Kate #1 - The Casting Network

29.
DR. MORTON
You're failing most of your
classes.
Your attendance record is
haphazard at best. I know this has
been a hard year for you.
jernma ignores
this,
uncomfortable.
JEMMA
Are you going to expel me?
I ~ant
DR. MORTON
you to talk to someone.
.... JEMMA
No thanks.
"-pR. MORTON
You can't keep going like this.
You're headed for a fall.
What
JEMMA:
do you know'~out
it--
'\,
He points
to the sign on his desk:
DR. WALLACE
'<.
DR. MORTON
See that. That's Doctor
Education.
JEMMA
So, what, that makes
or something--
Dr. Morton
Ed.
of
.
,-
you Blll Cosby
looks at Jemma to let her know
Jemma.
mother
Jemma
MORTON,
absorbs
DR. MORTON
What do you think your
would say about all of this--
the shock
silently.
INT. CARTER'S
OFFICE
Kate and Evan
chair.
sit on the couch.
The bell rings.
- MORNING
Carter
sits opposite
KATE
My psychic told me that he's a
narcissist.
in his
30.
Fucking
She's
EVAN
gypsy con-artist.
KATE
not a gypsy.
EVAN
I'm not a narcissist.
Evan scoops a handful of chew out of a Red Man pouch.
it between his teeth and gums.
I gotta
He puts
EVAN
take a leak.
Evan gets up and leaves
the room.
Kate turns
to Carter.
KATE
You look tired.
Finishing
CARTER
a new book.
KATE
I'm really scared that I married
the wrong person.
(shakes her head)
Everything I used to think was
charming about him, I can't stand
anymore. His voice, his songs, his
country-fried
steaks, his phony
Italian cowboy boots, his turquoise
jewelry. I feel like I'm watching
from a distance. Like, I'm not
there. Like I don't feel anything.
Just ...
CARTER
Numb.
KATE
Yeah.
INT. HI~H
SCHOOL/
- DAY
~
Students of various
aces sit in ~
of desks. Mint green
paint is peeling fro
the wal ~ . Jemma sits at a desk in a
middle row. A TEACHER
tands at the front of the class. Jemma
sits at her desk, lost 'n thought. The sound of the teacher
talking to the class 'f~aes into wh i.t;e noise.
Jemma
gets up
w~lks
out of class.
53 .
.~.
,
MIYU
(to :Jack)
He's ready for ypu, Mr. Holden.
Jack stands
office.
up. Jack turns
INT. KETCHUP
Patrick
around
and walks
~
into
- AFTERNOON
and Kate
sit at a table.
They eat salads.
PATRICK
You still have your pregnancy
boobs. I love it. How's Evan?
KATE
Don't
Look
turn
ask.
PATRICK
if he's cheating
it into a win--
on you we can
KATE
Did you hear something?
PATRICK
(unconvincing)
No.
KATE
How did it go at the studio?
I can make
afternoon.
Patrick
PATRICK
it rain scripts
But look ...
by this
hesitates.
KATE
What?
PATRICK
It's gonna be a little
this time around.
What
different
KATE
do you mean?
PATRICK
Nothing ...I mean ...look, you're
twenty-seven
anymore, you know?
You're not even thirty.
I
not
54.
KATE
saying I'm old--
You're
No, you're
like young
PATRICK
just not young.
young.
I mean,
KATE
So-PATRICK
It limits the roles a little. I'm
sorry, but it's my job. We need to
talk about you showing your tits.
KATE
I bet you never have to talk to
your male clients about showing
their dicks-PATRICK
Shamus has a spectacular cock.
Unfortunately,
we live in a closeminded society when it comes to
male nudity.
(beat)
Are you breast feeding?
A
WOMAN,
forties,
well-dressed,
expensive
jewelry
walks
up.
WOMAN
Excuse me" are you who I think you
are? Can I get a picture with you-KATE
(curt)
No. Itis a bad time.
