That’s My Life
“Winds Of Change”
ACT ONE
Scene A
FADE IN:
INT. THE APARTMENT - DAY.
(LISA PRESENT)
LISA STOPS AND CHECKS HERSELF OUT IN THE MIRROR. THEN GOES TO EXIT NOTICING SHE DOESN’T HAVE HER KEYS. SHE PANICS AND FLUTTERS AROUND SEARCHING.
LISA
(TO HERSELF)
Oh where are they? Come on! Come on!
(STOPS AND THINKS TO HERSELF)
I took them... I put them... And...
tada! There they are!
(FROM BENEATH STACK OF MAIL)
CUT TO CAR
EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY.
(LISA)
LISA HOPS INTO HER CAR AND TURNS THE KEY AS THE CAR ENGINE DIES.
LISA
(TO THE CAR)
Oh no, no! You can’t do this to me
now.
(ANOTHER ATTEMPT FAILS)
Aagh!
(IN SUBMISSION)
Anthony!
(WITH DELIGHT)
CUT TO KITCHEN
INT. THE APARTMENT - DAY.
(LISA)
LISA
(ON THE PHONE)
Yes officer...
CUT TO CAR
INT. HIGHWAY - CAR - DAY.
(ANTHONY)
ANTHONY SPEEDS DOWN THE HIGHWAY SINGING TO AC\DC.
ANTHONY
Shook me all night...
WHEN HE NOTICES A POLICE CARS LIGHTS FLASHING BEHIND HIM, HE SEES THE SPEED LIMIT SIGN OF 55 AND NOTICES HIS SPEEDOMETER AT 72 BEFORE PULLING OVER.
ANTHONY (cont.)
Great. Just great!
AFTER STOPPING ANTHONY REACHES INTO THE GLOVE DEPARTMENT PULLS OUT HIS CAR PAPERS, LICENSE AND A SQUIRT BOTTLE.
ANTHONY
(IN REARVIEW WITH WET EYES)
I’m so sorry. So sorry! My mother.
My poor mother’s in the hospital,
and I was just trying to...
THE OFFICER INTERRUPTS HIM WITH HIS GUN QUICKLY POINTED AT ANTHONY FROM OUTSIDE THE DRIVERS WINDOW.
OFFICER
(YELLING)
Get out of the vehicle with your
hands on your head now!
ANTHONY
(SHOCKED)
I‘m sorry, my mother...
OFFICER
(Yelling)
Now!
ANTHONY
(BEGINNING TO REALLY CRY)
Okay.
(SOFTLY)
CUT TO POLICE STATION
INT. POLICE STATION - DAY.
(ANTHONY, OFFICER)
ANTHONY SITS IN HANDCUFFS WITH OFFICER AT DESK.
OFFICER
(WRITING PAPERWORK)
So your telling me that, that is
your car that you stole!
ANTHONY
I didn’t steal it!
OFFICER
(LOOKS UP)
Are you calling me a liar young man?
(STERNLY WHILE STARING)
ANTHONY
What? No.
(OFFICER CONTINUES STARE)
No!
(NERVOUSLY)
OFFICER
(SATISFIED)
Okay then.
(BACK TO PAPERWORK)
ANTHONY
When can I get out of here, and get
MY car back?
OFFICER
When your mother gets back with it.
ANTHONY
(SHOCKED)
What?
FADE OUT
Scene B
INT. BARON & BARON INC. - AFTERNOON.
(LISA, MR. BANKS)
BANKS’ SITS BEHIND HIS DESK AS LISA ENTERS.
LISA
I’m sorry I am late Mr. Banks, I had
some car troubles.
BANKS
(RISES AND WALKS AROUND)
Have a seat!
LISA
Thank you.
BANKS
I need a good hair dresser. Great!
Great hair dresser! My hair is
important. People see it all the
time. It represents my lifestyle and
business!
LISA
Yes sir.
