INT. DEBBIE’S CLASSROOM - PUBLIC PERFORMANCE CLASS
Debbie sits in front of the classroom trying to perform her act but she messes up her lines and keeping herself from moving her lips.
EXT. ALLEYWAY BEHIND CHINESE RESTAURANT - AFTER SCHOOL
Debbie throws the dummy away in the dumpster.
EXT. BEHIND CHINESE RESTAURANT - EARLY MORNING
Debbie is trying to climb into the dumpster to retrieve her dummy when a garbage truck pulls into the alley, the driver is Sam ‘the Nose’ who is angered by the sight of her trying to climb inside.
Sam
Hey kid get away from there. Don’t you know any better?
Debbie refuses.
Sam
Hey kid, I said get the hell away from there. It’s dangerous to climb on those things.
Debbie is defiant.
Sam
If you don’t move I’ll put you in the back of my truck with the garbage.
Debbie moves down the alley but watches as Sam picks up the dumpster with his truck and dumps it. She begins to cry. Sam sees her and suddenly feels bad.
Sam
What is it kid?
Debbie
My friend, you dumped him in there.
Sam
Your friend? You friend? Oh shit.
Sam (thinking he just dumped a little kid into the back of his truck) climbs out of the cab and goes into the open back unit looking for a child.
Sam
Come on kid. Where are you? (Shouting to Debbie) What did he look like? What was he wearing?
Debbie
He was short and dressed in a suit and bow tie.
Sam tosses garbage aside until he see the doll, recognizes the costume, and angrily pulls it from the trash. He climbs down to Debbie who is happy to see her friend.
Debbie
(holding out her hands)
Thank you mister.
Sam
(hands over the doll)
No problem, now get the hell out of here.
EXT. SHOT BAR - NOON
INT. BAR - NOON
Sam sits drinking a beer at the bar. Doug enters and goes to Sam.
Doug
So you had time to think over my proposal?
Sam
I went digging through the garbage this morning because some kid told me I had thrown away her friend but it turned out to be one of those dummies.
Doug
What?
Sam
Yeah, I had time to think it over. Where’s your friend?
Doug
He’ll be here. He doesn’t work far from here. He had a bad day at work yesterday as well.
EXT. BANK - EARLY MORNING
Fiona is approaching the bank when she sees the parked car and Doug and Brady approach the security guards with guns and ski masks. She turns away and begins to walk the other direction as she phones the police.
INT. ROBBER’S CAR
Sam is sitting in the driver’s seat when he spots Fiona turning away and calling on her phone. He thinks to try and stop her but realizes he can’t.
EXT. SECURITY TRUCK
The two guard are going about their business when one of them sees the robbers too late and freezes with his hand on the handle of his gun.
Doug
Give us the fucking money and there won’t be no problems.
Guard #1
Doug?
Doug
Shut the fuck up.
Brady
Shut the fuck up and hand over the money or I blow your fucking brains out?
The guards hand over the money and the two run to meet Sam as he pulls up beside them. They get into the car and drive away.
INT. ROBBER’S CAR
Brady
He knew your fucking name. I told you I should have done all the talking.
Doug
We can’t go back now.
Sam
He knew your name? You fucking moron.
Doug
What did you want me to do shoot him?
Brady and Sam together
Yes.
EXT. SIDEWALK - EARLY MORNING (SAME TIME AS ROBBERY)
Ian, Zack, and Lip stand watching church group of about a dozen people and a smaller counter-protest group of LGBTQ representatives.
Lip
What’s your big plan?
Zack
I don’t know. I was thinking Ian and I could kiss or something. There’s a counter protest group. They could take our picture or something.
Lip
Kiss? That’s it? Why not go get a paintball gun and drive by them real slow. Plow, plow, plow.
Ian
No violence.
Lip
Then you have to do something more than kiss.
Zack
I’d like to punch them.
Lip
Good start.
Ian
No violence. If we hit one of them it’s trouble. They’re all lawyers or something.
Lip
What about streaking?
Zack
(laughs)
Run naked past them? What will that teach them?
Ian
Are there any kids around?
Lip
I don’t see any.
Ian
Alright but one of us has to be the getaway driver.
Zack
I’ll do it.
Ian
No, you have to run with me. It was your idea. Lip get the car.
Lip
I need the keys.
Zack hands over the keys to his car to Lip.
Lip
Wait till you see me.
Ian signals for Zack to follow him to a secluded spot where he begins to strip out of his clothes.
Zack
I didn’t think I’d be getting naked in public.
Ian
You have nothing to be ashamed of, just keep your underwear on until last. We run by then jump into the car.
Zack
You’ve done this before?
EXT. SHOT - THE ROBBER’S CAR SPEEDS THROUGH TRAFFIC
INT. ROBBER’S CAR - AFTER ROBBERY
Sam drives. Doug in the passenger seat with the shotgun between his legs. Brady is in the back seat looking around nervously. A cop car with sirens on passes them in the oncoming traffic.
Doug
Slow down, slow down.
Brady
Shit they’ve seen us. They’ve seen us. They’re turning around.
Doug
Alright get us out of here.
Doug winds down the window readying himself to lean out and shoot back at the cop cars.
EXT. IAN AND ZACK RUN BEING CHASED BY CHURCH GROUP ON SIDEWALK
Zack
I didn’t think they’d chase us.
Ian
They rarely do. Look there’s Lip with the car.
EXT. SHOT- LIP’S CAR IN RELATION TO ROBBER’S CAR
INT. LIP IN CAR
Lip
Come on guys give it up.
EXT. SIDEWALK IAN AND ZACK
Ian
We have to make a break for it. Go now there’s a clearing of parked cars.
Zack follows Ian through a group of parked cars as Lip slows the car.
INT. ROBBER’S CAR
Brady
Watch out man. What the hell is going on?
Sam
I see ‘em.
EXT. LIP’S CAR
Ian and Zack dive inside. The church group begins to bang on the car making Lip pull away into traffic. The robber’s car nearly hits them but swerves away nearly hitting oncoming traffic Sam cuts the wheel hard, the car hits the sidewalk, Sam hits the breaks, and they slide into contact with the cola machine in front of Debbie’s Cupcakes.
INT. ROBBER’S CAR
Brady
I don’t believe this. I’ll never get away from this place. It’s like Hell.
Sam
Not yet.
EXT. SHOT - ROBBER’S CAR
Two police cars pull to a stop close to the car.
INT. ROBBER’S CAR
Sam
Now it’s like Hell. We should just give up. Five years in jail for robbery is better than dying.
Doug
Five years?
Sam
With good behavior. Of course I’d do more because of my previous conviction.
Brady begins to cry.
EXT. SHOT - THE COPS SURROUND THE CAR SHOUTING AND POINTING GUNS
EXT. EARLY EVENING
Ian and Zack walk along the sidewalk where they had been previously been running naked, Debbie ahead of them walks into Debbie’s Cupcakes. Zack and Ian stop outside the store at the cola machine where they see the scrape from the car on the cola machine.
Zack
Holy shit I can’t believe we missed it.
Ian
We got lucky.
Zack
Hey, want to see if it works?
Zack goes to the back of the machine where he plugs the cord from the machine into the wall. The machine lights up.
Ian at the front of the machine sees that there is over ten dollars worth of credit.
Ian
Hey it looks like the first couple are free.
Ian presses the button for cola several times and several bottles fall into the dispenser.
Ian
Hey it works.
FADE OUT
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