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Tracy watches the scene from her seat on the SCHOOL BUS

TRACY (VO CONT'D)

Not like some rich kids who everybody

likes because their fathers own Metzier

Cement and give them trucks on their

sixteenth birthday and throw them big

parties all the time. They don't ever

have to work for anything.

The .bus pulls away.

INT. TRACY'S LIVING ROOMAFTERNOON

CLOSE ON TRACY'S FACE -

staring into camera as she exercises on a NORDIC TRAC, Drenched in

sweat, she moves in a hypnotic frenzy.

TRACY (VO CONT'D)

They think they can all of a sudden one

day out of the blue waltz right in with

no qualifications whatsoever and try to

take away what other people have worked

for very, very hard their entire lives.

No, it didn't bother me at all I

INT. PAUL'S PICKUP -- DAY

Paul drives home, his stereo thumping. Silent, he appears lost in

thought, as though a little gopher idea were burrowing its way to the

surface. Oh, look -- there's its snout now.

PAUL:

Paul... Paul... power... Paul... Paul

for President... progress... promise...

peanut... Paul-i-tics... yeah...

President Paul... Punt for Paul! No.

EXT. METZLER HOMEDAY Paul pulls into the driveway and hops out of

his car.

INT. TAMMY METZLER'S BEDROOMDAY

Two GIRLS are kissing on the bed. They are TAMMY METZLER and LISA

FLANAGAN, fifteen and seventeen respectively. Lisa breaks away. Tammy

tries to kiss her again, but Lisa resists.

TAMMY:

(softly)

What?

LISA:

I told you ... I can't. I just -- It

doesn't feel right anymore, you know?

INT. METZLER KITCHEN DAY

Whistling a cheerful tune, Paul tosses his backpack on a chair, grabs

a banana, and opens the refrigerator.

INT. TAMMY METZLER'S BEDROOMDAY

Tammy is still trying to comfort Lisa.

TAMMY:

If you could just get out of your head.

Tammy leans forward, puts her palm on Lisa's cheek. Lisa looks at

Tammy as though at a stranger. Tammy leans forward and .kisses Lisa's

eyes. Lisa jerks her head out of Tammy's hands.

LISA:

I said no!

Suddenly, there's a quick KNOCK at the door, and Paul enters. The

girls rise quickly.

PAUL:

Hey, Tammy, guess what happened today.

TAMMY:

Don't you f***ing knock?

PAUL:

Yeah. So guess what happened. So Mr.

McAllister, he --

(noticing Lisa)

Oh hi. Lisa.

TAMMY:

Paul, get out!

PAUL:

So Mr. M. calls me in and tells me --

LISA:

I gotta go.

Lisa pushes her way past Paul and runs down the hall

TAMMY:

(to Paul)

You dumbshit!

PAUL:

What'd I do?

THE SCENE FREEZES.

TAMMY (VO)

You know how they say one day a big

meteor might come and crash into the

Earth and kill everybody? Well, I think

that would be a good thing.

BACK TO LIFE - Tammy turns away from Paul in disgust and runs after

Lisa

INT. METZLER LIVING ROOM AND FOYERCONTINUOUS

Tammy finds the front door flung open and through it sees Lisa

slamming the door of her beat-up Honda Civic and starting the engine.

TAMMY:

Lisa

EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREETCONTINUOUS

Tammy runs up to the car as it pulls away. She pounds on the window.

TAMMY:

Stop! Wait!

Lisa stops the car, rolls down the window

TAMMY (CONT'D)

Where 're you going?

LISA:

I'm not like you.

TAMMY:

What...?

LISA:

I'm not a dyke, okay, and we're not in

love. We were just... I was just

experimenting.

Lisa speeds away, and we watch her car grow smaller and smaller.

CLOSE ON TAMMY'S FACE -

as we see the greatest disappointment of her short life break across

her face.

TAMMY (VO)

How can something that seems so true

turn out to be such a lie?

