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KATHERINE (V.O.)
This is merely a song.
WHITE
Paris
New York
Singapore
Warsaw
London.
BLACK
KATHERINE (V.O.)
The ages of 13 to 24 were the most
difficult for me. Maybe I am not as
pretty anymore.
Men notice.
A 30 year old, ex-frat man tries to walk next to her, but she
is busy on the phone.
Katherine is determined.
KATHERINE
I am sorry. I need to move on.
GEORGE
Is it more money? We might be able
2.
KATHERINE
No. Ha. No.
GEORGE
Can you tell me why?
KATHERINE
I feel like I should.
GEORGE
Ah yes, you are too good for this
type of thing. You will create your
own way. One moment.
GEORGE (CONT’D)
Jane. Jane, yeah, do you have a
moment? Yeah, kindof yeah. Yeah.
JANE
Hi George.
GEORGE
Jane, I am about to lose one of our
best, Katherine here.
JANE
No honey. I can’t allow it. How
much?
KATHERINE
Not the -
GEORGE
It’s not the money Jane.
JANE
Ah you need a promotion. Give me a
few days and I can get you
something you want.
KATHERINE
Thank you so much. It makes me feel
very valuable.
(MORE)
3.
KATHERINE (CONT'D)
But I need to pursue something
totally different for a while.
JANE
Why?
KATHERINE
Because I feel like it.
JANE
Oh?
JANE (CONT’D)
Ok. Huh.
GEORGE
I understand. It is too easy. Too
defined. I was a fighter pilot for
some years, traveled and then only
became a writer. You have to feel
out the best thing available one
step at a time.
JANE
Well, I know a hundred who would
kill to be here and it is really
disrespectful to just leave.
GEORGE
Nah.
KATHERINE
Thanks so much.
KATHERINE
Girls!
JANE
How did it go?
KATHERINE
Great!
JANE
You are
BEVERLY
FREEEEE
KATHERINE
Freee!!!!
JANE
Free
BEVERLY
To what is next!
JANE
Yay!
KATHERINE
Ok, Ok. Thank you girls for your
support.
BEVERLY
I just want to live in your place
while you are gone.
JANE
Yeah, while you find yourself.
BEVERLY
Very brave.
5.
KATHERINE
Not that brave. Believe me.
FRANKIE
So, you can see that it is about
both limitation and the surprise of
the infinite and unexpected.
KATHERINE
Well, we are infinite.
FRANKIE
Our natural world - that we
formulate - it is, um, only with
our present understanding - an
approximation of reality.
KATHERINE
Precisely. But everyones reality is
different. Maybe time is slower for
me, or I live more than you.
FRANKIE
Which changes the dynamic of
reality. For example - how do we
explain healers - so much
documented proof of someone
speaking and someone getting
healed.
KATHERINE
Yes, but that is only part of your
reality. You see, no construct can
define that.
FRANKIE
So you see, how I express that here
- the rigidity in the lines and the
formula - this is what we expect.
6.
FRANKIE (CONT’D)
And here - the unexpected. The
unknown.
KATHERINE
Yes, I see.
FRANKIE
Hey, what was your name.
KATHERINE
Katherine.
GEORGE
K or C ... well, K of course.
KATHERINE
Why of course
GEORGE
Because you are, um a creative.
KATHERINE
K.
She brushes her hair off her face with her left hand.
GEORGE
Left handed too. Come get a drink
with us.
FRANKIE
Yes please. Please
EDWIN
You see, reality is not what it
seems. Why do you think you see
with your eyes?
7.
KATHERINE
My eyes, of course I see with my
eyes.
EDWIN
How do you know that people who are
blind - it is because of their
eyes?
KATHERINE
Well, science ...
EDWIN
No, just the causal natural
observation, but maybe it is just a
construct - a “law” based on what
has been observed. But not the
whole formula.
GEORGE
What if, we could see what is under
the table without looking at it.
KATHERINE
Yeah, well, that is possible I am
sure.
GEORGE
How is it possible that people know
each other before they have met, or
have dreams about each other. You
have had deja vu, right?
KATHERINE
Of course.
GEORGE
And it is a faint memory of what
is. It is something we can trust.
Do you trust it. What do you trust.
KATHERINE
I trust what I feel at the moment.
Moment to moment.
FRANKIE
And where did that trust in feeling
lead you?
KATHERINE
I’ll be right back.
Walking in.
Shaking lightly.
Looking at herself.
Crying.
She is in a trance.
