Dead Like Me 1x03: Curious George Original air date in U.S.A: 11 July 2003 Written by: Pete Ocko Directed by: Peter Lauer Transcripted by Moonfire (If there are any inconsistancies or mistakes please contact moonfire.elfin@btinternet.com) ========================== DISCLAIMER: ========================== "Dead Like Me" and other related entities are owned, (TM) and (c) by Bryan Fuller and MGM Television in association with Showtime. All Rights Reserved. This transcript was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement. Any reproduction, duplication or distribution of this material in any form is expressly prohibited. It is absolutely forbidden to use it for commercial gain, this is purely for fans. ========================== Guest actors: Bill 'Kostakovich' Bright, reporter - Michael Robinson Male protesters - Michael Eklund Female protester - Heather Feeney UnGeorge - Laura Boddington Waitress (Kiffany) - Patricia Idlette Cameraman - Trevor Roberts Cheery co-worker - Raugi Yu Parachutist - Bruce James photographer - Blake Stovin SUMMARY: ========================== George goes back "home", nearly gets caught and feels the raith of Rube after returning. Rube, George and Mason go to a protest and Mason is late. Joy, Clancy and Reggie have their first family photograph without George. George and Roxie have a moment ========================== Start episode flicking through a book of the dead, then clip of piano falling on woman head (pilot) guy going off the road with his car (ep. ) building blows up (pilot)Der Waffle haus manager with the sign dropping on his head (episode The cook) GEORGE (VO)Everybody dies, that's just the way it is. I'm told im not suppossed to argue or question or even try to understand. I'm told a lot these days. ever since my life was snuffed out by a toilet seat and I joined the ranks of the undead. This is Rube, he's my boss, he's undead too. He's the one who gets the list to who's die when and where, which he passes them onto the rest of us grim reapers(clip of Rube handing out post its to Betty, Mason and Roxy) MASON: This what we look like to the living GEORGE: Holy shit (VO) My name is George Lass, I take souls for a living.(pilot. George taking her first soul) This was my home and this was my family, Dad, Reggie, Mom, they're having trouble coping (toilet seat missing from the toilet) JOY: How do you know it was her? REGGIE: I only took one(woman and man standing at the front door of the Lass house take out toilet seat out of Reggie's school bag) REGGIE: Do I have to go for therapy? (ep.)George looking through the bushes see's Reggie's toilet tree Der Waffle haus. George talking to Rube GEORGE: I dont think I'm supposed to be going this RUBE: Be patient, for christsakes.... (George takes a soul from guy in morgue Ep.) RUBE: your learning, you gotta to be thinking about all the things you like and decide whether they are worth sticking around for and if they are then you find a way of doing this GEORGE: What if I dont (sitting outside on the wall of the Lass's house) RUBE: Then you go away (CREDITS) (Red pulse pulsing, camera pans out and it is a clock reading 6.59. Joy in bed) GEORGE (VO) The average heartbeats about 4,300 times an hour, that's 800,000 times a week, 9 million times a crisp fall and 2.7 billion beats in a lifetime, well what is an average heart anyway? and how many beats do broken hearts get? Joy gets up. the alarm goes off Transition Sign of a big bear saying "Live bear Come and see Dora while you fill up" A female brown bear locked up, whining GEORGE (VO) If I had to chose between being a heart or a brain, I would definitely chose a heart because at least you do something (george passes the cage with two cups of coffee and a newspaper covering her head because it is raining. cuts to roaring picture of the sign, the docile dora, the roaring sign)If you are a brain at the end of the day all youre ever good at is settling for shitty situations (goes over to the car where Rube is sitting in the drivers side) GEORGE: Here RUBE: Thank you GEORGE: (looks up) Where did everyone go? RUBE: I don't know, maybe one of them had to make a cissy (toiet flushes,camera comes round to the Ladies bathroom, a man comes out, followed by a woman and then a whole chain of people who are locked together, they pass a placard saying Hunger strike for Dora, a woman picks it up as the man hears a truck pull up) MAN PROTESTER: (to the others) Hey customer! Sir please don't buy gas, okay, ther's another gas station about three miles down the road WOMAN POTESTER: This bear should be set free MAN PROTESTER: Yeah WOMAN PROTESTER: What if this was your mother in this cage? MAN PROTESTER: Yeah your mother, okay the bear is depressed and it will die(another truck pulls up) Hey WOMAN PROTESTER: Hey, hey. Please don't buy gas here. We haven't eaten for six days (Rube gets out of the car) GEORGE: What's the name? RUBE: R. Luber GEORGE: You know you don't have to be here with me, do I really need a chaperone? (Rube takes the bin liner from the bin and puts it on) RUBE: yes, actually you do. How's your apartment working out? GEORGE: Fine RUBE: You need to get a slicker, shiny rubber's is the best, you can hose it down, if you don't want to look like a fireman. A trench is alright, but you gotta scotchguard the heck out of it GEORGE: do you really care how it's going with me? RUBE: Sure, I make my face look like this and the concerned words come out GEORGE: So how do we know which one is Luber? RUBE: A little trick I use. (shouts) Who's R. Luber? (VO) Slick MAN PROTESTER: Who are you? RUBE: we're from The Northwest association for the protection of wild animal abuse MAN PROTESTER: oh yeah GEORGE: You've never heard of NAFPOWAA? MAN PROTESTER: Yeah! RUBE: You and your crew are doing a fine thing here, I just want to shake your hands (goes down the line shaking everyone's hands)Thank you, thank you, thank you so much, thank you, (to George)come on GEORGE: Umm, good job (takes his soul) (someone beeps their horn) I see, I get it (they move out of the way) Thanks for nothing (As the car passes a kid blows a raspberry and throws a sandwich at him, which hits him on the shoulder. The sandwich moved towards the cage. George looks up and can see a graveling on the cage) MAN PROTESTER: see that, people just don't care anymore, I mean we have been hear for six days huh you fucking hicks just don't give a shit FEMALE PROTESTER: Can you get us any press? what's with the trash bag? (Dora is trying to get the sandwich, so is the man protestor) RUBE: If there is anything you guys need... GEORGE: Cheese burgers? RUBE: no no no, she's just joking. Just give us a call (man protester is trying to get the sandwich with his foot. Dora paws his foot and the whole line goes flying, splattering blood across George and Rube) GEORGE: Shit (Mason pulls up in a back of a truck and jumps out) RUBE: Youre late MASON: Sorry. (to George) You need a slicker RUBE: Now she owns that face, that's why you pop the soul before they die FEMALE PROTESTER: Am I really really dead? GEORGE: Really, really (Mason, George and the two protesters walking up the hill) FEMALE PROTESTER: Why didn't you say anything? MALE PROTESTER: I thought you were into Joni FEMALE PROTESTER: That was just to piss off my parents, I completly thought you were hot MALE PROTESTER: We could have been doing it all this time FEMALE PROTESTER: Yeah! Transition George walking into the Happy Time offices, holding a folder to her chest (VO) Late again but what am I really late for? The marketing team's latest porn recreation of Cassie from Human Resourses, naked with areolas, scanned from the polariod of Joe's wife nursing their newborn baby, (man blowing out candles)Frank from E-commerce's going away party(cake saying Frank We wont remember you tomorrow), Barbara's underground movement to institute two casual fridays. (boss comes in the room and the group get busy doing other things) One desperate attempt after another to find something in common with someone else and then cling "Hey you have ten fingers" (camera to newspapaper with ad circled. [b]Attractive and virile[/b] Real pal in his 50's, financially secure. down to earth but preferable on water, is looking for mermaid to share life and future on charter boat 555-0102) "I have ten finger, let's be friends we'll make rules and slogans then if we find someone with nine fingers, we can beat the crap out of them". It bothered me she was in my workspace, it bothered me more that I had started to feel some for three felt-covered walls and a chair that smelled like Pine-Sol when it warmed my body tempurature GEORGE: Uh, what are you doing? DELORES: (looks at her watch) Are you just getting in? GEORGE: Looks that way. The password is rimjob if you want to get on DELORES: I'm the system administrator I don't think