Wild Things Page #3

GLORIA:

Anybody in particular?

When no one answers, she turns to find Sam at her side. He

stares at the picture, then looks at Gloria.

SAM:

Sam Lombardo. The first. Class of

'Forty-Two

(beat)

My father.

Gloria does a slow double-take, looking from Sam to the photo and

back again.

VOICE (0.S.)

Can't seem to get rid of the Lombardos

around here.

Sam and the detectives turn as a professorial-looking guy in a

baggy brown suit (ART MADDOX) arrives on the scene.

SAM:

Art. Say hello to Detectives Perez and

Duquette.

(to the cops)

Art Maddox. A fellow guidance counselor.

Art and the detectives shake hands.

ART:

So, did you set 'em all straight on the

ugly facts of life?

SAM:

I have the feeling, they got it down

already. They're a step ahead of us,

Artie.

Gloria seems to find this amusing. Ray stands at her side, looks

at Sam. Sam feels it, makes eye contact with Ray -- a beat -- at

which point, Ray puts a hand on Gloria's back.

RAY:

I've got that two o'clock in town.

GLORIA:

(nodding)

Back to the land of grownups.

The detectives shake hands once more with San and Art.

SAM:

(to Gloria)

If old pictures interest you, come back

some time, there's quite a collection

down in the pagoda. I'll see you get a

proper tour.

GLORIA:

(smiling)

I'd like that.

Ray opens a door for her. The detectives pass through it.

Art claps Sam on the shoulder, then walks off down the hallway.

Sam remains near the doors, watching as...

ANGLE ON THE DRIVE LEADING TO THE SCHOOL

Ray and Gloria walk past half a dozen expensive cars -- Range

Rovers, Beamers and Mercedes, to a plain, white Ford Taurus,

which they get into and drive away.

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