URBAN PLANNING PhD candidate BILL MAYHEW (male, 20’s) wakes up still drunk. He looks at the clock on the wall. It reads 11:30AM.
BILL
Shit.
He quickly dresses himself and runs out the door.
Bill walks in and his lecturer DR SIMMONS (male, 50’s) is drafting.
BILL
It’s coming.
DR SIMMONS
Are you still drunk?
BILL
I was thinking about proposing a….
Bill rubs his pounding head.
BILL
What if I looked at developing a…
Bill looks around the room, then at his pants.
BILL
A zipline.
DR SIMMONS
It is all rural development this year.
BILL
(beat)
What about a nature reserve?
Mona has a flashback:
Mona’s dad TED (male, 30’s) smokes the beehive while Mona swim in their new pool.
TED
Can you help your old man for a bit?
Mona hops out of the pool and collects honey with Ted.
MONA
Can we have some ice cream with it?
TED
Only on special occasions.
MONA
But today is a special occasion.
DR SIMMONS
(Reads Bill’s proposal)
DR SIMMONS
We will have to discuss it with Dr. Perkins, Professor of Palaeontology.
BILL
Why?
DR SIMMONS
Budget cuts this year.
Mona walks along the path drinking coffee, and Bill along the other until…
MONA
(crash)
Argh!
BILL
Shit, sorry, let me help you.
He goes to pat her down, but she flips him off.
MONA
What are you doing?
BILL
I do not know… let me buy you another coffee or…
MONA
Looks like you need more coffee than me.
BILL
Hey, student life sucks. I just want a job already.
MONA
Oh yes in what, the burns unit?
She fans herself…
BILL
(laughs)
Seriously, can I buy you another coffee?
MONA
I must wash this off first.
BILL
Look, let me take you to your building. There has got to be a bathroom in there.
MONA
(beat)
Fine. My building’s this way.