Foe_2023
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  <scene>
    <character>FOE</character>
    <dialogue>Screenplay by</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Iain Reid &amp; Garth Davis Based on FOE, by Iain Reid Draft: 13th April, 2022 © 2021 Amazon Content Services LLC. All Rights Reserved. This material is the exclusive property of AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC OR ITS AFFILIATES and is intended solely for the use of its personnel. No portion of this script may be performed, or reproduced by any means, or quoted, or published in any medium without prior written consent of AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC. BLACK. The sound of a floor creaking as someone walks. FADE UP QUOTE: "One has to be very careful what one takes when one goes away forever." - Leonora Carrington The creaks stop. The sound of a running shower. CUT TO:</scene_description>
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  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FARMHOUSE/BATHROOM - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The motionless figure of a woman stands in the shower, waiting for the water to cool down. We reveal HEN, late twenties and earthy, as she steps under, allowing the water to rush over her hair and face. The plug is in the bath, so the water builds up around her ankles. She turns away from the shower head. She closes her eyes, brings her hands up to her face. She starts to cry. Her crying intensifies until she's silently weeping. She's inconsolable. She spits saliva, then covers her mouth as if she might vomit, making sure NOT to make any noise. We only hear the water running. Later, the shower is off; we see Hen on her knees, scooping out the captured water from the bath to a few larger plastic buckets stacked along the hob.</scene_description>
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  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FARMHOUSE/BEDROOM - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>From the bedroom door, we see Hen, sitting alone on the bed, hair wet, draped in her towel, only the sounds of an empty dry wind brushing the house. She's facing the mirror on her wall, displeased with something, deep in thought, a strained expression on her face as if talking to herself with her eyes. DISSOLVE TO:</scene_description>
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  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. RURAL PLAINS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A distant, piercing speck of pale green light appears on the dark horizon. It grows, moving towards us hypnotically, becoming headlights. The tiny lights stretch, snaking through what we see is an endlessly vast, isolated, rural landscape.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. RURAL PLAINS - CAR/POV - NIGHT CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>In the fully reclined driver's seat, we see the torso of a suited man staring up through the open sunroof. The self- driving steering wheel guides him over the rushing road. Dead and orphaned trees sweep past like ghosts.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE FARM/CAR POV - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The lone car turns into a long, winding gravel drive off the main road. Far ahead, the pale green light softly illuminates a desolate, white timber farmhouse. A decrepit barn and shed sink into the night beside it. The car slows, then creeps to a stop. A soft car alert repeats, triggering the man to move, but we are still yet to see his face. His seat automatically inclines.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The green headlights from outside fall on a motionless hand, in an otherwise dark living room. The calloused fingers begin to uncurl. We pull back to reveal JUNIOR, a twenty-something farmer, asleep on his couch in the fetal position. The light washes softly over his sweaty face. He adjusts his position, coming to, his weary eyes open to the light. The sound of insect murmurations rise. He stands and stretches. His shirt is unbuttoned. He scratches his torso, picks up an open bottle of beer sitting beside him, and walks toward the window into the light. He looks out and notices the car stopped at the very far end of the drive. He waits to see if the car will turn around, or come up to the house. It just sits there, waiting.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hen?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Louder)</parenthetical>
    <character>HEN?</character>
    <dialogue>The creak of floorboards above him.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You expecting anyone?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares suspiciously at the car, takes a swig of his beer. Finally, the car starts moving...toward the house.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You better get down here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior, hearing her steps on the stairs, turns. Hen appears, wearing cut-off shorts and a black tank top. For a moment neither speak, Hen just stares.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What? What is it?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't hear you come in.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The light through the window strengthens over Junior, then dips him into darkness.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Someone's here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen walks into the room, turns on the nearby lamp, and stands by it. Hen watches Junior move back to the window.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Looking out)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Looks official, doesn't it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen walks over and joins him by the window. The car gets closer to the house.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Looking out)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Could be.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(Curious)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>When was the last time we had a visitor?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior notices Hen's finger curling a strand of hair, her toes reaching her up to see. Hen catches his stare.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>They must be lost.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car pulls up, just out of view.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Looking out)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Don't think so.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior starts buttoning his shirt, straining to get a view of the visitor through the window. The sound of a car door opening and closing.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>He must want something.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen moves toward the front door. Behind her, Junior removes an old rifle from the cabinet in the neighboring study. He clicks it open to check if it's loaded but finds it empty. Junior, confused, moves towards Hen, rifle in hand, awkwardly finishing the final button on his shirt. Hen notices the rifle.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Have you been messing with this?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What are you talking about?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's empty.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen motions for Junior to put it down.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>We never leave it loaded.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We hear the sound of footsteps on the porch.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Put it down for Christ sakes!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen's bullish nature births an unexpected smile from Junior. A knock on the door.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(To Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Go on then.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen takes a breath, then moves closer to the door. Junior lowers the rifle, places it against the wall.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Through the closed door)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hello.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry. I know it's late.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Is that Henrietta?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior steps closer to Hen, standing right behind her. He puts a hand around her waist. She stiffens slightly.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Who's that?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Terrance.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks at Hen, then back to the door.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We don't know any Terrance.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Junior?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is taken-aback that he knows his name, but before he can respond, Terrance continues.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>I think you'll want to hear what I have to say...both of you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen reaches for the handle, but Junior cuts her off and cautiously opens the door, just enough to reveal the stranger. TERRANCE, taller, leaner, more sophisticated than Junior, is clearly not a local, wearing a linen suit and white shirt. He's articulate, urban, charming. He smiles at Junior with a curious warmth.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's this about?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm here on behalf of OuterMore.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>OuterMore?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>The company.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We do electronics, data mining. But our current focus is off-earth habitation.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I think he means living in space.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks at Hen with a bemused smile.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Would it be okay if I came in?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior considers his request before opening the door wider, giving Terrance just enough room to step in.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Thank you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He smiles at Hen as he enters, then holds his hand out to Junior who ignores it.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Is there anybody else in the car?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>No, making these visits is my job.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Would you like to sit down?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior nods, reluctantly, and leads them into the living room. Terrance takes in the room, Hen watching him closely.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Great place. Charming. Rustic. How old is it?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Old. Couple hundred years.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Wow...I'm guessing it's always been in the family?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm fifth generation.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I love that.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(touches the wallpaper)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You just don't see this anymore.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Still a few of us left.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>But you don't farm it, do you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is taken aback.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>How do you guys survive? Make a living, I mean.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We have jobs.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sits in a recliner. Hen sits in a rocking chair. Terrance sits on the couch in front of them. Junior looks at Hen. She is staring vacantly at Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>This is exciting, but before I say anything, I'm supposed to show you this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance removes a screen-like device from his case and holds it in front of him. It plays a video that is typical of government-style propaganda, moving quickly through images of rocket launches and the inside of a space station, with narration touching on the challenges we face with climate, overpopulation. Junior stares at the screen curiously.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Speaking over the video)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We've been working on the next phase of transition for a long time. There's always been several possibilities for human existence in space.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As Terrance speaks, he stares across at Hen, studying her. She looks up, their eyes meet.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>The moon. Mars. But with our lands and seas transforming, as they are, we decided to build our own space station, our own planet. Somewhere new, somewhere less fickle.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's this got to do with us?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm here because of The Installation, the first wave of temporary resettlement.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The video ends, Terrance puts the screen away in his case. Junior looks at Hen. She seems distant.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I think I heard about this shit once.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's ridiculous. Why are we spending money up there when we should be fixing things here.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Our motivation is proactive, to help our children's children.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat. Terrance looks around and back at Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You got kids?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks at Terrance momentarily, then over to Hen. Before Junior can answer, Hen cuts in.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Do you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance stands, removing his jacket. He's sweating visibly through his shirt.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm used to air-conditioning. Could I trouble you for a glass of water?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen remains seated momentarily, then stands, grabbing Junior's empty beer bottle and walks out to the kitchen. Terrance sits back down and looks around the room. Junior is growing more suspicious.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you remember a time when there were farms around here, with livestock and crops. Real farms...no offense.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>As a kid. But most have been bought up or burned.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Burned?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>By the corporations. They need the land for their hybrid stuff.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I noticed all the canola on the drive. I didn't realize it grew this time of year.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>All year round. Barely needs water.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Doesn't seem natural.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's not.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A long silent beat turns awkward. Hen secretly spies on them both from the kitchen door, completely motionless, holding a glass of water and a beer. Terrance leans in close to Junior, relaxed, intimate. The silence is deafening, Terrance takes it in.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(softly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You could do whatever you want out here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is taken aback at first but then smiles, growing ever more curious by this stranger. Hen walks in. She hands the water to Terrance, the beer to Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You won't get water like that in the city.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I do love it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance brings the glass up to his mouth and drinks. Junior notices him watching Hen as she sits back down. Terrance sets the empty glass down on the coffee table.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>So, I've been assigned to your file.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>We have a file?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You didn't until...well...recently.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks to Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You didn't sign us up for anything did you?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Defensive)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>No, you didn't. That's true. But we've had our first lottery.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>A lottery...for what?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>For The Installation. And I am excited to say that you have made the short list.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance looks to Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You're one step closer to living up there. This is significant.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance wipes sweat from his forehead. Junior takes a swig from his beer, doesn't buy any of it, laughs it off.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Well, you're wasting your time here.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(To Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We've never even been on an airplane.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(To Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>She'd hate it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>This comment, his playfulness, provokes Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(To Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>And you wouldn't?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just saying. You wouldn't like flying.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, I should clarify. I'm talking about you here, Junior. Only you.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>We're not both on the list?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>OuterMore decided Junior was the more-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Desirable candidate?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance notices a resentment in Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>These tests require real physical strength, specific skills, that for better or worse, exist more in your husband.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>His patronizing comments make Hen fume. Junior sits up, starts to realize this is serious.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You're not fucking around.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance stares directly at Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Look, this is only a warning.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance stops himself.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, warning's the wrong word. This is good news.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Good news?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>The first phase of the Installation will be a test period...before the next phase...which will be permanent.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>And the Government knows about this?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We are the Government. Our station is orbiting Earth as we speak.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What if we refuse. What if we just say no.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance's mood sharpens.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You do know about conscription, don't you. Like during the old wars? If you got picked, you had to go. To war. If you didn't, well...</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Are you threatening us?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Let's not focus on the rule of law.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>This operation could end up being the most important public initiative ever. You'd be a hero.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance's intensity softens a little.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you want to live mundane lives, like everyone else? Or do you want to be part of something special and unique?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(Addressing Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Because that's what this is really about. A chance to be a better version of yourself.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You make it sound pretty good.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It's time to move on. Our planet was marvelous, IS marvelous, but it's given us all it can.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It didn't give us anything. It was stolen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Human beings are designed to progress, to expand, to evolve.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Change is one of the only certainties in life...</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>So is death.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior takes a swig of his beer, eyeing Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How'd you find us?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We collect data on everyone...</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Even when we live out here?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Even when you live out here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior notices Hen stiffen and stare down Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You watch us?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Choosing to live as you do, out here, away from the city, creates interest.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior smiles, finishes his beer, puts it on the table.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How long is this 'short' list?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I can't reveal that. What I can tell you is that nothing will be decided for a couple years.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>A couple YEARS?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sadly, these tests will run in two year cycles.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>And you expect us to just go on living, like everything is normal?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Yes. It is. Nothing has been decided yet.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen leans back on the chair, reflecting. Terrance stands.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Would it be okay if I used your bathroom?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance walks out of the room, pauses, looks back at them, then up the stairs, leaving Junior and Hen alone for the first time since he arrived.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers to himself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>'a better version of yourself'...christ.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Incredulous, Junior looks over to Hen, who surfaces a fragile smile, but, surprisingly, they don't speak. They sit in an awkward, bewildered silence, only the eerie creaks of Terrance upstairs.