Summer's Over, Again
INT. BRASSERIE SOMEWHERE - NIGHT
GUSTAVE
Well, look who it is!
JEROME
Yeah yeah yeah.
GUSTAVE
Where the fuck have you been?
JEROME
It’s summer, you know. This and that, here and there, blah blah blah.
GUSTAVE
No, I don’t know! I’ve been here, bro, where have YOU been?
JEROME
Life comes at you fast, you know?
GUSTAVE
No, I don’t know.
JEROME
One second you meet a chick, then you’re dating her, now you’ve moved in spending too much time at jewelry stores… life, it comes at you pretty fucking fast.
GUSTAVE
Our boy’s all grown up, eh?
JEROME
I guess.
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GUSTAVE
How does it feel?
JEROME
It feels… fine?
GUSTAVE
Just fine?
JEROME
Good?
GUSTAVE
You don’t seem enthusiastic about it.
JEROME
It’s great, you know, although…
GUSTAVE
It’s… not that great?
JEROME
No, it’s great, truly great, really great, it’s just that…
GUSTAVE
You’re bored?
JEROME
No, not bored exactly…
GUSTAVE
Then what?
JEROME
I just can’t fucking watch the shit she watches, man. And we only have one TV, it’s been fucking brutal.
GUSTAVE
What’s she watching?
JEROME
The dumbest shit on the planet. And she knows it, too! Either someone is dying or plotting a murder or raping someone, or it’s a bunch of entitled chicks yapping about their problems like they fucking have any? It’s insufferable.
GUSTAVE
It’s really your fault, you know that, right?
JEROME
How the fuck so?
GUSTAVE
You knew the shit she watched when you dated her!
JEROME
So?
GUSTAVE
You lacked vision, kid, and now you’re paying the price. What did you think, she’d stop watching? No! Now she’s just going to watch it on YOUR TV! You lacked vision.
JEROME
Ugh.
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GUSTAVE
I’m sure she watches your shows.
JEROME
Yeah, she does. But my shows are like Seinfeld; everyone likes those shows.
GUSTAVE
Why are you watching Seinfeld?
JEROME
To be honest, I really don’t know.
GUSTAVE
There are a million other shows out there.
JEROME
Eh, I like something light and breezy in the summer.
GUSTAVE
I guess.
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JEROME
Lately she’s been getting into some show called Dept Q.
GUSTAVE
Oh that’s my shit right there! It’s really good.
JEROME
I bet it fucking is.
GUSTAVE
You should give it a chance.
JEROME
Not gonna happen.
GUSTAVE
Why?
JEROME
I’m not watching some bitter ass British people solve some murder in their coats and in their rain and their dim ass lighting while it’s 95 and sunny outside. I’m not going to do that.
GUSTAVE
It’s a good show, you should give it a shot.
JEROME
Not gonna happen.
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GUSTAVE
So things are good?
JEROME
Yeah, things are good. What about you, what have you been up to?
GUSTAVE
Honestly, not a whole lot.
JEROME
Then lie.
GUSTAVE
What?
JEROME
Don’t be honest, then, lie.
GUSTAVE
Hmmmm.
JEROME
Dating anyone?
GUSTAVE
Eh.
JEROME
Work good?
GUSTAVE
Eh.
JEROME
Trips?
GUSTAVE
Eh.
JEROME
Anything new?
GUSTAVE
New, like what does that even mean?
JEROME
Eh.
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GUSTAVE
So you’re back now?
JEROME
Back from where?
GUSTAVE
Back from wherever you went? Back from your life.
JEROME
Back from my life? How do you come back from your own life?
GUSTAVE
I don’t know, you tell me, you’re the one doing it.
JEROME
Hmm, I guess.
GUSTAVE
You guess what?
JEROME
I guess I’m back.