Five Television Plays (David Mamet)
“EXTERIOR: MAIN STREET, BRADFORD, A SMALL NEW ENGLAND TOWN.
Pan past several firemen working in the ruins of a burnt, still smoldering building, across the street to the facade of an old diner, “The Coffeecorner.”
(ANGLE INTERIOR: THE COFFEECORNER. Businessmen in shirt-sleeves, in the bay window, looking out at the burnt building.) BUSINESSMAN: . . . gonna cost someone couple bucks, put that building back up.
SECOND BUSINESSMAN: The question is, but who.
BUSINESSMAN: Another question: Who did what?
SECOND BUSINESSMAN: Well, that's always the issue, isn't it . . . ?
(An old WAITRESS tops up their coffee. Camera pans with the WAITRESS, back behind the counter.) WAITRESS: . . . top it up, Harry?
HARRY: Thank you very much. (He addresses the man to his right:) All I'm saying, you get people down the Capital, telling other people how to live their lives, and got no notion how those people live, then, yes, then people lose their respect for the Institution.
(The WAITRESS takes a pot of coffee.
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