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scene 9

INT. TRUCK - DAY

Tom drives slowly along a street lined by widely spaced southwest-style homes, each with a green recycling bin at the curb, except for the one Tom's head is turned toward. 

GPS VOICE: You have arrived at your destination.

Tom stops and idles at the driveway of a home with prickly pear cactus featured in the xeriscaping, He stares, finally raises phone to take a picture of the house, just as Hunter comes around the garage, rolling a recycling bin on a path to the driveway.

Hunter is halfway down the driveway when he looks up, sees truck. Tom takes the picture, drives away. 

INT. TRUCK

Hunter in the rearview mirror.

WITH HUNTER

Hunter watches the truck make the turn at the next street, then disappear behind a house. He waits but no truck, keeps his eyes aimed as he rolls the bin to the curb. He waits, finally walks back up driveway to path and out of view.

INT. TRUCK

Idling where Tom has stopped. He finally drives ahead to make the U-turn to Hunter's street.

EXT. TRUCK

Tom makes the turn, drives out of view, obscured by the hide-behind house.

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scene 8

INT. KITCHEN - DAY

State of the art appliances, top-shelf cabinetry, high-end stone countertops, view into adjacent dining room and window to grill, table and chairs on shaded patio xeriscape yard bordered by three-foot high stone wall, high-desert flora, neighbors, and the Organ Mountains on the other side. Window over sink to same. Dining room features four chairs at round wooden table under chandelier, handsome hutch, and framed print of the Van Gogh still life, Vase with Red Gladioli.

 Calendar on fridge turned to July. The Friday the 13th box is filled with "Chloe" in blue. The accompanying picture features a man and boy playing catch with a baseball in a back yard with a kidney pool. A woman in one-piece swimsuit and book in hand observes from the shallow-end steps, a German shepherd nearby. Palm trees above the bungalow home behind them.  Three bananas and two peaches in wooden bowl on center island, with phone, keys, short stack of mail. Door to patio.      

Hunter enters, gets plastic water bottle from fridge, takes a drink, notices a roadrunner scurry into view on the stone wall, He drinks and observes from the sink. Roadrunner takes flight. Hunter finishes water, crumples bottle, puts it in full plastic bag he pulls from bin in closet. He ties off bag, leaves with it through door out of view. 

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scene 7

INT. TRUCK - DAY

Tom, sporting aviator sunglasses, driving east on Soledad Canyon Road in the Talavera neighborhood east of Las Cruces, New Mexico, per the GPS and Organ Mountains in front of him. He takes in the southwest-flavored homes. 

GPS VOICE: In five-hundred feet turn left onto Silver King Road.

EXT. TRUCK

Tom makes the left turn, drives away.