scene 7

Previously.

INT. WRITER'S HOME OFFICE - DAY

HUNTER, 50ish - running shoes, faded jeans, untucked dress shirt, glasses - types at the laptop on the old wooden desk aimed at the big window view to the up-close Organ Mountains. Blank whiteboard with markers in tray on wall behind him, near a hat rack loaded with baseball caps near open door to hall.

Navajo rug on hardwood. One wall is book shelves, across the room from an old leather sofa under a framed reproduction of an Ad Reinhardt Red Painting. Telescope and stool in one corner by the window, saguaro cactus sculpture in the other. Books share shelves with model sailing ship, white-new baseball, wood owl, solved Rubik's Cube, antique typewriter, and bronze Smiling Buddha.

Printer on stand next to desk. Laptop shares desk with NMSU coffee mug holding pens and pencils near a stack of yellow legal pads, a brown-old baseball, an etch-a-sketch, a hardcover of the Evan S. Connell book Son of the Morning Star, and a framed photograph of a 15-year-old girl smiling and flashing a peace sign at the up-close camera that has captured her "tubed" in the wave she is surfing, sandy beach and tropical foliage in the background. 

We can see but not clearly discern the text reflected in his glasses and then the color of the image that replaces the text when he closes the file to show OVER HIS SHOULDER the screensaver that is the same surfer girl in a softball uniform, eyes-on-the-ball and in full extension of the swing that has the blur of the softball coming off the barrel of her bat. The home-plate umpire is crouched behind the catcher, mitt waiting for what won't reach it. Hunter smiles at the picture, powers down computer, leaves into hall, SHOES SQUEAKING. 

INT. KITCHEN - MOMENT LATER

State of the art appliances and stone countertops. Bananas in a wooden bowl that shares the center island with a set of keys, stack of mail, Sunday New York Times. View into adjacent dining room. View through window over sink to grill, four chairs around table under shade on the patio that gives way to xeriscaping, bordered by a low stone wall. Door from kitchen to walkway to patio. SHOE QUEAK before Hunter enters, gets a plastic water bottle from the refrigerator, finishes it, crushes the bottle, puts it in the plastic bag in the bin he pulls from a closet, ties it off at the top, sets it down, lines the bin with a new bag, closes closet, leaves with full bag.