She is looking at the rock. She is seeing the rock. She sees
more. She looks at how it is composed. What it is connected
to.
Water starts pouring out of the rock. And now a stream. Now a
river washes her and carries her down and away.
KATHERINE
What are you digging for.
MAN
I saw a watch down there.
9.
KATHERINE
Do you have a metal detector.
MAN
No.
KATHERINE
Oh.
MAN
Will you help?
KATHERINE
I am busy.
A yoga class
A church
A man proposing
A raging party
KATHERINE
So,
GEORGE
What makes you want to live the
most.
KATHERINE
I think it is the possibilities of
each moment.
10.
GEORGE
How is that?
KATHERINE
When you are fully aware that a
moment can change everything - and
giving yourself to that moment.
FRANKIE
I have been there. It is a dark
road. Can you not see the future?
You must learn to create a future
bigger than the moment. Get a
vision, close your eyes and see
what you want.
KATHERINE
I’ll be right back.
A young man is trying to put his arm around her and she walks
out and lights a cigarette.
She is shocked.
TREES
Absorb.
11.
She looks and wonders who is talking, but the whisper of the
trees flows through.
TREES (CONT’D)
Absorb.
It is a wave as well.
KATHERINE
It is ok. It is ok.
In her office, she has put together articles and they are
pasted on her walls.
GEORGE
Hi.
KATHERINE
Hi.
GEORGE
Oh, that one, got into your head
huh.
KATHERINE
Yeah, what if it is possible.
GEORGE
Well, these are fiction writers, I
mean, glad you did your research,
but
KATHERINE
Yeah, it is not just the research,
it, well, there is some science
here too it. Recent experiments in
the time gravity and energy
spectrum are -
GEORGE
That is pop science. I mean,
mostly.
KATHERINE
You know what they say - though -
science progresses one death at a
time. The old gatekeepers don’t
want their papers thrown away while
they are alive.
GEORGE
Yeah, maybe.
KATHERINE
We are maybe living out old science
with our beliefs. Maybe the
ancients were closer to the truths
we are unraveling.
GEORGE
Maybe.
13.
KATHERINE
Maybe.
GEORGE
Well, good luck. I am heading home.
My wife is sick.
KATHERINE
Well, just look your wife in the
eye and tell her to be perfectly
well, so that she believes it and
tell me what happens.
GEORGE
Ha.
KATHERINE
Do it. Like an actor.
GEORGE
Ok, for you.
KATHERINE
For me!
GEORGE
Ha. Goodnight.
KATHERINE (V.O.)
Why am I anxious?
KATHERINE (V.O.)
I think it started, well, forever
ago.
KATHERINE (V.O.)
What is better than anxiety?
KATHERINE (V.O.)
The monks of Tibet often levitate.
Levitate?
KATHERINE (V.O.)
They do this to learn how to focus
and hear the sounds of nature.
Sounds we create as well.
Near the guy, a lot of monks are chanting and some are
blowing horns.
KATHERINE (V.O.)
We are all sound.
The phone rings. Two phones ring now. Her office phone and
her cell phone.
JOHNATHAN
Katherine.
KATHERINE
Johnathan? Did you just call my
other line too.
JOHNATHAN
Well, both, you know, at the same
time, I can feel what you feel -
15.
KATHERINE (V.O.)
So the blood in the other room
released the same response as the
blood in the body.
KATHERINE (V.O.)
We previously thought memory and
communication was in the brain, but
it looks like every cell, separate
or not, communicates to the other.
This is why after a transplant or
blood transfusion, the recipient
has new memories.
KATHERINE (V.O.)
And why lovers - who exchange
fluids - are connected. A oneness
is created.
He is sad.
He texts.
She is sad after reading the article and gets the text. She
is happy for a second.
16.
He is happy.
Katherine is now in the jungle and she walks out to watch the
man levitating. She is not super surprised or anything. She
comes up to him.
KATHERINE
Is this just focus?
MONK
No.
KATHERINE
Then what?
MONK
Ah, you see don’t you
KATHERINE
But how?
As she falls...
MONK
It is just an experience. Nothing
more. Reach out
KATHERINE
Reach out to what is available.
17.
She stretches her hand out and it goes through the wall. She
walks into the wall and.
GEORGE
Hey
KATHERINE
Hey
GEORGE
That worked. She is fine. She, uh,
it was a big deal.
KATHERINE
Good for you.
GEORGE
I had to tell her she was healed
for like 2 hours until she believed
me and it worked.
KATHERINE
Great.
GEORGE
Yeah.