HIGH SCHOOL ROOF, INT. It’s a sort of attic space, with a bit of crawlway thrown in. HOLLY sits on an exposed pipe, waving a wrench at JESSE, who’s looking faintly guilty and quite singed. Sunlight slants in from a small but ugly hole in the roof.

JESSE
So? They’re talking about reducing our minimum days! The school roof is an unfortunate casualty!

HOLLY
Okay, fine. Schooch over and lemme at the controls.

Jesse rolls her eyes and does.

HOLLY
And keep an ear out, wouldja?

Jesse puts her ear to the floor. Her eyes widen.

JESSE
Holly?! Um, you ready yet? Because… er, they’re talking about it now. And some lady’s saying it’s the best thing for the gang problem.

Holly bites her lip and throws a switch.

HOLLY
There!
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The staff meeting below. VARIOUS SCHOOL BOARD OFFICIALS scatter as the SPRINKLERS go on. One, a prim looking woman, THE MAYOR, shrieks as she and her horrid little LAPDOG get soaked.
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Attic. Holly and Jesse share a triumphant look. The camera follows them back down the stairs, and outside where they run into OFFICER BENETT, a six foot tall policeman built like a brick wall.

OFFICER BENETT
Hi girls. Bit of a disturbance over there, hmm?

HOLLY
Um, really?

OFFICER BENETT
Seems the sprinklers went off on the School Board…and the Mayor. Know anything about this, you two?

Both Holly and Jesse shake their heads no. Officer Benett sighs.

OFFICER BENETT
That shouldn’t have been a question. Come with me.

JESSE
But, Officer Benett, you don’t have enough evidence to detain us! What about the Fourth Amendment do you not understand?

OFFICER BENETT
Riiight. So you two just happened to be hanging out in the roof above the conference room in which they were discussing a new measure that I personally know you two seriously disagree with, when the sprinklers just happened to go off.

JESSE
Circumstantial evidence.

OFFICER BENETT
Sweetie, you’re holding a pipe wrench. And you’re singed. And the roof is smoking.

Both turn and look at the roof.

JESSE
Oops. Um, I can explain that.

OFFICER BENETT
Really?

JESSE
Spaceship.

OFFICER BENETT
I think your last explanation was better, frankly.

JESSE
Was that the one with the escaped lion?

OFFICER BENETT
No. That one was pretty bad. The one with the gas main.
JESSE
Oh.

OFFICER BENETT
All right, you two, let’s go.

As they leave, Holly turns to Jesse and whispers:

HOLLY
Every time you argue with him, it just makes it worse. Stoppit.

JESSE
But it’s fun! And I want to be a lawyer. And he’s cool with it!

OFFICER BENETT
I am?

JESSE
Yes. You are.

Officer Benett gets a resigned look as he leads the two away. CUT.