INT. BATHROOM/HALLWAY - DAY

SLOW FADE IN:

We open on a toilet. Nothing especially remarkable about it.

Our hero (who we’ll call DAVE) has no particularly good reason to be a straight white guy - so let’s decide SHE is Latina. Still calling her Dave though. Dave enters the bathroom, sleepily, pushing the door closed behind her.

We focus on the door. *Flush*. Door opens. Dave washes her hands - no towel... Dave dries her hands on her clothes.


INT. HALLWAY - DAY

We linger on a MOTIVATIONAL POSTER: Rosie the Riveter style: “You can do it.”

Dave SLEEPILY WALKS into - through - and out of frame.


INT. KITCHEN - DAY

A CROSS-STITCH framed on the wall (or perhaps a MUG) provides the addendum: *“But first... Coffee!!”*

Dave opens the COFFEE POT, throws away YESTERDAY’S GROUNDS, pours WATER into the pot. She OPENS THE CUPBOARD, and...

*Horror of Horrors!!*
...There is but the barest traces of ground coffee left in the bag!!

¿Who could have done such a thing? - A hint of anger.
¿Could I try to make a pot anyway? - Weak Optimism.
She throws the bag, for all intents and purposes empty, into the TRASH CAN. We spy next to it a RECYCLING RECEPTACLE.

Looking back in the cupboard: ¿Could I try TEA, or HOT CHOCOLATE…? No - that just won’t cut it!


INT. HALLWAY - DAY

Dave trudges back past the “Rosie” poster. IT IS SUBTLY DIFFERENT: Disappointed? Questioning? “Can you do it?”


INT. BEDROOM - DAY

WE FOCUS ON THE FEET OF SOMEONE STILL FAST ASLEEP IN THE BED.

>TITLES OVER:<

IN THE BACKGROUND ¿OUT OF FOCUS?:
Dave gets changed, throwing on a hoodie etc.


INT. HALLWAY - DAY

Dave leaves, the DOOR swinging ALMOST CLOSED behind her...
...At THE LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT, she catches the door - remembering to grab the KEYS.

>END TITLES<


INT./EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY

Dave TRIES TO PUSH THE *PULL* DOOR - walking into it perhaps a little too hard. Sigh. ¿Why is life so hard? She opens the door correctly, and leaves.


EXT. BUS STOP - DAY

There is A PERSON waiting, READING A NEWSPAPER. On the Newspaper, the Headline: “CRIMEWAVE CONTINUES”. ¿On the BACK COVER, an ADVERT for a SUPERHERO FILM?

Dave shoots a QUICK LOOK down the street, and goes to step off the curb...

...as a CAR BLASTS PAST.

SFX: DOPPLER EFFECT ZOOM/HORN HONK ETC.

Dave is shaken, and much more awake now, but ok.
The waiting person LOWERS THEIR NEWSPAPER - just enough to SHAKE THEIR HEAD DISAPPROVINGLY at her.


EXT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY

We finally see the COFFEE SHOP! Resplendent in it’s neon glory, and shimmering slightly...

... the image is broken, by DAVE’S FOOT, STEPPING RIGHT IN IT.

We were looking at the SHOP’S REFLECTION IN A PUDDLE. Into which, Dave accidentally stepped. Sigh.

Dave STEPS OUT of the puddle, and - SHAKING OFF HER WET FOOT - approaches the coffee shop! She OPENS THE DOOR.

SMASH CUT TO:


INT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY

... a long, and slow moving line of people.

.BEGIN MONTAGE:

SLOW DISSOLVE BETWEEN:

A series of shots of Dave: Slowly, she is getting closer to the front of the line. But she is also LOSING THE WILL TO LIVE. Or perhaps just GETTING SLEEPY AGAIN...

GRADUALLY LOSE SATURATION - UNTIL IT’S BARELY THERE.

.END MONTAGE.

Dave is now AT THE FRONT of the line. She smiles at the BARISTA.

CUT TO:


.MOMENTS LATER

Dave turns away from the counter - LOVINGLY GRASPING her TO-GO CUP. She RAISES IT, and is ABOUT TO TAKE A SIP, when...

SMASH CUT - DOLLY/ZOOM INTO:

... THREE MASKED GUNMEN BURST IN!!

They wave their GUNS around - majority of the CUSTOMERS HIT THE DECK.

CLOSE ON DAVE:
¿Do I try to run? ¿Do I get on the floor...?

...A Gunman knocks the coffee out of Dave’s hand!
She scrambles to the floor.

LOW ANGLE:
The coffee cup slowly rolls towards Dave.
She carefully reaches out for it...

MS:
Dave TAKE A BIG SWIG FROM THE COFFEE. THE SATURATION QUICKLY COMES FLOODING BACK IN - The coffee is working!!

In a SPECTACULAR ONE-HANDED FIGHT SEQUENCE - all the while careful not to spill the coffee - Dave DISARMS THE GUNMEN and subdues them!!


.INCREDIBLE FIGHT SEQUENCE


EXT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY
With TO-GO CUP IN ONE HAND, and A BAG OF GROUND COFFEE IN THE OTHER Dave exits the shop. Sirens and flashing lights signal the arrival of the cops. (Conveniently out of frame.)

Dave VICTORIOUSLY LEAPS OVER the offending puddle from earlier.


.BEGIN MONTAGE (MOS):


EXT. BUS STOP - DAY
Dave POINTS OUT that the PERSON WAITING has an UNTIED SHOELACE.


EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY
Dave heroically OPENS THE DOOR for SOMEONE CARRYING SOMETHING LARGE AND UNWIELDY. ¿Perhaps a PRECARIOUS STACK OF ODD SHAPED BOXES, and a LARGE PLANT?


INT. HALLWAY - DAY
As Dave walks past, we catch a glimpse of a final TRIUMPHANT VERSION of the ‘You Can Do it’ poster: “You *Can* do it!”


INT. KITCHEN - DAY

INSERTS:

To-go cup pitched into the recycling.

More coffee brewing.

.END MONTAGE #21#

WIDE SHOT:
 Dave prepares A DELICIOUS BREAKFAST.

LOW ANGLE SHOT:
A PAIR OF GORGEOUS LEGS, presumably with the rest of a person attached to them, saunter into frame - towards Dave.

CLOSE ON DAVE:
She turns, and SMILES.

>FADE TO BLACK.