John Q Customer……………………………….......

Sales Clerk #1.……………………………...............

Sales Clerk #2.……………………………...............

The Pizza Man………………………………...........The Hit Man

Mrs. Customer………………………………...........Off-Screen Voice

Counter at an appliance store. John Customer is purchasing a toaster from Sales Clerk #1.

Clerk #1

Here you go, sir!

Customer

Thanks!

Clerk #1

And remember, that also comes with a lifetime warranty.

Customer

Oh! Thank you very much!

Clerk #1

You’re welcome! Have a good day, sir!

Customer

You, too!

Customer exits off screen. Sales clerk #2 approaches sales clerk #1.

Clerk #2

Whatchu’ give him a lifetime warranty for? You know those things only last about ten years.

Clerk #1

Don’t worry about it! I got it covered. (Picks up a phone and starts dialing.)

Clerk #2

What are you doing?

Clerk #1

(Holds up a silencing finger.) Hello. Homeboy Pizza Man? I’d like to order a large deep-dish pizza with everything.

Cut to exterior of the Customer’s front door. The caption “Ten years later” flash onscreen. Door opens and John Customer steps out in a robe. He bends over to pick up a newspaper. As he straightens up, he notices someone looking at him from the camera’s point of view. He looks puzzled. A laser sighting is focused on his forehead. He looks up and cross-eyed at it. Sound of a gun with a silencer going off. Customer falls back off screen. Cut to extreme close-up of the Pizza Man placing a smoking gun into an otherwise empty pizza box. He turns his back to camera and walks calmly, but purposefully down the walkway.

Mrs. Customer

(Off-screen.) Honey? The toaster just crapped out!

Fade out.

The End

Director’s Notes: We should never see the pizza man’s face. He should be filmed from the neck down when facing the camera.