LISA
Don’t worry Mr. Banks if you hire me
to be your personal hair stylist you
can guarantee great hair, with your
great face I must say.
(GIANT SMILE)
BANKS
Okay, but you gotta be good. I gotta
have good hair. Can’t let all the
suits see me with bad hair. Never
mind the secretaries. Stacey use to
cut my hair. Whenever I needed, but
now she’s gone and I... --
LISA
-- Really oh no, well do you know
when you will have made your
decision for your stylist?
BANKS
Well your all I’ve interviewed, but
I want three samples so get them to
me then I’ll let you know.
LISA
(SMILING)
I can do that Mr. Banks.
(SHAKES HANDS AND TURNS)
I’ll have them for you in a day or
two Mr. Banks.
BANKS
Okay.
(SMILING IN REFLECTION)
Stylist. Huh, I like that word. My
hair, stylist!
FADE OUT
Scene C
INT. JAILHOUSE - AFTERNOON.
(ANTHONY, FRANKLIN)
ANTHONY WITH A TERRIFIED LOOK LIES ON THE BED WRAPPED UP IN FRANKLIN’S GIANT ARM.
(ENTERS LISA, GUARD)
THE GUARD OPENS THE CELL DOOR.
GUARD
James! Your out.
ANTHONY
(SOFTLY TO FRANKLIN)
My mom’s here.
(FRANKLIN DOESN‘T MOVE)
My mother is here!
GUARD
Let him go Franklin they’ll be
someone else soon I’m sure of it.
FRANKLIN’S UNHAPPY FACE IS OVERJOYED AS HE LETS ANTHONY GO. ANTHONY RUSHES OUT AND SHAKES IT OFF.
LISA
(SMILING)
Hi hunny.
ANTHONY GIVES AN ANGRY LOOK BACK.
GUARD
Good news son, your mother is not
pressing charges! What a good
mother. Wish I had a mom like her.
You, are so lucky.
ANTHONY
Yeah, lucky!
(ANGRY-SARCASTIC TONE)
GAURD
(SMILING)
You try and stay out of trouble now
son!
EXT. THE ROAD - CAR - LATE AFTERNOON.
(LISA, ANTHONY)
LISA
What your not going to talk to me
now? --
ANTHONY JUST LOOKS TO HER
LISA (cont.)
-- Fine, be that way.
ANTHONY
Why did you do that?
LISA
I needed the car.
ANTHONY
Don’t you have your own?
LISA
Technically this is my car. It’s
under my name Mr. Mann.
ANTHONY
I still pay for it!
LISA
Sometimes. Plus I had a very
important meeting with Mr. Banks to
go to and my car wouldn’t start.
ANTHONY
So you have me arrested!? Isn’t
that more work then calling them and
telling them you’d be late?
LISA
(TO HERSELF)
Mr. Banks. Doesn’t that
just sound like money?
ANTHONY SIGHS AND LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW
LISA
You were probably just speeding
around anyway.
ANTHONY
Actually! I just got a summer job,
thank you very much.
LISA
Oh yeah, where?
ANTHONY
Davis's. Stocking shelves.
LISA
Well your getting there I guess.
Some day you’ll grow up to be a man!
ANTHONY
Someday.
LISA
As long as your not like your
father! He was lazy and selfish and
always made things harder for
himself.
(LOOKS AT ANTHONY)
Oh my
god you are your father! I tried so
hard to raise you right... --
ANTHONY
-- Here we go again. --
LISA
-- No this is not funny now mister.
You need to something with your
life. Your not going to be like him.
ANTHONY
I think he’s fine.
LISA
See that’s what I mean.
ANTHONY
(ESTRANGED)
Okay!? I’m going to
college what more do you want right
now?
LISA
Yes, but what are you going for?
Huh?
ANTHONY
I don’t know yet!
LISA
See.
ANTHONY
(ANOTHER ESTRANGED LOOK)
No!
LISA
I know you never do, do you? By the
way I need to cut you and your
friends hair and take pictures for
Mr. Banks.
