do you remember France?

{Manhattan Murder Mystery, screenplay by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman}

EXT.  New York street - Day

Carol Lipton and Ted sitting in the front seat of Ted's car, parked by the curb.

CAROL
What's that?

TED
They're jelly doughnuts.  You want a jelly doughnut?

CAROL
(doubtful)
Eeooow.

TED
Eh?  Come on.  No, come on.  Come on.  You gotta get into it.

[If you're going to sit surveillance, there needs to be junk food...Gumshoe Axiom...]

CAROL
Okay.

TED
Oh!  Look, look, look, look, look!

                                    Two people coming out of the brick building.

CAROL
What?  What?

TED
(calling out loudly)
Helen!  Helen!
(in a low voice, urgently)
Now duck, duck, duck!

                          Neither one of the couple has turned around when Ted yelled "Helen" - they keep walking down the street.

CAROL
(whisper)
Ted!  Oh...

TED
(yelling once more)
Helen!

                               Inside the car, Carol is scrunched down on the floor; Ted is holding up the paper bag in front of his face, and holding a paper cup in the other hand.

TED
It's not her.

CAROL
It's not her?

                             She gets back up on the seat.

TED
No, it's not her.

                               Carol starts laughing.

TED
What...

CAROL
Oh, God - you really have this worked out, don't you?

                                She continues laughing, and Ted joins in.

[Time passes]

LATER:  It's raining.  Still the same MEDIUM SHOT through the passenger side window, but the window is closed now, with rain hitting it.

TED
I figured she'd come out and go to work, you know?

CAROL
Maybe she doesn't work.  Maybe she's like -- you, and she has writer's hours.


TED
I'm writing a play about something that happened to you and me.

CAROL
Oh, God -- oh dear.  What?

TED
Remember -- Remember that time... you and... you and I and Larry and Julie were all on that -- that eating tour of France?

CAROL
Oh! -- Yeah, yeah.

TED
And they, and then they wandered off and they forgot to pick us up?  You remember?  We had to share that bed-and-breakfast place.

CAROL
Right.  Do you remember those wonderful cottages?

TED
Yeah.

CAROL
And I remember... that we shared a bedroom together, right?

TED
Yes, but not a bed.  

                            A man exits the brick building; he opens an umbrella.


CAROL
(voice over)
No, not a... Well, gosh -- you were too gentlemanly to suggest that.

TED
Well, it's not... Not that I didn't think of it.

                             CAMERA follows man with umbrella while he crosses the street.

CAROL
No.  Well, I knew what was going on in your mind... because of the way you kept plying me with Chateau Margaux, remember?

                              Umbrella Man walking away from CAMERA.  Ted and Carol are not watching him.

TED
It could have been our little secret -- then, you passed out.

CAROL
Well, you... Yeah...  It seems like a long time ago, doesn't it?

TED
Not that long ago.

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