0:00

Go, Samory, sound

0:04

like here

0:08

we go one, two, three, Samory

0:12

Ready, I love this all

0:15

right? And time whenever you're

0:18

in Act

0:20

one Interior Overton

0:23

High Day. We're just inside

0:25

the front doors of a large public high school.

0:27

We pan around the room, a wall covered

0:29

in construction paper, posters about American

0:32

presidents, a water fountain dribbling

0:34

gently, the girl's bathroom, which

0:36

opens to disgorged Judy sixteen.

0:39

She looks upset for a brief

0:41

moment. We hear her voice over, which fades

0:43

away as she walks out of frame. But if

0:46

Colin doesn't like me, then why did he ask

0:48

me to help him with his homework? We're still

0:50

panning in the front doors the boy's

0:52

bathroom, and finally we're back where we started,

0:54

only now someone in a bulldog mascot

0:56

costume stands in front of the posters,

0:59

looking vaguely so he

1:01

pulls his cigarette out of a pocket and lights it. He

1:03

raises it to his grilled mouth. The

1:06

tip flares up, and a moment later, smoke

1:08

seeps out of the grill. We hear

1:11

the squeaking of rubber soul on tile. The

1:13

bulldog looks over and sees Franny Blevins

1:16

a fifteen year old Elvis Costello who

1:18

stops in front of a flyer close

1:21

on Franny's face as his eyes

1:23

scan the text. After a moment, we

1:25

hear a tearing sound that Franny disappears, leaving

1:28

the bulldog in the background staring after

1:30

him. Exterior Seattle Streets,

1:32

afternoon. That sounded so dragnet.

1:36

Exterior Exterior

1:39

Seattle Streets, afternoon. Franny,

1:41

chased by a small dog, bikes along

1:43

a commercial street. He looks two D like

1:45

a game of excite Bike. I was

1:47

struck by the flyer and decided I had

1:49

to meet its author immediately. Interior

1:52

coffee shop, afternoon, p V. Gornic,

1:55

fifteen. A bespectacled girl with

1:57

long black hair and torn up clothes sits

2:00

writing in a notebook. On the table are

2:02

two small white cassio keyboards

2:04

and a glockenspiel. She

2:07

wears thimbles on all of her fingers, which

2:09

makes writing difficult. Suddenly,

2:11

a flyer slams down in front of her. Is

2:14

this your flyer? Insert? The flyer reads,

2:16

seeking bandmates. Influences include

2:18

Sonic Youth, Except NYC, Ghosts and Flowers,

2:21

James Blake, James Dean, James Taylor, James

2:23

Baldwin, and Rick James find

2:25

me after school at that one coffee shop. PEV

2:28

looks up at Franny examines him. I

2:31

didn't think much of him at first. No,

2:34

she continues, writing, have we met

2:36

before? Not to my knowledge,

2:38

I only started at Overton this week. I

2:40

used to be homeschooled, but my tutor died.

2:43

Interior PV's house, living room flashback.

2:46

PV sits opposite her tutor, an ancient

2:48

woman who appears to be asleep. PV

2:51

glances up from a geometry textbook,

2:53

Missus Llewellyn interior coffee shop,

2:55

continuous with before. No, I'm

2:57

pretty sure we've met. Then again, I

3:00

have a terrible memory. They say that's a prerequisite

3:02

for happiness. Not so good for

3:04

his Stree exams. What's your name?

3:07

PV pauses in a writing. But

3:09

he was persistent, and persistence

3:11

is important in any artistic endeavor. Did

3:14

you know that the Beatles played more than six hundred

3:16

shows before they even got signed? Did

3:19

you know that the Beatles played more than six hundred

3:21

shows before they even got signed? I didn't,

3:24

but I do know that there are more than three hundred and fifty

3:26

thousand different kinds of beatles. I'm

3:28

Franny PV. I'm

3:31

sorry I was brusque before. I just hate

3:33

meaning new people and old people. PV

3:36

like the amplifier. M hm tie.

3:38

In page three, we just missed one pickup

3:41

right in the middle of the scene. In the middle of page three,

3:43

it says, inside a picture of a PV amplifier.

3:46

Oh okay, this was marked out in mind.

