S L E E P L E S S I N S E A T T L E by Jeff Arch Rewritten: Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron May 10, 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------- FADE IN: CLOSE ON SAM BALDWIN A card: Chicago. He's in his thirties. His neck is pinched into a crisp dress shirt and tie. His expression is vacant, faraway. A breeze blows but he doesn't react to it. In the distance the architecture of the Chicago skyline. SAM Mommy got sick and it happened just like that and there was nothing anybody would do. (continued) And pull back to reveal: EXT. CHICAGO - A GRAVESITE - DAY Next to Sam is his son Jonah, age 9. Sam's hand is on his shoulder. As the mourners go past and each takes a turn shoveling a clod of dirt into an open grave -- SAM If we start asking why we'll go crazy. So, rule number one. We don't ask why. CUT TO: CLOSE ON ANNIE REED Pretty, blonde, animated. Jeans, a T-shirt, a Baltimore Orioles hat. ANNIE Why? I just want to know why? That's my first rule. I always ask why. Come on. Tell me. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon -- And pull back to reveal: EXT. CHICAGO ALLEY - DAY Annie is talking to her boyfriend, a good-looking guy named SETH. They're carrying packing boxes into the house they share in the Old Town section of Chicago. The same stunning architecture in the . They go up the back wooden staircase to the house. SETH There's no why, Annie. I'm just not up for it. I never said I was. ANNIE Is there somebody else? SETH Nope. ANNIE You don't love me, is that it? SETH Nope. Follow them into: INT. KITCHEN - DUSK As they set down the packing boxes and Seth starts to assemble them. ANNIE How about ... you're too narcissistic mit to another human being in a long- term way. SETH (agreeably) That's good. CUT TO: INT. SAM'S CHICAGO TOWN HOUSE - DAY An attractive, thirtyish couple, SUZY and GREG are stocking Sam's
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