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7.VIVIEN(whispering)There’s someone in my house.OPERATORAre you sure it’s not a member ofyour family?VIVIENNo. My daughter is at school and myhusband is at work. I think someoneis robbing us. Someone robbed thebrownstone next door two weeks ago.What do I do?OPERATORWe’re sending a patrol car.She hears a THUNK -- like a body hitting the floor. Shehangs up. Thinks. Grabs a KNIFE and starts upstairs.INT. SECOND FLOOR -- CONTINUOUSANGLE: on the gleaming knife at her side. More sounds. Vivienslowly makes her way to the door, takes a deep breath andCREAKS it open. On her face, the blood rushing out of it.Oh shit.GIRL’S VOICE (O.S.)Vivien backs out into the hallway, almost goes over therailing. She’s going to throw up. Before she can, herhusband, BEN comes out, naked. He’s 42, fit, handsome as sheis pretty.BENVivien....He goes to hug her. She instinctively SLASHES at him with theknife. It SCRAPES his arm. Both of them look at the small,yet real wound, shocked. She drops the knife. He takes herin his arms and keeps repeating with hysteria...BEN (CONT’D)I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry...She lets him hold her for a beat, then breaks away in tearsand runs down the stairs. Off a naked, bleeding Ben we SMASHTO BLACK.INT. CAR -- DAYDRIVING OVER THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, SIX MONTHS LATER. HardSUNLIGHT through the windows. Ben’s driving.