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INT. KITCHEN - DAY

High-end cabinetry, countertops and appliances. View into adjacent dining room and, through its window and the one over the kitchen sink, to the table, chairs and grill on the shaded patio and xeriscaped back yard bordered by a low stone wall beyond which are neighbors and the Organ Mountains. Dining room includes door to patio.  

Keys, phone, bowl of peaches and bananas on center island. Calendar on refrigerator featuring picture of fireworks display is turned to July and days marked off to the 11th, that space filled with CHLOE written-in blue pen. 

Hunter, dressed as previously, enters, gets half-empty bottle of water from fridge, drinks it in two gulps, tosses the bottle into plastic bag he pulls from bin in cupboard under sink, ties off the bag, leaves into hall.

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INT. TOM'S TRUCK - DAY

Tom in aviator sunglasses drives a two-lane road in the high desert community of Talavera, east of Las Cruces, near the Organ Mountains. Widely spaced handsome homes heavy on Southwest style. When his portable GPS tells him to turn left at Soledad Canyon Road, he does, aimed at the mountains.  

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INT. NOVELIST'S HOME OFFICE - DAY 

Old wooden desk near open door to hallway faces window view to up-close Organ Mountains east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Wall to left of desk is loaded bookshelf, wall to right features framed print of an Ad Reinhardt Red Painting above an old leather sofa. Navajo rug on hardwood. Old California Angels ballcap and wide brim sunhat on rack near door. Telescope and stool near window on other side of sofa, rocking chair and lamp near window on other side of bookshelf, the top shelf of which feature a model schooner sailing ship. Antique typewriter on the shelf below. Old NFL football on bottom shelf.  

Printer on stand near desk populated by globe, pencils and pens in New Mexico State University coffee mug atop stack of yellow legal pads, hardcover copy of Joseph Heller's novel Something Happened, a baseball, framed photograph of Chloe smiling and throwing a peace sign at the camera from where is "tubed" in the wave she is surfing, and a laptop with screensaver featuring Chloe in a selfie she has taken that includes a man sitting next to her in the front seat of a roller-coaster car in the middle of steep and swift descent, their faces gleeful. 

This man is HUNTER, 51, who enters from hall in running shoes, faded jeans, untucked dress shirt, opens laptop to page of text we see too briefly to discern before he closes that file, powers down laptop, leaves into hall.

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INT. PORSCHE CAYENNE SUV - DAY

John, 70-something, driving, Chloe, 17, front passenger seat, Jan, 70-something, behind John, Barbara, mid-40s behind Chloe.

Northbound Hwy. 101, signage re distance to Salinas, San Jose and San Francisco.

John in polo shirt, khaki pants. Left hand on the wheel features his gold watch and wedding band. Chloe in tracksuit. Jan in Martha Stewart stylish casual. Hands in lap, silver watch and wedding ring featuring prominent diamond. Barbara in: Corduroys and long sleeve PARK CITY t-shirt.

All physically fit.

JAN: Do we know what Jackie does for a living?

CHLOE: History professor at New Mexico State. I'll send you the link to her department page.

BARBARA: She's beautiful.

CHLOE: We're riding horses tomorrow.

JOHN: We being whom?

CHLOE: Me, dad, Jackie and her cousin who works at one of the stables in the Ruidoso area.

JAN: Isn't Ruidoso where Carl and Nancy Jackson retired?

JOHN: Cloudcroft.

JAN: That's right.

CHLOE: Dad is looking at cabins in Cloudcroft.

JAN/JOHN: Really?

CHLOE: Yep. Just recently.

JOHN: And selling Las Cruces?

CHLOE: Yeah.

BARBARA: He always said that if he could he'd be in the woods in the mountains.

JOHN: Foglost becoming a bestseller makes that a little easier.

CHLOE: And he's noticing more drive-bys.

JAN: The other side of the bestseller coin.

BARBARA: Goodbye comfortable anonymity.

CHLOE: And he just sold the movie rights.

JAN/JOHN: Really?

BARBARA: For a few very pretty pennies.

JAN: Well good for Hunter.

JOHN: I'll have to call to congratulate him.

JAN: I'm on that call.