Speaker 1: Go, Samory, sound like prison. Here we go one, two, three.
Speaker 2: Samy Ready, I love the all right, and ty whenever
Speaker 2: You're in.
Speaker 3: Act one Interior Overton High Day. We're just inside the
Speaker 3: front doors of a large public high school. We pan
Speaker 3: around the room, a wall covered in construction paper, posters
Speaker 3: about American presidents, a water fountain dribbling gently, the girl's bathroom,
Speaker 3: which opens to disgorged Judy sixteen.
Speaker 4: She looks upset for a brief moment.
Speaker 3: We hear her voice over, which fades away as she
Speaker 3: walks out of frame.
Speaker 2: But if Colin doesn't like me, then why did he
Speaker 2: ask me to help him with his homework?
Speaker 3: We're still panning in the front doors the boys bathroom,
Speaker 3: and finally we're back wore we started, only now Someone
Speaker 3: in a bulldog mascot costume stands in front of the posters,
Speaker 3: looking vaguely sinister.
Speaker 4: He pulls his cigarette out of a pocket and lights it.
Speaker 4: He raises it to his grilled mouth.
Speaker 3: The tip players up, and a moment later, smoke seeps
Speaker 3: out of the grill.
Speaker 4: We hear the squeaking of rubber soul on tile.
Speaker 3: The bulldog looks over and sees Franny Blevins, a fifteen
Speaker 3: year old Elvis Costello who stops in front of a
Speaker 3: flyer close on Franny's face as his eyes scan the text.
Speaker 3: After a moment, we hear a tearing sound and Franny disappears,
Speaker 3: leaving the bulldog in the background staring after him. Exterior
Speaker 3: Seattle Streets, afternoon. That sounded so dragnet. Exterior Exterior Seattle Streets, afternoon. Franny,
Speaker 3: chased by a small dog, bikes along a commercial street.
Speaker 3: He looks two D like a game of Excite Bike.
Speaker 2: I was struck by the flyer and decided I had
Speaker 2: to meet its author immediately.
Speaker 3: Interior coffee shop, afternoon, p V. Gornic fifteen. A bespectacled
Speaker 3: girl with long black hair and torn up clothes sits
Speaker 3: writing in a notebook. On the table are two small
Speaker 3: white cassio keyboards and a glockenspiel. She wears thimbles on
Speaker 3: all of her fingers, which makes writing difficult. Suddenly, a
Speaker 3: flyer slams down in front of her.
Speaker 2: Is this your flyer?
Speaker 4: Insert? The flyer reads, seeking bandmates.
Speaker 3: Influences include Sonic Youth, Except NYC, Ghosts and Flowers, James Blake,
Speaker 3: Jamesteen James Taylor, James Baldwin, and Rick James find me
Speaker 3: after school at that one coffee shop. Peev looks up
Speaker 3: at Franny examines him.
Speaker 5: I didn't think much of him at first.
Speaker 4: Now, she continues, writing, have.
Speaker 2: We met before?
Speaker 5: Not to my knowledge, I only started at Overton this week.
Speaker 5: I used to be homeschooled, but my tutor died.
Speaker 3: Interior PV's house, living room flashback. PV sits opposite her tutor,
Speaker 3: an ancient woman who appears to be asleep. PV glances
Speaker 3: up from a geometry textbook. Missus Llewellyn interior coffee shop, continuous.
Speaker 2: With before, No, I'm pretty sure we've met. Then again,
Speaker 2: I have a terrible memory. They say that's a prerequisite
Speaker 2: for happiness. Not so good for his Stree exams. What's
Speaker 2: your name?
Speaker 4: PV pauses in a writing.
Speaker 2: But he was.
Speaker 5: Persistent, and persistence is important in any artistic endeavor. Did
Speaker 5: you know that the Beatles played more than six hundred
Speaker 5: shows before they even got signed? Did you know that
Speaker 5: the Beatles played more than six hundred shows before they
Speaker 5: even got signed?
Speaker 2: I didn't, but I do know that there are more
Speaker 2: than three hundred and fifty thousand different kinds of beatles.
Speaker 2: I'm Franny PV.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry I was brusque before. I just hate meaning
Speaker 5: new people and old people.
Speaker 2: PV like the amplifier.
Speaker 5: M hm tie.
Speaker 4: On page three, we just missed one pickup right in
Speaker 4: the middle of the scene.
