King and Maxwell: Summer Adventures Season #1 Episode #1 Movie Script

SEAN:

Sean King

MICHELLE:

Michelle Maxwell.

KELLY:

Ted told me about you - Sean and Michelle exchange a quick look.

KELLY (CONT’D) I only just heard what happened... Iwas going to call...

MICHELLE:

You know a man named Edgar Roy?

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KELLY:

He’s my brother.

And off Sean and Michelle reacting... INT. KELLY PAUL’S HOUSE - DAY A mantelpiece lined with family photographs. Some of EdgarRoy alone, others with Edgar Roy and his sister.

KELLY’S VOICE Do you have any siblings, MissMaxwell?

Michelle looks across at Kelly, who is sitting with Sean onthe sofa, nursing a cup of coffee.

MICHELLE:

I’m the youngest of five.

KELLY:

Were you a spoiled brat? Or was it a fight to survive?

MICHELLE SEAN:

Fight to survive. Spoiled brat.

Michelle gives Sean a ‘how-the-hell-would-you-know’ look.

KELLY (CONT’D) Everyone in a family has a differentperspective. Mine is that I grew upbeing my brother’s protector. Hard toimagine someone as big as Edgar wouldneed protecting. But he was differentfrom all the other kids. Not justphysically... but intellectually.

(beat) Edgar is a high functioning, autisticsavant. He has a way with numbers. Mybrother’s ‘gift’ turned him into ascience experiment. I tried to keepeveryone at bay. The doctors. Theresearchers. The opportunists. But Icouldn’t protect him forever. A fewmonths after I moved out, he had abreakdown. I don’t think he ever fullyrecovered.

SEAN:

High functioning... does that mean hecould hold down a job?

KELLY:

Could. And did. He worked for the IRS for nine years. Right up to the dayhe was arrested.

(MORE) King & Maxwell Revised Network 01-10-12 KELLY (CONT'D) (forcefully) My brother didn’t do those things.

An awkward silence. Kelly regains her composure.

SEAN:

What kind of work?

KELLY:

Clerical. No one there knew what he was capable of... Edgar preferred itthat way. He loved going to work, being with people... Now, locked up, alone in prison... (falters) I’m so scared for him.

MICHELLE:

Know which branch of the IRS?

KELLY:

Head office. On K Street.

(beat) Go ahead. Call them. They’ll confirmeverything I’ve said.