Auditions were held at the Norris Center in Naples, Florida in 2003. 

We were so excited by the talent in town that we were writing new parts to include everyone.

 

 
 


2004  Win Win Mockumentary 

Watch a trailer here


As I find more of the files I will post them here.  Francine Beach was really fun to work with.



 

WinWin-Medical Mathematics 1 into 5 = Millions!












WIN WIN


 by


David J. Alexander & Heather R. Doria


















Copyright © 2004

3420 Gulf Shore Blvd N. #72


Naples, Florida, 34103


(239) 435-0930

Registered WGAw No. 977986

dja3223@aol.com



"WIN WIN"





FADE IN:


INT.  MEDICAL EXAMINATION ROOM - DAY


Small plain room.  DOCTOR WINFRED, a surgeon, sits on a stool holding a laptop.  On the computer screen is an Internet auction site listing paintings.  

 

DOCTOR WINFRED 

Does our patient speak any English?


NURSE

No doctor.


DOCTOR WINFRED

Better check.  I don’t feel I can responsibly recommend anything larger than a double D for your augmentation.


The Male Hispanic Patient shrugs.

 

DOCTOR WINFRED 

(continuing)

Good.  Okay Nurse, translate.

We found a small growth on your left kidney and traces of blood in your urine.




INSERT NURSE INTERVIEW

NURSE

Doctor Winfred is an excellent surgeon.  He is a wonderful and a loving man.  He understands I’m working through my issues.  I am a nurse, a medical professional. I’m not the only one that got caught up in prescriptions.  Like I say I’m working through my issues.  It never interferes with my work.  I haven’t so much as missed a day in over a year.  I know what I’m doing. 

CUT TO: MEDICAL EXAMINATION ROOM

NURSE

(translates in Spanish)


DOCTOR WINFRED

I recommend surgery to biopsy the growth and correct the problem. 


NURSE

(translates in Spanish)


DOCTOR WINFRED 

Before I can perform the surgery, I require your signature on these three forms.


NURSE

(translates in Spanish)


During the translation.  Doctor Winfred places a bid on a Picasso painting.


LATINA NURSE lays out three forms.  They are in English.    

INSERT – POWER OF ATTORNEY AGREEMENT

INSERT – HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT

INSERT – ORGAN DONOR FORM


NURSE

(In Spanish)

Sign here, here, and here.


Hispanic Patient signs. 


DOCTOR WINFRED

Put a rush on this.  I want this to happen at eight o’clock.  


HISPANIC PATIENT

(In Spanish)

Thank You.


NURSE and HISPANIC PATIENT exit the room.  Doctor Winfred clicks an icon opening up an EXPEDITORS INC. ORDER FORM.   He reads aloud as he clicks boxes filling in the form.  


DOCTOR WINFRED

Yes. Yes. Yes. Available for harvest… Eight forty five.  Order filled? Yes.  And Send. 


Computer responds with a JINGLE. 


DOCTOR WINFRED

(continuing)

(Sings)

We’re in the money.  We’re in the money.  We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along.


INT. OFFICE CONVERTED OPERATING ROOM – NIGHT


Doctor Winfred, NURSE and SURGICAL TECHNICIAN operate on HISPANIC PATIENT. A BEEP from the heart monitor indicates a non-rhythmic heart rate.


NURSE 

 Doctor time.--


DOCTOR WINFRED  

Don’t worry, I got it.


The BEEP on heart monitor increases.


NURSE 

Doctor...


DOCTOR WINFRED  

I’m not deaf.


NURSE

Do you think it is advisable to administer adrenaline?


DOCTOR WINFRED  

When I think it is, I’ll tell you.


The BEEP flattens to a STEADY HIGH-PITCHED TONE.


DOCTOR WINFRED  

Shock him.


The Nurse places defibrillator terminals on the right and left side of the heart.


NURSE

(With authority) 

Clear.


There is no change in the heart monitor.


NURSE 

Again Doctor?


DOCTOR WINFRED

Time.


NURSE

Eight forty five.


DOCTOR WINFRED

(Rips his surgical masked off)

Who’s your daddy! Okay people, who had eight forty five?

NURSE raises her hand.


DOCTOR WINFRED

(Continuing)

Okay, that makes you the loser tomorrow you’re buying lunch.





CUT TO INTERVIEW

DOCTOR WINFRED

You must think terrible things of me.  You really shouldn’t you know.  


CUT TO INTERVIEW

LITTLE GIRL PATIENT

Thank you, Doctor Winfred my arms so much better now.  You’re the best doctor in the whole world.

CUT TO INTERVIEW

DOCTOR WINFRED

Where you only see harm being done.  I remind you there’s also a tremendous good.

Cut TO INTERVIEW

LITTLE GIRL PATIENT

When I get big I want to marry Dr. Winfred.  He made me all better. 

CUT TO INTERVIEW

DOCTOR WINFRED

See I’m a hell of a guy.



INT. RESTAURANT – NIGHT

Doctor Winfred and ALEX, a well-dressed stone-faced man, sit with scotches in front of them. Alex opens his briefcase and takes out a large yellow envelope and slides it across the table to Doctor Winfred.  

  

ALEX

Count it.

DOCTOR WINFRED

Why?

ALEX

Just count it.

Doctor Winfred takes a quick look counting the bundles of cash.  

DOCTOR WINFRED

There’s two hundred and twenty thousand dollars here.

ALEX

I could believe it the guy came up Caucasian. 

DOCTOR WINFRED

The guy didn’t speak a lick of English.  He was as Mexican as the frito bandito.

ALEX

Science baby.  He was Caucasian.  We sold everything heart, lungs, kidney, liver, cornea, bone marrow, skin.  I bid it out over a conference call with those ambulance chasers.  Those guys were pissing on themselves bidding over each other.

 



DOCTOR WINFRED

Sweet. I remember how we use to hustle our butts off selling a few kidneys here and there.  


Insert Interview


ALEX 

It was 1978.  I was going broke with my medical supply business.  I pretty much resigned myself to bankruptcy.  I’m six months behind in my rent when one day the landlord walks in.  I figure this is it.  He’s going to tell me I got ten minutes to clear out, only tells me he’s sick, he dying.  He lost a kidney two years earlier with a tumor.  His other kidney is failing because of diabetes.  That makes him a bad risk for a transplant so he prepared to just pack it in.  I ask him so what’s a kidney worth to ya?  He shoots me a figure, so I tell him be back here in two hours and I’ll have it installed.  I get a hold of Winfred. He takes mine out puts it in the old guy.  He lives and we make out like a bandit.



Cut To Restaurant:



ALEX

What’s Davy gonna do after graduation?  Did you tell him he’s coming to work for us? 


DOCTOR WINFRED

I figure he’s gonna need some motivation.  The kids a total flake. We both know that.

ALEX

At least he graduated.  It cost both of us a fortune.


They both laugh.  

INSERT COLLEGE DEAN INTERVIEW

COLLEGE DEAN

Yes occasionally I do receive personal honorariums. 

INSERT PAPER BOY INTERVIEW


PAPER BOY

Doctor Winfred, yea he’s a great guy.  Last Christmas he tipped me a hundred bucks.  

DOCTOR WINFRED

I’m sorry, I forgot about the paper boy.  I gave him a hundred bucks.  See I am a nice guy.

CUT TO RESTAURANT

ALEX

I need a return on my investment. Christ sakes I didn’t shove money in the deans pocket for nothing.

INSERT COLLEGE DEAN INTERVIEW

COLLEGE DEAN

I receive gifts of all types.  

CUT TO RESTAURANT

ALEX

Bitch was a bottomless pit.

INSERT COLLEGE DEAN INTERVIEW

COLLEGE DEAN

Cash gifts were common.  Occasionally they were services.  A woman likes to continue to look youthful.

CUT TO RESTAURANT

ALEX

At one point she demanded I make her look like Britney Spears.

INSERT COLLEGE DEAN INTERVIEW

COLLEGE DEAN

Their generosity was both creative and fun.

CUT TO RESTAURANT

ALEX

I think the old girl wanted me to do her at one point.  But we finally reached an agreement.

INSERT COLLEGE DEAN INTERVIEW

COLLEGE DEAN 

The agreement was David would never practice medicine.

CUT TO RESTAURANT

ALEX

Just get him in here I’ll take it from there.








INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW

DAVID

Hi, I’m David.  Doctor Winfred’s my dad and I’m on my way to see my uncle Alex about a job.  I just graduated med school.  I’m a doctor now. Neat hu.


