INVENTING THE ABBOTTS - Daily Script

INVENTING THE ABBOTTS - Rev. 3/20/96 36.
64 CONTINUED: 64
DOUG
Well... jeez... I know that
he's... that he's slept with her.
But not because he's talked about
it. I mean... Eleanor has lots of
boyfriends. I think Jacey likes
her more than she likes him.
HELEN
(long beat)
I see. (another beat)
Go finish your homework.
Doug lobs the baseball back to her and goes inside.
Helen sits on the porch steps and now the true toll that
Joan's visit has taken on Helen becomes apparent -- a
bone-weary sadness falls over her. Her "tranquility" is
not borne of happiness, it is only a means of coping with
the sadness that is at the core of her being.
65 EXT. COUNTRYSIDE - ROAD - DAY (ONE WEEK LATER) 65
A drab, four-door Chevrolet sedan with Wisconsin license
plates speeds away from town.
Incongruously, the unassuming vehicle is chauffeured by
an African-American DRIVER. There are two passengers in
the back seat: a conservatively-dressed, middle-aged
WOMAN and Eleanor Abbott. There is nothing telling about
Eleanor's countenance, neither happiness nor sadness can
be found on her face.
66 EXT. ABBOTT HOME - STREET - DAY (WEEKS LATER) 66
Doug walks home from summer school. He pauses to watch
the workmen erecting the party tent in the Abbott's front
yard.
PAMELA (O.S.)
How come you're going to summer
school?
Doug turns to find Pam at the driveway gate.
DOUG
I got an incomplete in U.S.
History.
PAMELA
How did you manage to do that?
(CONTINUED)