37. Shop Drop - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. WALMART GROCERY SECTION - DAY


• ANDI and SAM walk slowly towards a vegetable cooler filled with overly green vegetables and bright fruit.


• Andi is wears a short white dress over flared jeans. Her organic shoes poke out from beneath the fabric. She carries a backpack in her left hand.


• Sam tucks his hands in his hoodie pockets and looks around nervously.


• ANDI
• Chill, Sam, you look like you're about to do something wrong.


• SAM
• Well, I don't want to get caught.


• ANDI
• Well you will if you keeping acting like that. Besides, we're doing our part in flipping the world upside down.


• SAM
• Upside down?


• ANDI
• Or maybe rightside up. I mean...I was on this flight recently...and they made all us lowly peasants in economy pay for the movies and food, but the first class passengers got it all free. If they can afford first class, they can afford to pay for the movies. That's upside down. We're the ones who should get complimentary food and movies.


• SAM
• Uhhh...


• She proceeds down the cooler, inspecting items and slapping notes on them. She is moves smoothly, as if nothing could be more normal.
  


• Andi pulls a stick-it pad from her pocket and slaps it on a bunch of bananas. It reads "These bananas were produced in an environmentally unfriendly way...don't buy them.


• She proceeds down the cooler, inspecting items and slapping notes on them. She is moves smoothly, as if nothing could be more normal.


• Sam tries to look nonchalant.


• They leave the frozen food section and head towards canned food.


• SAM
• Why are we doing this again?


• ANDI
• Because I practice what I preach. I don't just hypothesize and think about pretty utopias.


• SAM
• Hey!


• ANDI
• Ok, a little harsh...but true. You want to live a sustainable lifestyle, you want to provoke thought? You want to live a liberated life? Well then do it! Move out to a co-op, find people who use a bartering system, go to a protest...squat even. Just do it and stop yapping on and on and on.


• SAM
• Hey, I didn't have to be here, you wanted the company.


• ANDI
• Sorry...I shouldn't have gone off on you.


• Sam nods, accepting the apology.


• SAM
• Ok, hand me the cans.


• Andi unzips the backpack and removes several cans. Its wrapper is covered in colorful graffiti. She pulls another can out, a seemingly normal Campbell's soup can.


• SAM
• Uhh?


• ANDI
• Ingredients.


• Sam flips the can over and begins reading.


• SAM
• "Tomatoes, water, spices, rebellion, two parts dissent, a healthy does of wisdom, welcome to the revolution, this is the manifesto of..." What?


• Andi grins at him.


• SAM
• Cute...


• The move quickly down the aisle placing various cans, some innocuous, some overtly subversive, on the shelves.


• An employee walks by and Andi calmly continues shelving.


• Sam slowly pulls his fingers away from the cans and again plays nonchalant.


• They finish and slip out towards the store entrance.


• Andi grins at him as the approach the glass doors.


• Sam tries to look disapproving, but fails.


• SAM
• Ok, ok.


• ANDI
• See?


• Sam nods, and they walk through the doors into the bright daylight.


• FADE TO BLACK.