ANTHONY
No!
LISA
No you can’t say no.
ANTHONY
No! Not after the last time.
LISA
Oh shush, I’m better now. --
ANTHONY STARES UNBELIEVINGLY
LISA (cont.)
-- What? I am. So we’ll do that later.
(A SATISFIED SMILE)
ANTHONY LOOKS WITH EYES OF WORRY
FADE OUT
SCENE D
INT. THE APARTMENT - EVENING.
(LISA, ANTHONY ENTER)
LISA
Oh yeah you got some mail today from
the college.
LISA HANDS IT TO HIM. HE READS IT WITH AN INCREASING WORRIED LOOK.
LISA (cont.)
What does it say?
ANTHONY
It says that I owe twelve thousand
dollars to the college.
LISA
What? Let me see that.
ANTHONY
Apparently some of the loans didn’t
go through.
(SITS DEFEATED)
Great! Just what I needed.
LISA
No, there’s got to be a mistake.
Tomorrow we’ll go down and talk to
them about it. Okay? Anthony?
ANTHONY
Huh? Yeah, sure.
FADE OUT
Scene E
INT. COLLEGE - FINANCIAL AID OFFICE - DAY.
(ANTHONY, LISA, FINANCE OFFICER)
ANTHONY SITS QUIETLY AS LISA SPEAKS WITH THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR
FINANCIAL OFFICER
See, his student loan went through
but the parent loan didn‘t. So he
owes this for this past year and we
can talk about further years after
this is taken care of.
LISA
And your just telling us this now!?
FINANCIAL OFFICER
I’m sorry, but there’s nothing we can
do about it.
CUT TO
EXT. COLLEGE GROUNDS - PARKING LOT - DAY.
(LISA, ANTHONY WALKING TO THE CAR)
LISA
I’m sorry hunny.
ANTHONY
I can’t believe that I spent a year
trying to get there just to leave
after one.
LISA
I know.
(HALF SMILE)
Well, hey at least you’ll be home
with me more now!
ANTHONY
(A FAKE SMILE)
Yeah, great!
FADE OUT
Scene F
INT. THE APARTMENT - AFTERNOON.
(ANTHONY)
ANTHONY WATCHES TELEVISION WHEN KENDAL, CHRIS AND NATHAN ENTER.
ANTHONY
Hey.
KENDAL
(TO ANTHONY)
Hey.
NATHAN NODS TO ANTHONY.
CHRIS
(TO KENDAL)
Hey.
ANTHONY, KENDAL AND NATHAN BRIEFLY STARE AT CHRIS. THEN THE THREE SIT.
ANTHONY
So guess what.
KENDAL
What?
CHRIS
Your name isn’t really Anthony!
THE OTHER THREE MOMENTARILY PAUSE AND STARE AGAIN.
KENDAL
(BACK AT ANTHONY)
What?
ANTHONY
I lost my loans for the school.
CHRIS MAKES FOR THE KITCHEN AND THE REFRIGERATOR WHILE NATHAN STARES BRIEFLY AT EACH WALL.
KENDAL
And you can’t get anymore?
ANTHONY
Apparently not.
KENDAL
That sucks.
ANTHONY
Yeah.
KENDAL
I told you!
CHRIS
Yeah he did.
KENDAL
(TO CHRIS)
I did.
CHRIS
(TO KENDAL)
I know.
KENDAL
(BACK TO ANTHONY)
Okay then.
ANTHONY
(TO KENDAL)
Anyways... --
KENDAL
-- Oh yeah. I told you not to waste
time with school.
ANTHONY
And what be more like you guys?
CHRIS
(MOUTH FULL OF A SANDWICH)
Yeah.
ANTHONY
Yeah, well it looks like it’s this
from now on.
KENDAL
Great!
CHRIS COMES BACK WITH A PLATE FULL OF FOOD.
ANTHONY
Oh yeah, I got a job though.
