EXT. PEACEFUL HOME GARDEN - DAY
GRETA GERWIG and NOAH BAUMBACH sit in a gazebo surrounded by a moat of flower beds, each swarming with bees.
William walks into the garden.
GRETA
William! Please join us.
William walks towards the gazebo, sees the moat of flower beds. Gets confused.
NOAH
Don't be shy.
William starts gingerly dodging thorns and bees.
GRETA
You're here about your short scripts?
WILLIAM
Yes.
NOAH
Good. Good. Give us a rundown of some of them.
WILLIAM
swatting bees
Well, first there's THE CLOSER. OW... It's the bottom of the ninth, close game, bring in the closer. DAMN... Everyone is focused on the game except him; all he can think about is Citizen Kane. Slowly but surely, everyone thinks the same thing.William straddles a rose bush, trying to reach out towards the gazebo.
WILLIAM (CONT'D)
stretching
Then there's the award-winning STATION 18.William gets stung in the cheek as he steps on a thorn.
GRETA
Ohhh. Award-winning.
WILLIAM
Yeah... In a purgatorial train station that resets every seven minutes, three dead men confront their regrets, faith, and fear of the unknown, until one finds the courage to move on.
William finally reaches the edge of the gazebo he starts to scale the wood.
NOAH
Anymore?
William throws a file of SHORT SCRIPTS into the gazebo before collapsing into the moat of thorns.
WILLIAM
exhausted
Just these.William, defeated, EXITS the garden.