Boonville

Scene 2

INT. STOCK ROOM. DAY.

The lights are off in the stock room. Wooden shelves are crammed with boxes. There is a walk-in cooler at the back.

RANDY leads DANNY to the coolers. Danny carries a grocery basket.

RANDY: (ranting) This is the third time this week! I like steaks as much as the next guy, but she’s going to get gout! I’ve seen it! The kid over at the ATV shop? He ate nothing but steaks every day for lunch and dinner, and three eggs for every breakfast. His god damned neck blew up like a fucking balloon.

RANDY starts piling wrapped steaks in Danny’s basket.

RANDY (cont): Where does she even get her money? She doesn’t work. The kid doesn’t work. Are they murdering travelers from the highway? Wouldn’t friggin’ surprise me. Lure them up to her cabin with promises of... god knows what, and BOOM! Blow their god damned heads off to steal their wallets. That’s probably what happened to that camper. Then she comes down here and pays me with her blood money.

RANDY assesses the tall pile of steaks in Danny’s arms, and leads her back into the store.

RANDY (cont): I ought to get the cops down here and check her bills, see if they’re counterfeit, or bloody, or stolen, or something. They can track those serial numbers you know? There’s even a website now, just go on the Internet and put in the number to see where your money’s been, or if any famous people have had it. Did you ever check your money?

DANNY: No.

RANDY: If you figure it out, you let me know.

DANNY: Yeah.

INT. GROCERY STORE. DAY.

DANNY and RANDY return to the store, arms loaded with meat. At the meat display there is a gaping hole between the hamburger and the pork chops. RANDY takes the steaks from DANNY and piles them in the gap.

RANDY (cont): Can you believe this shit? Every single steak! What kind of diet does she have that kid on? No wonder he’s such a mutant. You have the Internet, don’t you? I aught to give you some of those dollars to track. And don’t think I won’t write down the serial numbers myself! You’d probably think of it as a bonus and head over to the bar. Hmph. You deserve a bonus too. If it wasn’t for you, the pizza counter and half my chairs would just fly off into space. I appreciate that, you know? I’ve seen gravity fail around this place all the time. I used to have a solid gold statue of my dad right in the center of the store, and one day it just up and disappeared. Can you believe that?

RANDY puts the last steak in the display and turns around. TEAL  is standing behind Danny. She has a paper bag in one arm and an empty grocery basket in her other hand.

RANDY: Didn’t I put enough out for you the first time?

TEAL says nothing. RANDY looks at her a moment, and goes to the back room again. DANNY watches until Randy is gone, looks at TEAL .

TEAL loads her basket with steaks.

DANNY returns to the pizza counter. TRAVIS is making another pizza. He glances up when DANNY pours herself another soda and returns to the other side of the counter.

Continued Monday