Sunday, May 11, 2008

132. True Love - Leslie





  • FADE IN:

  • EXT. LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT STATION - DAY

  • ROBBIE stands, leaning against a column on the station platform, eyes half-closed.

  • He readjusts, trying to find a comfortable position before giving up and staring enviously at the benches packed with other waiting passengers.

  • A movement catches his eye and he opens his eyes and lets them dart across the room to pinpoint the distraction.

  • AMI walks across the platform, loose pants swishing against the ground and scarf catching a slight breeze and floating behind her.

  • Robbie stares at her.

  • She notices and turns to find the eyes boring holes in her back.

  • She sees him and stops.

  • They stand still, looking for each other for a long moment, lost in a silent conversation.

  • Her train arrives breaking the peace.

  • She shakes her head and races onto the train.

  • Robbie instinctively follows her as his own train pulls into the station.

  • He stops, looks back at his train, and then hers. He runs for her train as she steps in.

  • The doors begin to close.

  • Ami sees Robbie and their eyes catch each others' again.

  • She pauses, then grabs a pen from her purse and scribbles down her contact info onto a piece of scrap paper from her purse.

  • She tosses it out the window as the trains begins to leave the station.

  • It floats towards Robbie, then away towards other train tracks.

  • Robbie pauses, considers the electric current buzzing through the subway system's central rail.

  • He looks at the piece of paper, drifting tantalizingly close.

  • A train screams past on the next track, and he turns his head to see it, then watches the paper again, then down to the third rail.

  • He purses his lips and begins to run, following the paper.

  • It wafts closer and closer to him when a gust of wind pulls it away, down the tracks.

  • Robbie sits, staring at the paper as it moves further and further away from him.

  • FADE TO BLACK.


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