BLOOD AND WINE
Written by
Nick Villiers
SECOND DRAFT
DECEMBER 12, 1994
FADE IN:
A PAIR OF HANDS
men's hands, nicely groomed, hold a small white terry
towel spoiled by blood-red spots. The hands rinse the
towel in a copper bar sink. The stains soften but stay.
A tan jacket sleeve, spotted the same way, moves INTO
FRAM. The hands dab the wet towel at the spots, with no
more success, and throw it into the sink. It falls half
in, still dripping the stains a drop at a time to the
floor.ALL IN CLOSEUP
The owner of the hands walks to a wine rack, opens a
bottle of white wine, drizzles the wine on the jacket
sleeve. The stains disappear. He hangs his jacket on a
hook and walks fromTHE CELLAR