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As she rocks Beth, who coughs in between tears, Erin looks
around -- at her meager dinner and bug infested kitchen --
and is fed up with the whole day! She dumps her bag out,
gets her wallet, opens it up and sees what little money she
has.
Camera follows her out the kitchen, into the main room where
she heads for a window, opens it and shouts to Matthew and
Kate in the yard:
ERIN:
Matthew! Katie! Dry off. Put your
shoes on -- we're going out to eat.
They shout their excitement as Erin (and camera) continue
through the house, through the bedroom and into a bathroom.
ERIN:
Don't go getting sick on me, baby.
Okay?
But Beth's cough is getting worse. Erin opens the medicine
cabinet but finds nothing appropriate.
EXT. DRUGSTORE - DAY
Matt and Katie are messing around with a gumball machine.
Erin is holding Beth, wandering the aisles. She stops at the
medicines, thinks for a long moment, then, hating herself,
glances to make sure no one's looking, and picks up a bottle.
INT. DRUGSTORE - AT THE REGISTER - DAY
As a CUSTOMER steps away from the register, Erin steps up
with the bottle in her hand and smiles at the CHECK-OUT LADY.
ERIN:
Hi, remember me? I was in yesterday.
Bought a whole mess of stuff. Round
about five?
CHECK-OUT LADY
Honey, it's a zoo here at five. I'm
lucky if I even see a face, much
less remember it.
ERIN:
Oh, shoot, yeah, I guess that'd be
tough. Well, listen, I meant to buy
my baby here some medicine, and by
the time I got home, I realized I'd
bought this adult stuff by mistake.
And now, wouldn't you know, I can't
find the receipt. I was wondering --
could I maybe exchange it anyway...
Beth is feeling better on Erin's lap. A drugstore bag sits
on the table with the cough medicine. The two other kids sit
opposite in the booth. Erin is helping the kids read the
menu as the Waitress arrives.
WAITRESS:
Everybody ready?
KATIE:
(proudly)
ERIN:
One of my many talents. Go ahead
kids.
MATTHEW:
Cheeseburger deluxe and a coke.
KATIE:
(whispers across table)
Mommy can I get the cheeseburger
deluxe with no cheese and no bread.
ERIN:
(to Waitress)
You get that?
(Waitress nods and
smiles)
This one here'll have just a cup of
that chicken broth and some crackers.
WAITRESS:
And for you?
ERIN:
Cup of coffee.
Waitress takes away menus and exits as Matthew asks:
MATTHEW:
You're not eating mom?
ERIN:
No, honey -- my lawyer took me out
to a big fancy lunch to celebrate
and I'm stuffed!
(to Beth)
(feels her head with
her cheek)
Cool as a cucumber.
INT. ERIN'S HOUSE - NIGHT
The kids are asleep. A starved Erin is sitting at the kitchen
table, eating canned fruit cocktail.
O.C. Beth coughs. Coughs again. Erin looks up. Hopes it
doesn't turn into a coughing fit...
Beat.
A waterbug crawls across the table. Erin stares at it. Calmly,
comically, she reaches off camera and grabs a can of bug
spray. She aims and sprays the bug with a consistent, focused
force until the damn thing slides off the table in a river
of bug repellent.
INT. MASRY & VITITOE - ED'S OFFICE - DAY
Midday. Ed enters with a cup of coffee in his hand. As he
heads to his desk, he trips on a box of files. Coffee sloshes
up out of his cup and on to his shirt.
ED:
Damn it!
(calling out)
Brenda!
She pops her head in.
BRENDA:
Yeah?
He grabs a tissue, swabs his shirt, then kicks at the box.
ED:
What the hell is this doing here?
BRENDA:
It's those files you asked for.
ED:
I didn't mean for you to leave them
in the middle of the floor. Jesus.
Look at me.
As Ed checks his reflection in the glass wall of his office,
he notices, on the other side:
ERIN, standing in the middle of the secretaries' area, talking
to DONALD, the office boy. Donald heads away from her.
ED:
What's she doing here?
BRENDA:
Who?
Ed goes to his office door and waves Donald over.
ED:
Hey, Donald, what's she doing here?
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