3:48

Oh sorry, yeah, I'm just not going to take

3:50

responsibility. This

3:52

is not my fault. This is not my

3:54

fault. It was not some

3:59

of the fire. Actually, I'm not sure if I

4:01

can. What does I say?

4:03

It's an insert a picture of APV

4:05

amplifier. Okay inset inset

4:08

yes, in set intel,

4:14

in bread a picture of

4:16

a PV amplifier. In

4:19

set a picture of a PV amplifier.

4:22

That's your real name. I had a legally

4:24

changed interior City Hall flashback.

4:27

PV stands at the desk. A registrar

4:29

looks over her application. You

4:31

need to be eighteen to change your name without a guardian

4:34

present diam eighteen. She presents

4:36

a driver's license inset PV's

4:38

fake driver's license. Her real name is blurred

4:40

out, and her birthday is shown as twelve twenty five,

4:43

two thousand and four. Did

4:45

you laminate this yourself? Of course not.

4:48

Interior Kinko's another flashback.

4:50

PV stands at the desk. A Kinko's

4:52

employee looks over the as yet unlaminated

4:55

fake driver's license. Uh, are

4:57

you trying to get me to laminate a fake driver's license?

5:01

Of course not. We hear the sound

5:03

of a copy or Peev looks over and sees Franny

5:06

making copies. Interior Coffee

5:08

Shop, continuous with before I

5:10

knew we'd met before. Franny sits

5:12

down opposite PV. I guess we

5:15

have what were you making copies

5:17

of? Anyway? Interior Kinko's, Continuous

5:19

with previous flashback. Franny

5:21

pulls one of the flyers out of the tray insect.

5:24

Franny's flyer shows a very ugly dog,

5:26

along with the text trying to lose

5:28

this dog answers to Lemur. Please,

5:31

if you see him, do not return him to me

5:33

Franni. Interior

5:35

Coffee Shop, continuous with before did

5:38

it work? Franny points Lemur's waiting

5:40

outside the coffee shop, just next to Franny's bike.

5:43

Man, that's one ugly dog. Sorry,

5:46

it's okay, So you want to start a band.

5:48

No, I want to continue a band, but

5:50

with more musicians than I have now, Oh, how

5:52

many musicians do you have? Now? One?

5:55

What do you play? Guitar, leader, rhythm?

5:58

Yes, what about you? Primarily

6:00

cassio, vi altone, monophonic synthesizer and glockenspiel.

6:03

Cool. So what do you want

6:05

to call the band? What's your name again, Franny?

6:08

Hmmm? Probably just PV? Then

6:11

okay, what about the album?

6:13

I'm torn at the moment. Either My Sorrow

6:16

is Stepthfless or Where's My Pony?

6:19

They're both really good. I

6:21

know you want to hear a song. Sure. PEV

6:23

stands up and shouts at the burristo, who has been

6:25

playing a tranquil Nora Jones tune. Hey

6:30

Hey. He turns off the song

6:32

and she sits cross legged cracks her knuckles.

6:37

This one's called don't touch Me. PV

6:40

begins. We hear a full band, even though it's

6:42

just her playing don't

6:48

touch me, don't touch me. If

6:50

you touch me, I think I'm gonna scream,

6:53

don't touch me, don't touch

6:55

me. If you touch me, I think I'm

6:57

gonna scream,

7:04

don't don't touch me, don't don't

7:06

touch me. If you don't touch me, I

7:08

think I'm gonna scream. Don't don't

7:10

touch me, don't don't touch me. If

7:13

you don't touch me, I think I'm gonna scream.

7:21

I don't like you. I think I even hate

7:24

you. I don't hate you. I think maybe

7:26

I love you. I don't love you.

7:28

I don't even like you. Don't

7:30

touch me, don't touch me,

7:44

don't, don't, don't touch me. Don't, don't

7:46

don't touch me. Don't, don't, don't,

7:48

don't, don't, don't, don't don't

7:50

touch me. Don't, don't don't touch me. If

7:52

you don't, don't, don't, don't stop. I

8:01

don't like you. I think I even hate

8:03

you. You. I think maybe

8:05

I love you

8:08

even like you. Don't touch

8:10

me. Don't talk to me, don't

8:24

talk to me. Silence.

