“Wicked Minds”
Final Transcript
July 22, 2002
prepared by:
Sas Harris Transcripts & Captions
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TC IN / LOCATION / CHARACTER / DIALOGUE /10.00.00.00 / TITLE / HEARST ENTERTAINMENT
PRESENTS
TITLE / A JB MEDIA PRODUCTION
10.00.07.05 / EXT. MOON THROUGH TREES - NIGHT / TITLE / ANGIE EVERHART
10.00.10.23 / EXT. HOUSE AND LAKE - NIGHT
10.00.13.28 / EXT. MANSION - night / TITLE / WICKED MINDS
TITLE / ANDREW WALKER
HOLDEN (VO) / They say my generation is jaded. Brought up in a time when there's no faith in God, government, people... anything. I always liked to think of myself as more optimistic than that.
TITLE / WINSTON REKERT
10.00.34.26 / Ext. The bluffs - night / HOLDEN / No way.
HOLDEN (VO) / But I have to admit,
TITLE / AMY SLOAN
HOLDEN (VO) / when you get in a situation like this, there's only one message that flashes in your head like a bright, red, burning, neon sign... "Trust no one".
10.00.49.08 / INT. POLICE INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY / TITLE / One day earlier
HOLDEN / I'm dying here. Can we start?
title / Casting By
VERA MILLER
NADIA RONA
CLARKSON / Ready?
MORMINO / Oh, the camera loves this kid.
TITLE / Music By
JAMES GELFAND
CLARKSON / State your name, please.
HOLDEN / Holden Pryce.
TITLE / Edited by
DEBRA KAREN
CLARKSON (os) / And you agree to have this interview recorded?
HOLDEN / Yes.
CLARKSON (os) / Alright then, go ahead.
MORMINO (os) / Maybe you could try tellin’ us the truth this time.
HOLDEN / I graduated from Harvard last spring. I didn't have any family there. My mom had died the year before.
title / Art Director
GHISLAINE GRENON
holden / And my father? Well, I guess I was just hoping for too much.
holden / Don't get me wrong, he always provided well for me. Even after he and my mom split up.
10.01.56.14 / EXT. MANSION grounds - DAY / holden (vo) / For the last eleven years,
TITLE / Director of Photography
GEORGES ARCHAMBAULT
holden (vo) / he made sure that I went to the best prep schools, that I got into Harvard, that I had money to travel during summer vacations. When it came to money, he always came through.
title / Line Producer
SERGE DENIS
HOLDEN (VO) / But when it came to what really mattered...that's another story. We hadn't seen each other in over two years.
TITLE / Producers
JEAN BUREAU
JOSEÉ MAUFFETTE
holden (vo) / Then, out of the blue, he called and said 'come to Chicago'. After travelling in Europe for a year, I really had no place to go.
TITLE / Executive Producer
JEAN BUREAU
HOLDEN (VO) / So what the hell. I thought maybe, this time, I'd be getting more than just a check.
TITLE / Executive Producer
ANNE CARLUCCI
HOLDEN (VO) / They say graduation's supposed to be a step in the future.
Written By
TURI MEYER
AL SEPTIEM
HOLDEN (Vo) / But I couldn't go forward until I dealt with my past.
10.02.45.13 / INT. MANSION FOYER - day / title / Directed By
JASON HRENO
madeline (os) / (hums to herself)
HOLDEN / Pssst.
MADELINE / (gasp) Ahhhh!!
MADELINE / Holden!!!!
madeline / (laughs)
HOLDEN / Madeline!
MADELINE / You scared me half to death. Come here. Come here. Give me a hug, boy! (laughs) You've been bad. You don't come visit us. What's wrong with you, boy? You don't like us anymore?
HOLDEN / I saw the world – travelled a bit while I was still young.
MADELINE / Oh yeah, you so old now. Oh, I missed you so much.
HOLDEN / It's great to see you, too. So where is he?
MADELINE / Upstairs. He has a big surprise. But he said I couldn't tell. Better between father and son. Go. Go.
MADELINE / I'm really happy you're here. Yeah.
holden / So am I.
holden / See you in a bit.
10.03.56.06 / INT. MASTER BEDROOM - day / HOLDEN / Mason?
HOLDEN / So what's this big surprise?
holden / Mason?
10.04.26.01 / INT. BATHROOM - day / holden / Dad?
HOLDEN / Um... sorry.
WOMAN / Uh, close the door behind you.
HOLDEN / Yeah. Yeah, sorry...
10.04.36.04 / INT. MASTER BEDROOM - day / MASON (OS) / Hey!
mason / You little bastard!
MASON / Oh, look at you!
MASON / Oh man. I must be gettin’ old because you're all grown up!
mason / What’s this? Nikes?
MASON / You tryin’ to give me a heart attack?
HOLDEN / They're just sneakers.
