Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, The - pilot

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As Reggie takes a dollar from his pocket two young BLACK WOMEN pass by and are noticed by Ptolemy. PTOLEMY Hello, ladies. You goin’ down to Madame Zenobia’s? The lovely young women are a little charmed by the man’s unabashed appreciation. YOUNG WOMAN #1 You a player, granddad? PTOLEMY I haven’t been to Zenobia’s in a hunnert years. YOUNG WOMAN #2 I bet she miss you too, huh? PTOLEMY I don’t even know where she is no looked. A THIRD YOUNG WOMAN walks up to her friends. Ptolemy looks at this newcomer and sees: EXT. SAME STREET 40 YEARS EARLIER - DAY The Third Young Woman turns into SENSIA HOWARD (black, 30, beautiful, with a devilish inner light). PTOLEMY Sensie. Sensia doesn’t say anything but there’s a impish look in her eye. PTOLEMY (CONT'D) I miss you so bad. more. YOUNG WOMAN #1 Bet you could find her, if you Ptolemy reaches out to take her hand. The contact causes flutter between realities. Sensia turns back into Third Young Woman who pulls her hand away from him...

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EXT. BUSY STREET OF SOUTH LA - CONTINUOUS Third Black Woman pulling away from Ptolemy’s hand.

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