The Mindy Project Page #5

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(cool detached voice) *

“By the way, what’s our deal, *

anyway?”. *

GWEN *

You do that? That’s horrifying. *

SOPHIE *

This is boring. *

MIRA *

You’re boring. Contribute *

something. *

Mira rummages through a small cooler and begins to eat. *

SOPHIE:

That’s my lunch! *

MIRA:

You seriously get a bento box for *

lunch? *

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SOPHIE:

(freaking out)

Don’t eat it! It’s mine! Its mine!

MIRA:

You’re spoiled! I’m helping you

build character!

Mira gets a loud page on her pager.

SOPHIE:

What’s that?

MIRA:

My pager. Oh my god. My patient’s

in labor.

SOPHIE:

(with disdain)

Who has pagers?

MIRA:

Uh, important people like drug

dealers and big shot doctors like

me.

(to Gwen)

We gotta haul ass to St. E’s. I

have four patients and three don’t

speak English or have any health

insurance. But this one does:

Alison Silverman. White. From Glen

Ridge, New Jersey. Cha-ching.

GWEN:

Can you go there looking like this?

MIRA:

I work hard, I play hard.

GWEN:

You look like Carrie.

MIRA:

Bradshaw?

GWEN:

Stephen King.

MIRA:

Dammit. Left here!

Gwen takes a hard left. Mira’s beeper goes off again.

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MIRA (CONT’D)

Why aren’t we moving? Gwen, I

specifically told you to haul ass.

There is bumper to bumper traffic for blocks.

MIRA (CONT’D)

I can’t lose this delivery. See you *

guys!

GWEN:

Where are you--?

Too late. Mira is off.

EXT. MANHATTAN STREET - MORNING

Mira is booking it down the street in her cocktail dress and

heels. She stops, yanks off her heels, and continues to run.

EXT. ST. ELIZABETH’S MEDICAL CENTER - MORNING

Mira runs in past people. They stare at her. *

MIRA *

Excuse me! I’m saving a life! Get *

out of my way! *

INT. ELEVATOR BAY - CONTINUOUS *

Mira’s in the elevator. The doors are closing. *

MIRA *

(impatient) *

Come on, come on! *

The doors are closing when an extremely ancient DIALYSIS *

PATIENT sticks his cane in the elevator. He’s in wheelchair *

and has a bored TEENAGE ATTENDANT listening to headphones. *

OLD MAN *

Dialysis, please. *

MIRA *

Sure. *

She pushes the button, hiding a sigh. *

OLD MAN *

I was stationed in India in the *

50’s. Beautiful country. *

MIRA *

So I hear. Never been. *

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OLD MAN *

And such beautiful women. Are you *

married? *

MIRA *

I’m sorry, I have to ask, just for *

my own feeling of self-worth. Are *

you asking because you’re thinking *

“I’m a really old man, I might as *

well reach for the stars and ask *

this girl out?” or because you *

think it is plausible, based on our *

appearances, that we could be a *

viable couple? *

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