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\title{The Twilight Semester, episode two: "Tim Is Having a Bad Day"}
\scene Outside a door. Fast fade in.
\s Rod Serling. Behind this door is a dorm room--an ordinary dorm room not
unlike the one you are living in now. Within it lives Tim, a senior at MIT--a
senior just as you might some year be, or perhaps are now. Though Tim
doesn't know it yet, Tim is having a bad day. But he'll soon know it, because
today it's Tim's turn in . . . THE TWILIGHT SEMESTER.
\d Tim opens the door, trips over the threshold, and falls on his face.
\d Fade to black. Titles: 1) The Twilight Semester, 2) "Tim is having a bad
day."
\scene Hallway. {\sc Tim} rounds a corner in the hallway and approaches
{\sc Students 1-3} who are chatting.
\d Camera: shoot from Tim's face level. Fade from black.
\s Tim. Hey guys!
\s #1. What is what?
\s Tim. What is this. . . this tallness thing? Are you all on stilts? Trying
out for the circus, maybe?
\d Camera: Shot of the three students, all with their feet on the ground; pan
up from toe to head. Cut back to first shot.
\s #2. What are you talking about, Tim?
\s C'mon . . . you're [{\it gives height-measuring hand gesture}] two feet
taller than normal.
\s #2 [{\it repeats the gesture but distorts it to equate his/her height with
Tim's}] I'm the same height as you. Be real.
\d {\sc Tim} winks.
\s Tim. Oh, right, sure.
\s #3 Oh, Tim--you're not going to believe this: I won $500 in the lottery,
and guess what numbers I bet on . . . your birth date!
\s Tim. No way!
\s #3. Way! Five Hundred bucks!
\s Tim. I hate you. [{\it looks at watch}] Well, I've gotta go: I have an
exam in ten minutes. Bye . . .
\d Fade to black as they say their goodbyes.
\scene Exam/classroom. {\sc Tim} is taking an exam. His pen runs out of ink.
He finds another one in his pocket and starts to write. This second pen runs
out of ink. He whips it across the room and rasies his hand. The
{\sc proctor} approaches; there is a pen stuck in his head or ear or nose or
something.
\s Proctor. Did you lose this?
\d He offers the pen to {\sc Tim}, who declines it.
\s Tim. It ran out of ink.
\s Proctor. Oh! Well then please . . . [{it takes the dead pen over his
shoulder and takes another from his pocket.}] . . . borrow mine.
\d {\sc Tim} accepts the pen and resumes the exam as the {\sc Proctor} walks
away. Then {\sc Tim} gets a bloody nose that just won't stop. he evenutally
uses his exam paper to wipe the blood.
\d Camera: Fade to black.
\scene Hallway. {\sc Tim} and {\sc Student #3} walk toward each other in
hallway.
\s #3. Hi Tim--Oh! You're not boing to believe this: I won $500 in the
lottery by betting on the numbers in your birthdate!
\s Tim. Yeah, you told me already . . .Don't rub it in, okay?
\d {\sc Tim} walks past. Camera cut when he leaves view.
\scene Lecture/clasroom. {\sc Professor #1}, {\sc Tim}, {\sc Student #4},
{\sc Student #5}, {\sc Extras}.
\d Camera: fade to professor #1 lecturing.
\scene Hallway. Fade in as {\sc Tim}, {\sc Student #3} approach.
\s #3. Hey Tim! I won $500 in the lottery . . .
\s Tim. Shut up! Just shut the crown bites up!
\d Camera: cut.
\scene Presentation/classroom. {\sc Tim}, {\sc Student #6}, {\sc Professor #2},
{\sc Student #7}, {\sc Extras}.
\scene Infinite Corridor. {\sc Tim}, {\sc Student #3}, {\sc Rod Sterling}.
\bye