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THE UNDERSTUDY - Act One · Table Read

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Table totally.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, all right, we go.
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  Speaker 1: Ready table be either said beautiful, that's rockety.
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  Speaker 2: The Understudy written by Jenna Saint John Fade. In exterior
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  Speaker 2: fifteenth century town Square night, a glowing green ancient snow
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  Speaker 2: globe sits alone in the dark, and inside are two
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  Speaker 2: dancer figurines. A hen snatches the globe. It belongs to
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  Speaker 2: mister Constantine thirties. As an army of skeletons with glowing
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: green eyes approaches revealed town Square. Skeletons lunge out from
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  Speaker 2: doors and darkness. Mister Constantine does balletlasa con turns and
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  Speaker 2: knocks out two rounds of skeletons with his outstretched foot.
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  Speaker 2: He slides on his knees, presenting the globe too. A
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  Speaker 2: panicked ballerina, she timidly grabs the globe.
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  Speaker 3: Yarrakum hakm.
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  Speaker 2: A skeleton snatches Constantine, pulling him away.
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  Speaker 1: I wish her face return as they were.
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  Speaker 2: Constantine now has skeletons climbing on top of him, burying him.
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  Speaker 4: His outstretched arm disappears in the sea of bone. The
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  Speaker 4: globe's green globe burns out, and the skeletons drop lifeless. Finally,
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  Speaker 4: mister Constantine bursts out of the bony rubble stands, taking
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  Speaker 4: Ballerina's hand.
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  Speaker 2: They both turn to face a modern day audience irrupts
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  Speaker 2: an applause, tossing the quet of flowers onto the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Ballerina turns to Constantine. I swear I didn't mean any harm.
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  Speaker 2: A skeleton hand twitches. Four year old Fritz rushes onto
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  Speaker 2: the stage from the audience with a wooden stord sword sword.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: I loved all.
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  Speaker 2: I was given a little variety. You said you wanted it.
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  Speaker 2: A skeleton hand twitches. Four year old Fritz rushes onto
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  Speaker 2: the stage from the audience with a wooden sword, bludgeoning
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: the lifeless pile of bones. Heavy red velvet curtains, clothes, blackout,
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: white screen. As opening credits begin, we're bombarded with photo
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  Speaker 2: after photo, video after video of Natalie Primavera's seventeen social
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  Speaker 2: media pages. Natalie is ballet perfection, executing difficult poses with
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  Speaker 2: an omnipresent smile with nine hundred and eighty five thousand followers.
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  Speaker 2: We see her profile picture and name. Natalie Primavera, wil
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  Speaker 2: Bernard's high school senior, aspiring ballerina at Royal Ballet coffee
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  Speaker 2: obsessed photos of Natalie at school, hair down and casual clothes,
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  Speaker 2: posing with her two ballerina best friends, jazz Man seventeen
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: and Zoe eighteen, alongside designer cupcakes and Mocha's. A selfie
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  Speaker 2: video of Natalie with a tight bun and fresh makeup
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  Speaker 2: focuses on her in front of a poster for Nutcracker auditions.
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  Speaker 5: Hey guys, it's Natalie here.
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  Speaker 6: About to walk into my very last Nutcracker audition for
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  Speaker 6: a senior year, and I'm hoping this is my year
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  Speaker 6: to be the sugar pum Ferry.
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  Speaker 2: Fingers crossed, Natalie blows a kiss to the camera. Exterior
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  Speaker 2: Wilburn Arts High School day Natalie stands near the front
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  Speaker 2: doors of Wilburn High School of the Arts, next to
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  Speaker 2: Nutcracker auditions poster fluttering in the wind. She tucks away
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  Speaker 2: her phone as she notices dark clouds roll in over
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: the school. Natalie pops in earbuds and Tchaikowsky's Dance of
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  Speaker 2: the Sugar Plum Fairy fills the air. She takes a
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  Speaker 2: deep breath and enters through the doors of the school.
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  Speaker 2: The wind rips the poster off the door. Interior school
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  Speaker 2: hallway rehearsal studio day. Natalie walks down an empty hallway
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  Speaker 2: and turns on point of her sneakers to a hallway
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  Speaker 2: full of dancers stretching and on their phones in various groups.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: All turn to look at Natalie, including her designer dance
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  Speaker 2: were friends at the end of the hallway, Jasmine Kern
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and twins Zoe and Brock Dennings eighteen. Natalie makes
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  Speaker 2: her way down the hall when the double doors of
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: the dance studio swing open to reveal mister Constantine mid forties,
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  Speaker 2: the same Romanian man seen holding the green globe, but
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  Speaker 2: now a bit older. Thunderclaps, lights flicker on and off.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: Natalie pauses, and the two look at one another. The
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  Speaker 2: door shuts with a sign auditions posted on the door.
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: Natalie cracks open the door to investigate, but a messy
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  Speaker 2: ponytail obscures her view. It's Ava Ross seventeen, a meek
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  Speaker 2: girl and schlubby sweats pushing a large broom in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: The two girls, suddenly faced to face, reeled back from
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  Speaker 2: one another. Ava laughs nervously.
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  Speaker 7: Did you need to talk to mister Constantine?
• 5:13
  Speaker 5: Where's missus Brewer?
