Jared Tries Anonymity

A Screenplay

CHARACTERS STEVEN: bald, eye sizes don't match, graying goatee, an inmate JARED: plump, an inmate

INT. REC YARD AT FCI ENGLEWOOD, LITTLETON, CO

STEVEN
I recognize you, bro. I know who you are.
JARED
I don't think so.
STEVEN
Nah, I gotchu. I know.
JARED
I'm really just a normal guy.
STEVEN
Ain't no normal guys in here.
JARED
I am, though. I'm a normal, white, guy. Tax evasion.
STEVEN
Nah, bro. Kids. You're the sandwich guy with the jeans and the kids.

Jared grips the chain-link fence, looks around nervously

JARED
No, it really was tax‑‑

Steven tosses Jared to the ground, strikes him multiple times in the face with an elbow, scarred and rough already. Jared bleeds and swells up instantly like a losing boxer Shouting from guards in the distance.

FIN