CHAR LOT T E M CCO M BS Play or Script | Fayetteville High School, Fayetteville, AR
Zoo INT. ST. ANN’S - MORNING CECILIA and ALAN are inside the church, sitting in a pew, with an awkward distance between them. CECILIA is already near tears. We follow her gaze as she looks at the holder on the back of the pew in front of her. A tattered hymnal lies there. She looks at the Votive candles, by the side-altar. One is lit, flickering. She looks at ALAN, moving farther away from him. As she does so, she watches the candle’s flame flicker from her movement. Offscreen, FATHER ANDREW is behind them. FATHER (O.S.)
Hello. Cecilia?
CECILIA (turning around)
Yes.
FATHER (O.S.)
You both can come in now. INT. VESTRY - MORNING
FATHER ANDREW sits, with CECILIA and ALAN across from him, but he’s only looking at CECILIA. CECILIA wears her fingerless gloves. They sit uncomfortably far apart. So.
CECILIA says nothing.
So.
Cecilia?
FATHER ALAN
FATHER
CECILIA looks up at him, not saying a word. FATHER Have you and Alan ever … talked about this? No. Yes.
CECILIA ALAN
ALAN Well…I told you…I told her what I wanted. What I want. Which is what?
Beat.
FATHER
ALAN I told her that I want to convert to Catholicism. FATHER I remember that … I told you to talk to her about everything you said to me. On that night that we talked, when you were so upset No, yeah, I know.
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ALAN
