Three days after Saul left by car for Florida, towing a trailer containing Max and Jennie's possessions, the family took Max and Jennie to the airport to send them on their way to Florida, a process they recorded in the form of a second screenplay.

Time: Wed. July 6.

(Fran and George, Lisa and Eric –dem 4 meshugenah characters–arrive to pick up Max and Jennie at their apartment to take them to the airport. Their plane leaves at three o'clock. George took the whole day off. Fran and George arrive at the house. Jennie is still packing.)

FRAN: For God's sake Ma. What are you packing? Saul left with the trailer Sunday!

JENNIE: Just a few things I didn't want to put in the trailer. Some things I forgot to.

(Fran notices four more bundles. Two suitcases, one very large hatbox –weighing a ton– and a large fancy Florida basket which carried medicines and weighed two tons.

JENNIE: The hat box and the basket I will keep with me.

FRAN: You better weigh it in, Ma. The plane will go lopsided.

JENNIE: I got all my jewelry and my papers and bankbooks in the hatbox and I want it with me.

FRAN: Ma, you should have gotten on the plane today with just your pocketbook. Where did you dig up four more packages? Your good jewelry and your papers and your bankbooks belong in your purse but why this big box that weighs a ton?

JENNIE: Well, I put the whole jewelry case in it. That makes it heavy.

GEORGE: Ma, what's these two bags doing in the kitchen?

JENNIE: Oh, that's some stuff from the refrigerator that was a navarra to throw out. You kids take it home with you.

FRAN: It's one-thirty. The plane leaves at three o'clock. Let's get going!

(Ten minutes later: all are in the car heading for the airport)

(They arrive at the airport and make their way into the terminal)

CHECK-IN-MAN: Lady, what do you have in the basket?

JENNIE: Oh, just some medicines and some food.

CHECK-IN MAN: That's nice (smiling). Are you planning on passing it out to the passengers on the plane?

(...)

MAX: Well we are all checked in and it is two-fifteen. Now we have to sit and wait.

JENNIE: If you had let me have twenty more minutes in the house, I could have done some more packing.

(...)

MAX: Jennie, I must tell you. You did some marvelous job. You were wonderful. No one could have done such a good job as you. (Turning to Fran and George) You should have seen Mama today. The handle from the basket broke, but she took two shopping bags and pieced together a new handle. Only Jennie could have done it.

(...)

MAX: Well, Saully [Saul] called up last night from Orlando, Florida. He will arrive in Miami today and will be able to pick us up. We spoke to Barney and he opened the electricity. They filled up our refrigerator. Such wonderful people.

(Pop is greatly elated to think that things could have gone on so well. Everything was on schedule, with Saul arriving in Florida ready to meet them. He expresses it.)

MAX: This has been a very, very happy week for me. To see Jennie be able to do all the packing without any attacks. To see everything go off on schedule. It really is wonderful. And to know that everything is waiting so nicely for us in Florida with a full frigerdaire.

(...)

(Precisely at three o'clock boarding starts. The usual good-byes and promises to write are said and Ben takes pictures with his new Instamatic Camera. Just as Max is about to board the plane, he leans over to Fran and says, "You are the apple of my heart. And that's nisht gephumphet". [straight and direct, to the point]

(Fran thinks to herself – Okay, Max, but I still won't show you my letters to Paul or read his to you.)

P.S. After the airport, George, Fran, Lisa and Eric go to Coney Island to enjoy some of the rides and sights and eat dinner at Nathans [[Famous hot dog stand on the Coney Island boardwalk.] Boy-oh-boy, you cannot beat those franks or french fries. They get home about ten o'clock and look into the Care Package that Jennie prepared for them from her refrigerator. They found 1 onion, 1/3 lemon –already squeezed once– 1 1/2 tomatoes, 4 cookies (chocolate chip), 1 can soup, peas, 1 jar jelly, 1/3 bottle Crisco, 1/2 jar tomato juice, and 1/2 oz. cottage cheese, butter, and cream. The last three items were dumped because they were in a hot car all day and smelled.

I beg you, reader, don't tell this to Jennie, it would break her heart.

Fin – Finis –The End

Or rather... shall we say...

The Beginning for Max and Jennie.

Relevant to our purpose of understanding Max, we note that in this almost inevitably intense and stressful process, Max is composed and calm. He take the time to tell his family of his satisfaction with the smoothness of the entire process. And he privately expresses his affection to Fran, whose parenthetical reponse visible to us, Okay, Max, but I still won't show you my letters to Paul or read his to you," communicates buried conflicts. Are these revealed by the screenplays or the thesis document as a whole? Not clear.