Animal Kingdom Page #3

DARREN:

What the f***, mum?

Craig bursts back into the room.

CRAIG:

What the f***'s going on!?

Smurf switches off the juicer and pours juice into a glass.

CRAIG:

Who said you could bring that noisething in my house?

SMURF:

It's yours, love. It lives under yoursink. You want a juice?

CRAIG:

Bullshit it's mine.

SMURF:

It is. I found it under there.

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Animal Kingdom - GREEN REVISIONS 8.

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CRAIG:

Who said you could use it? Look at the

f***in mess your making.

Craig unplugs the juicer, stuffs it under his arm and stormsout. Smurf puts juice in front of Darren. The sound of thejuicer SMASHING on cement outside can be heard. J flinches.

Darren smiles. Craig bursts back through the kitchen.

SMURF:

Craig.

CRAIG:

What?

SMURF:

Come here.

CRAIG:

I'm busy.

SMURF:

Doing what? Come here and give me a

kiss.

Craig steps back to his mum like a scolded kid. Smurf takes hischin in her hand. He goes meek. She looks at him warmly, thenkisses him on the lips gentle and slow, his eyes closed. Jwatches.

14 EXT. BROWN-SAYLES HOUSE - DAY 14

Inside Baz's new model Commodore as it drives a suburban street.

As he approaches his driveway, he spots a car parked down theroad. Two men sit behind the wheel.

Baz pulls into the drive of his neat, suburban house. He getsout of the car, carrying a sports bag, and heads for the door,

glancing back across the street at the parked car.

15 INT. KITCHEN / BROWN-SAYLES HOUSE - DAY 15

Baz enters. His de facto wife CATHERINE SAYLES and their baby

daughter Evie are at the kitchen bench. Cath is on the phone.

Baz kisses her on the cheek and stacks the sports bag under thesink. He heads back to the front door.

16 EXT. BROWN-SAYLES HOUSE - DAY 16

Baz strides across the front lawn. The mystery car is stillparked across the street. He goes to the letter box and stuffsletters in his back pocket.

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Animal Kingdom - GREEN REVISIONS 9.

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He moves to the fence for a better look at the car. Standing bya flower bush, he picks up garden shears and does a littlepruning, glancing up at the man behind the wheel.

Baz strides out across the street towards the car, clutching hisflowers. Two detectives sit inside the car, windows up. Baz tapson the driver's window. The driver winds it down. Baz hands him

the flowers.

BAZ:

These are for you.

AR DETECTIVE:

Thanks, mate. You keep them. I don'thave a vase.

BAZ:

What do you want?

AR DETECTIVE:

We're just sitting here having a

think.

BAZ:

You wanna go think somewhere else?

AR DETECTIVE:

Yeah, maybe in a bit.

BAZ:

He's not here, mate. You're wastingyour time.

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