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  Speaker 2: Ava shrugs, oh, good luck today.
• 5:19
  Speaker 5: It's bad luck to wish good luck.
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: Some squeals from the hallway pulls Natalie's attention away. Ava's
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  Speaker 2: smile drops, continuing to sweep and watch.
• 5:30
  Speaker 5: Mom, What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Zoe, Jasmine and other dancers surround Missus Primavera, fifties stylish
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  Speaker 2: and elegant woman with a box of point shoes.
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  Speaker 8: I brought you a fresh pair just in case, and
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  Speaker 8: you have so fast I didn't get to wish you
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  Speaker 8: a big palace hit.
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  Speaker 2: The dancers excitedly gasp and Natalie shoots her mom a
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  Speaker 2: look mirrored my love.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks Mom? Are you fustuing the show again?
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't skip your last year if it was the
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  Speaker 8: end of the world.
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  Speaker 5: Mom, you can go now.
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  Speaker 2: As missus Primavera exits, she points to Natalie and places
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: her hand on her heart, mouthing you are my heart.
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: Natalie repeats the quiet ritual to her mom with a smile.
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  Speaker 2: Interior rehearsal studio day auditioners and point shoes and dance
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: attire are seated and clicks as Mister Constantine and Miss
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: Miako and Miss Lana forties to sixties ballet mistresses stand
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  Speaker 2: at the front of the studio. Natalie, Jasmine, Zoe, and
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  Speaker 2: Brock stretch in slow motion, legs pulled over their heads
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  Speaker 2: and perfectly lit as though they're in a dance ad.
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  Speaker 2: Zoe kisses her phone.
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  Speaker 5: Did you just kiss your phone?
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  Speaker 9: I kiss to me three times and then my rish
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  Speaker 9: has come true.
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  Speaker 2: I meant to be Clara.
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  Speaker 5: I want to try.
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: Zoe flashes her log screen a picture of Timothy Chalomey.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good.
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  Speaker 10: What roles are you auditioning for?
• 7:04
  Speaker 5: Just the sugar Plum Fairy?
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: Is your bun too tight? What if you don't get it?
• 7:09
  Speaker 5: I've got it.
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: Davia sits with Kenzie seventeen on the gloomy side of
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: the studio, their eyes fixed on Natalie and her friends
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  Speaker 2: look at her.
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  Speaker 7: She's like a Bolshoy sleeper agent. Why am I here again?
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  Speaker 9: Cuz Miss Miaco said you should audition for the sugar
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  Speaker 9: Plum Fairy. She's like Master Miyagi talent in you. She sees, Wait,
• 7:31
  Speaker 9: that's Yoda.
• 7:33
  Speaker 5: Did you know it's bad luck to wish good luck?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Miago eagerly approaches the center of the studio.
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  Speaker 11: Dancers while missus Brewer is on maternity leave. We're very
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  Speaker 11: lucky to have mister Constantine here from the Romanian Ballet
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  Speaker 11: to direct this season's Nutcracker.
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  Speaker 12: Not to mention he's sadly married. What does a woman
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  Speaker 12: need to do to find an ellb inteligible? Bahbah bah,
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  Speaker 12: I got a bubba.
• 8:03
  Speaker 11: We're very lucky to have mister Constantine here from the
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  Speaker 11: Romanian Ballet to direct this season's Nutcrack.
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  Speaker 12: You got to manson, he sadly married. What does a
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  Speaker 12: woman need to do to find an eligible battling?
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  Speaker 7: Enough?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? What enters your mind when you think of the Nutcracker?
• 8:20
  Speaker 5: Christmas?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, winter cold, crouds of snow.
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: Natalie exchanges glances with her friends.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone else?
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: Silence? Mister Constantine holds up the ancient snow globe containing
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: two dark figures in a frosted forest. He cranks the knob,
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  Speaker 2: playing a tiney patty de from Tchaikowsky's Nutcracker.
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  Speaker 3: The Nutcracker a Christmas balet over one hundred years old,
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  Speaker 3: danced by thousands of dancers, millions of times, music reaching
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  Speaker 3: billions of ears. There's magic in this, real magic? Is
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: there magic in you?
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  Speaker 2: Mister Constantine gingerly places the snow globe on the piano.
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  Speaker 3: Let the auditions begin.
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  Speaker 2: The front door opens and all dancers turn in unison
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: to look at Grayson eighteen, a charming, shaggy haired senior.
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  Speaker 2: Grayson halts as all the faces are staring at him.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Garcia, Yeah, that's me, Grayson.
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  Speaker 13: Super chill group here, huh.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie chuckles.
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  Speaker 3: Prince Cavaliers and sugar Plum Faerries stay everyone else wait
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  Speaker 3: out in the hole.
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  Speaker 2: Dancers file out as Natalie looks around and sees Auditioner
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  Speaker 2: number one staying put. Natalie shoots her a look. Auditioner
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: number one abruptly gets up and leaves. Natalie notices Jasmine
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  Speaker 2: lingering and raises her eyebrows. Jasmine catches Natalie's look, what.
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  Speaker 5: Are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm auditioning.
• 10:01
  Speaker 5: I'll blow my audition if I'm up against my best friend.