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DRIVEWAY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The silence carries as Junior walks with Terrance out to the car. Terrance puts his briefcase in the back before casually turning back to Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you ever get a little...antsy? All alone out here, just the two of you? It's so...quiet.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We like the quiet.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There's nothing wrong with quiet. But this kind of isolation is fascinating.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance steps around the car, opens his door.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I hope we meet again.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Look after that wee Henrietta.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior watches him get in. The car turns around and drives back down the driveway, out to the road. He takes a moment to stand in the dark silence. He looks around his property and then up toward the cloudless sky, spotted with stars and tiny flying satellites.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior enters the living room, expecting Hen to be waiting. She's not. The lamp has been turned off, the empty glass and bottle sit on the table. He peers into the neighboring rooms; nothing. He grabs the rifle, still leaning against the wall. As he takes it back to the study, he glances at the empty chamber.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. STUDY (OFF LIVING ROOM) - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He places it back in the rack. Then slides open the drawer beside it. Inside there are boxes of bullets. He shuts it slowly, confused, then looks up into the glass cabinet above. On the shelves is a collection of framed photos, vintage B/W images of Junior's family staring out, from an era when the farm was operational, abundant. They mostly show the women of his family over the generations, proudly positioned, shrine like. He passes over one of an adolescent Hen on horseback. He focuses on another more intently. It's a selfie of Junior and Hen. Not framed, loosely stacked. Junior has his arm around her. They're younger, both smiling; a beautiful sunset displayed behind them.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>9B INT. STAIRCASE/TOP FLOOR LANDING - NIGHT 9B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior corners up the top of the stairs and moves down the landing to their bedroom.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior slowly pushes the door to their bedroom open. Hen is already in bed, lying on her side, her back to the door.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Really? You're just gonna go to sleep? After that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen doesn't answer. Junior takes a step into the room.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry. Can we talk tomorrow? I'm not feeling well.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior moves closer to the bed and notices Hen is still in her clothes. He sits down beside her, starts to take his socks off. Hen raises her head and looks back toward Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Do you think you could sleep in the guest room tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want you to catch anything.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior figures she is joking, leans across, and starts playfully kissing her shoulder.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Since when has that mattered?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen pushes him back firmly.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'd rather be alone.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You're serious. You want me to sleep in the guest room?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Please.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sits back, but he is not buying any of it. He stares at Hen, contemplates.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How did you know?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Before he got out, you said, 'He must want something'. How did you know it was a man?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Is that what I said?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You said it when the car pulled up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen can see Junior is far from convinced.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It wasn't intentional. If I said it, it was without thinking. I'm exhausted, and if it's okay, I want to sleep.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>When you said it, you were so certain-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Sharply, cutting him off)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Name one woman that would drive up here at night alone. Go on.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>The way he was looking at you-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(direct)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Why are you pushing me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stands, throws his shirt onto the floor. Hen doesn't respond, then pulls the covers up.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Could you shut the door?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat. He can tell Hen is anxious.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(calmer)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Sure.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. UPSTAIRS HALLWAY - NIGHT CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior closes the door behind him and pauses. He stands there in the dark on the other side. Then, he turns to walk away, and before he reaches the guest room, he hears the alien sound of Hen locking their door.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - NIGHT CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior stands, surrounded by the clutter of their lives, but is suddenly struck by the perfectly made single bed. He stares, incredulous. He lies down on his back, hardly able to fit, eyes open, time and heat pressing in.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Under his breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fuck.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM/HOUSE - EARLY MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Like a surreal dream, the camera moves through the open door of the bedroom, then floats down the stairs. It slows as it sweeps into the open living room, catching HEN poised from behind. She hears the sound of Junior's truck door opening, then moves quickly over to the window. Through the slither in the curtain, she watches Junior get in and start the truck. Then, slowly, she creeps back to watch him drive the truck down the road. CUT TO: With a playful curiosity, Hen moves into the kitchen. Buddy Holly 'Ain't Got No Home' plays softly on the speakers. Surprisingly, she finds a fresh pot of coffee Junior has prepared and an empty cup at the ready. She brushes the cup with her hand, then looks around the room, imagining. Hen softly and haphazardly sings along to the lyrics.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(softly singing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I ain't got a sister not even a brother</dialogue>
    <dialogue>I'm a lonely frog I ain't got a home</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen surfaces the tiniest smile.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(now in 'Frog' voice)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What you say to me please say to me</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(loudly to the ceiling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What you say to me please say to me</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She stops suddenly, feeling the echo of her words, the emptiness of the house.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(shouts)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm a lonely frog I ain't got a home!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT TO: From the kitchen, the camera floats once again, seeking the basement door. It's open. As we move down, we find HEN descending the bottom of the stairs. We follow her, tentatively, into the basement itself, into the dark. She stops by a piano, covered by an old, dusty tarp. It's clearly been neglected for a while. She lifts off a section of the tarp and looks at the keys, touches them tentatively. It takes a moment, but she plays a single note. In the sustained, fading note, Hen senses something... Pre-lap: the screams of a thousand chickens.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CORPORATE CHICKEN TOWERS - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>...we move up the inside of an immense, cylindrical chicken tower. Hundreds of levels, an endless waterfall of beaks peck at the internal feed trays, the light at the top strangely haunting, monolithic. Another piano note... We reveal Junior, on a small elevator, in full PPE, spraying the cages as he moves up. He pauses as if sensing Hen's note. A strange stillness falls over him, making him standout against the mass of moving chickens, like a pebble in a fast moving stream. ...then a cluster of notes.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. ROADSIDE RESTAURANT/MOTEL - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A featureless landscape with a never-ending road is awoken by HEN. She rides in on her electric bicycle. She turns toward a remote roadside restaurant. The beginning of an unexplored melody...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ROADSIDE RESTAURANT/MOTEL - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The open plan restaurant serves mainly the corporate industries and their transient high-flyers. It's stark, tasteless, and the upmarket feel is at odds with its desolate surroundings. Hen stands motionless by a window staring out, waiting for a customer to order. A sense of possibility in her eyes. The melody quickly subsides. Silence hangs. The customer begins to order.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FARM SURROUNDS - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Both Hen and Junior are tiny figures stretched apart in the rural landscape. The farmhouse sits humbly in between. Hen, having just showered in her underwear and boots, carries a bucket of water in each hand over to the only tree that seems to still have life. As she tips the water, Hen momentarily looks across the field to Junior, who is now busy building a bonfire out of the household rubbish. He catches her stare.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BONFIRE - SUNSET/DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior and Hen sit on opposite sides of the burn pit. They both hold an open beer. His shirt is undone. His stare fixed at Hen, she is wearing a cut-off white shirt. Only the fire lights their faces. Neither is speaking. Hen periodically glances at him, the heat swallowing them both.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You know we won't see him again. They're not actually interested in someone like me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior swigs the remainder of his beer.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You might be surprised.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks Hen over.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Do me a favor?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Stop wearing that shirt.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Why? I like this shirt.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You were wearing it the day we met.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>God, that was so long ago. I can't believe you can remember that.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I really don't want you to wear it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The comment makes Hen look up at Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You're being serious?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>The more you wear it, the more worn out it'll get.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior keeps staring at her. Hen can tell he's serious and is curious.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What else do you remember about that day?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Only that I could have taken any road, but I didn't. And there you were...little Hen, looking lost.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(Grinning)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I thought I could help you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks into the fire.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I was surprised to see someone.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(remembering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I remember noticing your hands. They looked strong.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>So you figured you'd be safe with me? That I'd protect you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks up to meet Junior's eyes with a slight tremor of hesitation.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I had the feeling that you needed me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen leans forward, throwing something in the fire.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Do you think some things are meant to be?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You mean like fate?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Maybe.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares back through the flames, their eyes meet. There's a palpable chemistry, but strangely at arms reach.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - LATER THAT NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>It's oppressively hot. The ever familiar pulsing buzz of insects, strangely mesmeric, primal. Junior lies on the guest bed, in the dark, yearning for Hen. Hen is there in the dark, leaning by the door like a ghost. She's like this for several moments, then tentatively approaches the edge of the bed. She pauses, then sits beside him. She observes his sweating body. Then looks to his hand. She seems unsure, but then gently touches it. Junior just watches her. She then takes his hand and feels its weight fully in hers. Hen's breath deepens, and she weaves them. Her hands then move up his arm, feeling its curve. She removes her underwear, then she crawls on top of him. She moves slowly at first. Her movements get faster, completely her own. It happens fast. They don't even kiss.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - EARLY MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen and Junior are squeezed tightly on the single bed. Junior wakes up to see Hen on her side, already awake, gazing at him.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's supposed to be even hotter today.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior brushes the hair from her face, wipes the sweat from her temple.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>The more you focus on it, the worse it is.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen smiles, picks gently at a tiny scar on his forearm.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Do you still like it here?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Do you feel happy here?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(taken aback)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Of course I'm happy here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Aren't you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She seems surprised he asks this.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What am I to you?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't understand.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen doesn't elaborate. Junior senses something deeper.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Is this about me leaving? If you're-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>No, it's not. It's about us.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Us?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Did you have any questions when we got married?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior grows more concerned.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>There shouldn't be questions.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>We all have questions.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Not when you take your vows.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>In seven years you've never felt any doubt?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Never.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Getting married straight out of school doesn't worry you? Devoting the rest of your life to someone when you're still a teenager.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We weren't school friends. We're different.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I know.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We met at the right time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares back. Hen can see his vulnerability.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Tenderly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry. This is just a weird time for me. I know I've been distant-</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>-It's ok.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I had no idea what to expect. Who knows when Terrance'll show up again. But when he does, just...</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Just what?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing. It's nothing. Terrance is harmless, that's all.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How do you know?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's obvious to me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is perplexed, lost at sea.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think about more: the past or the future?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Jesus...what is this?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, I don't mean to pepper you with questions like this first thing in the morning.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior relaxes a little.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's ok. I don't mind.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen smiles. Junior brushes her with his forehead.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I think about the present.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Really? Tell me more.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Well...I think we need a bigger bed.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen laughs softly, realizing she's taking up most of the bed, moves a little, the two now resting in each other's arms, almost comfortably.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(as they laugh)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hog.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Their laughter soon gives way to a kiss, but this time more tender, mutual, growing... Omitted</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>21B INT. BATHROOM/SHOWER 21B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen stands motionless in the water. Her mind troubled, elsewhere; she breathes through it.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen sits at the piano. The tarp is now completely off. She's content, focused, her hands dancing over the keys, playing the melody we have been hearing. It's beautiful but imperfect, bluesy, and freewheeling. Her gaze widens ever slightly, sensing Junior's physical presence. A glorious smile surfaces knowing he's there. We discover Junior, sitting near the bottom of the basement stairs just out of sight, listening to her play with deep adoration. Time disappears... FADE TO: OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>23B INT/EXT. GUEST ROOM - DAY 23B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>From the guest room window, we look out across the dead trees to the great expanse of the farm. We don't notice it at first, but a HUGE wind and dust storm on the horizon is moving toward us like a tsunami. It gains, faster. The camera moves back into the room, revealing the complete picture window and then the guest room bed, now stripped of sheets. The light dims and pulses wildly... the camera keeps pulling back, into the landing, until there is no more light. The storm hits. Black.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT/EXT. LIVING ROOM/DUST STORM. - DAY CONT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The wind howls violently, shaking the house. From the dark, we move to reveal Junior, deep asleep on the couch. Hen leans on the living room window sill, where she has been for some time. From outside, we see glimpses of Hen in the window...the ochre dust and light, ebbs and flows, like she is underwater. Her stare piercing, unwavering. Hen's POV: A gust thins the dust. We just make out Terrance's car. It is marooned half-way along the drive; the storm too heavy for him to get out.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DRIVEWAY - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The storm has subsided, not a sound, not a breath of wind. Hen approaches the car. Her hand reaches out and wipes away a layer of dust. Her reflection washes over Terrance; serene, asleep. She stares down at him for a while, then gently taps the glass. Terrance slowly comes to, surprised to see Hen. A warm smile surfaces. The window comes down.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't know you were coming.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry. I know this time between my visits must have felt a little...tense.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>No. It's been good. Different.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You look well. How's it been?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Just wish I wasn't so hard on myself.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - AFTERNOON CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is still lying on the couch, but now awake, eyes open, alert. He overhears Hen and Terrance as they wander back from the car. We never leave Junior's face.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE(O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Where is he?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Inside.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sits up slowly. His breaths quickens. CUT TO: Hen, Junior, and Terrance are sitting in the living room, in the same seats they were sitting in during his first visit, one year earlier.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>To get the best understanding of life up there, the selected group needs to be random. All walks of life.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior raises his head, reticent, heated.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>So pick someone else. People like us don't belong in space.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>That's the whole point. At some stage, all of us may need to go. Permanently.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance can see Junior isn't convinced.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There'll be handsome compensation for you: a thank-you from the Government.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior remains silent. Terrance stares at Hen momentarily.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Imagine what this could do for the two of you.