The scene begins. Brad and Becky are leaning over Kim as Brad says, "Look at her, Becky. She looks like an angel." "Don't say that," says Becky. "She's still alive. She's still very much alive." And that's when Kim goes into convulsions. Brad panics as the doctors and nurses enter and the doctor requests "the paddles." Ohhhh, we all know what that means. Someone's getting spanked because they were naughty. Oh. Wait. No. Sorry. Wrong paddles. The doctor zaps Kim with the paddles as Brad and Becky scream at him to save Kim. The doctor zaps her again, to no avail. Kim has officially flat-lined. "We've lost her," says the doctor. "No," sobs Brad, quietly.
Schmarce opens her eyes.
The director tells her that she has to keep her eyes closed because, you know, she'd be dead by this point. Schmarce apologizes and, since they're still rolling, they take it from the doctor's line. "We've lost her," says the doctor. "NO!" screams Brad.
Schmarce coughs.
"My bad," she says. "Went down the wrong pipe. Sorry." "Very still," says the ever-patient director. "Again. You're dead. Okay. From the doctor's line, and, ACTION!" "We've lost her," says the doctor. "NO!" screams Brad.
Schmarce sits up.
"I don't wanna die!" she cries. "Please, please, Rob! For the love of God! Don't kill me!" Rob, who is actually now contemplating killing himself rather than Marcy, looks off into the distance, apparently searching for his diminished soul.
Outside on the lot, Coco drives up in her royal-blue car. Hairless, who has obviously been lurking on Coco's trailer steps, jumps up and runs over to her. "Coco," he questions, "how'd it go with Jason Priestley?" Coco doesn't want to talk about it. Hairless forces it out of her. "Well, he must've thought I had a disease or something, because he couldn't have stayed further away from me!" Oh, Coco. Poor, stupid, Coco. He didn't think you had a disease. He thinks you're an idiot. That's not a disease. It's not good, but it's definitely NOT a disease. "Really?" says Hairless, elated. "Oh, that's great!" Coco obviously doesn't hear this because she says, "God, I feel like such a fool! I suggested we take a hot tub and he ran out of the room!" "Really?" says Hairless, suddenly intrigued. "A hot tub? In the middle of the afternoon with a man you hardly know?" "Yeah, so?" says Coco. "Lemme ask you a question: Do you have sex with people with whom you normally wouldn't associate?" Coco screws up her face and says, "What? No! For once in my life I wanted to go crazy and have a Hollywood fling! Is that so wrong?" Quentin, who has discovered his new mission in life, puts a hand on her shoulder and says, "Ah, Coco. When you're ready to admit you have a problem, I've got a meeting for you." God, Hairless, you dumbfuck. She doesn't have a problem. She's a nubile blonde in Hollywood. This is what they DO.













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