I need a password and I don't have to tell you that you are late........... (VO) What kind of universe would give me the power to extract souls from peoples body, but still force me to keep a suck ass job, if I want to eat GEORGE: I'm sorry, I guess (looks down)I'm still shaken up about the car accident (removes the folder) Dolores:(she gasps) My are you hurt? GEORGE: I, uh... clot fast DELORES: I think you should take the rest of the day off GEORGE: (happy shocked) Really? DELORES: Of course, go home GEORGE: (extatic) Why thank you DELORES: (grabs George's hand) Why rimjob? GEORGE: It was the name of my.... hampster when I was growing up DELORES: My grandfather's cat was named "Odd Job" GEORGE: Wow (looks incredulous at Dolores, Dolores looks happily amazed) (VO)I wish people were more complicated, but they are not GEORGE: Ahh Delores, am I still going to get paid for today, if I go home? DELORES: Actually Cuts to George in a football shirt in the copy room (VO) So Delores lent me her softball shirt, which wasn't so bad except that human beings have eyeballs (guy passes the copy room, then comes back) GUY:Hey (VO)and mouths GUY: Are you joining the Heffalumps? (ignores him and carries on doing what she was doing, he looks embarassed and carried on walking) Transition Waffle Haus. Yodelling music playing. Guy in a white shirt and black tie show a family of mum, dad and daughter to their seats. George, Rube, Betty and Mason sitting eating their breakfast (VO) Maybe it was the uniform, but it did make me wonder, what team was I on BETTY: ....and always be nice to the woman at the DMV ROXIE: I told that bitch her weave looked like carpet and now my social security number pulles up two bankruptcies BETTY: See! ROXIE: Don't see me, that's a shit's a major violation RUBE: (to George) so still loving you day job, peanut? GEORGE: I don't know RUBE: Remind me GEORGE: Office assistant? BETTY: You got a "Breck girl" thing happening GEORGE: I don't know what that means RUBE: It means you got too much stuff on your face BETTY: Fuckable is promotable MASON: Does anyone what tickets for a hockey game? BETTY: Ooh when? MASON: um, 7.30 tonight RUBE: Duuuke ROXIE: Two tickets? MASON: Yup and blue line and parking pass, I think RUBE: DUUUKE (George looks over to Rube looking confused) GEORGE: Who's Duke? RUBE: Pierrot Le Duc. Took a puck to the head last night BETTY: Concussive brain injury? RUBE: Asphyxiation BETTY: No! RUBE: Yup ROXIE: Didn't have any teeth to stop the thing BETTY: Where did you get the tickets? MASON: His widow RUBE: How do you know he doesn't have any teeth? ROXIE: Now, now Transition Joy goes into Reggies bedroom JOY: Reggie, are you even ready yet? (she pauses) Take that off (Reggie is sitting on her bed, dressed) REGGIE: Why? JOY: You know why (VO)That's the dress that my sister wore to my funeral REGGIE: I like this JOY: You have other clothes (Joy opens the wardrobe doors) (VO)And those are my pygamas (gets a dress out for her) JOY: Same stockings, same shoes (takes the coat hanger from her and walks into the closet and closes the door) REGGIE: I don't want to have my picture taken (Joy sits on the bed and gives a big sigh) JOY: Youre just lucky we are not doing this with my mother, She used to make us practice smiling before we left the house REGGIE: That's because she doesn't like your smile JOY: Did she tell you that? REGGIE: yeah, she said it was fake JOY: (Sighs and says under her breath) That bitch JOY: Ahh yeah, see that's pretty, youre going to need a sweater No I won't (walks out of the room. Joy goes into the closet, gets a sweater and follows her) Transition George is behind a tree looking at the lass's house. She sees her father Reggie and Joy coming out of the house JOY: Did you finish your homework? REGGIE: No JOY: Oh, god (Joy tries to give her the sweater but Reggie doesn't accept it, so she drops it on the ground, where they then get into the car and they drive off) (George comes to pick it up) (VO)In 8th grade Grade Danny Burkoff told me if you dropped a penny off the Empire state building, it could kill somone, This is how I feel about this. It doen't make any sense but I still have to try it.