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We open with a camera panning through the empty downstairs rooms of a modest two-story house. Lamps, not overhead lights, provide the light for all of the rooms, except the kitchen, which is dark.
The camera cuts to a shot of the staircase leading to the second floor. The camera begins to move up the stairs. As it moves, Darius Rucker’s version of Wagon Wheel can be heard playing faintly. The music gets louder with each step.
‘Hey momma rock me’
The camera reaches the top of the stairs, then turns down a hallway. Light can be seen coming from a room where the music is playing.
‘Rock me momma like the wind and the rain’
The camera reaches the door of the room with the music, then turns to face the room. The first thing we see is a man, the Message Board Detective, sitting at a desk, looking at a computer screen while tapping his foot along to the music.
‘Rock me momma like a south bound train’
Message Board Detective: (singing along in a quiet voice) “Hey momma rock me”
The camera cuts to a face-to-face shot with him. His eyes are intensely looking the computer screen. He hums along with the music without realizing he is doing it.
Something on the computer screen eventually catches his attention. He leans into the screen, even more focused.
With a very tight shot of his eyes, we can see the reflection of a Twitter feed in his eyes. We can also see him scrolling through the feed.
‘But he’s a-heading west from the Cumberland gap
to Johnson City, Tennessee’
Cut to a wide shot where we see him use the mouse to open another webpage. He begins typing, using only both of his index fingers. Not the hunt-and-peck method, he knows where the letters are.
A tight shot of his computer screen reveals that he is typing in a text box. At first, we can’t see what he’s typing. Then we get a series of quick cut shots that show us phrases he is using.
According to my source
it’s obvious what’s going on here
multiple boosters combined for the $375,000
at least one car
this is the day we’ve been waiting for
NCAA is in Oxford to stay
stepdad get a fair trial
jail time
can’t play on probation
The camera is now behind him. We can’t see the computer screen, but his typing pace has quickened. Then, he stops.
‘Oh, so rock me momma like a wagon wheel’
Cut to a tight shot of the computer screen. We see the mouse arrow. It moves across the screen and stops on an icon with ‘Post’ written on it.
He waits a few beats and exhales. Then clicks ‘Post’.
Cut to a wide shot showing him leaning back in his chair, still staring at the screen. He looks as if he’s running what he just wrote through his mind.
‘Rock me momma like a south bound train’
He stands, then walks out of the room. We cut to the kitchen. We can no longer hear the music.
He walks into the kitchen at a half shuffle, half walk and flips on the overhead light. He stops at the counter and picks up a note.
The camera shows us the note, which reads:
“Be back about 9:30. Leftover lasagna in the fridge.”
He sets the note back on the counter, then opens the fridge.
The camera is set at the back of the fridge, so we see him looking at the contents. He eyes the lasagna, reaches for it, but instead picks up a box of donuts we couldn’t see.
He takes out one donut, then places the box back in the fridge. He closes the fridge door.
Cut to a wide shot showing him standing in the middle of the kitchen, eating the donut in four or five bites, followed by licking his fingers. He stares blankly at nothing in particular for a few moments.
He half-shuffles out of the room.
Cut to a shot behind him as he walks up the stairs. The camera follows him. When he reaches the top, he turns down the same hallway from earlier. The camera stops at the hallway entrance.
We see him go into the same room as earlier with the computer. The camera stays at the edge of the hallway. We hear him sit in the chair, make a few mouse clicks, then music.
‘Heading down south to the land of the pines
I’m thumbing my way into North Carolina
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I’m a-hopin’ for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight’
END SCENE
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