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  Speaker 5: You get snow Queen. You're perfect for it. I was
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  Speaker 5: snow Queen last year.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever fine, Jasmine scoffs and exits angrily. Most dancers have
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  Speaker 2: left the studio with Natalie Brock, Grayson, and Ava left.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: Natalie does a double take at Ava.
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  Speaker 3: We're auditioned with Pi Dedu the heart of these rollers.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, the solo has always been the audition for the
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  Speaker 6: sugarplum ferry.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know the de de?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: But I've practiced the solo a million times?
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  Speaker 3: You know it?
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  Speaker 2: Ava nodds.
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  Speaker 3: The pi de door in the other world beyond Clara's household,
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  Speaker 3: while everyone sleeps ignorant, ignorant of what exactly the other.
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  Speaker 2: World, thunderbooms, the lights flicker. Miss Miaco and Miss Lana
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  Speaker 2: look up at the ceiling.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm setting the scene. Let's start with Natalie primaver and
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: Brock Dennings.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie pulls on her rehearsal tutu as she walks to
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  Speaker 2: her spot on the dance floor with Brock. The pianist
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  Speaker 2: starts the music. Natalie and Brock execute the dance with
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  Speaker 2: skillful ease. Natalie's turns are in triples, her extensions reach
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  Speaker 2: her ear, and with the final lift and drop, Natalie
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: flashes a large smile. Miss Miaco and Miss Lano mouth wow.
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: Natalie's smile drops as mister Constantine shakes his head.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Primavera, what was going through your mind while dancing?
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I was counting, obviously, and made sure I stayed lifted
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  Speaker 6: so that Mic sens that's fair.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: Ava and Grayson, Ava, in a wrinkled wrap skirt, hurries
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  Speaker 2: to the floor with Grayson as Natalie sulkily sits with
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  Speaker 2: a frown. The pianist begins Ava and Grayson dance. Ava's
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  Speaker 2: leaps are low, her turns are in singles, and her
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  Speaker 2: extensions barely make it past her hip, but there's a
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: clear sadness behind her eyes, and her body moves as
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  Speaker 2: one with the music. Miss Lana, Miss Miaco, and mister
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Constantine watch attentively, nodding. Even Natalie is pulled in by
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: Ava's performance. Mister Constantine smiles large. As the dancers finish,
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: He looks at Ava and taps his heart.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you, goodbye dancers.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: Ava's eyes widen. Does she have a chance? Natalie's eyes dart. Wait.
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: Aren't you gonna ask her what was in her mind?
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: I don't have to.
• 12:32
  Speaker 11: You'll hear the audition results tonight by email.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks again, Ava, Grayson, and Brock head out the door.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Miss Lana, Miss Miaco, and mister Constantine rummage through papers together.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: The pianist coughs and eyes the center of the room.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Where Natalie is planted arms crossed.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 6: You know Ava Ross has only been dancing for five years.
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  Speaker 5: She just got on points.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, she probably shouldn't be on point. You're a technie,
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  Speaker 3: is excellent. You don't need to put her down to
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  Speaker 3: show how good you are.
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  Speaker 5: That's not what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 6: Look, I'm a senior and I've played every role in
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  Speaker 6: The Nutcracker except the sugar Plum Fairy.
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  Speaker 5: I know every note of that song. It's not a
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  Speaker 5: role for beginners. It's the most advanced role in this ballet.
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: If ballet is only about technique, it would put audiences
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: to sleep. I want to feel something. This piece is
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: about heartbreak. I want to feel my heart break.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: It's a happy ballet. It's about Christmas. Christmas makes people
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: feel happy.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Christmas makes me feel agony.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: The lights flicker. That's creepy.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: It's like I'm teaching in public school again.
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  Speaker 3: Play the piece.
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  Speaker 2: The pianist obediently begins playing the PARTI du.
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  Speaker 3: Listen from the other world.
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  Speaker 5: The land of sweets.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: Memory is not sweet. It's nostalgic, gone forever. Don't think
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  Speaker 3: about choreography, social media or Chris Emsworth. Find purpose in it.
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  Speaker 5: Dance is purpose for me.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie closes her eyes. The music seems to grow louder,
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  Speaker 2: and Natalie's shoulders relax, her head swaying with the notes.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: Mister Constantine eyes the globe on the piano and smiles, Holy.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Shit, yes, holy shit. Can you feel all of that
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  Speaker 3: and dens at the same.
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  Speaker 11: Time, mister Constantine, there's over one hundred dancers waiting.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Natalie snaps out of it and charges out the door
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: with a huff. Buff interior school hallway day. Natalie closes
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: her dance bag with a furious zip. Jasmine and Zoe
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: stand around her with nervous excitement.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: That was beautiful, Nat, you have it for sure. Ama
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Ross is a core dancer at best.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: I've seen smaller shoes on clowns. Miss Miago pops her
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  Speaker 2: head out of the door.
• 15:00
  Speaker 11: Snow Queen's next.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Miaco addresses Jasmine.
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  Speaker 11: I'm surprised I didn't see you in there with the
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  Speaker 11: sugar plum fairies.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Natalie's the sugar plum fairy. Jasmine walks in confidently with
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: a group of nervous dancers. Natalie walks down the hall
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: when an eager Ava approaches.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, you made that look so easy.