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(To Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Look, you've been gifted a rare opportunity that, for now, seems daunting. But, why does the unknown have to be a burden? Most people don't ever consider the full range of achievable existence.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Existence is achievable?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Yes. Living out of habit is the worst kind of prison because the bars are concealed.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Is that what they tell you to say?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Junior, this is incredibly rare. You've been selected. You're going to the Installation.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't like how you just show up here, say all this shit, and act like we should be thanking you, and why is it only you who keeps coming here? Where's everyone else?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Would having more people scurrying around your house and property really be better?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks at the duffle bag by Terrance's feet.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's with the bag?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Thought I would drop a few things off. I'll have to stay, now that it's official.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Surprised)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Here? You're staying here?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>If you recall from my first visit-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I thought we still had longer together.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>-It was all explained in the paperwork. I would stay temporarily if Junior was selected.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't remember that.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I assume there's a guest room?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>This is bullshit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen gets up and walks over to the window.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There's a series of steps to complete, observations, data to collect, all in preparation. Think of it as a series of casual interviews.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>When does he leave?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares over to Hen, their eyes lock. Terrance notices their distress.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Couple of weeks, and there's lots to do. This part is going to start going fast.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Look. I'll stay nearby, give you guys a little more alone time. Let's keep it to day visits for now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance stands, then turns from Junior to lock eyes with Hen, a smile blooms.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Relax. Celebrate! It's official...it's happening.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Despite the call for celebration, the three of them remain spread across the room, each in a statuesque solitude, with only the oppressive heat uniting them. Terrance removes a camera from his bag and starts taking some photos of the room. OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HEN'S TREE - SUNSET/DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is far out in the field, picking up plastic and rubbish left over from the storm, all the time watching Hen. She sits alone under her tree, unaware of Junior. She stares out across the distant forgotten paddock. Then she notices something on her leg. It's a piece of her own hair. She drags it along her leg, then pushes her finger nails through it, into her skin. She starts smiling to herself. The indents scar her leg. She brings a hand up and pinches her cheek. She does it again. And again until her eyes start to water. She clenches both fists tightly, shutting her eyes. Then she abruptly slaps the ground beside her with both hands. She does it again and again and again and again, eyes still closed. She then opens her eyes and looks up, then spits into the sky. She then gets up and walks towards the house on a mission. Junior wants to call out, go to her, but decides to fall back.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - DUSK/EVENING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior enters the house, cautiously. There's a lot of abrupt movement upstairs. Hen is in a state. He discovers a pile of their belongings at the bottom of the stairs. He spots Hen at the above landing as she throws more stuff down. Junior notices a pair of work gloves, the palms are worn through.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, these are mine.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You never wear them, and they stink.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I hate breaking in new gloves.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen appears back over the rail.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>This is why we have so much stuff. You can't let go. Of anything.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What do you mean by that?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior moves up the stairs after her, and corners onto the landing. Hen is dragging a box from the Guest room to the hallway cupboard.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's not like we've been living here for twenty years. All this stuff is from your past. Not ours.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Sharply)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So? And if you start throwing it out randomly I won't know what...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(He pauses in thought)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I need this stuff, okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen seems a bit taken back by his tone.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Your face is flushed.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I just wish you wouldn't get like this. Especially tonight.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What's so special about tonight?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We get to be alone.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior moves closer to Hen, but she goes back to sorting. She discovers an old VHS cassette, holds it in her hand.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Sarcastically)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I guess you wanted a quiet night in, just like the old days.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You're acting like this is no big deal? Like it's not happening. When do you suppose we talk about this?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>This is happening faster than I was expecting, and now he's coming to stay.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want you stressing over him.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior moves over to her, tries to calm her. She moves away and starts laying new sheets.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not stressing over him.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Then what is it? I hate it when you get like this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen keeps making the bed. She looks into Junior's tender eyes, fleetingly, and moves out into the hallway.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm really worried about you. I don't feel good about any of this.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Really?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She drags another box to the storage cupboard in the hallway.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm worried about leaving you here alone.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughs softly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You don't have to worry about that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior then watches her as she moves down on her knees, her back to him, to sort stuff in the closet.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Ahhhhhhhhh</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen shuffles out of the closet, startled.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Did you see that? That! In there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior leans into the closet. Behind a box at the back, is a large, horned beetle in the dark. Junior slides the box enough, so the light falls on it. The beetle is black and shiny. It has three horns, two on either side of its head, and one in the middle protruding upward. Junior is staring at it. He's transfixed.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I've never seen one like it.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>They're getting bigger and weirder. It's that fake canola.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to herself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Those fucking fields.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior continues to stare at the beetle. It's not moving.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I hope it's not an infestation. They'll get into the walls. Christ. That's all I need.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Still totally mesmerized)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It's only one.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>One is too many.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen gives Junior a little tap with her foot.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Junior? What is it? You're staring.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Don't worry. I'll take care of it.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm checking our room for more.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen's steps creak as she walks down the hall. Junior is hypnotized - it doesn't appear scared or nervous, rather more knowing, poised and ready.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Why aren't you moving?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - EARLY MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>It's dark. Junior and Hen are asleep in bed. A loud knocking breaks the silence. Hen wakes up first, sitting up. Junior, still on his stomach, opens his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Mumbling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fucksake.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen, irritated, slowly gets out of bed. She starts getting dressed.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Did he say he was coming back today? This early?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior, rolls onto his side, too tired to answer. Hen heads for the door.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. STAIRCASE - MORNING - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is descending the stairs, putting on his shirt. Half way down, he realizes how oddly quiet it is. He slows, and as he moves gingerly into the living room, he sees Hen and Terrance in the kitchen. Hen is leaning against the counter as the coffee brews. Terrance is beside her. Waiting. Saying nothing, unnervingly casual, intimate. Junior stands there for a while, then enters.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Good morning.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior doesn't reply but looks to Hen, who suddenly busies herself with coffee.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Actually, Junior, would it be okay if Hen and I kept going on our own?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You want to talk to Hen alone?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Just for now. Since we've started.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior pours himself a coffee from the pot, then looks at Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Softly to Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'll be in the barn.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen nods, they briefly kiss as he heads out.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BARN - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior fills up the grain bin, sips the last of his coffee. He leans against the wall and in an unsettled trance, watches the chickens start to peck at the grain. He focuses on the one brown chicken. It triggers a memory, a moment from the past that happened right here. A warm smile begins to surface as he relives it: We see HEN pick up the same brown chicken. She brings it close to her face lovingly.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Whispers to the chicken)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hello there...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen notices Junior staring at her, she smiles back innocently.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior nods 'nothing', he is just bathing in her beautiful quirks, her 'light'.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>They say the privilege of being human is that we get to decide the fate of other creatures. That we know better. It's crazy. We have no clue.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior decides to pick up a chicken...but just as he gets to the chicken, it runs away. He almost falls over.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Gentle!</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, yeah, I know</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen moves over to him with the brown chicken.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You have to go slow. Put a hand over each wing. Be gentle, like this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She carefully transfers the chicken to Junior, their hands brush together. We cut out of the memory, almost seamlessly at the same point, just as Junior gently wraps his hands around the same brown chicken. He breathes, smiles, pats it intimately. But soon, its stare becomes penetrating, growing more unsettled, warning him?</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HOUSE/DINING ROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen and Terrance are in the midst of a heated discussion.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>One could almost see it as immoral.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I chose not to. It's a choice. It's not immoral.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It plays on him. People around here must wonder.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't give a fuck about what people around here think. It's my body.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Through the widow we see Junior outside, heading back from the barn toward the house urgently. Hen leaves the room, Terrance follows.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>So you understand why it hurts him.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>A child seems like the next natural step for both of you.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>...I chose not to. It is a choice. It's not immoral... What? ...it's my body!...</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior enters the kitchen, just as Terrance walks back in from the hallway.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We just finished. Have a seat.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stays standing.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's going on? Where is she?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>She's fine. Here</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(Pulling out a chair for Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Have you ever had a custom suit made?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Well, this is the same sort of thing.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance motions to the chair, Junior reluctantly sits. Terrance holds a camera-like device near the back of Junior's neck.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What are you doing?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Actually, if you could hold your legs out straight. It gets a better measurement. Here, rest them on this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance puts a stool under his feet, moves the device closer.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>This is ridiculous.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance takes a seat. Junior slowly looks around the room.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Junior, have you given much thought to traveling? Before I showed up.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I know Henrietta has.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We have responsibilities here at the farm.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>That seems sort of fake, doesn't it, calling it a farm.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We have some chickens. The house. Land to take care of. It's been a farm for-</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Cutting him off)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Generations, yeah, yeah, you've said that already. But isn't that hypocritical?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>No. Why?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance leans in, Junior is taken aback.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>On the one hand, you try to keep your family traditions alive, the old ways of living, but then you work for the very corporations that are taking all this away.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's this got to with anything?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing is trivial.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior gets defensive.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How many others have there been?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How many have you met with like this? Gone into their homes, without warning, asking them personal questions...</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You know I can't tell you that.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>So what can you tell me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance stands up, moves directly behind him.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, I forgot something.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What do you want me to do up there?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You'll be part of a very special community.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance is holding a small patch.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Stay still for a second. I just need to put something on you. A tiny sensor. You won't feel it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance pushes the hair on the back of Junior's head up and presses the sensor into the back of his neck. Junior flinches and immediately starts touching it with his fingers.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want to wear that.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It's important. Keeps track of your blood pressure, heart rate, boring stuff like that.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>How long am I supposed to wear it?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You'll forget it's even there in thirty seconds.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Now, close your eyes.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is still rattled by the sensor.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Close my eyes?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Just for a minute.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior delays then closes his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Now, what do you see?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing. My eyes are closed.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I know that, but you know what I mean. What are you seeing?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Right now? In my mind?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior keeps his eyes closed. Sweat is starting to bead on his forehead. He smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We reveal Hen. She is leaning against the kitchen door, for how long we don't know. Terrance sees her and smiles, but keeps questioning Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Tell me what you see when you think about the time you and Hen took over the house.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Something immediately unnerving about that question. Junior takes a nervous breath, wrestling upsetting images in his mind we can't see. Junior struggles to answer.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Ummm. She couldn't manage it.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>She?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Junior's Mother. She was alone when we moved in.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior opens his eyes, sees Hen, and smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. You ok?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen nods gently.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>What else do you remember from those days together?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Glancing at Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I remember we were happy.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior smiles back at Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Anything specific, like any details, or is it more a feeling?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Anybody can remember details. But that doesn't mean it actually happened that way.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen's eyes dart up to Terrance. Through tears, she smiles.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FARM - LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Terrance is following Junior like a long silent shadow. He's observing him, taking photos and notes of his routine around the farm; shoveling out ash from the bonfire, turning the compost. Junior occasionally stops due to the absurdity of it all and stares at Terrance, but Terrance, undeterred, only encourages him to continue. Against a distant fence, Hen picks tiny red currants from a forgotten shrub. She places them in the fold of her dress. She pauses. Her fingers are stained red, her wedding ring too. On her dress a circle of red bleeds across her abdomen. She looks up in the dying light. She looks back to the house. Hen sees Junior a tiny, inert spec on the porch of their withering house, beer in hand, staring back at her.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Shouts)</parenthetical>
    <character>COOOO-EEEEE!</character>
    <dialogue>Hen smiles, then laughs; Junior is waiting for her return call.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Shouts back)</parenthetical>
    <character>COOOO-EEEEE!</character>
    <dialogue>Their warmth and levity slowly subsides, with the undercurrent of time, and their lack of it left together.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior and Hen are lying in bed. Junior is awake and watching Hen in a deep sleep. A memory weaves... FLASHBACK: WEDDING - DAY Hen standing in a soft cotton dress - its green stripes make her look like a spearmint candy. Junior is in a plain suit. Hen is holding Junior's hands, immensely happy, despite the fact it's raining. There are barely a handful of people in attendance, a few co-workers, holding umbrellas over themselves.</scene_description>
