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NATHANIEL:

I know everything.

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RUTH:

(On the verge of tears)

God damn it.

She turns and leaves the room.

68 INT. SLUMBER ROOM - CONTINUOUS (DAY THREE) 68

David oversees the viewing, his face a mask of benevolence

and understanding. We MOVE through the crowd toward him. He

spots us as we get closer. He's not happy to see us.

DAVID:

(hushed)

What are you doing here?

DAVID'S POV:
Keith Charles walks toward us, wearing a

POLICEMAN'S UNIFORM.

KEITH:

I just got off duty, I came to pay my

respects to your father.

DAVID:

(an edge)

You've never even met my father.

Keith stares at him.

KEITH:

(an edge of his own)

Exactly. And you've met my parents how

many times now? Christ, we spent the w

weekend at their house--

David pulls Keith aside.

DAVID:

Don't do this to me, Keith. This is not

your high school reunion --

KEITH:

You're right, I'm sorry

DAVID:

(overlapping)

-- this is not the time for you to be

political --

KEITH:

(flares)

You think that's why I'm here? To be

political?

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DAVID (CONT'D)

Keep your voice down!

KEITH:

What is this? We can f*** each other,

but I can't be a shoulder for you to cry

on?

DAVID:

I'm not crying.

KEITH:

So, what, I'm just sex to you?

DAVID:

Jesus, do we really have to have this

conversation now?

(then)

Sh*t, here comes my mother.

Ruth approaches them.

RUTH:

I'm so tired.

DAVID:

I know, mom. It's exhausting.

An awkward pause. Ruth eyes Keith in his policeman's uniform.

RUTH:

Is something wrong?

DAVID:

No. Nothing's wrong. This is Keith

Charles. He's a friend of mine. He came

to pay his respects to Dad.

KEITH:

How do you do, Mrs. Fisher? I'm so sorry

about your husband.

RUTH (CONT'D)

(to David)

You're friends with a police officer?

DAVID:

We play racquetball together.

RUTH:

Oh.

(to Keith))

Nice to meet you.

(to David)

Take me over to your father now.

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David offers Ruth his alm and leads her over to the casket,

shooting a look back at Keith.

ON NATE AND CLAIRE across the room.

CLAIRE:

Who's that cop?

ON DAVID AND RUTH, standing at the casket. She holds on to

David tightly as she looks down at Nathaniel. Her face crumples

and she starts to cry. David gently guides her off through a

drape, into a another room.

ON NATE AND CLAIRE, watching.

NATE:

What, she's sad, so he has to get her

out of sight?

CLAIRE:

They always do that. The minute somebody

starts to lose it, they take them off

into that room. It makes all the other

people uncomfortable, I guess.

NATE:

(angry)

This is not about the other people!

CLAIRE:

Volume.

Nate fidgets, anxious.

NATE:

When I went backpacking through Europe,

after I quit school, I went to this island

off the coast of Sicily...

69 EXT. BEACH - DAY, FLASHBACK (1987) 69

A STRETCH OF SAND. A handful of OLD SICILIAN MEN AND WOMEN,

all dressed in black, stand looking out to sea.

NATE (V.O.)

...this volcanic island, I forget what

it's called. I had met this girl on the

plane, she said I had to go there...

A moderate-sized cabin cruiser is moored a couple of hundred

feet off the beach. A couple of men are rowing a rowboat with

the COFFIN in it toward the beach.

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