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　　CHRIS （CONT’D）
　　They working you good out here， huh？
　　
　　Walter’s voice is soft and methodical. His eyes remain distant as though he his looking through Chris. Chilling. There is a hidden anger behind his pleasantness.
　　
　　WALTER
　　Nothing I don’t want to be doing.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　Ha!
　　
　　Walter isn’t joking.
　　
　　CHRIS （CONT’D）
　　Yeah…… yeah. No， I can tell. I never really got to meet you actually， up close. I’m Chris.
　　
　　WALTER
　　I know who you are. You’re Rose’s friend.
　　
　　Chris stops walking about 15 feet from Walter. Something doesn’t feel right.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　Yeah. That’s one way to put it. So， where you from originally？
　　
　　WALTER
　　She is lovely isn’t she？
　　
　　CHRIS
　　Rose？ Yeah， she is……
　　
　　WALTER
　　One of a kind; a real doggone keeper.
　　
　　Chris is weirded out.
　　
　　WALTER （CONT’D）
　　Sorry if I scared you last night.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　Oh， yeah. Actually， I guess I was pretty drunk.
　　（MORE）
　　
　　CHRIS （CONT’D）
　　I don’t remember much.
　　
　　WALTER
　　And the hypnosis？ Did it work？
　　
　　CHRIS
　　Hypnosis？ No， I didn’t……
　　
　　Chris remembers.
　　
　　WALTER
　　Well， I should get back to work.
　　
　　Chris raises his hand in a timid ‘black power fist.’ Walter raises his hand in an open wave.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　There’s another bird……
　　
　　Walter nods. Chris turns and walks to the house. Chris makes pops a cigarette into his mouth. He is repulsed by the taste of it. He looks at it. More of last night seems to come back to him.
　　
　　INT. ROSE’S BEDROOM - DAY
　　
　　Chris enters as Rose finishes blow drying her hair. He’s worked up.
　　
　　ROSE
　　Hi. Where have you been？
　　
　　CHRIS
　　Out. Taking pictures. Hey， so I think your mom hypnotised me last night.
　　
　　ROSE
　　Wait， what？
　　
　　CHRIS
　　（hazy）
　　I think I snuck out for a smoke， and she caught me and offered？ I don’t know. I must have agreed to it ‘cause the thing just made me nauseous.
　　
　　ROSE
　　Okay. Well then that’s good， right？
　　
　　CHRIS
　　No， not good. I can barely remember any of it even happening; I don’t like that. Plus I had
　　these fucked up dreams.
　　
　　ROSE
　　That happened to me too.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　What did？
　　
　　ROSE
　　The nightmares. When I was a kid. She hypnotized me once for stage fright， and I had the craziest nightmares， but it worked……
　　
　　She wraps herself up in Chris’ arms. Chris thinks.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　And， what’s the deal with the help？
　　
　　ROSE
　　Like…… The iced tea thing？ Yeah that was weird.
　　
　　CHRIS
　　That， but also the lawn-mower guy creepin’ me the fuck out too.
　　
　　ROSE
　　Why？ Did he say something？
　　
　　CHRIS
　　It’s not what he says， it’s how he says it. You know？
　　
　　ROSE
　　Yeah， something about them seems…… different.
　　
　　Out the window， A CAR DRIVES onto the front yard. Rose hears and looks.
　　
　　ROSE （CONT’D）