INT. RESTAURANT – DAY


David and Alex sit in a booth.  David fumbles with his napkin.

DAVID

I thought I could get with a clinic or something. I actually had an offer to work for an emergency room, but it didn’t work out.  Things didn’t go the way I thought they would.  


ALEX

(Smiles calmly)

Yea, the world doesn’t always exist in the same way we imagine it will.  There’s no guarantee. No hard feelings.  I was hopeful that you would contact me sometime.  

(beat)

I think I have a great offer.


DAVID

Uncle Alex, I really don’t want to sell test tubes and rubber gloves, unless you can make it worth my while.  I mean, how much money are we talking about?


ALEX

Let’s just say, a very healthy six-figure income is a certainty.  But don’t be surprised if it’s seven.


DAVID

(Scoffs)

Yea right the Amway guy gave me the same numbers.

(Beat)

No seriously, you got to be kidding.  Who do I have to kill to make that kind of money?


ALEX

(Straight faced) 

You don’t have to kill anybody. But occasionally patients do die.  Do you want me to stop here or keep talking?


DAVID

Keep talking.


ALEX

You know I am in the medical supply business.  However, there are all kinds of medical supplies. My company is in the business of making available transplantable organs and tissues.  We are medical procurement specialists.  Everybody understands and accepts the concept of private adoption.  Well, we basically do the same thing only our products are hearts, lungs, kidneys, cornea, skin, and all the rest.  Very sick people, who also happen to be very wealthy, can arrange through our attorneys the desired product. It’s all pre-matched.   When a client can’t secure product through traditional means, we come into the picture.  It’s done very privately.  


DAVID

So you just have these things sitting around in a big warehouse or something?  



ALEX

No. We have them, on the hoof so to speak.  We sponsor a select group of individuals for citizenship in the states.  They meet a particular profile.  We guarantee employment and as part of that employment we provide medical coverage through our own private clinics, like your dads’.  Should these individuals ever pass away, we have a 

Pre-existing agreement to harvest all organs allowing us full and total discretion as to their disbursement.  When one man dies easily five other people continue with life.  It’s a fair exchange. We are compensated handsomely.  


DAVID

For a second it sounded like you kill people?


ALEX

Now that would be a ridiculous. What we do is give people the opportunity to live in a great democracy.  In exchange, should they die; we only ask for the opportunity to help other people live.   


DAVID

What about malpractice or wrongful death?



ALEX

That will never be an issue.  It’s all covered.  No one sues.  No one has to explain anything to anyone.  

(Pause)

So you interested?


DAVID

I should talk it over with Jane, first.  


ALEX

Or not.  Sometimes people misunderstand what we do.  


DAVID

All right, I’ll think about it and get back to you. 


ALEX

No, time is now either shit or get off the pot. 

(Beat)

Look David, I’m going to talk to you straight. It will probably be embarrassing and hurt you but it needs to be said. 


DAVID

Go ahead.

ALEX

You’re a screw up.  You’re a party boy, bad student and frankly the last guy I would want as my physician.  You got through med school because your wife tutored the crap out of you, your father pulled stings, and I lent my substantial weight to see to it that you graduated.




ALEX

(continuing)


You got your degree because you agreed that you would never activate your medical license. Honestly, no one expected you to practice medicine.  You can sit on your ass watching your lovely wife leave for her prestigious medical research job, while you keep tabs on daytime TV, or you can take this job. This isn’t just your best opportunity. This is the only opportunity you’ll ever have to make use of the effort, considerations and favors that got you through med school in the first place. 

(Beat)


It’s a no-brainer, David.  Your job is the removal and transport of these organs.  It’s no different than a cadaver in science class. 


DAVID

(Tears apart his napkin)

I thought this was going to be a loving confrontation. 


ALEX

It is.  It may be a little hard to find, but if you use some common sense we’ll never have to have this conversation again. Now are you in or out? Tell me now. 


David collects the torn bits of his napkin, rolls them into a small ball and drops it in the ashtray.


DAVID

I’m in.


ALEX

(Slide a paper across the table)

Be at this address Monday morning ten o’clock, sharp.

INSERT BARTENDER INTERVIEW


BARTENDER



I don’t know, I guess I’ve been working here about eight, nine months.  It ok, I mostly like it. Some nights the tips are real good. Harry and David?  Yea they come in all the time.  Harry asked me if he could get his mail delivered here.   Then he’d never have to go home.  He’s harmless I guess.  David?  We’ll, he’s real cute, but I think he’s married or something.  Hell I’d do him.  


INT. BAR. - NIGHT 

David’s home away from home.  He pulls the label off of a bottle of beer.  He sits next to HARRY, a long time bar acquaintance.  He is curmudgeonly and rough looking. BARTENDER approaches.

BARTENDER

You need another sweetie?    


DAVID

What if I told you a guy just offered me big money to pull the labels off of beer bottles and stick them on other bottles?


BARTENDER

I’d say what’s the catch? 


DAVID

People get used for financial gain.   


HARRY

That’s no catch.  That’s just business.  


BARTENDER

How bout a beer?


DAVID

Na I got to be getting home.


David finishes his beer and exits the bar.  

INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW

DAVID

I’m on my way home.  My wife, Jane is going to be so excited that I got this new job she’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me in my life.  She the first woman that I ever cared whether I disappointed or not.

INSERT EX-GIRLFRIEND #1 INTERVIEW 

EX-GIRLFRIEND #1

David and I dated off and on our senior year in high school.  He had a nice car and he was popular.  When we would go out he would take me to nice places and everything.  The only problem was, if we went to a movie or to the mall or a game, we had a back seat full of his little asshole buddies to deal with.  




EX-GIRLFRIEND #1

(Continuing)


Prom night he gets a stretch limo we had enough of his pals stuffed in the thing, it was like I was one of the guys.  He was fun but he wasn’t for me. 

INSERT EX-GIRLFRIEND #2 INTERVIEW

EX-GIRLFRIEND #2

It was my sophomore year in colleges that I met David.  I just broke off a long distance relationship with my high school sweet heart.  I was pre med so it seemed logical I’d find a new boyfriend also pre med and equally serious about the future.  Little did I know I would hook up with the biggest party animal campus had ever seen.  He was so wrong for me I don’t know why I didn’t see it in the first place.  When I met him I was an A student, but within six months I was struggling just to get B’s.  I know he never studied.  There were rumors about how he was getting through school.  I just new he had to go.


INT. APARTMENT BEDROOM-NIGHT


Jane, propped up in bed reads a book.  David enters

  

JANE

(Eyes fixated on book)

Stop for a couple with the boys after work today? 

DAVID

Sarcasm dully noted.  No as a matter of fact, I just had a job interview. 


JANE

With Anheuser Bush?


DAVID

No, I finally took that meeting with Uncle Alex.  He offered me a position with the company.  It’s all kind of vague but it pays six, maybe seven figures a year.


 JANE

(Non responsive)

Oh, that’s nice sweetie.  You’re going to supply the entire world with test tubes?   


DAVID

No I’m completely serious.  


Jane puts the book down and sits up. 



INSERT JANE INTERVIEW

JANE

David and I will always be together, in love.  It’s an atomic, subatomic, biochemical sociological certainty.  I delight in giving him what he so desperately needs. Unto each other we are the biochemical soup, call it the drug that sustains our needs in life.  When you think about it is the kind of love that everyone seeks, absolute, eternal and singular.  

CUT TO APARTMENT BEDROOM-NIGHT

JANE

I think you should take it.


DAVID

I did.  


JANE

Without talking to me first? You know that’s how you always get in trouble.  


DAVID

So I’ve been told.


JANE

What’s the job? What will you do?


DAVID

I’m not sure.


JANE

We don’t have to move do we?


DAVID

No, it’s here.


JANE

So you’re working with Alex, right? You’re not sure what you’re going to be doing. 

(Beat)


You know, I’m not sure I like this job.  


DAVID

It’s medicine.  It should pay a lot and you can continue to work with Bryant. I figured it was time to shit or get off the pot so I shit.


JANE

Maybe that’s what I smelled.  

INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW

DAVID

What a woman.  God Knows I could have done worse.

INSERT INTERVIEW STALKER EX-GIRLFRIEND

STALKER EX-GIRLFRIEND

I would kill for David.  I met him my senior year.  That an important time in a woman’s life.  I wanted to find the man that would be the father of my children, my soul mate. 

EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY

It’s Monday, David’s first day of work. He’s ten minutes late.  He hastily parks his car and heads toward the front door. 

ZEVE

(waves at David)

David.  Over here.


DAVID

Hi.


ZEVE

(Extending her hand) 

I’m Zeve.


DAVID

I was just on my way up to the office to see you.  I’m not late am I?  


ZEVE

Ten minutes, don’t let it happen again.  

David walks to the front door.

DAVID

I never asked what suite it would be or even the floor.  I just thought I would see it listed on the directory.

David stops walking and notices Zeve hasn’t moved.

ZEVE

That was mean of me wasn’t it? You’re all excited, your first day and everything. But I do my best bitch act and make you look foolish.  I am a stinker aren’t I?

DAVID

I’m missing something aren’t I?


ZEVE

We don’t use offices. 

(Holds up cell phone)

This is my office.

(Points to his cell phone)

That’s yours.  Non traditional but safe efficient and cost effective, from this day forward I’m your wake up call. First thing in the morning your phone rings that going to be me.  I tell you where we meet and what time to be there.  

DAVID

That’s kind of weird, isn’t it?

ZEVE

Of course it is baby.  That’s why it’s so cool.  

DAVID

So you call me, I meet you where ever you tell me to go, and then I do what?






ZEVE

I tell you where to go next.  I tell you what to harvest.  By that I mean remove, as in organ, as in heart, as in liver, so forth.   You take it out put it in a cooler well have onsite, drive it to transport, give it to Billy, he’s gonna give you an envelope.  The end.

DAVID

This is bullshit.

ZEVE

If you say so, but this bullshit pays my bills and its going to pay yours too so just do as you’re told.  

DAVID

Why can’t you just tell me where to go when you call me in the morning?  Why do I need to come see you first before you tell me where to go?  This is stupid.

ZEVE

I’ll be sure to pass all your keen suggestions up the chain of command.

(beat)

Now your pickup today. Go to Mankind General 4th floor Suite 2. There you’re going to harvest the liver.  

DAVID

Yes Mam.

ZEVE

Better

Extends a plastic bag full of cookies.

DAVID

Cookies?





ZEVE

My famous homemade cookies. These came out extra good.  If I wasn’t so smart and beautiful, I’d think my husband married me for my baking.  

DAVID

You’re just about the total package then, aren’t you?  

ZEVE

You’re starting to piss me off with your attitude young man.  I strongly suggest you fix that.  Now you share those cookies with Billy.

David holds up his phone

DAVID

Tomorrow morning.  

ZEVE 

Good boy.

David walks to his car, gets in, and drives off.

ZEVE

(Into the camera)

That was fun.  Dealing with men is like training a dog.  You just got to pull them up short, let them know whose boss, then give them a treat. Ha Ha I know I’m good.


  


INT. HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM - DAY


David joins a perimeter of surgical staff around the patient.  The heart monitor BEATS steadily.  DOCTOR BROWN EYES a surgeon.


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Oh, okay.

  

Doctor Brown Eyes nods and the steady heartbeat slows to a flat line HIGH PITCHED TONE.  The patient expires 


DAVID

Wow, talk about timing.


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Thank you, he’s all yours.

  

DAVID

This is my first day.


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Think science and a frog, cut the connecting vessels, arteries, and connective tissue place it in the cooler over there.  Wash up. Take it to the airport and you’re done.

DAVID

Just like that?


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Just like that.


David’s hand shakes.

  

DOCTOR BROWN EYES (O.S.)

Don’t worry kid he won’t feel a thing.   


David removes the heart and places it in the cooler.

  

DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Hanger five off Airport road.


DAVID

Okay, got it.  Hanger five.



DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Be careful with that.  That’s my kid’s tuition.


EXT. Guard Shack- DAY

BILLY, a muscular security guard, greets David. David speaks from his car.

 

BILLY

You da new guy?


DAVID

Yes.




BILLY

I’m Billy.  You ain’t got none of dem cookies ZEVE makes? Do ya?


DAVID

Yea, I’m suppose to share.


BILLY

Is that one of dem oatmeal raisin?


DAVID

Yes, she said their extra good this time.


BILLY

Na, Dem give me the runs.


DAVID

Sorry.

(Gestures cooler)


What do I do with this?


BILLY

Just give it to me.  I’ll take it from here.    You ain’t got an extra smoke have ya?


David hands Billy the cooler and a cigarette. 


BILLY

Okay, later. 

Billy hands David an envelop filled with hundred dollar bills. 





David looks in the envelope.  


DAVID

Wow!  What am I supposed to do with this?


BILLY

Stick it up your ass.  Or give to me I know what to do with it.  Got any questions, just ask Zeve.

INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW

DAVID

Since sticking money up my ass didn’t appeal to me.  I decided to hang on to it and ask Zeve about it in the morning. That was my first day of work.  Come to think of it, that was my first day of work ever.  It wasn’t so hard.

INT. APARTMENT KITCHEN -NIGHT


David enters.  


JANE

Wow, my hero. 


DAVID

Make that super hero and I’ll buy you dinner.


JANE

Deal.


DAVID

Your choice.


JANE

Chinese and I’m starved.


DAVID

Delivered?


JANE

Hell yes.  I say we put on sweat pants and eat like condemned men.


INT. APARTMENT FRONT DOOR -NIGHT.  


David opens the door a DELIVERY BOY hands him two bags.


DELIVERY BOY

You have big party?


DAVID

Yea, big party, how much?


DELIVERY BOY

Sixty-three dollar and fifty cent.


DAVID

Is a big bill okay? 


DELIVERY BOY

You need change.


DAVID

Na, Keep it. 


JANE

How much is it?  I’ll get my purse.

DAVID

It’s okay.  I got it.

  

JANE 

Look if you took money out of the ATM, you got to let me know.  Whatever you took out is fine.  I just have to enter it in the books. 



DAVID

Nope.  I got some cash today, part of the job. 

 

JANE

Let’s eat.  I’m starved.  I want to hear all about your first day.

  





INT. APARTMENT LIVING ROOM – NIGHT


The coffee table is covered with a dozen Chinese food containers.  Jane shovels food in her mouth.


DAVID

I harvested the liver, took it to the Airport, and they handed me this envelope of cash.


JANE

If you’re going to lie to me at least make it entertaining.


DAVID

It’s the truth. No one could make this up.

INSERT JANE INTERVIEW

JANE

At this point I had to decide whether I was going to be worried about David and his new job or be happy and just go with the flow.  I chose happy.  

EXT. NAPLES PIER- DAY


David and Zeve stand face to face. 


ZEVE

Everything went well yesterday.  I checked.  


DAVID

(Hands her the envelope)

I owe a hundred out of that.  I’ll replace it when I get paid. 


ZEVE

No silly boy, that’s how you get paid. That’s yours.  This is strictly a cash business.  


DAVID

Oh, I just didn’t want to do anything wrong.  


ZEVE

You did trim some of the connecting vessels a little short.  They like a little extra to work with.  Watch that next time, won’t you dear?


DAVID

Right.  Any appointments?  


MS ZEVE

We’re expecting a pick up later this evening.  You’ve got time to go home and eat dinner.  You don’t have to be anywhere till six o’clock. Their expecting you at the clinic.  


DAVID

Uh, what shall I collect?


ZEVE

Harvest dear.  You’ll harvest the heart, left lung, kidneys, and liver.  Each will be placed in separate coolers and transported to the same hanger at the Airport.  


DAVID

Shouldn’t I harvest these now? 


ZEVE

Silly, not till six o’clock, I think our donor still needs them.  




EXT. GUARD SHACK -NIGHT  


David drives up and is greeted by Billy  


DAVID

Hey Billy.


BILLY

What’s going on, dude?  You got four huh?


DAVID

Yea.


BILLY

Hang out for a while they should be here any minute.  

Doctor Winfred and three other doctors pull up.

DOCTOR WINFRED 

Love to chat son but I have to be in Tampa a.s.a.p. 


DAVID

Right.


DOCTOR WINFRED

You and Jane come over for dinner on Sunday.  We can talk shop.  

 (Pause)

  

Hey, forgot something.


Doctor Winfred hands David three envelopes filled with cash.


DAVID

You got to be kidding.


Doctor Winfred gives him a fourth envelope.


DOCTOR WINFRED

Ahh, you caught me.  See you Sunday.  Bring your suit.

 

DAVID

Okay.


