Grandma Page #3

ELLE:

Course I still have Vi’s car.

Give me a hand, would you?

Sage helps her.

Elle puts the tarp in the trunk.

Elle starts the car. Only it doesn’t start.

ELLE (CONT’D)

Sh*t.

LATER:

A young man is giving Elle a jump start with some cables fromhis truck.

ELLE (CONT’D)

I didn’t wake you up, did I?

YOUNG MAN:

(she did)

No.

The young man glances at Sage.

ELLE:

She’s already pregnant.

SAGE:

Grandma.

ELLE:

I’m just saying. Don’t get anyideas.

The engine turns over. Loud RAP MUSIC blasts for a moment.

Elle turns it down.

ELLE (CONT’D)

Okay. Thanks!

The car pulls out.

7 EXT. CAR - DAY 7

They drive into a mini mall.

8 EXT. CAR - DAY 8

Elle stops the car in the mini mall. She squints out thewindow.

ELLE:

Where the hell is it?

SAGE:

I don’t know. When’s the last time

you were here?

ELLE:

I dunno. 10 years ago? It must

have moved.

(points)

I think that was it. It was rightin there. Where that coffee placeis. Christ. It musta closed down.

(pause)

I could use some coffee.

9 INT. CAFE - DAY 9

They are drinking coffee in a cafe. Elle is at the

condiments station putting sugar in her coffee. Sage sits ata table.

SAGE:

(reading)

Women’s Health Action Center. It

closed five years ago.

ELLE:

How could they close this placedown? Why didn’t they let us know?

We could have had a rally!

Course...five years ago, we weren’t

going to any rallies.

(drinks coffee)

This is bilgewater. So where do

you get a reasonably pricedabortion? All you can get nowadaysis this shitty coffee.

SAGE:

Yeah, Grandma, uh -

Sage is looking nervously at a conservative looking couple atthe next table. Elle puts more sugar into her coffee.

ELLE:

How far along are you again?

When was your last period?

SAGE:

Ten weeks ago.

The manager of the coffee bar is looking at Elle.

ELLE:

My last period was twenty five

years ago. We did a ceremony forit, Vi and I.

(pause)

600 dollars for an abortion! What

the hell! That’s highway robbery!

The manager comes over.

CAFE MANAGER:

I’m sorry, but I’m going to have toask you to leave.

ELLE:

Excuse me?

CAFE MANAGER:

I’m going have to ask you to leave.

ELLE:

You’re “going to have to?” When

are you “going to have to” ask usto leave?

CAFE MANAGER:

I’m going to have to ask you toleave now.

ELLE:

So you mean you are asking us toleave.

CAFE MANAGER:

Yes, you’re disturbing the

customers.

ELLE:

What customers? I’m a customer.

Do you know what a customer is?

CAFE MANAGER:

I know what a customer is.

ELLE:

A customer is someone who pays foryour services. So I’m a customer.

What other customer are we

disturbing? Them? Ozzie and

Harriet over here?

CAFE MANAGER:

Yes.

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