8:27

A number of customers have left Franny's,

8:29

clearly in love after a beat

8:31

that barista turns Nora back on. That

8:34

was awesome. I know, Oh

8:37

sorry,

8:40

thank you. Now, if we're thinking

8:42

of starting a band, obviously I'll have to audition

8:45

you. How's your lunch period looking? Tomorrow?

8:47

Wide open interior, overton lunch

8:49

room. The next day, we're in a traditional high school

8:52

lunchroom. Franni enters. He spots

8:54

TV alone at a table. Hey,

8:56

so you want to go straight to the music room. Where should

8:58

we eat? Somebody hates me? What?

9:01

Somebody hates me? I got a hate

9:03

note in my locker. We have to figure out

9:05

who put it there. What about the audition?

9:08

This is the audition. A band

9:11

is a family, Franny, We have to

9:13

support each other holistically. Now, who

9:15

do you think wrote it? She glances around

9:17

the lunch room. What about

9:19

him? He looks mean? I

9:21

doubt it. That's Dale Wilson, the world's

9:23

nicest bully. We slide over to Dale Wilson,

9:26

who does indeed look super mean.

9:28

A small kid walks over and fearfully deposits

9:31

a handful of change on the table. Here's

9:33

my lunch money deal. I've told you a million

9:36

times. I don't want your money. I'm

9:38

sorry, it's not more. I'll do better tomorrow. He

9:41

scurries off. Dale looks confused, even

9:43

hurt. Please don't We slide

9:46

back to Pev and Franny? Okay,

9:49

what about her? She's got crazy eyes. No,

9:52

that's Aaron Coltrera, Editor at large

9:54

for the Overton Free Press. Aaron Coltrera

9:56

a mousey girl in over large hipster

9:59

glasses interviewing the bulldog mascot

10:02

for the last time. Who's inside?

10:04

That costs you? No comment? We

10:08

slide back to PV and Franny. Aaron's

10:11

always looking for dirt, but she's mostly

10:13

harmless. Okay, And

10:15

what about that girl? Huh? That's

10:17

Judy Cortland. She's weird, but only because

10:20

she thinks she's a protagonist. We pull

10:22

back to find Judy sitting at a table directly

10:24

in front of PV and Franny, who suddenly go blurry

10:27

as if they become background characters. There's

10:30

Colin over there. I'm not going

10:32

to look at him. Crap, I looked at

10:34

him. What are those two weirdos doing

10:36

looking at me? I bet they're just jealous

10:39

of what I have with Colin? See

10:41

what I mean? Everybody else is just a side

10:43

character in her story. It's super annoying.

10:46

We return focus to PV and Franny.

10:48

You aren't important enough to Amereta Hayte? No, then,

10:52

who did it? Well? Have you roked

10:54

anyone recently? I

10:56

did stop by rehearsal for the Overton Orchestree

10:58

yesterday the interior

11:01

music room day. The orchestra

11:03

wraps up a pretty terrible rendition. When the

11:05

Saints go marching in after the last

11:07

note is parted out, Pev stands up in the

11:09

back of the room. That

11:12

was terrible. None of you

11:15

can be in my band.

11:17

That was terrible. None of you can be in my band.

11:19

Maybe just back off it just dis me. I honestly

11:22

thought that was the note.

11:26

I would

11:28

be a little more gentle. That

11:34

was terrible. None of you can

11:36

be in my band? She storms

11:38

out the Triangle player dings the Triangle

11:42

interior over to lunchroom, continuous

11:44

with before you're right,

11:46

Franny, it must have been one of those terrible

11:49

musicians. You've passed your audition.

11:52

Let's start a band. She puts out a hand

11:54

to shake, but as Franny reaches for it, Pev pulls

11:56

back. Just to be perfectly clear, once

11:58

we're in a band together, there can never be any sort

12:00

of romantic relationship between us. Oh

12:04

why, I mean not that

12:06

it, but why exactly?