DOCTOR WINFRED 

Tell Jane it wouldn’t kill her to have a little fun.


INT. GUARD SHACK – NIGHT


David enters.  Billy paces back and forth


BILLY

Cover me.  I gotta do my business.


LATER

INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW FROM GUARD SHACK

DAVID

Okay, this is strange.  I see that.  But I think my father is starting to like me a little.  Every child seeks the love and acceptance of their parents.  The last time my dad invited Jane and I for dinner… Come to think about it, this is the first time.  I need this to work out.  To get along, you go along.

Billy comes out of the bathroom

BILLY

Hey don’t go in there Doc.  Someone just died. Gimmie one of your smokes.



DAVID

So how long have you been working for these folks?


BILLY

Fifteen years… Jersey State Police before that. Got assigned to an FBI task force my last five years.  I was looking to retire so my old boss hooked me up with these folks.  I’m getting two pensions but it never seems to be enough.  This job is cake. These knuckle heads pay cash and it’s an easy job.  I can still get to the track.  I love it.


DAVID

I have only been with them a couple of days.  My dads’ worked with them a long time.  My Uncle Alex too.


BILLY

Alex is an asshole. 


DAVID

Yea that’s Uncle Alex.  He a tough one.


BILLY

He’s still an Asshole.  


DAVID

So what do you make of all this stuff?


BILLY

Mostly, I don’t give a shit.

I’m makin about a hundred and twenty G’s a year, cash.  Believe me I learned a long time ago.  If they give you enough money you can do anything. It don’t pay to get curious.  

  (Beat)


What’s your end?


DAVID

Well, that’s kind of personal don’t you think? 


BILLY

I was just gonna say, I could hook you up with an account in the Caymans if you want? Everybody else does it.  


DAVID

I’ll get back to you on that.



BILLY

Zeve use to do your job.  I’m gonna like you a lot better.  You smoke.  All she ever tried to do was feed me cookies.  Speaking of smokes 

(Snap, snap)


DAVID

Look I got a smoke for the road.  You keep the pack.  I’ll catch ya next trip.



BILLY

Yea, hook me up with some of dem cookies next time will ya.  Only not the ones with the raisins cause—-


DAVID

Yea, yea they give you the runs, right?


INT. APARTMENT BEDROOM CLOSET- NIGHT. 


David extracts a shoebox from the top of the closet shelf he opens it revealing the first envelope. He places the four envelopes containing cash into the shoebox.  

NEXT DAY


David has been busy with work.  He goes to the closet and opens the shoebox. It’s filling up with envelopes. 



INT. APARTMENT KITCHEN -NIGHT


Jane sits at the kitchen table with her laptop.  She is busy updating her files. 


JANE

We’re going to your parents for dinner Sunday, right?  


DAVID

Right.  They’re looking forward to seeing you.  


JANE

That’s a first. Everything Okay at work?  


DAVID

Yea great.

  

JANE

When do you get paid?  We might want to think about direct deposit.


DAVID

Na, it doesn’t work that way.  They have a different system.  Dad said he’d help me with it, Sunday.  


JANE

We can start thinking about getting a house pretty soon.  We’re a two-income family now.  


DAVID

Yea, Fine.  



JANE

I just don’t want to be house poor.  All we need is a good neighborhood, simple 

Three-bedroom ranch with a reasonable mortgage.  I think I should call a realtor and start looking.


DAVID

Yea, we can do that.  Set it up.


JANE

Okay… You know David, I am so proud of you. You’re finally using your medical training.  It’s everything I’ve ever dreamt for us.


EXT. HOUSE DOCTOR WINFRED’S.- DAY


The pool area is lavish. Evelyn sits in a lawn chair.  Doctor Winfred sits beside her. David and Jane enter.  Doctor Winfred spins off his chair and poses. 

 

DOCTOR WINFRED

How do you like my new suit?


DAVID

How can my father get away with wearing a sling shot Speedo?


INSERT NEIGHBOR INTERVIEW


NEIGHBOR

We live next to the Winfreds’.  Now I’m sure they are lovely people, but you must understand there are children in this neighborhood and I do not think it is proper to swim or sun bathe in such a state of un-dress.  It just isn’t done. Both of them!  Him with his red, whatever you want to call it and his, you know, stuffed into this tiny paper thin piece of clothe.  And her always with the Kazaks (Yiddish for boobs).  Not that we look, mind you. 






DOCTOR WINFRED

Come on, I can still pull it off.  Evelyn tells me I look hot.  On the other hand, you both look like a couple of geriatric patients.  Jane, grandma pick out the suit?  Evelyn, next week you and Jane are going out and getting this girl a proper suit.  Show a little skin, a little style.


EVELYN

Hu? 


DOCTOR WINFRED

I was talking about a suit for Jane.  

EVELYN

I got an idea.  Why don’t I take her out next week and buy her a new one.  You know show her a little style.  Show a little skin.

DOCTOR WINFRED

That’s why this is the only woman for me.  You think it’s her looks, her talents in the bedroom? Actually it’s her Adult Attention Deficit Syndrome.  Watch this.  Evelyn?

EVELYN

Hu?

DOCTOR WINFRED

I’m gonna start burying the neighbors in the back yard.  Is that okay?

EVELYN

Hu?

DOCTOR WINFRED

See she’s perfect.  Where am I going to find another one like her? Evelyn, what’s the policy on swim suits around here?  

EVELYN

I don’t wear one because of the tan lines.

DOCTOR WINFRED

Right.  What are we suppose to do with our boobies.  

EVELYN

These are kind of new.  I’m suppose to keep them up and perky for two weeks, right?

DOCTOR WINFRED

Right and why is that?

EVELYN

Doctor’s orders.

DOCTOR WINFRED

If those were brains she’d be running NASA. Excuse us Ladies while Davy and I fire up the grill.

INSERT POOL BOY INTERVIEW

  

POOL BOY 

Mrs. Winfred, yea she’s hot, as in very.  I totally want one just like her when I grow up. 



Jane holds up her book.


JANE

I’ll just totter off and tend to my knitting.


Doctor Winfred and David walk away from the girls toward the barbeque.

DOCTOR WINFRED

I hope Jane didn’t take offense.  Sometimes I wonder if I’m being insensitive… eh, so what. 

(beat)

How do you like Expeditors Inc. so far?







DAVID

I like it, but I’m afraid I might be going to hell.  I have this black drill sergeant, with a baking fetish, sending me off to get body parts.  I have a chain smoking, compulsive gambler that wants me to open a secret account in the Cayman’s so I can hide a shoe box full of money that I got from doing questionable things.  I think you can understand why it feels a little bit like hell.


DOCTOR WINFRED

Yea, it is a fun place to work.


DAVID

Dad, What are we really doing here?

Long Pause.


DOCTOR WINFRED 

Okay, twenty years ago things were rough.  Your mom passed, my practice was suffering, and Alex was about to lose his medical supply company.  


DOCTOR WINFRED 

(continuing)

Alex hears about this very wealthy attorney in serious need of a kidney.  Alex sells him one of his.  I do the surgery, the attorney pays us a fortune, and we’re all reborn.


DAVID

What about now?



DOCTOR WINFRED

Now we hire people from out of the country.  Young, poor, healthy and desperate, the perfect profile.  These are individuals, should they stay where they came from, would starve or die in a war.   


DAVID 

You give them a job so you can bring them here and kill them and then take their organs?


DOCTOR WINFRED 

No, no, not true, negative.  These people give Alex power of attorney over their earthly remains.  He takes what he needs and buries the rest.  They die a natural death just like everybody does.  People die all the time you know.  


DAVID 

This is sick.


DOCTOR WINFRED 

This is medical mathematics.  One dead body going into five sick ones equals millions.  It’s legal.  We help people.  


DAVID 

I’m having a nightmare.  


DOCTOR WINFRED 

Okay sissy boy, if it makes you feel better… we don’t kill people.  



DAVID

Who’s responsible for this?


DOCTOR WINFRED

(In a whisper)

Rich people.  They don’t like lines.  They use money to get what they want when they want it.  Tickets to a sold out super bowl, I need a heart, same thing.  They want it they empty the bank.  We’re the good guys, okay. Scouts honor. 

(belches)

I could eat a shoe.  Let’s tuck this conversation away and get serious about some ribs. 


David joins Jane.

JANE

How did it go?


DAVID 

(With a big smile to hide the fear)

Great. 

