State And Main Page #4

MAYOR:

Well, you know, Walt, I just wanted

to say that anything I could do...

WALT:

That's very kind of... as a matter-

of-fact, one, I hate to bother you

with...

MAYOR:

...not at all...

WALT:

...we need the shooting permit for

Main Street...

MAYOR:

Whatever you need. The City Council,

of course, has to pass on your...

WALT:

...the city council...

MAYOR:

On your "permit," but that is less

than a formality.

WALT:

...it is?

MAYOR:

I am the City Council. We meet Friday,

and I...

WALT:

George, that is so kind of you.

MAYOR:

And, my wife wanted to, wanted me to

ask you, we'd like to welcome you,

we'd, she'd like to have you to dinner

at our house.

(beat)

I don't mean to be...

He hands an invitation to Walt.

WALT:

Are you kidding me? We would be de...

Phone rings.

Walt motions to an aide, who writes in green on a production

board... Tuesday 12th, dinner, Mayor.

MAYOR:

Well, I won't take more of your

time...

BILL:

Walt, it's Marty on the Coast...

MAYOR:

We'll see you Tuesday, then...

Walt starts for the phone.

WALT:

It's one of the great, great pleasures

meeting you...

Mayor leaves the office.

BILL:

It's Marty on the Coast --

WALT:

On the coast? Of course he's on the

coast, where's he gonna be, the

Hague...

Walt goes to the phone.

WALT:

(into phone)

What? Marty! Hi. We're...

(pause)

The new town is cheaper than the

other town. We're going to save a

for... because... because we don't

have to rebuild the Old Mill, they've

got an Old Mill... they've got a

firehouse... they...

A production assistant comes in, installing a piece of

equipment. She brushes past the drywipe board, where we see

she wipes out "Dinner with the Mayor."

WALT:

Baby, baby, I want to save the money

just as much as you do... no, no

it's not coming out of my pocket,

it's going into my pock... my... my

and your pock... yeah? Okay. A product

placement -- tell me ab... he's going

through a tunnel.

(to Production

Assistant)

Whoa, whoa, whoa... you wiped out

the board. DINNER WITH THE MAYOR,

TUESDAY NIGHT, write it in red. That's

all we need, to miss Dinner with...

First A.D. sticks his head into the room.

FIRST A.D.

We can't shoot in the Old Mill.

WALT:

(to phone)

Wait a sec, Marty. Call us back. Two

minutes.

He hangs up. Pause.

FIRST A.D.

We can't shoot in the Old Mill.

WALT:

I just saw the Mayor, he said anything

we...

FIRST A.D.

It burnt down.

BILL:

When did it burn down?

First A.D. takes out a book, "The History of Waterford", and

reads.

FIRST A.D.

Nineteen sixty. "Part of a spate of

suspicious fires, the Old Mill,

the..."

He hands Polaroids of the burnt Old Mill around. All look at

them.

ANGLE INS:

Debris by some water.

WALT:

You told me they had an Old Mill

here..

FIRST A.D.

"Suspicions of arson, these fires,

believed set by a disturbed Teenager,

were, in fact, the inspiration for

the formation of..."

He puts the Polaroids down by the model of the Old Mill.

Beat.

Joe White, The Writer, enters.

BILL:

But, does it have to be an Old Mill?

JOE:

Hi.

WALT:

Does it have to be an Old Mill? Where

have you been?

JOE:

I was in New Hampshire. I was at the

Old Location.

WALT:

We can't shoot the Old Mill.

JOE:

(laughs)

You know, they told me there were

gonna be some jokes. Kid the New

Guy...

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