"THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS" (2001)

THEROYAL TENENBAUM$

Anderson/Wilson July 27; 2000

A first edition copy of The Royal Tenenbaums.

On the dust jacketthere is an illustration of a cream- colored note card that looks like a wedding invitation.The title of the book is engraved on the card.

The next page says Chapter One.

A five-story limestone townhouse.

A forty-three-year-old man in a raincoat sits at the head of a long table.He is Royal. He is surrounded by his children.

Chas is twelve,with curly hair, dressed in a black suit and a tie.Margot is ten, with a barrette in her hair, wearing a knitted Lacoste dress and penny loafers.Richie is eight, with long hair,parted on the side, dressed in a Bjorn Borg- style tennis outfit and aheadband.

Chas wears a blank expression,Margot looks as if she is about to cry,and Richie has tears all over his face.

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Royal hands Richie his handkerchief.

An Indian man with salt-and-pepper hair,dressed in pink pants, a white shirt, and a white apron, brings Royal a martini. He is Pagoda.

A gallery of the children's art, done mostly in crayon,but with beautiful frames and careful lighting. The subject matter includes: spaceships, wild animals, sailboats, motorcycles, and war scenes with tanks and paratroopers.

Under the stairs there is a telephone room the size of a closet.Old messages are tacked to the walls, and children's heights are marked on the door frame.

r A thirty-five-year-old woman wearing a scarf around her neck and sunglasses on top of her head talks on a rotary telephone. She ~s Etheline.

Etheline hangs up. There is a schedule of activities -- guitar, ballet, yoga,scuba-diving -- written on a chalkboard behind her and divided intocolumns labelled Chas, Richie, and Margot. Etheline changes an Italian lesson from 4:30 to 5:30.

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A copy of Etheline Tenenbaum's book,Family of Geniuses. On the dust jacket there is a photograph of the three children conducting a press conference in aroom crowded with journalists. It appears to have been published in the late seventies.

The press conference.Chas points to a reporter.

Chas' room looks like a businessman's office,except it is very small and has bunk beds.There is a desk with an Apple II computer and an electric coffee pot on it.There is a water cooler in the corner,with a paper cup dispenser.

Chas stands talking on the telephone while Etheline brings in his lunch on a tray.

r On a shelf in an alcove there are ten cages connected together by plastic tubes.White mice with tiny black spots all over them race around inside the cages.Chas feeds one of them a drop of blue liquid froma test-tube.

There are twenty-five pin-striped suits in boys' size twelve and an electric tie rack hanging in the closet.Chas pushes a button on the tie rack and the ties glide along a track.

There is a small weight-lifting bench and a punching bag in the corner. There is a set of exercise charts neatly drawn with felt-tip pen tacked to the wall.Chas bench-presses about fifty pounds on a set of small barbells.

A house in the country.Chas crouches in the bushes with a B.B. gun. Across the lawn he seestwo younger boys with B.B. guns drop down from a tree.One of the boys is Richie, and the other has nearly-white blond hair.He is Eli. ·

Chas gets Richie in his sights.

Chas freezes. He looks up and sees Royal watching from the roof with a B.B.gun trained on him. Royal is dressed in khaki pants and no shirt.He has on sunglasses.

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The walls of Margot's room are red, with little running zebras painted all overthem. There is a collection of African masks hanging in the corner. Margot sits at a small metal stand, typing on an I.B.M. typewriter.

A cocktail party. Royal introduces Margot to a group of elderly men in black tie.

Margot nods politely.

A wall filled with bookshelves. There are thousands of books of plays. Margot takes out a copy of The Iceman Cometh.

There is mock-up of a stage set for a play that appears to have taken place in a network of tree houseson a tropical island. Margot places a tiny canoe beneath apalm tree.

Margot's bathroom. It has been converted into a darkroom, with alwninum foil over the windows and red light bulbs over thesink. Etpeline helps Margot take a fresh print from a tray of chemicals and hang it with a clothespin to a line strung over the bathtub.

All of the photographs are of Richie attempting various stunts.

Richie and Margot sit at the foot of a diorama of thebaby Moses being placed into the Nile. Richie has on a backpack with a sleeping bag attached to it. Margot carriesa small red suitcase. They both look extremely disheveled and tired.

A single-file line of students goes past them following a museum guide. Eli is at the end of the line. He stops and stares at Margot and Richie.

Richie and Margot sharing a sleeping bag in achamber of a simulated pyramid in the darkened museum.They are surrounded by Egyptian statues, caskets, and vases.Margot reads a book about sharks by the light of a flashlight.Richie is asleep.

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A pair of knitted gloves. One finger has been clipped-off at the middle knuckle and is being sewn-up.

("'· INT. RICHIE'S BEDROOM. DAY

Richie's room is in the attic. There is a chemistry set,a drwn set, and a 'long shelf filled with tennis trophies. Richie sits on the edge of his bed.

There are thousands of miniature soldiers in formation on every available inch of space on tables,desks, and windowsills. Richie arranges a set ofRed Coats into a skirmish.

There is a H.A.M. radio set in the corner of the room.Richie sits at the console wearing a set of headphones.There is a map of the world on the wall,with colored pins stuck in different cities.

A ballroom with vaulted ceilings and a giant chandelier on the top floor of the house.One corner is filled with seventeen almost identical portraits of Margot looking over the top of a book with an irritated expression.Etheline helps Richie hang a new portrait among the others.

Royal and Richie stand among a group of Puerto Rican men as two large, vicious-looking pit bulls with scars all over them snarl at each other. Royal yells along with the others:

Royal throws a fifty dollar bi11· into a pile of money on the sidewalk. Richie throws in a dollar.

The second floor of the Tenenbaum house.Chas sits alone in one window staring out into space.Margot sits alone in the next window.They both look miserable.

There is a slightly run-down thirty-five story apartment building at the end of the block.

A two room apartment. Eli finishes making his bed and folds it into the couch.An elderly woman works at a sewing machine in the next room.

r Eli walks up the front steps of the Tenenbaum house and rings the doorbell.He wears a set of house keys on a string around his neck. Pagoda opens the door. He is dressed in pajamas, slippers,and a bathrobe. He lets Eli inside.

The Tenenbaum house at night.There are strings of colored lights glowing around thefr~nt door and white paper bags with candles in them on the steps.

There are twenty eleven-year-olds wearing party hats.Margot, Chas, and Richie are in costumes.Margot is a zebra, Chas is a bear,and Richie is a leopard. Eli is dressed in pajamas.• Royal sits at a table with them,drinking a glass of whiskey.

There is a small stage set across the room fora play that appears to have taken place on a ship.

Chas looks to Margot. She is silent. Royal says to Eli:

Royal shakes his·head.

Margot quickly collects her unopened presents from the table.

The lights go down. Royal looks across the room.Etheline stands in the doorway with a birthday cake on a tray.The candles are lit. She looks furious. Pagodastands at the light switch. Everyone in the room begins to sing Happy Birthday. Margot walks out of•'theroom, and the singing disintegrates.

Etheline blows out the candles.

There is a large antenna for Richie'sH.A.M. radio and a wooden coop with afalcon in it. The falcon has a hood over its eyes.Richie opens the coop, carefully removes the falcon'shood, and feeds him some sardines from a tin.

Richie carries the falconon his arm to the edge of the roof.

The falcon spreads its wings and lunges into the sky.

MONTAGE:

{The names of each of our characters and the names of the actors playing them appear in large type over the following shots.)

Royal Tenenbaum sits in a chair in his hotel suite with no shirt on and a towel wrapped around his face. A woman.in a white apron lifts off the towel, and Royal looks in the mirror. He is now sixty-six, with grey hair, white at the temples,worn very long in the back. He is getting a facial, and there are strips of blue cellophane covering his face. The woman quickly peels them away and begins to massage his temples.Royal lights a cigarette at the end of a six-inch holder.

Etheline Tenenbaum draws black eyeliner around her eyes in the bathroom mirror.She is fifty-eight and has long,black hair with one silver streak that runs through it.She wears a pink slip and a pearl necklace. The wall behind her is filled with African masks. She puts on a pair of horn-rimmed glasses and takes a look at herself. She starts to do her lipstick.

Chas Tenenbaum is shaving in the locker room of a boxinggym. Steam fills the air. He is thirty-six and has a small bandage over his left eye. Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum are on either side of him. They are eight and ten. They are also shaving,but with no blades in their razors. All three of them have extremely curly black hair. Chas lifts the bandage over his eye and looks at the cut underneath it. It has five stitches.

Margot Tenenbaum is at the hairdresser's with three people working on her at once.She is thirty-four. Her hair is being

dyed black, and there are little clamps and bits of foil twisted into it. She is smoking a cigarette,and she blows a puff of smoke as the hair dryer is lowered onto her head.She is holding an o.pen copy of a book of plays by George Bernard Shaw. She is missing halfa finger.

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Eli Cash is in the fitting room of a clothing store having a white buckskin jacket with fringe taken in.A tailor pulls at the hem of the jacket and sticks pins in the sleeves.The tailor"s helper brings Eli a cup of tea and some cucumber sandwiches. Eli picks ·out asandwich.A second helper hands him a short-brimmed Stetson cowboy hat.He puts it on at an angle and stares at himself.

Raleigh St. Clair brushes his teeth with an electric toothbrush in a very small, white-tiled bathroom.He has a full, grey beard and round glasses,and he is dressed in red silk pajamas with white piping.He stops suddenly, picks up a tape recorder off the edge of the sink,and excitedly dictates something into it.He puts the tape recorder back on the sink and starts brushing his teeth again.

