Thursday, January 25, 2007

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  • NICHOLAS FREDLAND
  • (to Penelope)
  • You want anything?

  • Penelope stares straight ahead. She grips the steering wheel so tightly that her knuckles are white.

  • DRIVE-THRU KID
  • Can I take your order?

  • NICHOLAS FREDLAND
  • Yeah, can we get two strawberry milkshakes?

  • DRIVE-THRU KID
  • Is that all?

  • NICHOLAS FREDLAND
  • Yeah.

  • DRIVE-THRU KID
  • That’s $3.23. Please pull around to the first window.

  • NICHOLAS FREDLAND
  • Thanks.

  • Nicholas rolls up his window and looks at Penelope.

  • Penelope doesn’t look at him. She keeps looking straight ahead as she puts the car in reverse and backs her way around the drive-thru. Nicholas goes through his pockets looking for money.

  • The car stops in front of the window. Nicholas rolls his window back down.

  • INT. FAST FOOD RESTAURANT – NIGHT

  • The kid working the drive-thru contemplates the backwards moving car. He shrugs it off. They’re not paying him enough to care.

  • INT. CAR – NIGHT

  • Nicholas smiles and hands the kid $3.25.

  • NICHOLAS FREDLAND
  • Keep the change.

  • DRIVE-THRU KID
  • Gee, thanks.

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