WOMAN
But-KATE
(rattled)
Please.
The woman
walks
away. Kate pinches
the bridge
of her nose.
"
INT. IEXT.
CAR - NIGHT
Jesus wears a shirt with
his head between a
'III
56.
Jesus watches Carter
it back to Jesus.
take a long hit off the joint and hands
CARTER
I gotta go to the grocery
man. I'll see you.
Carter
store,
opens the door and gets out.
INT. WHOLE
FOODS
- NIGHT
Carter pushes his cart through the store. He has five pints
of ice cream, and a bag of Hav-a-Chips.
He's very stoned.
Turning down the cereal aisle he sees Kate. Panicked, he
tries to turn around before she sees him.
KATE
Hey-CARTER
(stoned, slightly
paranoid)
I felt like ice cream.
I wish
1
KATE
I could eat ice cream.
CARTER
Are you lactose intolerant?
KATE
No, no. I just ...I have to lose the
baby weight.
Carter
looks at Kate
That's
Kate
for a moment.
He is stoned,
but sincere.
CARTER
so fucked up.
laughs.
EXT. WHOLE
FOODS/PARKING
LOT - NIGHT
Kate and Carter sit on the hood of Carter's car. They each
eat ice cream from their own individual pint.
KATE
I worked at a Baskin
high school.
and Robbins
in
57.
CARTER
You did?
KATE
Yeah. In Warren,
flavors.
Ohio.
CARTER
Did you always want
actress?
Thirty-one
to be an
KATE
Yeah.
CARTER
nice.
That's
KATE
Yeah. But I still ended
office, didn't I ...
(beat)
Trade?
Carter
nods.
He and Kate trade
What
up?
about
Here.
Kate pushes
you grow
CARTER
I grew up here.
to be a
CARTER
even know anymore.
history.
I don't
ancient
You're
pints.
KATE
you? Where'd
KATE
Did you always want
therapist?
••
up in your
That's
KATE
not that old, you know.
Carter,
teasingly
on the arm.
CARTER
(charmingly)
Neither are you, my dear.
KATE
I am in this town.
58.
CARTER
well ...fuck em'.
Yeah,
Kate
laughs,
with
a trace
of lingering
sadness.
KATE
How you long were you and your wife
married?
Carter
doesn't
answer
at first.
KATE
Sorry. I didn't
personal-Carter
shrugs
her apology
mean
to get too
off, reassuringly.
CARTER
My father told me once that
eventually, everyone lets each
other down.
(beat)
Do you think that's true?
I hope
She holds
-KATE
it isn't.
out her pint.
INT. CARTER'S
They trade
HOUSE/LIVING
again.
ROOM
...•.
Carter wakes up on the sofa. He slept in his clothes.
a hand to his neck and rubs it,.,uncomfortably.
INT. 1M/PATRICK'S
Daisy
enters.
OFFICE
Patrick
He puts
-"MORNING
is hunched
over,
snorting
white
powder.
PATRICK
(rubbing his nose)
Whooo!
,DAISY
Are you doing coke?
PATRICK
No, no; it's Walrus tusk. It's
medicipal. Boosts the immune
syste~. I got a gUY,in Little
Anarcfica. Turns oue
they're not
endangered anymore. \
(MORE)
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75.
INT. CARTER'S
HOUSE/LIVING
ROOM
- MOMENTS
LATER
Jeremy walks across the room. He hits a button on the stereo.
"Pitseleh" by Elliott smith plays. He lays down on the couch
and starts reading Jemma's file.
INT./EXT.
BUS - NIGHT
Jeremy sits in a window
reads the file.
INT. JEREMY'S
seat in the nearly
APARTMENT/LIVING
Jeremy sits on his couch,
starting to come up.
INT. CARTER'S
ROOM
reading
HOUSE/BATHROOM
- DAWN
the file. The sun is just
- MORNING
Carter stands in front of the mirror,
from the night before. He looks worse
him. Unshaven, hungover, awful.
