"Chess" (7) Mountain Duet

Chess involves a romantic triangle between two players in a World Chess Championship, and the woman who manages one and falls in love with the other.

Reference:  Chess in Concert.

Script

[FLORENCE]
This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid
Nothing I say will convince him this isn't a trick. 

[THE RUSSIAN]
A drink on a clear moonlit night -- I relax, she smiles
There's something peculiar going on. 

[FLORENCE]
So with immaculate timing, I'm left to carry the can
Embarrassed, outnumbered, marooned -- 

[THE RUSSIAN]
Now she can't be working for them -- I mean us --
She seems so very straightforward -- but where is he? 

[FLORENCE]
He has to come back -- he wanted this meeting, well didn't he? 

[THE RUSSIAN]
Maybe he's scared -- just as scared as he was in the game. 

[FLORENCE]
Oh, I just couldn't care less
He can go right ahead, go and wreck his career, I know I've done my best 

[THE RUSSIAN]
Well at least she's a good-looking spy. 

[FLORENCE]
What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans
Are more of an intimate kind?
If I don't say something else soon
He'll go -- Nobody's on nobody's side! 

[THE RUSSIAN]
Listen, I hate to break up the mood
Get to the point, begin the beguine
Haven't you noticed we're a protagonist short
In this idyllic, well-produced scene? 

[FLORENCE]
All I can say is moments ago
He was right here ready and waiting 

[THE RUSSIA]
Never mind him -- I haven't missed him so far. 

[BOTH]
Maybe it won't do any harm
To struggle on without his charm
Funny how all at once I feel that he can go jump off the mountain
I won't care 

[FLORENCE]
This is the one situation I wanted most to avoid 

[THE RUSSIAN]
My dear opponent -- I really can't imagine why 

[FLORENCE]
So I am not dangerous then? -- what a shame! 

[THE RUSSIAN]
Oh, you're not dangerous -- who could think that of you? 

[BOTH]
You -- you are so strange -- why can't you be what you ought to be?
You should be scheming, intriguing, too clever by half -- 

[THE RUSSIAN]
I have to hand it to you
For you've managed to make me forget why I ever agreed to this farce. 

[BOTH]
I don't know why I can't think of anything
I would rather do
Than be wasting my time
On mountains with you.

Mountain Duet

[a stretch with no lyrics, chess match taking a dramatic turn]

The Arbiter: [Spoken]
At the end of today's session, the challenger,
Sergievsky leads five wins to one.

Chess Game 2