Meeting across the Potomac

Hey Mick, can you catch us a ride?

[The living room of a very comfortable McMansion in the Northern Virginia suburbs. Former White House Chief of Staff MICK MULVANEY is lying on a nice couch, reading a translation of Proust’s Time Regained. He wears plaid flannel shorts and a Georgetown T-shirt and is in his stocking feet. His wife PAMELA, who is oh who cares, enters.]

PAMELA: Honey, ther…