EXT. ELMWOOD PARK -- DAY

Lisa and Tammy are swinging synchronized on a swingset, smiling and

laughing. The image is slightly OVEREXPOSED as though to suggest an

ideal memory.

CLOSE ON TAMMY looking over at Lisa

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

I mean Lisa and I were destined to be

together. It was so obvious. Of all the

people on the planet who had ever lived,

somehow we'd found each other.

CLOSE ON LISA:

in SLOW MOTION, swinging next to us. She looks back, her face so

happy.

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

Lisa...

INT. TAMMY'S ROOM -- DAY

CHOMP-CHOMP-CHOMP Tammy eats an asparagus spear.

GNAW-GNAW-GNAW Lisa eats an asparagus spear

TAMMY drinks a big glass of water. She giggles a little.

LISA drinks a big glass of water. She giggles too.

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

I remember one time Lisa and I did an

experiment with asparagus to see how

long it takes your pee to smell. We peed

a little every five minutes.

AN EGG TIMER:
Ding I Tammy and Lisa, very serious now, smell little

Dixie cups

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

For her it took about fifteen minutes,

and for me it was twenty.

INT. LIBRARYDAY

Lisa studies at a table, surrounded by other busy students.

TAMMY (VO)

Everyday I found some new way to tell

Lisa I loved her.

Suddenly Tammy walks by, drops a folded NOTE in front of Lisa, and

walks on. Lisa opens it.

NOTE:

(Tammy's voice)

If you died right now, I would throw

myself into one of my Dad's cement

trucks and get poured into your tomb.

Lisa looks over her shoulder at Tammy, who is now at the door of the

library. Tammy nods at her with quiet loving reassurance.

TAMMY (VO)

But it just seemed like the closer we

got, the more she pulled away.

INT. MILLARD HALLWAYDAY

Lisa watches Tammy open her locker and notices a four-frame PHOTO-

BOOTH PHOTOGRAPH taped to the inside of the door. In the photos Lisa

and Tammy are clowning and smooching. Lisa reaches over and YANKS the

photos off the door.

LISA:

Are you crazy?

TAMMY:

What?

LISA:

People can see this.

TAMMY:

So?

LISA:

These are private -- these are for us.

TAMMY:

I know.

LISA:

But other people can see them too.

TAMMY:

I don't care.

LISA:

Well, I do.

Lisa walks away with the photos

EXT. ELMWOOD PARKDAY

CLOSE ON LISA SWINGING -- next to us, a final reprise of Tammy's

favorite memory

TAMMY (VO)

What did I do to make her change?

What's wrong with me?

Lisa swings out of frame, and the swing returns EMPTY.

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

(a whisper)

Lisa.

EXT. HILL ABOVE A POWER PLANTTWILIGHT

Tammy sits on a promontory overlooking an Omaha Public Power District

station -- towers, wires, insulators, a loud HUM.

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

Sometimes when I'm sad, I sit and watch

the power station.

Tammy lifts a pair of BINOCULARS to her eyes, sees THE POWER PLANT.

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

They say if you lie between two of the

main wires, your body just evaporates.

You become a gas. I wonder what that

would feel like.

TAMMY'S STREET -- EVENING

Lisa's car speeds away, growing smaller and smaller. We're back at the

BREAK-UP. CLOSE ON TAMMY'S FACE as she stares down the street, unable

to move. It starts to rain. Tears roll down her cheeks, mixing with

the rain. very French, very sad.

TAMMY (VO CONT'D)

I don ' t know what I did to make Lisa

hate me so much, but somehow she decided

to hurt roe. And she knew exactly what

to do.

LISA'S BEDROOMDAY

CLOSE ON PAUL'S FACE --

matched in size to Tammy's. He is moaning, gasping.

FROM OVERHEAD --

Paul is sprawled on Lisa's bed, surrounded by stuffed animals. His

legs dangle over the edge of the bed, and Lisa kneels between them,

her head bobbing up and down.

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