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: All ballet looks the same when it's done right.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Exterior historic Bridge sun said. Natalie is lost in her phone,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: swiping over and over to refresh her email. Sitting on
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: the hood of a car a few feet away. Jasmine, Zoe,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: and Rock are taking in the view and sipping wine coolers.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: Whatever role you get is wonderful.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Natalie clicks on Ava's Instagram page and pauses on a
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: photo of Ava and Kenzie making goofy faces. Natalie turns
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: her camera on selfie mode and takes a goofy face pick.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Uh ah, cute selfie.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Natalie quickly hides the pick and swings around to see
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Grayson standing behind her.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing here? We invited him.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Get off your.
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  Speaker 5: Phone neck, you're getting the role.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Interior rehearsal studio evening. Mister Constantine, Miss Miaco, and Miss
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  Speaker 2: Lana sit in the middle of the floor with audition
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: paperwork laid out everywhere. Ava timidly walks into the room,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: interrupting the teachers.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Constantine, I did work study hours for missus Brewer,
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: and I was wondering if I could help with anything
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: and collect some hours.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Ava.
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  Speaker 11: We can't let you in on this end of the process.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course, sorry, Ava starts to turn away.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Miss Ross, I could use your help for something.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Interior, Mister Constantine's office, Evening. Ava opens a box in
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  Speaker 2: a dusky office stacked with boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Books go on the bookshelf. You can leave everything else alone.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Ava notices the snow globe on mister Constantine's desk. She
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: picks it up, running her finger over the inscription.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: Dare to win feel Magic's kiss?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Beautiful, isn't it? It's very old, must be handled very delicately.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Ava sets it down. Mister Constantine turns to leave.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Do I actually have a chance at getting the part?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: You have the same chance as Miss Primavera.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: But she's Natalie prima Vera.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: She's a girl trained her best, just like you, Miss Ross.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Exterior pedestrian overpass night. Natalie refreshes her email again.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: You ever heard a watched pot never boiled?
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Have you ever been kicked in the balls by Vallerina?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, Oh my god, it isn't.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: On Natalie's phone, an email pops up from Wilburn High
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: School dance department with the subject line Nutcracker audition results.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Interior Mister Constantine's Office Night. Ava is slotting books onto
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the bookshelf when her phone buzzes Nutcracker audition results. Ava
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: sits down with a deep breath. She presses the link
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Exterior Pedestrian Overpast Night, roll sugar Plum Fairy. Natalie exhales
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: with a huge smile. Interior Mister Constantine's Office Night. Ava
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: slams her phone down in disappointment. Her email opened to
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Roll Understudy to sugar Plum Fairy. Ava brushes away a tear.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Exterior Pedestrian Overpast Night Natalie's phone video live stream with Natalie,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Zoe Brock, and Jasmine Grayson filming.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Hey guys, it's Natalie Primavera.
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: My best friends and I were just enjoying our last
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: summer night out before senior year Stars and.
• 18:46
  Speaker 13: Whilla, we got our audition results for our final Nutcacker.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Interior Mister Constantine's Office Night, Ava is watching Natalie's live stream.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: As mister Constantine walks in, she quickly said her phone down.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: We're heading home. You dnsd well, Miss Ross not well enough,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: and understudy is an invaluable position and only given to
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: someone we can trust with the role.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: I just really wanted that role.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: So did Miss Primavera.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: But she always gets.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: The role, She gets everything, everything always breaks her way,
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: and I just wish I could be like her.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: You have a think that Miss Primavera wishes she could
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: be like you.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: No, why would anyone wish to be me?
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: That's stupid. A faint green light seems to twinkle from
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: inside the snow globe. Sitting on mister Constantine's desk. He notices, hmm.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: See you rehearsal tomorrow, Miss Ross, get some rest.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Mister Constantine exits, Ava, picks up the snow globe and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: cranks the knob. The pata de variation plays from the
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: globe on Ava's phone. Natalie's live stream plays in the.
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: Background, and you are looking at the snow queen.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, two years in a row, and I'm Clara. I
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: couldn't have done it without my day make you selling.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: May and Rock.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Here's the Russian soloist and I'm the sugar plum.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Sorry, I can't wait to share this journey with all
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: of you from now until opening night.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Here's two one million.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Followers before first rehearsal tomorrow, Royal that ray, I'm.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Looking at you. Exterior pedestrian overpast night. Natalie is mid
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: panche arabesque pose, the full moon behind her, making her
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: a beautiful silhouette. Rock snaps a photo. Natalie lets go
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: of the pose and grabs the phone and frowns.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: What do you think of this?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I love it? Your lines are perfection?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: No, but like, what does it make you feel?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Silence? Natalie steps back and examines the scene. I got it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Natalie climbs on top of the cement railing of the overpass.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Whoa, hey, hey, is that like safe?