    <character>CELEBRANT (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>You may now seal your union with a kiss.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen and Junior kiss passionately. The small group applauds. They share a first dance, allowing the rain to fall over them. They move closer, turning slowly. There's no music, so Hen HUMS a quiet melody that only they can hear. We stay extremely close, Hen pulls away ever slightly, stares at Junior, rain and tears in her eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>To new beginnings.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We cut back to Junior, his face barely an inch away from Hen's lips as she sleeps.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>New beginnings.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CORPORATE CHICKEN TOWERS/HANGING ROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior routinely walks in a procession with other workers, down a long narrow corridor. They are overwhelmingly surrounded by thousands of suspended chicken carcasses, that move and spin along elaborate rail lines.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CORPORATE CHICKEN TOWERS/PROCESSING FLOOR - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A kaleidoscope of chicken meat moves hypnotically along the production line. Junior is mindlessly packing chicken breasts, pre-sorted by fast moving robotic arms. The pace is relentless, the repetition mind-numbing. Junior seems distant, agitated, losing focus. He looks around the room. An urgency rises in him.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. ROAD - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior's truck pulls out onto the highway at high speed, leaving the looming silhouettes of the chicken towers behind.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TRUCK/ROADSIDE RESTAURANT - MID MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is filled with a sense of freedom, accelerates in his truck. He looks out the window; the moon in the deep blue sky is following him, reminding him of his fate. He swivels the sun visor above his head, blocking it from view. He then pulls off the road into the dusty roadside restaurant carpark.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ROADSIDE RESTAURANT - MID MORNING CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior walks inside, and clearly looks out of place. He wanders around until he spots Hen, who has just seated a table of three. He walks up to her as she turns to come back. She's both shocked and surprised to see him.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What's wrong?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior doesn't say anything. He reaches out and takes her hand.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What are you doing here?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I started thinking more about leaving. Things I'll miss. Things that aren't obvious.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen notices her work colleagues staring at her, at him.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe we should talk outside.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is tunnel visioned.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Just like, stupid, little things. Like how by the sound of the floor creaking, I know that it's your steps upstairs. And that no one else could ever recognize that, it feels like a secret... between us...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior gets more intimate, Hen's breath quickens.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'll miss hearing those steps.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A table of corporate men eyeball them, as they sip their coffee, one with a particular coldness.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Please. Can we talk about this tonight. You know we need this job.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Let's just be together. Right now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks around the diner. She turns back to him, feeling pulled.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>None of this matters.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We're running out of time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen slowly relents, allowing the room and the staring faces to fade away.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TRUCK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The windows are down, Hen's hair rushes against the passing landscape. There is still a reticence in Hen, but as the sun streams in, we notice her ever gently reach over, without looking, and place her hand atop Junior's. Junior smiles, but her grip tightens, like she is afraid. The Canola fields stream passed the window.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. RURAL CANOLA AND BARREN FIELDS - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen and Junior move into the immense fields of yellow canola. They seem to be taking everything in, as if both are becoming more aware of the land that he'll be leaving, not wanting to take it for granted. A mega industrial harvester moves beyond them, the scale unthinkable.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. PINK LAKES AND SURROUNDS - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hours later, we see them walk over a huge PINK LAKE, only inches deep, caused by high-saline industrial run-off. It's like they are on another planet. We look down and see Hen's and Junior's bare feet submerged in the shallow pink water.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>She's bleeding...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Strange how dying can still be beautiful.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Everything dies.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Not beauty. It lasts forever.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat. Junior's mood shifts, a melancholy takes over.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Are you afraid?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks at her feet in the pink water.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Of dying? No. Maybe of not being ready.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They move closer to each other. Then their lips touch gently, tender, like for the first time, savoring every present moment.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BARREN LANDSCAPE - SUNSET</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Soil dirties their naked flesh as they make slow love in a powerfully felt desolation... LATER: Crickets chirp. They lie in a barren landscape. Junior pushes his bare feet into the Earth. His feet touch Hen's bare feet... she giggles, it tickles. Their mood lightens, and they look up at the wondrous sky, the first stars appear.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>How far does it go? What else do you think's up there? I used to obsess about that as a kid.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I guess I'll find out.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Have you ever thought that we're not even looking up at the sky?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What do you mean?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What if we were looking down. The sky below us...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior considers but doesn't know how to reply.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Try. Think about it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior smiles, perplexed. Hen smiles back, then looks to the sky. Junior follows her lead and starts staring 'down at the sky'. A moment of silence, as they both start to feel something. The camera turns upside down, the two of them hanging above the deepest blue sky, the most magnificent stars.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Sighing in wonder)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Shit...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen laughs, then her breath deepens, surrendering. The two of them fall into this imaginary, weightless reverie...then laughter, lots of it. LATER: More laughter. Hen and Junior, tiny naked figures, chase each other. Hen tries to smack Junior's bare bum, while getting dressed. He tries to run away, but he trips on a leg of his jeans.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hey!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen is joyously hysterical as Junior charges her. He tumbles with her, and their playful weave gives way. CUT TO: Closer; they start to dress each other, slowly, full of breath, full of life, full of adoration. Then, like a dream, a stray horse enters the open landscape, scared, flighty. Both of them, taken by it, in awe. Hen wanders over to it, slowly.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(softly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hey.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The horse is wanting her touch but is afraid. A delicate dance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I won't hurt you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is mesmerized by Hen, how she magically approaches the horse, calms it, and makes contact. She starts stroking its face.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Where are you going?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior moves closer, careful not to break their intimacy, their secret conversation. Hen looks back at Junior, her face beaming with joy. She then rests her head on the horse, in a beautiful union. Junior is swept up in their reverie. But then, on the horizon, more horses running. Junior becomes alert as he sees what they are running from - a huge smoke plume rises into the sky. Hen sees it too.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Another one.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But Junior isn't listening. Rather he starts to run toward it, scaring the horse. Hen struggles with it.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Wait...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suddenly Junior breaks into an all out run.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Junior! No!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to herself)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh, shit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT TO: Junior is now sprinting with vigor, towards the ever-growing glow. A stray horse, escaping the fire, gallops fearfully in the opposite direction. Junior howls as it passes. Hen, far behind, is now sprinting too.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. UNKNOWN FARM - BURNING BARN - DUSK/NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>As Junior gets closer, he sees it's a raging barn fire. The smoke is now heavy, all-consuming. A surreal universe of small embers float past in the wind. He notices a mass of Black Beetles scrambling over the glowing earth. Hen arrives on foot, but can't see Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Where are you?!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A surging gust of fiery wind completely dissolves her within smoke and embers.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm here Junior, I'm here!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen's voice barely audible as Junior is drawn by the fire. Part of him wants to try and put it out, another part is in awe. He moves closer, faster toward the inferno, but several steps into his run, he is hit hard from behind and collapses onto the ground, his shoulder slamming into a rock. Someone lands on top of him. Smoke and pain envelop him. Junior's badly injured. A dark silhouette keeps him pinned down with their knees, but it's hard to see who. He's trying to steady his vision, but the smoke is intense.</scene_description>
    <character>MAN (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(muffled)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You have him?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sees the shape of a second person, wearing a black suit, disappearing behind him in a flurry. Junior, disoriented and in obvious pain, closes his eyes as he is dragged ruthlessly across the rough earth.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(screams)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fuck off. No!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Black. The screams of Hen. Getting more distant. FADE UP:</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior slowly wakes up, his vision adjusts; across the room, he sees Hen helping Terrance move equipment up the staircase. Junior listens to them walking around above him. Junior tries to sit up, but his body feels immobilized. He notices his arm is in a sling. Hen is coming back down the stairs and spots Junior distressed, trying to get up. She moves swiftly over to him.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Junior... wait. No, no, stay down.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He persists, but Hen calms him.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Did they hurt you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen smiles. There is something different about her, more make- up?</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What? No, I'm fine.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Men. There were men. And screaming... it was you.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You're confused. You hurt yourself, but you're going to be okay. You're lucky.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(trying to get up)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We need to tell someone about what's happening-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Tell them what? You had an accident, that's all.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>No it wasn't, we're in danger.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You're the one that ran into the fire. Why would you do that?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is now genuinely confused. He can't answer that.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What was in the fire?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance enters the room.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I hope this wasn't done intentionally.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You think I did this on purpose?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>An injury doesn't change anything. You know that, right?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't even know what happened.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm glad you're okay. How are you feeling?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I can't feel this side of my body.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>That's the meds. They'll wear off soon.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen leaves for the kitchen. Terrance steps closer.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>But you won't be able to use that arm much for a while though. And you'll have to get used to that recliner of yours.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen pauses in front of the mirror in the hallway before re- entering the room.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You can't sleep lying down, not for now. You can recline to about forty- five degrees, but that's it.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What do you mean I can't lie down?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>No, the doctor did a minor procedure and...</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Shocked)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>A procedure? What Doctor?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>She operated on your injured shoulder, the tendon. It went very well, and she wants to leave it covered. You're lucky it's not worse.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is trying to remember. How long has he been out? Hen walks into the living room with a beer.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Handing him the beer)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen hands Junior two white pills.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You need to take these.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior pauses, still confused, raises the beer to his mouth and swallows the pills... Pre-lap: Jacqueline Du Pre. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>51B EXT. FARM HOUSE - NIGHT 51B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>In the echo of the music, we pan across the landscape to the farmhouse.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Terrance slowly enters the room with a new bottle of wine, channeling the melancholic beauty of the music being played on speakers.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Jacqueline Du Pre...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He sits. Terrance stares at Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>'A musician of nature with an unerring instinct.' That's how her husband described her.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares directly at Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>This hasn't been easy on either of you. I apologize for that. But it's worth it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance pours Hen some wine.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Can't we delay it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He fills up Junior's glass and then his own.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You've known about the possibility of being picked for over a year. That's plenty.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(drinks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>South of France. The real thing.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Why are you following me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen starts to look uncomfortable.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Keeping you safe, both of you, is crucial.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Both of us?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We're taking Junior away. And you've never been alone out here before.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Fuck you)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>So?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It could be a real strain on her, on your marriage.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen grows impatient.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You're the one forcing me to leave her.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>So we have to do what's moral.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>And what do you consider moral?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We're going to replace you.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We're going to ensure Hen has company while you're away.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck off. No fucking way.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Do you want to leave her all alone out here? Day after Day? Night after night?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen laughs softly, then downs her wine, grabs the bottle to refill.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>She can handle herself.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Hellllooooo. I'm right fucking here. Why don't you ask me how I feel about it?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Calm down.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You fucking calm down.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Hear me out. It's not another man. We're developing a digital replacement.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(as she drinks)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Oh my God. Because I'm a woman that can't be left by herself?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck is he talking about?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>No, but it is complex...and expensive, not everyone gets offered this.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>That's why you're staying here, isn't it?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>In the old days, you would have left Hen with a two-dimensional photo of yourself. This is the next step: a dynamic hologram with living tissue, volume, and a body.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want a fucking robot living with my wife.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It's DEFINITELY not a robot. It's a new kind of self-determining life- form. You'll see. It's going to be astonishing.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>They'll be a series of interviews. No detail is inconsequential. We'll use it all to finish the code.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>That's why you're staying.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(in disbelief)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>This is fucking insane.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>For example, what did you breakfast?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares back, astonished.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You know what my dad used to get us to do when I was old enough.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>What's that?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Test of manhood.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Don't be an idiot.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>We'd go outside and stand apart. Then we'd each get one punch at the other.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You'd punch each other?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You ever punch someone?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I can't say I have.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior smiles at Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I guess that's what being a man is, right?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just having a conversation.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance is watching them intently.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Would you do your test of manhood with me?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Now you're being dumb.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You're scared of hitting me?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm scared of hurting you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen notices Terrance smirking at them. She suddenly reaches across and slaps Terrance hard.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She picks up her glass, sips her wine, fighting back her emotion. Junior is stunned. A moment later, Hen starts laughing. Then, she laughs a little harder, until Terrance begins to laugh. Junior isn't laughing. Hen's laughter, slowly turns dark, emotional, as she catches Junior's stare.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(directly to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Just once, I want to say 'I love you, you mean everything to me'... like I used to.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - MIDDLE OF NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The living room is deathly still. Junior is in his recliner, a pillow propped under his arm, to support his shoulder. His eyes gaze across the dark room. On the far side, two identical beetles crawl up the wall. Their dark shapes are hypnotic. Then, he hears movement above him. Hen's voice? Junior gets up to investigate.