Four Rooms Page #19

Your feet stink.

Juancho smells his feet.

JUANCHO:

They don't stink.

Sarah throws his shoes and socks behind her. They land on the bed.

Juancho is flipping channels and finds an interesting show.

JUANCHO:

Check it out. T & A.

Sarah realizes he found a Nudie station.

SARAH:

Change it. You're not supposed to watch this.

JUANCHO:

We're supposed to watch TV.

SARAH:

Not this kind of TV. Change it.

Juancho rolls up in a ball, the remote tucked in some recess of his

stomach.

Sarah hits him, then goes to the phone. She punches 0, sits on the bed, and

checks the name on the name tag pinned to her shirt.

CUT TO:

FRONT DESK:

Ted walks up to the front desk just as the phone rings.

TED:

Front desk.

INT. ROOM 716

Sarah is taking off her white winter tights.

SARAH:

Ted? Hi. It's me, Sarah. You're our sitter for tonight.

TED:

Oh, Jesus, what did I tell you? I said if you don't bother me,

you'll get milk and cookies. Now, do you want them or do you not?

SARAH:

I want you to turn off the Nudie station in our room.

Ted checks the computer.

TED:

(reading stats on room 716)

I can't turn on an adult station without permission from

your parents.

SARAH:

No.

(struggling with winter tights)

Not turn it on, turn it off. It's already on.

TED:

That's not what the machine tells me.

SARAH:

Well, stop listening to the machine and listen to me.

There's naked ladies dancing on my TV and I want 'em off.

TED:

If you're good, you'll get milk and cookies, so leave me

alone, please. I'll be up later to put you both to sleep.

He hangs up.

ROOM 716

Angry, Sarah slams down the phone. She has an unusually adult temper. We

know where she gets it from. She looks up and sees that the nudies are

still in full force.

SARAH:

Change the channel, now!

Juancho turns around. He has a face like someone just laid a fart in his

nose.

JUANCHO:

Man, you're the one with the stinky feet.

Sarah smells her feet. Twice.

SARAH:

They don't stink.

JUANCHO:

Yeah, they do.

SARAH:

Here, smell for yourself.

She sticks her foot out for Juancho to smell. He's reluctant. Fearful.

SARAH:

Go ahead.

He slowly, very slowly . . . climbs onto the bed and lowers his head to her

foot. Very slowly.

Sarah waits until he's close enough to her foot before she kicks him in the

face, sending him somersaulting off the bed and crashing to the floor.

She grabs the remote control he left behind and changes the channel to a

cartoon.

Juancho gets up and realizes his defeat. He decides to wander about.

Looking for something to do . . .

Sarah tries to ignore him as he stalks the room. It's only a matter of time

before he finds mischief.

Juancho sees the champagne bucket and Bingo!, he goes for the bottle.

JUANCHO:

(holding up the bottle)

Hey, get a bottle opener!

Sarah opens her mouth, as if about to tell him to leave the champagne

alone. She stops herself when she realizes she wants some champagne too.

She quickly scrambles about for a bottle opener while Juancho unwraps the

bottle top.

Sarah opens the dresser drawer with such force that a few hidden contents

long forgotten in the back of the drawer slide forward.

Some coins, a paperclip, and a hypodermic needle. She looks down at the

needle that lays beside the Gideon Bible and casually picks the phone back

up and punches 0. The phone rings.

FRONT DESK:

Ted, bucket of ice in his hand, gets ready to go to room 404. As he crosses

the desk, the phone rings. He looks at the board and see room 716's light

blinking. He sighs in exasperation.

INT. ROOM 716

Sarah sees Juancho shaking the champagne bottle violently.

SARAH:

Don't shake it!

(into phone)

Ted? Hi. It's me. Sarah.

TED:

Yeah. Who died? No one? Then don't call me.

SARAH:

I thought I'd tell you that your cleaning ladies are doing

a bum job. There's all kinds of leftover stuff around here.

Sarah picks up the needle and rolls it over in her hand several times.

SARAH:

Needles and things. We're not supposed to have needles

here, are we? I mean, they don't come with the room, do

they? Send someone up here to clean this place up right.

The champagne bottle explodes all over Juancho. He looks surprised.

SARAH:

(to Juancho)

I TOLD YOU NOT TO SHAKE IT!

(to Ted)

I gotta go. My brother just exploded the champagne all over

the room. Oh, and bring us a couple of toothbrushes.

There's a card in the bathroom that says you'll bring free

toothbrushes if we ask for them.

She hangs up.

A frustrated Ted hangs up the phone. He walks briskly to the elevator.

Sarah and Juancho are pouring themselves champagne. They turn up the

television and drink. Juancho shudders at the taste, but tries to drink as

much as Sarah.

Sarah clearly doesn't like it, but tries to pretend she does.

Sarah picks up an instruction card near the phone to see how to make

room-to-room calls.

SARAH:

I'm calling another room, give me three numbers.

JUANCHO:

4-0-9.

Sarah punches in the room number. The phone rings.

She holds the needle up to the light to examine it.

SARAH:

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