Zero broods in the corner. The table is piled with long-stemmed flowers, and a large, cardboard box overflows with more. MR. MOUSTAFA (voice-over) – during which he presented Agatha with a porcelain pendant and five dozen individually tissue-wrapped white tulips in a box the size of a child’s coffin.Insert: A white porcelain crossed-keys pendant hanging from a velvet ribbon around Agatha’s thin neck. Agatha admires her pendant. Zero grumbles: ZERO It’s not right.M. GUSTAVE (hesitates) I beg your pardon? (Conspiratorially to Agatha.) Why’s he sulking? ZERO She’s my girlfriend. You can’t just buy her things.M. GUSTAVE (in disbelief) I’m only interviewing this vision of loveliness on your behalf. (Conveying pearls of wisdom.) Never be jealous in this life, Zero. Not even for an instant. ZERO (to Agatha, like a lawyer) Is he flirting with you? AGATHA Yes.Zero looks to M.
