Script

INT. BRAIN – DAY

We start with a top-down closeup of BOOMER, a man in a colorful suit and crazy hair flipping switches and panicking.

BOOMER

No, no, no, NO! Advance! Double back!
Get back there, you pusillanimous-

We zoom out to show him at the base of a cylindrical steam punk lounge filled with plants, instruments, art, and windows revealing brain matter engulfing the outside.  We cut to a title card reading 60 seconds earlier.

INT. COLLEGE OF PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING – DAY

After a brief, exterior, establishing shot. We cut to THOMAS, a slouched teen, scanning the halls with a schedule of classes in his hand. A POV shows a heads up display comparing the room numbers with the number on his schedule. Upon finding the right room, we zoom out to reveal the POV shot was on an eye-shaped monitor in a sleek and shiny lab filled with computers and more windows revealing brain matter engulfing the outside. LEFTY, a robot flies across the room.

LEFTY

Class reached with one minute left.

BOOMER

Well done, Lefty, you are a gentleman, and a scho- 
 

Both rooms shake from an unseen impact. Boomer recovers to see that AVA, an eclectically dressed girl has bumped into them and dropped her books.

BOOMER 

What the Freud was that?

AVA

Sorry...

BOOMER
(Pauses)

Uh... help her and introduce yourself, ya dope!

THOMAS
(Helping gather her books)

Uh... no problem... the name's Tom.

AVA

Ava... my name's Ava!

LEFTY
Uh, Boomer?

BOOMER
Right, the time, uh... ask her if she wants coffee later.
  
LEFTY

If she drinks coffee.

BOOMER

What?

THOMAS
Look, I gotta go, but are you a coffee drinker?

AVA

Uh... only when I need it.

BOOMER
(With more frustration)

Now, ask her if she wants coffee with YOU!

LEFTY

That would be illogical.

  

BOOMER

How is that illogical?!?

LEFTY

If she doesn't need coffee, she won't have it, and if she did need coffee, she'd already have it. [Her desire for coffee is conditional on need for coffee, and need for coffee is undefined.]

BOOMER
(Simultaneously with Lefty's previous line)

Of course she'd like coffee! Just look at her eyes!
That gaze could cut through steel, melt the polar icecaps and kill a yak on the other side!"

The sound of their fighting is engulfing by swelling ambiance as we zoom slowly into Ava's anxiously waiting eyes, then Thom's deer-in-the-headlights face, and finally a medium shot of Thom walking away in apparent defeat, much to Ava's disappointment, and echoing footsteps being the only sound. We return to the shot of Boomer flipping switches in a frenzy.

BOOMER

No, no, no, no! Advance! Double back!
Get back there you pusillanimous-

 (He growls, kicks his chair and stomps off)

LEFTY

Boomer…

BOOMER

Not now, Lefty.

LEFTY

Boomer!

BOOMER

Just leave me alone!

LEFTY

BOOMER!!!

(Boomer cringes from the loudness)

Ava has sat next to us…

Boomer checks the monitor and sees Ava in the next seat. Lefty extends his hand for a high five. Boomer high-fives the screen and hops back into the chair.

End credits.