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Scene 1 - <Ext. to a girl standing on a bridge on a rainy night. The lamppost above her flickers out. She looks around as though she is looking for someone. She gets discouraged and steps onto the ledge. She takes a deep breath. A man walks up to her and stands next to her on the ledge. She doesn�t notice him.>
Paul: Life really suck this much?
Liz: (notices him) what?
Paul: That�s why you�re jumping, right?
Liz: What makes you think that I�m going to jump?
Paul: You are standing on the ledge of a bridge.
Liz: So are you.
Paul: Yeah, but I only came up here to talk to you.
Liz: Well you�re wasting your time!
Paul: Sorry.
(They stand there for a few moments. Show a shot of the river below.)
Liz: It�s a damn cold night.
Paul: Yep. It is a titbit nipply.
Liz: What?
Paul: Oh, nothing.
Liz: What did you say?
Paul: It was nothing.
Liz: What was it?
Paul: I just said that it is a tidbit nippy.
Liz: No. You said it was a titbit nipply.
Paul: No.
(They step off the ledge.)
Liz: Yes you did!
Paul: Okay. (Pause) but it was funny.
Liz: You are one weird guy.
Paul: Well, I was just about to go get some coffee. So, would you like to come with me and discuss why our lives suck so much?
Liz: You know I don�t know who you are, but I �m with you.
Paul: Great! (Pause)
Liz: Well.
Paul: What?
Liz: Aren�t we going?
Paul: Oh yeah. Let�s go. (They exit)
Liz: (laughing) all over his pants?
Paul: Yeah, we couldn�t stop laughing. Oh, you should see the pictures.
Liz: That�s funny.
Paul: So, why?
Liz: Why, what?
Paul: Why were you standing on the ledge of a bridge?
Liz: You want to know?
Paul: Yeah.
Liz: You really want to know?
Paul: Yes. Just tell me.
Liz: No, it�s too personal.
Paul: Oh come on. Please? (Makes a cheesy sad face)
Liz: Okay, if you really want to know.
Paul: I do! I do!
Liz: Okay, it all started when I met this guy in college. He was great, great looking, smart, funny, you know.
Paul: Actually I don�t.
Liz: Oh, right. Anyway, it was great, we had good times together, and eventually we fell in love, or at least I did. Well, one day he proposed and I said yes. So we were going to get married 8 months after he proposed.
Paul: Oh, I see where this is going, he left you at the alter right?
Liz: No, the service was beautiful. The honeymoon went well, we were happy, you know.
Paul: Damn it!
Liz: What?
Paul: Nothing. So, then, what made you come out here on a night such as this?
Liz: Well, Everything was fine, until last week when he decided to tell me his little secret.
Paul: What did he tell you?
Liz: That he wanted a divorce.
Paul: (sarcastically) No!
Liz: Yes! But that wasn�t the worst part; he also told me that he was having an affair.
Paul: That bastard!
Liz: And, on top of that, my father and sister died in a car accident the next day. So I said I needed a little time to think. And here I am.
Paul: Wow, so what are you going to do?
Liz: I�m just going to go with you and get coffee.
Paul: Sounds good to me.
<They walk for awhile, until they reach a coffee shop.>
Paul: Ah! Here it is.
Liz: I thought he would have been there.
Paul: Where?
Liz: Well, I had this crazy notion that he would have come looking for me. He wasn�t I guess. That�s why I came with you. I figured what�s the use? You know?
Paul: Yeah, okay.
<Pause. They drink their coffee. Paul looks like he is looking for someone.>
Liz: What about you?
Paul: What?
Liz: Why were you on the bridge?
Paul: No reason.
Liz: There has to be a reason.
Paul: I was just taking a walk.
Liz: A walk?
Paul: Yeah a walk.
Liz: (sarcastically) Yeah okay.
Paul: I was!
Liz: Okay! So, why were you taking a walk this late?
Paul: I had to think things over.
Liz: What �things� exactly?
Paul: Okay. I was at a video store today and I met this girl. We started talking and she said she�d meet me here. That�s why I came here.
Liz: Okay.
Paul: After I dropped the videos off at home I started to walk. Then I saw you.
Liz: Oh okay.
Paul: But, I don�t think she�ll show up.
Liz: Why not?
Paul: Well, after I talked to her this scary lookin scrawny guy came up to me and said, �That�s my girl. If I even hear from someone that you so much as looked at her, you�re dead. Capeesh?� So, yeah.
