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Boyhood: Mason rides his bike from home and meets Tommy as they head down into the drainage ditch. (scene 3) · The Reading Room

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Boyhood
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Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Mason rides his bike from home and meets Tommy as they head down into the drainage ditch.

Scene 3 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 2 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 3

As his mother’s homes and relationships change, Mason grows from a restless child into a young photographer learning to choose his own direction before leaving for college.

Just before
Scene 1
Mason waits outside school and tells Olivia his theory that flicked rocks turn into wasps.
Scene 2
On the drive home, Olivia confronts Mason about missing homework and his rock-stuffed pencil sharpener, then laughs at his arrowhead explanation.
Scene 3
This scene

3EXT. HOUSE/DITCH - DAY

Mason rides his bike across the front yard and heads down the street. Soon he and his friend TOMMY are riding down the embankment of a large drainage ditch.

← Scene 2On the drive home, Olivia confronts Mason about missing homework and his rock-stuffed pencil sharpener, then laughs at his arrowhead explanation.Read the screenplay from here Scene 4 →Mason spray-paints the ditch wall with Tommy until Samantha calls him home for dinner.