cheaper the better

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Scene 5 :

The mahogany table in the Drave’s dining room with a fine china teapot collection. Harvey sits at the table with his leather jacket hung over his chair. the china cabinet in the corner open and when kim closes it she turns to the table as Sarah sits next to Harvey. The grandfather clock on the left side of the room dongs eleven times as kim sits at the table and pours herself a cup of tea.

*sigh* ( frowning ) [Kim] : “So,”

Kim takes a sip of tea and places her cup back on the table. Sarah grabs the teapot and pours a cup for Harvey and another for herself. As she places the teapot back on the table she looks at Harvey. He gives a forced little smirk.

*sigh* ( unenthused ) [Harvey] : “So,”

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cue light classical music from the

hallway adjacent (player piano melody is hand written sheet music short and repetitive but fills the white noise)

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Harvey looks to the hallway adjacent the dining room for the source of the music, Sarah looks as well.

*smirk* ( glancing at Harvey) [Sarah] : “that’s the old player piano I got from dad, it’s getting old now and plays on its own accord, remember we used to play and sing along with it?” *smile* “...what happened to you?”

Harvey and Sarah turn back to face Kim, Harvey with a half hearted smile as the music fades out.

*clears throat* ( sigh ) [Harvey] : “After I lost my Job last summer I had to bounce around shelters for a while. but then I gained quite a debt to some bad crowds playing cards, they loaned me the money to play with, and when I lost it to them, they expected me to pay it back.”

Kim looks discouraged taking a sip of tea. Harvey gives a shy look at the two of them. as Kim places her cup back on the table Harvey looks to his backpack next to the china cabinet.

*nervous swallow* (depressed) [Sarah] : “so you don’t have any money, shelter, or... food?”

Sarah looks hesitantly to Harvey’s backpack as well, which could be smelled over the tea. Sarah looked back at Harvey.

*wince* (upset) [Sarah] : “Then what is…”

Harvey stares at his bag for a moment and closes his eyes.

*sigh* (anxious) [Harvey] : “I feed off wildlife in the woods outside town”

Sarah gives a gasp of shock at this and looks at Harvey disgusted.

*shout* (angry) [Sarah] : “NOT! anymore, we have three spare rooms and we need a new gardner. go up stairs and have a shower!”

Harvey looks taken aback at this, looks at his tea then back at Sarah.

*scoff* (angry) [Sarah] : “I said GO!”

***FADE TO BLACK***

SCENE 6 ;

faDE IN Shaving in a large restroom on the second floor of the Drave manor, Harvey, wearing blue jeans and a button down shirt sighs as he cleans his new razor. He had nicked himself on the cheek having not shaved in so long, and so a small drop of blood was makes its way down his face. Harvey grabs a cloth to the left of the sink and wipes the blood away. there is a sound of someone coming up the stairs and down the hallway toward the restroom. Harvey quickly puts the razor down next to the sink and hangs the cloth over the foset. There is a knock at the door as harvey turns to open it.

*knocking* (suspense) [ Sarah ] : “How is it going in there, almost done?”

Harvey opens the door with a smile. Sarah wearing her blue dress has her hair in a french braid. As harvey stepped out into the hall sarah smiles.

*smirk* (sigh) [Harvey] : “Yes, finished. now about the yard work, I know nothing about plants so I can’t say I’ll be…”

Sarah cuts harvey off at this, crosses her arms and gives a stern look.

*smirk* (annoyed) [Sarah] : “Don’t even start, we’ll train you. It’s just ripping out weeds and watering plants anyway.” *sighs uncrosses arms* “well, there is trimming the hedges.”

Sarah looks at Harvey with a light smile.

*sigh* (off-topic) [Sarah] : “come have breakfast, we’ll talk about that later.”

Sarah leans forward, quickly kisses harvey, runs down the hall and down the stairs giggling. Harvey, caught by surprise gives a light chuckle and walks down the hall with a smirk

***FADE TO BLACK***

SCENE 7 ;

FADE IN FROM BLACK

In the basement of Karl's home furnished with; a poker table surrounded by chairs, a couch and a large T.V. playing a hockey game. Karl sitting in the dealer's seat of the table and only three others sitting at the table with the hockey game playing in the background. As Karl deals out cards david strokes his chest length beard, Mark adjusts his glasses, and kevin cracks his knuckles.

(unenergetic) [David]: *Sigh* “fold”

David passes his cards back toward Karl shaking his head slowly. Kevin glances at his cards. Mark replaces his glasses to his face.

