thegoodwife - Zen 134237

TEASER
1 INT. GROCERY MART - NIGHT
1
“Stay Awake” pills. A cute blonde woman (20s), grabs them
from a display:
WOMAN
Look, I’ll worry about getting
addicted to pills when I get out of
med school. Right now, I’ve got
mid-terms, and I need this.
She and her date start toward the cash register in a familyrun
grocery mart, mostly empty, when-- BOOM-- the front door
bangs open, a man blasting in, firing a gun into the ceiling!
ROBBER
Everybody shut up, and don’t move!
The ROBBER. African-American. Large. Mid-20s. In a
Chicago Bulls sweatshirt. He hops the counter, shoves the
Persian store-owner to the floor, slams open the cash
register when--
ROBBER (CONT’D)
What you staring at?! Get down! *
The woman and her date drop hurriedly down. Both peering up,
seeing the robber shoving cash into his pockets. But the
woman turns, sees...
...a customer creeping up the aisle, gun drawn. A PLAIN-
CLOTHES COP. He gestures toward her: shhh, and he JUMPS UP:
UNDERCOVER COP
CHICAGO P.D.! DON’T MOVE!
But-- BOOM-- the Robber fires, blasting a cereal box near the
cop’s head! The cop fires back, hitting tequila bottles
behind the Robber’s head, and we see...
2 INT. 27TH FLOOR - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
2
...it’s a TV movie playing on a monitor in the downstairs
conference room. Five lawyers watching. ALICIA, CARY, a few
we haven’t met yet. No one seated: the screening arranged on
the fly. On the screen...
...BOOM-- the Robber fires again-- the cop hit, mid-chest.
Slow motion, he waves his arms, starts to drop, as the Med
Student on the floor screams, silently, in slow-motion, as...
(CONTINUED)