MOM & SON ESQ. P.I. - "PILOT"
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TODD Can’t you like, report them for that? JOAN Yes, if I wanted a mistrial and to start all over again. They must be - waiting for something. Some piece of evidence or proof they don’t have yet. Something is coming...
Joan is WIDE AWAKE and ON FIRE now: JOAN
We need to go down to the Courthouse. Right now. Todd, start the car. It’s almost 2 a.m.! OH but who’s going to watch this house for Harry?! I can’t leave you here, you’d catch your death of cold. We have to go! How do we--?!
Todd reaches into his cluttered backseat and takes 2 BURNER PHONES from a full box of same. He quickly sets them up. JOAN What is that? What are you doing? TODD Burners. Disposable camera phones . We’ll let them be our eyes. Hold this: He gives his phone to Joan. Then he gets out and hides the burners in trees facing the yellow house. Joan watches the feed on his phone, impressed. He gets back into the car. JOAN Can you really afford a whole box of phones? TODD MOM. The cars starts (with great difficulty). And they drive off. EXT. COUNTY COURTHOUSE - NIGHT Joan leads Todd towards a back entrance (glass service door) in this enormous, stately - and deserted - cement building. TODD This place is closed. JOAN Yes Todd. But by law, the Records Room has to be attended 24 hours a day. (MORE)
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