12:09

Because artistic collaboration and romance

12:12

are incompatible. What about Fleewood

12:14

Mac We see a brief picture of Stevie

12:16

and Lindsay, we'll see brief flashes

12:18

of every band couple. Franny mentions, sure,

12:22

but and the White Stripes, the Cramps,

12:24

Arcade, Fire Sonic, Youth Abba,

12:27

New Order, I don't

12:29

know, Blondie, Stereo Lab, the Cocktail

12:31

Twins. Those are just the many exceptions

12:34

that prove the rule. Okay, so you can

12:36

take it or leave it. She offers her hand again.

12:38

Franny agonizes, no way, could

12:41

I have any problem with that? So

12:44

I'm shaking your hand now. Eventually

12:47

he does great Platonic

12:50

Bandmates for Life, first rehearsal

12:52

tomorrow. Sure, Oh wait,

12:54

I can't. I've got Chinese class. We'll

12:57

have to do Wednesday. You speak

12:59

Chinese, say something, okay,

13:01

oshen? When need this? Zuyba subtitled

13:04

translation appears, I want

13:06

to kiss your mouth? What

13:09

does that mean? I

13:11

dumpling? See you Wednesday.

13:14

Franny turns and walks off interior

13:16

Chinese classroom. Evening. The class is

13:18

being led through some drills by a Chinese instructor.

13:22

Phrases for wooing and courtship

13:24

has been written on the board. Franny's

13:26

distracted, covering his workbook with PV written

13:28

in the style of the PV amplifier's logo.

13:31

Even though we were bandmates now I couldn't stop

13:33

having romantical thoughts about PV. It

13:36

made it difficult to concentrates

13:39

jan ting when need its way subtitle,

13:42

I want to kiss you on the mouth? No

13:48

woman, wait thou? What the de fun ba?

13:51

Subtitle Let's go back to

13:53

my place woman.

13:59

By the time Wednesday night rolled around, I was

14:01

a ball of nerves. Nita pung

14:03

Yona subtitle

14:07

what about your friend? Is she single?

14:10

I had to be charming and I've never been very

14:12

good at charming me

14:19

wrong. Watch see walk

14:21

ganju Walufa who

14:23

see subtitle you're

14:25

smothering me. I feel like I can't breathe,

14:29

so I invited my best friend over to advise

14:31

me. Interior

14:46

Franny's Room night close

14:49

on aj Vascher, a young fifteen.

14:51

He's extremely dorky, but with an unshakable

14:54

and frankly inexplicable confidence.

14:56

Frannie, it's all about confidence.

14:59

If you think you're then she'll think

15:01

you're cool. Look at me. I know

15:03

I'm cool, which makes me even cooler

15:05

than if I just thought I was. We pull

15:08

back to see that the two of them are playing magic

15:10

the gathering, and I'll remove three tokens

15:12

from Chandra torture defiance to deal

15:15

four damage to your Angel of Acid. I

15:18

don't know, AJ, I'm not. Your confidence can be

15:20

simulated. That's just something unconfident

15:22

people said exactly, attack,

15:25

attack, attack, and

15:28

I think you're dead. That's four six

15:30

nine damage. Yep, you're dead. Sorry,

15:34

you got any food? No, but my mom left

15:36

money so I could order something. Franny points

15:38

to a fan of five dollar bills pinned to a bulletin

15:40

board. A note says for anything

15:42

but pizza, pizza

15:45

obviously. Exterior Seattle

15:47

Streets, afternoon. Franny bike's along the streets,

15:49

holding his guitar in one hand. Lemur

15:51

is still running along behind him. On

15:53

the way to PV's house. I was nearly overcome

15:56

with anxiety, even with the encouraging

15:58

notes I'd written on the backs of my hands. Franny

16:00

glances down at the back of his hands. On the left,

16:03

he's written you are cool. On

16:05

the right see other hand.

16:09

Exterior PV's house, afternoon. Franny

16:12

looks up at the house. It's a castle. You

16:15

could host royalty here. Franny

16:17

ties up Lemur and passes through a gate. Exterior

16:20

PV's house, gardens continuous.

16:22

Franny passes through an elaborate Japanese

16:25

garden. Franny crunches across

16:27

the gravel of a wilder English style garden.

