Brad’s Status Page #3
BRAD:
I can’t.
MELANIE:
BRAD:
We didn’t work this hard to end up
dying in a flophouse. You know?
MELANIE:
(turning away from him)
You’re freaking me out. Enough.
We have a great life.
BRAD:
I think you should talk to your
parents and get some clarity.
The grandkids don’t need the money.
Especially Steve and Vanessa’s.
I’ve seen their posts. They live
like Saudi Arabian princesses. They
have their whole lives ahead of
them anyway. You and I are done!
(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:
10MELANIE:
Please shut up.
Brad shuts up. He stares into the middle distance.
11 EXT. SACRAMENTO NEIGHBORHOOD - DAWN 11
The sun is rising over Brad’s residential neighborhood -
modest, but attractive homes.
A YOUNG CYCLIST barrels down the center of the empty road.
SPRINKLERS go off at a nearby house.
A NEIGHBOR closes his trash can and pulls it up the drive.
*
*
11A EXT. BRAD’S HOUSE - DAWN 11A *
ESTABLISHING SHOT as a CAR drives by. *
12 INT. BRAD’S HOUSE - MORNING 12
A few images of the house.
A FRAMED PHOTO of Brad, Melanie and their son, Troy - in thephoto, maybe nine years old. They are all smiling.
A SUITCASE on ROLLERS is placed by the front door.
13 INT. TROY’S BEDROOM - MORNING 13
Troy, now 17, sits in a towel on his bed, with his BULLDOG.
Troy stares lovingly at the dog.
CLOSE on Bulldog as he lifts his neck so Troy can scratch it.
TROY:
I know you get mad when I go away.
Please don’t piss on the bed.
Brad opens the door.
BRAD:
We have ten minutes.
TROY:
(rising)
Yeah, I’m ready.
on my clothes.
(MORE)
I just gotta put
(CONTINUED)
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13 CONTINUED:
13TROY (cont'd)
(as BRAD lingers)
Can you give me a second?
BRAD:
(surprised)
Troy - you suddenly have the body
of a man, man.
(CONTINUED)
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CONTINUED:
13TROY:
Please don’t be weird, Dad.
stressed.
I’m
14 INT. MELANIE’S CAR - TRAVELING - DAY 14
Melanie drives, talking to Troy, who sits in the back.
is in the passenger seat, looking out the window.
Brad
TROY:
I have it, Mom.
phone.
It’s all on my
MELANIE:
Will you forward it to your dad? I
don’t think he has any sense of theschedule. Do you Brad?
(no response)
I don’t think he has any idea. So
it’s really on you, honey...
*
CLOSE ON BRAD - he is lost in thought.
and Troy continue to talk in the b.g.
We can HEAR Melanie
NARRATOR:
The entire ride to the airport,
Brad kept thinking about hisprotege, Chris Kanew - and about
how Chris Kanew had quit that week.
And all the things he said.
Brad sits at a LUNCH PLACE with a young colleague, CHRIS.
BRAD:
So wait - I don’t understand?
Sounds like you’re quitting.
CHRIS:
(solemn nod)
I am quitting. I got another jobactually. I start in two weeks.
What?
BRAD:
Where?
CHRIS:
San Francisco. At City National.
*
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