CHARACTERS BRUCE: tall, rangy, a raconteur and actor LAURA: tall, chill, an actor
INT. A MODEST RANCH NEAR SOLVANG, CA - AFTERNOON
- LAURA
- Dad, can you hand me my phone, please?
- BRUCE
- It's okay I unplug it?
- LAURA
- Yes, please. Just pull the‑‑
Bruce has it out with no advice.
- LAURA (cont'd)
- ...yeah, thank you. So did you hear Kennedy is stepping down from the court? Retiring?
- BRUCE
- What? No! No! Are you serious? Why now of all possible days and decades?
- LAURA
- I dunno. I just saw it on my way up here. I haven't read anything about it.
Bruce turns on the television.
- BRUCE
- Goddammit. He wants everything to burn?
- LAURA (distracted)
- Dunno.
Bruce watches tv intently for a few moments in otherwise silence.
- BRUCE
- CNN isn't saying anything. Are you sure?
Just then
- TV REPORTER
- Excuse me, Mindy. I apologize. Sources are telling CNN that that Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement from the US Supreme Court effective...
- BRUCE
- Aw, there it is. Goddammit. Why now, man?!
Bruce watches coverage another minute or so.
- BRUCE (cont'd)
- Hey how'd you hear about that before CNN did?
- LAURA
- Twitter.
- BRUCE
- Man, it's always Twitter.