MOM & SON ESQ. P.I. - "PILOT"
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JOAN
TODD.
TODD Look, it’s going up Vista. It’s turning on Fairmount. Mom! Look! It’s the Amazon box of the dead Magician who’s renting the yellow house!
Joan stares at Todd like he’s insane. INT./EXT. JOAN’S CAR - DAY Joan pulls out of the office parking garage and heads uptown. Todd navigates, watching the TILE map on his phone. TODD OK, turn here and go up Broadway. (pause, softly) And you can speed up, this is technically a car chase. Joan glowers. Long silence. And then Joan opens a discussion she has been mulling all day (as Todd listens nervously): JOAN Todd. About your statements last
night. When your father died, I was - frightened. That I wouldn’t be able to support two children in college, and another a few years behind, on my salary as a legal secretary. So I had to work. To keep us all alive. Turn here? We pushed your brother and sister so hard to succeed. And then you grew up, your father died, and - I was gone. You were alone . And when you got into trouble two years ago, I think I - I helped you too much. Trying to make up for before. And then you pushed me away-- TODD Because you were trying to run my whole life! I mean look, I’m sorry about what I said last night, I am. And yes, you did help me out some two years ago. But then you’re like railroading me into law school, and-- JOAN I didn’t trust that you could - that you can - lead your life! Successfully! Some of the decisions you’ve made, the women you’ve--
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