Halt and Catch Fire Page #5
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2014
- 60 min
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ANGLE ON the garage space. The family cars never come in
here. This is a Silicon Valley DIY workshop right out of
1975. A sanctuary and homage to the life Clark once led.
Mixed in with the landscaping tools and power drills are
pristine circuit boards, monitors, monstrosities of
electronics. Apple II’s, Atari 2600’s, Altairs, TI-99’s in
various states of functionality, assembly.
CUT TO:
INT. MACMILLAN’S CONDO -- LATE NIGHT
Sleek, all-business housing of the new Reagan-era. This unit
is sprawling, but has hardly any furniture. A handful of
cardboard moving boxes lie on the floor unopened. A tube TV
on the floor has silver-haired Johnny Carson on mute.
ANGLE ON one moving box as MacMillan--in suit pants and a
white undershirt--rips open the top. He pulls out a back
issue of Byte magazine.
CLOSE ON the vicious scars down his left arm. Far worse than
the superficial glance near his eye.
INTERCUT -- MACMILLAN’S CONDO / CLARK’S GARAGE
-- Clark sits at a fold-out card table, working on an
original Apple I hooked to an old tube TV...
-- ANGLE ON the screen, almost all the light in the room
coming from the glow of BASIC as it scrawls across the
screen, Clark rapidly typing out the programming language...
-- ANGLE ON MacMillan sitting at small table eating a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich, drinking a glass of milk as he
reads under a single overhead light, Byte next to him...
-- LATER, Clark pulls apart a Commodore computer box in his
lap, his face betraying the joy of a kid opening a Christmas
present...
13.
-- CLOSER ON the article MacMillan reads. Entitled:
IBM’S TROJAN HORSE: HOW OPEN ARCHITECTURE WILL UNDO BIG BLUE
The phone RINGS. A cordless plugged in on the floor.
MacMillan looks up. Goes to it, answers.
MACMILLAN:
Hello?
(long pause)
Yes, I cancelled the prescriptions.
(long pause)
Because I don’t need them anymore.
-- ANGLE ON a big brimming tool box as Clark looks for just
the right screwdriver. He checks a few drawers, finds one,
then finds a rolled-up bag of choice pot...
-- ANGLE ON MacMillan as he hangs up. Returns to the table.
Stares off for a moment. Then comes back to the magazine.
-- ANGLE ON Clark now grooving more easily to the music as he
furiously types more lines of BASIC into the Apple I...
-- ANGLE ON Donna, reading in bed. She puts her book on the
night stand, turns the lamp off. The digital clock reads 1:35
a.m. She rolls over. No one there. Only MUFFLED SUPERTRAMP
still coming from the garage.
-- ANGLE ON MacMillan as he continues to read. CLOSER ON the
magazine byline. MacMillan takes a red pen and underlines the
name until the paper grows wet and soft with ink. It reads...
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