- 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, shit, 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, fuck 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 bitch.
- 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]
- Christian Turner: Would you sleep with a relative? Answer: yes.
- [There are various murmurs of discomposure]
- Adam: That's fucking 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]
- Christian Turner: 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]
- Elizabeth: 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!
- [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:]
- Benjamin: 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.