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: It's perfectly safe if you have solid technique.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: A million people are going to see this photo.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: And all I want is that when I dance, I
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: want people to feel worried.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: No magic.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Natalie looks up at the stars above her, takes a
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: moment before stretching into the pose again. Und Her foot
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: wabbles slightly underneath her interior Mister Constantine's Office Night. Ava's
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: on Natalie's Instagram page, scrolling past smile after smile, roll
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: after roll. Ava looks from her phone to the snow globe.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: She runs her finger over the inscription dare to wish
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: feel Magic's kiss seems to glisten. She shakes the globe,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: so the snow within swirls sparkling green. Exterior pedestrian overpass
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: night Natalie is mid pose.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Got it?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Natalie's slips and she falls over the edge. Shouts and
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: screams come from her friends. Interior Mister Constantine's Office. Night.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Ava shuts her eyes and takes a deep breath.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: I wish I was Natalie Primavera.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: The snow globe engulfs and black fog in a flash,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: and a green, blinding glow illuminates the entire office. Ava
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: gasps as her spirit, a translucent essence of her puffs
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: off of her body. Exterior pedestrian overpast Night Natalie is
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: falling in slow motion, screaming as Ava's spirit swims toward
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: her from the night sky. The ground approaches closer and closer.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Natalie squeezes her eyes as her spirit exits her body,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: just as Ava's enters It blackout upon hitting the ground.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Interior Mister Constantine's Office Day. Pobi shad blurry at first
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: sunlight through the window, the glowing green snow globe on
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: its side, with the inscription dare to wish feel Magic's
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: kiss coming into focus?
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: What the.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Where am I?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: A phone? Lies on the desk, open to Natalie's Instagram page.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: The shot of her doing a panche arabesque on the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: bridge a phenomenal photograph. Note. Ava's body is now inhabited
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: by Natalie and vice versa. Henceforth, Ava and Natalie will
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: be referred to as their sole brain name rather than
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: their body name. Natalie stands hand on her head and dazed.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: The door handled jiggles, and Natalie tucks under mister Constantine's desk.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Right before the door opens. Mister Constantine walks in. Natalie
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: sees his feet planted in front of his desk, picking
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: up the snow globe, and so we'll go again. Mister
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Constant sets the globe back down and exits. Interior rehearsal
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: studio day. Natalie walks out of the office and into
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the rehearsal room, catching her reflection. Natalie halts rushes back
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: in front of the mirror, face to face with Ava's body.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Natalie walks closer and closer to the mirror, mouth agape
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: as she touches her face, her hair breathing heavier.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Miss Ross is everything okay.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Mister Constantine is at the corner of the room.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: No, no, this is impossible.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Natalie looks back at the mirror.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It may seem impossible to fill Misprimavaro's shoes due to
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: her accident, but I think you'll find it in you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: Accident?
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: What accident?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: The bell rings, The hallway floods with students, and Natalie
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: turns back, but mister Constantine has vanished. Interior School Hallway day.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Natalie stumbles into the hallway, filled with students of all
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: different art disciplines. Drama, art, music, dance, back to school
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: artwork decorates the hallway. Natalie spots Zoey Brock and Jasmine
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: walking together.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Jasmine, Zoey Rock.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: They continue walking. Natalie runs to catch up to them,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: reaching for Zoe, Ugh, do you mind?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I need your help. I'm seriously freaking out.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Here, Jasmine flashes Natalie a sympathetic smile.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Oh hey, it's okay.
• 25:30
  Speaker 13: I'd be panicking too if I ring your shoes.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Natalie throws her arms around Jasmine in a tight hug.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Jasmine shoots zoe and Brock a w twof Look.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Listen, I'm Natalie, but I'm I know We're gonna fix it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: You know how to fix this.
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: We'll go to mister Constantine and let him know that
• 25:49
  Speaker 13: we're switching roles.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: I can be the sugar plum fairy and you. No, no, no,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: I'm the sugar plum fairy.
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: Look, nobody expected what happened to Natalie to happen.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: I honestly saw it coming.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: The accident.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Okay, what happened?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Don't play? Jasmine leans in toward Natalie.
• 26:14
  Speaker 13: Listen, your palent's challenged and as flexible as a petrified fossil.
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: The sugar plum theory needs to go to someone actually
• 26:22
  Speaker 13: capable of dancing the role, someone like me.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Natalie stumbles back away from her friends and into Trevor seventeen,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: a gaunt, undeniably nerdy kid with a viola case. He
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: plants a kiss on Natalie's lips. Natalie slaps him hard.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: How sorry, I don't know how to congratulate you when
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: it's because of something so terrible.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Natalie's breathing becomes a regular, her vision blurry and sound muffled.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: An exit sign illuminates down the hall. Natalie makes a
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: bee line for it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Cool, cool, we'll talk later.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Kenzie pops in in front of Natalie.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Ava, are you okay? I just turned Oh my god,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I'm dead.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: An overhead screen starts playing the abrasive song for morning announcements,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: and we see Principal Waters fifties.
• 27:17
  Speaker 14: Welcome back, all returning and new students.
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: I regret to start the first morning.
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: Announcement of the school year with some unfortunate news about
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: about how Verio Natalie.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Primabera, Oh shit, I'm actually dead.
• 27:37
  Speaker 14: The Wilburn Arts Senior fell fifteen feet last night and
• 27:41
  Speaker 14: is currently at Saint John's Hospital. Our family asks for privacy,
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: and we're all looking forward to welcoming Natalie back when
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: she recovers.
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: Good Wolves, We're not dead.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: I know it's a lot, but you've got this.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: Your Jody from under stage, starting from bad feet underdog
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: to Badass Dancer.
