24 Exposures Page #5

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I'm... I can't do it.

- No, stop.

- Come on, stop.

Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop, please.

- No, don't.

- Stop.

Come on, stop.

Stop. Stop. Stop.

Just...

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry too, all right?

Look, we can fix this.

I don't think so.

- Yes, we can.

- Come on.

You don't listen to me.

I'm listening right now.

I can't stay.

Come on, just... Don't...

Where are you gonna go?

All right, we got it.

House lights!

Beautiful work.

Did I look dead enough?

- You look good.

- You look good.

You look like a cop.

Yeah.

You look really good.

You'd never

do any of that stuff.

Should we keep

her pretty eye makeup on?

Her eyelashes?

I think she's hot.

You think she has a nice bod?

I'm gonna eat salad all day.

She's really toned.

But I don't like it.

You don't?

- No.

- I really like it.

Oh, my God, I...

I would kill myself

if I had her body.

- No.

- She doesn't...

I don't... I don't like her body.

- You don't?

- No.

I like my body.

I like your... obviously

I like your body too.

She just happens to be

the person who's naked today.

- Well...

- I'm jealous of both of them.

Show her the badge.

Do you think that

that's a fake badge?

I don't know, I...

Let her touch the badge.

Touch the badge?

- Touch it.

- That's a little...

- It's real.

- She doesn't have to.

Do you feel like you're,

like, in...

like, a character

in Silk Stalkings

right now or something?

- Silk Stalkings?

- I've never seen that.

It was, like, USA Up All Night.

Just wait till she turns 25.

It'll all drop.

It'll all go down.

My body is still...

You just need

to wiggle it a little.

- I am wiggling.

- Just give it a mm, mm, mm.

Hazard of the trade, I guess.

Acting dead.

Yeah, well,

it's tough work, you know,

lying on the floor all day.

I know.

It's torturous.

It wasn't torturous, exactly.

Did you have fun?

Yeah.

Cool.

Hey.

- Hey.

- How are you?

Good.

Can I sit down?

Yeah, I was...

Actually, I got to actually

check my voice mail.

Okay.

Where's Alex?

She's loading the van.

I feel kind of weird

about not telling Alex

about what happened

the other night.

So...

What are you talking about?

Like, it feels weird

keeping it a secret from her

that we kissed.

I'm... I'm really not sure

what you're getting at here.

Do you like me?

Like?

- Like.

- Like, like you?

Like, if I went like this...

Look, I should...

I should probably

go help them out.

Sorry.

Yeah. No.

Can I call you back in a minute?

All right.

Where'd everybody go?

I think they just finished

loading up the van.

Do you want to go get

some drinks with us?

- Yeah.

- Can I meet you there, though?

I just have to finish

a phone call.

That's fine.

- Okay.

- I had fun today.

Yeah, me too.

Cool.

All right, well,

I'll see you in a bit, then?

Yeah.

Bye.

I'll see you in, like,

an hour or something.

- Okay, cool.

- See you.

Bye.

It must be kind of nice

to work with the person

that you're

in a relationship with,

kind of collaborate like that.

Yeah, it's really nice.

Hey.

Look who it is.

You guys ready to go?

I'm kind of beat.

Do you mind if I just go home?

That's fine.

Is it all right if you

give me a ride before we go?

I can drive you.

I got my car here.

It's a bit of a mess right now,

but...

- Okay.

- Can clean it out.

Is that cool?

- Yeah.

- All right.

Have you seen Callie?

Mm-mm.

All right, I'll see you at home.

All right.

- See you.

- Bye.

You're lucky, you know,

getting to work

with your girlfriend.

The fact that you guys

even have something in common

you can share like that,

it's cool.

Like, you guys

are like a partnership.

You're actually collaborating.

- Yeah.

- It's not bad.

You know?

Sometimes, you know,

you get a little...

You know, I mean, being around

somebody like that all the time,

it's got its minuses

as well as its pluses.

Yeah, but just even

being able to spend

that kind of time together,

I think a lot of people

would give a lot

to find someone like that.

It's nice.

It's...

You guys give me hope, you know?

It's a nice thing.

Yeah, it's good.

So I take it that you don't

smoke pot, then.

No, no.

I mean, I...

I have but not for a while,

not since college.

Okay.

Did it freak you out?

I didn't enjoy it.

You know, it's just

one of those things

where it just made me feel

very self-conscious.

Number 601st Avenue.

6-01st Avenue.

F***.

Isn't that the soundstage?

Yeah.

Sh*t.

Alex was there when we left.

All right, call her.

We're gonna head straight there.

Prior to getting disconnected,

how did she sound on the phone?

She said, "I'm fine."

She was here.

You know, I mean...

No distress in her voice?

I don't know.

A little.

I mean, we just broke up.

He was taking photographs

of my girlfriend.

You son of a b*tch!

Let me go!

It's your fault!

Hey! Hey!

- Hey, you calm down!

- Your fault!

Hey.

It's really bad.

He hasn't been so into someone

since...

Actually, probably since

when he first met you.

Do you want my honest opinion?

I...I think so, yeah.

Yeah.

I think we might want

to reapproach this as...

some kind of a true crime book

rather than a memoir.

Yeah, yeah.

These conversations

are always difficult

because this is your real life

we're talking about here.

I don't mean to suggest

that your life

is not interesting.

I also don't mean to suggest

that the truth

can't be interesting.

I just think, you know,

a memoir,

where the narrator,

our... our,

you know, hero,

ends up shooting

an unarmed woman

and being suspended

and the murders that said hero

is trying to solve,

you know, two of them end up

being related

and a third ends up

being unrelated,

I mean, these are

just the kind of things

that happen in real life

but that don't necessarily make

for compelling,

you know, commercial books.

Yeah, I... I can see that.

And I think if we can just

liberate you

from the facts of the case

and, you know,

sort of free you up

to tie up

some of these loose ends

and strengthen

these connections...

you and the photographer,

for instance...

you could strengthen up the...

the kind of parallels

that you seem to be suggesting

here, and...

and, you know,

really tie these two together

in some kind of cohesive,

compelling way.

- Yeah.

- No, that's... that's a good idea.

I'll think about that.

What's up

with this photographer?

What's this guy up to?

Billy?

He's good.

Is this all right?

Yeah.

My tan line looks

kind of weird, but...

Okay.

Actually...

Right there.

There you go.

Can you see the left hand?

Maybe I should

just do the right hand.

- No, do... do both.

- Both? Okay.

That looks good, yeah.

Okay.

That's good.

That's good.

I'm gonna pull this down

as well.

Okay, could you just arch up

just a little bit for me?

- Like...

- Just like...

Not towards me,

just, like, up, you know?

Yeah, right there.

There you go.

Here, let me... I'm just gonna

position this again real quick.

Okay.

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