OUR KIND OF PEOPLE - 8th NETWORK DRAFT 12-21-20
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ANGELA
That watch... EXT. BOSTON STREET - NIGHT - FLASHBACK 57 Little Angela, wet from the rain, looks down to see something shiny. She stops and picks up a VINTAGE GOLD WATCH. INT. EVE'S CROWN - NIGHT - BACK TO PRESENT 58 Angela starts riffling through the documents on the table, now with fresh eyes. She finds the photos are all from the night of Eve’s arrest in 1984 at the GRAND ILLUMINATION BALL. She searches and searches and then, she stops when she sees THE WATCH. It’s on the arm of... TEDDY FRANKLIN. He is in the photo, smiling next to his wife, ROSE FRANKLIN. Angela's heart is in her throat. She's six years old again. Nikki grabs her mother's hand in support. The blood drains from Piggy's face, enough to make us question what she knows. ANGELA Teddy Franklin is my father. Angela’s breath quickens as she takes in this piece of information that can finally fill that blank. Her mind spins. Piggy is equally thrown off-kilter. PIGGY What, no? She would’ve told me. ANGELA But she didn’t, and you two were like white on rice. She didn’t utter a word of this, and we gotta start asking why. Nikki pulls out her phone and starts googling as Angela starts pacing the room, trying to think. PIGGY Teddy is a powerful man -- ANGELA -- And we just watched him shut her up. She was only three years older than Nikki. She was scared to death and she believed he would help her. Angela is spinning, trying to calm the fire that has started in her. Nikki looks up from her phone. NIKKI Mom... I think I know why. Mom --
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