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: This is a great photo, though.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Kenzie holds her phone showing the moon photo on Natalie's
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Instagram page.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Oh thank you, save you.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: On the hospital, Kensie looks at her confused.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I gotta go, what about chemistry?
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Natalie rushes out of the hallway and into interior hospital
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: hallway day Natalie walks hastily and makes a turn. The
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: sign intensive care unit looms overhead, and she stops before
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: the lock. Double door is waiting then an elderly couple exits,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and Natalie slips through interior. I see you, Nurse station,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I see you room two oh two day. The chart
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: in the door says Primavera Natalie. The curtain is drawn
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: in the room with just a leg and a cast
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: in view. Natalie reaches to pull back the curtain when
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Nurse Sandy thirties pops in front of her family.
• 28:59
  Speaker 12: Only step out, please.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Natalie backs out of the room, hurted away by Nurse Sandy.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Mister Primavera fifties walks up in a wrinkled suit, bloodshot eyes,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: carrying a small coffee cup and spots Natalie.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Dad, Natalie's dad. I need to talk to her, Natalie.
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: She's still asleep.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Is she gonna be okay?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, awesome?
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Are you drinking vending machine?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Coffee?
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: Guilty? Don't come closer, My breath will knock you out.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: There's a coffee lover's down the block.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Want me to get you one, Mister Primavera studies Natalie.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: You're one of Natalie's friends.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really important that I talked to her.
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: Trust me, okay, yeah, we might be ready for visitors
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: in a few days.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: A few days.
• 30:00
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Mister Primavera raises his coffee cup as a bye and
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: exits into the room. Natalie follows Nurse Sandy to the
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: nurse's station.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: How long is that cast going to be on her?
• 30:13
  Speaker 14: Like?
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Is it a clean break?
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: I can't answer any of your questions.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: It's a law called hippa. So how long does it
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: take for a broken leg to heal them? Like generally
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: six to eight weeks? And have you noticed anything weird
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: with her, like with her head or something.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: Hypothetically, if the spirit of Natalie is and someone else,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: then logically that's someone else's spirit is a Natalie?
• 30:33
  Speaker 12: Right? Well, hypothetically we think in terms of medicine here
• 30:41
  Speaker 12: like facts.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: What you're talking about is more like magic, like bullshit.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Interior elevator Day, Natalie pats her jeans and pulls out
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: a work study form signed by mister Constantine and Ava's phone.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: The screen has a crack and a picture of Ava
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: with Trevor kissing her cheek.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Oh gross.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Natalie goes to Ava's Instagram page eighty six followers. She
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: clicks on a pick of Ava and Kenzie captured. Audition Day.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Natalie goes to her own Instagram page and sees that
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: she now has one point six million followers.
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: Oh my gosh.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Natalie clicks on the moon photo and scrolls through comment
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: after comment of well wishes. One comment makes her pause
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Royal ballet, fast recovery, Natalie, we look forward to your audition. Here.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Natalie's eyes widen and she presses the phone against her
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: heart like a love letter. She sees her reflection in
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: the elevator doors, Ava's face staring back at her interior
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: school hallway day, Natalie rushes down the hall to Ava's
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: locker and struggles with the lock, spinning and guessing random digits.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: After several failed attempts, Natalie pulls on the lock and
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: lets out a frustrated scream. Miss Ross, did you lose something?
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Natalie sees Miss Miako stepping toward her cautiously.
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: My body, Well, that sounds like a conversation for your therapist.
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: You're late for rehearsal. This is a really bad first impression.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: You're making kind of going through life crisis here.
• 32:18
  Speaker 11: Okay, hey, show a little compassion. I think maybe Natalie
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: is having a worse day than you today. I vouched
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: for you, so let's go.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: You vouched for Ava.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Why don't make me regret it? Interior rehearsal studio day.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Natalie enters the studio already full of dancers lining the walls, stretching,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: taking selfies, putting on points shoes. In the middle of
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the studio, Zoe dances the Clara solo, with Kenzie dancing
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: simultaneously in the back, a place designated for the understudy. Fritz,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a nine year old Romanian boy, grabs the imaginary doll
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: from Zoe and smashes it to the ground. Zoe and
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Kenzie put on their best surprise faces.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Father, we need to do it again.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Fritz been nice.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: That's your son and his name is Fritz.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I have many children, but this is the one I
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: prefer most places.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Fritz joins the other party children, but they all move
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: away from him. He eyes them and takes one step closer,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: and they all take one step away.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Don't mind them, Fritz, they will all be dead one day.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: The children look at him, dumbfounded.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Oh my apologies, I meant to say that. In Romanian again.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Bean Ross, eight, a precocious punk and a leotardan skirt,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: grabs Natalie on the arm.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Oh do you mind? We're were you last night. Mom
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: is freaking out and you're so grounded.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Natalie Dodge is bean Bean, crosses her arms, shaking her head.
