HITCH

So, did you save the day Wonder Woman?

BELLE

Hard to say. There is going to be a lot more to come. A lot of congressional hearings and even more posturing.

HITCH

Meaning, a lot more you out of the house?

BELLE

Maybe. There’s going to be a lot for everyone to do.

HITCH

So, yes then.

BELLE

Admiral Irving offered to let me captain the next team.

HITCH

Did you turn her down softly?

BELLE

I said I’d think about it.

HITCH

You’re going to do it. Aren’t you?

BELLE

I only said I’d think about it. I didn’t agree to anything more than that.

HITCH

That’s just code for “I need to make my family think I’d say no first”.

BELLE

That isn’t true, Hitch-

HITCH

Really? Cause you sure seemed to rush out the door the moment you could. You know how embarrassing it was to explain why Phil’s own daughter wasn’t even at the funeral?

BELLE

Fifteen people had just died for a mission I had to sell the American people on in the first place.

HITCH

That’s their fault for signing up in the first place. Your family needed you there, not gallivanting in front of any yahoo with a camera.

BELLE

You were hardly the model of restraint yourself. You said what? Three sentences? Just to get the “show on the road”? The moment I had to leave, it’s a big problem.

HITCH

I didn’t like your dad. I don’t apologize for that. Your dad didn’t like me. It was charitable of me to say anything at all. I just resent being left to handle all of those people by myself. You could have said something to them.