Wine Mama (49) Then It's One Slick Duck

Kirk Carter@ WGA Copyright 2013

WINE MAMA (49)

THEN IT'S ONE SLICK DUCK

INT: GATORTAIL RESTARUANT-BRIAN'S OFFICE -WEDSNSDAY-11 A.M.

BRIAN GOING THROUGH RECEIPTS, SANDY COME IN CARRYING NEW LAPTOP, WEARING SHORT SKIRT AND HEELS

SANDY

"Look what I've got?"

BRIAN

"Looks like a skirt that if you don't cross your legs, everybody gets a show, heels that are taller than me, and what's that a new laptop...a Dell?"

SANDY

"Yea, they had them on sale, an Insperion seventeen for three-fifty...it's a refab, but I thought it was the bomb!"

BRIAN

"What are you going to use it for?"

SANDY

" I dunno, maybe for a second set of records...maybe for the wine business, maybe for private memoirs...maybe the great novel, just a place to keep my personal things...I mean everything we have is all Googled up, with all the sharing of every damn thing we do, it all get's to be too much!"

BRIAN

"Come on, why did you really buy it?"

SANDY

"I liked the pretty blue color...it matches my Land Rover!"

BRIAN

"There ya go, that wasn't so hard was it?"

SANDY

"I Love you Brian...you just let me be me, that's all a girl really wants from her man!"

BRIAN

"All right, not even noon yet and I'm getting brownie points...it's going to be a good day!"

SANDY

"So, get straight with me, I can see it on your face?"

BRIAN

"I don't even know if I want to drag you into this, but you are perceptive, and your going to find out eventually!"

SANDY

"You can drag my ass into whatever you want, we're both survivors here!"

BRIAN

"I have this friend which will be joining us in about a week..."

SANDY

"A friend?"

BRIAN

"Yea, but this is different...it's dead friend, someone who was lost in Katrina long time ago...well, he's coming for a visit!"

SANDY

"So, he came back from the dead, he's a spirit, from the spirit world...whatcha been smokin Brian?

BRIAN

"Nothing...wish this was that easy...it's a best friend of mine who owned a waterproofing business, passed down from his Dad, big union company down in New Orleans...he expanded into the seafood business, bought a huge trawler, also had an eighty-foot Hatteras, a gorgeous boathouse, great wife, couple of kids, everything going good for him..."

SANDY

"And then he died...what's up?"

BRIAN

"I'm not sure at this point, but it seemed he wasn't doing so well with the seafood business biz, so when Katrina came along, he took advantage and just disappeared...guess he had a lot of bills on the boats, guess the creditor's were looking for him, so the storm damaged the boats, the boathouse, they looked and eventually proclaimed him dead...wife and kids got the insurance money, ended up in Belize, got new identity from who knows where, and now he wants to come and hang out with me for a while..."

SANDY

"I don't understand...he sounds like nothing but trouble...we've got enough shit to worry about, why bring him into the mix?"

BRIAN

"You ever have any close friends?"

SANDY

"Yea, but just tag-along's, nothing real close till I met David...why should that matter?"

BRIAN

"I don't know how it plays for girls, but for guys, it's a brotherhood kind of thing...cause for the most part, we're held to a different level of responsibility, expectation, to be supportive and protective, just by the way we're brought up...like with girls and childbirth, the responsibility, the need, that inner need to bring new life into the world, it's hard for guy's to get a grip on it...so, when we bond, kind of like why actors marry actors, it's like they understand each other's insecurities, we bond with those who have the same drive, business sense, and responsibilities, where you share the same stresses and have overcome all kinds of obstacles, we'll that's a friend for life...a best friend, and no matter what kind of shit happen to one or another, it's gospel...you remain honorable to your best friend no matter what, you see?"

SANDY READJUSTING SHORT DRESS, CROSSING LEGS THE OTHER WAY, LOOKING UNCOMFORTABLE

SANDY

"So, this friend is coming for a visit, no matter what I have to say about it?"

BRIAN

"Yep, I don't know how long he's going to stay, I have no idea how this is all going to play out, but I will say...he's a smart fucker, and he may be of some help with this vineyard shit...at this point, I'll take all the help I can get!"

SANDY

"If it makes you feel any better, I'm in...we can always use another survivor, even if he is dead!"

JOHN COMES INTO OFFICE

JOHN

"Boss, Bossy Boss, oh, what a pretty dress...sorry I'm late, be we needed potatoes, got some reds and white, truck not come this morning, have to start potato salad, everything okay?

BRIAN

"Well, I contacted our illustrious Sheriff's office about the wine scam...thanks to your clever telepathic voodoo and here's the deal...they can't do anything till they catch them doing something in the act!"

JOHN

"So, we just let them come pick and steal our grapes?"

BRIAN

"Well, they're going to set up surveillance, well...they said they would, along with some undercover boys, kind of keep their eyes on things, and if something looks fishy, I guess they'll go in for the take-down, personally...I don't know what's going to happen?"

SANDY

"So, we just let the contract with Thomson play out?

BRIAN

"What do you want me to do Sandy...the offence has to occur first, it has to be documented that the offence happened, and to be honest with you...the whole thing just stinks...but it's all we have to legally work with...got any better ideas?"

SANDY

"It's ashame we can't get your buddy over here a little faster, nobody knows who this guy is, he could just blend right in to they're operation or something..."

OFFICE COMPLETLY SILENT, EVERYBODY STARING AT EACH OTHER

JOHN

"Brian, you have new friend?"

SANDY

"It's brotherhood, friends for life shit!"

BRIAN

"Yea, an old friend is coming up for a visit!"

SANDY

"Only one thing...he's dead, well he was dead, but he came back to life!"

JOHN

"So Jesus visit, Boss...what have you been smoking?"

SANDY

"Like yea, same thing I was asking..."

BRIAN

"All right you two...you know...you just might have an idea there, I could possibly have him fly to Mexico City, I've got a buddy that moves pot out of Bogota, and maybe..." 

JOHN

"You trying to get him to mainland without papers?"

BRIAN

"I don't know what he has, he was going to take a cargo freighter to Long Beach...I'll email him, but we need to figure out the best plan?"

JOHN

"If last resort, take flight to Phoenix outskirts from Belize direct on cacao flight, transfer to small plane and do like Cyncl did, he skydive into vineyard, home fast!"

BRIAN

"Yea, no shit, we use'd to skydive together back in New Orleans, he could do that, at least one more time...but John, what's this with the cacao operation, how do you know about all this?"

JOHN

"Nephew bring in three-ton a week, low-key, nobody see duffel bags, have to make extra money to put kid through Harvard!"

BRIAN

"Yea, I can see the need there...okay, I'll call my buddy up in Seattle and see if he can mange a non-stop fly-over for Modesto on his way back, let's get busy!"

SANDY LAUGHING, PLAYING ON HER NEW LAPTOP

BRIAN

"What you got going over there girl?"

SANDY

"JUust found out they had "Angry Birds" preprogrammed on this thing, haven't played this in years!"

JOHN

"She occupied...that good thing!"

BRIAN

"So much for the great novel..."

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