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INT. PTOLEMY'S APARTMENT, KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS Ptolemy enters the kitchen and, after a little struggle finding the switch and remembering how it works, turns on the light. When the light comes on ROACHES scuttle across the floor, the counter, and up and down the walls. Ptolemy pays them no mind. He goes to the sink and taps the basin. PTOLEMY
That’s my sink where I do my number one ‘cause the toilet don’t work.
He turns on the faucet.
PTOLEMY (CONT'D) You got to turn the water on for a minute to make sure it all goes down the drain after. He turns the faucet mostly off and then walks out of the kitchen, leaving the leaky spigot in his wake. INT. PTOLEMY'S APARTMENT, LIVING ROOM - SOON AFTER The TV, radio, and murmuring voices vie for his attention but Ptolemy has a goal. Ptolemy approaches a muslin cloth hanging on the wall behind the TV/radio console. He pulls back the shroud revealing another door. This one is padlocked. He checks the lock. PTOLEMY Sleep, my darling. Rest. Sensia appears like a projection on a panel of the door. SENSIA You the one look tired, Pitypapa. You the one. She fades away leaving Ptolemy with a beatific look. The murmuring has stopped. His journey through the house has calmed him. Pitypapa goes to his chair and sits again. The TV NEWSCASTER is talking about child suicide-bombers in Afghanistan while the classical radio station plays the refrain to Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
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