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as it’s funneled into a bakery. A SUGAR SNOWSTORM. Nick

grins:
Like this!

NICK (CONT’D)

You know I have to kiss you now.

AMY:

Is that right?

NICK:

I would be a fool to let you walk

through a sugar storm unkissed. *

The sugar floats all around them. A fairytale. They lean in.

NICK (CONT’D)

Hold on.

Nick brushes her lips clean. They kiss.

10 INT. NICK’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 10

A SHABBY, CRAMPED garden studio apartment. BARS on the

windows. NICK and AMY are in bed: blissful. Outside, a car’s *

headlights flash: Their sugary prints light up the headboard. *

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AMY:

Nick Dunne. I really like you.

11 INT. THE BAR - DAY 11

The Master Mind sits untouched as GO sets up LIFE.

GO:

So is Amy going to do one of her

anniversary—whaddaya call it?—

treasure hunts?

NICK:

You mean the forced march designed

to point out what an uncaring,

oblivious a**hole I am.

GO:

Wow.

Silence. Nick stares at the LIFE board.

NICK:

LIFE. I don’t remember the point.

GO:

Deep Hasbro thoughts. Spin. What

was the clue last year she got so

mad about?

NICK:

(reciting)

~‘When your poor Amy has a cold;

this dessert just must be sold.”

GO:

The answer?

NICK:

I don’t know, Gol

NICK spins, moves his man, lands on Get Married.

GO:

Few years ago—you’d have known.

GO places a pink peg-wife in his car. He glares at it.

NICK:

Few years ago it was fun. Year One, *

the traditional gift is paper—so at

the end, she gave me a bound

notebook.

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NICK (CONT’D) *

So I could write my novel. *

GO:

What’d you give her?

NICK:

A kite. She’d never flown a kite. *

Go spins; skips over the Get Married space.

NICK (CONT’D)

Year Four:
flowers. She led me to *

the dying rosebush in our backyard.

GO:

The one you never watered. . . so *

symbolic. What’s the gift for five?

NICK:

Wood.

GO:

What’d you get her?

NICK:

There’s no good gift for wood.

GO:

Go home, f*** her brains out, then *

smack her with your penis: Some

wood for you, b*tch!

They laugh. Interrupted by the phone. Go answers.

GO (CONT’D)

The Bar.. .Yep, hold on.

(hand over mouthpiece)

It’s Watchful Wally!

NICK:

Bet my gutters need snaking.

(picking up phone)

Hey, Walter. What’s up?.. .Ohl that

is weird. OK, thanks.

(to Go)

Bleecker’ s outside.

GO:

You are way too into that cat.

NICK:

He’s my special furry pal.

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He heads to the door, points at the LIFE board.

NICK (CONT’D)

Tell me how it ends.

12 EXT. DUNNE HOUSE - DAY 12

NICK pulls up, salutes WALTER, who’s on his front porch

behind a WALKER. WALTER gives a curt nod. BLEECKER is sitting

on the Dunne stairs. Nick scoops him up, heads to the FRONT

DOOR, which is GAPING WIDE OPEN. Nick stops in his tracks.

13 INT. DUNNE HOUSE - DAY 13

NICK doesn’t close the door. He sets the cat down.

NICK:

Amy?

We follow Nick as he heads up the stairs.

14 INT. BEDROOM - DAY 14

Neat. Empty. An iron sits on an ironing board, pretty DRESS

next to it. No Amy.

15 INT. HALLWAY - UPSTAIRS ROOMS - DAY 15

Nick proceeds—quickly—down the hallway, peering into doors:

An OFFICE (his, a disaster); an elaborately pillowed GUEST

ROOM, and one room that contains only a LITTER BOX. Nick goes

back downstairs, into:

16 INT. DINING ROOM - DAY 16

Two placemats on the shiny table.

17 INT. OFFICE - DAY 17

Amy’s office. Neat as a pin. Empty.

18 INT. KITCHEN - DAY 18

Nick runs back through the DINING ROOM, into the: *

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19 INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY 19

Nick stops short. The carpet is covered with GLASS SHARDS

from the overturned coffee table. END TABLES are SMASHED; an

OTTOMAN is UPSIDE DOWN. NICK backs up.

20 EXT. WALTER’S FRONT PORCH - DAY 20

Walter looks up from his paper as he hears, from across the

street:

NICK (O.S.)

Amy!

21 INT. DUNNE HOUSE - DAY 21

DOOR opens on RHONDA BONEY, 40s, and JIM GILPIN, 20s.

BONEY:

Mr. Dunne? I’m Detective Rhonda

Boney and this is Officer James

Gilpin. We understand there are

concerns about your wife?

Nick walks them in, shows them the scene.

NICK:

My wife is gone. I came home to

this.

They bend down, examine the scene. Hard to read if they’re

impressed or not. BONEY takes a YELLOW POST-IT and places it

on the MANTEL below three upright photo FRAMES.

NICK (CONT’D)

I’m not someone who hits the panic

button, but-It’s weird, right? *

BONEY:

You mind if we look around? *

22 INT. STAIRWELL - DAY 22

They speak in time to the stair steps.

BONEY:

How long you two been here?

NICK:

Two years, September. We used to

live in New York.

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GILPIN:

City?

NICK:

I was a writer. We were writers.

BONEY:

Why’d y’all come back here?

NICK:

My mom got sick.

BONEY:

I’m sorry, how is she?

NICK:

She’s dead.

23 INT. UPSTAIRS HALLWAY - DAY 23

Boney reaches the landing, eyes Nick like a patient mom.

BONEY:

I’m so sorry.

They start down the hail.

BONEY (CONT’D)

So what do you do now? For work.

NICK:

Now I own The Bar, downtown. With

my twin sister, Margo.

BONEY:

The Bar! Love the name. Very meta.

24 INT. BEDROOM - DAY 24

Boney tests the IRON. Hot. Unplugs it. Looks at the dress.

BONEY:

Pretty dress. Date night?

NICK:

It’s our anniversary.

BONEY sticks another POST-IT on the IRONING BOARD.

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25 INT. KITCHEN - DAY 25

Nick walks ahead with GILPIN as BONEY lingers: She sees on *

the baseboard three SPLASHES of rusty RED. Looks more curious *

than alarmed. A POST-IT down.

26 INT. AMY’S OFFICE - DAY 26

BONEY enters. Checks out Amy’s desk area. BONEY flips through *

Amy’s well-tended desk calendar: “NICK: DENTIST” is set for

March 2013. In July 2013 is “BLEECKER: SHOTS.” Amy’s degrees

cover the walls:
HARVARD undergrad, Masters in Psych. *

BONEY:

Wow. Impressive gal.

One small corner is dedicated to a kids’ book series, AMAZING

AMY. Photos of Amy, at all ages, with her parents, REND and

MARYBETH, in front of posters for the books.

NICK:

So should I be con(cerned)—

BONEY:

(studying a picture)

I remember these books.

CLOSEUP of a dual frame: AMAZING AMY, the iconic cartoon

drawing, is grinning from one side. Our real AMY ELLIOTT

DUNNE is mimicking the same grin on the other side.

BONEY (CONT’D)

I remember these! Wait. Your wife

is Amazing Amy?

27 INT. SOMEWHERE - SOMETIME 27

CLOSEUP of a DIARY, a PEN—advertising AMAZING AMY—is

cursiving across. The eraser topper is a BRIDE with VEIL. The

date is February 24, 2007. We see the words as we hear: *

AMY (V.0.)

Amazing F***ing Amy is getting

f***ing married! That’s how the

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