Speaker 3: In the middle of page three, it says, inside a
Speaker 3: picture of a pb amplifier.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, this was marked out in mind. Oh sorry, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm just not going to take responsibility. This is not
Speaker 4: my fault. This is not my fault. It was not.
Speaker 2: Some fire.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if I can. What does I say?
Speaker 3: It's an insert a picture.
Speaker 4: Of a PV amplifier. Okay, set inset inset yes, in set.
Speaker 3: Intel in bread a picture of a PV amplifier. In
Speaker 3: set a picture of a PV amplifier.
Speaker 2: That's your real name, I had I legally changed.
Speaker 3: Interior City Hall flashback. PV stands at the desk. A
Speaker 3: registrar looks over her application.
Speaker 2: You need to be eighteen to change your name without
Speaker 2: a guardian President Miami teen.
Speaker 3: She presents a driver's license inset PV's fake driver's license.
Speaker 3: Her real name is blurred out, and her birthday is
Speaker 3: shown as twelve. Twenty five, two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Could you laminate this yourself? Of course not.
Speaker 3: Interior Kinko's another flashback. PV stands at the desk. A
Speaker 3: Kinko's employee looks over the as yet unlaminated fake driver's license.
Speaker 2: Uh, are you trying to get me to laminate a
Speaker 2: fake driver's license?
Speaker 5: Of course not.
Speaker 3: We hear the sound of a copy or Peev looks
Speaker 3: over and sees Franny making copies. Interior Coffee Shop, continuous.
Speaker 2: With before I knew we'd met before.
Speaker 4: Franny sits down opposite PV.
Speaker 5: I guess we have what were you making copies of? Anyway?
Speaker 3: Interior Kinko's continuous with previous flashback. Franny pulls one of
Speaker 3: the flyers out of the tray. Inset. Franny's flyer shows
Speaker 3: a very ugly dog, along with the text trying to
Speaker 3: lose this dog answers to Lemur. Please, if you see him,
Speaker 3: do not return him to me Franni. Interior Coffee Shop,
Speaker 3: continuous with before did it work? Franny points Lemur's waiting
Speaker 3: outside the coffee shop, just next to Franny's bike.
Speaker 4: Man, that's one ugly dog.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's okay, So you want to start a band.
Speaker 5: No, I want to continue a band, but with more
Speaker 5: musicians than I have now.
Speaker 2: Oh, how many musicians do you have? Now?
Speaker 5: One? What do you play?
Speaker 2: Guitar, leader, rhythm? Yes, what about you?
Speaker 5: Primarily cassio, b altone, monophonic synthesizer and glockenspiel.
Speaker 2: Cool. So what do you want to call the band?
Speaker 2: What's your name again, Franny? Hmmm?
Speaker 5: Probably just PV?
Speaker 2: Then okay, what about the album?
Speaker 5: I'm torn at the moment. Either My Sorrow is Depthless
Speaker 5: or Where's My Pony?
Speaker 4: They're both really good.
Speaker 5: I know you want to hear a song.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: PEV stands up and shouts at the bristo, who's been
Speaker 3: playing a tranquil Nora Jones tune.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey.
Speaker 3: He turns off the song. She sits cross legged, cracks
Speaker 3: her knuckles.
Speaker 5: This one's called don't touch Me.
Speaker 3: PV begins. We hear a full band, even though it's
Speaker 3: just her playing.
Speaker 6: Don't touch me, don't touch me. If you touch me.
Speaker 2: I think I'm.
Speaker 6: Gonna scream, don't touch me, don't touch me.
Speaker 2: If you touch me.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna scream, don't don't touch me, don't
Speaker 1: don't touch me. If you don't touch me. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna scream. Don't don't touch me, don't don't touch me.
Speaker 1: If you don't touch me, I think I'm gonna scream.
Speaker 4: I don't like you.
Speaker 5: I think I even hate you. I don't hate you.
Speaker 2: I think maybe I love you. I don't love you.
Speaker 2: I don't even like you. Don't touch me, don't touch me.
Speaker 6: Don't, don't, don't touch me. Don't, don't don't touch me.
Speaker 6: If you don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
Speaker 6: touch me.
Speaker 2: Don't, don't, don't touch me.
Speaker 6: If you don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
Speaker 4: I don't like you.
Speaker 1: I think I even hate you, and I think maybe
Speaker 1: I love you even like you.
Speaker 2: Don't talk to me.
Speaker 4: Silence.
Speaker 3: A number of customers have left Franny's clearly in love.
