Even if I wanted to.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         You used to dream.  A lot.  I
                         know about the bombing.  How your
                         Daddy made you do it for the
                         cause.  I knew before the dream
                         though.

                                   ALEX
                         You talk to cigarettes.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         It's in your voice, the slight
                         Irish accent.  It's in your eyes
                         too.  They never lie. I see the
                         same look in my mirror.
                         Sometimes you have to kill, even
                         when you don't want to.

                                   ALEX
                         You can't ever say that again.
                         They will find me and kill me.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         I know, that's why I smoked the
                         pack that was in the room when
                         you had the dream.

                                   ALEX

                         Thanks.
                         I don't understand why you wanted
                         to talk about this.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         You had to trust me.

                                   ALEX
                         So.....

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         So, you have to tell him.

                                   ALEX
                         Tell him?

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         The bitch's husband.  You have to
                         tell him you're in love with him. 

                                   ALEX
                         Jesus.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Ok, tell yourself first.  Then
                         tell him. He needs to know.  He
                         smokes too.

                                   ALEX
                         That's just crazy.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                         Love is, isn't it?

               The woman stands, takes out a cigarette from a fresh pack.

                                   ALEX
                         Need a light?

               The Demented woman counts the cigarettes.

                                   DEMENTED WOMAN
                        Eighteen to go before tonight.