INT. MASTER BEDROOM - SUNSET
Sliding glass door view to deck, Pismo Beach, Pacific Ocean.
Ceiling fan spins slowly above the king bed in which Barbara and BRIAN, 50ish, lie intertwined under a sweat-spotted sheet, Both glisten. Phones and lamps on nightstands. Women's one-piece swimsuit and men's boardshorts on floor near bed. Chair and desk, dresser with mirror, old surfboard in corner, framed print of Evert Jan Ligtelijn's painting, Sailing yacht in a regatta.
BRIAN: So what can you tell me about Tom and Olivia?
BARBARA: What I remember Hunter telling me what he remembered Olivia telling him. What time do we need to go?
BRIAN: Probably get moving in fifteen.
BARBARA: Cliffsnotes then more on the way.
BRIAN: Did Olivia have siblings?
BARBARA: Only child, adopted.
BRIAN: Okay.
BARBARA: More on what I know of that later, if you're interested.
BRIAN: Of course.
BARBARA: They met in Reno. Olivia was there to see Elvis, Tom as in town a few days before a flight to L-A to meet a friend for a trip to Mexico at the end of a job on a cattle ranch in a place called Grass Valley. They bumped into and spilled their drinks on each other at the slots in Harrah's, where Olivia was staying. Tom was at a place called Fitzgeralds. Conversation led to her acceptance of his invitation to take a drive around Lake Tahoe the next day. He picked her up in his rental Corvette, they had breakfast at I-hop, took Mount Rose Highway to Incline Village, turned right for the counter-clockwise route diverted to Highway fifty and the Carson City route to Reno by a car crash near Spooner Summit. A stop to play the slots at the Carson City Nugget led to a night spent at the Pony Express Hotel. Which led to Hunter.
BRIAN: Birth control?
BARBARA: Olivia used as diaphragm. Ninety-four percent success rate. Hunter has a great story about the day he told her why he wore number six on his high school baseball team.
BRIAN (BEAT) Doh. A little slow there. How old were they?
BARBARA: Both twenty-six. They drove to Reno the next day, had brunch, saw a matinee showing of Rocky, Tom dropped her off, drove away. The next day she drove her seventy-two Mercury Comet home, Tom caught his flight. Presumably, anyway. No exchange of phone numbers or mailing addresses.
BRIAN: Where was home?
BARBARA: Outside Auburn, California. She taught high school English. She was renting a house a couple blocks from where her parents had retired. Nine months later Hunter was born. Seventeen years later she died from lung cancer. More on the in-between time on the way.
They move to leave bed as BARBARA'S PHONE BUZZES. She picks up, stares, hands phone to Brian, who looks at the selfie Chloe has taken with Hunter and Tom, at the stone wall, Organ Mountains behind them. Hunter wears Tom's hat.
BRIAN: Handsome fella. Like his son.
He hands her phone, she stares at picture, looks at him. She sets phone down.
BARBARFA: Ready.
They leave bed and frame, naked.