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Ace 100
byMichael Martin
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FADE IN:
INT. BUICK - 'BURBS - THROUGH BINOCULARS - DAYUNFOCUSED TO FOCUSED ON LOKA, a Mary K. Cosmetics saleswomanas fine as she wants to be.
Purse on one arm, she carries a suitcase like it weighs air,sets the case down on the curb. Smooths her stockings overfair skin.Poofs her hair.
Licks, puckers blueberry lips.
She grabs the case-handle and moves up the pathway to a RITZYHOUSE. She reaches into her purse, reveals a PISTOL. Andknocks on the door.She
SAM GUM (O.C.)My God she's deadly.EXT. HIGHLAND INN - DAYSAM GUM, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, driving, wearing his trade markray bans, jeans, and white tee pulls into the Highland Innparking lot.GUM (V.O.)She's so beautiful you'd forget:pump your brakes, take that sharpturn kinda slow. Fly right off thecliff.
He parks, waits.GUM (V.O.) (CONT'D)That woman is sugarcane.EXT. SIDEWALK - GRAFFITI MURAL - DAY
Gum and Loka lean on a graffiti mural eating ice-cream.Loka looks uninterested, more fascinated by the waffle cone.GUM (V.O.)Every time we're together shepretends she's never met me. Andevery time --
 
2.INT. GUM'S APARTMENT - DAYA BULLET SPINS, slides to a side-roll, falls off the tableand into Gum's filled bourbon glass.GUM (V.O.)She makes me wanna bite the bullet.EXT. SIDEWALK - GRAFFITI MURAL - DAYGum whispering in Loka's ear:GUM (V.O.)They'll never accept us.People walking down the street: BLACK, WHITE, MEXICAN, ASIAN -- all staring hard, judgemental.Gum and Loka's hands intertwine.Gum wraps his arms around her. And with vanilla on her lips,she kisses his neck.EXT. IN FRONT OF A BAR - NIGHTGum waits for something.GUM (V.O.)What we got is beyond them.A car pulls up at the corner. Interior lights flash once.Gum casually walks to the car.Loka watches him from a distance.EXT. APARTMENT LOBBY - BOTTOM OF A STAIRWELL - DAYGum whispers something to Loka. She giggles, nibbles his ear.They hold each other close. We follow the steps downward tothe LANDLORD peering up, shaking her head disapprovingly.EXT. A CANAL - LOS ANGELES RIVER - DAYA MAN IN A SUIT --MAN IN SUITHow much time? ... How much, Sam?Gum shrugs, eyes following the river upstream.
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