MASON / Well, if they're just sneakers, then wear mine next time.
mason / (laughs)
HOLDEN / All right, okay. (laughs)
MASON / So you had a good time in Europe?
HOLDEN / Yeah, it was great.
MASON / Listen, I’m sorry I couldn't make your graduation. The union was busting my butt, They still are.... It's this whole overseas production thing... Been going on …
HOLDEN / Don't sweat it.
MASON / Yeah. Wait. Wait.
mason / (laugh)
MASON / Sweetheart? Baby? You decent?
mason / C’mere.
MASON / Lana? I want you to meet my son, Holden.
LANA / Hi.
holden / Hi.
Mason / What do you think?
lana / He’s cute.
HolDEN / So...how long you guys been dating?
MASON / Dating, hell. We're married.
mason (os) / Holden, say hi to your new mom.
LANA / Hi, son.
lana / (laughs)
10.06.05.12 / INT. kitchen - day
10.06.11.08 / INT. LIVING ROOM / HOLDEN / So why didn't you tell me?
MASON / What, Lana?
HOLDEN / Yeah.
MASON / I wanted to surprise you. See the look on your face. It was worth it.
mason / You want some?
HOLDEN / No thanks.
MASON / This is the best stuff on the planet. One of these a day and I’m gonna live to be a hundred.
mason / What'sa matter? Aren't you happy for your old man?
HOLDEN / Yeah … I’m just a little blown away...
mason / Yeah.
MASON / Have you ever been to the Greek Islands?
HOLDEN / Yeah, my old girlfriend and I went there once.
MASON / It’s a romantic place, right?
HOLDEN / Yeah, very.
MASON / We were on this deserted beach in Mykonos. White sands, golden sunsets. What could I do? I fell hard.
mason / Plus I haven't had sex like this in years.
MASON / We had tons of wedding pictures taken. I'll show you. It’ll seem like you were there. It was huge. Every local and tourist on the island showed up.
holden / Really.
mason / Now we gotta get ready. We're going to a fund-raiser I'm hosting at my new corporate headquarters.
mason (os) / They're gonna name a wing of a museum after me.
mason / Throw enough money around, they'll name anything after you. Anyway. I’m glad you’re here, son.
holden / Me, too.
10.07.46.05 / EXT. DECK - day / mason / Come on.
lana / Okay.
10.08.11.04 / INT. LOBBY pryce building - NIGHT / MASON (os) / Thank you. Thank you. (chuckle)
mason / Look, it’s the man who talked me into giving all my money away to a museum.
HARRY / No, no, no, no, no. Your wife did that.
mason / Oh.
harry / I just convinced her to help me.
MASON / Ah, they're coming at me from all sides.
MASON / Holden, meet Harry Dupree, my lawyer. Best damn criminal lawyer in Chicago.
HARRY / So so so….
harry (os) / this is the Harvard boy.
MASON / That’s right. Beats the hell out of that second rate school you went to.
HARRY / I'd hardly call Yale second rate.
lana (os) / (laughs)
MASON / Yeah, but Harvard's Harvard.
lana / (laughs)
HARRY (os) / Glad you could join us for your father's big night.
HOLDEN / Yeah, me too.
HARRY / Which reminds me, I need your help. We have to "motivate
harry (os) / our guests' generosity".
MASON / Honey, why don't you uh, show Holden around?
LANA / Okay, I’d love to. Do some mother and son bonding.
MASON / That's what I like to see...one big happy family.
LaNA / Ah. Champagne.
holden / Thanks.
mason (os) / So who’s got the money?
harry / Just about everybody. I only brought in the best.
LANA / Now wait.
LANA / You know, you have your father's good looks. Whose heart did you break in college?
HOLDEN / Stacy. But she broke my heart about a week before graduation.
LANA / Stacy was an idiot.
HOLDEN / That's what you get for dating a drama major.
HOLDEN / Uh look, I'm really, really sorry about barging in on you like that.
LANA / Shhh. That'll be our secret.
lana / It's going to be really nice having you around. I'm sort of tired of hanging out with Mason's friends.
HOLDEN / Pretty boring, huh?
LANA / They don't like me much They think I'm after his money.
LANA / To hell with 'em.
curator (vo prelap) / The most interesting aspect
10.10.00.12 / INT. lobby - later / CURATOR / of this antique Navajo necklace is its intricate design. This was a peace tribute that one tribal leader would have given to uh, another chief's wife. Opening bid is set at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. One hundred and fifty...
LANA / Wow.
curator (os) / Do I hear one fifty-five?
HOLDEN / Not bad.
LANA / I'll be back.
curator (os) / One sixty. One sixty over here. Yes. One seventy. One hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Do I hear one hundred and eighty? One eighty. One ninety! Do I hear two hundred? Final bid is one ninety. Do I hear two hundred? Two hundred. Do I hear two hundred and ten? Two hundred and twenty. Two hundred and twenty, going once....