INT. CARTER'S
Kate
OFFICE
empty bus. He
in his wrinkled clothes
than we've ever seen
- DAY
sits on the couch,
opposite
KATE
I can't believe
Carter.
it's really
over.
CARTER
I'm sorry.
KATE
I can't believe
at all.
Carter
doesn't
say anything
I was ever with
him
for a moment.
CARTER
I have this friend. He's a kid.
He's a writer. Struggling writer.
He's got all these Norman Mailer
quotes that he tapes up around his
house like prayers.
(smiles faintly)
Anyway. When my wife ...when she
died, he gave me one of them. It
says ...
(MORE)
76.
CARTER (cont'd)
(remembering)
"There was that law of life, so
cruel, and so just, that one must
grow or else pay more for remaining
the same."
Kate takes
this
in. They
look at one another.
CARTER
Do you want to smoke
me?
Kate
looks
at Carter,
EXT. CARTER'S
Carter
unsure
if he's serious.
OFFICE/ALLEYWAY
and Kate
some weed with
- AFTERNOON
sit on wooden
crates.
KATE
People come up to me every
ask me if I'm really me.
CARTER
(exhales)
You have to admit
bit funny.
Yeah,
awful
Carter
nods.
that's
They share a joint.
day and
a little
KATE
but it's kind of sad and
at the same time.
Kate takes
a hit and exhales.
KATE
I just want to be normal.
CARTER
(lost in his own thoughts)
Yeah, me too.
.~
AND FRANK
GRILL
Carter an6~ebert
sit across
They both drink ~artinis.
from'one
r '"
'."',ROBERT ;/Your face lOQks ~1ke a truck
driver's nuttsack.
CARTER"
.
~
.
I had a lon
night~
another
in a booth.
J)
I,)
SHAMUS
Yeah.
They kiss.
Keira
sees
looks over Shamus's
shoulder.
KElRA
Look-They turn and look at a billboard just up the street,
advertising
Shamus's new film, Inside Information. It
features Shamus dressed as a detective, with his gun drawn.
KEIRA
That's so hot.
(kissing him)
How does it feel, being
on top of the world ...
Shamus
stares
at the billboard
SHAMUS
I think I'd rather
tonight.
Keira
smiles.
for a moment
before
answering.
stay down here
They kiss.
Alright,
got.
KElRA
Irish. Let's
She leads him to the bedroom
INT. CARTER'S
up there,
HOUSE/LIVING
see what you
and closes
ROOM
the door.
- MORNING
Carter is asleep on the sofa, in all of his clothes. Jeremy's
copy of Carter's book Stop Feeling Sad is open on his chest.
Agnes eats what's left of a pizza out of a delivery box on
the coffee table.
EXT. RUNYON
CANYON
- MORNING
Carter walks Agnes down the path, out onto the large finger
of cliff side that juts out at the top of the Canyon. Speedwalkers, joggers, and people with dogs pass by. Carter smokes
a joint as he walks. He looks up and sees Kate, in work-out
pants and a tank-top. She is walking up the hill. He throws
the joint away just before she sees him.
KATE
(brightly)
'I
Hl.
(MORE)
40.
This
CARTER
is Agnes.
KATE
know you came here--
I didn't
CARTER
Only once a week. We used. to come
more often, but the vet is worried
she'll have a heart attack.
Agnes
lays down
in the dirt.
CARTER
It's good to see you.
God,
KATE
I'm all sweaty.
I look awful.
CARTER
Ilook ...terrible.
(awkward pause)
So I'll see you next week--
Nah.
Evan's
KATE
not coming
anymore.
CARTER
Oh. Is he on tour?
KATE
just ...not coming.
No. He's
Carter
nods. Awkward
Anyway,
He looks
pause.
CARTER
I should ...
at his watch.
KATE
Yeah ...
Carter
bends
down and picks Agnes
CARTER
Good to see you.
up.