Script

90 Days Without Rain (Pilot)

MUSIC UP: PARANOIATTACK – THE FAINT

INT. HOUSE – EVENING

A large single-family home in Irvine, California is the setting for a high school party. Not in full swing yet, it’s mostly drinking, smoking or playing video games.

Two actor-types, drab in black, NATALI NIKDAL (17) and ALEXA RAYNE (18) sit together at a couch.

ALEXA
You don’t mind if I light up here, do you? I don’t care much for the rain.

NATALI
Why would I mind, Alexa?

Alexa takes out a pack of Camel Filters.

NATALI
Can I bum one?

Alexa picks out two cigarettes and offers one to Natali.

ALEXA
You don’t have your own?

Natali takes the cigarette.

NATALI
I’m trying to quit. Light?

Alexa takes out a light and flicks it open.

ALEXA
Are you still dating Princeton Bound?

NATALI
Brian’s not Princeton bound anymore. He is going to USC so he can stay close to me.

ALEXA
You really got him hooked.

NATALI
I’m dumping him as soon as he turns down Princeton. He was only appealing as far as going to an Ivy League school.

Two all-American high school football players, BRENT SPOOL and CHESTER DOUGLAS (both 18), grin as they eye Natali. Natali raises her eyebrow suggestively.

ALEXA
Using that Old Persian charm of yours, huh?

NATALI
I’ll be damned if I don’t have the best time of my life now. And I have the power to make that happen.



Alexa grimaces. Natali considers this.

NATALI
They’re only appetizers.

ALEXA
Well don’t let me get in your way.

NATALI
They deserve what they have coming for them.

ALEXA
All of them do.

FADE TO BLACK.

CREDIT SEQUENCE:

90 DAYS WITHOUT RAIN

INT. ’08 NISSAN – EVENING

MUSIC UP: THINK I’M IN LOVE – BECK

Two young guys sit in front, looking at ease with the world, if only momentarily. They are AIDEN SCARLETT (17) and ISAAC ABRAMSON (18). Aiden drives. A girl and another guy sit in back, looking as if they don’t usually get out of the house at all. They are THIAN ULRICH and TAMORA MOONSTEIN (18).

AIDEN
So tell me, you did get high when you were in Amsterdam, right, Thian?

THIAN
Actually there’s a story that goes with the first time I had a spliff in a hash bar.

AIDEN
Go on.

THIAN
Let’s just say I didn’t expect to get to the venue – the Heineken Music Hall – to see Radiohead at all. It’s a wonder that I made it.

TAMORA
Well, it must’ve been different hearing Radiohead stoned.

THIAN
I love how into it stoners get with concerts. But acid trippers are the worst, along with drunks.

ISAAC
You should turn here.

Thian puts an arm around Tamora.

THIAN
I really appreciate you sending me those Neil Gaiman books while I was away, Tamora. I would’ve died of boredom. I still couldn’t read Dutch to save my life.

TAMORA
You were only there for a year.

ISAAC
You were an American in Amsterdam and I still find it hard to believe that you didn’t get any action there. I mean they must’ve found you so interesting.

THIAN
I had – some action.

Tamora gives him a dirty look.

THIAN
I’m still a virgin, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have something happen a few times in the hostel with various girls, some of them at the same time.

ISAAC
Excellent! This shall be noted! We shall have to make an inappropriately grand exaggeration of these events when we chronicle your grand expedition in the north of Europe.

THIAN
We’ll do that later, Isaac. Have you told Coryn that I’m back, Aiden?

AIDEN
Tamora and I thought we’d keep you our little surprise. Don’t you love surprises, Thian?

THIAN
Are you high?

AIDEN
Like Thom Yorke’s singing voice.