*smirk and sigh* (casual) [Kevin] : “ call”

Kevin adds a chip to the pot and looks toward Mark who looks at his cards.

*breath in* *wince* [Mark] : “check” *breath out*

The clock on the wall hits noon hour as Karl flops a jack of diamonds, queen of hearts, and ten of spades.

(joyfully) *smirk* [Mark] : “on the flop, three thousand six hundred and fifty five dollars, all in ”

Mark through all his chips in the pot, Kevin snickered.

(amused) *smirk* [Kevin] : “I’ll call that bluff”

Kevin tosses half his chip stack in the pot to call wearing a confident smirk. David begins to laugh and shake his head.

(Laughing) *smile* [David] : “I’m winning our red wings beat Karl, you got the cash?”

Karl, Mark, and Kevin all look to the T.V. smirking.

(sighing) *smile* [Karl] : “of course I do, who do you think I am, bill? Besides the game is not over yet, you’ll see.”

All four of them Laugh and look back to the card game.

(joly) *smirk* [Kevin] : “That ass Bill, has to owe us what, ten thousand each? we should hunt him down.”

Kevin shows his cards revealing pocket queens giving him three of a kind queens, and Mark reveals his own King of clubs and ace of diamonds giving him a straight off the flop. Kevin frowns.

(disappointed) *smiling* [Mark] : “you can’t honestly say you didn’t see a straight coming”

Mark laughs as kevin sits there with a look almost in tears.

(unhappy) *wince* [Kevin] : “You got my rent money from me, nice, real nice. and bill fell off the earth, I heard he put his own obituary in the paper to fake his death.”

Mark smiled and rakes his chips in as Karl and David laugh.

(happily) *smirk* [Karl] “yes, but there is ways of finding people.”

David nods his head in agreeance.

(casually) *smile* [David] : “But their not strictly speaking legal” ***FADE TO BLACK***

SCENE 8 ; FADE IN FROM BLACK

In the large gated acre of The Drave manor Harvey is weeding a flower bed by the gate entrance. Cars drive by the street outside the gate. Shirt sleeves rolled up and wearing garden gloves he wipes sweat from his brow and causes a dirt smudge on his forehead. A small meadow lark flies down from a tree nearby and begins pecking at the rich soil of the flower bed. A breeze blows through his shoulder length hair as he rips a dandelion from its roots out of the garden. Sarah comes walking across the yard in her blue dress and Harvey turns to her as she beckons.

( smiling ) * sigh * [ Sarah ] : “Harvey, about time for a lunch break, don’t you think?”

Harvey adds the dandelion to an already full white bucket of now dead weeds as the the meadow lark flies off with a worm. Harvey stood and picked up the bucket.

(clearing throat) *smirk* [Harvey] : “yeah, about time, what is the meal today?”

Sarah and Harvey begin to walk across the yard harvey with the bucket in his hands has to walk slowly so sarah keeps a slow pace. as they approach the massive home Harvey looks at sarah.

(amused) *smirk* [Harvey] : “so are you going to tell me or not?”

Sarah smiles as they approach the front door, the breeze blowing through her hair.

(smile) *sigh* [Sarah] : “pizza, homemade dohe and all that, good stuff.”

As sarah opens the front door Harvey puts the bucket down and stepped inside. Sarah follows with a sigh she walks through and closes the door behind her.

***FADE TO BLACK***

SCENE 9 ;

FADE IN FROM BLACK

In a Kenpo dojo; weapons on the wall, tiled floors, and a group of men and women in black martial arts uniforms all with purple belts Karl among them. all standing horse stance except one man, the obvious sensei, paces back and forth in front of the crowd. all giving stern looks except for Karl who looks unenthused for having to stand with his knees bent for so long.

(emotionless) [Stan] : “Today you will learn the purple belt tech of defense against roundhouse kicks.”

Stan the sensei stops pacing and looks at the crowd of potential ninja in front him.

(sarcastic) *smirk* [Stan] : “Stand easy for a moment and rest your muscles.”

The crowd of students gives a sigh of relief as they all stood upright. Karl cracks his ankles and neck. After tightening his belt and clearing his throat Stan beckons the class. after the class each student bows to every other student and they all file out of the room. Karl leaves the building and crosses a large parking lot. as he makes his way to a red sports car he pulls his cellphone out of his pocket. spotlight Karl beside his car.

(serious) *stern look* [Karl] : “Harvey James Staton. I want him alive.”

Karl shuts his flip phone and gets in his sports car.

***FADE TO BLACK***