State And Main Page #2

WALT:

You told me that about the last town.

BILL:

Yeah, but they never made a movie

here.

WALT:

I'm bleeding, Bill, I'm bleeding...

BILL:

...why am I here...?

WALT:

What, what, what, what do they got

that can pass for the Old Mill...

Bill shows Walt a brochure from Waterford, which shows a

picture of the Old Mill. Walt reads.

WALT:

"The Waterford Mill, built in 1825,

and long a tourist attraction..."

Wake up Uberto.

ANGLE INT. THE AIRPORT VAN

UBERTO is asleep. Bill wakes him up.

UBERTO:

Where are we?

WALT:

Givvem a cigarette...

Uberto comes out of the car and squints around.

UBERTO:

...they ship our Old Mill from New

Hampshire...?

BILL:

They're holding our Old Mill for

ransom.

UBERTO:

We build it?

BILL:

We don't have to build it.

He shows Uberto the brochure.

UBERTO:

We build the firehut...?

Walt shows Uberto the Firehouse. Uberto looks through the

viewfinder.

UBERTO:

We have to lose the window.

WALT:

...we can't lose the wind...

UBERTO:

(pulling out

storyboards)

Then I can't do this shot... you

wants me to push in -- I can't push

in through the window... We go back

to New Hampshire?

BILL:

NO, we can't ever go back to New

Hampshire.

A pickup truck with two calves in it stops, the driver seen

from the back is a farmer smoking a pipe.

WALT:

NO, we're gonna stay here. This is

what my people died for. The right

to make a movie in this town.

INT. TAVERN INN LOBBY - DAY

A desk clerk looks up. Behind the desk a display of several

souvenir plates, "Souvenir of Waterford, VT", with a picture

of the Old Mill on them. Walt picks one up and hands it to

Bill.

DESK CLERK:

May I help you?

WALT:

(followed Bill)

I want to talk to the manager...

Walt talks into his cell phone as he talks to the clerk.

DESK CLERK:

Would you like a room?

BILL:

Na, we wanna rent the whole hotel.

WALT:

(into phone)

Hello, Tracy; we gotta new town.

We're... where are we?

BEAT. Bill looks around, sees a sign on the desk. Consults

his tourist folder. As they talk they walk into a deserted

ballroom and play shuffleboard and archery.

BILL:

(carrying Waterford

plate)

Waterford, Vermont.

WALT:

...you got to get me that street for

nothing...

BILL:

I will.

WALT:

(into phone)

Waterford, Vermont. Where is it?

That's where it is...

Walt carries the shuffleboard stick over his shoulder.

INT. WALT'S OFFICE - NIGHT

Walt is talking on a cellphone. A male P.A. is bringing in

bags of equipment. Bill is still sitting perched on a desk,

typing into his computer. Uberto is sitting on a couch

smoking.

We see the shuffleboard stick on the desk, and the Old Mill

plate on the wall.

WALT:

(to phone)

Because, because... we don't have to

build an Old Mill -- they have an

Old Mill -- yeah. It's on a stream --

that's where you put a mill.

BILL:

...they run on water.

WALT:

(to phone)

Now:
I'm looking at the...

He gestures for Bill who hands him the storyboards.

WALT:

I've got scene twelve...

(to Carla)

Shouldn't you be in school...?

CARLA:

It's night.

WALT:

(to phone as he shows

the Old Mill

storyboards to camera)

Scene twelve... arrival at the mill.

ANGLE:

Scott enters.

SCOTT:

Mr. Price, Mr. Price...?

(he hands Walt flowers)

BILL:

What...?

They go back to the flowers. Walt takes the card, reads.

WALT:

"Bring it in on time and there's

more where these came from. Marty.

P.S. I want to talk to you about a

product tie-in..."

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