(Lights up on Sharon, Mark, and Jon.)
SHARON: I'm telling you Mark, Virginia Hickory is out to get to me.
MARK: That sounds like a wild accusation Honey.
SHARON: There are just some things I would not expect you to understand.
MARK: Try me.
SHARON: You don't know her like I do. You haven't known her as long.
MARK: What is this, a competition? I have known her the same time you have. I started going to the church not that long after you did. My "Welcome Member" picture was the one that replaced the one of you, Baby Jonathan, and your ex-husband.
MARK: What is wrong with you? Is she really getting to you that much?
SHARON: Yes, Mark, she is getting to me that much. Just because I do her job well and I do it better than she does does not mean she has to try to tear my son apart from me like this.
MARK: She feels threatened by you and feels the need to lash out. Just try to remember that she had your job and loved it for a long time. And she was good at it too, she just was not good at the adapting and evolving part of it.
SHARON: This isn't Wednesday, Mark, I don't need the damn therapy.
MARK: Okay, Sharon. I am just trying to be supportive.
JON: I'm over it, Mom.
SHARON: You shut up.
MARK: Sharon?
JON: I'm sorry?
SHARON: (To Jon.) And if I find out you have taken a single penny from anyone I will have you shipped off to Patmos so quick young man.
JON: Mom, I didn't do anything.
SHARON: A bunch of denyers, all of you.
ISAAC: All due respect, I'm just here.
SHARON: Not now Isaac. Your daddy may not think you stole any money but I'm not yet convinced. I don't want you talking to me or my son for the time being, you hear me now? Good Lord Almighty.
MARK: Sharon your tone is killing my head right now.
JON: Oh that is fucked up man.
Sharon slaps him hard.
SHARON: You watch your damn mouth. You are on ice so thin I'm about to crack the hell out of it and send you straight for a polar plunge in Cocytus.
JON: I think she's losing it.
MARK: Sharon, none of this is what you think at all. (Beat.) Except the money—he probably did that. But I have not done the things you are accusing me of.
SHARON: Oh save it, Mark, you have never been a good liar.
MARK: But I've been a good husband.
SHARON: Oh have you? Because the last time I checked husbands stood by their wives.
MARK: I—
SHARON: Through it all. Through all the trials and tribulations and attacks against their children. Our son was accused of a horrible wrongdoing by someone who has known him his whole life and you are totally unaffected by it all.
MARK: Well first of all he's your son—
SHARON: And I am so sick of you saying that. You have raised him from the time he was a child and you still cannot claim him as your own family.