Henry Sherman stands in front of a mirrored wall in the vestibule of his building.He is a tall, black man, sixty- eight years old, with grey hair and a moustache.He wears a double-breasted navy blazer.He carefully folds a checkered handkerchief and tucks it into his breast pocket.There is a hand-lettered sign regarding trash and recycling taped to the wall behind him, underneath arow of mailboxes. It is signed Mr. Sherman.

Richie Tenenbaum is dressed in black tiein his stateroom onboard an ocean liner.He is thirty-two, with long hair, parted on the side, and a full beard.The ocean goes by at a fast clip in the porthole behind him.A towel on the dresser says The Cote d'Ivoire in red stitching.Richie looks at himself in the mirror.He takes out a little camera. He points it at his reflection,smiles sadly, and takes a picture·of himself. He puts the camera back into his pocket and goes out the door.

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Page 2~ of The Royal Tenenbaums. Itsays Chapter Two.

Royal's suite at the Lindbergh Palace Hotel.There are shelves full of law books and hundreds of spy novels in stacks on the floor. There isa set of Encyclopedia Britannica, an exercise bicycle,and a Xerox machine.

Royal lies on his stomach on a massage table getting a massage from a young Asian woman.The manager of the hotel stands in front.of Royal with a piece of paper in his hand.

The manager hands Royal the piece of paper.Royal points to the masseuse.

The manager looks to the masseuse.

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A letter typed on Lindbergh Palace Hotel Stationery. It begins:

Dear Mr.Tenenbaum, In light of your continuing failure to remit anyform ofpayment,we have no

The masseuse. She does not appear to understand English.

Royal shakes his head.The manager hesitates.

Royal goes to thewindow and looks out at the falling snow. He lights a cigarette.

The radio room onboard the Cote d'Ivoire.There are computer terminals, shortwave radios, maps on the walls,and a crew of technicians in white uniforms. There is a mist outside the window, and an oil tanker in the distance.

The radio operator finishes typing a message into akeyboard and looks up to Richie. Richie wearsa khaki suit, a striped tennis shirt, a headband, and penny loafers.

The radio operator looks to Richie.Richie nods.

Richie takes a sip of a Bloody Mary.

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A television set tuned-in to network coverage of atennis match on grass courts. Richie is playing anIpdian player dressed all in white. A title identifies him as Sanjay Gandhi. ·

Gandhi serves. With a bizarre swing,Richie hits his return directly off the court and deep into the stands.He shakes his head and talks to himself. It is briefly revealed that he is barefoot.

Richie is shown.waiting for the next serve with tears all over his face.

The radio operator.He finishes typing the letter. Richie signs a slip of paper and hands it to him.He wraps a scarf around his neck and goes out the door.

Eli standsat a podium reading from a book to a crowded audience.A telegram marked Ship to Shore is tucked into his coat pocket.His voice is quietly dramatic.

Eli looks up.He closes his book. The audience applauds uproariously.

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A copy of Eli Cash's latest book,Old CUster. On the dust jacket there is an illustration of an Indian in warpaintwith a long, bloody knife clasped between his teeth and a yellow scalp hanging from his hand.

Eli walking through the lobby surrounded by acrowd of admirers.

·NARRATOR -- had earned him a sudden, unexpected literary celebrity.

Eli stands among a group of professors drinking cocktails.

Eli shrugs and smiles. He goes to a pay phone in the lobby and places a call. He says into the telephone:

Someone gives Eli a book to sign.He scribbles his name on it and hands it back without looking.

The bathroom of Margot and Raleigh's apartment.Margot sits Indian-style on the counter painting her toenails red and talking on the telephone.There are cotton balls in between her toes, and she has a towel wrapped around her.

Hot water runs full blast in the bathtub.A little black and white TV is tuned-in to the six o'clock news with the sound turned off. Margot whispers into the telephone:

Margot takes a drag off a cigarette balanced at the edge of the sink. There is a knock on the door.Margot does not look up.

Margot hangs up the telephone.There is another knock.

I r- Raleigh has an English accent with a lisp.Margot answers without taking the cigarette out of her mouth:

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Uh-huh?

Margot puts out her cigarette. She waves the smoke away, turns on a little electric fan,and sprays perfume into the air with an atomizer. She reaches over and unlocks the door with her foot.

Raleigh cracks open the door and looks inside.He is wearing red pajamas and a camel's hair bathrobe.He seems worried and intimidated.

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A copy of Raleigh St. Clair's latest book,The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of theKazawa Atoll. On the dust jacket there is a photograph of Raleigh -- dressed in a speedo, with goggles on top of his head -- on a beach, r standing next to a Kazawa. The Kazawa stares at him curiously.

Raleigh looking in the bathroom doorway.

Margot blows on her toenails.

Margot looks to Raleigh. Silence.Raleigh goes out suddenly and closes the door. Margot reaches over with her foot and locks it. r

Margot lights another cigarette.

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A snapshot of a younger Margot rowing a canoe in the ocean with three rastafarians. She is dressed in a string bikini.

A small.room with one wooden chair and a metal stand with an I.B.M. electric typewriter on it. There are posters for several of Margot's plays leaning against the walls.The titles include: Static Electricity, Erotic Transference,and Nakedness Tonight.

Raleigh's basement. Raleigh sits at a table in the corner.He wears a turtleneck shirt and a corduroy blazer with suede patch'3son the elbows. He whispers into his tape recorder:

There is a fifteen year-old boy in a blue fishing cap on the far side of the room misspelling words on a chalkboard.The boy has an earphone in his ear and wears Henry Aaron-style flip-up sunglasses. He is Dudley.

Raleigh continues into the tape recorder at a whisper:

Dudley turns around suddenly and frowns.

Raleigh looks to Dudley.He hesitates.

Ari and Uzi's bedroom. It is perfectly neat and organized like a military barracks.There are night-lights in every socket.There are two fire-extinguishers and a large first- aid kit mounted on the wall.There is a turtle in a fish tank in the corner.Ari and Uzi are sound asleep in their bunk beds.

Chas stands in the doorway.His eXPression is blank. In one hand,he holds a small tape recorder. In the other hand, he holds a fishing lantern.

He turnson the lantern, which begins blinking rapidly in a strobe effect.He presses play on the tape recorder, which blasts a recording of a police siren at fullvolume. He yells at the top of his lungs:

Ari bolts out of the top bunk.He is shirtless and has on· pajama bottoms.Uzi sits up. He looks half-asleep. Chas runs around the room,tipping over chairs and blasting the tape recorder.

Uzi gets out of bed.He has on a pajama top and underwear. Ari already has on his cleats.He grabs the turtle out of the

fish tank. Uzi wanders toward the bathroom,talking to himself.

Ari presses the button for the elevator and waits.The apartment is extremely large and spare. It looks like a museum.

Chas and Uzi rush into the hallway.Chas yells to Ari:

They race down the stairs.Chas picks up Uzi.

Uzi starts to cry.

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A snapshot of Ari and Uzi and their mother standing in front of a small plane parked in the desert.The mother has on sunglasses, with a scarf tied over her hair.The wind blows her dress sideways, and she islaughing. The boys wear camp shorts and no shirts.Uzi is doing a karate stance.

There is a beagle looking out the window of the plane.

· NARRATOR (cont'd) cage several thousand yards from the crash site.

A dog's cage upside down in the desert surrounded by scraps of metal and clothing.A cloud of smoke billows in the distance.

The beagle is asleep next to the bathtub on a little bed with Buckley written across it.He looks very old and has white fur around his eyes.Chas' siren can be heard in the distance outside the window. It stops.

Chas~ Ari, and Uzi stand on the sidewalk,looking up at the building. The street is deserted.The tape recorder has been turned off, although the lantern is still blinking.

Chas turns off the lantern and presses stop on his stopwatch.

Chas shakes his head.He looks disoriented and weak.

Uzi is still crying.

Chas rubs his eyes and his temples.He says quietly:

Chas sits down on the sidewalk.Ari and Uzi look scared. The doorman watches uneasily fromthe lobby.

The walls of Etheline's study are filled with Pre-Columbian art and primitive tools and weapons.There are shelves full of hundreds of bones and bits of pottery with little numbers painted on them. There are stacks of National Geographieson the floor. A human skeleton hangs on a stand in the corner.

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The back doors are open onto the garden. Pagoda sitson a bench outside, peeling potatoes, listening to a walkman with headphones. His hair is now white.

Etheline is at her desk studying an arrowhead whileHenry sits next to her. He is working on her taxes.

Henry stands up. He looks very nervous. Etheline looks up at him ·curiously.

INSERT: r A copy of Henry Sherman's book, Accounting for Everything.A caption at the top of the cover says: A guide to Personal Finance. It appears to have been published in the late sixties.

Henry looking down at Etheline.

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'ETHELINE Yes?

Pagoda stops peeling the potatoes. He takes off_oneear of his headphones. Etheline sets down her magnifying glass.

Heney nods calmly.

Etheline starts to say something. She stops.She looks at Henry f9r a minute. She puts out her hand.Henry takes it.

Pagoda frowns.

Pagoda places a call.

Royal rides down in the elevator at the Lindbergh Palace.He is dressed in a grey double-breasted SavileRow pinstripe suit, a dark pink shirt, a red and pink striped tie,and Aristotle Onassis-style wraparound sunglasses.He smokes a cigarette.

