Tough Love: Episode 1
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(Giggle) Oh, you are just too much.
DUKE
I prefer to think that I’m just enough.
(Katie continues to laugh as she turns to pour some more wine. While facing away from Duke, Close up on his glass as some powder is seen being slipped into it. Then cut back to a medium shot of Duke and Katie as she hands him the drink.)
KATIE
So, what’s it like being a policeman?
DUKE
(Obviously rehearsed.) I’m not going to lie, it gets pretty dangerous. Lurking around every corner of this fine city is some fiend just waiting to get a shot at me. We’ve lost so many good men. But in the end it’s all worth it to protect the people I care about.
KATIE
Wow. Do you ever get scared?
DUKE
(Laughs obnoxiously.) Please! The key to survival in the face of danger is having complete situational awareness.
(Duke drinks from his cup and then leans in to kiss Katie but the poison in his wine takes effect and he ends up face-planting on the floor.)
INT. WILT’S HOUSE – NIGHT
(The camera pans into Wilt’s bathroom through the doorway and we hear the sound of him showering from behind the shower curtain. Wilt steps out and we see him, from the waist up, go get a towel to wrap around himself. After he does this the camera turns to reveal that the cloaked woman from before has been standing in the room the whole time.)
JASMINE
Are you Wilt Jones?
WILT
(Startled) What the
hell!?! Were you watching me shower?
JASMINE
We have more important matters to discuss.
WILT
I don’t think we do!
JASMINE
I understand that you are friends with Duke Butchmann.
(Jasmine hands Wilt a bathrobe which Wilt puts on as he talks.)
WILT
Not anymore.
JASMINE