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47EXT. ROOF. DAWN.

Richie comes out on to the roof dressed in pajamas. He opens his falcon’s coop. He puts his hand under the falcon’s feet, and the falcon steps on to his fist. The falcon’s hood says Mordecai across the front. Richie pulls a leather cord and lifts the hood off the falcon’s head. He strokes the falcon’s feathers and talks softly in its ear.

NARRATOR (V.O.)

The next morning Richie woke at dawn.

He had decided birds should not be kept

in cages, fed Mordecai three sardines,

and set him free.

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An hour later. Richie sits on a box on the roof eating a bowl of cereal and reading a book called Three Plays by Margot Tenenbaum. There is an empty tin of sardines at his feet. The door to the falcon’s coop is open, and the falcon is gone.

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Page 76 of The Royal Tenenbaums. It says “Chapter Four.”