State And Main Page #15

Camera follows the two out. A tableau of the four of them.

The First A.D. drinking coffee, sees he has been overheard.

Beat. Claire starts soundlessly heaving, sobbing. She goes

"Oh!" as if she has just been hit in the stomach, falls back

into the room, closes the door. Sobbing sounds emanate.

FIRST A.D.

I...

WALT:

Get Mitch Cohn on the phone in New

York, tell him she's breaking her

contract and we're very up...

FIRST A.D.

I...

WALT:

We're very upset with her. Get someone

to double for her, her tits, the

tits scene, call L.A. I want to see

some pictures of the women's tits.

Of their tits.

FIRST A.D.

I'm very sorry I...

WALT:

You're very sorry, you passive

aggressive, son-of-a-b*tch... can we

replace him?

BILL:

We start shooting in three days.

COSTUME DESIGNER

You want to see the fireman's

costumes?... Cause I found this

Moleskin for the collar, it's not

black, but it looks black... It's

not brown, but...

SECRETARY:

Marty Rossen's touched down.

EXT. PARK BENCH - DAY

Ann and Joe sit on a bench. He is looking at her as she

finishes the script. Tears in her eyes. She closes the cover.

JOE:

(beat)

What I need to say...

ANN:

Yes...

JOE:

About conflict...

ANN:

That's why you didn't want to take

the Mill out... you've...

JOE:

...the, the, the symbol of the fire...

ANN:

The Firehouse...

JOE:

I...

ANN:

But but but but but it's better

without...

JOE:

How...?

ANN:

Wait wait wait wait wait he gets a

second chance, do you see? And you

get a second chance!

JOE:

No, I don't...

ANN:

(as she holds the

script)

He doesn't go back to the mill, he

gets a second chance to go back to

the firehouse...

Joe takes off one pair of glasses and changes them for

another.

ANN:

You don't need the Mill. This is

what...

(she gestures at the

script)

You see:
this is what you are. This

is what the script is saying...

(a person walks by)

Hi Emma, see you tonight?

Emma waves and nods.

ANN:

This is, look:

(to Emma)

Go you Huskies.

(to Joe)

...what I see you saying, is: you

have the two elements, Fire and Water.

The Firehouse, and the Old Mill...

Do you know, you could...

JOE:

What are you doing tonight?

ANN:

Me?

JOE:

Yes.

Joe and Ann walk down the street. As they do so they are

passed by the airport van.

ANN:

Tonight, tonight, I... I have play

practice...

JOE:

...oh... oh. Well. That's very

important.

EXT. HOTEL STEPS - DAY

Walt and the A.D. come down the steps to meet the arriving

airport van. It stops. MARTY ROSSEN gets out. Walt hands his

bags to a P.A.

WALT:

Marteleh, vos macht a yid...?

He hands Marty the breadloaf. Marty takes a bite.

MARTY:

You cool the broad out?

WALT:

I left that for you.

MARTY:

That's thoughtful.

(of the bread)

Ziz good, you try this?

As they speak a P.A. is unloading Marty's high-end luggage

from the van.

WALT:

Oh yeah, I'm really gonna eat

carbohydrates...

MARTY:

(of the town)

What'd you do, build this...?

WALT:

How was your flight?

MARTY:

We're flying over pigs, we're flying

over sheep...

WALT:

Did you bring Bob's weights?

MARTY:

They're coming Fedex...

WALT:

(of the bags)

What's in all the bags?

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