KENDAL
Where?
ANTHONY
Davis's.
KENDAL
The big grocery store!
ANTHONY
Yeah why?
KENDAL
No good!
ANTHONY
What?
CHRIS
(MUNCHING ON CHIPS)
Not good!
(SLOWLY)
ANTHONY
(TO CHRIS SLOWLY)
Thank you.
(TO KENDAL)
Why?
KENDAL
I dunno. Just my brother worked
there a year ago and I guess there
was this lady there that drove him
crazy.
ANTHONY
She might not be there anymore,
plus... --
CHRIS
-- She’s there!
ANTHONY
How do you know?
CHRIS
Oh I know.
ANTHONY
(LEANING AND WHISPERING TO CHRIS)
You scare me. --
CHRIS
-- Ha ha!
ANTHONY
(TO KENDAL)
Plus I need the job, especially now.
KENDAL
Well good, hopefully you’ll like it
better then Brian.
NATHAN
Yeah.
KENDAL AND ANTHONY STARE AT NATHAN MOMENTARILY IN A STATE OF SHOCK. THEN KENDAL RISES FOLLOWED BY NATHAN.
KENDAL
So poker night tonight!
ANTHONY
Well watch out my mother’s on a hair
cutting rampage.
CHRIS
Free?
KENDAL
Did she graduate yet?
ANTHONY
Nope, but apparently she’s found
some business richy, rich looking for
a stylist
NATHAN
Mr. Banks.
THE OTHERS STARE AT NATHAN AGAIN.
ANTHONY
(TO NATHAN)
That’s scary too!
(TO KENDAL)
Anyways, so she went and applied.
KENDAL
Ah.
ANTHONY
And he wants samples of her work so
were the dummies!
CHRIS
Hey.
KENDAL
Ah okay.
CHRIS PLACES HIS EMPTY PLATE DOWN AND THE THREE MAKE TO EXIT.
KENDAL
So well see you tonight.
ANTHONY
Okay.
GOES BACK TO FLIPPING CHANNELS.
Oh cool, Ninja Turtles!
(TOSSES THE REMOTE ASIDE)
CUT TO SAME SET
INT. THE APARTMENT - DAY.
(ANTHONY)
LISA ENTERS WITH BAGS OF GROCERIES AND WALKS IN ON ANTHONY DANCING AND SINGING TO THE MOVIE.
ANTHONY
Go ninja go! Go ninja go! Go nin...
(SPOTS HIS MOTHER)
LISA
-- You never came from me!
ANTHONY
Kidnapper!
LISA
I just picked up a few things from
that new job of yours at Davis's.
ANTHONY STARTS HELPING TO PUT THE FOOD AWAY.
ANTHONY
Oh yeah!?
(AN EXCITED TONE)
LISA
Yeah and they have probably one of
the meanest ladies I've ever met
working there.
ANTHONY
Oh yeah?
(A DISAPPOINTED TONE)
LISA
Yeah first I asked her if she knew
where the gravy was, and she just
stared at me like I was something...
ANTHONY
Stupid?
LISA
Yeah. Then she points right behind
me and says, there!
(IN A WICKED TONE)
And I felt silly and was like oh
yeah right there, but she was still
mean.
ANTHONY
Okay ma. Oh the boys are coming over
tonight to play poker.
LISA
What if I had plans?
ANTHONY
You don’t!
LISA
I could!
ANTHONY
But you don’t. And even if you did
it probably wouldn’t involve the
table now would it.
LISA
It could.
(SMILING)
ANTHONY STOPS MOMENTARILY IN WONDER AS LISA RETURNS TO THE FOOD.
CUT TO SAME SET
Scene G
INT. THE APARTMENT - EVENING.
(ANTHONY)
KENDAL, CHRIS AND NATHAN ENTER THE APARTMENT. ANTHONY PLACES THE SNACKS ON THE TABLE.
KENDAL
Alright here we go.
CHRIS
We playing for money this time?
