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Who can blame me? But I’ve got a
family and I’m back in college
and I need to be the old Lee for
one more night.
10.
FELIX (CONT'D)
She storms off into the trees, leaving him holding the baby
bag. He looks at the digital display a moment longer where
she is smiling and happy but half in shadow then starts
after her.
CABIN - CONTINUOUS - EXT
Paul has got another beer and plate of cold burgers from
the barbecue and is offering them to Crash and Shay.
PAUL
No sense of adventure. That’s
what’s wrong with you lot.
CRASH
Salmonella’s an adventure I can
do without.
PAUL
Yeah, but it’s clever see.
Tomorrow morning, you can blame
the hangover on food poisoning.
SHANNON
There is a sort of logic to it.
Crash shakes his head again and, now disinterested in them,
Paul wanders away and over to the porch steps - which he
trips over. In the window of the upper front room, a face
hovers behind a net curtain. It first looks at Paul and
then outwards, surveying the party.
SHANNON (CONT'D)
That’s Grandad. He’s a bit nuts
but quite sweet.
CRASH
Why’s he staring at me? And how
nuts is nuts?
11.
SHANNON
He worries about me.
Lee appears behind him and grabs his shoulders, making
Crash jump. He turns to her, the old man in the window
forgotten. She grabs a paper cup from the nearest reveller
and downs it’s contents in one.
LEE
That’s better. Crash, can I have
a word?
He offers the goofiest of grins to Shay and allows himself
to be pulled away to the slightly quieter porch area.
There is a muffled crash behind them and the can crushing
boy staggers out of the door, muttering apologies.