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. UPSTAIRS HALLWAY/GUEST ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior rounds the top of the stairs and realizes someone is having a shower. He discovers the guest room door, directly adjacent, is slightly ajar, with the lights on inside. He moves over to it. He carefully peeks through the gap. There is an array of technological hardware. A strange black rod with a camera, sits on a stand, and there's tape on the floor, marking out positions? Something on the disheveled bed catches his eye. He moves into the room. Beside a duffle bag lays a photo of Hen, wearing the white cut-off shirt.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You can't sleep either?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior, suddenly caught off guard, turns. Terrance sits in the blind corner, shirtless, a bath towel around his waist. A small fan tries to keep him cool. He's lean, more muscular than Junior thought.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There's always room to make us more efficient. Eating, talking, sleeping - what if we didn't need to do any of it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior, isn't up for conversation.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's all this stuff.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm getting set up for our interviews.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Seems overkill.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior hears the shower water still running, looks at Terrance, at the bath towel around him. This all feels wrong. He moves to the door. Terrance stands up.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Can I ask you something?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>If Henrietta was the same as she is now, I mean identical, but was a bit less physically attractive in one significant way, do you think you would have married her?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Caught off guard)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>She's my wife.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Are you saying her appearance doesn't mean anything to you?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm saying, no matter what, to me, she would still be Hen.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Whispering)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What about this: what if she looked exactly as you know her, just as beautiful, but was a bit less intelligent? Would she still be Hen?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>This is stupid. Hen is Hen.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(softens)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're right. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be keeping you up. We have a big day ahead of us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior moves away from Terrance, who gently closes his door with a click. Junior walks up to the bathroom and rests his ear against the door. He slowly tries to open it. It's locked. He contemplates knocking, but instead decides to leave it.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is in his reclined chair. He opens his eyes, in the reflected hot light. He notices Hen in utter stillness, wearing her work outfit, draped in the arm chair opposite. She takes a long drag of a cigarette. Junior watches her for some time, until Hen notices. They hold each others stare. Then she sits up, dropping her cigarette in an empty beer bottle. Beside the bottle, he notices a glass of water and two white pills. She brings them over to him. He takes the pills, and as she removes the empty glass and places it back down on the table, he holds her arm, pulls her close. He starts to kiss her neck.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(softly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I've got to go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He is hungry for her. He feels her body. She slowly surrenders and it instantly becomes heated.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(softly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>He's here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But it's hopeless, they descend into each other. It's thrilling, passionate, but especially quiet.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. JUNIOR'S TRUCK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior and Terrance are in Junior's truck. They've left the farm and are driving along the highway fast. Junior's truck is old, so he still has to drive it, but with his injury, is only using one arm.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>So, you can do this right? Drive with one arm. It's safe?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks at him and smiles. For the first time, he notices a slight vulnerability in Terrance. Junior accelerates for fun.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It seems so stupid to us now, that a human would be controlling a massive hunk of metal moving at sixty miles an hour.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance looks out at the passing fields, filming momentarily.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing stays the same for long anymore.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A strange silence falls over them. Terrance starts to sing to himself.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I have dreamed a dream - of every common man - hoping to rise to the top - I have sworn by my blood as your man, my love - That one day-</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>-I don't care what you're planning, but whatever you bring here, won't be me. I can't be replaced.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There's nothing wrong with a growing self-confidence.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Just make sure, for your own sake, it never hurts Hen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance looks at Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Have you ever hurt her?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks at him with a resolute stare.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Could you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior contemplates, then suddenly steers the truck onto the rough road. The truck shudders and shakes. He accelerates faster.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks across at him with a disturbing seriousness. Terrance grips the door in fear. Junior bursts into laughter. CUT TO: We see the truck, tiny, shooting haphazardly across the rough wasteland. Pre-lap: Short, punchy, sonorous sounds - someone blowing into a bottle, repeats. OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>57A INT. CHICKEN FACTORY/VARIOUS- DAY 57A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior walks the long corridor, occasionally turning over his shoulder, amused by something. Terrance follows him with his camera, dressed just like him; hair net and blue overalls. CUT TO: Junior works fast on the production line, shoving chicken carcasses onto the fast moving line. He motions to Terrance; his turn. Terrance gives it a go, but is unable to keep up. Junior revels in it, a fish out of water. The bottle sounds get faster and faster.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BATHROOM - AFTERNOON (LATER)</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior naked, sweating profusely, at the peak of a set of squats. It's intense, hypnotic. CUT: Junior in the shower, every drop blissful. He blows into his empty beer bottle, making the sounds we have been hearing. He does it over and over until the staccato rhythm gets so fast, it becomes one long sustained note. He holds that note until there is no air left in his lungs.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm glad the pills are working on your shoulder...you do seem lively.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior sits on a small chair facing the wall. Terrance is sitting behind him, looking at the back of Junior. A camera on a tripod is also pointed at Junior. It's oppressively hot.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I do feel energized, like I've had too much coffee.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Interesting.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance is struck by his openness and moves over to Junior. Terrance holds something, and it flashes in Junior's eye. Junior blinks.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>That's good. Corneal reflex test.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior rubs his eye.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm afraid you'll have to get used to these tests. There'll be more when you arrive. Some less pleasant than others.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance takes hold of Junior's hand, which shows a slight tremor, and delicately spreads his fingers. We reveal he is holding a syringe with a very long, thin needle.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Deep tendon carpal tunnel reflex test.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A close-up of the needle. Before Junior can protest, Terrance inserts the needle point between the webbing of Junior's fingers.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck!</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, it's done.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance puts the needle away and walks around behind Junior. Junior is sweating noticeably. They both hear creaks on the staircase. Hen appears at the door. Terrance and Junior both turn to look at her.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(To Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're done at work already?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen is struck by the oddness of the interview set-up.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I left early.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Why is he facing the wall?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(Sharply)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen, you can't be here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen starts to walk over to Junior, but Terrance intervenes.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I think he's had enough.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Hen, we agreed.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen stares at Terrance, slowly submits.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'll be downstairs.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She leaves.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What the fuck was that?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We really have to make sure she's okay. If you notice anything unusual, or she is acting odd, it's best you tell me-</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Tell you what?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(direct)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Face the wall, please.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance walks over just behind Junior, he's rattled.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm helping you and your wife, in a profound way that you'll appreciate when you're back. I need to know everything, and everything you tell me up here is confidential. Between us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance pauses, realizing Junior isn't listening. He is staring at the floor with concern, drawn by the sound of Hen's piano below. There is anger in it. Terrance watches him for a moment.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Have you ever cheated on her?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks up.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>On Hen?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>No, definitely not.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You've never fantasized about another woman?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know. No, I...</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>C'mon.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen's music now has pain in it. Junior wants to go to her, but Terrance persists.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Has she ever cheated on you?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck you!</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Has she?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>NO.:</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You're not basing that on trust, are you?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm basing it on what I know.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you feel that you know how she would react in every situation? Have you ever asked her the question yourself?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hen's not like that.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You don't actually believe you know Hen better than she knows herself?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior starts to rock, and rub his forehead.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not saying that.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There are things about her you don't know, will never know, thoughts, feelings. All her years before you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stands. Terrance gently touches Junior's hand, seeking his eyes. Junior pulls his hand away.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>She has desires that existed before you, and exist beyond you. You can accept that, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior walks out, leaving Terrance alone. Terrance stares at his hand, then to the floor.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BASEMENT - EVENING CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen's music vents discontent. Junior feeling unsure, sits gently beside her. His head slowly deflates into the curve of her neck.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I suppose you want me to stop?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>No?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You usually don't like it. You used to tell me not to play.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior thinks about it. Hen plays harder.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>As long as we moved from day to day, living the routine that was established, that you established, you're convinced I'm happy.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sits up.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Walking the same path as all of them before me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen plays the keys repeatably to make her point.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Your mom, my mom, their moms and their moms and their moms...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She notices Junior's confusion, then smiles. With one hand she gently pulls his head back into her neck. The music slows, softens.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm starting to worry. What if the rain never comes?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want you to worry.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A small melody flourishes.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's beautiful....</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nothing more is said. They both float off with the melody, with the many questions that murmur in the depths. Music continues...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM / NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A black beetle scurries from the corner, up the wall onto the ceiling. Here it joins even more beetles, all moving hypnotically, in random formation. Junior lies in the recliner staring up at them, sweating in the oppressive heat. Hen's music still carries him deep. The music echoes, expands, a dream comes over him...</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hurry. Over there. Can you see?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The sound of wind. 61A OMITTED 61A</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>61B EXT. ISLAND IN NOTHINGNESS - CONT. 61B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We float high over a truly magical landscape. Pink and white water never-ends, a small island, sits in the centre, miraculous.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>It was here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT TO: Junior on the island, wanders across it, like he is on another planet. He is clearly unsure, timid. Hen is standing by a tree, near the waters edge. Hen is thrilled to see him, smiles at his awkward pause.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>There you are. Look. It's so exciting.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior closes in, swept up in her animated joy. She pulls him closer to the tree, and picks something off the ground at her feet.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>We missed it. It's gone. That's okay. That's good.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She holds up a single feather. Soft, delicate, colorful.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's it from? What sort of bird?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She points to the horizon.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It went that way. It's green there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior can't see any green.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Green?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>All the shades. Absinthe. Aquamarine. Asparagus. Bamboo. Lime. There's moss, and algae, and green frogs...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Then, from the corner of his eye, he sees another Hen(2), identical, only a short distance away. He moves over to her.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN(2)</character>
    <dialogue>There's no green.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Closer, he notices this Hen is in distress. This Hen is not holding any feather.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Little Hen?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN(2)</character>
    <dialogue>My mom used to tell me what it felt like to get stung by a bee, when there were flowers and bees still around.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen smiles at him, love in it, but a scary resignation.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN(2)</character>
    <dialogue>I always wished I could feel that for myself.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen moves over and reaches up to touch him, but her hand hits glass. Fear fills her.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hen. Hen. I...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Then, the sound of birds. We hear the other Hen, the first one we met.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Olive. Cucumber. Dill. Teal. Frozen mint. Green Apple. Pea. Leek. Peppermint...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT TO: This Hen has been watching them; a tear of rejection falls from her eyes. She looks back up to the sound of birds, thousands, building in numbers...</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>There's rain there, it's breaking down the forest floor - and you can smell everything!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM / ENTRANCE HALLWAY - LATE MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>An empty hallway, only the echoes of Hen's voice from the dream. Junior enters, having just woken. He listens for any sign of someone home.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hen?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nothing. But then the faint, haunting sound of voices upstairs.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>...it is illegal... so why all the chickens?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior curiously enters, noticing Terrance's bed is made meticulously. He then hears HEN's voice again, coming from under the bed.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Having other living things around does something. Keeps you hopeful, I think.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He looks under and finds the bag he saw the other night, on top a small RECORDING DEVICE is playing.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (V.O.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(A beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I really miss the trees.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He picks it up. On a very basic analogue screen sees; 'Hen 1 / -2 / -3\*' etc. His breath deepens.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>The trees?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN(V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>More of them were alive when I was growing up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He presses stop. He opens the bag quickly. Inside he finds a large number of photos of Hen. Some he recognizes, others he can't. Some are close-ups of her hair, her hands, her feet, her ears. He sits there holding the photos, disturbed, unsure what to make of it. He presses play, joggles back.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN(V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>More of them were alive when I was growing up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior imagines Hen. We cut to see HEN being interviewed, in the same room he sits - at night, candlelit. Hen's eyes light up with a child-like warmth.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Some were shy, some bold, others ancient, wise...you only have to spend time with them...I loved their personalities.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles, amused.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Personalities?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>People do. Dogs do. Cats do. Why draw a line with trees.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>We cut back to Junior listening, he smiles as he hears these words. Hearing Hen so free, so herself.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>That's a bit of a stretch.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>It's sad you need proof before something is real.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He leans against the bed, taking in the room, imagining. Then something grabs his eye. Under the built-in desk, in a blind spot, he sees a small patterned cloth shoved in what looks like a small hole in the wall.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Belief is deceptive.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He curiously pulls it out revealing a hole... He puts his finger into the hole, it goes deep. Cut back to HEN and TERRANCE from the interview.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>No. It's a feeling. To have it is exhilarating.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles, momentarily intrigued.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BATHROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is in the bathroom. He crouches down near the shared wall to the guest room. There are three drill holes, where a toilet roll holder must have been in the past. He picks at ONE of the holes, and it clears. He blows into the hole and looks through. To both his alarm and surprise, he can see into the guest room perfectly.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>66A EXT. PORCH - EARLY AFTERNOON - IMAGINING INTERVIEW 66A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen sits on the porch in the apricot light, a forest of dead trees stretch behind her. Terrance takes in her every nuance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Does knowing someone take something away?