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• INT. BEDROOM – DAY


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND sits in the same chair in the same room as before. The same STEELY DAN song plays on the stereo.


• The only difference is that the curtains are drawn shut and the DECAPITATED HEAD OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN lies on the floor.


• LINCOLN’S HEAD
• What are you so afraid of?


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• I fear nothing in all of God’s creation.


• LINCOLN’S HEAD
• Then why do you quiver so?


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• ‘Tis naught but the cold, Good Sir Head. ‘Tis January 4 is it not? Surely a most frigid time of year.


• LINCOLN’S HEAD
• Open the curtains. Throw open the window. The new year has brought a false spring.


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• Of that I will have to take your word, Dear Head, for as surely as I live these curtains must remain ever closed.


• LINCOLN’S HEAD
• But why?


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• The future is on the other side and I cannot bear the sight of it.


• LINCOLN’S HEAD
• (Shedding a single tear)
• Then we are truly lost.


• Nicholas’ eyes tear up as well, in spite of himself.


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• (Whispering)
• Bring me my cherry cola and place it in my hand. Bring me my cherry cola for surely we are damned.


• Both Nicholas and Abraham Lincoln’s Head weep openly.