Chozen Page #3

She cracks a little smile. Chozen angry/embarrassed.

BRADDOCK (CONT’D)

Phil Cullens? Sounds kinda like-

CHOZEN:

I know, I’m not him-

BRADDOCK:

No sh*t.

(beat)

Here’s the drill. You gonna have toadjust to life on the outside.

Don’t expect nobody to help youout. It’s all on you. I suggestyou find employment. It won’t beeasy given your past involvement ingun running and prostitution-

CHOZEN:

See it ain’t like that. I was

framed.

BRADDOCK:

Heard that one before.

CHOZEN:

No, for real. My boy Phantasm soldme down the river.

9.

BRADDOCK:

You mean THE Phantasm? (SINGS) I

love it when you make it clap, make

it clap! That’s my jam!

CHOZEN:

Yeah, same dude. It was like in

that movie “Ricochet.” Denzel was

just like the top police guy,

everyone loved him, and then the

Dad from Harry and the Hendersons,

who’s a crazy ass racist, wants to

throw salt on his game. So he

starts messin’ with him. Makin’ it

look like Denzel be into kiddie

porn, and then drugging him all up

with heroin and what not so a

prostitute can do sex to him on

videotape. You know? Ruining his

good name. But lucky for Denzel he

got his old boy Ice-T to help him

out in the end and show the real

troof. If I had a cool homie like

Ice-T watchin my back then I’d-

BRADDOCK:

(HAND UP) Enough. We’re done here.

Check in with me next week. In the

meantime, you may want to take

advantage of our free mental health

services.

Chozen gets up to leave, laughs it off.

CHOZEN:

My mentals is air tight player, and

my skills are second to none. You

just wait, I’m gonna blow up and

you’ll see what time it really is.

One day you’ll be telling your

grand babies about how you met

Chozen, and you’ll probably act

like we was friends. But in your

heart you’ll know the truth, and

then you’ll cry, and them kids will

think “Damn, Grandma’s a straight-

up a**hole.”

Braddock jumps up from her desk, Chozen bolts out the door.

10.

EXT. COLLEGE FIELD - DAY

Chozen alone on the bleachers with headphones and notebook,

writes, erases, writes more.

EXT. COLLEGE FIELD - SPED UP TIME LAPSE

Chozen writes as a SOCCER TEAM PRACTICES, the COLLEGE BAND

REHEARSES. The SUN FALLS IN THE SKY.

EXT. COLLEGE FIELD - AFTERNOON

On Chozen writing, he keeps looking up, distracted. Pan tothe field to see a football team practicing.

Shots of football player butts in slow-mo, bend overstretching, etc.

An older guy, JIMMY TWIST (Mid-Forties, longish Hair,

rocker), sits further down the bleachers, shooting photos.

JIMMY:

(to himself)

There ya go, stretch it outdarlin’. Have fun with it. Nobody’swatching.

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