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Part of me says, 'yes'. To be like primal, animal, to not question anything...that's exciting, impulsive. But then comes a knowing, which is also beautiful and we need it, but it makes everything safe and understood...and over time...</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Have you become more self- conscious? When you're with him now.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - EARLY AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Bathed in the same Apricot light, he looks into the mirror. He peels off his bandage, and to his surprise, there is no scar. Not even a tiny mark.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(shy irony)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Maybe it was better when I was...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(tape ends - a beep)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>He looks down to Hen's side of the bed, tired and confused. He notices the indent of where she had laid on the pillow and then gently falls into it. He lies there on his side, the audio player beside him. He breaths in her scent and falls asleep.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>We move in close on his face.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>The pre-lap of piano notes.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>A gentle hand touches Junior's cheek; the touch is soft and affectionate.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>It's Terrance's hand.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior starts to wake up. His eyes barely opening. The hand starts to hold his face firmer, waking Junior more aggressively. The piano louder, fuller. Then, Terrance's fingers start to squeeze harder...and harder. Pushing Junior's cheeks together, until Junior is fully awake, in pain, eyes wide open, terrified, trying to scream. The flurried shadows of SUITED MEN move in his periphery.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BASEMENT - LATE DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen, sweats profusely, and surges into the keys, playing a deep, raw melody, surrendering to its movement. Her arms, skin, and shoulders glisten. She then stops, allowing another haunted, silent lull to fill the house. She takes a mouthful of her wine, then starts to tease the keys again.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - LATE DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We cut back to Junior, but he is surprisingly asleep. There is no sign of Terrance, no hand squeezing his face. Junior awakens to the music, confused and disorientated. He sits up on the side of the bed, composing himself, running a hand through his hair.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - BASEMENT STAIRS - LATE DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The camera floats behind Junior, drawn by the music. As he corners to the basement stairs, he sees Terrance. He is already sitting near the bottom step, where Junior sat before, listening to Hen. A glass of wine sits beside him, the smoke from his joint hangs in the air. Terrance turns, surprised to see Junior. Junior takes a few steps down and sits. Despite Junior's piercing stare, Terrance smiles, careful not to make any noise.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(silently mouths)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Beautiful...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance offers a drag, Junior declines, with an unwavering stare. Terrance turns back. They both sit in silence, caught by Hen's unusually raw and powerful melody.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Gil Scott Heron, 'I'm New Here' plays; Terrance hits every word in sync, to the delight of a drunken Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>But I'm new here Will you show me around No matter how far wrong you've gone You can always turn around Met a woman in a bar Told her I was hard to get to know And near impossible to forget She said I had an ego on me The size of Texas Well I'm new here and I forget Does that mean big or small Turnaround, turnaround, turnaround</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is watching them, neurotically, drinking more beer. Terrance and Hen alive in the streets of Gil Scott Heron. LATER: Psychedelic, Ethiopian jazz plays. Hen is up dancing. With Terrance. He is a good dancer, it's city-strange meets Charleston. Hen laughs hysterically. He's not used to seeing Hen so daring and alive. He grabs her hips and gyrates playfully, but something deep in Hen surfaces. She then pulls Junior up to join her. Terrance slumps on the sofa and watches on. Junior moves in close to Hen, so Terrance can't hear.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Do you like dancing with him?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I like dancing with you.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You prefer talking to him then?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>He's interesting.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is frustrated.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Do you think he's funny?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Terrance, tell us a joke.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>And the Lord said unto John 'Come forth and you will receive eternal life'. But John came fifth, and won a toaster.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughing)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Toaster?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior resolute, pulls her arm tightly. Gets in close to her ear.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want you two talking alone anymore.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks up at him, confused, like he is someone else, but she someone she recognizes. Tears of hurt brew in her eyes, anger even.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Don't ruin it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She rests her head on his shoulders, closes her eyes. Junior eventually relents, holds her close, and for a moment forgets Terrance is even there. As they both turn, Junior sees Terrance gazing but not at him. Hen now has her eyes open, and is gazing back at Terrance.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>71A INT. LOUNGE/VARIOUS - NIGHT, LATER 71A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen refills her glass, and wanders the downstairs alone. Her favourite music track plays loud. She sings and moves defiantly...but something deep down is pulling her.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - NIGHT, LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is sitting in the sweltering heat, sweating, his face is looking drawn, haggard, his eyes baggy. Terrance is standing beside him. Both are shirtless.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Hold your arms up, like this.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You've been drinking.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior reluctantly and warily lifts his arms. Junior watches Terrance like a hawk, as he presses a sensor into Junior's armpit.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Is there something bothering you?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I can feel it in you.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's more like an awakening.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior wipes some sweat off his forehead, he looks terrible, bags under his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Ok. And how has this 'awakening' affected Hen? I'm sensing a bit of strain there, perhaps?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior shifts in his seat, agitated.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You're always wondering how things are between us. It's sick.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I don't mind being wrong about that. Just curious.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Why are you asking me this?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance takes hold of his arm before Junior can protest, and fastens a metal bracelet around Junior's wrist.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Stop. What's this? What are you doing?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It's to help moderate your hydration levels.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks at it, turning his wrist around; the metal cold and shiny. Terrance swiftly moves back to their conversation.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Does she tell you what she likes?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>What's that?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Your wife, Junior. Is she open and honest with her preferences?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is growing noticeably more twitchy, tense, and irritated by the line of questioning.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>About what?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, come on. You know. Fucking. Is she explicit with what she likes? What she needs.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Angered)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What did you say?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Every relationship depends on open and honest communication.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior is about to stand up, when Terrance puts a hand on his shoulder.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Relax. It's just a conversation.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior lifts his chair and turns around, slips back causally on the chair, observing Terrance with a disturbing hatred.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You like playing with us, don't you.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>People fascinate me. You two fascinate me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles. Junior looks back with a growing disgust.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>People fascinate me too.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Really?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I watch people sometimes. See things.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>What do you see?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>The guys in the lunchroom bite hunks of their sandwiches, meat and bread, and grind it together into some disgusting paste. Whatever wasn't swallowed would end up stuck between yellow teeth and infected gums.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior stares at Terrance, at every detail of him; his hands, his feet, his eyes. The room becomes a vacuum of silence.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's not just eating. I've seen a coworker fall asleep during a break with his mouth gaping open. I felt sick at the sight of it. Think about earwax, and fingernails, and pus.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>I've seen guys spit on the ground and walk away. And we do all this stuff automatically, without thinking about it. We're oblivious to it most of the time. And one day, I started to wonder why that is, as I watched one of the guys wipe his fucking mouth on his napkin after eating and then blow his nose into the same napkin, which he balled up and dropped onto his plate, full of fucking snot, and very slowly, the napkin started to unfold from the ball, all on its own, as if it wanted to be seen, and that's when I realized our common seam, in each of us, is our own built-in scum. Our dirt. Our grease.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior worked up, wipes his own sweat off his forehead, flinging it off his hand, and takes a breath. Despite the extreme hatred, Terrance simply sits back and smiles. Junior snaps up and kicks the chair, then starts furiously punching holes in the walls. We stay on Terrance as Junior terrorizes the room. Terrance stands, adrenalized. He notices Hen's shadow under the door. He leans against the door, stopping her from coming in.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What the hell is going on?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Everything is fine, Hen!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Clearly, it isn't. We see blood on the wall from Junior's fists. Terrance tries to stay calm, but a growing sadness takes over him.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Fucking let me in!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is in the shower, the jet of water washes over his head and face. He is unraveling and upset, trying to understand what just happened, trying to remove the bracelet, violently pulling at it. His knuckles are bleeding.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Mumbling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen, Hen, Hen, what's a boat without an anchor - what's a boat without an anchor -</dialogue>
    <scene_description>CUT TO: Silence, an unhinged serenity. Junior, naked, staring in the mirror; shivering. Then, in the mirror's reflection, we see Hen, approaching slowly, visibly shocked by the state he is in.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Little Hen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior's breath deepens, he reaches out to touch her, as she too reaches for him, but suddenly his hand hits glass.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Here, it's me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior turns to the real Hen, barely hanging on.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Flatly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I was taking a shower.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She strokes his face, he starts to cry uncontrollably. Hen moves in quickly and holds his face. Junior looks to Hen, then holds her tight. Junior's breath quickens. She starts kissing him. It's primal, hungry. Hen undresses. Passionate and animalistic love. Time disappears...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - PRE-DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They lie in bed together, cocooned in stillness. Junior leans in and kisses her. It's tender. They part, we stay intimate on their faces.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You're everything.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen's breath deepens. Junior's face fills with a quiet joy and affection.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>When I get back. Let's do something. Run off. Go somewhere. Make a family...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen slowly shifts, tears build in her eyes. She smiles through tears. Then something dark comes over her. Junior takes pause.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Whatever we decide to do, we'll decide together. We'll be together. Like we used to be.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She's shocked to hear him say this. She closes her eyes. Junior puts his arms over her, holds her tight, through whatever this is...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FARM/FIELDS - SUNRISE</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen, in her work uniform, looks worse for wear as she walks towards Junior's truck and gets inside. Terrance is already inside, casually dressed. Terrance can sense her unease, that she's not in a mood to talk.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>How are you feeling about tonight?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks at Terrance and nods, then starts the truck.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I wish there was more time to give. For both of us.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They drive away from the house, just as the sun is starting to come up.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - LATE MORNING CONT.</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior is staring out the window at them until they're gone. CUT TO: He then starts to wipe the blood from the wall with a wet cloth. The wall is littered in holes and bloodstains. He squeezes it out into a bucket.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HEN'S TREE - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior buckets the bloody water around the base of the tree. He then sits under it. A gentle wind moves through the leaves. He imagines them together; Hen is walking amongst the dead trees as Terrance follows, carrying his camera. Terrance takes her photo. Hen looks back, coy. Hens face gently trembles, blushes. Junior knuckles still bruised and red raw, grip the coffee cup. The pain slowly brings his mind back to the world around him. Then, in the far distance, he sees the tiniest silhouette of a man in a BLACK suit staring at him by a dead tree. Junior stares back curiously at first; is he imagining? Like a dream, he keeps staring, then it dawns on him... He moves inside, pretending all is normal. The sound of a piano key, sparse, repeating throughout next scenes...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HOUSE - AFTERNOON CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He quickly grabs the shotgun from the cabinet, then shuffles in the drawers, finding the box of bullets. He loads it, storms back outside.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FIELD - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He marches into the fields, calm, determined to rid all this. He aims at the silhouette and fires, hitting the tree. The dark figure begins to run. Junior walks faster, re-aims, and fires. The piano melody repeats... As he gets to the rise, he sees more distant figures, dispersing, a BLACK passenger drone flies off. He fires the gun over and over. Reloading, firing, reloading, firing... until there is no more threat, no more bullets, only a wounded pride due to his invaded privacy. Tears build in his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Screams)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fucking Cowards!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Suddenly Junior is ambushed, pushed to the ground by a man whose face we don't see. The man leaps on top of him. They struggle. Junior manages to push him off, and punch him, but the man lands a brutal elbow to Junior's head, which drops him. As Junior lies on the ground, trying to recover from the blow, we see a close-up of the man's hands hastily clipping a few strands of hair from Junior's head. It takes Junior another moment to compose himself. He spits blood. By the time he collects the rifle and rises to one knee, he realizes the man is gone. OMITTED OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FIELD NEAR HOUSE - HOURS LATER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior looks exhausted, forlorn, wild. He squats amongst the weeds of the field, completely absorbed by the dark. A tiny light within the sensor on the back of this neck is flashing, slowly. The headlights of Junior's truck slowly enter the property. Junior watches it pull up, but his gaze shifts, keeping a careful eye on something else...a red light flickers in the far tree-line, as someone smokes. Hen and Terrance walk up onto the porch. They are briefly met by MEN IN SUITS, they converse momentarily, before stepping inside the house. Junior sneaks towards the house, noticeably weaker. A passenger drone drifts in the darkened sky.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. STAIRCASE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior quietly makes his way upstairs, careful not to make any noise.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe it's what was in the music that scared him.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>What was in it?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(emotional)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>All that's gone.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Gone?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BATHROOM/GUEST ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior brings his face silently up to the hole, and looks through into the guest room. From here, he can just make out Hen's face in profile, which is lit by candles on the table. Terrance sits closely across from her. They are listening to the RECORDING DEVICE.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (RECORDING DEVICE)</character>
    <dialogue>Affection. Possibility. Curiosity. That's the big one for me. Curiosity.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Maybe I shouldn't be telling you all this.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (RECORDING DEVICE)</character>
    <dialogue>Hen, this is your chance...to honor all those parts in yourself...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>GUEST ROOM: Terrance clicks off the recording device, and looks up to Hen, who is silenced by what she just heard. She takes a breath then looks up to Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I've always held this fantasy. That there's something else out there for me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BATHROOM: Junior's breath deepens, his face twitches. The light falls on his quivering eye.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think it would take?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>To leave?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>GUEST ROOM:</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Courage. The courage to let everything go. To follow what I feel. Not being scared.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Where would you go?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>There are places. Places with life. With other people, new people. With music...somewhere that doesn't feel like it's dying.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BATHROOM: Junior watching it all, descends into shock. GUEST ROOM:</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>And instead of trying to explain it to him, or to justify it, I would do the opposite. I would leave a letter. But it would be blank.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>So nothing at all?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It would say nothing and everything at the same time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance sits in silence. Hen takes an emotional breath. BATHROOM: Junior's world falls away. He leans over the toilet bowl, silently dry retching.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior walks through the door, unsteadily, just as Terrance is comforting Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Junior?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sees that there are tears in her eyes. He turns to Terrance, hurt in his eyes, unnerving aggression.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You lying piece of shit.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We're going to clarify everything.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>It's pretty fucking obvious.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>So tell me.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>This is over. And You're leaving. Now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen moves to the corner of the room, uneasy. Junior unsteadily walks over to Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>And you're going to talk to me. Properly...no more bullshit.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think is going on?</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>NO. NO MORE QUESTIONS. Hen, this has to stop.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior sways slightly, eyeing them both.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>You want my wife, don't you. Keep her company while I'm gone. How fucking convenient. You're sick. SICK.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior takes a step forward but is too tired. He leans against the wall. Looks at Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughs under breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fucking replacement.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(Standing - quietly)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Junior...it's not what-</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Sssshhh...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He lunges over to Hen and embraces her. She is scared, but holds him. They start to waltz.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Do something.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior looks up into her eyes, thinking she is whispering to him. He smiles, then starts to hum the melody from their wedding. He then slumps onto the floor, unconscious. Blackness. FADE TO:</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - DAY - ONE WEEK LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The camera floats from the landing into the bedroom, towards Hen. Having just showered, she sits staring at the mirror. The sun is harsh, raw. We float in closer. She takes a pair of scissors to her hair, and starts to cut. The cut hair falls over her bare chest and shoulders, like pine needles on a forest floor. DISSOLVE:</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen up close, her eyes closed. It's dark, surreal. The sound of a Passenger Drone. A moving light from the window momentarily washes through, revealing she is seated in the kitchen, wearing a pretty floral dress, and now a new haircut - a stylish bob. She slowly opens her eyes, sensing, recognizing someone. She stands, then gently moves across the room, towards them. It's Junior(JR), fresh and cleanly shaven, but approaching with a subtle limp, a desperation. A weary relief fills his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR\[JR\]</character>
