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INT. SALT LAKE CITY - LONE STAR RESTAURANT - KITCHEN - DAY
(DYLAN, BRANDON, STEVE, JESSICA)
IT'S LUNCH HOUR AT LONE STAR AND WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE KITCHEN. IT'S NOT TOO BUSY. DYLAN IS ON DISH, BRANDON'S CHUCKING SOME FRIES INTO A BASKET, MATT - WHO HAS NO LINES IN THIS SCENE - IS STUDYING A WHITE ORDER TAG, AND STEVE AND JESSICA ARE GETTING READY TO RUN ORDERS TO FRONT OF HOUSE. STEVE WANDERS OVER TO A ROSTER ON THE WALL.
STEVE
Where's Clarissa today?
BRANDON
I'm telling you there's something about that girl.
STEVE
Yeah. She has a life.
STEVE SHRUGS. HE LOOKS AT JESSICA.
STEVE
Guess we're the runners today. Doesn't look like it will be a busy lunch anyway.
BRANDON TOSSES A CHIP INTO THE BIN BY DISH.
DYLAN
Jazz beat the Timberwolves! 108 98 [1.].
BRANDON
Minnesota? Nice.
DYLAN
Millsap at the end; he was scoring like he was chuckin' chips into a bin . . .
BRANDON
But I bet he was right next to the ring . . . I'm all the way over here, and the bin's all the way over there . . .
MATT TAKES ANOTHER GLANCE AT THE WHITE TAG AND WANDERS OUT BACK AND OFF CAMERA.
DYLAN
You saying you better than Paul Millsap?
BRANDON
I score like Millsap in my sleep.
DYLAN
Yeah, that's the only way you score, bro; in your sleep.
DYLAN LIFTS A BASKET OF FRIES FROM THE FRYER.
THE CAMERA FLIES AROUND LIKE A FLY. IT ATTEMPTS TO LAND ON A CHIP, JUST BEFORE THIS CHIP FALLS FROM THE FRYER BASKET ONTO THE FLOOR.
BRANDON POURS THE REMAINING FRIES INTO A ROUND BASIN AND PLACES THE BASIN ON THE BENCH. HE LOOKS DOWN.
BRANDON
Hey - that's a curly fry . . .
DYLAN
Destroy it. That's an Arby's [2.] fry.
STEVE
Arby's ain't so bad. I used to work there.
DYLAN
For the enemy?
STEVE
Hey - they're a little more popular than us.
DYLAN
Fast food. Of course it is. But we make "good" food here.
BRANDON TOSSES STEVE THE CHIP.
STEVE SMILES.
JESSICA
Looks like a ring.
DYLAN DROPS A PAN.
JESSICA
Pick the pan up, D.
DYLAN
Huh?
JESSICA
Beat.
JESSICA HOLDS UP THE FRY. SHE BEGINS TO SING - “LOVEFOOL [3.]” BY THE CARDIGANS. DYLAN SMILES. HE LINES UP SEVERAL PANS ON THE DISH BENCH.
BRANDON RUSHES TO THE FRONT OF THE KITCHEN; HE FILLS TWO CRYSTAL WINE GLASSES JUST THE RIGHT SIZE WITH WATER TO JUST THE RIGHT LEVELS [4.]. HE RUNS HIS FINGERS ALONG THE RIMS, ONE THEN THE OTHER, IN STEADY WAVES OF TWO AS THE SONG DICTATES, PUNCTUALLY, AS THOUGH STROKING THE BREASTS OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN JUST RIGHT.
DYLAN CARRIES THE BEAT LIKE A GROUSE [5.] [6.]. JESSICA THE RING.
SHE CONTINUES TO SING.
STEVE SMILES . . .
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1 Utah Jazz (http://www.nba.com/jazz/)
2 Arby's: Curly Fries (http://www.arbys.com/menu/sides.html)
3 Lovefool - The Cardigans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIElvJRyNU or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivNdGBxNx8M&feature=related)
4 Wine Glass Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phqymc8anO0)
5 I'm no Ringo Star but I do have my own style. (2012). New Scientist, 213 (2848), 14.
6 Garcia, M., Charrier, I., Rendall, D., & Iwaniuk, A. N. (2012, in press). [Abstract]. Temporal and Spectral Analyses Reveal Individual Variation in a Non-Vocal Acoustic Display: The Drumming Display of the Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus, L.). Ethology (Online). doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.02011.x Retrieved January 24, 2011 from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../j.1439-0310.2011.../full
7 Clap Again - Akon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahq6UAbGABM&feature=related)
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INT. LONE STAR RESTAURANT - BACK/CUTLERY - DAY
(MATT, SAMANTHA)
CUT FROM LAST SCENE TO THIS ONE.
WE'RE AT BACK, IN THE CUTLERY SECTION. JESSICA'S RENDITION OF THE CARDIGANS' "LOVEFOOL [1.]" CAN STILL BE HEARD.
MATT PUTS SOME CHEESE BREAD INTO THE OVEN. HE PRESSES ONE BUTTON, THEN ANOTHER.
BEHIND HIM, SAMANTHA IS FOLDING NAPKINS AROUND CUTLERY.
SAMANTHA
Don't talk much do you?
MATT TURNS AROUND
MATT
Ha. No. Sorry
SAMANTHA
But you've got a lot to say.
MATT
Um . . . yeah . . .
SAMANTHA PUTS DOWN THE CUTLERY, SHE TURNS AROUND AND GRIPS THE BENCH WITH HER HANDS. SHE SMILES. SHE OFFERS MATT A HAND, HER LEFT.
HE TAKES IT.
MATT
Matt.
SAMANTHA LAUGHS.
SAMANTHA
I know your name, silly. And I want your right hand.
SHE PUSHES HERSELF AWAY FROM THE BENCH. MATT PLACES HIS RIGHT HAND IN SAMANTHA'S LEFT.
SAMANTHA
Can I show you something? It's not work related.
MATT
Sure.
SAMANTHA TAKES MATT DOWN THE HALL TOWARD THE FRIDGE.
SAMANTHA
It's not busy. After all; they got time to sing. We'll tell 'em this was a little orientation for you. But we'll keep this between you and I, ok?
MATT SMILES.
THEY TURN THE CORNER.
MATT