Speaker 3: After a beat that, Barissa turns Nora back on.
Speaker 2: That was awesome. I know.
Speaker 5: Oh sorry, thank you. Now, if we're thinking of starting
Speaker 5: a band, obviously I'll have to audition you.
Speaker 2: How's your lunch period looking?
Speaker 5: Tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Wide open interior, overton lunch room. The next day, we're
Speaker 3: in a traditional high school lunchroom. Franni enters. He spots
Speaker 3: TV alone at a table.
Speaker 2: Hey, so you want to go straight to the music
Speaker 2: room or should we eat?
Speaker 5: Somebody hates me?
Speaker 2: What? Somebody hates me?
Speaker 5: I got a hate note in my locker. We have
Speaker 5: to figure out who put it there.
Speaker 2: What about the audition?
Speaker 5: This is the audition. A band is a family, Franny,
Speaker 5: we have to support each other holistically. Now, who do
Speaker 5: you think wrote it?
Speaker 4: She glances around the lunch room.
Speaker 5: What about him?
Speaker 2: He looks mean? I doubt it. That's Dale Wilson in
Speaker 2: the World's Nicest bully.
Speaker 3: We slide over to Dale Wilson, who does indeed look
Speaker 3: super mean. A small kid walks over and fearfully deposits
Speaker 3: a handful of change on the table.
Speaker 2: Here's my lunch money deal. I've told you a million times.
Speaker 2: I don't want your money. I'm sorry, it's not more.
Speaker 2: I'll do better tomorrow.
Speaker 3: He scurries off. Dale looks confused, even hurt. Please don't
Speaker 3: We slide back to Pev and Franny.
Speaker 5: Okay, what about her? She's got crazy eyes.
Speaker 2: No, that's Aaron Coltrera, Editor at large for the Overton
Speaker 2: Free Press.
Speaker 3: Aaron Coltrera a mousey girl in over large hipster glasses,
Speaker 3: interviewing the bulldog mascot.
Speaker 2: For the last time. Who's inside that costs you? No comment?
Speaker 4: We slide back to PV and Franny.
Speaker 2: Aaron's always looking for dirt, but she's mostly harmless.
Speaker 5: Okay, And what about that girl?
Speaker 2: Huh? That's Judy Cortland. She's weird, but only because she
Speaker 2: thinks she's a protagonist.
Speaker 3: We pull back to find Judy sitting at a table
Speaker 3: directly in front of PV and Franny, who suddenly go
Speaker 3: blurry as if they become background characters.
Speaker 4: There's Colin over there.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to look at him.
Speaker 4: Crap, I looked at him.
Speaker 2: What are those two birdos doing looking at me? I
Speaker 2: bet they're just jealous of what I have with Colin?
Speaker 2: See what I mean? Everybody else is just a side
Speaker 2: character and her story. It's super annoying.
Speaker 4: We return focus to PV and Franny.
Speaker 2: You aren't important enough to Tomereta Hayden?
Speaker 5: No, then, who did it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Have you rouked anyone recently?
Speaker 5: I did stop by rehearsal for the Overton Orchestra yesterday.
Speaker 3: The Interior Music Room day. The Orchestra wraps up a
Speaker 3: pretty terrible rendition when the Saints go marching in. After
Speaker 3: the last note is parted out, Pev stands up in
Speaker 3: the back of the room.
Speaker 5: That was terrible.
Speaker 1: None of you can be in my band.
Speaker 2: That was terrible.
Speaker 4: None of you can be in my band. Maybe just
Speaker 4: back off it?
Speaker 3: Just me, I honestly thought that was the note.
Speaker 4: I would be a little more gentle.
Speaker 5: That was terrible. None of you can be in my band.
Speaker 3: She storms out the Triangle player dings the Triangle interior
Speaker 3: over to lunchroom, continuous with before.
Speaker 5: You're right, Franny, it must have been one of those
Speaker 5: terrible musicians. You've passed your audition. Let's start a band.
Speaker 3: She puts out a hand to shake, but as Franny
Speaker 3: reaches for it, Pev pulls back.
Speaker 5: Just to be perfectly clear, once we're in a band together,
Speaker 5: there can never be any sort of romantic relationship between us.
Speaker 2: Oh why, I mean not that it, but why exactly?
Speaker 5: Because artistic collaboration and romance are incompatible.
Speaker 2: What about Fleewood Mac.
Speaker 3: We see a brief picture of Stevie and Lindsay, we'll
Speaker 3: see brief flashes of every band couple.
