Election Page #4

JIM (VO)

A few months before the election, she'd

had an affair with my best friend Dave

Novotny.

JIM:

Don't tell me that. I don't want to

know that.

DAVE:

She's incredible. Everything just gets

soaked.

INT. JIM'S BASEMENTDAY Dun-dun-DUN... Dun-dun-DUN

JIM and Dave are playing the opening notes of "Foxy Lady" through

cheap, distorting amps. JIM plays bass. Dave plays guitar and sings

into a microphone. They're bad. As in not good.

The basement is typical of a Midwest middle-class young couple -- half

storage and laundry, half makeshift roc-room.

JIM (VO)

Dave came to Millard the year after I

did, and we hit it off right away. We

backed each other up in teachers'

meetings and shared an interest in 60's

music and micro-breweries.

CLOSE ON DAVE really getting into it, playing to an unseen stadium.

Behind him JIM is very careful with his chords.

JIM (VO CONT'D)

You could tell Dave was one of those

guys who taught because they never

wanted to leave high school in the first

place, and that could get a little

irritating sometimes, but basically he

was a real good guy.

DAVE:

(singing)

Foxy. . . Foxy. . . You know you're a

cute little heartbreaker... Foxy... You

know you're a sweet little love maker...

CAMERA DRIFTS toward the stairs leading up.

INT. JIM'S KITCHEN

CAMERA DRIFTS from the open basement stairway door and toward DIANE

MCALLISTER and SHERRY NOVOTNY seated at the kitchen table. They are

fussing over little six-month-old DARRYL NOVOTNY in his highchair.

JIM (VO)

Our wives became best friends too. And

when Dave and Sherry's son Darryl was

born, they asked us to be godparents.

At a particularly grating note from downstairs, Diane gets up and

closes the basement door.

INT. GEOMETRY CLASS

AN ISOSCELES TRIANGLE is being drawn on the blackboard and bisected.

PULL OUT to reveal Dave explaining.

The class is taking notes, and we zero in on a younger Tracy.

TRACY (VO CONT'D)

YOU probably think the worst - that Mr.

Novotny was just taking advantage of one

of his students, but it wasn't like that

at all. Our relationship was based on

mutual respect and admiration. I mean,

during my sophomore year in geometry it

was strictly professional between us --

I mean, nothing.

EXT. GODFATHER'S PIZZA -- NIGHT The parking lot, the neon lights, the

promise of good times.

TRACY (VO CONT'D)

It wasn't until junior year when we

worked together on the yearbook that

things got serious.

INT. GODFATHER'S PIZZA -- NIGHT Dave and Tracy are at a booth along

with six other students.

TWO KIDS DISSOLVE OUT OF FRAME,

and the others shift positions. Others continue to disappear in the

same way, until only Dave and Tracy remain.

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