Aftertaste Page #19

Season #1 Episode #1

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FOLK SINGER:

(singing)

Well, I got a brand-new pair of roller

skates. You got a brand-new key. I think

that we should get together and try them

out, you see. I been looking around a

while, you got something for me. Oh, I got

a brand-new pair of roller skates. You got

a brand-new key.

REVEAL:
Distance view of their conversation. Kyle talks incessantly while Melody Rae listens and drinks. From an onlooker’s perception she is uncomfortable, and he is enamored. After some time, he notices the time above the bar, abruptly stands.

KYLE:

We’d better go. We don’t want to miss the

show.

They walk to the entrance of the comedy club To Catch a Rising Star and get in line. Kyle checks his watch.

KYLE:

Well, it’s close to show time. I have to

take a quick trip to the John. How about we

just meet inside, sound good? Front row

seats would be best. Save me a seat?

MELODY RAE:

Uh, um, uh, ok-a-a-ay...sure.

Kyle kisses her on the cheek and takes off through the

crowded casino. Melody Rae approaches the entrance door, hands the doorman her ticket and walks inside the comedy club. She swiftly finds a couple of open seats directly near the front center stage at a small round table and sits. The waitress comes over.

MELODY RAE:

Tequila Sunrise, please...thank you.

The lights in the comedy club go down and the announcer can be heard over the loudspeaker.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

And now for your funny bone give a warm

welcome to the edgy man who can make even

Larry David chuckle...Kyle Spears!

REVEAL:
Melody Rae’s mouth drops open and she brings her hands to her face. Kyle walks out on stage, and points right to her. From that moment on she is smitten.

SUPERIMPOSE:
SIX MONTHS LATER

REVEAL:
a rendezvous to Carmel Beach for a weekend with his parents, an escape to San Francisco to enjoy fancy cuisine and live theatre, several beach excursions, and another adventure to Reno. He is seen proposing on one knee at Seraglio’s Blues Café where they first met with a chatoyant chrysoberyl and diamond trillion engagement ring.

SUPERIMPOSE:
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA

JANUARY 2001

SUPERIMPOSE:
WHAT HAPPENS IN MEXICO STAYS IN MEXICO

INT. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE SHIP – HONEYMOON - AFTERNOON

After unpacking their belongings into the microscope sized cabin, Kyle sits on the edge of the bed looking

uncharacteristically sullen. Melody Rae shakes her head, rolls her eyes and then goes into the bathroom to change into tropical attire: a red sun visor, a red and yellow flowered swimsuit with matching flip-flops, and a yellow wrap-around sarong. When she returns to the room, Kyle is still sitting on the bed, except he has positioned his body away from her and is now peering out the circular shaped porthole of the cabin.

MELODY RAE:

Wow! That’s so gorgeous...I could totally

live on a boat.

Melody Rae pulls out a portable CD player from her luggage and sets it on the dresser and presses the play button. It is cued up to The Kingsmen’s sea shanty “Louie Louie”.

She begins to dance and sing along.

MELODY RAE:

Louie Louie, oh no, said we gotta go.

Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie louie, oh

baby, said we gotta go. A fine little

girl, she waitin' for me. Catch a ship

across the sea. Sail that ship out all

alone. Me never think how I'll make it

home. Louie Louie, na-na-na...

Kyle pivots, leans over to the CD player and presses the eject button, turns around and curls up into a ball.

MELODY RAE:

I’m sorry...I love you.

KYLE:

I’m going to stay here, okay? I think I

am gettin’ seasick...I’m just tired. I

wanna get some rest. Please go.

Please.

Melody Rae grabbed her long thin shoulder purse and left the cabin.

REVEAL:
Melody Rae is seen sunbathing in shallow end of pool drinking Mai-Tai’s and conversing with everyone. Loud live band playing classic rock on upper deck can be heard.

She is also seen with a group of new friends singing at a Karaoke bar. And then at the casino playing the slots; drinking and laughing with others. And then late at night chatting and drinking with this same group in the hot tubs.

KYLE:

Hey.

MELODY RAE:

Oh Kyle! There you are. Come on in...join

us.

KYLE:

Nah. I’m good. Enjoy...you have fun.

Kyle kisses her forehead and leaves.

INT. PRIVATE CABIN - MORNING

Melody Rae is exiting shower and about to get dressed. Kyle rolls over and sits up.

KYLE:

So, we should see the sights of Ensenada

when the boat docks.

MELODY RAE:

Yeah. Absolutely. If you’re up for it?

KYLE:

Yeah...I am.

SUPERIMPOSE:

Fishbone #1

EXT. ENSENADA MEXICO – CASA MARCELO - PATIO

Melody Rae and Kyle arrive at an authentic Mexican restaurant where there is optional outdoor seating. Melody Rae giggles in anticipation and pulls Kyle enthusiastically toward the entrance. A mariachi band, standing two tables back from them near the wall of the veranda, begin to play. She calmly dips a large tortilla chip into a bowl of fresh salsa and takes a juicy bite. But after the jalapeño spice hits her nasal passages, activating her eyes to

water, and after a failed attempt to subdue it with a generous gulp of the palatable margarita she motions frantically to the waitress to bring over a few bottled waters. Kyle is looking down at his feet and fidgeting with his hands during my entire near-death-by-salsa episode. He breathes in deeply.

KYLE:

We need to talk. There’s something I need

to tell you.

MELODY RAE:

Okay.

KYLE:

I used to have, um, a problem with, um, a

controlled substance.

MELODY RAE:

What?

KYLE:

I, um, I used to be a hard whiskey drinker

and, um, did a lot of cocaine. But I was

also heavy into pot and had some issues

with heroin, but I stopped all that...for

you. The thing is, um, I was also

officially diagnosed with severe clinical

depression and bipolar in my early teens.

I stopped taking my prescribed

antidepressant and antipsychotic

medications because since you entered my

life I didn’t need the pills anymore. I

felt happy...until recently. My parents

spent an excessive amount of money toward

my therapy. I can’t even count how many

rehabilitation programs I’ve been in. I

stopped taking Zoloft, Prozac and

Risperdal nearly two months before our

wedding.

(tears begin to roll down his face)

I thought you should know. I think I need

to go back on them.

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