The elevator operator has a thin, grey moustache and jet- black hair. He is Dusty. The elevator stops.

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You're welcome.

The elevator doors open and Royal strides out quickly.He crosses through the gigantic lobby.A bellboy appears at his side.

Royal points to a little wood-panelled telephone booth in the corner.

The telephone rings. Royal answers it.

Royal and Pagoda sit across from each other in a booth in the window of a coffee shop.

Pagoda nods.

Royal stirs his coffee. He taps the spoon on the brim of the cup and sets it on the saucer. He drinksa sip.

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Page 50 of The Royal Tenenbaums. It says Chapter Three.

The doorbell rings. Pagoda comes into the hallway and opens the front door. Uzi is on the steps with a large duffel bag over his shoulder and a stack of coloring books under his arm. Buckley is at his side.

There is a silver B.M.W. station wagon parked at the curb with three doors and the trunk open. Chas, Ari, and a uni- formed driver are unpacking suitcases, blankets,boxes, toys, clothes, boxing gloves, and a computer. The driver is Anwar.

Chas, Ari, and Uzi all wear red Adidas warm-ups.

Pagoda frowns. He starts down the steps.

There are twenty people at five card tables playing bridge. Most of them are in their fifties and sixties. They look very distinguished. Etheline and Henry are among them.

Chas, Ari, Uzi, Anwar, and Pagoda come out of the hallway and cross through the living room, struggling with all of their possessions. Pagoda carries ~he fish tank with the turtle in it.Buckley follows them.

The bridge players watch strangely as they pass.Chas looks r back atthem, but keeps moving. Etheline hesitates.

Chas stops in the doo:cway.Pagoda leads Ari, Uzi,Anwar, and Buckley out of the room, up the stairs.

Etheline seems confused.

Silence. Etheline looks to her guests.

Etheline closes the sliding door to the living room.She and Chas stand alone in the hallway.

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Because it's dangerous.

Chas looks up and studies the ceiling.He sighs. Etheline seems concerned. She puts her hand on Chas'arm.

Ari and Uzi sit silently on the bunk beds in Chas'room. They have dark circles under their eyes and seem exhausted.Chas comes in. He looks like a wreck,but acts incredibly cheerful, pretending not to notice how sad the boys look.

Chas walks around the room examining things.He chuckles as he turns on his old electric tie rack.

Chas sees something across the room.He frowns.

There is a framed poster leaning against the wall in the corner. It is a tennis shoe advertisement with a picture of Richie holding a trophy over his head,surrounded by a cheering crowd. Chas puts it in the closet.He kisses Ari and Uzi good-night.

Chas goes out the door.A moment later, he comes back in.

Chas spreads out a blanket on the floor and lays down.Uzi comes over and laysdown next to him.

Royal sits on the edge of an examination table with white butcher paper on it.A young doctor on a rolling stool takes Royal's blood pressure as they talk.

Royal nods gravely.

Etheline and Raleigh stand outside the bathroom in Margot and Raleigh's apartment. Etheline has on an overcoat and gloves. Raleigh knocks on the door.

Margot answers without opening the door:

A key slides from under the door to Etheline's feet. Etheline looks to Raleigh.Raleigh looks embarrassed. ·

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Margot is in the bathtub watching a Western on her little black andwhite· television set.Etheline sits on the edge of the tub with her coat in her lap.

Etheline examines the television set.There is a length of red twine wrapped around it and knotted toa pipe.

Margqt turns off the television set with her foot. She looks to Etheline.Etheline smoot?s-back Margot's wet hair.

The front door of Margot and Raleigh's apartment building opens. Margot comes out and goes down the steps with three suitcases. Raleigh follows her.Etheline and Dudley walk behind them. Raleigh sounds desperately unhappy.

Margot sets down her suitcasesand goes into a telephone booth with graffiti spray-painted all over it.She closes the door and.makes a call.

Etheline stands on the corner and raises her hand into the air. A beat-up old taxi pulls over.Raleigh waits uncomfortably outside the telephone booth.He watches Margot talking on the telephone.Dudley points at the taxi.

Margot comes out of the telephone booth and picks up her bags.

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r You're leaving me, aren't you?

Margot puts her.suitcases into the back seat of the taxi. Dudley continues to point at it.

Raleigh looks crestfallen.Margot says gently:

Raleigh nods. Margot gets into the taxi.Etheline looks at Raleigh sadly.

Etheline gets into the taxi and closes the door.Raleigh and Dudley watch the taxi drive away.Raleigh has tears in his eyes. Dudley takes a bite of agraham cracker. ·

Margot goes into her room and sets her suitcases on the floor. She closes the door and locks it.She looks under the bed. She opens the door to the closet and turns on the light. She whispers:

There is a rustle behind some hanging clothes. Elilooks out nervously and slowly emerges.He is dressed in white briefs.

The next morning. Etheline comes out the front door of the Tenenbaum house and goes down the steps.·Royal suddenly appears at her side.

Etheline looks startled.She keeps walking.

Royal hesitates for a fraction of a second.

Etheline stops. She looks tQRoyal.

Royal stares at her blankly.He nods.

Royal shrugs. Etheline looks stunned.

Etheline looks as if she is going to faint.Royal seems suddenly worried.

Etheline cannot seem to catch her breath.Royal looks around nervously.

Etheline begins to hyperventilate.Royal tries to calm her down.

Etheline stumbles a step and Royal catches her.He looks scared.

Royal ho'lds Etheline by the shoulders.He hesitates.He says gently, trying to comfort her:

Etheline looks puzzled.

Etheline slaps Royal hard in the face.She says furiously: r

Etheline turns away and walks quickly across the street.

Etheline stops. She looks back to Royal.She can see from the look on his face that now he is telling the truth.She goes over to him in the middle of the intersection. ·

Silence.

Henry and Etheline ride through the park in a taxi.Etheline looks worried.

Chas rides up front next to Anwar.Ari and Uzi ride in the back. Chas looks anxious.

A convertible Austin-Healy. Eli is in the driver's seat smokinga Moroccan-looking pipe. Margot sits next to him. She looks depressed.

( EXT.BOAT DECK. DAY

TheCote d'Ivoire. Richie sits under a wool blanket in a chaise longue reading atelegram with Shore to Ship printed across the top.He looks upset. A waiter stands next to him. All of the other passengers sitting on the deck are very elderly and have white hair.

Twoelderly men with white hair come over to Richie.

One of the elderly men gives his camera to the waiter.Richie smiles briefly.The waiter takes the picture. Richie immediatelylooks upset again.

The waiter takes out a pen and paper and looks to Richie.

The waiter shrugs.

The entrance to the passenger terminal for theCote d'Ivoire. A sign across the glass says Royal Arctic Line.

Richie stands on the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets as bundled-up, white-haired passengers and baggage handlers rush by around him. He has two small suitcases and a vinyl bag with a pouch on the side for a tennis racquet.There is no racquet in it.

A city bus stops at the corner.The door opens and Margot gets out. She smiles at Richie and waves.She wears a mink coat with a belt around it.She has on pink gloves. She walks across the sidewalk and stops ten feet in front of Richie as the bus drives away. They stand there smiling at each other.

Richie s~ands up a little straighter and continues to look at Margot with the same smile.

Richie shrugs.

Their smiles fade, and they look cold and sad.Margot goes over to Richie and puts her arms around him.

Richie puts his hands in Margot's hair.

Margot and Richie stand on the steps in front of the house. The door opens and Etheline and Pagoda come outside and hug Richie. Richie and Henry shake hands.Ari and Uzi come running out the door to hug Richie.

Chas watches from his window on the third floor.Richie looks up .and sees him.Richie waves tentatively.Chas waves back without smiling.

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Richie lies in bed reading abook called Three Plays by Margot Tenenbaum.

Margot smokes a cigarette in her bathtub and watchesThe Planet of the Apeson her little black and white television set.

Chas sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor next to Ari and Uzi in their bunk beds.

Etheline sleeps sitting-up in her bed with the lights on.She has on reading glasses,and there is an open copy of a book about the Aztecson her lap.

Pagoda sleeps on ahammock in the pantry.

Royal lies awake in the dark in his bed at the Lindbergh Palace.He stares at the ceiling.

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Page 76 of The RoyalTenenbaums. It says Chapter Four.

Royal gets out ofa gypsy cab in front of the Tenenbaum house. He is dressed in a white bathrobe,white pajamas, and red bedroom slippers.He carries a cane, but walks across the sidewalk quickly and energetically.

Pagoda waits for him at the top of the steps.They shake hands. Silence.

Pagoda opens the front door.

Royal comes inside. He looks at the collection of his children's art. He looks at the children's heights marked on the doorway of the telephone room.He looks at the schedule of their former activities on the chalkboard.He looks to Pagoda. He nods.

Richie and Margot sit on the couch.Chas stands at a bookcase reading an atlas. Pagoda leadsRoyal into the room. Everyone looks at him.Richie smiles sadly.

Royal goes over to Richie and kisses him on the cheek.He picks up a chair and sets it down in front of the couch.He sits. He looks to Chas.Chas looks back at him but does not move.

Royal looks to Richie and Margot.

Royal looks across the room at Chas.Chas does not look up from his atlas.

Royal looks back to Richie and Margot.

Chas laughs quietly.

Royal turns quickly to Chas.

so I didn t know you'd be interested, sweetie. Anyway, you•re invited this time.