ANTHONY
How much ya got?
THEY STARE AT EACH OTHER MOMENTARILY.
ANTHONY
Okay so no money this time.
AD BREAK
THE POKER GAME CONTINUES ON IN SILENCE, ANTHONY‘S TURN.
CHRIS
Who came up with anal retentive?
THE OTHERS STARE AT HIM BLANKLY.
CHRIS
I mean isn’t retentive able to
recall or something and anal is
well... So put together your able to
recall your ass!?
THE OTHERS PRETEND TO IGNORE.
KENDAL
If you don’t hurry up then were
going to loose Chris!
ANTHONY
What?
CHRIS
I’m dying!
ANTHONY
What!?
KENDAL
He is!
CHRIS
I am!
ANTHONY
Again!?
KENDAL
He thinks he has cancer.
CHRIS
I do! See? --
AS HE PULLS THE BACK OF HIS SHIRT AWAY FOR ANTHONY TO SEE.
CHRIS (cont.)
-- A sistht!
ANTHONY
You idiot that’s a pimple!
CHRIS
Nope a sistht!
ANTHONY
Oh my god!
(PLACES CARDS DOWN)
I win, flush!
KENDAL
Sorry full house!
CHRIS
Good show!
ANTHONY
(TO CHRIS)
What do you have?
CHRIS
I got an ace baby!
NATHAN THROWS DOWN HIS HAND OF FOUR OF A KIND AND TAKES THE CHIPS.
ANTHONY
And it’s Nathan’s!
LISA ENTERS WIELDING HAIR CUTTING UTENSILS.
LISA
Alright boys who’s first?
CHRIS
Free, right?
LISA
Yup, step right up into this here
chair.
CHRIS SITS WITH A BIG SMILE AS LISA BEGINS WHILE THE OTHER BOYS MAKE FOR THE LIVING ROOM.
LISA
After tonight’s masterpieces I'll
definitely be Mr. Bank’s new hair
dresser!
CUT TO SAME SCENE
Scene H
INT. THE APARTMENT - NIGHT.
(ANTHONY, CHRIS, NATHAN AND KENDAL)
THE FOUR BOYS SIT IN THE LIVING ROOM STARING BLANKLY TELEVISION WITH THE WORST HAIR CUTS.
ANTHONY
Can’t believe I have to go to work
like this!
KENDAL
Yeah that sucks.
CHRIS
It does.
NATHAN
Yeah.
THEY CONTINUE TO STARE BLANKLY AT THE TELEVISION.
CHRIS
I can’t believe I'm going to die
looking like this!
ANTHONY
(FRUSTRATED)
Your not going to die... --
ANTHONY ATTACKS THE BACK OF HIS NECK.
CHRIS
-- What?... Ah...
ANTHONY
(POPPING THE PIMPLE)
There got it!
CHRIS
(RISING QUICKLY)
Oh my God! Oh my god! Your not
suppose to do that to it!
CHRIS RUSHES OUT OF THE APARTMENT.
KENDAL
Now you’ve done it!
ANTHONY
I know!
(YAWNS AND STRETCHES)
Alright, I need to sleep for work
tomorrow.
KENDAL
Alright. I should go check on him
anyway.
(RISES TO EXIT)
Later.
ANTHONY
Okay. See ya later.
THE TWO BOYS EXIT AND ANTHONY HEARS A NOISE FROM LISA’S BEDROOM.
SOUND: FAINT CRYING
ANTHONY
You okay in there?
LISA
Now I'll never get that job! I’m a
horrible hair dresser!
ANTHONY
(LOOKING TO HIS HEAD)
It’s not that bad...
LISA
It is too I heard Christopher even
screaming over it!
ANTHONY
No that’s cause he has cancer, it
wasn’t you!
LISA
What?
ANTHONY
Never mind.
LISA
I can’t show Mr. Bank’s these
photo’s!
ANTHONY
(AFTER THINKING)
Hey, he just wants picture’s right?
