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Are you sure?

Paul, we gotta get out of here!

Aubrey.

Hurry up!

No. You go outside.

I'm gonna check the upstairs.

You come outside with me!

It's a creaky old house.

Paul! There is someone up there!

(SIGHS)

Babe, don't.

Okay. I don't...

I'm not feeling this right now, okay?

Don't give me that look.

(SCOFFS)

(SIGHS)

Do you have any Vicodin?

Yeah. It's in my purse.

()

(THE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND'S "LOOKING FOR

THE MAGIC" PLAYING FAINTLY OVER SPEAKERS)

Oh, in her eyes

To keep, oh, oh, oh

The magic in her eyes

In my eyes

(CLEARS THROAT)

(WHIRRING)

(THE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND'S "LOOKING

FOR THE MAGIC" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)

ERIN:
Hello? Is anyone home?

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

All my life I'm looking

for the magic

I've been looking for the magic

Fantasize on a sexy little tragic

I've been looking for the magic

In my eyes

(ENGINE STOPS)

Aimee!

Hi, Mommy!

Oh, honey.

Look at you! You are so beautiful.

AIMEE:
Thank you. I lost a little weight.

AUBREY:
You look great.

AIMEE:
Thank you.

AUBREY:
You must be Tariq.

Yes. Nice to meet you.

AUBREY:
Nice to meet you.

My little Felix.

Hi, Mom.

I'd like you to meet Zee,

my girlfriend.

AUBREY:
Zee?

With two E's. Z-E-E.

Wow. That's unique.

Nice to meet you, Zee.

Come on inside, everyone.

Come in.

AIMEE:
Where's Crispian?

Did he bring his new girlfriend?

(LAUGHS THEN SQUEALS)

This is my boyfriend.

TARIQ:
Hi.

Crispian.

How you doing?

You must be Erin.

ERIN:
Yes.

Oh, my gosh. You're so beautiful.

ERIN:
Oh-ho-ho.

Thank you!

Hey. Good to see you.

You're Erin?

Yeah. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Heard a lot about you.

Oh. And, Zee, right?

Erin.

I know.

PAUL:
Hey, where's my princess?

AIMEE:
Daddy!

(BOTH LAUGHING)

This is my boyfriend, Tariq.

How are you? Welcome.

Nice to meet you. Thank you.

Who'd like a glass of wine?

I would.

I'll take some wine.

Let me take care of that right now. Felix.

Dad.

AUBREY:
I just want you all to know

(VOICE BREAKING) how much it means

to us that you're all here. So...

Thank you for coming.

Oh. She's so cute. I'm in love.

Shh.

(UTENSIL CLINKING ON GLASS)

PAUL:
Let's bow our heads.

Dear Heavenly Father,

we thank thee for thy food.

Feed our souls on the bread of life,

and help us to do our part,

with kind words

and loving deeds. Amen.

ALL:
Amen.

And thanks to Mom and Dad.

For having us ah here together.

PAUL:
It's our measure.

(CHATTERING)

Um, so, Tariq, what do you do?

Uh, ahem. I'm a filmmaker.

Is that right?

AIMEE:
Yeah. He's really good.

I don't think I know any filmmakers.

That is so...

interesting.

TARIQ:
There's not a lot of us.

KELLY:
Have you been on TV?

Not on TV.

I've only made one documentary,

it was at the Cleveland Underground

Film Festival, 2008.

What is an underground

film festival?

Do they show the movies

underground?

TARIQ:
No, no. They show them

aboveground, but they...

They show intellectual films.

DRAKE:
So like an

intellectual film festival?

Do you do commercials?

Because those are my favorite,

AIMEE:
No, he doesn't do commercials.

Mm-mm. No.

Really? I just think that is just the

height of the art form these days.

It is just short and punchy,

you really gotta just Zing the ideas

on in there.

That's why I watch TV.

I just think it's so...

it's better than the shows now.

He makes documentaries, so...

it's different.

