Confrontation

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In this scene, Dylan confronts Aimee about Alex. Alex has been attempting (unsuccessfully) to take a cell-phone picture of Aimee. Dylan has just discovered the sinister bet and is trying to explain it to Aimee, who refuses to listen because of her feelings towards Alex.
INT. Apartment building. Day.
Far shot. DYLAN, from behind, at the door of AIMEE's apartment. (Aimee and Kati have adjacent apartments? I'd like to discuss this.)

Close shot. The door opens a crack. We see AIMEE. She looks slightly tired and disheveled. The chain is still in the door throughout the following.

AIMEE
What?

DYLAN
I tried to reach you last night.

AIMEE
Yeah, I wasn't in. (Pause.) What's wrong?

DYLAN
Everything. (Long pause. He looks embarrassed.) Pardon the melodrama.

AIMEE
Do you want some tea? You look like you've been drugged and forced to have a colonoscopy.

DYLAN
Good guess.

AIMEE
I'm an excellent judge of character

She unlatches the door.
Medium tracking shot. They walk into a sort of kitchenette thingy. Aimee makes tea in the microwave. While she is occupied with that, Dylan looks around and sees that Alex is sleeping on the couch, a few feet away. Aimee hands him his tea, perhaps saying something like "Voila", but Dylan has already become quite jumpy.

DYLAN
Can I talk to you--

AIMEE
Go ahead.

DYLAN
--in private?

AIMEE
(exasperated) Oh my god. Is this about Greg?

DYLAN
He's right there.

AIMEE
He's asleep.

DYLAN
Did you...and he...?

AIMEE
We're all adults here, Toby. (Pause.) At least legally.

DYLAN
You've been avoiding me. I needed to tell you--

AIMEE
Let me tell you something, Mr. Ivory Tower--

The following is simultaneous.

DYLAN
that you don't know what you're doing. You're passively, stupidly letting yourself be duped into falling for this...this small-time Lothario because you're too emotionally involved to see that he's just using you.

AIMEE
I haven't been avoiding you. You've been avoiding everyone, including yourself, and you have no idea what you really want.

Aimee ends her dialogue just before Dylan ends with "He's just using you". There is a tense moment.

AIMEE
Give me back the cup.

DYLAN
Take it.

He might spill it on her, I don't know. EIther way, he leaves. Aimee comes to the door to yell after him.

AIMEE
You're so fucking juvenile...

The door closes.

DYLAN
(to closed door, in the form of a retaliation) You're so fucking...(He trails off.) Oh, whatever.

Next: Dinner Sincerity

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