Well just take photo’s out of your
styling books and put them in the
empty frames we got!
LISA
(OPENING THE DOOR)
You think that will work?
ANTHONY
Wanna show him this?
(POINTS TO HIS HEAD)
LISA
No!
(LAUGHING)
ANTHONY
Okay then.
(ANTHONY TURNS AWAY)
LISA
Wow!
ANTHONY
What?
LISA
The back of your head looks like...
a baboon's butt!
ANTHONY
Ha, ha.
(SARCASTICALLY)
Goodnight!
(TURNS FOR THE COUCH)
LISA
Goodnight... monkey-ass!
ANTHONY
That’s it!
HE SPRINTS TO THE DOOR AS SHE SLAMS IT SHUT ON HIM WHILE LAUGHING.
FADE OUT
ACT TWO
Scene I
FADE IN:
INT. BARON & BARON INC. - DAY.
(LISA, BANKS)
LISA
(NERVOUSLY)
Here you go Mr. Banks!
(HANDS HIM THE FRAMES)
BANKS
Wow, these are --
LISA
-- I know what they look like Mr.
Banks, but if... --
BANKS
Great! Your hired!
LISA
Really! Really?
(ECSTATIC)
Thank you so much Mr. Banks you wont
regret it!
BANKS
I better not!
LISA
You wont I swear!
BANKS
Good, I need a hair cut for
tomorrow's banquet!
LISA
That’s great, I can do that!
BANKS
Of course you can! You’ll at my
house at 8pm Laurie will give you
directions.
LISA
(SHAKING HIS HAND)
Okay. Thanks again Mr. Banks.
(NOT LETTING GO)
BANKS
That’s what I’m here for... to hire
people! And fire people!
LISA’S GIANT SMILE FALLS.
BANKS
Ha, ha! Gotcha!
(THEY LAUGH, HE STOPS)
But I do fire people!
CUT TO
Scene J
INT. DAVIS'S CONVENIENCE STORE - NIGHT.
(KEITH, BYRON, KATHY)
ANTHONY ENTERS AND MEETS KEITH.
KEITH
That’s got to be illegal!
(REFERRING TO HIS HAIR)
Your the new boy!
ANTHONY
Yes sir!
KEITH
I’m your manager and this is the
night crew! Kathy and Byron.
BYRON
I’m not as scary as I look!
ANTHONY
Okay...
KATHY
(A DISGUSTING GASP FOR AIR)
Eugh.
ANTHONY
Okay!
(with a smile)
KEITH
You ready to get started?
ANTHONY
Yeah.
KEITH
Okay, I'm going to have you start
here with Kathy.
ANTHONY’S EYES MEETS KATHY’S COLD STARE
FADE OUT
Scene K
INT. MR. BANK’S HOUSE - NIGHT.
(MAID)
SOUND: DOORBELL RINGS
MR. BANK’S MAID ANSWERS THE DOOR TO LISA.
LISA
Hello I am here for Mr. Bank’s hair
cut.
MAID
Oh yes, follow me this way please.
LISA ENTERS.
LISA
This house is amazing!
MAID
Oh yes.
THEY MEET WITH MR. BANKS’ SEATED IN ONLY A TOWEL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE KITCHEN FLOOR.
MAID (cont.)
Here is Mr. Banks!
LISA
(TONE OF WORRY)
Sure is.
MR. BANKS
Lisa! I am ready for my new style
from my new stylist!
(WITH A GIANT SMILE)
LISA
Yes, it definitely looks that way.
(PAUSES)
PLACES HER BAG OF HAIR ACCESSORIES ON THE COUNTER.
LISA
(PSYCHING HERSELF UP)
Okay.
(AD BREAK)
Scene L
INT. DAVIS'S CONVENIENCE STORE - NIGHT.