LANA (os) / Holden,
lana / this is Nicole.
NICOLE / Hi.
holden / Hi.
LANA / I am so glad you came.
NICOLE / Oh, are you kidding? I'm thrilled. I never get to go out this fancy. I'm uh, Lana's running partner
curator / Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleaure that I give you the very generous Mason Price.
holden / Oh, okay.
LANA / I told you he was cute.
LANA / That's my cue.
lana / Forget Stacy.
NICOLE / Stacy?
HOLDEN / Never mind.
MASON / Uh, to all my friends and associates out there...I wanna thank you for coming and tell you now is the time to dig deep in those pockets and purses and place your bids.
mason / And just to get the ball rolling, I have just bought this little trinket for my new bride.
10.11.43.18 / INT. LIVING ROOM - night / LANA / It's exquisite.
MASON (os) / It better be for what it cost.
LANA / Can you really put a price on beauty?
MASON / Everything has a price...even beauty.
HARRY / Well, it's uh, getting late.
harry / Uh. Thanks for helping me out this evening.
LANA / Sure. (kiss)
harry / G’night.
HARRY / Mason. Goodnight.
mason / (murmur)
HARRY / We'll talk to you, soon I'm sure?
holden (os) / Yeah.
MASON / I'll walk you out.
LANA / (sigh) It’s beautiful, isn't it?
HOLDEN / Yeah. It is.
MASON / Good time tonight?
LANA / I had a great time and I love my gift.
MASON / I saw you talking to Harry.
LANA (os) / Yeah, I thought he did a great job with the evening.
MASON / (laughs) Yeah. Really? It looked like more than that to me.
LANA / What are you talking about?
MASON / Well. Flirting with someone who works for me makes you look so cheap. How many times do I have to tell you that?
LANA / Ow. You're hurting me.
MASON / Are you sleeping with Harry?
LANA / What are you talking about?
MASON / Are you sleeping with him?!
HOLDEN / Dad.
lana (os) / Baby.
LANA / What do you think?
MaSON / Don't let me see that ever again. Baby.
LANA / It's okay.
10.13.38.20 / Ext. grounds – MORNING / LanA / Good morning.
HOLDEN / Hey.
LANA / These damn aphids are all over the place. I'm going to get rid of them if it kills me.
HOLDEN / You okay?
LANA / Sure.
HOLDEN / Last night … was pretty intense.
LANA / I'll be fine. Thanks.
mason / Good morning.
lana / Good morning.
MASON / Hey buddy! Time to go!
10.14.34.20 / INT. GARAGE - DAY / HOLDEN / When did you get this?
MASON / Last month. She’s my new favorite toy.
holden / Oh. Man.
MASON / You're making me nervous. She’ll dent, from just you just looking at it. Let’s go. Come on.
holden / Wow.
10.15.00.24 / ext. garage - continuous / HOLDEN / So what are we gonna do today?
MASON / I have to go by the office and sign a contract. But then, you and me are gonna hang out. I'm taking
10.15.08.04 / INT. PRYCE CORPORATE OFFICES - LATER / mason (vo overlap) / the day off to be with my son.
MaSON / So I didn't get a chance to ask you, whaddyathink .. of my new digs?
HOLDEN / It’s great. It looks even bigger during the day.
MASON / I started out with one running store in nineteen seventy two, and I turned it into this.
mason / But you see, this is why I missed all those … all those school plays and graduations. What?
employee / (murmurs)
MASON / Ah, damn it. Union problems -- this is gonna take a while. Buddy, I think we’re gonna have to cut our day short.
HOLDEN / It's okay.
MASON / Yeah, well, we’ll make up for it some other time.
holden / No problem.
10.15.47.15 / EXT. GROUNDS – POV MANSION - DAY
10.15.52.11 / INT. MANSION - CONTINUOUS / LANA / Hey.
HOLDEN / Hey...I was just looking for you.
LANA / What happened? Your father blew you off?
HOLDEN / Yep.
LANA / Yeah, me too.
holden / No rest for the wicked.
lana / (soft chuckle) Uh, yeah, he cancelled dinner.
HOLDEN / Oh, really?
LANA / Well, let me take a shower and … we can go have fun ourselves.
holden / Okay.
lana / All right.
holden / Cool.
10.16.45.19 / EXT. MANSION - DAY / LANA / C’mon, I'll take you to my favorite hang out. You drive. (giggle)
HOLDEN / Mason will have a coronary.
LANA / I'll handle him. I have a lot of experience handling men like him.
holden / Uh.
lana / C’mon. I got it under control.Let’s go!
holden / You’re crazy.
10.17.16.01 / ext. spurs bar - DAY / HolDEN (os) / This is your favorite hang out?
LanA / Dollar shots and the best juke box in town.