Christopher backs a van into a warehouse. He gets out and opens the back of the van to reveal that it's packed with boxes of cigarettes, and announces that he "hit the fucking mother lode!" The warehouse guys -- who will be known as Big Bald Guy and Big Biker Guy -- are impressed. Christopher issues instructions on what should be done with the cigarettes, and then says that he's going home to sleep and get Adriana to cook him "a nice carbonara." Big Biker Guy glances at Big Bald Guy, wondering if they should tell Christopher about Adriana. Christopher notices the look, and the two Big guys shortly spill that Adriana is in the hospital, due to an accident that happened around 2:00 AM, and that while she was banged up, she'll be okay. Christopher assumes that it was due to drinking and driving, and asks what hospital she's in. Big Bald Guy supplies that she's at Mt. Mercy in Dover. Christopher wonders why she was in Dover, and Big Biker Guy starts the gossip chain by explaining that Adriana and Tony swerved "to avoid a deer in the road." Christopher asks if Tony's okay, and Big Bald Guy says, "Not a scratch. The fucking luck on this guy." Christopher racks his brain for a logical explanation (or excuse) and says that Adriana has a sick aunt in Dover who is friends with Tony's aunt. The Big Guys don't seem very convinced, and neither does Christopher, who decides he should get to the hospital.
Christopher and Adriana (the latter of whom is still wearing the cervical collar and smoking AGAIN) drive home. Adriana speaks directly to me as she says she thought she'd die in there without a cigarette. Try the lozenges, Ade. They're working for me so far. Christopher stays silent, so Ade asks him if he's going to talk to her since she was almost killed. Christopher yells, "I'm just curious. What the fuck were you doing in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, in a car with my uncle?" Adriana sticks to the story that Tony was driving her home. Christopher points out that Dover isn't exactly on the way. Adriana says that they were talking and stutters that they were going to get something to eat, and that Christopher wasn't there. That's their cover story? Christopher yells that he was busting his ass in a van to make a living so that Adriana can buy "alcohol and coke and all the other shit [she] shovel[s] into [her] mouth!" She shoves coke in her mouth? Is that even effective? Christopher shakes his head for a minute and then yells at Adriana not to lie to him. Adriana yells back that nothing was going on. Christopher asks if she knows how this looks, and then orders her to shut her mouth and stop talking to him. Adriana complies.













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