INSERT INTERVIEW DAVID IN CAMERA

DAVID

I have to lie to her at least for now.  At this point I’m really torn.  I’m being pulled a dozen different ways by a dozen different things.  This is tough


EXT. 5TH AVE MALL INFRONT OF SUGDEN THEATER – DAY


Zeve greets David. She is carrying coffee cups and a tin box. 

ZEVE

Coffee?

David inspects the tin box. It is filled with baked goods. 


ZEVE

Those are my famous lemon squares.  My husband says I could win a prize.  I have to make an extra batch every time I bake these up.  The first batch, whoosh, just disappears.  I swear that man must have a hollow leg.

  

David extracts a lemon square and takes a bite.

 

DAVID

These are good.


ZEVE

I know.  How was your weekend?


DAVID

Great, little too much sun got some time with my wife. We had a little barbecue.  


ZEVE

My husband and I watched movies all day.  He can’t go out until his immune system improves.  Lung transplant. Damn fool smoke a pack and a half since he was twelve.  Thanks to Alex he has got a chance.  No way am I going to lose that man.  He dies, I die. 

INTERVIEW INSERT DAVID

DAVID

Finding the right woman isn’t easy.

INTERVIEW INSERT EX-GIRLGRIEND # 2

EX-GIRLFRIEND #2

Yea, David and I dated for a while.  He was cute…for about twenty seconds.  

INTERVIEW INSERT DAVID

DAVID

Jane is the best thing that ever happened to me.  God knows it could have been worse.  

INTERVIEW INSERT STALKER EX-GIRLFRIEND

STALKER EX-GIRLFRIEND

That restraining order…?  Was just of David’s little jokes.  And these scars… I’m just a little clumsy sometimes.  David, Oh I love him still.  

INTERVIEW INSERT JANE

JANE

David makes me feel beautiful.  He always tells this stupid joke that I’m not just some intellectual property.  I’m also a piece of meat. 

(LAUGHS)

I remind him that women usually get that one the other way around. The important thing is, I know what he means.  He truly loves me and that’s rare.









CUT TO: EXT. 5TH AVE MALL INFRONT OF SUGDEN THEATER – DAY


Zeve’s cell PHONE RINGS


ZEVE

Yes. 

(Listens intently.) 

 

I’ll tell him.  


Hangs up phone.


ZEVE 

(Icy sincerity)


We have a special order.  Very important, Mankind General Hospital, operating room six, you’ll be harvesting a heart and delivering it to Billy at the shack.  This is a big one.  


DAVID

Got it.  When do I need to be there? 


ZEVE

Now, scoot, boogie, off you goes.  Take a lemon square and don’t spare the horses.


DAVID

Mankind General, O. R. six. Got it. 






INT. HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM – DAY


Body, chest cavity open, a heart monitors HIGH PITCH TONE reveals a flat line.  David enters.


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

He’s all yours.


David selects a scalpel and delicately grips the heart.  The flat line of the heart monitor suddenly hits a BEAT. David steps back.  A second BEAT follows, then a third, slowly growing to a modest rhythm.

  


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Proceed, that’s just a sympathetic reaction.  


DAVID

I have a heart beat doctor.


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

You have an involuntary response.  Do your job.


DAVID

Excuse me doctor, but we have a live patient here.  


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Excuse me.  Maybe I was a little too hasty.  Let me take another look. 

(pause)

 

Doctor Brown Eyes cups the heart and deathly severs the artery.  The heart monitor pins with a HIGH PITCH TONE.  


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

(Continuing)

No, I was correct.  Finish up here won’t you doctor.

 

EXT. PARKING LOT OF GUARDSHACK- DAY


David gets out of his car, cooler in hand.  Doctor Brown Eyes approaches.  His eyes flash with anger.

  

DOCTOR BROWN EYES

Pull a stunt like that again and I’ll be putting your heart in that cooler.

 

Doctor Brown Eyes grabs the cooler from David.

DAVID

There was a heart beat doctor.


DOCTOR BROWN EYES

An involuntary muscular response, besides I don’t have time to teach you medicine when I have a patient on a ventilator and a three hour window to give this puppy a new home. 


(Shakes the cooler)


You still got a problem. See a priest.


INT. THE BAR. -DAY  


David sits with Harry. 


HARRY

You look like hell, get fired or piss your wife off?  


DAVID

Not yet to both. What are you drinking?

BARTENDER

You want to run a tab?


DAVID

Yea.  Beer for me and whatever he’s having.


HARRY

Vodka rocks and you better make it a double if I have to look at him. 

(beat)


So what happened?


DAVID

I just had a bad experience with a patient.  


HARRY

You can’t win them all.  I’ll buy the drink.  How’s that?


DAVID

Yea, yea I’d like that.


HARRY

Tell me all about your bad day.  


DAVID

I better not.


HARRY

Suit yourself, but you can’t go around beating yourself up if you make a mistake.  Even doctors make mistakes.


DAVID

I should have kept my big mouth up, period. 


HARRY

Which I assume you didn’t.


DAVID

Correct.


HARRY

What did you say?


DAVID

I don’t want to talk about it.


HARRY

Yea you do. That’s why you came in here.  Hoping you would run into some old drunk like me to talk to. 


Long Pause


DAVID

All right, I told the chief surgeon he made a mistake.


HARRY

What he forget a sponge? What.


DAVID

No.


HARRY

You shot your mouth off and made a problem.  Now you won’t open it.  That’s a problem too. Maybe I can help.  If you let me, I’ll try.    


Silently David talks to Harry. Bar sounds fill the air GLASSES CLINKING, MUSIC, VOICES.  


LATER


Beer bottles accumulate in front of David as Harry sips on a can of coke and listens intently. 


BARTENDER

Last call.  You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.   


HARRY

I better call you a cab.  It seems you have been over served.  


DAVID

What time is it?


HARRY

Last call.


DAVID

Shit.  Yea, could you call me a cab?


HARRY  

Better than that.  I’ll drive you myself.


EXT. APARTMENT -NIGHT 

Harry walks David to the door.





HARRY

Here’s my story. I was a reporter.  I did investigation pieces.  I was doing one on a very prominent local businessman. He pulled a lot of bad deals on some very nice people and was about to get away with it.  When he found out I was about to drop the hammer on him, he comes to me and offers me twenty thousand dollars to drop the story.

So I go to my editor and tell them about the attempted bribe.  I give him all my research, the story, everything.  Then my editor goes to the businessman and tells him he’ll kill the story and destroy all the evidence for a price.  They make a deal and I’ve been getting drunk for twenty years.  


DAVID 

I’d love to chat but I really gotta pee.


HARRY

Yea well, I’m going to look into Expeditors Inc, and see what I can find out.    


EXT. BENCH BY THE BAY- DAY

David meets Zeve.  He hold a cup of coffee.

 

DAVID

Before you start, I’m late.  I’m sorry.  It was a rough day.






ZEVE

I know.  I heard. I know you had a little bump yesterday on your pick up.  Maybe it will make you feel better to know that all is well that ends well.  Our Tampa customer is doing extremely well.  Everything went fine.  

(beat)


Alex wants to talk to you about it and would like to have lunch with you.  I’ve cleared your appointments.  Alex will meet you across the street. There is a bench beachside.  Take a seat and he’ll find you. Drink your coffee like a good boy.  


EXT.  BEACHSIDE BENCH- DAY


Alex sits on the bench with David  


ALEX

Mistake, David, mistake.  David, David, mistake.  Five-man firing squad, they give one of the shooters a blank.  Why?  Plausible deniability. Your job is to harvest what needs to be harvested.  You do not, I repeat, do not contradict the senior surgeon because of some pissy little blip on a heart monitor.  You got that sport?  That’s your blank.  That’s what you shoot, blanks, always and forever.  So you shoot your blank, do your job, get your pay, go home and sleep well.  Have I made myself clear? 








DAVID

Uncle Alex--


ALEX

No, No, No.  No Uncle Alex. No let me explain.  No it went like this.  No once upon a time bullshit.  You do your job and he does his.  That’s how it works.  And you make it go right or you’re gone.


DAVID

I understand what you’re telling me.  I hope you can appreciate how it might be difficult.  This is all fairly new to me.  


ALEX

Then make it old and make it old fast.  Like right now, because I don’t want to do what some people have encouraged me to do.  That would be tragic for me and I don’t think you’d like it either.  Now, are you on the team?


DAVID

Yes


ALEX

We’re not having this conversation again, David.


