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FADE IN:
EXT. OPEN LANDSCAPE WITH RAILROAD TRACKS -- DAY
LONG SHOT:
A STREAMLINER coming TOWARDS CAMERA which is off to one
side of tracks. The landscape has pine and fir trees and
is a northern Washington landscape.
As the streamliner passes, the CAMERA PANS around following
it and stops. The streamliner tears off into the distance
and in the foreground is WE SEE a RAILROAD SIGN --
"EVERETT WASH"
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. STREAMLINER IN MOTION - CORRIDOR -- DAY
SHOWING OPEN DOORS OF FOUR ROOMETTES
Through the windows can be seen the landscape through which
the train is passing. In the first roomette, counting from
the left, is a well-dressed, rather wise-looking FEMALE,
young, smart. She is making up her face.
In the second is a middle-aged couple, a CANADIAN
IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR and a CANADIAN CUSTOMS INSPECTOR.
In the third, BETTY MAYFIELD is seated near the window,
turning over the pages of a magazine. She is about 27 years
old, beautiful, blonde, and has a remote troubled
expression, as though her thoughts were far away.
The fourth is empty. There is a man's suitcase in evidence
on the seat. LARRY MITCHELL enters from the left. He is
tall, good-looking, young, with superficial charm and rather
too much self-assurance.
He glances in at the woman in the first roomette, stops in
the door and leans against it.
We MOVE IN so this scene becomes a SHOT of a single
roomette. OVER SCENE is HEARD the voices of the Canadian
Immigration Officer.
CANADIAN OFFICIAL (O.S.)
Good afternoon. You name, please.
PASSENGER (O.S.)
George Olson.
MITCHELL:
(to the unknown
woman)
Better stop while it's still
perfect.
She looks up at him with a slow stare.
CANADIAN OFFICIAL (O.S.)
And where were you born, Mr. Olson?
PASSENGER (O.S.)
Waukegan, Illinois.
UNKNOWN WOMAN:
(to Mitchell)
Is there something I can do for
you?
MITCHELL:
There are a lot of things you could
do for me.
IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR (O.S.)
And this is your wife, Mr. Olson?
PASSENGER (O.S.)
Yes. She was born in Waukegan,
too. Same as Jack Benny, you know.
OFFICER (O.S.)
(puzzled)
Jack Benny?
UNKNOWN WOMAN:
(to Mitchell)
Well, there is something you could
do for me.
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