Speaker 4: Franny mentions, sure, but.
Speaker 2: And the white stripes the Cramps Arcade Fire, Sonic, Youth Abba,
Speaker 2: New Order, I don't know, Blondie, Stereo lab the cocktail twins.
Speaker 5: Those are just the many exceptions that prove the rule. Okay,
Speaker 5: so you can take it or leave it.
Speaker 4: She offers her hand again. Franny agonizes, no way.
Speaker 2: Could I have any problem with that? So I'm shaking
Speaker 2: your hand now.
Speaker 5: Eventually he does great Platonic Bandmates for Life, first rehearsal tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Sure, Oh wait, I can't. I've got Chinese class We'll
Speaker 2: have to do Wednesday.
Speaker 5: You speak Chinese, say something.
Speaker 2: Okay oshen when need this?
Speaker 3: Zuyba subtitled translation appears, I want to kiss your mouth?
Speaker 5: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: I dumpling? See you Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Franny turns and walks off interior Chinese classroom evening. The
Speaker 3: class is being led through some drills by a Chinese instructor.
Speaker 3: Phrases for wooing and courtship has been written on the board.
Speaker 3: Franny's distracted, covering his workbook with PV written in the
Speaker 3: style of the PV amplifier's logo.
Speaker 2: Even though we were bandmates now, I couldn't stop having
Speaker 2: romantical thoughts about PV. It made it difficult to concentrate
Speaker 2: was jang ting when need the sway.
Speaker 4: Subtitle I want to kiss you on the mouth.
Speaker 2: No woman, wait tho fa.
Speaker 4: Subtitle Let's go back to my place.
Speaker 2: Woman. By the time Wednesday night rolled around, I was
Speaker 2: a ball of nerves Nita Pungyona subtitle what about your friend?
Speaker 4: Is she single?
Speaker 2: I had to be charming, and I've never been very
Speaker 2: good at charming.
Speaker 4: Ya me wroung wa see walk ganju waufa who see.
Speaker 3: Subtitle you're smothering me. I feel like I can't breathe, so.
Speaker 2: I invited my best friend over to advise me.
Speaker 3: Interior Franny's Room night close on Aj Vascher, a young fifteen.
Speaker 3: He's extremely dorky, but with an unshakable and frankly inexplicable confidence.
Speaker 2: Rannie, it's all about confidence. If you think you're then
Speaker 2: she'll think you're cool. Look at me. I know I'm cool,
Speaker 2: which makes me even cooler than if I just thought
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: We pull back to see that the two of them
Speaker 3: are playing magic the gathering.
Speaker 2: And I'll remove three tokens from chantre towards there defiance
Speaker 2: to deal four damage to your angel of acid. I
Speaker 2: don't know, Aj, I'm not your confidence can be simulated.
Speaker 2: That's just something unconfident people said exactly. Attack, attack, attack,
Speaker 2: and I think you're dead. That's four six nine damage. Yep,
Speaker 2: you're dead. Sorry, you got any food? No, but my
Speaker 2: mom left money so I could order something.
Speaker 3: Franny points to a fan of five dollar bills pinned
Speaker 3: to a bulletin board.
Speaker 4: A note says for anything but.
Speaker 3: Pizza, pizza obviously. Exterior Seattle Streets, afternoon. Franny bike's along
Speaker 3: the streets, holding his guitar in one hand.
Speaker 4: Lemur is still running along behind him.
Speaker 2: On the way to Pev's house. I was nearly overcome
Speaker 2: with anxiety, even with the encouraging notes I'd written on
Speaker 2: the backs of my hands.
Speaker 3: Franny glances down at the back of his hands. On
Speaker 3: the left, he's written you are cool. On the right
Speaker 3: see other hand. Exterior PV's House, afternoon. Franny looks up
Speaker 3: at the house. It's a castle. You could host royalty here.
Speaker 3: Franny ties up Lemur and passes through a gate. Exterior
Speaker 3: PV's House, gardens continuous. Franny passes through an elaborate Japanese garden.
Speaker 3: Franny crunches across the gravel of a wilder English style garden.
Speaker 3: Franny crosses a tennis court overgrown with weeds, then a
Speaker 3: croquet pitch in a putting green where a creepy groundskeeper
Speaker 3: is trimming the grass with nail scissors. They make eye contact.
Speaker 3: Franny finally arrives at the enormous front door. He presses
Speaker 3: the doorbell.
