1. INT. BUSY AIRPORT BAGGAGE CLAIM. AFTERNOON.
Camera tracks a robot mop as it moves through the baggage claim. Passengers from around the world chatter and hug as they’re reunited. A businessman on his cell phone steps out of the way, annoyed, revealing Margarite and Jake. Margarite looks rumpled after 15 hours on the plane. Jake looks casually polished, like the superstar he is, always mindful of the paparazzi.
MARGARITE
Did you want to get takeout on the way to...
Margarite stares at Jake, realizing they’venever talked about what happens next. Life on a movie set was all about the now.
He looks at her with a cold expression.
JAKE
No. I don’t want to get takeout. It was great, but we’re done. See ya, babe.
Jake walks away. Margarite stares after him, looking like she’s been shot.
Victoria stopped typing and held in a groan. In her first version, her heroine had yelled after him that he was an asshole, collected her luggage and gotten on with her life. In versions two, three and four, she’d had a mini breakdown right there by the luggage carousel,thenhad gotten on with her life. But according to people whose opinions she trusted, that wasn’t good enough. She was supposed to bleed on the page.
Dammit.
The buzzer goes off, then the luggage carousel starts to move. Margarite ignores the offloading bags and runs after Jake. She catches up with him on the curb.
MARGARITE
Wait! Jake, did you just dump me?
He glares at her, then sighs heavily.
JAKE
Figures you’d make a scene. Yes, we’re done. How can I make that more clear?
Margarite is disbelieving.
MARGARITE
So it was all a lie. You played me to get easy sex.
JAKE
You got easy sex, too.
MARGARITE
But I fell in love with you. I thought you felt the same way.
JAKE
You were wrong. It was a location shoot. That’s not life. Grow up and learn the rules. You won’t get hurt next time.
A black limo pulls up. Jake gets inside without looking back. Margarite sits on the curb, looking stricken.
MARGARITE
But I was in love with you.
She starts to cry. An older woman stops by her.