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: You have ten minutes, Miss Ross.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Natalie spots her former friends Jasmine, Zoe, and Brock and
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: starts to head toward them when Ava, Hey over here.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Kenzie enthusiastically waves, standing in the corner with THEO eighteen,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: slightly portly male dancer wearing a rainbow bandana. Natalie reluctantly
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: makes her way over.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: Hey, Kenzie and THEO right, what were we up to
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: last night? Bugi boards weird witchy spells.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: I thought you were doing work study for mister Constantine
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: last night.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Miss Miaco tosses her hands up to say, what's the
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: hold up? Interior locker room day. Natalie is dressed in
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Ava's dance clothes. Her tights have runs and her wrap
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: skirt is a wrinkled mess. Natalie pulls out Ava's point shoes.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: They look disgusting. Interior rehearsal studio. The pianist is playing
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the pati du as Natalie and Grayson dance. After the
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: second rotation in Natalie's pirouette, her ankle wobbles and she
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: stumbles out of the turn. Keep going, Grayson and Natalie continue.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Natalie struggles with every extension, lift and turn. Grayson supports her,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: eyeing her with concern. Finally, Natalie's ankle gives out again
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: and she lands flat on her bottom. Dancer sitting along
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the wall giggle.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: You're danced as beautifully at the addition yesterday.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Sure if having a weak core no flexibility is beautiful?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: And who approved points shoes for these ankles? Not to
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: mention these shoes are dead.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Somebody learned to play a dava pretty fast.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: In my office, Missress Interior, Mister Constantine's office day, Natalie
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: follows mister Constantine into the office and leans against his
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: desk with the glowing globe sitting on the edge.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I know you're upset, but sometimes things have happen, and
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: for a reason.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: What things?
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: Do you know?
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: What's happened with me?
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Last night? You were sitting there upset to be cast
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: as the Understaddy, wishing you could be Natalie Primavera. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: here you are.
• 36:13
  Speaker 14: Here, who is.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: The sugar plum fairy? Miss Ross?
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: That's it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: I need to find some crystals to touch, or a
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: well to throw some cash in because nobody has any
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: answers for me, especially you and my what d It's
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: literally psychotic.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: I've got completely insaid.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Natalie throws her hands in the air, swipening the globe,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: making it fly. Mister Constantine dives for it and catches
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: it before it can hit the ground.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: You have to be more careful, Miss Bramavenna.
• 36:46
  Speaker 14: I knew it.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Nice gas lighting. By the way, fix it, fix it
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: It takes two to pie de du what last night?
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Ava wished to be you and.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: You wish to be I would never who wasn't even here?
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: The man Magic transcends space, Miss Primavera. I don't know how,
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: but I do know to change places it would have
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: taken both of you. Was there no moment last night
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: when you.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Were telling you I would never wish to be Ava?
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, wish to go back.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Mister Constantine hands Natalie the snow globe and exits. Left
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: alone in the office, she studies the globe.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Dare to wish feel Magic's kiss? Okay, I wish that
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: I was.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Suddenly Natalie hears commotion and opens her eyes and sees
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: missus Primavera in the studio. Mom interior rehearsal studio continuous.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Missus Primavera looks as though she's been crying, but has
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: a smile on her face. Everyone huddles around her, and
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Jasmine gives her a large hug.
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: I just wanted to stop by and give you all
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: an update on Natalie. She hasn't looken up yet, but
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: they're done with the testing and she's gonna be okay.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Dancers exhale with relief. Jasmine and Zoe hug each other.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Natalie steps out into the studio.
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: But this specialist told us that she shattered her right
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: hip and she won't be able to dance again.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Natalie's face falls. Missus Primavera continues talking, but it's muffled.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Everything around Natalie turns white. Natalie snaps out of it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Sight and sound are back to normal. Dancers murmuring and
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: comforting Missus Primavera. Natalie looks at the snow globe in
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: her hand and races out of the studio, unnoticed by
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: all but mister Constantine. Interior School hallway continuous. Mister Constantine
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: exits the studio and follows Natalie storming down the hall
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: with the snow globe in her hand.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: I wish my body was healed and I was back
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: in it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: The snow globe continues glowing unchanged.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: This isn't the lamb or monkey paw.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: You can't go back, and Natalie notices mister Constantine behind her.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: But I'm the sugar plum Fairy.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Natalie stares at the globe with dismay.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Ava is the sugar plum Fairy. You're in a hospital bed.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: There's an opportunity to learn from Ava, And when you
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: wake up, what opportunity.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Wait to fulfill my destiny as the sugar plum Firy.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Well, the show is three months away. I should warn
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: you there are consequences and staying in too long the
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: magic becomes unstable. Yeah, well the show is in three months.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: What the it's in three months? Okay, Uh, well the
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: show is three months away. I should warn you there
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: are consequences and staying in too long the magic becomes unstable.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: The life flicker on and off. Natalie notices, concerned momentarily
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: before looking back at the snow globe.
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  Speaker 6: As soon as Ava wakes up, I'll switch back. If
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: I can get this body sugar plumb ready, I can
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: recover from a broken hip.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie lingers on the glowing globe for a moment before
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: handing it back to mister Constantine. He takes it cautiously,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Primavera, be.
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  Speaker 5: Careful, mister Constantine. I've survived high school.
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  Speaker 2: I got this. Interior Artistic Dancewear Day A pile of points, shoes,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: rehearsal to to and dance attire land. On the cashier's counter,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Ava's phone lights up, mom pulling, Natalie swipes to ignore.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: WHOA, you get robbed or something sor something like that.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be.
