EXT. OFFICE - DAY
An Express Mail Service van pulls in front of the building.

NED WHITEMAN, in full EMS uniform, exits the driver’s side.

He tucks a clipboard under his arm, then removes several packages from the van and carries them to the service entrance.

He carefully balances the packages while he presses the buzzer.

A WOMAN’S VOICE blares out of the speaker.

WOMAN’S VOICE
What?

NED
EMS.

WOMAN’S VOICE
Hold on.

Ned waits. He watched the traffic on a nearby street. After a moment, he reaches for the button, again.

The service door swings open, knocking all the packages out of his hands.

GENE HOWARD, office assistant, all glasses and pocket protector, looks at the packages.

GENE
Sorry.

He watches as Ned scrambles to pick up his deliveries, obviously having trouble keeping a hold on them all.

GENE (CONT'D)
Those important?

NED
Every package is important, Gene.

Ned can’t manage to get a grip on one last, small package, so he kicks it through the doorway.

INT. MAIL ROOM - DAY
The small package skitters through the doorway, across the floor.

Gene and Ned enter the mail room, a small dank space filled with envelopes and packages.

KANDACE KLEIM, [* Perhaps a duller, sadder version of Pam from The Office] her sweater, shirt and pants all the same drab shade, stands over a stack of incoming mail. She robotically places envelopes and packages into their corresponding containers.

Gene lurks in the doorway.

NED
Morning, Kandace.

Kandace doesn’t look up from her work.

KANDACE
Morning, Ned.

Ned stacks his packages on an adjacent counter top. He looks at his clipboard, then offers it to Kandace.

NED
Just need a signature.

She slowly shifts her focus from table to the clipboard, then just stares at it.

NED (CONT'D)
Oh.

He pulls a pen out of his pocket, clicks it, then hands it to her.

She takes the pen, but just as it meets the board, her watch alarm beeps.

KANDACE
That’s lunch.

She walks out of the mail room.

Ned looks at the signature line. There’s a small dot where the pen touched the page.

GENE
I’ll sign it.

Ned looks at Gene, then back at the board.

NED
It’s fine.

Ned exits.

Gene still hangs in the doorway.