INTERIOR APARTMENT EARLY MORNING
JAZZY, late 20s, is seen in a small apartment folding clothes and placing them in a laundry basket. As she picks up the basket to head down the hallway to a bedroom, an advertisement comes on the video screen.
VIDEO SCREEN
Do you want your baby to have the same beautiful color eyes as your grandmother? Or the full lips of your favorite actress? We can provide that with our gene editing services. A simple outpatient procedure done in two visits and your child can have the features you desire!
JAZZY stops and sighs watching the ad on the video screen.
JAZZY- “I just want my baby to live past three years old unlike her sister. I don’t care about the other stuff.”
She continues down the hallway and stops to look at framed pictures on the wall. Four static pictures surround one short clip framed video picture. Pictures of Jazzy, Lorne, and a healthy kid from ages one to three years old is seen playing at the beach, at an ice cream shop, eating in a high chair food smeared everywhere, the video is Lorne running with a kite and the child laughing and giggling. The last photo shows Bluey visiting the very sick child in her hospital bed.
Another advertisement comes on the video screen. This time for vacation trips into space.
INTERIOR LOCATION EARLY MORNING
LORNE, late 20s, bursts through the door of the small apartment and into the living room. He is nervous, agitated, and scared. JAZZY runs out into the hallway from a side room towards him. Obviously worried and now confused and starting to be scared.
LORNE
“The old man died. I think. I..I dont know.”
JAZZY
“What? What do you mean? How…?”
LORNE
“I don’t know. I don’t know what happened. He just fell. He chased me out the front door and fell, slipped. I don’t know.”
JAZZY
“How do you know he is dead? Did you check?”
LORNE collapses on a couch rubbing his forehead with his left hand in frustration and exhaustion. JAZZY moves toward him. She is starting to calm down and sits next to him on the couch. LORNE looks up at her. Sad. Despondent. His voice sad and shaky.
LORNE
“I didn’t. But I could tell… you know. Just a feeling. The way he fell and lay there. I could just tell. Remember when we went to my grandma’s and she didn’t answer the door but we saw her through the window and knew she was dead? When I looked back I just knew he was dead. (Beat) That wasnt supposed to happen.”
JAZZY looks at LORNE and leans closer. She touches her forehead to his. Looks him in the eye.
JAZZY
“Did you get the money?”
LORNE responds in a long sigh.
LORNE
“Yeah. I have the money.”
JAZZY
“Ok then. We have to go. I am still pregnant and we have the money. Let’s get the procedure done and our baby will be healthy.”
LORNE looks up at JAZZY pulling back slightly.
LORNE
“And the old man?”
JAZZY
“Forget the old man. We have to get the procedure done. Nothing else matters. We’ll figure it out after that. Now let’s go.”
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