Aftertaste Page #2

Season #1 Episode #1

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Patrick is mixing drinks from his parents well stocked bar and then meandering about like a waiter, winding through the large house serving everyone.

Patrick offers a drink to Melody Rae.

Melody Rae shakes her head.

PATRICK:

Suit yourself.

MELODY RAE:

(Reaching for a coke from the

Refrigerator)

Parents off on sabbatical...again?

PATRICK:

(chuckles)

Naturally. No reason to let a huge empty

house go to waste.

Melody Rae smiles, walks downstairs through the pool room, and out the French patio doors which leads to a sunken hot tub embedded into a long wooden veranda that extends the length of the house. Hipsters are gathered on the couch looking at the latest magazines. Thespians are playing pool and smoking Kretek clove cigarettes. Shay is chatting with a tall thespian wearing a jester hat, left hand on the back of his hip, positioning all his weight onto his right, and smoking. Hippies and stoners are outside huddled by a tree on the side of the house staring at nothing while the intellectuals and nerd/techies are huddled in a deep political conversation. Names of president’s can be heard now and again.

Melody Rae walks sits on the edge of the porch dangling her feet and staring into the fog. Her body stiffens, hearing a slight murmurous sound, and then relaxes when she hears the pleasant sound of the classic Bob Marley and The Wailers reggae tune “Three Little Birds” radiating from the nearby bedroom window. Looking down, she can’t see her feet, the nebulous fog covering them like soft blankets of dust clouds floating up to the bottom of her ankles. She stands and walks to where there is a vacant wooden Adirondack patio chair against the wall of the house. Once she sits, Dwight and Eric (chess nerds), come out the French doors and sit on the porch deck near her.

DWIGHT:

You saw Woody Allen’s Purple Rose of Cairo,

right?

MELODY RAE:

Of course! One of the most brilliant films

he ever did.

ERIC:

Totally! I knew you’d get it. It’s so

inventive. The blur between reality and

fantasy in such a surreal fashion…pure

genius.

MELODY RAE:

I just loved watching Jeff Daniel’s

Character walk off the screen into the

theater. Oh my gosh, and the best part was

(CONTINUED)

when the actor playing him on screen leaves

the film and approaches the real him and

tries to convince him to go back into the

movie.

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