Fifty-Six Days

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INT. HART HOUSE SEDAN - MOVING - AFTERNOON

The city slides past the windows. ELLE sits in the back, arms crossed, watching Atlanta blur by without really seeing it. KEITH checks her in the rearview mirror.

KEITH

ELLE

Keith nods and merges. A long beat. Elle is quiet — the kind of quiet that fills the whole car.

KEITH

ELLE

KEITH

ELLE

KEITH

Elle looks out the window. Her voice goes small.

ELLE

KEITH

Elle doesn't answer. The sedan rolls on toward the mall.

INT. HART MANOR - ROGER'S OFFICE - NIGHT

A single lamp burns. ROGER sits behind his desk, glasses low, reading over contracts by lamplight. The door opens without a knock.

GENEVA stands in the doorway in a silk nightgown that leaves very little to the imagination. She leans against the frame and lets him look.

GENEVA

ROGER

(removing his glasses)

GENEVA

ROGER

GENEVA

ROGER

GENEVA

Roger rises from the desk. He closes the folder in front of him with quiet, terrible finality.

ROGER

The words land like a slap. Geneva's chin trembles, just once, before she pulls herself tall.

GENEVA

She stops

ROGER

She turns and goes. Roger stands alone in the lamplight, and watches her leave.

END OF EPISODE. COME BACK TOMORROW FOR EPISODE 19