(goes up to the house and gets the spare key from under the plant pot) Going home was fucked up, but I couldn't help myself. (Enters) I didn't give a gerbil's ass about all this crap when I was alive. Now it all suddenly seems precious. (looks around, see a cabinet and open it up) I remember playing with this do I remember playing in the back yard sandbox, that smelt like cat piss. (flashback to 6th birthday party birthday) I remember inviting her to my sixth birthday party, taking her to the summers in New Hampshire (green fields and bales of hay) We never went to New Hampshire!(cuts to picture of galaxy and the noise of the projection screen going up) PHOTOGRAPHER: Alright, Have you stand right there JOY: I'd prefere to be here PHOTOGRAPHER: Oh okay (click of the camera) PHOTOGRAPHER: Sweetie, right in there Oh yeah you look so good. alright let's go guys (photograpgher stands behind the camera) And "Wheaties!" (picture of all four of the Lass's, george is sitting on her parents bed, she picks it up and looks at it. Starts walking around the house and she sees a math book) (VO) I never knew much about my sister, but I do remember she hated Math (starts doing the work) PHOTOGRAPHER: Hey Reggie, Reggie, right here (with a soft toy waving it fanatically) come on give to Monty, give to Monty (gritted teeth) Happy everyone, happy (grips Reggie) Come on reggie, smile (George goes into her old room) (VO) Before I could go I had to grab some clean undies from my old bedroom (two pictures of Clancy, two pictures of joy and two pictures of Reggie Click to her room - She looks inside and all her things are boxed up) (VO) Shit! (walks in) God bless my mom. If she ever put a bullet through her head, it probably be labeled. (putting some clothes in a bag) When I was little, my parents would go out and leave us with a babysitter, I would sneak into my mom's closet, press her dresses to my face and breath her in as close as I could. but there was one smell I didn't realise I would miss so much, my own (curls up on her bed with a pile of clothes using as a pillow) (flashack - cereal on the table, tv on cartoons. Reggie is on the floor with pillows around her stretching) JOY: Dammit, Georgia will you get off your ass and give me a hand GEORGE: (lying on the couch)Mom? JOY: Don't let the cat out (door closes and George wakes up, she hears her mother's voice) JOY: Reggie, those are still clean, hang them up CLANCY: Ill probably miss dinner JOY: I'm so glad we spent all that money on your home office CLANCY: (putting books in a pile, talking to himself) it's mid-terms JOY: That aeron chair and the pentium whatever CLANCY: Well, just let the girls use it GEORGE (VO)(sound effect, car screeches) Whoops CLANCY: She can do her homework on there (he closes his case) GEORGE: Nice save CLANCY: My cell phone's on (he leaves the house) GEORGE: (panicking) Fuck (Clancy leaves on his scooter. George jumps down from the room with her bag) GEORGE: Ahh Shhh..... (shouting from inside the house) JOY: Reggie, would you please go get that goddamn sweater?! (George passes the sweater and pauses, picks it up and throws it towards the house) (Reggie comes to get it and sees it on the step, she picks it up and looks up and sees someone running off) GEORGE (VO)You know the story of the princess and the pea?(Joy goes to the dresser, then stops and goes to their bedroom, looks behind the bed) It was based on my mom Transition Joy is sitting on the bathroom toilet. The shower curtain is pulled closed and there is water being sloshed around. Reggie is behind there. JOY: I think of cats, stray cats, if you keep putting out the food, they'll keep coming back (looks towards the curtains, then sighs deeply) If thinking about your sister is painful, then you have to decide not to, it's up to you (takes a tissue from the side of the basin) I know you can do it (starts to rub the rim of the sink) REGGIE: Mom? JOY: Yes! REGGIE: I didn't know if you were still there (Joy looks dejected) Transition Reggie is sitting on the floor in George's old room with a ouija board REGGIE: Do you still wear clothes? (points to no) REGGIE: Where do you live now? (goes to nothing) Transition George is trying to climb a tree in a big field. Betty is standing watching GEORGE: OW. Can I get ten fingers? BETTY: The nails GEORGE: (she tries again)This is impossible BETTY: Saps a bitch GEORGE: Well, what am I supposed to do? Is there some kind of trick? Am I supposed to take the tree soul and ask to climb itself and get the guy down? BETTY: Here (tries to give George a rock) GEORGE: No way (Betty throws the rock) GEORGE: Wow, it moved (george picks up a rock, it