st stop it. Dont say another word

    like t.

    ALtER

    (putting dohe oranges)

    Maggie, its just a joke...

    MAGGIE

    No. Its my life.

    ALtER

    A harmless joke.

    MAGGIE

    No, its ing and youve been

    doing it since I

    like it. Stop. You may not like

    er

    guess  like having a

    fatime. Ill

    eat in my room.

    Maggie takes a plate and exits.

    GRANDMA JULIA

    t needed to be said. You know --

    youre al her,

    so t make jokes about your

    drinking.

    alter reacts.

    CUt tO:

    INt. IKES APARtMENt - DAY

    Ike goes out on errace. ball. It

    doesnt bounce. s on teps of tio an stares.

    CUt tO:

    INt. MAGGIES ORKROOM/GYM - DAY

    Maggie is kickboxing.

    CUt tO:

    INt. MAGGIES ORKROOM/GYM - ANOthER DAY

    Maggie is a bit melancholy as she works on her lamps.

    CUt tO:

    INt. IKES APARtMENt - ANOthER DAY

    Ike quietly sits in bed ing and staring into space thinking.

    sits on the windowsill.

    CUt tO:

    INt. MAGGIES ORKROOM/GYM - NIGht

    Maggie jumps rope barefooted late at night.

    MAGGIE

    I need a plan... A plan to life...

    would Bruce Lee do? hed kick some

    ass...

    CUt tO:

    INt. MAGGIES KItChEN - DAY

    Maggie in front of plates full of all sorts of types of eggs --

    scrambled, poac, soft boiled, etc

    -- sits on tcer. Sies them all.