NYPD BLUE Pilot Revised Network Draft 9/18/18 34.
He looks at her.
INT. COFFEE ROOM - LATER Theo and Lazarus, with coffees, sit across from each other. THEO My stepmom ran off to Scottsdale with her taekwondo instructor 10 years ago. She instinctively laughs and quickly covers her mouth to stifle it. LAZARUS Sorry. You just don’t... hear that every day. He smiles as well and waves it off. No offense taken. THEO Believe me. But that relationship was over way before she left. LAZARUS Where’s your mom? THEO
She died when I was young. She worked for the D.A.’s office. (beat) I had a half-brother who was on the Job. He was killed in the line of duty. A couple days after I was born. LAZARUS So it was just you and your dad. THEO Yeah. And the plan -- our plan -- was for me to get my gold shield one day. Work here in the 15th, actually. But when he got killed all that went off course. (smiles at the irony) People always had opinions about him, but in the last two years if I hear someone talking smack, I defend him. Get in scraps. It’s a button with me, I guess. (beat) (MORE)
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