voice-over.
VERONICA (V.O.)
I said Youre Beautiful.
A sudden off-screen bark from HEATHER MCNAMARA causes the pen
to recklessly rocket across the written words.
HEATHER MCNAMARA (O.S.)
God, come on Veronica!
VERONICA coolly pops the monocle from her eye before angrily
addressing the amusingly robust, conventionally beautiful,
trendily coiffed HEATHER MCNAMARA.
VERONICA
Whats your damage, Heather?
voice wafts
out over the Plaza.
SWEET MICROPHONED VOICE (O.S.)
Could I have your attention, Gotham
City?
9 EXT. FROM AN ELEVATED STAGE AT THE CENTER OF THE 9
PLAZA--EVENING
A dewy-eyed young lovely, wearing a snow bunny fur, a
tiara, and a banner streamed across her chest that reads
ICE PRINCESS, continues into her mike. An Elegant Lampost
Clock, near the stage, ticks fifteen minutes till seven.
SAM ACE ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculately dressed man approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn on the ignition.
ACE: (Voice-over) When you love someone, youve gotta trust them. Theres no other way. Youve got to give them the key to everything thats yours. Otherwise, whats the point? And, for a while . . . I believed thats the kind of love I had.
(Suddenly, the car explode
voice, tender, soft: "You are my best friend, my highest guru . . . and my sovereign lord." . . . A man (Gandhi): "I am asking you to fight!" . . . An angry aristocratic English voice: "At home children are writing essays about him!" . . . the sound of massed rifle fire, screams . . .
EXTERIOR. CITY. DAY.
And now we are over the city, coming in toward a particular street in the affluent suburbs o
voice of his wife.
??
Above him, Edna raves on for a moment (we cant make out what
she is saying), then furiously slams the window shut.
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CUT TO:
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INT. UPSTAIRS LIVING ROOM - EVENING
??
The room is musty and cluttered like an old attic. Edna
stomps away from the window and turns her attention to the
partially functional, old clunker of a black and white TV.
She plops herself down onto the lum