Yeah, but I think that I've seen

documentary commercials.

I don't think they have to be

limited to any particular thing.

It's not a... You know, I mean, the starving-artist

thing just never made sense to me.

I just think you should consider it, Tariq.

TARIQ:
Sure.

ERIN:
That's no fair!

CRISPIAN:
Give ii back.

That was mine.

ERIN:
Stealer.

So, Erin, are you still in school?

Um... Heh.

Yes. I am. I'm in my final year.

I'm finishing my Master's.

That's great, good for you.

KELLY:
In what?

ERIN:
In literature.

Wow.

So were you a student of Crispian's?

I was. But I'm not anymore.

Not anymore.

Mm-mm.

She was my TA,

but we stopped, because we figured

that that was inappropriate,

(SOFTLY)

It's a little unprofessional.

What?

(IN NORMAL VOICE) What's that?

CRISPIAN:
What you just said.

What was that?

About what?

You said it's unprofessional.

Is there something else

you wanted to say to me?

DRAKE:
No, I was just agreeing with you.

You weren't agreeing with me.

I mean, I... What he...?

I thought he said it was unprofessional?

Don't look at her. I'm right here.

Crispian.

What?

PAUL:
We're having a dinner here.

I'm having a conversation

with my brother.

Is there something that you wanna say,

because I feel like...

I don't know what you want.

I don't think that you're in any position

to be judging my moral decisions.

Who says I'm judging you?

CRISPIAN:
You are, with your eyes.

It's a big semantics conversation.

CRISPIAN:
The whole time you've been here

you've been needling me,

and I'm not putting up with it.

DRAKE:
You are so jealous of me.

I'm jealous of you?

Do we have to do this at the dinner table

right now? Please, I...

(ARGUING INDISTINCTLY)

CRISPIAN:
I'm jealous of you?

DRAKE:
Always been jealous of me.

What have I done?

Who have I been jealous of?

DRAKE:
I make more money than you.

()

(ARGUING CONTINUES)

AUBREY:
Every time we have dinner,

you have to argue like this?

Pam, can you get a handle

on these boys?

()

PAUL:
Crispian, your mother's upset.

What the f*** is that?

DRAKE:
Look in the mirror!

CRISPIAN:
You look like The Elephant Man.

(ARGUING CONTINUES)

CRISPIAN:
What can you not?

What can you not believe?

Go ahead and tell me what

you can possibly not believe.

What could come out of your mouth that's interesting

or of merit or value? I mean, I've had enough.

(TARIQ CHOKING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

Ow! Aah!

AIMEE:
Oh, my God!

(SCREAMING)

Oh, my God! Aah!

Help me. Crispian!

Help me get her up.

We have to get out of here!

Aimee, no!

DRAKE:
Mom, get down! Get

away from the window!

(GROANS)

Aah!

PAUL:
Drake!

(DRAKE SCREAMING)

CRISPIAN:
Is he all right?

AUBREY:
Oh, my God!

(DRAKE SCREAMING)

PAUL:
Aubrey, get down!

ERIN:
Get down, get down, get down!

PAUL:
Stay down, stay down!

ERIN:
Get down, get down!

Stay away from the windows.

Get down!

Crispian! Get Drake, get over here.

Drake! Stay down!

KELLY:
Someone f***ing do something!

Hey, hey, hey. It's okay. It's okay.

Look at me. You're gonna be fine, okay?

Just stay down. Okay. We gotta call 911.

We're all gonna die!

I don't have a signal.

I don't have one, either.

ERIN:
Does anybody have a signal?

I had a signal today.

I was able to use the phone today!

Dad! Dad, they must be using a jammer.

What?

A cell-phone blocker.

They're illegal, but you can get them

on the Internet for 30 bucks.

Felix, you f***ing low-life!

What are you calling me a low-life for?

I'm just trying to hem,

DRAKE:
That's no f***ing surprise

you're into that sketchy sh*t!

(ALL SCREAMING)

Oh, my God! We're gonna f***ing die!

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