Speaker 4: Beat. Don't go in there. Franny turns the groundskeeper is
Speaker 4: very close. Don't go in there?
Speaker 2: Why not because.
Speaker 4: We're renovating the foyer. Oh, he uses side door.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: Franny goes. The grounds keeper notices a blemish on the
Speaker 3: front door. He raises an electric sander he wasn't holding
Speaker 3: a few seconds ago, and begins sanding the door.
Speaker 2: I could do that.
Speaker 3: Interior interior Pev's House. Moments later, Franny enters a large
Speaker 3: dining room.
Speaker 1: Hello, Franny, is that you come upstairs?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Franny looks around but doesn't see any stairs. He passes
Speaker 3: through a restaurant sized kitchen, a sitting room, a drawing room,
Speaker 3: and an indoor bowling alley. Finally, he finds a small
Speaker 3: elevator manned by a doorman who looks exactly like the groundskeeper.
Speaker 3: Interior elevator continuous, So is.
Speaker 2: That guy outside your twin brother.
Speaker 4: What guy outside? An uncomfortable pause, the elevator stops. Second floor,
Speaker 4: name is the first door.
Speaker 3: Franny exits the elevator. Interior PV's bedroom a while later.
Speaker 3: PV's room is gigantic. A large portion of it has
Speaker 3: given over to musical instruments and recording equipment. Franny Marvel's
Speaker 3: at a nearly wall sized poster of the band The Stranglers.
Speaker 5: You're a Stranglers fan.
Speaker 4: Franny turns to find PV sitting on the bed.
Speaker 2: I don't think I know them well.
Speaker 5: You should. We'll do an overview of seminal punk rock
Speaker 5: musicians at a future rehearsal.
Speaker 4: PV notices Franny's guitar.
Speaker 5: You didn't have to bring that. I've got plenty of
Speaker 5: guitars here.
Speaker 3: PV gestures towards a rack of at least twenty guitars.
Speaker 2: WHOA, I can see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my parents buy me a lot of presents. It's
Speaker 5: how they make up for their lack.
Speaker 2: Of presence exactly.
Speaker 5: I think they're getting divorced, and it'll be contentious too,
Speaker 5: because of all the money. Money makes people crazy, even
Speaker 5: more than love.
Speaker 2: I think, where'd it come from?
Speaker 5: Who can say? Where love comes from pheromones.
Speaker 2: I guess, Oh, I meant the money. Oh, bottled water,
Speaker 2: bottled water.
Speaker 5: Yeah, water, bottled water.
Speaker 4: Insert a still image of tapwater bottled water.
Speaker 3: The catchphrase on the label says, who's got time to
Speaker 3: walk to the sink?
Speaker 5: Tap water?
Speaker 2: Bottle water.
Speaker 5: It's tapwater only bottled tap water, bottled water.
Speaker 3: This is not.
Speaker 2: Me. Oh yeah, that stuffs great, really quenching.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my grandfather invented it, which meant my parents never
Speaker 5: had to work, so they make music, terrible music, by
Speaker 5: which I mean classical.
Speaker 2: My parents were never together, and my mom's a pilot,
Speaker 2: so I don't see her much. That's why I do
Speaker 2: so many extracurricular activities like Chinese class yeah, andrama club
Speaker 2: and guitar lessons, book club, aerial gymnastics.
Speaker 3: Interior Blacksmith day Franni stands next to an anvil.
Speaker 2: I'm apprenticed to a blacksmith exterior stable.
Speaker 4: Day Franny brushes the main of a miniature horse.
Speaker 2: I grew miniature horses, even though I'm allergic.
Speaker 4: He sneezes, spooking the horse. Exterior garden.
Speaker 3: Day Franny's drying a cactus with a hair dryer, and.
Speaker 2: I'm a member of the Succulent Horticultural Society of Seattle.
Speaker 2: It's difficult to grow cacti here because of all the rain,
Speaker 2: so we do a lot of drying.
Speaker 3: Interior PV's bedroom continuous with before Franni sits down at
Speaker 3: the mixing board.
Speaker 2: Anyway, how do you want to start? Should we write
Speaker 2: a song?
Speaker 5: I think I should hear one of your originals. Then
Speaker 5: we can attempt to synthesize our style into a cohesive hole.
Speaker 3: Okay, Franny takes out his guitar, a sheep busted up acoustic.
Speaker 4: He takes a deep breath.
Speaker 2: How about a love song,