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CHRIS:

Yeah? How do you know?

ROSE:

Let’s see, you’re smart, sweet,

handsome, creative... You’re you.

CHRIS:

Good answer.

8.

Chris packs in silence for a moment.

CHRIS (CONT’D)

Do they know I’m black?

Rose is taken aback by the question.

ROSE:

I don’t think so. Why? Shouldthey?

CHRIS:

Seems like you might give them aheads up.

ROSE:

Really? Like “Mom, Dad, my blackboyfriend is coming up for theweekend”?

CHRIS:

You said, I’m the first black guyyou’d ever dated.

ROSE:

Yeah...?

CHRIS:

So this is uncharted territory forthem.

Rose embraces him.

ROSE:

Baby, it’s fine. My dad wouldlegit vote for Obama a third timehe could. Yes, he will want to

talk to you about it, and thatwill be embarrassing, but they’regonna love you. I promise.

Chris nods. She kisses his neck and pulls him to the bed.

INT. BROOKLYN LOFT - LIVING ROOM - DAY

Chris turns on the TV for Sid. He and Rose stand by the frontdoor about to leave.

CHRIS:

Bye.

ROSE:

See you soon.

9.

Rose blows Sid a kiss and they leave.

EXT. BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD STREET - DAY

Chris puts his luggage in the trunk and enters the passenger’sside of a shiny white BMW X5.

INT. BROOKLYN NIEGHBORHOOD STREET - PARKED CAR - CONTINUOUS

Rose sits in the driver’s seat. Chris gets in the passengerseat. Her car is a mess.

CHRIS:

How do they even let you in ahospital?

ROSE:

Shut up. I’m very sanitary atwork.

She moves some fast food wrappers to the back seat.

ROSE (CONT’D)

You ready?

CHRIS:

Yeah. You?

ROSE:

Oh, wait.

She raises her phone and takes a selfie of the two of them.

ROSE (CONT’D)

Ready.

Chris puts his hand on her leg, and they drive off.

EXT. NEW YORK - CITY - CONTINUOUS

The car leaves the city.

EXT. RURAL ROAD - BIRD’S-EYE VIEW - DAY

We soar over the car as it drives through the beautifulcountryside; a road flanked by woods.

10.

INT. ROSE’S CAR - DAY

Rose hums. Chris, in the passengers seat, looks through hiscamera at the passing trees. He snaps a test shot.

CHRIS:

How long has it been?

ROSE:

10 months, so a year basically;

longest I’ve ever been away.

Chris takes out another cigarette. Rose promptly grabs it andopens the window.

CHRIS:

Whoa... whoa!! Come on! I’m a

grown man. If a man says he wantsa cigarette, a man should be able

too-

She throws it out the window.

CHRIS (CONT’D)

Okay, so that’s like a dollar. Youbasically just throwin’ dollarsout the window.

ROSE:

You shouldn’t have bought them.

CHRIS:

I didn’t buy them. Rod... Sh*t.

ROSE:

What?

CHRIS:

I almost forgot Rod.

EXT. LAGUARDIA AIRPORT - OUTSIDE THE TERMINAL - DAY

ROD WILLIAMS, 26, African American, a stocky TSA agent smokesa cigarette. His cell phone rings.

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