comes back down) Oh shit(scream and falls on the ground) BETTY: Ahhh, You throw like a girl GEORGE: Can you take tree souls? Do trees have souls? BETTY: Don't know GEORGE: What about animals? Or rocks or if you tried to take a soul soul (Betty sighs and raises her eyes to the sky) GEORGE: Dont you ever wonder about this stuff BETTY: I asked Rube once. (George throws another) Nice. He says you just don't do it, so I don't (throws again. A footaball helmet falls down) GEORGE: I went home BETTY: Everybody want to go home, it doesn't make it right GEORGE: Nobody saw me BETTY: It's not about them, it's about you, it's what you see. Swipe anything? (looks sheepish) BETTY: It's very tepmting to think that the little jewels from our lives will bring it all back, but they don't (close up of Betty's ring) (flashback - Betty opening her coffin, she is wearing a 1920's shaped hat. A grave stone says RHOMER Betty 1899-1926. She brings up a skeleton hand and pulls a ring it off and puts it on her own finger. Closes the coffin) (Betty throws another rock) BETTY: Unh! You can't go back (the branch creaks and breaks and the body comes with it, with a parachute) GEORGE: Are you going to tell Rube? Transition Mason and Roxie sitting in a booth at Der Waffle Haus MASON: Where's Betty? ROXIE: Babysitting MASON: I never had a babysitter ROXIE: That doesn't mean you didn't need one (pause, looking at menus) ROXIE: I'm going to get a pet bird MASON: Don't get a bird ROXIE: Why not? MASON: Because they're weird, man I can't relate to a bird, they are so far removed, theyve got different chromosomes.and they come from eggs ROXIE: They've got faces MASON: So do cockroaches (longer pause) MASON: I mean, what you going to do with a bird? ROXIE: Stick it in a cage and feed it, what do you think i'm going to do with it MASON: I think you should get one that you can eat ROXIE: (looks agast)Im going to get a freind, I'm not going to eat my friend MASON: They have brains the size of pistachios, it's not smart enough to be your freind ROXIE: You dont know what you are talking about, I saw this special on PBS called "Animal Miracles" and they did a dramic re-enactment of a guy being robbed and he had a parrot or a cockatiel or something and that bird lost its shit when it's owner was attacked, it opened up it's cage... MASON: Woah, why would you put a bird in a cage if it can open the door? ROXIE: Where else are you going to put it? It opened up it's cage and went crazy, pecked out the guy's eyes, scratched his face, messed his face up like Tippy Hedren or some shit so don't tell me that's not friendship (Annoyed at Mason for being Mason. Both of them pick up the menus again and after a pause) MASON: How big was this parrot? ROXIE: I don't know, parrot size MASON: Well a parrot can't take on a fully grown man, unless this man is a big pussy ROXIE: I didn't say the parrot won. The robber stabbed it with a fork and killed his owner. the bird is dead MASON: So why do you want a bird? ROXIE: It's not about Homeland security you stupid motherfucker, I'm going to get a friend MASON: (under his breath)Jesus (VO)She wasn't the only one looking for a friend Transition back at the field, the parashutist is following George and Betty GEORGE: So what are you going to do now? PARACHUTIST: I was kinda hoping you were going to tell me (both of them stop walking and look back to him. He whispers) Oh you are taking to her GEORGE: cos if you want to get dinner or something BETTY: Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm just not up to the whole bonding buddy girl thing, Okay? (VO) Hard to think what the wrong way to take that would be GEORGE: Hey I don't want to bond either, just hungry PARACHUTIST: Is that the...? GEORGE: The great.... whatever PARACHUTIST: (in awe)Shut up (his lights is a snakes and ladders board. The ladder comes down for him and he climbs up. George looks after him) Transition Joy goes into the spare room wanting to excersise. she looks around, then leaves the room Transition A television broadcast from George's place REPORTER: This is Bill Bright reporting from Route 7. Controversy continues to build over the decision to put down the bear. Animal control has said it was a matter of policy but Dora's supporters contend that the animal should not be put to death (camera pans out from the TV. George is still in bed and mason is wondering around the room)It was following it's natural instincts when it killed two hunger strikers........