Scene 26 - Bruce's Apartment

(Extended shot of Bruce and Mary climbing steps. Close up of their feet as they climb. Lots of stairs. It appears to take them forever.)

(Muffled sounds of footsteps in hall. Bruce, Mary talking as camera dollies along wall, presumably adjacent to their motion in hallway. Camera comes to rest on door. Pause. Sounds of key opening door. Door opens. Bruce turns on lights.)

(Close-up of Mary scoping out Bruce's apartment)

(Subjective point-to-point of what Mary sees of Bruce's apartment. Pictures on the wall, telephone, bicycle hanging from ceiling. It's pretty funky. Bruce lives in a loft. Her eyes finally rest on a big pool table in the center of the loft.)

Mary: Wow, do teachers really live like this?

Bruce: Sure. Why not?

Mary: (Looks up at him. Pause.) I have to pee...

(Bruce points the way to the bathroom. Fade out.)

(We hear the sounds of pool balls. Fade in. See Bruce and Mary playing pool. Illumination is a bright light above the table.)

Mary: This is way cool...

Bruce: Not just cool, but way cool, huh?

Mary: (Looks up. Doesn't take shot she was lining up. Walks over to Bruce who is leaning against the table, pool stick in hand.) Yeah, way cool. (She is facing him now. They are about a foot apart. Pause.) It's a good thing you coach better than you play pool.

Bruce: What are you talking about? I'm about to beat the pants off of you.

Mary: (Smiles. Pause. Camera begins to zoom in.) Oh yeah?

(Long pause. They begin to slowly recline onto the pool table. Camera rotates with their motion, so that it appears that the pool table surface is coming up to meet them. Once they are at rest, camera shifts to show the normal geometry: Bruce lying on his back on the pool table with Mary sitting on his hips, leaning over him. Her hands are placed on either side of his head. She is wearing a silver pendant which is hanging down, almost touching Bruce's chest.)

Mary: I'm still waiting...

Bruce: (A little unnerved) For what?

Mary: For you to beat the pants off of me. (She smiles.)

(Long Pause)

Bruce: Now what's so funny?

Mary: You are.

Bruce: Why I are?

(Pause)

Bruce: Get up, Mary.

Mary: (Pause, then opens her eyes widely) No! Don't want to! (Pause, then a smile) You get up. (Looks down, then back at Bruce's face. A long pause.) How come you wear a ring?

Bruce: Oh, I dunno. Habit I guess.

Mary: How long were you married?

Bruce: I don't want to talk about that right now.

Mary: What do you want to talk about?

Bruce: I don't want to talk about anything.

Mary: Okay.

(Pause)

Bruce: Get up, Mary.

Mary: You didn't say it like you meant it.

Bruce: That's not surprising.

Mary: You kissed me today.

Bruce: I know.

Mary: We kissed on the lips. Our tongues touched.

Bruce: Uh huh.

Mary: You put your tongue in my mouth. (Bruce laughs.) You like me, huh?

Bruce: You're a regular Einstein, aren't you?

Mary: You love me...

Bruce: I don't know whether or not I should say...that.

Mary: It doesn't matter what you say. (Pause) Could you say it in Latin?

Bruce: Virgunculam amo.

Mary: Ooh, more...

Bruce: Cupitas ei me adurit.

Mary: Huh...

Bruce: Advesperascit. Advesperascit.

Mary: Uh... Huh...

Bruce: Campanae, nunc campanae audio.

Mary: That really rings my bell. Exciting day, huh?

Bruce: It's been an exciting day.

Mary: Sun goes down. What time of day do you like best?

Bruce: Twilight. Sunset to dusk.

Mary: What time is that?

Bruce: It depends on the season.

Mary: What's your favorite season?

Bruce: This one.

(Pause)

Mary: I keep dreaming about jet planes. Jet planes are in my dreams.

Bruce: What are they doing?

Mary: Oh, they're just there. Last night one was following me.

Bruce: A jet plane was following you...

Mary: Yeah. (Pause. Mary's eyes widen.) You never finished explaining why trains make that funny sound.

Bruce: What funny sound?

Mary: You know, Kopple, ugh, Ted Koppler Drift.

Bruce: (Laughs) Doppler shift?

Mary: Yeah, that sound.

Bruce: Okay. (Pause) Imagine two stationary objects a distance apart. One, the source, is making a whistle, a single frequency. The waves travel through ari at the velocity of sound in all directions, like the waves in a pond, only at the velocity of sound. The waves reach the second object ,the observer, so many times a second. This determines the frequency the observer perceives. Happens everyday. Now imagine the source moving toward the observer. Because of the motion of the source, each successive wave finds itself closer to the previous one upon generation. This phenomenon bunches the waves together and, when the waves reach the observer, it makes for a higher frequency than if the source were stationary. When the source is moving away from the observer the opposite is true and the observer hears a lower frequency.

(A long pause)

Mary: Wanna run that by me again? No! I'm only kidding!

(Pause)

Bruce: Now what?

(Pause)

Mary: Can you do this? (Tightens her neck muscles which makes her head shake like she's having a seizure)

Bruce: Better not do that.

Mary: Why not?

Bruce: Your head might get stuck. Or worse yet, you might explode.

Mary: But I want to explode. (Pause) I don't believe all that stuff about somebody watching us.

Bruce: What?

Mary: You know. All that crap about God and Jesus. In school they say God's watching you and everything. Nobody cares what we do.

Bruce: I care about you, about what you do.

Mary: Yeah, but that you. You know me.

Bruce: I have a feeling we're starting to know each other a lot better. (Pause)

Mary: What's so funny?

Bruce: You are. What am I going to do with you?

Mary: What do you want to do with me?

(Camera shot of Bruce and Mary from the position of a circulation fan mounted on the ceiling, a little to the side of the pool table. We can hear the subtle sound of pool balls hitting each other. The camera is mounted above the fan and the fan is moving slowly. The five blades of the fan regularly interrupt the image of Bruce and Mary still lying on the pool table. Fade.)