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19INT. RALEIGH’S LABORATORY. DAY.

Raleigh’s basement. Raleigh sits at a table, across from a fifteen-year-old boy in a plaid fishing hat with “Dudley” stitched across the front. Raleigh is dressed in a turtleneck shirt and a corduroy blazer with suede patches on the elbows. The boy has an earphone in his ear. He wears Henry Aaron-style flip-up sunglasses.

Raleigh and Dudley both have a set of building blocks in front of them. Raleigh’s are arranged in the shape of a symmetrical cross. Dudley’s are strewn out randomly. A cardboard screen stands in between the two sets of blocks.

Raleigh says into his tape recorder:

RALEIGH

Seventeen October. Third examination of

Dudley Heinsbergen.

Raleigh lifts the cardboard screen and looks to Dudley.

RALEIGH (CONT’D)

All right, Dudley. Make yours look like

mine.

Dudley sets to work, moving his blocks around slowly.

NARRATOR (V.O.)

Raleigh’s next book was on the subject

of a condition he called Heinsbergen’s

Syndrome.

Dudley finishes arranging his blocks into the shape of a lop- sided octagon with branches coming out of it.

DUDLEY

Done.

Raleigh begins to laugh quietly. He shakes his head.

RALEIGH

My goodness. How interesting. How

bizarre.

CUT TO:

Raleigh sitting in a corner. Dudley stands on the far side of the room misspelling words on a chalkboard. Raleigh whispers into his tape recorder:

RALEIGH (CONT’D)

Dudley suffers from a rare disorder

combining the symptoms of amnesia,

dyslexia and color-blindness, with a

highly acute sense of hearing.