    <parenthetical>(through breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Little Hen...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They embrace. Kiss. Hen strokes his face, looks at him. Junior's(JR) head sinks into her chest, holding her tight. They rest against the dining table, in a silent, womblike embrace. Terrance, wearing a suit and tie, slowly enters the room. Behind him, we glimpse other people in suits (FORMAL PEOPLE), respectfully staring back, moved by the reunion. Terrance's hand comes to rest on Junior's(JR) shoulder, gently breaking their embrace. Junior(JR) lifts his head.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's time...</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR\[JR\]</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Terrance)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Ok.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior(JR) looks back to Hen.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR\[JR\]</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Hen)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Come with me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen shakes her head with trepidation, not ready to partake. Terrance and Junior(JR) leave the room. As they do, we see more of the kitchen. In the neighboring doorways, we notice more FORMAL PEOPLE lingering. We hear the crackle of com's, indecipherable communication. Hen becomes increasingly nauseated, as she watches them leave, into a strange pink light.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN/LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We stay close on Junior(JR) as he enters the living room, flanked by Terrance. Outside, there are floodlights coming in the windows, trucks parked, silhouettes walking. We sweep past a stack of computers, whirring. The furniture has been removed. Several cameras on tripods sit around the room, pointing away from Junior(JR), towards something that suddenly stuns him. Sitting on the floor, he sees a complete replica of himself, identical in every way, bar the rough stubble and facial hair. An intense, pale pink light fills his face. He blinks several times, attempting to focus. He can only make out abstract silhouettes. A miniature CAMERA DRONE hovers around him, lights flashing.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(On floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry. I know you're confused.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Junior(JR) beside Terrance is drawn closer.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR\[JR\]</character>
    <dialogue>Holy shit. It's so fucking real.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The gaze, from Junior on the ground, sharpens suddenly, trying to comprehend what he just heard. He attempts to lift his head, but it's heavy and requires effort. He tries to move his arm and realizes there are metal bracelets on his wrists, with wires pulling them down. As he struggles against them, we not only notice his damaged knuckles, but the wires are looped from the wrists down to ankle bracelets. He can now see, and starts to take in the room.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I know how you must be feeling, but I need you to stay calm.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He isn't listening to Terrance, but is now staring at his PERFECT double, standing before him. He can't believe what he's seeing. He's both captivated and mortified.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No... No...</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry we had to deceive you, but it was the only way to test your full capacity and function.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It's critical that you were lucid enough to experience the reversal face to face.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The two Juniors look at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>He's not the replacement, Junior. It's you. This is Hen's real husband.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No, no, no. That's bullshit!</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Where is she?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen! Hen!</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>She's safe, in the house...</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen! Don't listen to him. Don't worry. I'm not going to let them do anything to you. I'm not going anywhere.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen slowly paces in the kitchen. She raises her hands to her face, sick with emotion, barely able to listen.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We brought you here on my first visit, the same day, he, Junior (the one standing beside him), left to live on the Installation. That was the day your mission started. When our headlights turned you on. That was the beginning. We left the rest up to you.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You're lying.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>We wanted your present tense to be your focus, but we also had to design your memories. We gave them to you after spending many months talking with Junior before he left. Your memories are his.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(shouts into the house)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen, tell him he's lying!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks up, exasperated, torn...</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen, I need to know you're Ok!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>...then moves towards the doorway and stops, directly in Junior's view, but he hasn't noticed her yet. Her face ethereal in the soft pink light.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(getting desperate)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I need to hear your voice!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen is shocked to see the state of him. Tears build in her eyes, flooded with grief. The Junior on the floor, spots her standing at the edge of the room, relief rushes through him; he takes some breaths, a smile, but then uncontrollable tears. Hen moves over to Junior, kneels on the floor. She tries to ease the bracelets on his bleeding wrists. Junior(JR) watches her.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(intimate)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm here. It's ok.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(intimate)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Please. Whatever this is, whatever you've done, it doesn't matter.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen pulls at the bracelets angrily.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Why!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Then his hand grips hers. She leans in, he whispers something we can't hear. She then whispers back.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Me too.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The moment catches her quick, she looks over to her husband Junior(JR), who stares back numb and confused.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen. You need to get away from here.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>No.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance is studying their exchange. Hen eyes Terrance, then slowly stands, realizing she is on display. The Junior on the floor, then stares back at Junior(JR). A strange and beguiling intensity brews between them; hatred, vulnerability, empathy, sadness, desperation...</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You can't leave it with her...she doesn't want it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance whispers something to one of the other men, who then walks over and stands closer to Junior. They start to unpack a large case.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(watching the men)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You don't need to do this. Not this.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior on floor)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Can you tell me what you're feeling now, Junior? Physically, I mean.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Junior exasperated by his cruelty, starts to laugh... a laugh becoming guttural, deep, full of pain. Terrance isn't looking at Junior anymore, rather only at Hen, at the magnitude of her emotions and her complexity. Hen becomes aware of his gaze, but also the gaze of the room.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <parenthetical>(to Junior)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Don't listen to him.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>She's been a part of this the whole time-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>-I NEVER wanted this. Never.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Hen? What's happening?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>All eyes are on Hen. Words she needs to say, a truth too devastating to tell. She stares at Terrance with an intensity we haven't seen. Two men walk towards Hen. They try to calmly escort her from the room, but they are met with fierce defense. She falls down to the ground, and anchors onto Junior.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>NO!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They grab her arms, she pushes them away, a struggle ensues. Junior tries to defend Hen, too, but his wrists remain helplessly tied.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>Get the fuck off her!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>More FORMAL PEOPLE enter and gather in the room, to watch on. She surveys their staring faces, as she struggles violently.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Shame! Shame on all of</dialogue>
    <scene_description>you. Hen starts screaming, as the men manage to pull her away into the hallway, then outside...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>88B EXT. HOUSE/FIELD - NIGHT CONTINUOUS 88B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen is feral, raging, but soon too exhausted to fight. They gently rest her on the ground. They step back. She starts to breakdown. She then gets up and runs, but they block her. She falls back down to her knees. OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Four men, wearing tight, disposable gloves, walk up to Junior. They kneel next to Junior and start to remove his bracelets. Junior's head falls with exhaustion. A moment of silence; a moment of helplessness now that Hen is not here. He stares at his freed wrists, watching the blood move slowly down his arm. Junior is injected in the back of the neck with a large needle. The other Junior(JR) is in shock, he too stares at it, a strange empathy floods him. OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The men, on either side of Junior, lift him and slide a large translucent sheet under him. Terrance bends down to get close to Junior's face, as the men start cutting off his clothes.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>They're going to be writing about you for years.</dialogue>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <dialogue>This is MY life. This is OUR life! Together.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The FORMAL PEOPLE surround Junior in a quiet awe, getting a closer look.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(mumbles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen, we'll go somewhere else...not everywhere is dying.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The other Junior(JR), slowly retreats and sits on a chair in the back of the room - glimpsing the other Junior through the slow flurry of silhouettes. Terrance sits calmly, a voyeur, observing them both very closely.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Screams)</parenthetical>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HOUSE/FIELD - NIGHT CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen is now sitting on the ground. She has lost one shoe, her bare foot pushes into the soil. Her hands scrape at the earth.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Junior squirms and sinks flat to the floor on his side. The men start cutting off the rest of his clothes, stripping him down. The men are rubbing a clear gel over him.</scene_description>
    <character>JUNIOR</character>
    <parenthetical>(Undecipherable mumbling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Junior now appears frozen. Except for his eyes which are still alive, alert, moving around the room.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>There were other possibilities for how this part would go, but we decided it made the most sense for you to be made aware, to see the end for yourself.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The men then lift a section of plastic over Junior, who is now naked in the fetal position. They run a small heat sealer around its edges, effectively sealing him in. Junior is trying to say something, but we can't hear him. Then, a vacuum-like device instantly sucks all the air from the bag in a violent rush. Junior is embalmed and doesn't move. Like a womb, we see Junior faintly through the plastic. Silence falls over everything. Then his eyes lock onto something. We push in... Cut to a VISION; the camera floats like an effortless spirit, moving through the most lush, virginal forest. In amongst those trees...the ancient, the bold, the timid. Time disappears... A single tear leaks from Junior's eye. Terrance sits in complete stillness, watching him, wondering what's in his mind. A few final breaths, a twitch of his index finger, and he is gone. The people in the room erupt in applause. Before Junior(JR) can emotionally recover, he is pulled up by Terrance and given a celebratory hug. Then Terrance turns, embraced by all his colleagues gathering around him, tears of pride well up in his eyes. Drinks get passed around. Terrance sips his champagne, with the thought of Hen out there, the same thought consuming Junior (JR).</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HOUSE/FIELD - NIGHT CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The sounds of celebration fall over Hen. Consumed by unimaginable loss, consumed by the darkness of guilt. Their house in the far background, lit up in pink. Note: for clarity going forward, we will use JR to represent the real Junior, BUT he is still referred to and known as Junior. OMITTED 96A OMITTED 96A</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BATH - LATER THAT MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen tenderly aids a naked Junior into the bath. His muscles and joints are weak from years in space.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <parenthetical>(under breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fuck this gravity shit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He finally sits in the water, breathes out with relief. Hen takes off her dress.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - MORNING CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen and JR sit naked on the edge of their bed... JR reaches across, touches her back carefully, then slides his hand to her breast. He holds it. Feels it. Needs it. Hen looks at him, just a hollow shell. JR's hand drops away, regret in his eyes. Then Hen starts to cry uncontrollably. For a moment, she wants JR to be Junior. Just for a moment he is. She embraces him, they lie down. Hen moves on top. JR squirms, disturbed by her growing passion. He pushes her off him firmly. Then they just lie there. Hen groans with grief. OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. GUEST ROOM - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>JR curiously surveys the room, with what is now haunting patched holes across the walls. Confused, he stands and looks around the room. In the corner is a swept-up pile of plaster and rubble. Something catches his eye; a picture of Hen in the white T- Shirt from all those years ago. He picks it up and stares at it. Hen's smiling face engulfs him. Through the window, we see the outside landscape begin to move, to spin. His hands tremble, his breath deepens. He leans against the wall with one arm. His breath gets more erratic, remembering; Through a window of a space craft, we see EARTH rush past. Then it rushes through again. Not unlike the chicken towers, we look up from inside the massive cylindrical cabin, with hundreds of people strapped in, row upon row, on the outer walls. The top has a clear opening with light streaming in, we see the space-station. We are on JR as the cabin spins faster and faster to match the rotation to that of the main space-station, docking procedure... JR sweats, unable to cope. Claustrophobia. Vertigo. Nausea. Swirling, over and over... JR is overwhelmed. Not only riddled with the trauma of space, but the state of his marriage. He grips the wall with deep desperation, the outside landscape, and his life spins out of control.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>100A EXT. DEAD TREE - DUSK 100A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen lays on the ground, held in a woven embrace with the large sweeping root of a dead tree.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ROADSIDE RESTAURANT - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen exits the kitchen, two plates of deep-fried flounder on her arms. She crosses the floor to deliver the meals, but as she does, she notices Terrance sitting alone at a table on the far side. She slows, shocked to see him. Terrance looks up at her and smiles, takes a sip of his water. She places the meals on the customer's table, and cautiously wanders over to Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Why are you here?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>To see you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance gazes at Hen, long enough to expose a vulnerability in both of them.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I want to know how things are going. At home. Now that Junior's back.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Why do you care?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I care because I like you, and I consider you a colleague.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not your colleague. I'm not like you. Not in any way. And now I feel stupid.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You shouldn't feel stupid. You did so well.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>No, I do.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You made it sound so exciting, with</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>all that big talk...and I told you things. Private things. I actually thought you cared. No. All you needed was me, wasn't it? Just a farmer's wife on the edge to prey on...</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>What YOU did...was essential. It was historic. It was beautiful.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Beautiful?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(sotto)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What WE did can never be forgiven. It was cruel. It was...meaningless.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>This stings Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Stop feeling guilty for being part of advancement. It's our duty as intelligent people to transcend boundaries, not yield to them.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Our duty is to be human and to live.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Don't you have questions about how this has changed you?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Yes, I have many questions. But they aren't the same as yours.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm a Creator. Creators make the future possible. Your future possible.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Your arrogance is disgusting.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance smiles, but is hurt.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>It's a shame you're feeling so much...regret.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm feeling a responsibility.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance leans forward, more intimate, vulnerable.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <parenthetical>(whispers)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>There's so much we could share.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen goes to stand up, but Terrance gently grabs her arm.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Sit down, please, let me explain something to you-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen pulls her arm free.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>No. I never have to listen or talk to you again.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance breathes, stares back at her.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>That's fine. Just know that I spent years with Junior before he left. And we've talked a lot about you. I know everything I need to know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance leans in, more intimate.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Hen, I know what he needs. And I'm not sure you can give that to him now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks straight at Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>No. You must never do this again.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I am doing this for you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance becomes suddenly calm, reaches into Hen's eyes with a disconcerting warmth.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I can make it easier on him, if you ever do make that decision-</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Decision?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>To leave. Or is that still a fantasy?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen lets that sit for a moment, angry tears brew, then she leans forward, intimate, fearless, calm.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>You know, the only thing I truly believe, and it's our biggest flaw.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen stands up, looking down at Terrance.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Believing we understand things we can't ever possibly understand.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance watches Hen turn and walk off across the floor. She passes a table and gathers empty plates, like she has a million times before. A101A OMITTED A101A 101A OMITTED 101A</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN/FARMHOUSE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen opens two beers, passes one to JR sitting at the table. Hen then moves to the counter and finishes serving up dinner onto old porcelain plates. She places them on the table and sits down, they start to eat. They swig their beers, chew their food, all amidst this awkward silence. Hen is watching JR. He rarely looks back, but he notices her unease.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>They say looking back at Earth changes you.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Did it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR says nothing.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Has anything changed for you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR looks up directly at her with heavy, resentful eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Why?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen stiffens.</scene_description>
