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Page six

I need to do backgrounds on all of my main characters and get their loves, fears, ambitions, desires and all that crap fleshed out. It might create better dialogue and scenes. I’ll worry about it later. I’m trying to keep pace with the date. Today is the 8th and I’ve only written 6 1/2 pages, so I’m getting behind. I’ll try to get caught up tonight.

Here’s page six:

INT. JIMMY’S OFFICE – CONTINUOUS

DINO, 40s, is sitting in a chair across from a desk.

JIMMY
I never thought I’d have to chase you down, Dino.

Jimmy sits across from him at the desk.

DINO
I’m sorry, Jimmy, I’m sorry. Look, man, I got in over my head. I was double-crossed. I had a buyer lined up and on the way…

JIMMY
(interupts)
Dino, I don’t want the labor pains. Just deliver the baby.

DINO
What?

JIMMY
Aren’t women expensive?

DINO
What? Yeah, sure. I guess so.

JIMMY
You guess so? Didn’t Perry find you with your girlfriend, cheating on your wife?

DINO
Yeah.

Jimmy gets out of his chair and sits across Dino.

JIMMY
I have a wife. She’s expensive. Always with the shoes. So here I am, with a wife that I can barely afford, loaning you money. And you have a wife AND a girlfriend and you’re borrowing money from me.

There’s a several second pause in the room.

DINO
I don’t know what you want, Jimmy?

JIMMY
What I want? I want my money back plus the juice that’s owed on it on the date I’ve provided you to return it.

DINO
But I don’t have the money.

JIMMY
So I guess we have a dilemma. I guess, since you spent all my money on your girlfriend, I’ll have to have a girlfriend myself. Martin, go get me a girlfriend.

MARTIN
Yes, sir.

DINO
Jimmy, don’t, please. She has nothing to do with it.

JIMMY
Give me my money back and I’ll give you your girlfriend back.

Page three

It’s not lighting the world on fire, but I’ll take Stephen King’s suggestion and just keep writing no matter how crappy it is. Hopefully, by the end, it’ll be a decent script. I still have to figure out a funny story for page two.

(page three)
Jimmy stands up and leads Martin through the restaurant, towards the kitchen.

JIMMY
What is it?

MARTIN
We found Dino.

JIMMY
Good. Where was he?

MARTIN
He was staying with a girlfriend.

INT. KITCHEN – CONTINUOUS

Jimmy and Martin continue the conversation into the kitchen.

JIMMY
How did you find his girlfriend’s location?

MARTIN
His wife told us.

The sounds of banging pots and pans, food sizzling and cooks shouting goes unnoticed by Jimmy and Martin as they make their way through it to a pair of steps that lead into the basement.

INT. BASEMENT – CONTINUOUS

The basement is dark and dingy with cheap wood shelves built to store the restaurant’s supplies. There are small puddles of water in the basement.

Jimmy and Martin descend the steps into the basement.

They walk through the basement to a door located in the back.

Martin knocks.
PERRY, 50s, a very large man, opens a sliver and peers out. He see’s that it’s Martin and he opens the door.