Script.

* Screen is black *

HOLDEN

What made it worse, it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it was a

Saturday night.

EXT: 7pm. Saturday night, wood area.

[Low angle shot of Holden’s feet, walking past the camera. Long shots of his surroundings to show his isolation.]

HOLDEN

You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.

[Close ups of Holden zipping up his coat and putting his hands in his pockets, then wide shot of him walking, then someone catching up to him and stopping him to talk.]

HOROWITZ

 Holden? Where’ve you been?!

HOLDEN

 Hey, Horowitz.  

[He suddenly looks deep in thought] 

You ever pass by the lagoon in the park? Where the ducks are, you know?

HOROWITZ

 The what?

HOLDEN

 Well, you know the ducks that swim around in it? In the springtime and

all? Do you happen to know where they go in the wintertime, by any

chance?

HOROWITZ

 [curiously]

 Y’know, I haven’t seen you at school so much lately.

HOLDEN

 [Distracted, looking off in other direction]

 What, so do you think that

someone comes around in a truck and takes them away?

HOROWITZ

 You know, rumour has it that you got kicked out, thoughts?

HOLDEN

 [Distractedly]

 Or, wait

 [Turns to look at him]

 don’t they like, fly south or something?

HOLDEN

[Voice over]

 He was a very impatient type, once he gets something in

head that’s it, always yapping on about something or other. He wasn’t

a bad guy though.

HOROWITZ

 [Annoyed]

 How the hell should I know? How the hell should I know a stupid thing like that?!

HOLDEN

 Well, don’t get mad about it.

HOROWITZ

 [Irritated] Who’s mad? No one’s getting mad.

[He walks faster; his body language shows his irritated feelings, Holden stops for a moment and then speeds up to catch up to him.]

HOLDEN

 [Voice over]

 I stopped having the conversation with him then, if he

was going to be so damn touchy about it. But he started it up again

himself.

HOROWITZ

 [Sounding stressed, as if he was talking to someone younger]

Look, if you lived in that lake, Mother Nature’d take care of you,

right? Wouldn’t she? You don’t just think they die do you?

HOLDEN

 No, but…..

HOROWITZ

 You’re goddamn right they don’t.

HOLDEN

 [Voice over]

 And just like that, he was off. Like a bat out of hell, he was

about the touchiest guy I ever met. Everything you said he got mad about.

[Camera fades out with voice over, again showing his internal isolation.]