(TV still on) (George open her eyes) GEORGE: Are you robbing me? MASON: No there's nothing to fucking rob GEORGE: I was dreaming about frogs MASON: Real ones, or like kermit? GEORGE: Real ones MASON: I saw a movie of frogs. They got pissed and they ate a bunch of people on an island, I think it was called "Frogs!" GEORGE: Were they bad people? MASON: Nah, Nah, they littered or something GEORGE: I only like it when bad people die MASON: I like it when nobody dies, so I don't have to work GEORGE: What would happen if everybody died? (squirts some perfume under his arms) MASON: What do you mean? GEORGE: Like if we were the only ones left MASON: Oh, like if the frogs ate everyone on the planet? GEORGE: Yeah! MASON: I reckon we'd be shoveling alot of frog shit. Did you shovel frog shit in your dream? GEORGE: No. The frog was carrying me on his back over a river of lava MASON: A frog? GEORGE: Yeah MASON: (smirks a little) I have to go. Ive got a business meeting. Got to get our ducks in a row, fine-tune the language. You know what I mean. (starts rummaging round in kitchen cupboards) You know you should really do something with this place, Ive been in crack houses with more style. Do you need this back? (He picks up a big kitchen knife) GEORGE: No MASON: Cheers Transition Happy Time. George is clearing up in a board room. Delores sees her DELORES: Hello, Hi I dont know if you got the email but Harry F in Web Design is moving to corporate, we are all meeting in here for cake (VO)Im pretty sure they put mind control pills in the water cooler, because I'm actually a little excited DELORES: Can you cover the phones? GEORGE: Oh DELORES: Michael's already group-forwarded to voice-mail, but the main line will ring through to your extention, Okay? GEORGE: Yeah (signals with a thumbs-up and walk off, george gets a knife and starts cutting it furiously and puts it into a lunch box) (VO) Little moments like that prove to me that there is some kind of all powerful, all knowing force, that controls everything in the universe and it is so fucking bored, (George is back at her desk, with various pink post-its stuck everwhere, paper clips round her neck)it will actually take time out to orchestrate a petty let-down like that (the telephone rings, she stops painting her nails with Tip-ex, picks it up and puts it back down again)It's not that I even cared about the cake or conversation (She looks over to the board room and sees everyone having a good time) HARRY F: The latest Java patch is completely kick-ass (VO) But I guess standing outside all that bullshit, I started to realise how warm and safe that bull shit might actully feel (Crystal waves at her, George waves but by that time she has already walked off) Transition. At the Lass household JOY: You know the sad thing here is that you can't come up with an original way to act out REGGIE: I don't have the television JOY: If you are testing me reg, you are going to lose, I don't care what you do. You can set the car on fire, eat the cat, I will not give you extra attention because you won't let go of this (VO) If there is any poetry in being a reaper, is in combining the business of taking souls with the pleasure of making money. If you can get a little self awareness too then you are the walt fucking Whitman of reapers fades into transition. Betty and Mason in a car. Betty has a questionaire that she is doing with Mason as they wait for an appointment BETTY: When you deliver critism, do you? are you direct or tactful? MASON: Im I telling the truth? BETTY: Tactful. You consider yourself to be resonable or exeptionally kind? MASON: Uh... exeptionally kind (Betty raises her eyebrow at him) MASON: Well I'm not particularly resonable BETTY: Fine. Kind, me too. Do you tend to see the trees or the forest? MASON: Well, how many trees? BETTY: Well how many do you want? MASON: Well in chinese there is a symbol that is a tree and it means tree but if there are two of them it means forest, so.... (looks at him again) MASON: Uh... Trees (nods then looks down at the paper) MASON: Why what do you see? BETTY: The forest (Mason starts pulling faces and mumbles) MASON: Okay, how do I look really? BETTY: Swarthy MASON: Well is that good? BETTY: Depends on if you like swarthy MASON: Do you like swarthy? BETTY: Not particularly (Mason picks up the knife that is on the dashboard and