Jim pushes Fred away. - Fred insists. Shows his creativity (Headless Horseman story).

RIVERSIDE DRIVE

Summary:

1. Fred approaches Jim. - Jim tries to avoid the contact.

2. Jim pushes Fred away. - Fred insists. Shows he’s a creative guy (Headless Horseman story).

3. Fred demands money for his idea. - Jim is shocked and refuses.

4. Fred tells he knows about the cheating. He’s been stalking Jim because he ‘stole’ his life. - Jim is frightened by a mad guy.

5. Fred tells his life story (paranoia, work in ad agency, VW whores). – Jim is not so scared anymore.

6. Fred pushes Jim to admit his affair. – Jim tells about his marriage’s decline.

7. Barbara approaches. Jim panicks. - Fred gives away Jim’s idea to dump Barbara.

8. Fred tries to excuse Jim. - Barbara is still angry and threatens to tell everything to Lola.

9. Fred picks up ‘a signal’ telling to kill Barbara. - Jim is shocked and refuses.

10. Jim is desperate. - Fred almost persuades Jim to kill Barbara.

11. Jim finally realises murder is not an option. Repents his behaviour and accepts responsibility. – Barbara returns and demands the money.

12. Jim tries to confess to Lola. – Fred stops him and reveals he’s killed Barbara.

13. Fred drops his demands for money. – Ashamed Jim leaves to reconcile with his wife.

Fred approaches Jim. - Jim tries to avoid the contact.

***FRED

Rainy day.

(Jim nods, agreeing but not wanting to encourage conversation.)

A drizzle.

(Jim nods with a wan smile.)

Or should I say mizzle—mist and drizzle.

___JIM___

Um.

***FRED

(pause)

Look at how fast the current's moving. You throw your cap into the river it'll be out in the open sea in twenty minutes.

___JIM___

(begrudging but polite)

Uh-huh …

***FRED

(pause)

You don't come here often, do you?

___JIM___

Why?

***FRED

Interesting.

___JIM___

What do you want? Are you going to hit me up for a touch? Here, here's a buck.

***FRED

Hey—I only asked if you came here often.

___JIM___

(getting impatient)

No. I'm meeting someone. I have a lot on my mind.

***FRED

What a day you picked.

___JIM___

I didn't know it would be this nasty.

Jim pushes Fred away. - Fred insists. Shows his creativity (Headless Horseman story).

***FRED

What time you expect her?

___JIM___

What are you talking about? Please leave me alone.

***FRED

It's a free country. I can stay here and stare at New Jersey if I want.

___JIM___

Fine. But don't talk to me.

***FRED

Don't answer.

___JIM___

(takes out cell phone)

Hey look, do you want me to call the police?

***FRED

And tell them what?

___JIM___

That you're harassing me—aggressive begging.

***FRED

Hey— let's talk about literature. You're a writer.

___JIM___

How do you know that?

***FRED

C'mon—it's me.

___JIM___

Are you going to tell me you can tell because of my costume?

***FRED

You're in costume?

___JIM___

It's the tweed jacket and the velvet pants, right?

***FRED

Jean-Paul Sartre said that after the age of thirty a man is responsible for his own face.

___JIM___

Camus said that.

***FRED

Sartre.

___JIM___

Camus. (pause) I'd love to discuss this with you another time.

***FRED

Good, when?

___JIM___

Right now I'm a little busy …

***FRED

Well, when? You want to have lunch, I'm free all week.

___JIM___

I don't really know.

***FRED

I wrote a funny thing based on Irving.

___JIM___

Irving who?

***FRED

Washington Irving—don't you know? You're a writer, man.

The headless horseman is doomed to ride the countryside, holding his head under his arm.

So he rides right into an all-night drugstore and the head says—I have a terrible headache—and the druggist says, here, take these two Extra Strength Excedrin—and the body pays for them and helps the head take two. And then we see them later in the

night, riding over a bridge, and the head says, I feel great—the headache is gone—I'm a new man—and then the body begins to get sad and thinks how unlucky he is because if he gets a backache, he can't find relief, not being attached to the head—

___JIM___

How can the body think anything?

***FRED

Nobody's going to ask that question.

___JIM___

Why not? It's obvious.

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