DAVID

No




ALEX

(A complete change in attitude) 

Great, now the best thing for a hangover is chicken soup and a corn beef sandwich big as your head, my treat, as usual.


EXT. PARK – DAY


David and Alex sit at an outside table.  Alex devours a corn beef sandwich.  David sips a small cup of chicken broth.

  

ALEX

Where you putting your money these days?


DAVID

I’ve got a shoebox in the closet.


ALEX

Smuck.  We got to hook you up with Billy.  Safer then Fort Knox.  God couldn’t trace it.  Stop in and see him next time you go through the gate.  Take the rest of the week off.  I’ve got to smooth a few feathers.  You really put my ass in a sling, but we already had that conversation.  Everything is going to be fine.  You’ll take some time.  You’ll fuck your wife.  And I’ll make nice with the troops.  You see Billy next time you go to the shack, okay? 





DAVID

Okay, anything you say.

(beat)

Thanks.


ALEX

That’s what I want to hear.  


EXT. CHURCH PARKING LOT- DAY

A sign BINGO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT BIG PRIZES EARLY BIRD SPECIALS AND CONCESSIONS ON SITE.

A second sign PANCAKE BREAKFAST SPONSORED BY THE YOUTH GROUP.

A third sign A.A. MEETING MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY AT FIVE.


INT. CHURCH-DAY


David sits in a pew.

DAVID

Hey God.  Last time I was at a church was at my mom’s funeral.  No. See I just lied.  The last time was when Jane and I got married.  That was a really good thing.  Thanks.  She’s so wonderful.  I don’t know how you did it but you made her perfect.  She told me once that I make her feel beautiful.  I really don’t deserve credit for that one.  That’s easy because she is beautiful.  I feel bad for not telling her that she makes me feel smart, but she does.  About the funeral, I just want to apologize for all those things I said when my mom died.  I was angry.  I needed her because she helped me so much.  I hope you can remember that I was just a kid. (long pause)

  


DAVID

(continuing)


She made me feel that I could do anything.  I lost all that when she left.  Then you bring Jane into the picture.  What can I say Jane makes us even? 

 

David gets up to leave but stops and sits back down.


When I leave here, I’m probably going to go to a bar to drink.  In fact I may drink for a whole bunch of days.  I hope you can cut me some slack on that one.  I’ve been having some problems at work. I could use a whole lot of help there.  Okay, later, Amen.


INT. THE BAR- DAY


A small sign above the bar IN GOD WE TRUST.  ALL OTHERS PAY CASH.  

David joins Harry at the bar. 

  

HARRY

How ya feeling? Need a little hair of the dog? 


DAVID

I got the rest of the week off.


HARRY

Yea that’s what I told everybody twenty years ago.





DAVID

Look I was pretty drunk last night.  I had a rotten day.  I don’t even remember half the stuff I told you.  I hope you can just forget all about it?

   

HARRY

Hey the cats out of the bag.


DAVID

I have the family to think about.  There is no way they would ever do anything wrong.  It would ruin my wife’s reputation.  Please just forget the whole thing.


HARRY

I’ve stayed drunk for two decades forgetting.  


DAVID

I’m having a hard time dealing with all this guilt.  Don’t lay yours on me too. I was just being paranoid.  There’s no story.  If you push this I’ll deny the whole thing.  I’ve lied before.  It’s easy.  


HARRY

You might be under oath.


DAVID

God won’t even notice.  He’s too busy being in the bingo, pancake, and twelve-step business, I checked.





HARRY

Well, if you’re looking for God, I can take you where more prayers are said than any church or synagogue.


DAVID

Oh yea.

HARRY

Come on.  I’m going to take you someplace.

INSERT HARRY NARRATION

Under images of a racetrack. 

HARRY

Right now there are more prayers being said in there than any church in town.  The truth is God has a lot more important things to tend to.  All those people in there are chasing their tail.  They think if they win.  They’ll just keep winning.  And if they lose, it’s only a matter of time before they start winning.  They believe that their lives will be solved with money.  It’s the same thing with people in bars.  A lot of people are in bars trying to solve their lives with booze.  People like me.  Hoping if they drink enough their lives will feel better.  Smart people don’t fix their lives by anestatizing themselves to the world around them.  They take responsibility and find a way to make it work.  









Billy walks toward David and Harry.  He mumbles, cusses the horses, and tosses tickets on the ground.


BILLY

I had the super.  I had the tri.  I was the winner ten feet before the finish line and this pig quits.  


DAVID

Billy.  So this is where you been leaving your money.


BILLY

Yea this is friggin torture.  I’m stuck for two large already.

(beat)


Give me one of your smokes.  You know they get eight bucks a pack for this shit out here?  

DAVID

Maybe you shouldn’t come here.


BILLY

Eh, I don’t want to sit around doing nothing.  I gotta have some fun.  


DAVID

My friend here told me all about it.  


BILLY

Good for him.  

(beat)


I gotta make a bet.  You gonna be around?  

Billy walks away.



DAVID

Yea we’re going to be around here.  


HARRY

You work with that guy?


DAVID

(imitate Billy) 

Yea dats Billy he works security.



HARRY

Interesting.  He loses a lot out here.  He must have a hell of an income.


DAVID

Yea they take care of all of us pretty good.  

(pause)


Remember that story I told you to forget.  I change my mind.  Tell it.  Tell everything.  Go public.  I’ll corroborate everything.

HARRY

What about you?

DAVID

I’ll be alright.  For the first time in my life, I’ll be taking responsibility.  I’ll find a way to make it work.

  







INT. CAR REALTORS- DAY


It’s Saturday morning, house-hunting day.  Jane and David sit in the back seat.  The REALTOR converses over her shoulder to Jane and David.

 

REALTOR

I know you think I’m wasting your time and mine, but a little bird tells me this is going to be worth it. 


They pull into the driveway of the house.

INSERT INTERVIEW REALATOR

REALATOR

All right you two prepare to be dazzled.  Five bedrooms, with a possible sixth if you convert the den.  Six and a half baths.  Floor coverings, Berber carpet, marble entryway, Mexican tile all the way to the pool area and Jacuzzi.  The kitchen, custom cabinetry everything state of the art.  And your backyard why I do believe it’s the Gulf of Mexico.  Your private dock will accommodate a sixty foot yacht.  Seven car garage, guest house, maids quarters of course.  Yummy don’t you think?  A bargain at 5.5 million. 

 

JANE

This is totally out of the question.

DAVID

Will you excuse us for a moment?

David grabs Jane’s hand and takes her to an area secluded by the landscape. 

DAVID

Could you excuse us for a moment?


The Realtor approaches them in their hiding place.

REALTOR

I forgot to tall you that all the furniture is included. 


DAVID

Please just give us a moment.


REALTOR

Of course.

DAVID

I wanted to have a little private conversation about real estate with you.


(pause)

  

David takes Jane’s hand and places it on his crotch.  


DAVID

(continuing)


Based on what you know about real estate, is this a lot?  


JANE

(giggles.) 

You’re crazy.  You can’t do this here.


DAVID

Are you saying it’s crazy for a husband to consult his wife about real estate matters?  


JANE

(squeals)

 

This is totally inappropriate.  Why are we doing this we can’t afford this house?


DAVID

Because…

(Yells to the Realtor)

We’ll take it.  Fill out the paper work. We’re going to be a few minutes. 


JANE


You’re absolutely insane. David stop it. This ladies going to think we’re nuts.


DAVID

(pulls Jane close)


When we pulled up to this house the look on your face said, I love it but we can’t afford it.  It’s totally impractical.  And that told me that this was the house that we had to buy.  You be the practical brilliant doctor that saves lives and makes people better.  I’ll be the crazy love starved doctor that robs banks and does anything to make this happen.  Now,

(pause)


(pulls her closer)

 

Let’s mark our territory.

INT. APARTMENT-NIGHT 


David is on his cell phone talking to Uncle Alex 


DAVID

Uncle Alex.  First I want to say thanks.  Thanks for giving me the time to sort things out. I spent some time with Jane.  We bought a house.  I not only want to come back to work.  I need to come back to work, okay.  So if you’ve got everybody squared away, then consider me squared away too.  Does that sound cool?

CUT TO ALEX SEATED IN RESTAURANT-NIGHT

ALEX

I’m glad to hear you came around.  Just remember that’s not the first time you screwed up but its got to be the last.  


INTERCUT APARTMENT/RESTAURANT- NIGHT


DAVID

I had my head up my ass.  I see that now.  You dust off that employee of the year award cause that’s going to be me.  


