The Descendants Page #15

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SID (O.S.)

Ew, maybe you did!

ALEXANDRA (O.S.)

Sid, shut up.

MATT (O.S.)

Are you sure he knows what's going on

with our family? Because he sure

doesn't act like it.

66 EXT. BRIAN SPEER'S BLOCK - KAHALA - DAY 66

The car creeps down a street of lovely homes.

ALEXANDRA:

Do you know anything about him? Like

what he does or if he's married?

MATT:

Just his name. Brian Speer.

ALEXANDRA:

Why didn't you ask Kai and Mark?

MATT:

I just didn't.

ALEXANDRA:

Why not?

MATT:

I didn't want to get into it.

ALEXANDRA:

We'll google him later. Okay, there it

is. Stop.

Matt pulls over opposite a supremely average-looking house.

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MATT:

There? He lives there?

ALEXANDRA:

Well, I can't say for sure he lives

there. That's just where I saw them.

MATT:

And you just happened to be driving by.

ALEXANDRA:

Sadie was driving. We both saw it.

They all observe closely, very focused. Nothing happens.

It's just a house.

SID:

That house is a piece of sh*t. At

least go after a guy who's got a

mansion. And do you think he's

married? That'd be pretty cold-blooded

to do it in a house where you're

married.

ALEXANDRA:

Sid, please be quiet.

MATT:

What are we going to do?

ALEXANDRA:

I don't know. I'm just showing you the

house.

They all think a moment.

ALEXANDRA (CONT'D)

Should I go ring the bell?

MATT:

(tempted, then --)

No, wait, this is stupid -- this

stalking, or whatever the hell we're

doing. We came, we saw. Whatever.

Let's go.

No one moves.

ALEXANDRA:

It's not like we're stalking him

exactly.

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A PLUMBING TRUCK drives up the road. The three of them

reflexively crouch down before catching themselves.

ALEXANDRA (CONT'D)

What would you do if you saw him,

anyway? Talk to him or punch him or

what?

MATT:

I guess I just want to see him.

SID:

All I know is, someone messed with my

girl, all hell would break loose.

ALEXANDRA:

Whatever, Sid.

SID:

I mean, you'd never do that to me,

would you? You know, if we ever got

married. F*** around on me.

ALEXANDRA:

Depends on how you treated me.

MATT:

That's enough now.

ALEXANDRA:

And we're not getting married. Jesus.

MATT:

(starting the car)

Okay, that's enough. We're getting out

of here.

67 EXT. NEARBY STREET - KAHALA - DAY 67

Matt's just about to turn back onto Kahala Avenue when --

ALEXANDRA:

Dad, stop!

MATT:

What?

ALEXANDRA:

Go back.

MATT:

Why?

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ALEXANDRA:

Just go back a couple of houses.

Matt does so, checking that the coast is clear.

ALEXANDRA (CONT'D)

There he is.

MATT:

There who is?

ALEXANDRA:

Look.

Matt and Sid look toward a HOUSE FOR SALE. At first they

don't get it, but soon their gaze drifts to the --

"FOR SALE" SIGN

complete with a PHOTO of the broker, none other than --

BRIAN SPEER -- his big white SMILE contrasting starkly with

haggard, unshaven Matt's SCOWL.

ALEXANDRA (CONT'D)

Now we know what he looks like.

SID:

Must be pretty handy for a dude having

an affair to have some empty houses at

his fingertips.

(as Matt and Alex look at him)

I'm just saying. That's how I'd do it.

Alexandra climbs out of the car to grab a FLYER and take a

photo of Brian Speer with her phone.

68 EXT. BRIEF MONTAGE 68

Images of Honolulu at DUSK TURNING INTO NIGHT -- STREETLIGHTS

turning on across an entire neighborhood, boisterous pau-hana

DRINKERS AT A BAR, a bus releasing weary commuters, an

overhead shot of the environs of the KING HOUSE.

MATT (V.O.)

I trusted you. But there was always

something about you I didn't trust.

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