Liz: Well, there are three possible situations here: 1. she might like you so much that she would risk getting the crap kicked out of you. 2. She likes you so much that she wouldn�t be able to bear seeing you get hurt. Or 3. She was just messing with you, and won�t show up.
Paul: How did you come up with all that?
Liz: I think I saw this situation in a movie once.
Paul: Oh!
<Pause. They drink their coffee.>
Paul: That really happened?
Liz: Yeah. It took her 3 weeks to clean it out.
Paul: I didn�t know you could get that in there.
Liz: I would seem that you can. Well, not you, but. You know what I mean.
Paul: Yeah. But I wish I didn�t. That story gave me way too much information.
Liz: Hey! You told one too!
Paul: Yeah but (pause) okay your right.
Liz: Like always. (pause)
Paul: Well, I guess she isn�t coming.
Liz: Oh, yeah, sorry.
Paul: It�s okay.
Liz: Hey, I have an idea.
Paul: What?
Liz: Come with me.
Paul: What? Why?
Liz: Just come on.
Paul: Okay.
<They leave the coffee shop.>
Liz: Take me by the hand.
Paul: Okay. (He grabs her hand.)
Liz: Now, follow me. (They start running.)
Paul: (While they run.) I don�t really have much of a choice.
Paul: Where, exactly, are we going?
Liz: I�m trying to find a place. (They go inside the closest open location.) I�m trying to find a face. (Yelling) Is there anybody here that I know?
<The people look at her for a second, and then continue with what they were doing.>
Paul: Guess not.
Liz: It was worth a try. Cause no one wants to be alone.
Paul: Like us?
Liz: Oh yeah.
Paul: So, what now?
Liz: Let�s go sit down.
<They sit on a bench.>
Paul: (Looking off screen.) Oh my god!
Liz: What?
Paul: It�s already 3:00! Oh man.
Liz: Actually, my watch says it�s about 10:30.
Paul: I really have to go.
Liz: It�s only 10.
Paul: (interrupts her) Bye. (He runs off in a panic.)
Liz: Oh, damn.
<A scrawny guy enters.>
<Liz stares at him.>
Scrawny: What you lookin at?
Liz: Nothing.
Scrawny: Good.
Liz: (Chuckles)
Scrawny: What you laughin at?
Liz: Nothing.
Scrawny: Good.
<Liz exits in the direction Paul did.>
Liz: (entering) Hey! I think I saw that guy you were talking about.
Paul: Is he gone?
Liz: Yeah.
Paul: Good.
Liz: What is wrong with him?
Paul: I don�t know and I don�t care. Most likely a small penis.
Liz: What? I couldn�t hear you.
Paul: Nothing.
Liz: Hey, you know I should probably get goin. See you soon?
Paul: Same time tomorrow?
Liz: Sure. By the way.
Paul: Yeah?
Liz: What�s your name?
Paul: It�s Paul. And yours?
Liz: It�s Liz. Short for Elizabeth.
Paul: All right, tomorrow then.
Liz: Yes, tomorrow.
Lewi: (off screen) Hey, you! Video store guy!
Liz: I think you should go.
Paul: Yeah, later. (He kisses her on the cheek.)
Liz: Bye.
Paul: Bye. (He runs off screen SL.)
<Liz starts to exit SR>
Scrawny: (enters SR) I�m gonna mess you down. (Runs off SL)
Jane: So where were you last night?
Liz: Huh?
Jane: I was looking for you yesterday. Your insignificant other said you were out.
Liz: Well, I was.
Jane: So, where were you?
Liz: I went to the bridge. And then went out for coffee.
Jane: Alone?
Liz: Well no.
Jane: Who went with you?
Liz: Paul.
Jane: Who?
Liz: Oh he is this guy I met on the bridge last night.
Jane: (in disbelief) A guy you met last night?
Liz: Yeah.
Jane: On the bridge?
Liz: Yeah. Why is that so hard for you to believe?
Jane: It doesn�t seem like you.
Liz: No it doesn�t, does it? But it�s the way things are. (Pause)
Jane: Oh, before I forget, May called, and it seems you have a date tonight.
Liz: What?
Jane: Yea. Don�t you remember? May set you up with her brother.
Liz: Shit.
Jane: Well, you have to go out with this guy.
Liz: Right. When is it?
Jane: Eight.
Liz: What time is it now?
Jane: 7:30.
Liz: I should go and cancel.
Jane: Whatever.