ALEX

Congratulations on the house.  Zeve will expect you Monday morning.

  

DAVID

Thanks Uncle Alex.  I won’t let you down.


David hangs up the phone and turns to the camera.


INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW

DAVID

When I told you I was going to be responsible and make this work.  I meant it.  The way I see it we are all going to go to jail.  Myself included, but I’m still going to take care of Jane.  I’m going to cash out my trust fund.  I already checked that’s going to cover most of it.  Then I throw in the cash I got stuck up in the shoe box.  That will leave me just a little bit short but Jane has a hell of a good job.  I’m going to get a loan for the rest of it.  I figured it all out.  Jane makes enough to keep the house and pay the bills.  It won’t be easy for her but at least I’m doing the right thing.  It’s all going to work out… somehow.  

INT. ZEVE’S HOME- DAY


Monday morning at nine fifty-five a.m. Zeve sits at a desk.  David Enters.


DAVID

Good morning Zeve. Wow, nice place.


ZEVE

Good morning sunshine.  Keeps your voice down my husbands still sleeping.


David pours himself a cup of coffee and helps himself to a cookie.  






ZEVE

David, we have a tiny bit of business to take care of this morning.  I meant to do it the very first day, but I was so excited about you joining us it just slipped my mind.


DAVID

What are those?


ZEVE

These are some forms that you have to sign.  I’ve marked all the appropriate places.


DAVID

What am I signing?


ZEVE

It’s a power of attorney agreement, hold harmless agreement and just in case, an organ donor form. We all have to sign them.  I just forgot to give them to you the first day.  


DAVID

I’m going to have to have someone look this over.--


ZEVE

(forceful)

Alex was very clear.  You’re not to leave here without signing these forms.

DAVID

Why didn’t he tell me?


ZEVE

Alex is doing this to cover your ass.  You put a lot of people in jeopardy and this is the deal he made to assure everyone that there would not be a second time.  You don’t have a choice.  Please, for your own good, just sign.


David gives a cursory read of the forms and signs in multiple places.    


Long Pause


ZEVE


Lemon square baby?


DAVID

No, thank you.


ZEVE

Nothing is on the schedule.  I’ll call you if anything changes. 


David crosses to the door and exits

INSERT MORTICIAN INTERVIEW

MORTICIAN

We’re open Monday through Friday, three to eleven.  To tell you the truth dead bodies creep me out.  Thank God I don’t have to look at them or touch them or anything.  When they come in they’re in this wooden box.  It’s like a casket right. We roll them off the hearse.  Wheel the box up to the oven.  Slide it up on a conveyor belt, then I just hit two buttons.  The box goes in.  The door drops.  Flame on and it burns on a timer.  When it’s done it shakes all the ashes into this container, like a big gulp cup.  Sometimes we do three or four a week.  Hell it pays good. 



INT. BANK OFFICE- DAY

David sits with a Loan Officer.  The Loan Officer fills out paper work.

 

LOAN OFFICER 

Doctor David Winfred Junior.


DAVID

Yes.


LOAN OFFICER

So you need a home loan?


DAVID

Yes.  My wife and I found a house we love.  I wanted to look into getting a mortgage.


LOAN OFFICER

Well, that’s what we do here. Congratulations, I’ll just need you to fill out a loan application.


DAVID

My wife is a physician as well.  It’s a lot harder for her to get away.  I was hoping that I might be able to handle all the forms myself. 


LOAN OFFICER 

At some point we will need to have her come down, but we can work that out.  Why don’t you take these forms home so you and your wife and fill them out together.


David’s cell PHONE RINGS. 


DAVID

Hello.


INT. CAR- DAY


ALEX

Let’s have lunch.


INTERCUT- BANK CUBICLE/LIMOUSINE


DAVID

Where?



ALEX

I’m thinking Chinese.  I’ll pick you up.


DAVID

I’m at uh--


ALEX

I know where you are.  I’m parked out front.









INT. ALEX’S CAR- DAY

David sits silently next to Alex.

  

ALEX

Dim Sum, Baby.

  (pause)

Davy, please.  You pissed off a lot of people.  They wanted your head.  I can’t blame them.  They were scared.  They want protection.  I want to protect you.  A piece of paper did both. Come on, win win.


DAVID

So I just shrug all this off and we go eat a bunch of Chinese food and everybody’s happy?


ALEX

Exactly. Next stop the Grand Buffet. 

EXT. RESTAURANT- DAY


David and Alex stand on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant.  Alex rubs and pats his full belly.


ALEX

I’m the fattest man in the world.


DAVID

Mix in a salad once in a while Uncle Alex.


ALEX

Unkind my boy, unkind.

(Pause)


David’s car is parked next to Alex’s car.


ALEX

(continuing)

I had them bring over your 

car.--


DAVID

(reaches for his keys)

How--


ALEX

That’s nothing.

(beat)

  

So, I went by your new house. Nice, very nice.  


DAVID

Now all I have to do is pay for it.

ALEX

Oh yea, about that.  I’m your bank.  This way you don’t have to fill out all those silly loan application bullshit questions, proof of income, red tape.  It’s titled in your name but I’m going to hold out seven thousand dollars a month for say, twenty years.  Then, poof it’s paid for.  You could never get a deal like that from a bank.  I did it for your old man.  How could I do less for you?  By the way the new car in the garage is a house-warming gift.  


David and Alex walk towards their cars.  Alex climbs in the back of his car and lowers the window.  


DAVID

I feel like you own me.


ALEX

Good, that’s the idea. 


INT. DAVID AND JANE’S APARTMENT. –NIGHT


Jane and David rest in bed on their sides facing each other.


JANE

So is this some kind of weird company benefit or something? 


DAVID

He said he has the same arrangement with my dad.


JANE

What about taxes, insurance?

DAVID

They have accountants that take care of all that.  They take care of everything.  They pay all the bills, utilities, lawn care, repairs, everything.


JANE

Income tax?


DAVID

Uncle Alex said we pay on your salary alone.  My income is cash and tax is prepaid by deduction.   Small purchases we pay cash. Big stuff we buy through them.  They deducted it.  It’s all legal. 


JANE

What if you quit the company, or get fired, or die in a car accident?


DAVID

I can’t quit.  And if I get fired I probably will die in a car accident.  


JANE 

Can’t you be serious about anything?


DAVID

That’s it.  I want a divorce.


JANE

(plays along)

You can’t have a divorce.  


DAVID

Well I want one just the same.

(pause)


Jane rubs her hand down his chest toward his groin.


DAVID

(continuing)

No.  Now stop that.  My minds made up.


JANE

Are you sure?  Maybe I can change your mind?


DAVID

Not a chance.

(pause)


Jane begins to kiss him on his lower chest and belly.



DAVID

(continuing)


It’s too late I tell you.  My mind is already made up.

 

Jane disappears under the covers.


DAVID

(continuing)

Do you really think this is fair?


JANE


Hmm hmm.


INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW INTO CAMERA

David looks up toward camera.  

DAVID

I didn’t lie.  That is how it works.  


EXT. GUARD SHACK- NIGHT

David walks in.

INT. GUARD SHACK – NIGHT

Alex greets David.

ALEX

Davy!   


DAVID

Where’s Zeve?  She just told me to get over here right away.

 

ALEX

She and her husband are on their way to the airport.  They are taking a long over due vacation.  


DAVID

Oh, well, where’s Billy.

Alex answers him by handing him the cooler. In an instant David connect Billy with the contents of the cooler. This causes him to open the door and vomit.  He collects himself

DAVID

(continuing)

Why?


Alex, looks and fumbles with the cooler.


ALEX

Billy had a terminal illness. Compulsive gambling, resulting in theft, causing death.  We trusted him to handle all our deposits.  We noticed how a little started to stick to his fingers, then a little more.  I had a talk with him about it.  I told him pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.  And one day it got out of hand.  I have a big responsibility to a lot of people and sometimes we do what we gotta do.  


DAVID

You’re amazing.


ALEX

How’s that?


DAVID

You make all of this almost understandable, reasonable, fair.  




ALEX

It is.

(beat)

Let me tell you something.  Every industry creates some variety of pollutant. Coal miners get black lung.  Textile workers get cancer from the little fibers.  In the transplant business somebody has to die.  It’s a by-product of commerce.  It’s unavoidable.    

(beat)

Hey you watch TV?


DAVID

Do I what?