Richie looks to Chas.He looks back to Royal.

Chas slams the atlas shut and puts it back into the bookcase. He walks toward the door.Royal extends his hand as Chas walks by. Chas slaps it away and goes out ofthe room. Royal says to Margot and Richie:

Chas is already halfway to the second floor as Royal appears at the bottom of the steps.

Chas stops. He looks down to Royal.

Chas scoffs and shakes his head.

Chas walks away up the stairs.

Royal goes back into the living room.He looks to Richie and Margot and smiles sadly.

Margot waves.Richie stands up and goes over to Royal. He hugs-him.Royal looks to be on the verge of tears.

Royal and Pagoda come out the front door onto the steps. Royal says quickly:

Pagoda nods.A taxi stops in front of the house. Royal's face darkens. Henry and Etheline get out of the taxi.They each carry a playpill fora play called That Rascal. Royal clamps his hand on Pagoda's arm and lets out aslow whistle.

Royal licks his fingersand smooths-back his hair. He bounds down the steps.

Henry leaves the door to the taxi open.

Henry looks uneasy.

Royal gets into the taxi and closes the door.

Margot and Eli walk together down a street with trash everywhere andabandoned cars and homeless people.

Margot frowns. She looks at Eli strangely.

Eli looks disappointed. He sighs.

Margot stops walking.

Margot looks concerned. Eli hesitates.

Margot nods slowly. They walk in silence for a minute.

A large pit twenty feet deep between two brownstone townhouses.There are workers digging, surveying,sketching, and shakingdirt through metal hand-screens.

Henry is crouched beside Etheline while she compares a bit of soil on the end of a trowel with a color chart in ahandbook. Etheline is dressed entirely in denim except for a scarf over her hair. She has on sunglasses and boots.

Henry hands Etheline a brush from a toolbox.She dusts-off·a partially unearthed skeleton.

Etheline looks toHenry. Henry says with increasing emotion:

Silence. Etheline puts her hands on the sides of Henry's face and kisses him on the mouth.He looks surprised. He puts his arms around her and kisses her back.

Margot comes in the front door and starts up the steps. Etheline· says calmly from inside the telephone room:

ETHELIN'i I think I'm falling for Henry.

Margot stops. She comes backdown the stairs.

The door to the pantry. It is cracked-open an inch.Pagoda is poised in the dark, spying on Margot and Etheline.

A concrete park with a chain-link fence around it next to a boxing gym. There are several fighters lifting weights and jumping rope. Ari does chin-ups from the top of ajunglegyrn. Buckley lays on the cement beside him.Someone whistles from behind the fence. Ari looks.

It is Royal. He is inside a telephone booth with the door partly open, holding the receiver to his ear.He signals for Ari to come over.

Ari frowns. He slides down a fire station-type pole and cautiously goes over to the fence with Buckley.Royal hangs up the receiver and comes out of the telephone booth. ·

Buckley sits.Royal looks impressed. He turns to Ari.

Ari shakes his head.

Ari nods. Royal looks pleased. His expression becomes serious again.

Ari points~to Uzi doing sit-ups on a mat. Royal yells:

Uzi looks up. Royal waves him over. Uzi looks acrossthe courtyard to Anwar, sitting on a bench, reading aB.M.W. owner's manual. Royal ducks.back into the telephone booth and holds the receiver to his ear.

Anwar does not look up. Royal slowly comes out of the telephone booth asUzi approaches the fence.

Royal sighs. He stares off into space.

Royal looks back to Ari and Uzi.

Ari nods.

Ari and Uzi look confused.

Ari and Uzi st~d outside the bathroom door.They are both dressed in black suits. Ari says toward·the door:

Silence. The bathroom door opens.Chas is dressed in his red Adidas warm-up. He looks out at Ari and Uzi.

Chas, Ari, and Uzi come down the front steps. All three of them are now dressed in black suits.Buckley follows them. Richie waits on the sidewalk with Royal.Royal wears a black suit,· black tie,black shirt,and dark sunglasses. Anwar sits in Chas' B.M.W. parked at the curb.

Chas points at Ari and Uzi and says to Royal:

Royal shakes handswith.Ari and Uzi.

Royal looks to Chas and smiles.Chas does not smile. Royal looks to Etheline. She and Henry stand on the top step with Margot.

Margot hugs Henry tightly. Royal frowns.

A small cemetery next to an electrical power plant.The trees are bare, and snow falls lightly over the gravestones.The city is across the river.

Royal's mother's gravestone reads Helen O'Reilly Tenenbaum (1909-1962).Epitaph: The Salt of the Earth. Royal gently places a bouquet of white flowers at the foot of the grave. There are tears in his eyes. He stands next to Chas and Richie.

Royal takes half of the flowers off his mother's grave and gives them to Chas. Chas walks away. Silence.

Ari, Uzi, and Margot standing in front of Rachael's gravestone,which reads Rachael Evans Tenenbaum (1965-2000). Uzi stares at Margot's missing finger.

Uzi shakes his head.

A fourteen-year-old Margot stands behind a barn with afamily of blond farmers. There is a mother and father and five very young children. Margot's hair is dyed black and she is dressed entirely in black,with black eyeliner and black nail polish.

Margot sets a log sideways on top ofa wood-pile. She reaches to adjust the log slightly just as the father swings an axe and chops the log in half.

Everyone looks stunned. The father stares at Margot's bloody hand. Margot looks to the father· like he is an idiot.

so.

Margot, Ari, and Uzi standing together.

Margot shakes her head.

Richie and Royal looking at an impressive monument in the middle of the cemetery. An inscription says:Veteran of Two Wars. Father of Nine Children.Drowned in the Caspian Sea.

Richie nods.

They start walking. Royal sighs.

Richie nods.

INSERT:

A television set tuned-in to Richie's match against Sanjay Gandhi. Richie stands at the baseline and prepares to serve.

( Richie hesitates. He looks into the stands.

Margot and Raleigh, holding hands,hurry to their seats in a courtside box.

Richie stares at Margot and Raleigh.Raleigh kisses Margot on the neck. Richie looks to Chas,with Rachael, Ari, and Uzi. He looks to Etheline. He looks to Royal in a lonely seat up in the nosebleed section.

Richie serves suddenly,underhand, barely tossing the ball into the air. Gandhi easily wins his return.He looks confused. A murmur goes through the crowd.

Richie takes off his shoes.

Royal and Richie standing together.

Richie nods. Royal kicksa pebble on the ground.

Margot sitting alone on a moss-covered rock next to a white stone cross. Richie walks over and stands beside her.

Margot reaches into her pocket.Richie says incredulously:

Margot nods. She takes the letter out of her pocket.A pack of cigarettes falls out of her pocket onto the ground.Margot and Richie look at it.

Margot picks up the pack of cigarettes and puts it back in her pocket. She looks to Richie. She holds up the letter.

Richie looks down at the ground.

Royal scraping some dirt off Rachael's gravestone withhis foot. He looks to Chas.

Chas holds up his hand and shows Royala little round bump in between two knuckles. Royal taps it with his finger. It moves slightly.

INT·.·CONFERENCEROOM. DAY

The offices of a multinational corporation.Eight businessmen in suits sit at a long table. Royal is one of them.Chas is another. A sign on the wall says Chas Tenenbaum Securities.

Everyone looks to Chas. Chas sighs.He withdraws several envelopes from his briefcase and begins to circulatethem around the room.

CUT To·:

Royal and Chas standing with Ari and Uzi.

Chas turns and walks away.Uzi looks to Royal.

Ari and Uzi follow Royal as he starts across the cemetery. Royal yells to Richieand Margot:

Raleigh and Dudley each have a set of building blocks in front of them. Raleigh's are arranged in the shape of a symmetrical cross. Dudley's are strewn out randomly.Raleigh holds a piece of cardboard vertically in between them.He lifts it and reveals his blocks to Dudley.

Dudley studies Raleigh's blocks for a minute and slowly begins to rearrange hisown. Raleigh picks-up the telephone receiver and dials anwnber.

Raleigh hangs up the telephone.He looks miserable.

Raleigh examines Dudley"s blocks.They have been arranged into the shape of a lopsided octagon with branchescoming out of it. Raleigh begins to laugh quietly.He shakes his head. There are tears in his eyes.

Eli walks into the vestibule smoking a joint which he keeps in his mouth at all times like a cigarette.He opens the front door. Richie stands on the top step.

Eli embraces Richie. They smile sadly at each other.

Richie and Eli walking into the frontroom of the house. It is furnished like a house in the English countryside,with antiques and potted flowers and old rugs.

Richie does not respond.

Richie and Eli walk into the next room. Eli's wife,Sabrina, is painting in her studio. She is very beautiful and wears

spectacles anda white sari. She is barefoot. Classical music plays quietly onthe record player.

Sabrina does not look up. She seems irritated.

Sabrina looks to Richie. She is only mildly surprised.She has an English accent.

Sabrina·hugs and kisses Richie.

( There are two children in the corner. Stetson is six.He works at a spinning potter's wheel, molding a hunk of clay. Charlotte is five. She is painting a set of teacups.She has a cast in a sling on her arm. They are both blond and fair.

The children do not respond to Eli. Eli does not appear to notice this, as he is the process of re-lighting his joint.

Richie looks disturbed. He notices a nude, teenaged girl standing on the table.She has a deep tan, except where she wore a bikini. She is Sabrina's model, Cinnamon.

