NOW YOU SEE ME

1.01

Stanford University
Present Day
It is 31 Oct 2005.

YOUNG WOMAN: Sam!
The Young Women, Jess, comes around a corner; she is wearing a sexy-nurse costume and adjusting her hat. The photo of Mary and John from earlier is on the dresser.

JESS: Get a move on, would you?
We were supposed to be there like fifteen minutes ago.

Jess walks off.

JESS:Sam!
You coming or what?

A young Man pokes his head around the corner; this is Sam. He's wearing jeans and three shirts, not a costume.

SAM: Do I have to?

JESS: Yes!
It'll be fun.

Sam comes into the room.
JESS: And where's your costume?

Sam laughs and ducks his head.
SAM: You know how I feel about Halloween.

The bar is decorated for Halloween. Someone pours someone else a shot. Everyone is in costume.

Jess raises a glass as a Young Man in a ghoul costume, Luis, comes up to the table where
Sam and Jess are.
JESS: So here's to Sam and his awesome LSAT victory.

SAM: All right, all right, it's not that big a deal.

Jess, Sam, and Luis clink glasses.

JESS: Yeah, he acts all humble, But he scored a one seventy-four.

Luis drinks his shot and so does Sam.

LUIS:Is that good?

JESS: Scary good.

LUIS: So there you go. You are a first-round draft pick. You can go to any law school you want!

Luis sits next to Sam.

SAM: Actually, I got an interview here. Monday. If it goes okay I think I got a shot at a full ride next year.

JESS: Hey. It's gonna go great.

SAM: It better.

LUIS: How does it feel to be the golden boy of your family?

SAM: Ah, they don't know
LUIS: Oh, no, I would be gloating! Why not?

SAM: Because we're not exactly the Bradys.

LUIS: And I'm not exactly the Huxtables. More shots?
Jess and Sam: No. No.

SAM: No.
Luis goes up to the bar anyway.

JESS: No, seriously. I'm proud of you. And you're gonna knock 'em dead on Monday and you're gonna get that full ride. I know it.

SAM: What would I do without you?

JESS: Crash and burn.

Jess smiles and pulls Sam in for a kiss.
Sam and Jess lie in bed, asleep back to back Jess  shifts position. A sound outside the room, like a window opening. Sam opens his eyes.

Sam leaves the bedroom and looks around the apartment.A window is open; earlier it must have been closed. Footsteps. A Man walks past the strings of beads at the far end of the hall. Sam moves to another part of the apartment and waits. The Man enters the room. Sam lunges forward and grabs the Man at the shoulder. The Man knocks Sam's arm away and aims a strike at Sam , who ducks. The Man grabs Sam's arm, swings him around, and shoves him back.Sam  kicks and is blocked, then pushed back into another room. If the Man hadn't seen Sam's face before, he sees it now;Sam gets his first glimpse of the Man. The Man elbows Sam in the face; Sam kicks at his head. The Man ducks and swings and Sam blocks. The Man knocks Sam down and pins him to the floor, one hand at Sam's neck and the other holding Sam's wrist.