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  Speaker 9: One thousand, four hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty five cents.
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  Speaker 5: Yikes, I guess it's the beginning of the season, right.
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  Speaker 2: Ray. Natalie rummages through Ava's bag and pulls out a
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: credit card from her wallet, handing it to the cashier
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: with a smile. Exterior Primavera McMansion Day, Natalie stands outside
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  Speaker 2: of her beautiful house, the Uber driving away and her
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: pastel car parked out in front. Natalie turns the doorknob,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: but doesn't push it open. Instead, she carefully releases the
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: knob and knocks. A moment later, missus Primavera answers the
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  Speaker 2: door hair in a messy bun and a measuring tape
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  Speaker 2: in her hands.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, can I help you?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: I thought you'd be at the hospital. Are you one
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: of Natalie's friends?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm the understudy. I mean Ava, You're not the
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: understudy anymore. Come in, come in.
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  Speaker 2: Interior Primavera mcmanson day. A labradoodle clean runs up to
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: greet Natalie.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 5: She how are you good?
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Natalie kneels and lets the dog tackle and slapp her
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: all over her. Who's this? Primavera smiles?
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  Speaker 5: Have you been here before?
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Once you weren't here And animals love me.
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  Speaker 8: Animals love Natalie too.
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  Speaker 2: I am sorry. My head is in a million places.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Why are you here again?
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to decorate Natalie's hospital room with some of
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: her things so she feels at home when she wakes up.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Wow, that is so sweet.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that you and Nat were so close.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Natalie swallows and nods. Natalie's bedroom continuous. Natalie walks into
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: her bedroom. It's like out of a magazine king size bed.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: In the middle of the room, vanity mirror with a
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: vast makeup collection displayed a ballet bar installed with a
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: large hanging mirror Natalie runs her hand over the bar,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: her makeup and plops down on her bed. Cliche jumps
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: on her lap to taddle. Natalie spots a framed photocollage
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: titled Nutcracker, a photo of young Natalie captioned baby Mouse,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: age five, followed by portraits of her as all the
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: other Nutcracker rolls with a single empty frame labeled sugar
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Plum Fairy. Natalie pulls a douffle bag out of the closet,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: a Royal Ballet keychain hooked to the zipper, and collects
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: a stuffed animal, a sweatshirt, a family photo. Natalie opens
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: a drawer and sees a packet labeled Royal Ballet Audition Packet.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Natalie shoves the packet into Ava's bag, along with a
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: few makeup pieces. Missus Primavera's office day, Natalie creeps to
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: the doorway and her mother is busy at her sewing
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: machine putting together two twos.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: You're costuming the show.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I cost hime it every year.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: I thought with Natalie, adan's what nat would want.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Natalie frowns, watching her mom materially before exiting exterior apartment
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: building dusk. Natalie climbs out of an uber looks at
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: an apartment complex.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, I'm abe A Ross and I'm poor.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Interior Ava's living room, night, Natalie enters cautiously.
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  Speaker 3: Ummm hello.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Miss Ros's fifties emerges near running. She sees Natalie and
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: gives her a large hug.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Where the hell have you been?
• 44:31
  Speaker 12: Uh?
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: Did you hear on the sugar plumberry? I know what
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: horrible news. I can't imagine what her mother is going through.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: What's all this just some stuff for the role? Why
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: didn't you call?
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 44:46
  Speaker 10: It broke?
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Natalie shows Miss Ross the crack screen.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: You can't stay out without my explicit permission. You hear
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: were you with Trevor? I know I said I was
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: okay with you too having sex?
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: But stop?
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: I fell asleep at school. Can we talk tomorrow? I
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: just I need to be alone to process right now.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Natalie rushes down the hall Ava's bedroom night. There are
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: two beds in the room, one with a cartoon character
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: comforter and the other with a plain purple comforter. Natalie
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: sits on the bed with the purple comforter. A Harvard
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: University flag hangs over the bed.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: Pull yourself together, Natalie get in character who is Ava Ross.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Natalie pulls out Ava's phone and opens up Ava's Instagram page.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: It has about ten posts, one with Ava and Trevor
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: licking ice cream from the same cone.
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: Okay, I have horrible taste in guys and a mom
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: that's way too involved in all of that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: The Harvard flag catches her eye.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: I want to go to Harvard. Weird and I'm poor
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: and share a room with the little kid.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Natalie spots a pink diary sitting on the floor.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Of course, all losers have diaries.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Natalie picks up the diary and begins reading. It's in
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: kid's handwriting. Found condom wrapper in Ava's drawer. Mom texted
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: dad yesterday. We need to talk.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: What are you doing.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Natalie looks up to see Bean standing at the door.
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: You baby mouse right, Yeah, so I didn't want to
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: be a party girl anyway.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: You're too sloppy for a party girl.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Bean takes her pink diary back.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Rude, I'm going to find out what's up with you. Okay, Nancy,
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Drew get out.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Natalie shoves Bean out of the room and shuts the door.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Bean bangs on the other side of the door.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Mom a will again.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Natalie looks at herself in the mirror Ava's reflection and
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: takes a deep breath.
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: Let's get your ass in shape.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: End of episode one.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: It probably exemplated