Cinnamon looks at Eli coldly.

Eli sits on acouch across from Richie. They are both drinking wine.There is a large zip-lock bag of marijuana on

the table.There is a large, disturbing painting on the wall of five men wearing African masks and sitting on dirt-bikes.

Silence.

Eli pours himself another glass of wine.

Richie reflects on this for a moment.

Richie nods.

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Page 112 of The Royal Tenenbaums. Itsays Chapter Five.

The Lindbergh Palace Hotel.Royal comes in through the revolving doors.He freezes.

A large nwnber of trunks,suitcases, and boxes are stacked and piled on four carts next to the front.desk.There are also several dozen hanging garments on a rack with wheelson it. A bellboy rolls a fifth cart next to the others.The manager and his assistant appear.

Silence. Royal studies his possessions.The bellboy, the manager, and his assistant watch Royal awkwardly.

The bellboy begins to roll one of the carts across the lobby. Dusty, the elderly elevator operator,appears at Royal"s side. He and Royal look at each other sadly.

Royal places a call from the lobby.

Etheline, Henry, Chas, Margot,Richie, Ari, and Uzi sit at the table while Pagoda serves dessert.Richie is eating some grapes.

Henry puts his hand gently on Chas'arm.

Chas jerks his arm away.

Chas pounds the table with his fist and says loudly:

Chas looks shocked and then revolted.

Silence.

Chas finishes his slice of pie.He gets up and goes calmly out of the room.

Richie's room has been converted into a makeshift hospital room. Royal lies on an electric hospital bed.He has an I.V. in his arm and a tube in his nose.There are several monitors and machines breathing and humming.There are numerous bottles of pills and medicineson the nightstand. Pagoda has on a surgical mask and scrubs.

Chas stands in the doorway.Richie is behind him.

Silence. Royal nods.

Royal sits up on the edge of the bed.He is dressed in a hospital gown.

Richie hands Royal his cane.Royal struggles to his feet. He takes the I.V. out of hisarm.

Royal's knee gives out. He staggers a step.He grips the back of a chair and looks to Richie with a surprised expression. He collapses onto the floor. He produces a wooden spoon, which he takes between his teeth.

Richie and Pagoda rush over and kneel on the floor beside Royal. Chas frowns. Richie yells out the door:

Richie runs to the nightstand and pops open a bottle of pills. Chas looks down at Royal.

Royal takes the spoon out of his mouth.

Richie gives Royal a pill with a glass of water.Etheline comes to the door.

Forty-five minutes later. Royal is back in bed.He is being examined by Dusty, the elevator operator from the Lindbergh Palace. Dusty is dressed in a white lab coat.He checks Royal's pulse while everyone watches.

Dusty speaks with the Tenenbaums_in the hallway outside Richie's bedroom.

His condition is stable. The attack was just a side-effect. I recommend that you push.fluids and continue the cancer medication.

Dusty's beeper goes off. He looks at it.

INSERT:

Dusty's beeper. It has a digital message on it:

Smittyworkeda doubleyesterday.Can you sub forhim tonight?

Dusty pushing a button on his beeper.

Etheline sits next to Royal's bed.Pagoda brings Royal a cheeseburger in an aluminum foil wrapper.

Etheline nods.

r

Royal raisesan eyebrow. Etheline shakes her head and goes out of the room.Royal unwraps his cheeseburger and takes a bite. He hesitates.

Henry is standing in the doorway.He walks away.

An hour later.Royal lies in bed, drinking a milkshake, reading a spy novel.Chas appears in the dooi:way.

Chas turns out the light.

Silence.Royal says in a quiet, strangely upbeat voice in the darkness:

Chas hesitates. He closesthe door.

The ballroom on the top floor of the house.There are chairs and tables with sheets over them lined-up along the walls. Near the center of the room,there is a yellow nylon pup- tent. The room is dark except for alamp glowing inside the tent.

There is a boy scout sleeping bag on an air mattresson a cot inside the tent.There is a photograph of the Tenenbaum family taped to the nylon wall.There is a small table with a stack of books and some of Richie's soldierson it. Richie lies on'the cot reading acopy of Three Plays by Margot Tenenbaum.

Chas comes into the tent.Richie looks up, startled.

Chas looks disturbed by this.

Well, I don't know what you think you're going to get out of this.But believe me, whatever it is, it's not worth it.

The next morning. Royal sits on the windowsillsmoking a cigarette. There is a knock on the door.Royal hesitates. He throws his cigarette out the window.

Royal looks out and sees Eli below,climbing out a window on the second floor. Royal frowns.He looks to the door.

Pagoda opens the door. He comes in carrying a tray with a bowl of.cream of wheat on it.

Royal looks back ou~ the window.Pagoda goes to his side. Eli drops to the sidewalk. He sees Royal's cigarette burning on the ground. He steps on it.He looks up to Royal. Their eyes meet.

Eli runs away. Royal shakes his head.

INSERT:

An article on Eli in the Sunday magazine section.The headline says Where the Wild Things Are.There is a photograph of Eli in the desert holding a dead rattlesnake by the tail in each hand. There isa note stapled to the top of the ar~icle. It says:

Dear Mrs.Tenenbaum, Just in case you missed it.Love,Eli.

Margot and Etheline sitting together in Etheline's study. Margot is reading Henry's book,Accounting for Everything. Etheline is reading the articleon Eli. Margot looks at it.

There is a rap on the glass.Margot and Etheline look up. Raleigh is standing in the window.He looks miserable.

The backyard.Margot and Raleigh sit at a metal table drinking tea.

Margot shrugs.

Silence.Margot says gently:

Raleigh crumples into a ball on the ground and stays there. Margot puts her hand on his back.

Raleigh sits up suddenly.

Raleigh stands up and walks away.Margot sits alone in the garden.

Royal waits at the top of the stairs as Margot comes up.

Margot pushes past Royal.

r ROYAL '

You're two-timing him with that bloodsucker Eli Cash.

Margot stops. She stands still with her back to Royal.

Margot looks back to Royal strangely.

Margot nods. She goes into her room and closes the door.

Raleigh. stands at the edge of the roof looking down to the ground while Richie cleans his falcon'scoop.

Richie looks to Raleigh.He hesitates.

Silence. Richie comes out of the coop and goes over to Raleigh.

· RICHIE I see.

Richie punches his hand through the attic window.Raleigh looks shocked. He stares at Richie's bloody hand.

Royal looks in the doorway to Chas'room.

There are five computers, four telephones,a Xerox machine, and a television and V.C.R. on a cart.Three secretaries make copies and take messages. Chas is on the telephone.A messenger waits for him to sign a document.

Ari and Uzi sit working with a calculator and a ledger pad at a small desk in the corner. Royal says tothem:

Chas covers the receiver with his hand.

r

Etheline sits at her desk writingnwnbers on little bits of pottery and recording it in a notebook.Royal stands in the garden, looking in the window.His I.V. bag hangs on a rolling stand beside him.

Royal listens to Ari over the intercom whilePagoda does yoga exercises in the corner:

Royal pushes a button to talk.

Silence. Ari says over the intercom:

• 73.

MONTAGE:

(Royal,Ari, and Uzi laugh continuously throughout the following montage.)

Royal,· Ari,and Uzi jump off the roof of a three-story building into a swimming pool.

Royal, Ari, and Uzi race go-carts around crates in a busy warehouse.

Royal, Ari, and Uzi jaywalk through heavy traffic.

Royal, Ari, and Uzi feed breadcrumbs to a tiger in acage at the zoo.

Royal, Ari, and Uzi ride on the back of a speeding garbage . truck.

Royal, Ari, Uzi, and Pagoda are at the dogfights.Pagoda throws a fifty dollar bill into a pile of money on the sidewalk. Ari and Uzi each throw in a dollar.Royal motions to Pagoda.

Royal.motions to Pagoda again.

The three secretaries are still at work,and Chas is on the telephone. He sees Royal, Ari,·and Uzi walking by in the hallway. Royal rolls his I.V. next to him.Chas hangs up the telephone.

Chas goes to the.doorway.He glares at Ari, Uzi, and Royal.

Chas points to a spot of dried blood on Uzi'sforehead.

Royal licks his finger and rubs away the blood.

Chas frowns.He looks to Royal. Royal hesitates. Chas grabs Royal by the arm and pulls him into the closet across the hall.

Chas closes the door and turnson the light. There are hundreds of board games,most of which are about thirty years old, in shelvesup to the ceiling.

Chas hesitates.He turns off the·light, goes out of the closet, and closes the door.Royal stands alone in the dark.

Royal and Etheline walk along a path through the park.Royal rolls his hanging I.V. bag at his side.

·ETHELINE (surprised) You're welcome.

Silence. Etheline nods. She says suddenly:

·ROYAL (cont'd) got more grit, and fire, and guts than any other woman I've damn met.

They look at each other for along minute.

( Henry with two bags of groceries in his arms,watching from behind a stone wall above the path.He listens as Royal says:

Henry frowns.

Etheline and Henry come down the front steps of the Tenenbaum house. Henry is dressed in black tie.Pagoda holds a cab for them at the curb.

Etheline stops at the bottom of the steps.She frowns.

Etheline turns around and goesback up the steps. Henry watches her.Pagoda watches Henry. Etheline goes inside and closes the door.

Royal and Pagoda stand together in the bathroom drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes.Royal has a half-eaten cheeseburgerin his hand. He looks excited.

Pagoda nods.Royal snaps his fingers.

