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WALT Chemistry is the study of what? STUDENT (a beat) Chemicals. Snickers from the smart kids. Walt smiles. WALT Chemicals. No. Change. Chemistry is the study of change. (a beat) Think about it. Electrons change their orbits, molecules change
their bonds. Elements combine and change into compounds. That's all of life, right? The constant••• (shrug) The cycle. Solution, dissolution, over and over. Walt seems to be talking mostly to himself. A pep talk. WALT Growth, decay. Transformation. It's fascinating, really. Handsome, blonde CHAD sits slouched in the back with his hand jammed in the lap of his cheerleader GIRLFRIEND. He whispers to her and she giggles. Walt snaps out of it. WALT Chad, keep your hands to yourself please. Is there something wrong with your own table? Chad sighs heavily and drags his stool back to an adjoining table. Doing so, he makes as much NOISE as he can. WALT Alright, ionic bonds. Chapter six.
INT. HIGH SCHOOL - FACULTY WORKROOM - DAY
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Last period. Wide on Walt in the background, who sits alone in this deserted room. Head down, he grades tests while he eats a sandwich from home. It's a lonesome tableau. A physics teacher, MARGARET, enters. She's 30s, redhead, attractive without being pretty. Sexy, more like.
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