    <character>JR</character>
    <dialogue>I was hoping for loyalty. Trust.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>How can you say that?</dialogue>
    <character>JR</character>
    <dialogue>You're my fucking wife.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's not like that-</dialogue>
    <character>JR</character>
    <dialogue>-oh, then what was it then?</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>I saw you, Junior, in him. I did.</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>You saw me...in it?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks up again, making eye contact.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Yes. I saw who I fell in love with. Then I saw the parts you never show me.</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>You're fucking crazy.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>The parts you've lost Junior. What we've lost.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR sits back, stung, then smiles through tears at her bluntness.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>It wasn't me, Hen. It wasn't REAL.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>This IS real. What I'm feeling is real.</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>I know what I am. What we need.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>And what is that?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(JR doesn't answer)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>To take each other for granted?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>To stay like this? To stand still?</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>For what? Junior, there's nothing here for us. Let's just leave, get out of here. Do something, together.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR darkens, then points to the window.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>My family is out there. Buried in the ground. And I won't do it to them. No. I won't throw it away, to go off on a wander, to prove what? This farm, this house, this life - WE made it. It's US. We should be proud.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>There's nothing out there for you. I know that now. I just need you right here, where we are.</dialogue>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Right here, where I've always been.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR just sits there, says nothing. Hen stares at him a while, then gets up, thinking. She takes their plates to the sink. She puts them in but just stands there, looking down at them. She doesn't rinse them as she usually would.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>What does it mean if you can't risk something with me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen looks up from the plates, right at JR. JR looks away, then down toward the floor. He can't answer her, or doesn't want to. Then, in the severe silence, they hear something...very gently at first, then growing, the sound of rain drops on the roof. It builds. It takes a moment for both of them to actually register, believe it. Hen turns and looks at JR, amazed. She moves through the house. The rain now pelting down, echoing loudly.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Junior?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR slowly trails Hen, and as he corners onto the porch, he sees Hen run out into the rain, laughing, letting it drench her. JR reluctantly holds back, afraid almost, the noise and movement of the rain affecting him.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>It's beautiful!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen turns back to JR, beaming with a child-like jubilance, then leaps up and pulls JR into the rain.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>C'mon.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>As she supports and aids him out, she can't help but kiss him, and joyously embrace him. She screams into the rain. JR suddenly slips, and they both go over. They end up in a huge muddy puddle, Hen laughs it off.</scene_description>
    <character>HEN</character>
    <dialogue>Shit, sorry.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen holds his hand, leans over, and kisses him some more, but JR starts shivering. He sits up, embarrassed, ashamed, then attempts to stand up. Hen places her hands under his arms to help.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>I don't need your help.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She ignores him, drunk with laughter.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Don't!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR shrugs her off. Hen, shocked by his venom, just stands there, muddy, forlorn. JR stares back with disdain.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <parenthetical>(under breath)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Look at you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hen is struck with a sudden, painful, clarity. JR breaks away, back to the house, leaving Hen alone in the rain and wind.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BASEMENT - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen, completely drenched and muddy, sits at the piano. We can't tell what are tears and what is rainwater. She doesn't hesitate, and starts playing the piano. Her wet face shines in the dark with defiance. It quickly becomes the most fearless, and emotionally powerful melody yet. She suddenly stands, looks around the room, finds a shovel leaning against the wall. She picks it up, holds it for a moment, then swings the shovel against the piano, over and over, smashing the old keys to pieces.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hen, a motionless, muddy figure, moves under the shower. The water rushes over her body. She stares at her feet. She has removed the plug. This time the mud and water run down the drain...</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HOUSE/KITCHEN - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We follow JR as he walks through the empty house towards the kitchen. He enters. Hen has made a pot of coffee.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <parenthetical>(Calling out)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Hen?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He pours himself a cup and leans against the counter, waiting for her to reply. She doesn't. He takes a sip and that's when an envelope on the counter catches his eye. It has 'Junior' written on the front. He puts his cup down and picks up the envelope. He opens it and removes a letter. It's a single page. He turns it around and over. He looks at both sides. He's clearly confused. The letter is BLANK.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. CORPORATE CHICKEN TOWERS/TOWER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>High above the landscape, we float toward a chicken tower. We creep over the lip; inside, within the raking sunlight, we see a stationary lift.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CORPORATE CHICKEN TOWERS/TOWER - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>In the lift stands JR. He presses a button, that releases the lift into a gentle descent. He remains motionless, lost in thought, as the endless layers of chickens pass by fast. The dreamy free fall is like a moving watercolor.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT.CORPORATE CHICKEN TOWERS/LUNCH ROOM - LUNCH</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Macro shots only; mouths chewing, dirty hands against bread, sweat, laughing yellow teeth. Some younger guys punch each- other in the guts - 'test of manhood'. It's rowdy, boisterous. JR sits amongst it, observing, his hand grips the blank note.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ROADSIDE RESTAURANT - LATE AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We follow JR as he enters into the restaurant. He looks around for Hen, without a care, without asking anyone. But she is nowhere to be seen. He barges into the kitchen, into the back rooms, a waiter tails him.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. ROADSIDE RESTAURANT - LATE AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He exits out the back, across the open carpark, bangs hopelessly on a string of motel rooms. Staff begin to gather around him, but keep their distance. Junior's a storm to be reckoned with.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FARMHOUSE - GROUND FLOOR - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Silence. The haunted emptiness of the house. We hear the front door open, Terrance slowly enters, a bottle of wine in hand.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Hello?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He listens to see if anyone is home. He then makes his way into the living room and sits down on the couch. A nostalgia takes over him.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BASEMENT - LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Terrance enters the basement. He places the wine on top of the smashed piano. He lifts the upturned chair and sits. His fingers slowly survey the damaged keys. He runs them along the keys, broken notes leak out. Then, tentatively, he plays a small toothless melody, the same one Hen played before she smashed the piano. Terrance turns. Junior is standing there, having just woken. Terrance stands. He looks different somehow, less secure, tired.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I was just passing by. Wanted to say goodbye. See how you were both settling in.</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>We're fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A beat.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Is Hen around?</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>On a shift.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I was hoping to see her before I left. How's she doing?</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>She's fine.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>An awkward silence.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Can I ask you something?</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Sure.</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I know it's weird, but humor me for a minute.</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Could you close your eyes?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR is losing patience.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Seriously?</dialogue>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Please.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR hesitates a moment, then submits, closing his eyes. Terrance steps close and without a word, does the same, closing his eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Ok, take a moment. Now, tell me what you see?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>It takes JR a moment to settle his mind.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, really, what do you see.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Something within JR scares him. His eyes dart open. To his surprise, he see's Terrance with his eyes closed.</scene_description>
    <character>JR</character>
    <dialogue>I want to be alone.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Hearing JR speak, Terrance immediately opens his eyes, filled with their own hurt.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>You have such self-assurance. You don't have to prove anything to anybody. I envy it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Terrance reaches forward and rubs JR's arm. He smiles.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>Junior. You should feel proud, for what you did.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR doesn't respond. Terrance passes him the Chardonnay.</scene_description>
    <character>TERRANCE</character>
    <dialogue>I know how much she loves it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR looks at the bottle, as Terrance slowly walks up the stairs.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BARN - AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Chickens peck the ground, as JR tosses another handful of grain to them. He stares, watching them. He then zeroes in on the brown chicken, watching its every move.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FARM - LATE AFTERNOON</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>He picks red berries from the forgotten shrub. Up close, we see JR rip wildflowers from the ground. Various types and colors; pink, yellow, white, blue... one after the other. Then, up close, we see JR rip the feathers off the dead brown chicken.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DINING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Insect murmurations vibrate hypnotically. JR is sitting in his chair, alone. The wildflowers are on the table, a small plate with the berries, and two places already set for dinner. It's unsettling in its overt attempt at hospitality. He just sits there, in a 'real' silence. Alone, never touching his food. He pours the last of the Chardonnay, then with his fingers, picks at the edges of the blank note Hen left him. He looks out the window. He notices his reflection, staring back. A disturbed smile surfaces. He turns away from it. Anguish floods him.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <parenthetical>(screams)</parenthetical>
    <character>HEN!</character>
    <dialogue>He then notices the wine in his glass beginning to lean unnaturally. Vertigo rising... The world outside starts to move, almost imperceptibly. He grips the table, his head falls.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>He closes his eyes. His breath lunges erratically.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Then, a PALE GREEN LIGHT (the same light we saw in the opening) washes up over the ceiling and into the room.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>He opens his eyes, now filled with a raw, visceral pain. He notices the light. It hangs there, hypnotically, and before JR can make sense of it, a figure slowly moves into view, bathed in light, like an ethereal apparition. It's HENRIETTA.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>She is wearing the white cut-off shirt, her hair is different, slightly longer? JR doesn't notice, blinded by her beauty, shocked by her return.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>She sits, at the other end of the table, just as the PALE GREEN LIGHT fades away. Leaving them in the dark.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>JR is numb with shock. They just stare at each-other. Emotions run high for both, but not a word spoken. Henrietta looks down the table, and touches the small wildflowers, looking up at JR adoringly.</dialogue>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <dialogue>So pretty.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She takes the glass of wine and sips it, then looks down at her dinner, surprised. JR is overcome with emotion.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <parenthetical>(noticing JR)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>It's ok. I'm here.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BEDROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Bright hot sun hits their naked bodies. Henrietta takes his hand, and starts to kiss it. JR studies her, curious, struck by her renewed contentedness and devotion. She starts kissing his neck, and soon, the two of them weave freely.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FARM - SUNSET</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A huge, pink, burnt orange sun, just as it dips towards the horizon. The two of them lying out on the porch watching, beers in hand, luminous.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>It's funny. Having all that time looking down on this... so much to understand... Think about the canola fields, all the flowers and everything living in there. Think about the city and all the cars and stores and apartments. For all of it, for almost any object you can think of, there are too many...but there's only one of you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR stares across at Henrietta, curiously.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>You'll always be my anchor, my wife, my best friend, and the best cook I know...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Henrietta turns back to the sun, soaks in its beauty. She smiles, but it lacks the pure wonder she used to hold.</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Do you think you could be...happy? Here?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Henrietta interlocks her fingers in his.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <parenthetical>(still smiling)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Of course. This is where I'm happy. Right here. With you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She finishes off her beer, then leans in closer.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm so proud of you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She lets her head rest against his shoulder.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <parenthetical>(to JR)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Refill?</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Sure.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR slugs the rest of his beer. Henrietta takes his empty beer and moves inside. JR turns back to the soft glow, and surrenders, with a newfound sense of relief, reconnecting with all around him; the sounds, the sky, the gentle breeze in HEN's tree - a familiar world that seems different now, but exactly as he wants it - everything in its place. As the night insects begin to scream, JR realizes Henrietta hasn't returned.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - DUSK</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>JR walks into the kitchen. He sees Henrietta standing perfectly still, looking into the sink. For a moment, he watches her, struck by her absolute stillness.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <dialogue>What are you doing here little one?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Henrietta doesn't reply. She is transfixed...</scene_description>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>Hen?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Nothing. Finally, Henrietta reacts. She looks over at JR.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <dialogue>It's not moving at all. It's just...sitting there.</dialogue>
    <character>JR.</character>
    <dialogue>What is?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Henrietta turns back and leans closer into the sink. Beside the drain, is a large, ever familiar, Horned Beetle.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA</character>
    <dialogue>I've never seen one before.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Henrietta walks to the fridge. She takes out a beer and hands it to JR. Perplexed, he takes a swig, as she walks out of the room. JR curiously walks over to the sink. He looks in, recoils at the sight of the Beetle. Henrietta has put music on in the lounge and it fills the house, it's their wedding song; ALTHOUGH THE SUN IS SHINING - FLEETWOOD MAC. JR pauses a moment, smiles, and takes another swig, then uses the bottom of the beer bottle to crush the beetle.</scene_description>
    <character>HENRIETTA (O.S.)</character>
    <parenthetical>(singing along as she heads to porch)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Although the sun is shining, high above...</dialogue>
    <scene_description>JR walks outside, but we stay on the beetle in macro. Its antennae slowly losing life...with the fading sounds of JR and Henrietta on the porch; their sporadic singalong, the insects, a gentle gust of wind. Song continues throughout next scenes... LONG DISSOLVE:</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. 15,000FT - RURAL PLAINS - SUNSET/DUSK - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We fly, breathtakingly high, over the great rural expanse. Below us, the alien, geometric patterns of mega-farms mesmerically sweep by. The golden sun slips on the horizon. The creep of dusk. The tiny shape of a sleek passenger plane glides in, reflecting the sun, a golden sparkle in a huge world.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. PASSENGER PLANE - SUNSET/DUSK - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>We move, through the cabin, passing passengers, stories, and lives we can only guess. Then, we corner into a row, and push up to the only person staring out the window. We get closer. It's unmistakable - it's Hen (the real one). Her beautiful spirit shines, and in those magnificent eyes... Wonder. Nostalgia. Fear. ...witnessing the last rays of sun - the ending of one life, the beginning of another, into the real unknown. She breathes. She breathes deeper. Pain. Hope. Love.</scene_description>
    <character>END</character>
  </scene>
</script>
The film starts in the year 2065. Fresh water and habitable land are precious commodities, and cities are overpopulated, leaving rural areas slowly abandoned. The government has engineered a new settlement in the form of a space station, OuterMore, orbiting the earth. A lottery system is in place to create a short list of qualified persons to resettle on the off-earth habitation. The testing process on the candidates takes about two years. While waiting they are expected to continue with their lives. Those selected are replaced with AI human substitutes that have the capacity for human consciousness. The program is beginning with the most ravaged areas of Earth. A young couple somewhere in the Midwest reside on an isolated farm. One of them is selected in the preliminary lottery for relocation.