Conspiracy Theory Page #2

JERRY:

Love street...

EXT. FIFTH AVENUE (MANHATTAN) - NIGHT

Late. The cab rolls, this time the right way. Ahead, a

well-dressed man steps off the curb, flags Jerry down.

CAB:

Jerry slows, stops. As the well-dressed man starts over,

Jerry sizes him up. The man seems suddenly sinister.

As he reaches for the door, LOCKS CLICK DOWN. Jerry GUNS

the CAB away. The confused man stumbles back, shouts,

apparently not a threat at all.

EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING (UPTOWN) - NIGHT

Headlights out, the cab pulls up to the curb.

INT. CAB - NIGHT

Jerry glances at a lit 2nd floor apartment window, then

settles in with a bologna sandwich. About to take a

bite, he pauses, removes a slice of bologna. He regards

it a beat, then carefully peels off the edge. Jerry

holds the narrow casing up against the glow of a

streetlight, like it was encoded. Then something catches

his eye. He trades the sandwich for binoculars, focuses

on the window.

BINOCULAR POV - WINDOW

LIZA SUTTON. In a Yale sweatshirt, stretching, earphones

on. She forces her head past her kneecap and holds it

there. Driven is the word to describe Liza. When she

sleeps, she tries to do it better than anyone else does.

We can't hear her, but as she finishes stretching, she

sings along with the music on her headset.

JERRY:

captivated, he sighs -- the sound of love. Then he gets

an idea. Still watching, he fumbles for the RADIO.

Turning it ON, he SCANS radio STATIONS.

BINOCULAR POV - LIZA

Her lips don't match anything. COUNTING CROWS. DAVID

BOWIE. The TRAFFIC REPORT. A RAP TUNE.

JERRY:

Never takes his eyes off her, SCANS STATIONS for the

elusive number. He finds ANNIE LENNOX singing "Blue

Moon."

BINOCULAR POV - LIZA

Lips in synch. That's what she's singing along with.

JERRY (V.O.)

(joins in)

'Blue moon, you saw me standing

alone...'

INTERCUT between them. "Without a song in my heart,

without a love of my own. Blue moon..." In a weird way,

it's a duet. A sweet moment. Then, Liza stops.

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