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Jack and the BoxEXT. NEWSIES LODGING HOUSE - SAME NIGHT
Jack approaches the entrance as Racetrack comes down the sidewalk
JACK
How'd it go at the track, Race?
RACETRACK
Remember that hot tip I told you about? Nobody told the horse.
They smile and continue into--
INT. LODGING HOUSE - LOBBY - CONTINUOUS ACTION
Jack and Race pay Kloppman for the night
KLOPPMAN
You missed your supper, boys.
RACETRACK
Then we didn't miss much, did we?
JACK
I ate, Mr. Kloppman, I...
(sounds strange to say it)
... I was dinin' with a family.
Race and Kloppman exchange looks as Jack moves on --
INT. LODGING HOUSE - WASHROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION
Jack enters the empty room and walks past a row of wash basins to the last one. He reaches beneath it, dislodges a brick and removes a small box. In the box is a tin Prince Albert Tobacco can -- Jack puts today's take inside it. Then he removes --
-- a photograph: faded, dog-eared. Against a Coney Island western backdrop, fake cactus, face fence, a smiling man and woman beam down at a small boy in his cowboy hat -- it's Jack, about Les's age, with his parents. Jack sits hunched under the basin, alone, staring at it...
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