1.
Fade in:
INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT
Raquel and her friends and her roommates friends simultaneously occupy the same small apartment. The TV is on, Francis, Jennifer, and others listen to music like Smashing Pumpkins in the bedroom where Raquel tries to mask the smoke with spray.
A discreet bottle is passed around, a joint responsible for RAQUEL's obsessive fanning.
FLASH CUT:
INT. BEDROOM - EVENING
Raquel, Jennifer, Molly Simpson staying in together smoking weed and drinking wine.
JENNIFER
The gray man of the 1930's, GO!
Laughter and raised voices as the girls rant, rave about anything and everything.
MOLLY
Joel changes his name after daddy flubs his name on his Broadway debut appearance.
Raquel exits.
FLASH CUT:
INT. /EXT. R. S. Development - DAY
Clips of two co-workers daily harangue during their lunch breaks together.
THE STRUGGLE IS OBVIOUS DURING a simple fast food run as MOLLY and BIER keep in constant communication thru social media on her KFC run.
BIER (OC)
Can you find out what year Joel adopted the surname "grey"?
MOLLY
That's easy. Nineteen fifty-six.
2.
BREAKROOM - NOON
Molly delivers what's left of AARON's chicken
MOLLY (CONT'D)
Borscht Capades listed Joel's name as Joel Kaye and that same year, Joel used grey as his last name.
Molly continues browsing Internet and SHARES her screen with Bier VIA SOME RADIO FREQUENCY.
MOLLIE is walking thru hallways and offices while texting her status to Bier.
MOLLIE (OS)
… beat soup believed to've originated… Ukraine.
INT. RS DEVELOPMENT - RECEPTION AREA - AFTERNOON
BIER (TO SELF)
There's our link to the Baldwin shooting.
Molly returns a puzzled look on her face
BIER (CONT'D)
Halyna was from the UK.
Inside the main floor - afternoon
1990
Francis asks for directions. Soon they both find the manager's office. The children continually laughing as they fantastically make their way thru a jungle of death defying imagined obstacles.
Beat of silence for emphasis to knock on door.
As Francis and Raquel wait for somebody to come to the door, they take in the vibe.
FRANCIS
You are convinced he will come back with a pocket full of riches to sweep you off your feet.
3.
RAQUEL
Wouldn't you? We were in love.
FRANCIS
just because you tell each other you love them doesn't automatically make it so.
RAQUEL
It does if it was love at first sight."
FRANCIS
Nah. ! I don't understand love at first sight.
Raquel imitates a Japanese by making her voice course as she annunciates the Japanese translation for love at first sight.
RAQUEL (THROATY)
hitomebore!!
Francis knocks on the door again.
FRANCIS
Relationship love involves love making! Have you had sex with you mysterious Don Juan?
In that the door cracks open, lock chain still in place.
FRANCIS
Are you the building manager?
The manager confirms his questions and inquires who he is.
FRANCIS
My name is Francis. This is my colleague Raquel. We are going around the neighborhood asking if we can paint street addresses on your property roof for the Internet. Do you have the Internet?
Cut To:
4.
EXT. Front of apartment Building - moments later
FRANCIS
That was nice but this lame dude you have anxiety about, do you follow him?
FRANCIS dangles car keys.
RAQUEL
What did you mean back there about sex making and or love?
FRANCIS
How can you say you love somebody without having sex with them first?
RAQUEL
You can love your relatives. You don't have sex with them, right?
FRANCIS
No no no no. I do not have sex with my siblings. That is not what I am saying. Relationship love is different. Are you telling me that you would agree to go into a marriage with somebody you don't know what they are like in bed? Before knowing how big their dick was? In other words.
RAQUEL
I never said I want to marry him.
FRANCIS
But that's what people in love do, right?
RAQUEL
I don't have to marry somebody to know I love them. We could live together. I don't fuck my roommates, yet I love them.
Francis attempts to end conversation and makes gestures of agreeing to disagree.
Raquel reads him loud and clears and utters her opinions to herself.
5.
RAQUEL (CONT'D)
It's impossible to be in love with somebody and already have had sex if the kind of love we're talking about is love at first sight.
FRANCIS
So, you are going to be okay with taking "this" love interest to next level and continue being in love with him even though he might have a micro dick.~
RAQUEL
You don't stop loving your same sex partner because you suddenly have an epiphany she has a clitoris.
FRANCIS
Okay but why you want to kill this guy?
cut to:
INT. painters van - afternoon
RAQUEL
This is going to work. Trust me.
FRANCIS
It's just too much prep time and for what? We don't even have guarantee that he'll die.
RAQUEL
I want it to look natural.
FRANCIS
Why can't we throw him off a building? Call it suicide.
Raquel makes deep eye contact.
RAQUEL
Francis...
FRANCIS
Raquel.
RAQUEL
What's all this painting bullshit?
6.
FRANCIS
Okay okay
Raquel feeds off Francis' energy. Stops in the middle of replying and grows wiser for thinking of it.
And just like that the black rainbow syndrome ELLE portrays so well morphs into calm serenity. A satisfied smile verging on evil secures her emotion.
FRANCIS (WHISPERED)
(TO SELF)
And when he does, we'll kill him with poison. ~
RAQUEL
No!
Traffic interrupts their conversation. Another car nearly cuts them off. A car that's been following them without their knowledge and that is being driven by the unfortunate bastard Francis & Raquel scheme to kill's love interest day in and day out. Francis meanwhile has no clue they were being stalked.
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EXT. PARKING LOT - AFTERNOON
A Law enforcement officer sees the pattern of blood on the parked vehicles. A smiley face. A smiley face red and bloody.
EXT. street - continuous
A Black and white patrol car finds itself witnessing the abrupt lane change attempt that almost cut off the white van. Charles Weaver acknowledges the license plate number and calls it in.
Inside the painter's van - continuous
FRANCIS
That poor lad was had doing triad.
RAQUEL
What war time's do to a guy.
FRANCIS
Cannabis meatballs?
7.
RAQUEL (SMILING)
That's my honey. Wartime. Fun, right? Whee. Jawohl.
Laughter. Tears.
cut to:
Close up inside the head of Jack McConnell.
SFX: BUZZING SOUND in MCCONNELL'S head like shock treatment
JACK (0.S.)
Time for supper.
THE LOW DRONING VIBRATION SOUND FADES
CHARLIE (O.S.)
Give me the iPad!
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match cut to:
EXT. APARTMENT BLDG - NIGHT
JENNIFER
The gray man could have been an influence.
Jennifer has in her grip a dong she caresses in a sexual manner.