(KATHY, ANTHONY)
ANTHONY CONTINUES HIS JOB OF OPENING BOXES AND PLACING THE OBJECTS ON THE SHELVES. HE FINDS IT HARD TO FIND THINGS RIGHT AWAY AS HE PAUSES MOMENTARILY IN SEARCH BETWEEN OBJECTS.
KATHY
There!
(POINTING IN FRONT OF HIM)
ANTHONY PLACES THE OBJECT IN IT’S SPOT.
ANTHONY
Thanks.
(GETS ANOTHER OBJECT)
KATHY
There!
ANTHONY
Thanks.
(GETS ANOTHER BOX)
KATHY
There!
ANTHONY
(AN ANGER HIDDEN SMILE)
Thanks.
(GRABS ANOTHER)
KATHY
There!
ANTHONY RETREATS.
ANTHONY
I just need to go to the bathroom
real quick.
KATHY JUST STARES AT HIM AS IF NOT UNDERSTANDING. ANTHONY TURNS AND WALKS AWAY.
ANTHONY
Woah.
FADE TO
Scene M
INT. MR. BANK’S HOUSE - NIGHT.
(LISA, MR. BANKS)
LISA
And that should do it!
(SHE TURNS HIM AROUND)
Oh god!
BANKS
Great! Where’s the mirror.
LISA
(SNATCHING THE MIRROR FIRST)
Well, Mr. Bank’s I want you to know
that I was going for a new kind of
look for you, one more...
BANKS
Yes, I am ready to see it now where
is the mirror?
LISA
(RELUCTANTLY)
Right here.
BANKS
(LOOKS INTO THE MIRROR)
Oh my god!
LISA
Mr. Banks, I am...
BANKS
Oh my god!
LISA
I wanted to make you look...
BANKS
What is this?
LISA
Hipper!
BANKS
So it is. And I do don’t I?
LISA
Oh yes sir, very much so!
BANKS
Hip!
LISA
So you like it!?
BANKS
I’m hip! Yes, of coarse I like it.
Now will this be weekly?
LISA
Whatever you would like Mr. Banks!
BANKS
Good.
LISA
Great! Thanks allot Mr. Banks I will
see you in a week!
BANKS
Yes, and please Lisa it’s Harvey!
LISA
What? Oh yes, okay... Harvey. Bye.
BANKS
Later!
LISA GIGGLES AS SHE WALKS AWAY. HER FACE LOOKS DUMBFOUNDED AS SHE TURNS.
FADE OUT
Scene N
INT. DAVIS’S CONVENIENCE STORE - NIGHT.
(ANTHONY, KATHY)
KEITH ENTERS THE ISLE. ANTHONY’S TRYING TO BOX HIS BODY BETWEEN THE PRODUCTS AND KATHY.
KEITH
How we doing here?
ANTHONY
Fine, just fine.
KATHY JUST STARES AT KEITH.
KEITH
Alright then, now your going to hop
over to isle nine and help Byron.
ANTHONY
Okay!
(AS HE QUICKLY EXITS)
ANTHONY ENTERS ISLE NINE WHERE BRYON STANDS WORKING AND TALKING TO HIMSELF. HE STOPS TO THE SIGHT OF ANTHONY.
ANTHONY
I was suppose to come help you out
here.
BYRON
Yeah.
(PAUSE)
ANTHONY BEGINS WORKING.
BYRON
You ever in Nam?
ANTHONY
No!
BYRON
(DISAPPOINTED)
Oh.
ANTHONY
I wasn’t even born yet!
BYRON
I know! I mean like another life or
something!
ANTHONY
Um... okay. Yeah it’s still, no!
BYRON
(A BLANK STARE)
I was in Nam! Nam was different.
ANTHONY
What?
(SEES HIS STARE)
KEITH!
ANTHONY DROPS HIS BOX AND RUSHES OUT TO FIND KEITH.
CUT TO SAME SCENE
ANTHONY AND KEITH STAND IN THE SAME ISLE WORKING.
KEITH
How’s it going over there?