16:30

Franny crosses a tennis court overgrown

16:32

with weeds in a croquet pitch in

16:34

a putting green where a creepy groundskeeper

16:36

is trimming the grass with nail scissors, they

16:39

make eye contact. Franny

16:41

finally arrives at the enormous front

16:43

door. He presses the doorbell. Beat

16:47

don't go in there, Franny turns

16:49

The groundskeeper is very close. Don't

16:52

go in there? Why not because

16:58

we're renovating the foyer. Oh,

17:01

he uses side door. Thanks.

17:04

Franny goes. The grounds keeper notices

17:07

a blemish on the front door. He raises

17:09

an electric sander he wasn't holding a few seconds

17:11

ago, and begins sanding the door. I could

17:13

do that. Interior

17:20

Interior Pev's House. Moments later,

17:22

Franny enters a large dining room.

17:25

Hello, Franny, is

17:27

that you come upstairs? Okay?

17:30

Franny looks around but doesn't see any stairs.

17:33

He passes through a restaurant sized kitchen,

17:35

a sitting room, a drawing room, and an indoor

17:37

bowling alley. Finally, he finds

17:40

a small elevator manned by a doorman who

17:42

looks exactly like the groundskeeper.

17:45

Interior elevator continuous. So

17:48

is that guy outside your twin brother? What

17:50

guy outside? An uncomfortable

17:53

pause, the elevator stops second

17:55

floor, same as the first. Franny

17:58

exits the elevator. Interior PV's

18:00

bedroom A while later. PV's

18:02

room is gigantic. A large portion

18:04

of it has given over to musical instruments and recording

18:07

equipment. Franny Marvel's at

18:09

a nearly wall sized poster of the band

18:11

The Stranglers. You a Stranglers

18:13

fan. Franny turns to find PV sitting

18:15

on the bed. I don't think I know them well.

18:18

You should. We'll do an overview of seminal

18:20

punk rock musicians at a future rehearsal. PV

18:22

notices Franny's guitar. You didn't

18:25

have to bring that. I've got plenty of guitars

18:27

here. PV gestures towards a rack

18:29

of at least twenty guitars. WHOA,

18:31

I can see that. Yeah,

18:33

my parents buy me a lot of presents. It's

18:36

how they make up for their lack of presence

18:40

exactly. I think they're getting

18:42

divorced, and it'll be contentious too, because

18:44

of all the money. Money makes people crazy,

18:47

even more than love. I think, where'd

18:49

it come from? Who can say where

18:51

love comes from? Pheromones

18:53

I guess, Oh, I meant the money. Oh,

18:56

bottled water, bottled water. Yeah,

18:59

you know, it's tap water, bottled water. Insert

19:01

a still image of tapwater bottled

19:03

water. The catchphrase on the label says,

19:06

who's got time to walk to the sink? Tap

19:08

water bottled water? It's tapwater

19:10

only bottled tap water,

19:13

bottled water. This is not me.

19:20

Oh yeah, that stuffs great, really

19:23

quenching. Yeah, my grandfather

19:25

invented it, which meant my parents never had

19:27

to work, so they make music, terrible

19:29

music, by which I mean classical. My

19:32

parents were never together, and my mom's

19:34

a pilot, so I don't see her much. That's

19:36

why I do so many extracurricular activities

19:39

like Chinese class yeah, andrama

19:42

club and guitar lessons, book

19:44

club, aerial gymnastics. Interior

19:46

Blacksmith day, Franni stands next to

19:48

an anvil. I'm apprenticed to a blacksmith

19:51

exterior stable. Day Franny brushes

19:53

the main of a miniature horse. I grew

19:55

miniature horses, even though I'm allergic. He

19:58

sneezes, spooking the horse. This

20:02

exterior garden day Franny's drying

20:04

a cactus with a hair dryer, and

20:07

I'm a member of the Succulent Horticultural

20:09

Society of Seattle. It's

20:11

difficult to grow capti here because of all

20:14

the rain, so we do a lot of drying.

20:17

Interior PV's bedroom continuous

20:19

with before Franni sits down at the mixing

20:21

board. Anyway, how do you want

20:23

to start? Should we write a song? I

20:25

think I should hear one of your originals.

20:28

Then we can attempt to synthesize our style

20:30

into a cohesive hoole. Okay. Franny

20:32

takes out his guitar, a sheep busted

20:35

up acoustic. He takes a deep breath.

20:38

How about a love song,