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48INT. DUNELLEN AUDITORIUM - GREEN ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

Carl, terrified, Andrew behind him, addresses Fletcher--

CARL

We have an issue.

FLETCHER

Now is not the time.

CARL

I gave Neiman the folder. Neiman lost it.

Fletcher looks at Andrew. This is a joke, right?

FLETCHER

Neiman lost it.

CARL

Yes.

FLETCHER

The folder is YOUR fucking responsibility,

Tanner! You should have known not to give

Neiman your folder. You give a retard a

calculator and he’ll try to turn his TV on

with it. Now get your ass on-stage before I--

CARL

I can’t...

FLETCHER

Can’t what?

CARL

(doesn’t want to have to say this--)

I -- I can’t go on-stage... I don’t know

the charts by heart...

Pink (9/10/2013)

FLETCHER

Come again, darling?

CARL

You know this... I have -- I need the music,

my memory -- it’s, it needs visual cues--

FLETCHER

Visual cues??

CARL

--it’s a medical conditio--

FLETCHER

A medical condition? What are you,

Sanjay Gupta?? Play the fucking music!!

CARL

I can’t.

ANDREW

I can.

Fletcher and Carl both look at him. Neither was expecting him to chime in. Andrew seems almost as surprised...

FLETCHER

You know “Whiplash” by heart?

ANDREW

Yes. Every measure. Every note.

Quickly realizing this is now his only option--

FLETCHER