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FRED BALLINGER:

How’s the screenplay coming along?

MICK BOYLE:

It’s going to be my masterpiece. My

testament.

(MORE)

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MICK BOYLE (CONT'D)

And Brenda is going to make an

unforgettable leading lady. We hit

on the title today: “Life’s Last

Day.” What do you think?

FRED BALLINGER:

(reflects) It’s good. I’m going to

bed.

Fred heads out while in the background Mick shakes one of the

kids.

MICK BOYLE:

Come on, guys, wake up, it's time

to go back to your hotel.

6. INT. FRED BALLINGER’S SUITE. NIGHT

A beautiful woman, about forty, sleeps soundly in the bed.

Her name is Lena.

A sweeping shot of the room. We see the night stand, with a

framed photograph from ten years ago, of Fred being hugged by

a woman his age. They smile happily in the photo. We can

assume it’s his wife.

The sweeping shot ends on Fred, sitting in a chair. He’s

staring bright-eyed at the sleeping woman.

Lena opens her eyes and sees Fred. She’s surprised.

LENA:

Aren’t you sleeping, Daddy?

Fred, trying to hide his tears, smiles sadly.

FRED BALLINGER:

No, I’m looking at you.

Lena notices her father’s tears.

LENA:

But Daddy, you’re...

FRED BALLINGER:

(anticipates what she is going to

say) Don’t worry. Old people cry

all the time. And for no good

reason.

6A. EXT. HOTEL GARDEN. DAWN.

Early morning dew. The extensive hotel grounds, punctuated

here and there by beautiful, centuries-old trees.

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The chubby hooker and the petite, sixty-year-old woman we saw

earlier at the reception desk appear, seen from behind.

They’re probably mother and daughter.

They walk hand in hand, sad and forgotten by the world.

With a awkward, inelegant gesture, the girl adjusts her very

short shorts, which have annoyingly worked their way in

between her buttocks.

Mick Boyle is sitting on a bench, looking over his work

notes. He senses the presence of the two women and looks up.

His eyes immediately grow melancholy when he sees the mother

and daughter walking hand in hand.

The sky beyond the high mountain peaks begins to brighten,

while the dew vanishes from the leaves of the garden’s

beautiful plants.

7. INT. FRED BALLINGER’S SUITE. DAY

Fred is on his stomach on a massage table. An eighteen-yearold

girl, incredibly timid, slight, with delicate features,

is giving Fred a massage.

Lena looks out the window and sees an Asian man sitting at

the far end of the garden.

LENA:

That guy who levitates is out

there.

FRED BALLINGER:

I’ve been coming here for years.

He’s never levitated. So, where is

it you decided to go?

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