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Cigarette SmokeByAdrian Surujbhan
 
INT. BATHROOM. DAYANGLE ON - LOW SHOTANGELA’S bare feet enter frame. Camera pan up, revealing herto only be wearing a towel. As we reach her upper back andshoulders, she slips the towel off and enters the shower.INSERT: SHOWER HEADThe hot water batters Angela, her dark hair plastered to herbody. The soapy water whirl around the drain.INT. BEDROOM. DAYAngela sits before her vanity in a towel. She combs her hairvery deliberately, then sets the brush down on the table andreaches for eyeliner.ECU: Eyeliner, mascara, lipstick.MEDIUM SHOT: Angela, bare back, slips on a black cocktaildress and zips up the back.CU: Angela slips her feet into a pair of black pumps.FREEZE FRAME:TITLE CARD.EXT. PAY PHONE. NIGHTFRANK stands leaning against the wall with the phone to hisear. A cigarette turned nervously between his fingers.FRANKI understand that. I do. But it’sbeen a week now and I don’t knowwhere
you’re
head’s at, but I’mready to come home. How can you saythat? You can’t believe that. Iknow you enough to know you’re justtrying sting me here. You’reswinging in the dark. You want meto beg, cause I’ll beg. You want tohit me on the nose and ask me if Ilearned my lesson, I have. I’ll dowhatever it is I have to, for youto forgive me. For me to come home.And you know that. You know I’ll dowhatever I have to. No? So, what do(MORE)(CONTINUED)
 
CONTINUED: (2) 2.FRANK (cont’d)you want me to say? What’ll ittake? What do I do, you tell me...Well, when you finally figure outhow to dig me out this hole thenyou let me know...Frank removes the phone from his ear, then seems to debatewhether or not to hang up. He does.INT. CAR. CONTINUOUSFrank sits in his idling car near the pay phone, as theradio plays softly. He blows his cigarette smoke out theopen window as he grips the steering wheel tightly with hisfree hand. He reaches for a bottle of liquor wrapped in apaper bag from the glove box and takes a few swills.His hand slides into his coat pocket and removes a businesscard.INSERT: BUSINESS CARD;
PERRENIAL MANAGEMENT 416 788 0112
Frank flips the card over. Hand written is;
Ask for Angela! :)
Frank reaches into his pants pocket and pulls out a hardcandy, a scrap of paper and a few loose coins.EXT. PAY PHONE. CONTINUOUSFrank inserts the change and dials the number from the card.The ringing of the phone overlaps to...INT. RESTAURANT. NIGHTAngela sits alone drinking a glass of water and scribblingin a black bound notebook. Finishes writing and closes thebook. She seems rather bored by her surroundings. The soundof the opening door catches her eyes as Frank enters. Shestudies him. Frank does a sweep of the joint before catchingAngela. He’s struck dumb by her and it’s a moment before hefinally makes to approach her. He stops short before thetable.(CONTINUED)
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