[at a small table sits a woman across from a man with unshaven face and crooked glasses]
[a blank expression on his face as she utters in stops and starts her broken narrative]
"I figured one day ...
I'd just wake up and find out what yesterday was all about ...
I'm not too keen about thinkin' about tomorrow ...
and today's slippin' by ...
I guess [sic] I went into a bad time ...
when I was watchin' everything go around me while I was standin' in the middle ...
watchin' it like in a dark theater ...
before they bring the lights up ...
I'm sittin' there ...
wonderin'...
how can this be?"
[phone rings many times]
[neither acknowledges ringing phone]
[man eventually gets up walks out of room to answer and speaks to caller]
[she exits unseen down long dark staircase screwdriver in hand]
- dialogue spoken by Susan in the movie "Inland Empire" written and directed by David Lynch
- scene descriptions by Pyrs