The next morning.Henry stands at the counter reading The Wall Street Journal.He has on reading glasses. Royal comes into the kitchen eating a cheeseburger.Henry looks at him blankly.Royal sits on a stool.

Silence.

Silence. Henry waits for Royal to continue.

Henry hesitates. He looks puzzled.

Royal stands up. He yells:

Royal starts doing a little dance in front of Henry.

Royal stops dancing.

Henry and Royal look to Etheline.She stands in the doorway.

•Royal goes to the refrigerator and opens it.He takes out a jar of peanut butter and a jar of grape jelly.Etheline looks to Henry. Henry.walks out of the room.

Henry goes into Richie"s room and takes a bottle of Royal's pills off the nightstand. He goes back out of the room.

Henry reads the label on the bottle of pills while he places a call.

Henry goes up the stairs with a cold,determined look on his face. He has the bottle of pills in his hand.

Pagoda combs his hair in the bathroom.There is a knock on the door. Pagoda opens it. Henry stands in the hallway.He stares at Pagoda.

Pagoda looks scared.

INSERT:

A television set tuned-in to an interview show.The host is a tall; distinguished-looking man in his fifties.He is Peter Bradley. Eli is his guest. They sit at around table lit at the center of a pitch-black room.

Eli nods.

Richie's room. Margot and Royal are watching Eli on television.

The door opens. Richie comes into the room.His hand is wrapped with bloody bandages. Margot looks concerned.

Richie goes into the closet. Margot looks to Royal.Royal frowns. Richie starts to drag a large trunk out of the closet. Margot says more insistently:

Henry and Pagoda come into the room. Henry goes over to the intercom and presses a button on it.

Royal looks at Henry suspiciously.

INSERT:

Eli's interview on the Peter Bradley Show.

Eli freezes.He looks quickly across the room.

A look of sheer horror crosses Eli's face.He braces himself against the edge of the table.Peter looks concerned.

Peter hesitates. Eli jerks free of his microphone,stands up, and walks off the set.Peter Bradley looks stunned.

Everyone watching in Richie's bedroom.They also look stunned.

Margot goes to the telephone.Etheline and Chas come into the room. Chas is eating asandwich. Ari, Uzi, and Buckley follow them.

Henry steps in front of the television set and turns it off.

Everyone looks toPagoda. Silence. Pagoda looks worried. He turns to Royal and points at him.

Royal sits up.Henry stares at Royal.

Silence.Royal pulls out his I.V. and the other tubes that are attached to him.He goes into the bathroom and closes the door. Henry turns to Etheline.

Chas crushes his sandwich in his hand.

Chas slams his hand against the bathroomdoor as hard as he can. He sits down on the bed and picks up the phone.He places a call.

Chas hangs up.Royal comes out of the bathroom. He is fully dressed in a suit,and he is zipping-up a small leather bag. He picks-up one of his bottles of pills off the nightstand and leaves the rest.He looks to Pagoda.

Etheline looks to Pagoda.She frowns. Pagoda looks uneasy.

Royal hesitates.He looks to Pagoda and says regretfully: r

Pagoda stares at Royal bitterly.Chas shakes his head.

Royal looks in the mirror.There are dark circles of eye make- up on his face.He removes it with a cotton ball and cold cream.

Royal swallows one of his pills.He walks to the door with all of his possessions.He turns and stands in front of everyone.

A strange, sad loo~crosses Royal's face.

Royal comes out of Richie'sroom with his suitcases. He walks down the hall.Etheline says after him:

Royal stops and looks back to Etheline.

Etheline stares at Royal angrily,with tears in her eyes.

Royal turns and walks away.

Chas stands at the bottom of the stairs and watches Royal come down the steps with his suitcases.Royal stops in front of him.

Chas hesitates.Royal walks past him and goes out the front door.

Richie and Royal stand on the sidewalk. Royal's suitcases are beside him.Margot and Henry stand at the top of the steps, in the front doorway.

Richie shakes his head.He turns away and goes up the steps, past Margot and Henry,into the house. Royal and Margot look at each other.Royal points to Henry.

Margot closes the door. Royal puts his hands in his pockets. He stares into space. He begins to cry. A taxi pulls over to the curb. Royal waves to the driver.

The front door of the house opens. Royal looks back. Pagoda comes down the stairs with two suitcases. He looks furious.

Pagoda drops his suitcases on the ground.

Pagoda's teeth flash as he goes over to Royal and stabs him with a pocketknife. Royal screams. He clutches his side.He falls on the ground.

Pagoda helps Royal to his feet. He collects his suitcases. Royal leans on Pagoda as they get into the taxi.Royal says to the driver:

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Page 198 of The Royal Tenenbaums. It says Chapter Seven .

A huge building that looks like a castle. A sign next to the door says 375th Street Y.

An extremely small room with a low ceiling and a single bed. Royal stands in front of a mirror while Pagoda stitches-up the knife-wound in his side. He holds a bottle of iodine in one hand and a box of bandages in the other.

Pagoda pours some iodine~n a cotton ball and applies it to Royal's knife-wound.Royal grimaces.

Pagoda nods.Royal looks furious.

Pagoda looks up at Royal coldly.Silence.

A footbridge over the river.Margot waits in the middle of the bridge. Eli walkstoward her from the opposite bank.·His face is smeared with dirt and traces of paint.His clothes look s~verelydishevelled. He stops a few feet away from Margot.

Eli hesitates.

Eli turns away and looks sadly out at the river.Margot goes over and stands beside him. Eli shakes his head.

A second-bridge, two hundred yards away.A large man in a coat.and tie takes photographs of Margot and Eli with a telephoto lens.

A small room on the thirtieth floor of an office building: Raleigh, Richie, and Dudley sit across a desk from the large man in the coat and tie. He is a detective.

The detective hands Raleigh a manila folder.He opens it and begins to read.Richie looks over his shoulder.

MONTAGE:

Margot at age twelve buysa pack of cigarettes. She smokes one in an alley next tosome trash cans while she reads a fashion magazine.

{In each of the followingimages Margot smokes a cigarette.)

Margot climbs out the window of a girls'dormitory. She carries a small suitcase.She shimmies down the gutter and runs across thelawn.

Margot dances with a torch in her hand among a group of rastafarians in Jamaica.There are dogs and goats running around and fighting.One of the rastafarians holds out a stick and Margotjumps over it.

Margot fishes off the back of a fishing boat with three elderly Mexican men.Margot laughs as one of the men helps her reel-in a blue marlin three feet long.

Margot stands in a pool of water facing a young tribesman in New Guinea.He has on warpaint and wears a large tusk in his nose.Margot kisses him on the mouth.

Margot opens awindow and looks out at the Eiffel Tower. She wears a bra and a slip.A topless girl appears next to her, eating a croissant.The girl puts her arms around Margot's waist,and Margot runs her hands through the girl's hair.

Margot sits in amake-up chair at a television studio. Peter Bradley comes up behind her and puts his hands down her shirt.Margot smiles at him mischievously.

Margot makes-out with:a blond teenager in the back seat of a taxi, a skinny guy with amohawk on a city bus, a tough- looking Irishman on the deck of a ferry,and Eli in a deserted subway train going full-speed at night.

Raleigh turning to the last page of the report.He closes the folder and looks to Richie.Richie looks stunned. Silence.

Royal, Pagoda,Dusty, and the manager of the hotel sit at a table in the laundry room of the Lindbergh Palace.The manager is reviewing atypewritten document.

Raleigh lies face-down on the couch with his head buried in the cushions.Dudley walks over to him with a box of building blocks. He says quietly:

Raleigh answers without moving.His voice is muffled.

Richie walks by in a bathrobe.He carries a pair of scissors. He goes into the bathroom,closes the door, and locks it.

Hot water runs full blast in the shower and the sink.Richie stands in the mirror.He holds a pair of scissors in his hand. He has clipped-off his beard and moustache.

He opens the medicine cabinet and takes outa can of shaving cream and a straight razor.He covers his face with shaving cream. He picks up the razor.He looks back in the mirror. He pushes his hand back through his hair,takes a deep breath, and says quietly:

Silence.Richie slices the razor deeply, four times, along his left forearm.Blood goes everywhere. He switches hands with the razor and slashes his other wrist.He sits down on the floor.

The bathroom door slamming open.Dudley bursts into the room. He looks horrified.The floor is flooded with water and blood.Richie is slumped in the corner with his shower cap on and shaving cream all over his face.

Dudley screams hysterically.

MONTAGE:

Three paramedics race down a corridor pushing Richie in a gurney.Raleigh and Dudley run beside them. They are covered with blood.

Etheline hangs-up the telephone and runs into the hallway. She throws open the closet door and grabs her coat.

Henry comes out the front door of his building and runsdown the steps.He raises his arm to hail a cab.

Chas,Ari, and Uzi hold on as Anwar weaves the B.M.W. in and out of traffic.Buckley has his head out the window.

Margot bursts through the doors of the emergency room.She looks around frantically.She sees Dudley. She rushes over and grabs his arms.

Everyone is gathered around Richie in his hospital bed.His arms are covered with bandages.A doctor gives him an injection and says to Etheline:

Etheline nods. She has tears all over her face.The doctor leaves the room.Margot holds Richie's hand.

Silence.

Everyone looks slightly confused.

Etheline ~ooks to Richie. He is asleep with his mouth open and one of his bandaged arms hanging off the side of the bed.

