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CASTLE"Double Feature"byDerek Robertson May 10th, 2010
 
ACT ONEFADE IN:EXT. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PARKING LOT - NIGHT11As a film’s credits roll on what look’s like a make-shiftdrive-in movie screen the cars in neat rows begin filing out.Except one, alone at the very back, which doesn’t move.Soon it is alone in the parking lot, a woman walking up tothe vehicle and knocking on the drivers side window.Peering inside she jumps back in shock at what she sees.CUT TO:INT. CASTLES LOFT, LIVING ROOM - NIGHT22MARTHA stands in the center of the room directing two men with clip boards, scribbling furiously.MARTHA We can set up the bar over there,of course we’ll need to move thiscouch, open the room up a bit.The door to the loft opens and CASTLE comes in though Marthais oblivious to this.MARTHA (CONT’D)In fact what if we move all of thefurniture from in here, maybe getsome folding chairs...Castle clears his throat.MARTHA (CONT’D)...we can put them around theoutside of the room. Make surethey’re not comfortable chairs, we want to encourage guests to be upand mingling, not sitting off inthe corners.CASTLEMother?Martha turns to face her son.
 
MARTHA Oh, you’re back? I thought you werein meetings at Black Pawn all day?CASTLEAnd I thought you had moved out?MARTHA Yes, yes well there’s something Ihad been meaning to ask you.CASTLEYou don’t say?MARTHA I am organizing a fund-raiser forthe Ambassador Theatre and Ithought...CASTLEAbsolutely not.Martha turns to the men with clip boards.MARTHA Can you give us a minute?They make for the door as the conversation continues.CASTLEThe last time you had a party hereI was pulling down cocktailumbrellas from the ceiling.MARTHA Oh dear, it was just one umbrellaand it was a wager between JulieHarris and Angela Lansbury.Anisolated incident.CASTLEYou know it should be Alexis I’m  worried about throwing parties, not my sixt...MARTHA Et, et... don’t you dare finishthat thought. Do you know why theAmbassador has its unusualhexagonal auditorium?CASTLEDrunken architect?CASTLE 2."Double Feature"10/05/10

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