INT. MODEST LIVING ROOM - DAY
A MAN and WOMAN, 60-somethings in glasses, reading in recliners aimed at a television, their backs to the couch and window above it that frames the leafy street, the two homes across it, and the water tower above and behind them. ARDMORE big across the tower's tank. Oklahoma plates on the Honda Odyssey van in one driveway and the Toyota Tundra pickup truck in the other.
She's in sandals, old jeans, Leon Russell t-shirt, perusing a Galveston travel brochure. Red t-shirt under his overalls. Socks, work boots to one side of recliner. He turns to the last page of Foglost. A BLOODHOUND DOG at repose on the pad near the lampstand between the recliners.
Framed reproduction of Barbara Vaupel's painting, Elk Herd in the Wichita Mountains, above a loaded bookshelf that includes a framed photograph of Claire and Sess cheek to cheek and smiling at the camera, Grand Canyon behind them, in a selfie Claire has taken. View into hallway and framed photographs on wall. John Deere ballcap, cowboy hat and University of Oklahoma football helmet on rack near front door.
A few moments before he closes the book, sets glasses on the lampstand, ponders. She looks at him over her glasses.
WOMAN: Done?
MAN: For now. I'll need to read it again.
WOMAN: Like it?
MAN (two beats): Yes.
WOMAN: Did the fog lift?
MAN: Lifting. There's no way it won't be a movie.
WOMAN: Who plays Bob?
MAN: My preference would be someone we've never seen or heard of. But no way that'll happen. It needs to be black and white. Montgomery Clift.
WOMAN: I'd watch that. Happy ending?
MAN (two beats): Bittersweet.
She stares at his deep consideration of whatever is on his mind.
WOMAN: Honey.
He seems snapped out of a reverie.
MAN: I'm sorry, sweetheart.
WOMAN: Unusually contemplative.
MAN: I thought I saw the ending coming. Again. How does he do it?
His PHONE CHIRPS. He gets it from pocket, stares at the screen, shakes his head.
WOMAN: What is it, babe?
MAN: A selfie Claire took.
He hands her the phone. She stares at the picture of Claire and Hunter, arms around each other, smiling at the camera, Sierra Blanca prominent in the background. She extends a hand to take the book he hands her. She opens to Hunter's picture and blurb, holds the phone close to it to compare. She looks at him.
WOMAN: That's him.
MAN: Or his doppelganger.
She stares, he ponders. She hands back the phone. He stares, she ponders.
