TITLE BOX
In the title box, RAYNE is staring out grumpily at his neighbourhood, suburbia.
RAYNE
Everything is too developed.
NEXT ROW
INSIDE – TV ROOM. RAYNE walks into the TV room where DAD is reading a book.
RAYNE
I was born in the wrong time.
RAYNE gets a video game to put into the machine.
RAYNE
I should’ve been born in the Mark Twain years.
RAYNE
Where I could’ve spent my Sundays on a raft exploring the Mississippi River.
RAYNE sits down with the controller.
RAYNE
Instead I’m stuck inside playing video games.
RAYNE
Never knowing the feeling of the river’s mist on my face.
DAD chimes in, RAYNE looks at him curiously.
DAD
Or the feeling of Tuberculosis setting in your lungs.
RAYNE
That the name of the raft?