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written by Ethan Crystal please dont steal this thanks 1. backpack episode 1 of [untitled series] written by Ethan Crystal ethancrystal.com || [email protected] || @ethancrystal1 !2 EXT: PORTLAND, OREGON - DAY A widewritten view of a city by block. Ethan Nestled in theCrystal middle is a tiny, pretty bad coffeeshop. The weather is not great either. There is one thin table outside, occupied by two longtime college friends: ADAM, wearing a hoodie, and pleaseOLIVIA, who dontlooks nice. steal A cheerful thisbut awkward thanks time. ADAM That’s like a great opportunity for you. OLIVIA Yeah! I know, I mean fingers crossed. ADAM Yeah, I hope you get it. God I can’t even imagine. I could never be a teacher yknow. OLIVIA Oh, it’s whatever. Kids. ADAM Pfft Yeah! Kids. (lapse) OLIVIA Yeah like I’m nervous but I hope I get it. I think it would be fun. ADAM I think you will. OLIVIA Ehhh I don’t know. ADAM I mean who else do they have? OLIVIA I don’t know, anyone? ADAM I think you’ll get it. 1. backpack 8/5/20 !3 OLIVIA writtenThanks! I hopeby so. Ethan Crystal (lapse) please dont OLIVIA steal (cont’d) this thanks So, what did you wanna talk about? ADAM Huh? OLIVIA Yknow, you wanted to meet, and talk. ADAM Oh. I mean like not anything in particular, I just wanted to hang out. OLIVIA Oh. ADAM Yknow, like, its been a while. OLIVIA Yeah! I know, it’s weird, I never see you anymore. ADAM Yeah. OLIVIA Not even between classes or anything. ADAM Yeah. It’s weird. (lapse. they sip their coffee. OLIVIA looks around.) OLIVIA Welp. Here we a- 1. backpack 8/5/20 !4 ADAM I mean we used to hang out a lot more, writtenlike back inby January, Ethan February, Crystal March, sort of? OLIVIA please Yeah.dont steal this thanks [FLASHBACK] OLIVIA and ADAM fuck in a bedroom in January. A ROCK SONG plays (instrumental only) BACK TO CAFE OLIVIA Yeah, yeah. [FLASHBACK] OLIVIA and ADAM fuck in a classroom in February. BACK TO CAFE OLIVIA ...March? ADAM Like early March. (OLIVIA pauses, trying to remember) [FLASHBACK] (split second) OLIVIA and ADAM fuck in a closet in early March. BACK TO CAFE OLIVIA Oh yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. ADAM Yeah, so that was like, and then I dunno, school happened - OLIVIA Yeah, I never see you anymore. 1. backpack 8/5/20 !5 ADAM And like there wasn’t any particular writtenreason, but by we just Ethan like stopped. Crystal Hanging out. Yknow? OLIVIA please Yeah.dont Weird. steal this thanks ADAM I know right? OLIVIA Yeah. Yeah. I’ve been really bus– ADAM (spiraling) And it’s funny that we stopped like I was totally ok with the amount of hanging out? Yknow? Like I was never like “ohh no it’s Olivia ohh what am I gonna do, I don’t want that” OLIVIA Haha yeah, I was just super bu - ADAM (making a funny face) “I don’t wanna hang out with her! Oh she smells or something oh” yknow, OLIVIA Yeah, I was just really b- ADAM So I kinda just thought “well what’s stopping us from hanging out?” (pause. OLIVIA silently mourns the loss of her friend, the sweet ADAM she knew, to horniness? Feelings? She can’t tell. But he’s got it bad.) OLIVIA I don’t know! I don’t know. ADAM Yeah! Right?? So like - 1. backpack 8/5/20 !6 OLIVIA writtenBut I was sayingby IEthan was just - Crystal ADAM It was almost like, you like, deleted please mydont number or stealsomething. Hahahahathis thanks OLIVIA No! Hahahaha nooo I didn’t delete your number. Noooo! Cmon. No. I wouldn’t do that. No. I didn’t delete your number. I - ADAM So we should hang out more. Before the end of the year. OLIVIA ...Yeah, I just, ADAM Hm? OLIVIA I...It’s...I don’t... ADAM ...what? OLIVIA ...do you know? Like, what I’m... ADAM (he doesn’t) ...uh OLIVIA Well I just...I don’t know how to... ADAM You don’t wanna hang out? OLIVIA No! No no, I’m down to hang out. I’m TOTALLY down to hang out. It’s just - 1. backpack 8/5/20 !7 ADAM writtenGreat! Awesome. by Ethan Crystal OLIVIA ...okay! please dont ADAM steal this thanks Yeah, I mean, I just, it’s been a long time, and, OLIVIA Yeah. ADAM I never see you anymore, and, OLIVIA I know! And like - ADAM I miss you. (pause. That was kind of sweet. Maybe he’s still in there?) OLIVIA I miss you too. ADAM Youuuu busy on