Lou Page #3

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EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (TRAVELING) - LATER

Lou’s truck cruises down the two lane road. The space between

homes increases and finally dissolves into nothing but trees.

7.

EXT. DOUBLE WIDE TRAILER - DAY

Two women sit on the trailer’s metal steps, smoking. This is

HANNAH and her friend KAYCEE, twenty-somethings embracing

80’s fashion with gusto. From the way they’re GIGGLING,

they’re clearly enjoying something stronger than tobacco.

Hannah has a carefree smile but her eyes are focused on--

VEE (5), her daughter, playing around in the woods, near a

sign that reads:
ACCESS ROAD 72. She’s holding onto MR.

HIPPO, her best toy, a purple stuffed hippopotamus.

ANGLE ON TRAILER--

Kaycee exhales, passing the “cigarette” to Hannah.

KAYCEE:

You got any flashlights?

(Hannah nods)

What you need is a generator.

HANNAH:

Yeah. I need a lot of things.

KAYCEE:

Which brings me to -- bachelor

number three.

Kaycee raises a newspaper folded to the classified section.

KAYCEE (CONT’D)

(reading)

Hardworking fisherman looking for

SF. All the seafood you ever wanted

in exchange for love and a home

cooked meal. Musts are good

teeth...

Hannah smiles. White and straight. Check.

KAYCEE (CONT’D)

...Long hair....

Hannah shakes her curly perm. Check.

KAYCEE (CONT’D)

...and...

She stops. Hannah smiles knowingly.

HANNAH:

And no kids.

8.

KAYCEE:

F*** him. Bet his balls smell like

seaweed and chum.

The women GIGGLE. Hannah takes a long toke.

KAYCEE (CONT’D)

It’d be easier to set you up if you

didn’t live in the middle of

nowhere. You gotta move closer to

the Harbor.

HANNAH:

(exhaling)

Rent’s too good out here. She

doesn’t know what this place is

worth.

Kaycee glances back at the trailer.

KAYCEE:

Can’t be much.

HANNAH:

Well, I’m paying even less than

that. Been five years since I moved

back to the island, rent’s never

gone up. Trailer was brand new too.

KAYCEE:

But your landlord--

HANNAH:

She’s more bark than bite.

LOU’S TRUCK appears at the end of the long, dirt driveway.

KAYCEE:

Speaking of the devil.

HANNAH:

(re:
the joint)

Shoot. Hide that thing!

EXT./INT. LOU’S TRUCK/DRIVEWAY - CONTINUOUS

Lou glares at the trailer, watching Hannah comically wave

away the smoke. She doesn’t like what she sees.

LOU:

(to herself)

Not supposed to smoke.

Her truck bounces over the pitted driveway.

9.

EXT. DOUBLE WIDE TRAILER - CONTINUOUS

Hannah’s hands return to her sides as Kaycee hides the joint

under the trailer’s steps.

KAYCEE:

You think the rumors are true?

About Lou?

HANNAH:

Nah.

KAYCEE:

Come on. Not even a little?

HANNAH:

(considering)

I mean, she seems pretty tough.

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