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49EXT. HOTEL - LATER

Ricky and Lester stand next to a dumpster behind the service entrance to the hotel, smoking a JOINT.

LESTER

...did you ever see that movie,

where the body's walking around

holding its own head? And then the

head goes down on that babe?

RICKY

Re-Animator.

Suddenly, the service entrance opens, and a large CATERING BOSS in a cheap suit peers out at them. Ricky hides the joint.

CATERING BOSS

(to Ricky)

Look. I'm not paying you to...

(eyes Lester, suspiciously)

...do whatever it is you're doing

out here.

RICKY

Fine. So don't pay me.

CATERING BOSS

Excuse me?

RICKY

I quit. So you don't have to pay

me. Now, leave me alone.

CATERING BOSS

Asshole.

He goes back inside. Lester looks at Ricky, who shrugs.

LESTER

I think you just became my personal

hero.

(then)

Doesn't that make you nervous, just

quitting your job like that? Well,

I guess when you're all of, what?

Sixteen?

RICKY

Eighteen.

(then)

I just do these gigs as a cover. I

have other sources of income. But

my dad interferes less in my life

when I pretend to be an upstanding

young citizen with a respectable

job.

CAROLYN (O.C.)

Lester?

Carolyn is standing in the open service entrance. Lester quickly hides the joint behind his back.

CAROLYN (CONT'D)