MOM & SON ESQ. P.I. - "PILOT"
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ALLISON Well. Marriage is... complicated.
Todd gives her a concerned side-look. TODD
Are you OK? I mean, you and Chuck? ALLISON (pause) Yeah. Why? TODD You seemed upset with him last night when Mom was ordering you around. ALLISON Chuck is - Chuck. And it’s just easier to let Mom have her way. You should have learned that by now. TODD
Yeah but once you let her choose the wine and napkins , then she’s choosing your career, your clothes, your house. I mean, where do you end up? ALLISON (wry tinged with sad) You end up as an E.R. surgeon, married - to Chuck. Todd gives her another concerned look. Pause. TODD Well, I’m not doing this for her. I’m doing it for me. I’m gonna find Harry. I’ve had it with father figures dying and mysteriously exiting stage left. Now Allison gives Todd a concerned side-look. Then: TODD Hey, this is it. Right there. EXT. SMALL MAGIC SHOP - DAY They walk up to a small, rundown, storefront Magic Shop. A cluster of old candles and long-dead flowers sit in front. Todd reads a notice posted beneath the CLOSED sign: TODD “Newton the Magnificent was declared
dead?? On August 1st?? His final disappearing act, may he Rest In Peace.” What?? He died 2 months ago?
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