Friday? OLIVIA Uhhhhh I dunno! ADAM I think Stacy & some people are doing Boiler Room. OLIVIA Yeah! Sure. Fuck yeah! ADAM It might be band night though... OLIVIA (laughing) Oh my god, remember, what was that song - 1. backpack 8/5/20 !8 ADAM written“I’m gonna bybreak theseEthan chains Crystal tonight”... OLIVIA please Ohdont my god hahaha steal this thanks ADAM “I’m never gonna see the light, I’m gonna fight until it’s mine”... OLIVIA Wow you like really remember it! They laugh and reminisce for a moment, then settle down. A moment passes. ADAM Yeah and I know thats out of your way, so if you need to crash my apartment’s like right th- OLIVIA That’s exactly what I don’t want. (long pause) TITLE SEQUENCE Chipper and short. A ROCK SONG plays, the real life version of “I’m Gonna Break These Chains” (the song ADAM was singing, and the song from the fuck flashbacks). A series of shots of Portland. Hipster neighborhoods, mid-city college campus, band/event posters on flyers. “1. Backpack” jump cut to: 1. backpack 8/5/20 !9 INT:written ADAM’s APARTMENT by - DAY Ethan Crystal A messy college apartment. There is an upright piano that they somehow managed to get inside the tiny space. SEAN, pleaseADAM’s cooler dont roommate, steal stands by thethis fridge. thanks He is drinking a cocktail. cut lands right on the line: SEAN Howd it go? ADAM stands in the doorway, surprised for a moment. It’s clear he had just opened the door. ADAM Great! It went great. It was great. Good talk, we like, yknow, cleared the air - SEAN I wrote a song just now. ADAM She’s got this teaching thi – you wrote a song? SEAN Just now. ADAM Okay. SEAN (walking toward the piano) You wanna hear it? ADAM You know I kinda thought you wanted to hear about my talk with Olivia, because you asked about it- 1. backpack 8/5/20 !10 SEAN sits at the piano, playing and singing a song in Contemporarywritten Musical byTheatre Ethan style. The cameraCrystal work shifts, subtly, for a brief moment into a movie-musical-esque thing. please dont SEAN steal this thanks (singing) YOU’RE PATHETIC SO PATHETIC YOU’RE A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT AND YOU’RE PATHETIC ADAM Okay. SEAN (continuing) YOU’RE SWEETER THAN A TYPE 2 DIABETIC AND ALSO, YOU’RE PATHETIC ADAM Very nice. SEAN Oh just wait for it. The MUSIC crescendos & accelerates. SEAN IN SPITE OF YOUR DESIRE YOU COULD NEVER SATISFY HER SO YOU TRIED TO WRAP HER LIFE INTO YOUR WEB JUST LIKE A SPIDER ADAM Oh that’s good. SEAN -BUT YOU KNOW SHE’D NEVER LET IT CUZ SHE KNOWS SHE WOULD REGRET IT SO SHE BUZZED HER LITTLE WINGS OUT OF YOUR SPIDER TRAP AND FLED IT CUZ YOU’RE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/ ADAM A half-rhyme for the big finish?? I thought you didn’t like th- 1. backpack 8/5/20 !11 written by Ethan Crystal SEAN /OOOOOUUUUUCH a f*ggot.1 pleaseBoomp! The songdont ends abruptly.steal Back this to normal thanks camera work. ADAM Wow. SEAN I’m still workshopping it but I think it’s in a good place. ADAM Don’t you think using that word all the time kind of like, normalizes it? Like makes people think its ok? SEAN thinks. SEAN You’re right. You’re right. I’m wrong. SEAN types on his laptop. SEAN There, I changed it. ADAM walks over and looks at the new word. He looks at SEAN. SEAN I dare you to say it. ADAM I’m - no. SEAN I’ll give you 10 dollars. ADAM Why- No. I’m, neither of us are b- 1 “f*ggot” is bleeped as such 1. backpack 8/5/20 !12 SEAN written-bad people, by and weEthan know that. CrystalI know you’re a good guy, and you know I’m a good guy- please dont ADAM steal this thanks Debatable. SEAN -and we’re all alone, so just say it. This is a safe space. ADAM Why do you do this. Why are you doing this. SEAN gets up and refills his cocktail, also pouring one for ADAM. SEAN Because I can see you withering under the burden of being on top of the cultural food chain every single day, and I feel your apology for your existence seeping out of your pores, and everyone can smell it, and frankly, it brings us down, and I think it would do you a lot of good, and it would be empowering, for you to just say this word, one time, just to me, to prove that you are not a slave to it. ADAM A SLA- oh my god. SEAN Stop being a f*g2 and say it.