ALEX

TV, Do you watch it?  You know like Leno, Letterman, wrestling?


DAVID

Um hum.


ALEX

I love TV. But I get bored so I flip channels. You know what I came across when I was flipping channels? 

(beat)


I stumbled onto Florida Today!  Can you believe it?  I hadn’t watched that show in years. I taped it.  Grab a seat. I want you to see it.


David sits down facing a small television set.  Alex takes the seat beside him.


ALEX

You already puked your guts out so you’re probably going to fill your pants on this one.  Wait till you see this.  It’s really something.   


TALK SHOW HOST

Our guest this evening is an industry giant.  Before there was Jack Anderson.  Before there was Mike Wallace, Geraldo Rivera, or a Woodward and Bernstein.  There was Harold Finer.  

(pause)


It’s Harry from the bar. 


TALK SHOW HOST 

(continuing)

You represented what investigative journalism was about.  But that was twenty years ago, where have you been?


HARRY

I was having a bad day so I had a drink with lunch.  I felt better so I had another, and a third.  Suddenly twenty years are gone.  


TALK SHOW HOST 

And now, your back.


HARRY

Older and wiser.


TALK SHOW HOST 

When you contacted us last week our intern didn’t know who you were.  

HARRY 

People forget.  I guess he did a Google search and found me under dinosaurs and investigative reporters. I was flattered when your show called back.


TALK SHOW HOST 

You said you had a story that was sure to blow the lid off the entire medical community.


ALEX

This is my favorite part.


HARRY

(pause)


I lied.  I guess I was just lonely for the limelight.


TALK SHOW HOST 

 (stumbles) 

So… there’s no story?


HARRY

I learned my lesson twenty years ago.  There’s no story.


TALK SHOW HOST 

 (pissed)

Get this guy out of here. Ladies and Gentlemen this is the last time you’ll ever see Harold Finer on this show or any show. Cut to commercial. 








Alex turns off the television.


ALEX

That, was my idea, personal humiliation, totally discrediting this guy in front of millions of people.  He can never change his story.  Kind of a nice touch, don’t you think?

(beat)


This is the guy we saw you and Billy with at the track.


DAVID

Right. Your not going to hurt him are you?



ALEX

No, we’re not monsters, Davy.  We’re businessmen.   A case of vodka and a nice big envelope filled with cash did the trick. He’s got nothing fear.  Okay, as of now you’re retired. We all are.  We’re out of business.  This is the way they’re going to tell the story.  Billy stole money.  Anybody finds anything, he’s responsible, and now he’s dead.  End of story short and sweet.  Come on, walk with me.  Walk me to the car.  







EXT. PARKING LOT-NIGHT


Alex clutches the cooler.  They walk side by side toward the car.


ALEX

Everybody needs an exit strategy.  Hey, I thought I had a lot of years left, my bad.  

(beat)


Look Davy, I know it was you.


Alex’s swings the cooler into David’s stomach, knocking the wind out of him. David cradles the cooler and leans forward.  Alex throws his hands in the air releasing the cooler.


ALEX

(continuing)

You’re the big winner here.  You’re the only one who won’t lose your money in the Cayman’s.  

I’m taken the money. They can blame a dead man.  The house and car are already in your name.    

You won’t see me again.

This is what they do for business executives.  They call it a golden parachute.  

  



David stands limp holding the cooler at his side.  Alex hugs him and gives him a kiss on both checks and  walks toward the car.  The door closes behind him.  









INSERT DAVID INTERVIEW

DAVID

While I’m not entirely sure.  I think I just won.  I don’t know what I did to make this happen.  Maybe good stuff like this is just a byproduct of being responsible and making things work.  Wow, I feel pretty good.  Oh shit.  Jane.  What am I going to tell her.  

INT. DAVID’S APARTMENT KITCHEN- DAY


It’s four-thirty the next morning.  Jane has been awake all night.   David enters.  He places the cooler behind a chair at table attempting to hide it from her.  


JANE

Where the hell have you been all night?  You better have an explanation and it better be good.














INSERT INTERVIEW DAVID NARARATION 

Images of David and Jane in the Kitchen.   

DAVID

For the next four hours, I talked non stop.  I told her everything.  I told her about Uncle Alex.  I told her about Harry.  I told her about the lawyers and the hold harmless agreements.  The gray market transplant business. The money in the shoe box.  My plan to cash out my trust fund so she would have the house.  I told her about Billy and how I thought that Alex had him killed.  Half the time I’m kind of proud of myself.  The rest of the time I’m expecting her to grab a frying pan and bash my brains out.  I was really starting to wear down.  I figured as long as I was talking I was safe.  But like all good cowards.  You eventually have to end your story.  

CUT TO APARTMENT KITCHEN?-DAY


JANE

Anything else?


DAVID

Well Uncle Alex tells me were going to watch TV.  He taped Harry from the bar when he was on Florida Live.  He was supposed to tell everybody everything but he lies because Uncle Alex gave him a case of booze and some cash.  So you see it wasn’t my fault. 




Jane struggles mightily to suppress a bubbling emotion.  


JANE

Anything else?

 

DAVID

Well, it’s just a hunch, but I think Zeve killed Billy with some poison cookies.

(beat)


So are you mad at me?


Jane burst into uncontrollable laughter as she relives the fantastic tale that David has just told her.  Tears roll down her cheeks as she strikes out at the air punctuating remembrances.  She grabs at her ribs aching from the violent laughter.  David stands before her and weakly gestures toward the cooler.  Jane snatches the cooler.


JANE

(with cynical playful theatrics)

Is this Billy? 

(pause)


She moves the cooler up and down testing the weight



JANE

(continuing)

Is this Billy?  Is this Billy? Maybe it’s his heart? No, I think this is Davy’s almost empty beer cooler.  I think you came home because you need more beer.  Well, mommies going to fix it for you.  Mommies going to fill up baby’s cooler.  You just sit there like a good boy while mommy gets some ice cold beer.  

(pause)


Jane opens the refrigerator.  Her voice starts angry and grows to fever pitch.


JANE

Mommies going to put some extras in so you can share them with your little asshole friends.  Won’t that be nice?


Jane absent-mindedly opens the cooler. David points to its contents.  Jane still in a rage looks in cooler and freezes in a silent stare.

  

INT. APARTMENT KITCHEN- DAY


Jane and David sit silent. 


JANE

(breaks the silence)


That’s the most insane tale anyone has ever told.

(pause)

No one in the history of the world would every believe a word of it…. It’s perfect. We’ll tell everyone it’s a screen play.  A documentary, no a spoof.  Wait, better.  We tell people it’s a mock-documentary.  We’ll set it in Florida.  I’m loving this.  Naples.  Well shoot it ourselves.  Well get actors from the community to play all the parts.  No one can or will come forward to contest any of it.  Your dad can keep his practice and Alex can continue to roam the earth with his money and never set foot back in this country again.  You were never meant for medicine.  






JANE

(continuing)


You were meant to write.  And since no one could ever make this up.  You’re going to write this.  I actually think we’re going to be able to pull it off.  You’re an idiot and I love you.  

(they kiss)

  

DAVID

It’ll never work.


JANE

Are you absolutely certain?


DAVID

Absolutely. 


JANE

If your certain it won’t work, then, I’m absolutely certain it will.  


EXT. MOVIE THEATER-NIGHT


A huge marquee reads WIN WIN

 

FADE OUT:






: The End

Sound Track

INTO THE COFFEE CUP


The cast of Win Win is listed below
David
Gavin Goode
Doctor Winfred
Robert Hayman
Alex
David Alexander
Zeve
Leslie Lewis Sword
Jane
Heather Doria
Billy
Mark Wallace
Harry
 
Evelyn
Jessica Clarke
Talk Show Host
Clif Citrano
Bartender
Tegan De Clark
Mortician
Mary Jane Jones
Paper Boy
Chris Jones
Male Student
Nick Lichter
Pool Boy
Brian Best
Real Estate Lady
Carol Siegel
Neighbor
Marilyn Hilbert
Ex-Girlfriend
Jennifer Travis
Stalker Ex- Girlfriend
Michaella Dionne
Nurse
 
Little Girl Patient #1
Lynn Jones
Little Girl Patient #2
Erica Wagner
Homeless Guy #1
 
Homeless Guy #2
 
Pilot
 
Banker
Joanne Wallace
College Dean
Francine Beach
Guard
 
Doctor
 
Limo Driver
Steve Sorick
 

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