“EVERY LITTLE THING” FADE IN: SCENE I: INT. - FAMILY DINING ROOM We see AMANDA, an average woman with shoulder-length auburn hair and serious eyes, struggling to keep her children, JACOB (7 years old), and MADDIE (5 years old), in check. Her husband, JOHN (brunette with broad shoulders), eats wordlessly. AMANDA Maddie, put the doll away! No, she can’t eat with you; and she’ll be put away for the rest of the year if you don’t keep her away now! No arguments! Jacob, for the love of God, put your shirt back on. Amanda SIGHS heavily. Maddie reluctantly puts her doll away and sits down angrily. Jacob appears, shirt back on, with his baseball bat, and starts going around randomly hitting objects, including the table and a chair. Amanda pulls the baseball bat out of Jacob’s hand, tossing it away. It lands with a CLANG. Amanda then roughly pulls a worn-looking chair out from the table; it makes a violent SCREECHING noise. She wordlessly points to the seat. Jacob, after
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