Six Feet Under Page #11

NATE:

You stud.

David watches from the doorway.

FEDERICO:

(laughs)

It wasn't planned, but you know what?

(re:
portrait)

Neither was this one, and he's the best

thing that ever happened to me.

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30.

DAVID'S POV:
Federico brings the portrait up to his lips and

kisses it, then hangs it back on the wall.

DAVID:

(sternly)

Federico, keep an eye on those chemicals,

we don't want him to burn.

Federico hastens over to the table to check on Nathaniel.

David joins him. Nate watches them for a moment then leaves.

52 INT. KITCHEN - MOMENTS LATER (NIGHT ONE) 52

Claire paces, scratching her scalp. Nate enters.

NATE:

Where's Mom?

CLAIRE:

She went to bed.

NATE:

Was she feeling any better?

CLAIRE:

Yeah, Nate, she was on top of the goddamn

world.

She suddenly starts to cry. Nate awkwardly puts his arm

around her. She quickly shakes it off.

CLAIRE (CONT'D)

Don't.

(then)

Where's David?

NATE:

He's downstairs. Working.

CLAIRE (CONT'D)

(skeeved)

On Dad?

NATE:

Well, him and Rico. He said not to wait

up for him, we should just try to get

some sleep.

CLAIRE:

Oh, yeah. As if that were a viable option.

Nate notices a POST-IT on the fridge, leans in to read it.

CLOSE on the POST-IT. In tiny, meticulous writing:

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31.

OJ:

Cantaloupe

Half & half

Soy stuff for Nate

NATE:

Want to go to the grocery store?

CLAIRE:

(already grabbing her keys)

Anything to get out of here.

53 EXT. STREETS - A SHORT TIME LATER (NIGHT ONE) 53

We HEAR THROBBING TECHNO MUSIC as the GREEN HEARSE moves slowly

down the near-empty street.

54 INT. GREEN HEARSE - CONTINUOUS (NIGHT ONE) 54

NATE:

Is this the best music to listen to when

you're having a bad drug experience?

CLAIRE:

I'm not having a bad drug experience.

I'm having a psychotic break. Why are

you driving like a grandmother?

NATE:

Uh, maybe because I'm feeling a little

extra cautious, seeing how our dad just

got mangled in a car accident?

Nate turns the MUSIC OFF. A beat.

CLAIRE:

How long is it going to be like this?

NATE:

I have no idea, I've never done crystal.

CLAIRE:

I'm not talking about the crystal. How

long is it going to be like this? It's

like everything has been replaced by

like, some weird, empty version of itself.

I feel like I'm in the holographic museum

of my life.

NATE:

It's called shock. It protects us from

what we're really feeling.

(off her terrified look)

Sorry.

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32.

CLAIRE:

Oh my God, what if this is what's real,

this hollow, nothing version of reality?

And what if what we think is reality,

where everything does seem real, is really

just an illusion?

(then)

Or what if we're like, in hell? And part

of the whole deal is that you don't know

you're in hell?

(then, spiraling)

But if they find out you know, they just

crank up the intensity?

NATE:

(stares at her)

Remind me to never do drugs ever again.

55 INT. GROCERY STORE - A SHORT TIME LATER (NIGHT ONE) 55

We HEAR CHRISTMAS MUZAK. PANNING PAST AISLES, we see a teenage

CLERK wearing a Santa hat as he restocks shelves; in the next

aisle, Claire feverishly opens a bottle of GATORADE and drinks

from it. In the produce section, Nate is thumping cantaloupes

when his CELL PHONE RINGS.

NATE:

(answers)

Hello?

56 EXT. BRENDA'S PARENTS' HOME - SAME TIME (NIGHT ONE) 56

The terrace and pool of a contemporary Beverly Hills home,

obviously quite expensive. Brenda paces by the pool, sipping

from a glass of wine, speaking into her CELL PHONE. From inside

the house, we can just barely HEAR people ARGUING.

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