Taboo

Benjamin:
Question: Would you sleep with a minor? Answer: yes. Let's begin our slide into the moral abyss.

Katie:
Oh! Naughty naughty.

Adam:
Aw, sh*t, I, for one, had sex before I was fourteen. I don't see what the big deal is.

Benjamin:
Really. I didn't think that they had altar boys in the, uh, the Jewish faith.

Elizabeth:
[hurriedly trying to deflect any animosity] Okay, Piper, your turn.

Piper:
Question: Would you sleep with a person of the same sex? Answer: yes.

Christian Turner:
What a great game to play with our best friends.

Adam:
Yeah, f*** Taboo. Let's have an orgy, huh?

Elizabeth:
Or enroll in group therapy.

Benjamin:
Well, maybe you need new friends.

Piper:
Well, actually? We all seem pretty well suited for each other, so far.

Elizabeth:
[looks at Adam] Your turn.

Adam:
All right, the question is: Would you have a threesome? The answer is yes.

Christian Turner:
Two girls and one guy, right?

Piper:
Does it matter?

Katie:
Well, Mr. Right Wing Conservative over there looks like he might think two girls might be fun. Huh?

[Piper, his current girlfriend, looks at him worriedly]

Elizabeth:
Okay, my turn. Question: Would you have sex for money? Answer: yes. [She looks at Katie]

Katie:
I like sex, okay? That does not make me a hooker. At least it doesn't make me a b*tch.

Benjamin:
That's my baby.

Katie:
Question. Mmm. Would you sleep with your partner's best friend? Answer? A very disappointing no.

Christian Turner:
Wow. There's one good person amongst us sinners.

Katie:
Christian. Pardon me, but don't you have to be a lot fatter and less educated to be part of the Christian coalition?

Christian Turner:
So says the prep school anarchist.

Katie:
Ah. No, no no. See, I am just a shallow, materialistic party girl, and at least I don't pretend to believe in principles.

[first lines]

Piper:
[reading from a dictionary] "Taboo: A prohibition against touching, saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force." That's creepy. And, and I, I don't, I don't really get it.

Elizabeth:
Well, the thing about taboos is that society shuns them. But if you really think about it, I mean, there's something very tempting about it. And the game will test whether or not we succumb to the taboo, whatever it might be.

Christian Turner:
Such as?

Elizabeth:
Such as, would you cheat on your husband or wife?

Katie:
Oh, that's considered taboo? See, I just thought it was good Country Club etiquette.

Christian Turner:
[answering Katie] Well, I believe in principles.

Elizabeth:
Surely, this doesn't have any...

Benjamin:
Christian, stop pouting and, uh, read the last question!

Adam:
I think he's scared to read the question.

[Christian shakes his head, disturbed by what he's reading]

Adam:
Just read the card!

Christian Turner:
This - Okay. [shakes his head] Would you sleep with a relative? Answer: yes.

[There are various murmurs of discomposure]

Adam:
That's f***ing disgusting.

[It's New Year's Eve, a year after the team played the Taboo game, and they're all slightly drunk and antagonistic]

Benjamin:
Ladies, please. I mean, we haven't seen each other since graduation. Could you guys try and be nice, maybe? You know, stop the whiny, insecure, competitive bullshit? Please?

Adam:
Yeah, I'm the Jew, it's my job!

[They raise their champagne glasses in a toast, as the New Year approaches]

Christian Turner:
Here, a toast. To the four people in the world that I most love to hate. And [nodding to Elizabeth] to the one that I hate to love.

Elizabeth:
[She grins] To relationships that last as long as we live. [She smiles saucily at Christian] As short as that may be.

Piper:
To the twelve seconds.

Benjamin:
[mocking her drunkenness] "Twelve theconds." I'd like to make a toast to bread. Because without bread, there would be no toast.

Katie:
[to Elizabeth, spitefully] Uh, a toast for the cure to cancer! And, uh, ending world hunger, and everything else I'll never be involved in!

Piper:
[drunk but happy] To special people! And special times.

Adam:
Special Olympics!

Elizabeth:
Well, what do you want to talk about, then?

Katie:
Dirt.

Benjamin:
Gossip.

Adam:
I like rumors. Does anyone have any?

Elizabeth:
Somebody in this house is a murderer, and we're stuck here!

[Benjamin has been studying a portrait on the wall and the plaque below it, when Elizabeth comes to join him]

Benjamin:
She looks very happy, huh? [He reads aloud:] Virtue, Honesty, and Justice.

Elizabeth:
Christian's family motto. Words to live by.

Benjamin:
[starts to laugh, but stops] Yeah, yeah. Or to, um, die by.

Elizabeth:
Slut.

Katie:
B*tch.

Elizabeth:
Like there's a difference.

Katie:
Oh, but there is. You see, a slut gets to sleep with anyone that she wants to. "Moi." And a b*tch, well, a b*tch sleeps with no one.

[looks at Christian]

Katie:
Not even her fiancee. "Vous."