Confrontation
From Rom Com
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.
What?
I tried to reach you last night.
Yeah, I wasn't in. (Pause.) What's wrong?
Everything. (Long pause. He looks embarrassed.) Pardon the melodrama.
Do you want some tea? You look like you've been drugged and forced to have a colonoscopy.
Good guess.
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.
Can I talk to you--
Go ahead.
--in private?
(exasperated) Oh my god. Is this about Greg?
He's right there.
He's asleep.
Did you...and he...?
We're all adults here, Toby. (Pause.) At least legally.
You've been avoiding me. I needed to tell you--
Let me tell you something, Mr. Ivory Tower--
The following is simultaneous.
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.
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.
Give me back the cup.
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.
You're so fucking juvenile...
The door closes.
(to closed door, in the form of a retaliation) You're so fucking...(He trails off.) Oh, whatever.
Previously: Finding the Pictures Next: Dinner Sincerity
