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Arrested Development: Dozens of Us
ALT: Arrested Development: Dozens of Us
Nick Hall
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![Scene is morning on a suburban street, a DAD, MUM and their four year old daughter LUCY are in their front garden, taking the first-day-of-school photo.
1
DAD:
OK stand by the hedge - smile Lucy!
2
[We see both daughter and dad as he takes the photo]
*Click*
3
[We see just the Dad looking at the photo he has just taken on his phone]
DAD:
No I’ll have to take it again… she blinked…
4 [Again we see both Lucy and dad as he takes the photo - but this time Lucy has grown bigger]
DAD: Smile Lucy!
*Click*
5
[Again we see just the Dad looking at the photo he has just taken on his phone]
DAD:
No I’ll have to take it again… she grew….
6 [Again we see both daughter and dad, but this time she is bigger still]
DAD: Smile Lucy!
*Click*
7
[Dad looking at phone again]
DAD: Nope. She grew again.
LUCY [From off-scene]:
*URRRRGH*
8
LUCY [Now a 6th-former]:
Of *course* I grew, dad!
I’m like, a *living organism* persisting through *time* in a constant state of *growth*?
9
DAD: Well yes, I know that darling
It’s just you seem to be doing it a bit *faster* today than -
VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE:
Awright babe
10 [We see a TEENAGE BOY, spotty, grinning, etc]
11 DAD: [looks shocked]
12
LUCY:
Take one of me and Kev, Dad!
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