Catwoman Page #5

Season #1 Episode #2

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SALLY:

Look what the cat dragged in.

PATIENCE:

(touching her cheek)

I know, I know, I'm late --Midnight thought there

was a mouse in my pillow.

SALLY:

This is why I only sleep with my own species.

Lunch at Joey's?

PATIENCE nods and waves as she hurries through a set of doorsto an ELEVATOR BANK.

INT. AVENAL HQ -ACCOUNTING BULLPEN -DAY

OVERHEAD ANGLE on a rat's maze of office cubicles, peopledwith ACCOUNTING STAFF. FIND PATIENCE tapping at herterminal, sipping COFFEE. It's a grim little space,

enlivened by a GARFIELD toy, some New Yorker cartoons.

PATIENCE seems bored by the drone work --then she c*cks her

head at something on the screen, leans closer. She double-

checks DATA in the print-outs. Something doesn't tally.

ON SCREEN --among a long list of figures, we see "YP-3"

highlighted, followed by a series of numbers.

PATIENCE gets up quickly with the printouts, she spills a fewdrops of COFFEE on her white blouse. She dabs at these

distractedly as she moves through the bullpen toward aglassed-in office. She knocks on the open door, where we seethe name "D. BERGER -ACCOUNTING."

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CONTINUED:

PATIENCE:

Dave, I was just going over the first quarter

expenses. Our lab fees for this one additive -YP-

3 --have gone through the roof.

BERGER, a balding, bespectacled accountant, looks up asPatience moves around his desk to show him some figures.

PATIENCE:

Look at this, an overage of eight hundred percenton "extruded pellets" alone --I'm not even sure

what that is -

BERGER:

Rat chow.

Berger's concerned. As they huddle over the figures, we heara CHOPPER approach. CAMERA MOVES PAST THEM, OUT the WINDOW -

EXT. AVENAL HQ -DAY

--CAMERA SWINGS UP the 40-story skyscraper in the businessdistrict of a city mixing architecture old and new. CAMERA

PASSES a WINDOW WASHER on a cable-driven rig. NEARING the

ROOF, we see a glowing sign which reads "AVENAL BEAUTY" -and

a PASSENGER CHOPPER coming in for a landing.

EXT. AVENAL HQ -HELIPAD -DAY

THE CHOPPER touches down on a HELIPAD atop an elevatedPENTHOUSE. GEORGES AVENAL emerges, ducking in the bladewash. The company's CEO, Georges is charismatic, handsome,

immaculately tailored --an exacting a**hole to the core.

Getting out of the helicopter behind him, his menacing,

silent bodyguard ANGEL carries a leather suitcase or two.

LAUREL AVENAL trots toward her husband with open arms.

Laurel is 30-something, a still-gorgeous super-model but, in

person, a tad past her prime. She comes across as sweet and

well-meaning, but a bit dim and victimized.

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