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GREEN (9.2.2014) 7.

A8 EXT./INT. FOREST/STEVE. DAY. A8

Ben and the kids walk toward a a beat-up, 36-foot long blue1989 Thomas Saf-T-Liner school bus, parked on a forest path.

BEN:

Try not to kill each other before weget back.

KIELYR:

If training is over today, can wetake Steve somewhere for class time

later?

NAI:

Why don't we have a Mommy?

This catches the attention of all the kids. They all stop andlook at Ben.

BEN:

You do have a Mommy.

VESPYR:

You said she would only be gone fora week.

BEN:

It hasn't been very long.

KIELYR:

It's been three months, two weeks,

six days, and eleven hours.

BODEVAN:

Mom is very ill.

KIELYR:

Don't talk to us like we're yourinferiors.

BODEVAN:

Who knew there were so many geniusesin the world.

VESPYR:

Dad, Bo is being sarcastic.

BEN:

That was sardonic. Sarcastic would

be...

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BEN (CONT'D)

"Your genius is blinding." They'reboth mocking, but sarcastic isdirected at a person and meant tohurt. Sardonic is less direct and is

said more for laughs or for wit. Grabthe end.

VESPYR:

We DO know about Mom.

BODEVAN:

You think you do, but you have noconcept of the scope or the depth ofher illness.

KIELYR:

Dad, Bo is being condescending.

BEN:

Bo's right. Mom has to be in ahospital now.

VESPYR:

But you said hospitals are only agreat place to go to if you're ahealthy person and you want to die.

ZAJA:

You said Americans are undereducated

and overmedicated.

KIELYR:

You said that the AMA are avaricious

whores only too willing to spreadtheir fat legs for Big Pharma.

BEN:

Not enough of the neurotransmitterserotonin to conduct electrical

signals in Mom's brain. A lack ofreceptor sites. Acute tryptophandepletion. We don't know exactly whatit is. Selective Serotonin ReuptakeInhibitors - Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil,

Zoloft - or Selective Norepinephrine

Reuptake Inhibitors - Cymbalta,

Effexor, Pristiq - it's simply the

most effective way to manage it.

RELLIAN:

Exactly when is Mom coming back?

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BEN:

That's what I'm going to find out.

Ben, Bo, Vespyr, and Kielyr climb on the bus and we see thatthe interior has been customized, the rows of seats removed

and replaced with a full library, a closet full of clothes,

desks, maps on the walls, loft beds in the back. Ben closesthe doors and, on the outside of the glass door panels is aspray-painted, stenciled word: “Steve.”

9 EXT. COUNTRY ROAD. DAY.

Steve the Bus winds down through the mountains.

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10 INT. DENTIST'S WAITING ROOM. DAY.

Bo, Vespyr, and Kielyr sit in a dentist’s waiting room,

marvelling at the synthetic, brightly-colored office. PeppyMUZAK plays as Ben approaches the desk.

BEN:

We have an appointment. Vespyr andKielyr Cash. My daughters. They’re15. It’s time they see a dentist.

The RECEPTIONIST stares at him. She checks the appointmentbook.

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11 EXT. SMALL TOWN STORE. DAY.

Bo and Ben are unloading their handmade wooden birdhouses infront of a store. A group of TEENAGE GIRLS walk out and oneof them smiles at Bo.

TEENAGE GIRL:

You comin' in?

Bo shrugs, avoiding her eyes.

TEENAGE GIRL (CONT’D)

Yes? No? Okay. 'Bye.

Bo turns red and just nods.

As the girls walk away, the one who held the door for Bolooks back at him, then says something to her friends, whoall check Bo out and giggle.

BEN:

Go talk to her.

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