MALIBU'S MOST WANTED - Daily Script

8 FLASHBACK - INT. GLUCKMAN LIVING ROOM - DAY (1980) 8
Toddler Brad (3 years old) sits on the floor, playing
with a toy as GLADYS, Brad's housekeeper (African-
American, thirty) vacuums, while listening to her
Walkman. The PHONE RINGS, Gladys pulls off her Walkman
headphones and answers the RINGING PHONE.
GLADYS
Gluckman residence.
Brad takes the headphones and pulls them over his ears.
GLADYS
No, Bill and Bess are out of the
country until December.
His eyes go wide as the hip-hop gold enters his head for
the first time...
BRAD (V.O.)
From then on it was hip-hop
24/seven.
DISSOLVE TO:
9 INT. GLUCKMAN DINING ROOM - NIGHT (1984) 9
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BRAD sits alone at the table, wearing a
Run DMC hat (a la "Rock Box", playing with his food. His
headphones, around his neck, BLARE NWA.
BESS (V.O.)
Finish those vegetables, Bradley.
BILL (V.O.)
You can't be excused until you do.
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD-BRAD
Tch. Forget y'all.
REVEAL: on the table across from Brad is a video
conference system. Both parents are on separate monitors
-- Bess's has a sign that reads, "Paris," and Bill's
reads, "Tokyo." There is a place setting in front of
each monitor, as if they're dining with him.
BILL (V.O.)
That's it, mister.
BESS (V.O.)
When we get home... sometime in
the near future... you're going to
be in big trouble!!
11.
(CONTINUED)