Lost in America Page #5

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DAVID:

Thank you and so do you, Margaret.

MARGARET:

Go on in.

DAVID:

Thanks.

David enters.

CUT TO:

10 INT. PAUL DUNN'S OFFICE

PAUL DUNN is one of the heads of the advertising agency.

He certainly holds the top position on the West Coast.

His office is large. It smells of success. Obviously,

this is a man who has made a great deal of money and spent

it where people can see it. As David enters, he sees

Paul sitting behind his desk and a baldheaded gentleman,

BRAD TOOLEY, seated on the couch. Brad Tooley is in his

early forties, very well-dressed in the upper Eastern

advertising establishment manner. As David comes in,

Brad and Paul both get up.

PAUL:

(his hand out-

stretched)

Hello, David. How are you?

DAVID:

I'm fine. I'm excited.

PAUL:

Me too.

DAVID:

That's wonderful.

PAUL:

David, I'd like you to meet Brad

Tooley.

DAVID:

Brad, it's a pleasure.

David and Brad shake hands.

PAUL:

Brad has recently joined the agency

in New York. He was one of the best

men at Doyle, Dane and Bernbach.

We were lucky to get him.

DAVID:

Well, that's exciting.

They all sit down again. David doesn't know quite what

to make of the fact that Brad is in this meeting. He

just assumes this is part of the ceremony of being made

vice president.

PAUL:

David, I don't have to tell you

what I think of you. You know I

feel you're one of the most

creative people in this company.

I was telling Brad earlier the

accounts you've been responsible

for.

BRAD:

Very impressive. The Knudsen

Orange Juice campaign was one of

the best I've ever seen. Ever.

DAVID:

(he smiles; he's

in his glory)

Well, thank you.

PAUL:

Brad has joined this company for

a very special reason. David,

we're going to get Ford.

David, now thinking of himself as the vice president,

realizes that Ford is an account of such proportion,

that the profit participation could be enormous. His

eyes widen.

DAVID:

Oh, my God! That's wonderful!

PAUL:

Well, it finally puts us at the

top of the heap.

DAVID:

I'm stunned. When did this happen?

PAUL:

Just in the last few days. You're

really the first to know out here.

We didn't want to say anything until

it was final.

DAVID:

That's wonderful. Just wonderful.

God, what a week. What a week for

all of us.

PAUL:

It certainly is. Now, David...

DAVID:

(interrupts)

Paul, you don't have to say

anything. As the new vice president,

I know what this means to the

company. I'm here twenty-four

hours a day.

PAUL:

David, you're too valuable to

become vice president. I'd like

you to move to New York and work

under Brad. You two are going

to be in charge of Ford. You're

going to have to hurry, though.

You start in three weeks.

David is not quite sure what he's just heard. He thinks

maybe he's heard a compliment. He's heard a name of a

city, a car, some weeks, but he hasn't put it together.

He needs to hear it again.

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