ANTHONY
Oh, great! I’m just happy to be
working here now!
KEITH
Yeah those two can be tough to take sometimes.
ANTHONY
Yeah tell me about it!
KEITH
I just did!
ANTHONY
(AWKWARDLY AGREEING WITH HIM)
Yeah, I guess you did.
KEITH
Hey, do you believe in the
afterlife?
ANTHONY
Sometimes I do.
KEITH
Sometimes you do! You either do or
you don’t!
ANTHONY
Well then I guess I do! But I think
I believe that they are not of any
physical sense. That it is merely a
spiritual type of thing like thought
or something.
KEITH
What about right and wrong?
ANTHONY
Yeah I believe in right and wrong.
KEITH
No, do you know what’s right and wrong?
ANTHONY
Well, I think that depends on how
were raised.
KEITH
The government controls it!
ANTHONY
What?
KEITH
Yup, they do! How do you know what’s
up and what’s down? Or even if up is
up and down is down? Huh?
ANTHONY
I don’t know. But... --
KEITH
-- Exactly!
ANTHONY
-- But it wouldn't really matter
anyway!
KEITH
Yeah it does!
ANTHONY
No I don’t think it would matter
much if down was up or up was down
as long as there’s a common
knowledge of something small such as
a title for communication value
that's all that matters.
KEITH
Nope! It matters! What about aliens?
ANTHONY
What? Aliens? Can I just work?
KEITH
The alien brotherhood is out there?
ANTHONY
Are you serious?
KEITH
They’re going to comeback to Earth
and find out that we destroyed it
and vaporize us all! Your not an
alien are you?
ANTHONY
What? No!
KEITH
With the government?
ANTHONY
(FRUSTRATED)
No!
KEITH
Okay.
(GIVES A WEARY LOOK AROUND)
ANTHONY
(LOOKING TO THE CEILING)
I’m sorry for all I’ve done wrong!
KEITH MOVES A PRODUCT BOX OUT OF THE WAY IN A PANIC AND LOOKS BEHIND IT. ANTHONY WATCHES ON WITH FRIGHTENED EYES.
FADE OUT
Scene O
INT. THE APARTMENT - MORNING.
(LISA)
ANTHONY ENTERS EXHAUSTED.
ANTHONY
Fired yet?
LISA
Nope! As a matter of fact he liked
it!
ANTHONY
Is he bald?
LISA
No I just did a good job thank you
very much!
ANTHONY
So he’s insane!
LISA
I can’t help it if some people’s
hair actually cooperates with me!
ANTHONY
Oh yeah, my bad! Stupid hair!
LISA
Anyway how was your day? You look
really tired!
ANTHONY
In my head! It was horrible! First
of all I didn’t know where a thing
went. And every time I went to look
for it I would have that lady
breathing down my neck pointing out
the spot as if I was
LISA
Stupid!
ANTHONY
Yeah!
(MIMICKING KATHY)
There! There! Here! There! What do
you got? There! And the other two
are just crazy!
LISA
So you working tomorrow?
ANTHONY
Yes!
(DEPRESSINGLY)
Scene P
ROLL CREDITS
INT. DAVIS'S CONVENIENCE STORE - NIGHT
(ANTHONY, KATHY)
ANTHONY PULLS OUT AN ITEM TRYING TO BOX HIS BODY BETWEEN THE ITEM AND KATHY.
KATHY
What do you got?
(he reluctantly shows her)
There!
(she points in front of him)
ANTHONY PUTS IT AWAY WITH ALMOST TEARS IN HIS EYES.
CUT TO
INT. BARON & BARON INC. - DAY.
(BANKS)
BANK’S STRUTS HIS STUFF DOWN THE HALLWAY PROUDLY WITH NO TIE AND TOP BUTTONS UNDONE. EVERYONE IS APPALLED AT HIS HAIR.
BANKS
Hey! What’s up!
(GIVES TWO THUMBS UP)
Yo! Hey dudes! Watch out now!
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