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20INT. WEBSITE OFFICES - MANHATTAN - SAME TIME

Phillip, still mad he didn’t get into Yale, is in the offices of a news and culture website AUTOPSY. Despite the late hour, the open concept office is full. TVs and screens everywhere.

PHILLIP

Of course they didn’t call you in,

Kate, have you watched any news

today?

KATE

No. I’ve been pretty... wrapped up

in our... project.

PHILLIP

Turn on your TV right now.

President Orlean is in the middle

of an all-time shit storm.

Kate does so. There’s CVN coverage about the President’s Supreme Court nominee. It also plays in Phillip’s office.

ANCHOR 1

... Sheriff Wade Conlon was already

a controversial nominee with no law

degree and a record of shoot first

and ask questions later but with

his background as a nude life model

in college now coming to light, the

White House is in full crisis mode.

Kate stares at the tv in a daze.

PHILLIP

And get this, I found five former

students willing to go on record

that Conlon got noticeably aroused

when he posed for their drawing

classes.

INTERVIEW with SHERIFF CONLON, 60s, walking fast away from the cameras.

SHERIFF CONLON (SOT)

I have no shame in what I did!

PHILLIP

Should I say “noticeably aroused”

or “engorged?” I don’t want this to

read like click bait. This is a

real article.

Kate doesn’t respond

PHILLIP (CONT'D)

Kate can I get...something from

you?

KATE