LESLIE CASTING SIDE #2
Title of Script: "Free Fall"
Draft of Script: Full White
Writer of Script: information not known at this time
Date Script was Written: September 1, 2005
Script Transcribed By: Gaby
Pages of Script: 43-46
NOTE: This transcript has all the scene descriptions, camera movements, and all other stuff that was in the casting side that choirmom got and posted on Fanbolt in their Sneak Preview board which was found by me in the summer of 2005.
SCENE #19: CONTINUED:
KYLE
It’s hard enough figuring out your own crap, without bringing somebody else into it.
Ephram takes this in.
EPHRAM
Sometimes. But don’t you think other people can help you figure out your own crap?
KYLE
No.
And before Kyle can wax any wiser on the subject of relationships, something catches his eye. A piano. A gleaming ebony Steinway. Ephram sees it too, and the guys look at each other. They both have the same idea.
EPHRAM
What do you think? Should we hit it?
KYLE
I don’t know. Don’t you think there’s some tuxedo guy here to play it?
EPHRAM
I don’t see him.
They barely hesitate before going for it. Kyle sits down and starts playing. It’s Thelonious Monk, and it sounds incredible coming from this piano, in this soaring hall.
A COUPLE walks by, slips a five into the tip jar on the piano. Ephram looks at Kyle.
EPHRAM (CONT’D)
Keep playing.
And then he joins him in a duet. As the cash starts to pour in . . .
SCENE #20: INT. FEENEY HOUSE. LIVING ROOM. DAY. (D3)
Andy and Jake are deep into their session with Leslie. Jake is agitated, feeling caged in. Andy, on the other hand, is starting to get something out of the session.
DOCTOR BROWN
. . . In retrospect I realized it was a mistake. After thinking about it - -
JAKE
A “mistake”?
(to Leslie)
Who does that, goes after someone else’s girlfriend when we’re supposedly friends?
DOCTOR BROWN
All due respect, I was friends with Nina first.
JAKE
So that gives you the right to kiss her?
DOCTOR BROWN
No. I told you, it was a mistake, and I’m sorry. I really am. If I could take it back I would.
JAKE
You keep saying it was a mistake, but I think you’d do exactly the same thing again.
DOCTOR BROWN
I don’t know what to say to that. I just said I wouldn’t.
Jake shakes his head, so frustrated.
LESLIE
Jake?
But Jake ain’t talking. Now Andy’s frustrated.
DOCTOR BROWN
Look, if you don’t think it’s possible for us to get along, which you obviously don’t, then why are you here? You don’t trust me. I get it. But if you’re not going to accept my apology, then - -
JAKE
You are such an ass.
Andy looks at Leslie - - flabbergasted.
DOCTOR BROWN
Aren’t you going to yell at him? That is NOT constructive - -
JAKE
You’re spinning it like you’re the nice, reasonable one, but you’re not. You’re just so full of yourself it’s incredible. You kissing Nina, that wasn’t a mistake, that’s you. You think that whatever you want is the only thing that matters. You can just reach out and grab it. I bet you didn’t even think I had a chance with Nina if you wanted her.
DOCTOR BROWN
What are you talking about?
JAKE
Whatever you want, you get. Youngest chief of surgery at Columbia Pres, sure. Time magazine cover, why not? And when you’re tired of that and want to go bucolic, you move to a picturesque little town and treat everybody for free. And when that’s not enough, you pick up some neurosurgery on the side.
DOCTOR BROWN
Screw you, Jake. I busted my ass to get where I am in this field. I sacrificed everything - - my family, my relationship with my wife . . .
LESLIE
Yes and so - -
DOCTOR BROWN
And I didn’t choose to come to this town for the view, I came because I was out of my mind with grief, because I had no idea what I was doing.
Leslie is now too afraid to speak. Jake seems frustrated, but he’s not going to apologize yet.
JAKE
Fine.
DOCTOR BROWN
I don’t even know why we’re having this conversation. This is about Nina, about what I shouldn’t have done - -
JAKE
This has nothing to do with Nina!
Whoa. Jake can’t believe that came out. And neither can Andy. Both of them are taken aback.
DOCTOR BROWN
Then what is it about?
Jake considers. A beat.
JAKE
I don’t know. I was gonna say it’s about you. But it isn’t. (then, realizing) I guess it’s what you represent. What you have, that I don’t.
Jake suddenly realizes that’s true, sinks into the couch, head in hands.
JAKE (CONT’D)
Dammit.
Suddenly, Andy feels for the guy as he realizes this whole thing goes a lot deeper than Nina. This is “man” shit.
DOCTOR BROWN
Jake, listen. You’re doing everything right. You’re balancing your work and your life in a way that I never did. So you won’t be stuck ten years from now figuring out why you’re all alone, kissing women you shouldn’t be kissing.
(then)
Trust me. You’re all good.
Jake nods, trying to believe that but we can tell he doesn’t yet. And recognizing his ambitions out loud has Jake even more freaked out than it does Andy. Off Jake, processing . . .
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT THREE