The corridor outside Richie's room.Etheline sits next to Henry. Henry fills out some insurance forms.Ari and Uzi sit on Chas' lap. Margot sits next to Raleigh.Raleigh stares into space.

Everyone looks to Raleigh and Margot.Silence.

Raleigh stares at Margot in silence.Margot sighs. Everyone watches as she reaches into her pocket and takes out a pack of cigarettes. She givesone to Raleigh. He puts it in his mouth.

Margot takes out some matches and lights Raleigh's cigarette.

Raleigh stands up and walks away,down the hall, out the door. Silence.Margot lights a cigarette for herself. Etheline looks disturbed.

Margot nods.

A gypsy cab stops in front of the hospital. Royal and Pagoda get out and walk quickly into the building. They are both dressed in hotel elevator operator uniforms.

Royal speaks anxiously to a nurse at the registration desk. Pagoda stands behind him.

The nurse looks down at her registration book. She frowns. She looks back to Royal.

Silence.

Royal and Pagoda stand in front of the hospital.Royal points to the edge of the roof.He sounds desperate.

Pagoda points to Richie standing on the corner trying to hail a taxi. He is dressed in surgical scrubs and bedroom slippers. Hi~ apns are covered with bandages.Royal looks puzzled. He calls out:

Richie looks to Royal and Pagoda. He hesitates.

Royal looks down at his uniform. He looks back to Richie.He shrugs.

Richie, Royal, and Pagoda sit at a booth in the window of a coffee shop. Royal looks exhausted and uncomfortable.

Richie shrugs. Silence. Royal frowns.

Richie nods. Royal sighs.

Royal looks upset. Pagoda puts his hand on Royal's shoulder. Silence.

Richie nods.He stands up.

· ROYAL (pause) I guess Ideserve that.

Richie nods. Silence.

Richie walks away.

An old city bus with trash on the floor and graffiti spray- painted on the walls. Richie sits in the back row and rides downtown.

An old gypsy cab with torn seats and a piece of cardboard taped-over over a broken window. Royal and Pagoda sit in the back seat and ride uptown.

The ballroom on the top floor of the Tenenbaum house.Richie walks in and sees the lamp glowing inside his tent.Margot calls out from inside:

Richie does not respond.

Richie looks at the eighteen paintings of Margot hanging on the wall in the corner. He walks to the tent at the center of the room.

Richie looks into the tent. Margot is sitting on the floor next to a record player smoking a cigarette.She has a Rolling Stones record in her hand. She looks startled.

Margot puts out her cigarette. She seems worried.

Richie goes into the tent and sits down Indian-style in front of Margot. Margot sighs. She puts on the Rolling Stones record. It plays quietly.

Margot nods. Richie unwraps one of the bandages.His arm is covered with jagged, criss-crossing stitches and dried blood. Margot looks stricken.

Richie nods. He wraps the bandage back around hisarm.

Richie nods.Ma~got sighs.

Silence. Richie says quietly:

Richie kisses Margot on the mouth,and she kisses him back. She puts her handson the back of his head. Richie pulls away from her and looks into her eyes.

Richie lies down on the cot.Margot lies next to him and puts her arm around his shoulder.She smooths-back his hair. They listen to the music fora minute. Margot says quietly:

Margot nods. She looks at Richie's boy scout sleepingbag.

Richie nods. Margot starts crying. Richie looks worried.

Margot smiles. She kisses Richie's hand.

Margot gets up and goes out of the tent.Richie sits alone for a minute. Margot looks back into the tent.

They look at each other for a long minute.

Margot goes out of the tent.

The next morning. Richie sits at the counter while Etheline makes some hot chocolate. Etheline wears a bathrobe.

Etheline pours two cups of hot chocolate.She sits down next to Richie.

Etheline puts her arm aroundRichie'~ shoulder. Richie drinks a sip of his hot chocolate.

The elevator at the Lindbergh Palace.Royal is dressed in his elevator operator unifoDn.He takes three well-dressed businessmen down to the lobby.The doors open. One of the businessmen hands Royala dollar as they walk out into the lobby. ·

Royal sees Richie standing in front of the elevator.Royal looks surprised. He hesitates.

Richie steps into the elevator.

Royal closes the doors and pulls a lever. The elevator goes up. Royal stands with his back to Richie.

Royal grabs a walkie-talkie out of his pocket and shouts into it:

Royal throws the lever on the elevator and starts back down to the +obby, full-speed.

Eli sits on the couch in his study working on a jigsaw puzzle of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road. Two Middle Eastern men are chopping-up yellow powder on the table.Electronic music blastsfrom the stereo. ·

There is aknock on the door. Everyone looks up. Silence.

The door opens and Richie looks inside. Eli and the Middle Eastern men stare at Richie. Eli has yellow powder on his nose. He says awkwardly:

Richie walks into the room. Royal and Pagoda follow him.They are dressed in their elevator operator uniforms. Eli looks confused and uneasy.

Royal looks to the Middle Eastern men.

The Middle Eastern men hesitate.Pagoda points to the door. Sugar and the Middle Eastern men leave the room.

Richie nods. He sits down next to Eli.Royal and Pagoda sit across from them.

Eli seems embarrassed and hurt.

Silence. Eli gets up and goes over to the window.He looks out at the backyard. Richie goes over and stands next to him. Eli looks deeply depressed.

Richie nods. Eli looks to Royal. Royal nods and says quietly:

Richie shakes his head. Eli opens the window,reaches out, and picks a dead leaf off the branch of a tree.He looks to Richie.

Eli goes into the bathroom and locks the door.Pagoda goes over to. the window and looks out.He sees Eli running down the fire escape.

Royal and Richie rush over to the window.'l'hey watch Eli drop to the ground, run into the street,and hail a taxi. He has on socks but no shoes.

A room decorated like a birthday cake.Every booth is filled with divorced fathers and their young daughters.Margot sits across from Royal. Royal is dressed in his elevator operator uniform. A waiter stands next to them.

Royal looks frustrated.Margot sighs.

The waiter nods and walks away.Royal leans across the table and says urgently:

Royal nods.Silence.

Royal stands on the sidewalk in front of the Tenenbaum house. He is dressed in his elevator operator uniform.He has bunch of white flowers in his hand.He throws a pebble at a window on the third floor.

Ari looks out the window. Royal smiles. Ari opens the window. Uzi appears beside him. Royal calls up to them:

Chas appears between Ari and Uzi. He looks down at Royal. Royai looks nervous.

Chas closes the window.

Royal putting his bunch of flowers on Rachael's grave.He stands alone with his hands in his pockets.He walks away.

Etheline and Henry come down the front steps of Henry's building. Royal is waiting at the bus stop on the corner, next to a small, Mexican man in a windbreaker and a tie. Royal has a large envelope in his hands. Etheline and Henry look at him warily.

Etheline and Henry go over to Royal.Royal hands Etheline the envelope. She looks to Henry. Henry shrugs.She opens the· envelope. It contains a sheaf of typewritten documents.

Etheline looks to Royal. She says quietly:

r'\ Royal looks to Henry. Henry does notknow what to say. Royal motions to the Mexican man.

Royal hands Etheline a pen and points to a dotted line. Etheline signs.

Etheline signs.

Etheline signs. Royal hands the sheaf of documents to Sanchez. He puts several stamps and notations on it.A city bus approaches from the next block.

Royal signals to the bus driver.

· ROYAL I love you, Etheline. And congratu- lations, both of you.

Royal puts out his hand.Henry shakes it.

HENRY

I r' Thank you, Royal.

r' ' Royal smiles.He turns away suddenly, runs to the bus,and jumps inside.He looks back to Etheline. He yells:

Etheline hesitates. She nods. The door closes.Etheline and Henry stand watching with Sanchez.

Eli drives through a tunnel at top speed in the middle of the night. He has on sunglasses, and he is covered with grass and dirt. Electronic music blasts from the stereo.He looks lost and sad.

Page 230. It says Chapter Eight.

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An invitation to Etheline and Henry's wedding in the garden at the house on Archer Avenue. It is nearly identical to the invitation on the cover of the first edition of The Royal Tenenbaums.

Ari, Uzi, and Pagoda stand in front of the house with Buckley, receiving the wedding guests.They help people out of their cars, give them programs for the ceremony,and direct them to the front door.

There are about fifty guests. They are all in black tie.Half of them are black and half are white.Among them are: the driver Anwar, the elevator operator Dusty,the hotel manager, the tennis player Sanjay Gandhi, the notary public Sanchez, the masseuse Meredith, Chas• secretaries,and the private detective.

Royal gets out of a gypsy cab. He smiles at Ari and Uzi.He hugs Pagoda and kisses Ari and Uzi on the tops of their heads. He looks around. He whispers:

Royal hands Ari and Uzi each a large purple and green-striped jawbreaker.They hide them in their jackets.

A twenty-one-y~ar-old black Navy midshipman helpsHenry finish tying his bow-tie. The midshipman is Walter.Henry studies his tie in the mirror.

Henry unties his knot and starts from scratch.Richie cracks open the door and looks into the room.

Richie comes into the room.

Richie and Walter shake hands.Chas comes into the room.

Margot looks out the window at the guests arriving on the street while Etheline finishes her make-up.Margot has a white plastic inhaler in her mouth.

(' Margot looks to Etheline.Margot smiles. '

Royal stands on the front steps.He looks down at Ari and Uzi tying Buckley's leash around a pole.He holds the door open for two elderly women.