gets out of the car, he turns around and faces Betty) MASON: Okay(gets out the car) MASON: Hey don't put me down as trees, okay? BETTY: Okay (Mason runs back to a door in a dark and bangs on it. Betty hears a gunshot looks up with the rear veiw mirror. Three more shots are fired. A man runs limping from out of the building, Mason is chasing the man) MASON: Give me the damn bag (starts running round the car trying to get him) BETTY: You're an N.F. You are an intuitive feeler. You trust your intuition, you yearn for romance and you prize meaningful relationships MASON: What? (man is standing by the door shoots out) BETTY: (under her breath) like he's an intuitive thinker. (guy tries to get into the back of the car) BETTY: N.T.s are the worse (two more shots are fired from the man by the door into the robber. Mason Rugby tackels him to the ground while taking his soul. shoots again and as Mason gets up, he shoots Mason in the head) MASON: Arggg. I'll take that cheers (Mason runs and the guy runs after him. Betty sees the guys soul looking a bit confused) BETTY: Excuse me mister dead guy. On a long airplane trip, if you are seated next to someone, do you prefere to make conversation or read a book? (VO) One soul and fourteen hundred dollars later, it was time for lunch At the Waffle Haus. Roxie, Mason, Rube and Betty are sitting having breakfast ROXIE: They wouldn't even let me talk to a human being. I'm going to change banks MASON: You have to press 0 ROXIE: You think I don't know to press 0? BETTY: Sometimes it's star MASON: You know what, computers are going to like take over the whole world RUBE: Never happen. Computers won't get smarter than people BETTY: I think they already are RUBE: Yeah when a computer looses it with a meter maid - no offence or kills it's self because it thinks its too fat then I will believe in artificial intelligence ROXIE: This juice tasts funny (Betty tries some) BETTY: Tastes like Fresca (George comes strolling in. The table goes silent) GEORGE: Hi KIFFANY: (says to George) Know what you want? GEORGE: Yeah, Banana Bonanza... RUBE: I heard you went home again GEORGE: Wheat toast.... RUBE: Big fucking mistake GEORGE: ....and a glass of water RUBE: I'm a resonable George, is that what i'm supposed to say KIFFANY: (closes pad)I'll come back RUBE: (flings down the pen)I'm a resonable man George, even though you flip me off. um... you frustrate me peanut, If I hear you have any contact with your old life again, you will have a torment down upon you that you cannot imagine MASON: Cheque please (everyone else sniggers) GEORGE: I know that's supposed to scare me but I don't know what possibly could be worse than what's already happened MASON: (Kiffany comes over) Oh I was only joking (roxie snorts) RUBE: We'll take it ROXIE: Oh could you add a grapefruit juice BETTY: Then she's got to go back ROXIE: And? RUBE: you get it to go out MASON: Has anyone got two fives? BETTY: Oh could you cover me? MASON: Yes RUBE: One for you (gives Roxie a post it) and you (for Mason) and you (for Betty)and you (for George) GEORGE: Again? RUBE: Here you go (gives her a slicker. To Roxie) You give her a ride At the protest. There is a large vat with a sign saying "DANGER Live bear trap Stay back". Fast tracking around the site. The police and a larger amount of people are standing around with placards. andd the crowd shouting Bill the reporter is reporting BILL: Chris, Ally they're still waiting for conformation for a powerful tranquilizer used to sedate Dora has taken full effect. When that happens te plan is to move her out of the cage and into that trailer wherre she will make the ride to Animal controls folding facility...fuck...I'm sorry. Alright holding facility, go again Chris, Ally they're still...