SKYLAR
EXT. AU BON PAIN COURTYARD, HARVARD SQUARE -- DAY
Will and Skylar sit in the open courtyard of this Harvard Square
eatery. Skylar is working on another O-chem lab. Will sits
across from her, slightly bored watching her work.
WILL
How's it goin'?
SKYLAR
Fine.
WILL
Want me to take a look?
SKYLAR
No.
WILL
C'mon, give me a peek and we'll go to
the battin' cages.
SKYLAR
It's important that I learn this.
WILL
Why is it important to you? If I
inherited all that money, the only
thing important to me would be workin'
on my swing.
SKYLAR
Clearly.
WILL
You're rich. What do you have to worry
about?
SKYLAR
Rich? I have an inheritance. It's
two handred and fifty thousand dollars.
That's exactly what it'll cost me,
minus about five hundred bucks, to go
all the way through med school. This
is what I'm doing with that money. I
could have done anything I wanted. I
could have expanded my wardrobe,
substantially.
WILL
Instead you're going to bust your ass
for five years so you can be broke?
SKYLAR
No, so I can be a doctor.
A beat. Will nods. She looks down, then up.
SKYLAR
All right, Mr. Nosey Parker. Let me
ask you a question? Do you have a
photographic memory?
WILL
I guess. I don't know. How do you
remember your phone number?
SKYLAR
Have you ever studied Organic Chemistry?
WILL
Some, a little.
SKYLAR
Just for fun?
WILL
I guess so.
SKYLAR
Nobody does organic chemistry for "fun."
It's unnecessary. Especially for someone
like you.
WILL
Like me?
SKYLAR
Yeah. Someone like you who divides
his time, fairly evenly, between the
batting cages and bars.
Will laughs.
SKYLAR (cont'd)
How did you do that? I can't...I mean
even the smartest people I know, and
we do have a few at Harvard, have to
study-- a lot. It's hard.
(beat)
Listen, Will, if you don't want to tell me--
WILL
Do you play the piano?
SKYLAR
Come one Will. I just want to know.
WILL
I'm trying to explain it to you. So
you play the piano. When you look at
the keys, you see music, you see Mozart.
SKYLAR
I see "Hot Cross Buns," but okay.
WILL
Well all right, Beethoven. He looked
at a piano and saw music. The fuckin'
guy was deaf when he composed the Ode
to Joy. They had to turn him around
to take a bow because he couldn't hear
the crowd going crazy behind him.
Stone deaf. He saw all of that
music in his head.
SKYLAR
So, do you play the piano?
WILL
Not a lick. I look at a piano and I
see black and white keys, three pedals
and a box of wood. Beethoven, Mozart,
they looked at it and it just made
sense to them. They saw a piano and
they could play. I couldn't paint you
a picture, I probably can't hit the
ball out of Fenway Park and I can't
play the piano--
SKYLAR
--But you can do my O-chem lab in under
an hour, you can--
WILL
--When it came to stuff like that I
could always just play.
Skylar is awestruck with admiration for Will, the Robot-pimp.
So much so that Skylar has to kiss him, then push him away.
SKYLAR
I can't believe it's taken me four
years to meet you and I'm going to
California in two months, Will.
(beat)
Have you ever been to California? I
bet you'd like it.
Will freezes. A beat.
SKYLAR (cont'd)
Maybe not.