Royal hears someone's tires squeal around the corner.He looks down the block. Eli's car whipsthrough the turn onto Archer Avenue.

Eli's face is covered with Apache war-paint.He is dressed in black tie. He wears a distracted smile.He downshifts and punches it.

A car door opens about fifty yards in front of him.He veers towards it and clips it, snapping off his side-mirror.He holds up a fist in the air.He sees a telephone booth on the

other side of the street. He swerves and taps it,snapping off his other side-mirror. He whistles strangely.

Eli sees the Tenenbaum house ahead.His eyes narrow. He steers toward the house. He floors it.He whispers:

Ari and Uzi appear on the sidewalk. Eli panics.He cranks the wheel. His car skids, hits the curb,and goes into a spin. Eli screams.

Ari and Uzi freeze and stare at the car sliding out of control directly at them. Royal jumps over the side of the steps, grabs Ari and Uzi, and dives over the railing with them..Buckley is still chained to the pole.

Eli's car smashes into a mailbox,runs over Buckley, and slams into the front of the Tenenbaum house.Eli is hurled from the car, through a window, into the house.Mail goes everywhere.

Etheline rushes over next to Margot at the window.

Chas sprints down the stairs three at a time.He falls and bangs against the wall. He gets back up and keeps running.

Eli sits on the floor, barefoot,covered in glass and debris. He is bleeding from a head wound.Several guests help him stagger to his feet. They look alarmed at his appearance, particularly the war-paint.

Dudley finds one of Eli's shoes in the fireplace.He hands it to Eli. Eli puts it on.

The wedding guests quickly begin to come out the front door and gather around the smashed car.Chas runs down the steps. He yells:

Royal stands up among the rubble,holding Ari under one arm and Uzi under the other. Chas runs over tothem.

Royal sets Ari and Uzi down.Chas grabs them. He examines them.

Chas looks to Royal. Roy~lnods. He looks to the car.

Ari and Uzi start to cry. Eli appears in the broken front window of the house.

Everyone looks to Eli.

Eli sees Chas staring at him. Eli hesitates.He darts away from the window. Chas bolts up·the steps,banging his way through the crowd.

Chas bursts into the house. He screams:

The guests panic as Eli jumps over a couch,knocks over a chair, and ducks into the kitchen.

Pagoda looks up from a tray of canapes he is preparing.He does not appear to notice Eli's strange appearance and injuries. He holds out one of the canapes to him.

Eli takes it quickly. Chas smashes open the door.Eli body- chec.ks him and breaks out of the room.They slam past the priest and knock him down the basement stairs.The wedding guests ~cream and yell and try to break it up or get away.

Eli slips out the back door and sprints into the garden.

Eli runs to the back wall and tries the gate. It is locked. Chas tackles him hard. Chas grabs him by the arm,swings him around, and slams him against the wall. Eli yells.People rush into the backyard. Richie runs outside.

Richie tri~s to pull Chas off Eli.Chas elbows Richie in the face. Richie falls backwards into the bushes.Chas picks up Eli and tries to throw him over the wall. Eli scratches and clutches.

Chas yells insanely. He throws Eli over the wall.

Chas turns to look at everyone watchinghim. They look stunned. Chas breathes heavily. Richie sits up in the bushes. He has his hand over his eye.

i r' Chas hesitates. He climbs over the wall.

Chas lands in the .flower bed,next to Eli. Eli is stretched- out on his back. He and Chas look at each other.Chas lays down in the flower bed. He seems drained. It is very quiet. They both stare up at the sky.

Walter looks over the top of the wall,down at Chas and Eli. They look up at him Walter looks back behind him and says to someone:

Henry and Royal run around the corner and up the steps ofa neighbor's house. Royal knocks on the front door.They wait. Royal looks to Henry.

Henry smiles. He puts his arm around Royal's shoulder.Royal hugs him. The door opens. A small Asian woman in akimono looks out at them.

Raleigh and two_paramedics roll the priest on a gurney to the ambulance.Raleigh holds the priest's hand.

The priest shakes his head.

There aretwo police cars, an ambulance, a tow truck, and a fire engine in front of the house. Eli is being questioned by a police officer.His war-paint is smeared, and there are several bandages on his head andarm.~.He looks very upset.

The police officer studies Eli's driver's license.

Royal stands among a group of firemen with a dalmatian.

One of the firemen shrugs.Royal points at the dalmatian.

The dalmatian sits. Royal looksimpressed.

Raleigh and Dudley stand next to each other wearing firemen"s helmets. Dudley'laughs crazily.

Henry and Walter survey the scenefrom the smashed-out living room window.Walter points to the rubble.

Richie walksamong the agitated wedding guests with his hand over his eye.He goes over to Margot. Margot looks concerned.

Richie takes his hand away from his eye.His eye is scratched badly and looks terrible.Margot frowns.

Rich~e covers hisgood eye to test his bad eye. He nods.

Ari and Uzi try to look at Buckley under Eli's car as several firemen and tow truck drivers attach straps and chains to the wheels and axle.Etheline goes over to them.

Etheline looks to Pagoda standing in the front door.

Royal walks the dalmatian over to Chas.

Chas looks at the dalmatian. He looks back to Royal.

Silence. Chas nods. Royal holds out the leash.Chas takes it.

Chas suddenly starts crying. He stares at the ground.

Royal puts his hand on Chas•head. Chas looks to Royal and takes a deep breath.He nods. Royal watches as Chas takes the dalmatian over~o Ari and Uzi and talks to them quietly for a minute.Etheline stands beside them.

Uzi pets the dalmatian.Ari takes the leash. Etheline looks to Royal. She smiles.Pagoda comes down the steps with the wedding cake and sets it on top of a trash can.

All of the wedding guests and firemen eating slices of the wedding cake. Everyone looks confused and disoriented. Royal- stands next to Henry and Etheline at the top of the steps.He turns suddenly and addresses the entire party:

Everyone quiets down and looks to Royal.

A murmur goes through the crowd.Etheline looks to Royal curiously.Royal says to her:

Etheline and Henry smile,although they seem puzzled. Royal looks to Richie,Chas, and Margot standing together in the back of the room.Chas has his arm around Richie's shoulder.· Richie has a black eye.Margot has her inhaler in her mouth.

Ari, Uzi, and Chas watch Royalthrow dirt onto a grave in the backyard. They have tears in their eyes.The dalmatian lies on the ground next to them.

Chas hands Royal a bottle of scotch,and Royal takes a drink.

Ari begins, with a jawbreaker in his mouth:

Henry and Etheline stand side by side in front ofa judge in a small.office with green carpet and an exercise bicycle. Henry has his left hand raised and his right hand on a bible.

The judge holds the bible out to Etheline.She puts her hand on it.

A stage set for a play that appears to take place in a network of tree houses on a tropical island.A father introduces his daughter to a group of native tribesmen.

The house is sold-out. Royal sits in the frontrow with the other Tenenbaums. He laughs quietly and shakes his head.The rest of the audience is silent.

Margot watches from the back of the theatre with her inhaler in her mouth.

Brooks College. Raleigh and Dudley sit onstage at atable in front of an audience of students.Raleigh takes a question.

Dudl~y shakes his head emphatically.

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A copy of Raleigh's new book,Dudley's World. On the dust jacket there is a yearbook photograph of Dudley with his Henry Aaron-style glasses flipped-up.His expression is almost impossibly blank.

A resortcompou~d on the high plains. Eli practices with a lasso in front of several young addicts.He has stitches on his forehead.

A tall, skinny, Native American man in his late forties walks over to Eli.He and Eli are dressed in matching deerskin jackets. Eli points to him.

An indoor tennis court. Richie stands in the middle of a group of children dressed in tennis clothes.Ari and Uzi are among them. Richie demonstrates the continental style of grip tothem. Richie has a white gauze patch taped over his eye.

Uzi steps up to the service line on the other side of the court. He bounces a ball and gets ready to serve.

Uzi hits a fast serve to Richie"s forehand.Richie fires his return full-speed straight down the line.Uzi watches it race past him-.

Royal, Chas, Ari, and Uzi ride on the back of a speeding garbag~ truck. They are all laughing.

Royal is strapped onto agurney with tubes sticking out of his arms and anoxygen mask on his face. Chas sits beside

him, holding his hand. The ambulance races full-speed up the wrong side of the s.treet.

Royal appears to be smiling underneath hisoxygen mask. He looks up at Chas. Chas puts his hand on Royal's cheek.Royal closes his eyes.

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Page ·258 of The Royal Tenenbaurns. It says Epilogue.

Snow falls lightly, and the sky is getting dark.Everyone in the family is gathered around as Chas,Richie, Henry, Raleigh, Eli, and Pagoda lower the casket.They are all r-' bundled-up in coats and scarves.They step away from the " grave.

Henry stands next to Etheline.She takes his arm. Pagoda wears Royal's sunglasses.Tears stream down his face. Margot has her arm around Raleigh's shoulder.She smokes a cigarette. Richie stands next to Eli.He throws a white flower into the grave.The priest is on crutches.

Chas looks to Ari and Uzi standing afew yards away. He nods. Ari and Uzi fire several shots into the air with Chas'and Royal's old B.B. guns.

Royal's gravestone sits in a wheelbarrow next to a pile of dirt .. It reads Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum(1932-2001).Epitaph: Died tragically rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship.The priest reads this and frowns.

They all stand at the grave in silence fora minute before- they turn away and walk to their waiting cars.