Carnage Page #3

NANCY:

You got rid of the hamster?

MICHAEL:

Yeah. Made such a racket at night.

Those things sleep during the day.

Ethan was going crazy. He couldn’t

stand the racket that hamster made.

Now, I don't mind telling you, I been

wanting to get rid of the thing for

the longest time.

(MORE)

8.

MICHAEL (CONT'D)

So I thought, that's it. I took it

out and left it in the street.

NANCY:

You left it in the street?

MICHAEL:

I figured it was a gutter-sewer kind

of animal, but no. It was scared out

of its wits, out there, on that

sidewalk. Truth is, they're not pets

and they're not wild. I don't know

where they belong. Drop them in aclearing in the woods, they're still

not happy. I mean where are you

supposed to put them?

NANCY:

You just left him outside?

PENELOPE:

He did, and then he tried to convince

Courtney that the hamster ran away.

Which, of course, she wasn't buying.

ALAN:

And this morning the hamster was

gone?

MICHAEL:

Gone.

PENELOPE:

And you? What kind of work do you do?

NANCY:

I'm an investment broker.

PENELOPE:

Would it be possible -- and I’m just

going to come out and ask you

directly -- could Zachary apologize

to Ethan?

ALAN:

It would be good if they talked.

NANCY:

He's got to apologize, Alan. He has

to actually say he's sorry.

ALAN:

Yeah, I mean sure, probably.

PENELOPE:

Well is he sorry?

9.

ALAN:

He knows what he did. He didn't

realize how serious it was. He's

eleven years old.

PENELOPE:

Eleven is not a baby.

MICHAEL:

It's not an adult either. We didn't

ask you, you want some coffee or tea?

Is there any cobbler left, Penny? She

makes a mean cobbler!

ALAN:

You got espresso?

MICHAEL:

Yeah.

ALAN:

(checking his watch)

I wouldn’t mind a cup.

NANCY:

A glass of water.

MICHAEL:

(to PENELOPE:
)

Espresso for me too, babe. And bring

the cobbler.

PENELOPE leaves the room. After a short beat:

MICHAEL (CONT'D)

You got to taste this cobbler.

MICHAEL suddenly rises, follows PENELOPE out.

4 INT. KITCHEN - DAY 4

In the LONGSTREET kitchen, PENELOPE is busy at the espresso

machine. MICHAEL enters.

MICHAEL:

Where’s the cobbler?

They look around the room. Then PENELOPE opens the

refrigerator and takes a cake dish out.

PENELOPE:

She put the cobbler in the fridge

again! I don’t know what language I

should speak to her in.

MICHAEL takes out some plates and spoons.

10.

MICHAEL:

They’re nice, right?

PENELOPE:

Do you need to tell everyone I’m a

writer?

MICHAEL sets out a tray, including the cobbler.

MICHAEL:

You are a writer. You wrote a book.

5 INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY 5

In the living room, the COWAN’s have changed positions:

NANCY is sitting in another seat, as if she had gotten up to

look at something in the meantime. ALAN is now seated as

well.

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