205. That First Moment - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. LIVINGROOM - NIGHT


• TED and EMILY sit on a the couch, separated by a comfortable distance.


• The room around them is packed with fellow partiers.


• Emily rolls her eyes in the general direction of the room.


• Ted grins and leans in.


• TED
• So I have a pet peeve.


• EMILY
• Other than the obvious.


• Ted looks around at the loud party-goers.


• TED
• Yeah, other than the obvious. I was watching a movie last night, and it was based in the 31st century. Fine, all well and good; but the technology they had...felt like it could be developed in, oh...the next 200 years. I mean, a thousand years is a long time.


• EMILY
• It could be assumed that the world had another dark age and technology had just slowed.


• TED
• Yeah, maybe. I guess I just feel like if you're going to push that far in the future, you should develop things that almost unrecognizable. I mean...they were still wearing suits and carrying suitcases.


• Emily smiles at him, then looks away, moving herself closer to him casually.


• EMILY
• Would you be ok if it was a steampunk future?


• TED
• Yeah, I could go for that, as if we'd had a loss of technology, a return to some serious dark ages, and then emerging from that had gone a different way techno. I could buy that.


• EMILY
• I love how Dune handled it.


• Ted notices she's closer and moves in a bit.


• TED
• I love Dune...what did you like about how they dealt with the future, with technology?


• Emily is distracted by how close Ted is now.


• He works hard at studying a shape on the wall to avoid looking directly at her.


• EMILY
• Like you said, some things were completely unrecognizable, it was a new way of looking at human society, and yet...Oh, screw it.


• TED
• You too eh?


• She reaches over and slips her hand in his.


• TED
• You sure about this?


• EMILY
• It's been kind of inevitable. Are you?


• TED
• Yeah.


• EMILY
• Good.


• TED
• How long did this take us?


• EMILY
• Seven years, hey, we take our time.


• He pulls her closer in.


• TED
• So what was that about Dune?


• EMILY
• Screw Dune.


• She leans into his shoulder and they sit alone on the couch, lost in their on world.


• FADE TO BLACK.