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Elliot Mantle: [on seeing her medical chart for the first time] What, THE Claire Niveau?
Beverly Mantle: Yeah.
Elliot Mantle: Ooo! What's she doing here?
Beverly Mantle: She's doing a miniseries. She's got 3 agents and a bodyguard in the waiting room.
Elliot Mantle: And her life is empty without children.
Beverly Mantle: How did you know?
Elliot Mantle: Oh come on, Bev, everyone knows that. Don't you ever read the National Enquirer? "Star's Life Empty Without Children"?
Beverly Mantle: Well, I hope the National Enquirer also explained how we can make her fertile, because I don't think i can.
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Claire Niveau: Listen. Doctor. I think there's something wrong with you. I don't know what it is, I can't put a label on it, but you're subtly - I don't know - schizophrenic? Or something. Sometimes I like you very much. and sometimes, you're an amusing lay, not much more. And I cant figure out why.
Beverly Mantle: [he extracts and rattles a prescription pill bottle]
Claire Niveau: [sympathetically] Beverly.
Beverly Mantle: One for you. One for me.
[they both ingest a pill]
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