(camera moves away. Roxie's van goes passed. next shot is George and Roxie sitting and waiting) GEORGE: So what's your guess? (Roxie ignores her) GEORGE: How do you think it's going to happen? (ignores her again) GEORGE: Professor in the library with a candlestick? ROXIE: Parking brake on the truck fails, the truck runs into other gas pump as the antenna tower sparks the lights on the canopy GEORGE: Is it like a reaper thing to take the long shot? ROXIE: I could be getting something done today GEORGE: There's a man in a cage with a bearly sedated bear ROXIE: V Kostakovich GEORGE: What? (looks at the post it, looks at the guy) GEORGE: it's not possible (gets out of the van and puts the slicker on) BILL: Whether or not that show of support will be enough to prevent Dora from being put down remains to be seen. This is Bill Bright reporting from Route 7 CAMERAMAN: Got it. Nice job GEORGE: What time is it? ROXIE: you smell like garbage BILL: It's always such a relief when I get to my name CAMERAMAN: It's hard to mess up BILL: You should hear my real name GEORGE: Kostakovich! BILL: Huh? (Dora gets out. There are screaming from the protesters) BILL: Roll tape. roll tape. CAMERAMAN: Were rolling (George takes his essence, as he walks over some cables from the television van) BILL: Great. What started as a typical animal rights protest has escalated to a dangerous This is Bill Bright reporting from Route 7 CAMERAMAN: Uh Bill (Bill turns round and sees Dora really angry. The roar is so loud that he pees himself that goes onto the cable that electricutes him) CAMERAMAN: Bill? Bill? (VO)I know a couple of things, I know that a few hours from nowsomebody will be standing in this guy's closet, smelling his shirts. Trying to reconnect. And I know where that bear is going. At Happy Time party (VO) She's going in search of the relationship all of us are trying to recreate in one way....(hugs him into her bosom) or another (Ranger tries to shoot the bear, George pushes him so he misses and hits a chair. The bear gets away) (VO) You would think that since I know so much about everything, I wouldn't do what I'm about to do Lass's household George rings the doorbell (from in the house Reggie says: got it) REGGIE: Yeah? (VO) I could do this. It was no big deal. After all, reapers look different to the living REGGIE: Do you want something? GEORGE: How are you? REGGIE: Okay GEORGE: Good.I'm a freind of your mom's. I like your hair like this (touches her hair, Joy come to the door) JOY: What are you doing?(looks to Reggie) Get in the house JOY: I remember you GEORGE: The yard sale JOY: You should leave (goes to shut the door) GEORGE: Joy? JOY: I don't have time for this GEORGE: Please! JOY: No GEORGE: MOM! JOY: What! (VO) I figured I wouldn't have a load of time at this point so I worked out just the right thing to say It was supposed to go like this.... GEORGE: When I was five I had an imaginary freind named Broccoli Bee and you took out one of your steno pads and we wrote a story with picture on one side and words on the other JOY: Georgia?(happy and sad look on her face) (VO)But it kind of looked like this... Millie: When I was five. I. um... I. um. I had a friend and. um. I. um. That's it, that's all that would come out. JOY: Get out (VO)I had lots of other things to say but somehow they all kind of melted into a fine mist. Mom on the other hand JOY:(her rage building) You are a real fucking piece of work, arn't you? Get out! get the fuck out of here! You think you can just show up here and pull this kind of shit?! Do you know what it feels like to loose a daughter? Get your skanky ass out of here! that's right! you run bitch! Run (Reggie is looking out of the window seeing he girl run. As George is running Roxie pulls up in her van, opens the door and George gets in) (George is sobbing, Roxie gives her a reassuring pat, then they drive to Der Waffle Haus, where Rube is sitting down) GEORGE: Thanks ROXIE: Mm-hmm GEORGE: Are you going to tell him? ROXIE: If you don't George goes into Der Waffle Haus picks up a menu and hides behind it. Rube is doing a crossword puzzle in the paper RUBE: I know the menu like a first phone number, still have to read it to know what I want. (Kiffany comes over) GEORGE: Can I get a number 6? RUBE: Want this? (gives her the paper) GEORGE: I went home again RUBE: Pass me a napkin (she gives him the napkin amd he wipes up) You okay? nods) You lose anything? Memories? I don't know. I tried to tell my mom a story and... now I can't even remember what it was. (VO) Its' cruel and simple, the more I held onto my life the less there was to hold on to GEORGE: So...my whole life.. all I get to keep are thoughts and memories RUBE: It's all we have peanut. I'll se you in the morning? Yeah (touches her hand to reasure her) (VO) At the end of the day all you have are your experiences. I spent so much of my life avoiding experiences, I didn't have much to lose. I was just thinking that maybe I'd done the whole thing wrong, when breakfast came (makes her smile) (the photographs are being printing out) END CREDITS