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from the overturned coffee table. END TABLES are SMASHED; an

OTTOMAN is UPSIDE DOWN. NICK backs up.

20 EXT. WALTER’S FRONT PORCH - DAY 20

Walter looks up from his paper as he hears, from across the

street:

NICK (O.S.)

Amy!

21 INT. DUNNE HOUSE - DAY 21

DOOR opens on RHONDA BONEY, 40s, and JIM GILPIN, 20s.

BONEY:

Mr. Dunne? I’m Detective Rhonda

Boney and this is Officer James

Gilpin. We understand there are

concerns about your wife?

Nick walks them in, shows them the scene.

NICK:

My wife is gone. I came home to

this.

They bend down, examine the scene. Hard to read if they’re

impressed or not. BONEY takes a YELLOW POST-IT and places it

on the MANTEL below three upright photo FRAMES.

NICK (CONT’D)

I’m not someone who hits the panic

button, but-It’s weird, right? *

BONEY:

You mind if we look around? *

22 INT. STAIRWELL - DAY 22

They speak in time to the stair steps.

BONEY:

How long you two been here?

NICK:

Two years, September. We used to

live in New York.

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GILPIN:

City?

NICK:

I was a writer. We were writers.

BONEY:

Why’d y’all come back here?

NICK:

My mom got sick.

BONEY:

I’m sorry, how is she?

NICK:

She’s dead.

23 INT. UPSTAIRS HALLWAY - DAY 23

Boney reaches the landing, eyes Nick like a patient mom.

BONEY:

I’m so sorry.

They start down the hail.

BONEY (CONT’D)

So what do you do now? For work.

NICK:

Now I own The Bar, downtown. With

my twin sister, Margo.

BONEY:

The Bar! Love the name. Very meta.

24 INT. BEDROOM - DAY 24

Boney tests the IRON. Hot. Unplugs it. Looks at the dress.

BONEY:

Pretty dress. Date night?

NICK:

It’s our anniversary.

BONEY sticks another POST-IT on the IRONING BOARD.

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25 INT. KITCHEN - DAY 25

Nick walks ahead with GILPIN as BONEY lingers: She sees on *

the baseboard three SPLASHES of rusty RED. Looks more curious *

than alarmed. A POST-IT down.

26 INT. AMY’S OFFICE - DAY 26

BONEY enters. Checks out Amy’s desk area. BONEY flips through *

Amy’s well-tended desk calendar: “NICK: DENTIST” is set for

March 2013. In July 2013 is “BLEECKER: SHOTS.” Amy’s degrees

cover the walls:
HARVARD undergrad, Masters in Psych. *

BONEY:

Wow. Impressive gal.

One small corner is dedicated to a kids’ book series, AMAZING

AMY. Photos of Amy, at all ages, with her parents, REND and

MARYBETH, in front of posters for the books.

NICK:

So should I be con(cerned)—

BONEY:

(studying a picture)

I remember these books.

CLOSEUP of a dual frame: AMAZING AMY, the iconic cartoon

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