Entourage 35 - "Redemption"
My outline for the Entourage script I'll be writing in TV Writing...
ACT I
SCENE 1 - ENTOURAGE’S HOUSE - DAY
ERIC wakes up hung over and groggy from a night of drinking. His cell rings. It’s ARI. ARI begs ERIC to talk to VINCE for him. ERIC replies “It’s too late, ARI.” and hangs up. ERIC looks at the clock and goes back to sleep.
SCENE 2 - ARI’S OFFICE - DAY
ARI, frustrated, hangs up the phone. He calls LLOYD into the office. He asks LLOYD for a samurai sword so he can ritually Seppuku (Japanese ritual suicide) himself.
SCENE 3 - PIZZA JOINT - THAT AFTERNOON
The Entourage is eating lunch at a pizza joint. DRAMA gets a call on his phone. It’s ED BURNS. BURNS asks DRAMA to come in for a meeting right away. DRAMA, excited, but still worried, departs. VINCE seems abnormally frustrated and anxious. ERIC notices this and asks what’s wrong. VINCE explains that he’s sick of not working. TURTLE chimes in mentioning that with VINCE unemployed, ERIC not earning commission, and SAIGON signed with another manager, DRAMA might be the Entourage’s top earner. VINCE is shaken by this and orders ERIC to find him work or an agent, soon. The three get up and go to the cashier. VINCE tries to pay for the meal with his credit card, but it is rejected. TURTLE offers to pay to repay VINCE for the custom sneakers. ERIC asks “Are you going to spring for $20 of pizza a thousand times, Turtle?”
SCENE 4 - ARI’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON
ARI is lying on his couch in a weird sort of meditative state, staring at the ceiling. BABS walks in with a smirk. The two exchange condescending banter before BABS gets to the point. She gives ARI an ultimatum. VINCE is the cornerstone of the agency, if ARI can’t get him back, she’s going to take her money and her clients out of the agency and find another partner, perhaps “TERRENCE or JOSH WEINSTEIN.” BABS leaves the office. ARI yells for LLOYD. LLOYD enters. ARI, for the first time in his life, is at a loss for what to do. LLOYD simply tells him to give VINCE what he wants, get Medellin back for him. ARI explains he’s tried everything to get the movie. LLOYD mentions that he hasn’t tried begging for it. ARI realizes he has no choice, he has to go all out to get this project back for VINCE or his career as Hollywood’s top agent might be over.
SCENE 5 - ED BURNS’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON
DRAMA walks in, somewhat apprehensive. BURNS, sitting at his desk, seems somber. He tells DRAMA that the pilot didn’t get picked up for 12 episodes like they had hoped it would. DRAMA begins to flip out. All the angst of JOHNNY DRAMA explodes at what seems to be another failure in an unending line. Before DRAMA destroys his office, BURNS says that the pilot actually got picked up for 24 episodes. DRAMA is jubilant, and even busts out the “Victory!” war cry.
ACT II
SCENE 1 - PAUL HAGGIS’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON
ARI enters HAGGIS’S office and immediately drops to his knees. He begs for PAUL to put VINCE back on Medellin. HAGGIS, shocked to see ARI GOLD prostrate before him, is taken aback. He tells ARI to get up and that he’ll call Del Toro’s people and see what he can do. HAGGIS picks up the phone and dials. ARI nervously listens as PAUL exchanges “Yeah”s and “I see”s on the phone. HAGGIS hangs up the phone and explains that Del Toro wants this movie more than anything in the world and refuses to drop it. ARI is crushed. HAGGIS then mentions that the role of Diego Murillo is till open. ARI has no idea who that is. HAGGIS says it is an important role in the movie and that’s the best he can do for VINCE. While exiting, VINCE calls LLOYD and tells him to Google Diego Murillo and try to get ERIC on the phone.
SCENE 2 - ENTOURAGE HOUSE - EVENING
VINCE, ERIC, and TURTLE watch a baseball game on TV. DRAMA enters on cloud nine. He tells the family the good news. VINCE thinks they should go celebrate, but TURTLE asks how they’d pay for it. DRAMA says “Don’t worry bro, I’m gonna be there to support you through this hard time.” VINCE feigns gratitude but is horrified at this concept, as is ERIC. DRAMA’S phone rings. He answers and says he’ll call them back later. He mentions that his phone has been ringing off the hook all day with agencies looking to represent him. Oddly, they all want VINCE to go with him for their introduction meetings. TURTLE suggests that agencies want to get DRAMA in order to get VINCE as well. DRAMA doubts it but says that the Chase brothers are now a legitimate double threat. ERIC asks who has DRAMA spoken to. DRAMA checks his call history. “All of the big names except for ANDY LEFT.” ERIC suggests that maybe LEFT actually has some integrity and won’t hire VINCE or DRAMA because of what he thinks ERIC said to his ASSISTANT over the phone. VINCE decides that LEFT is the agent he wants, someone with integrity and character; unlike ARI whose dishonesty and conniving cost them the Ramones movie.
SCENE 3 - ARI’S CAR - EVENING
ARI is driving, his phone rings. It’s LLOYD back at the office. LLOYD explains that Diego Murillo was a member of Pablo Escobar’s cartel until he turned against Escobar and joined the underground anti-Escobar movement in Columbia. Murillo eventually became a drug kingpin himself. LLOYD tells ARI that the part in the movie isn’t as good as Escobar’s, but the character is still very good and VINCE should enjoy doing it. ARI says he’ll go to VINCE with it, but he needs to find him. He asks LLOYD to use the network of gay assistant’s to see if VINCE is meeting with anyone else.
SCENE 4 - ENTOURAGE HOUSE - EVENING
ERIC calls ANDY LEFT’S office. His ASSISTANT answers. Once he learns it is ERIC calling, he hangs up.
SCENE 5 - LLOYD’S HOUSE, HOT TUB - NIGHT
LLOYD sits in his hot tub. LEFT’S ASISSTANT enters with a glass of Champaign. The ASSISTANT mentions that ERIC called ANDY a fag over the phone. LLOYD tells him that ERIC is the only nice person in Hollywood and would never call ANDY a fag. The ASSISTANT asks if it was ARI maneuvering. LLOYD denies any knowledge, but he insists ERIC wouldn’t call anyone a fag. THE ASSISTANT believes him and says “Well, I guess I’ll call him back tomorrow and set up a meeting between VINCE and ANDY.”
ACT III
SCENE 1 - ENTOURAGE HOUSE - NEXT MORNING
ERIC and VINCE are shooting pool. VINCE misses a shot and snaps. “Fuck!” ERIC asks what’s wrong. VINCE rethinks out loud his decisions over the past few months, passing on Aquaman 2, buying the $20,000 sneakers, even firing ARI. VINCE even goes so far as to suggest that maybe he needs entirely new representation: new agent, new publicist, and new manager. ERIC is speechless. Then his phone rings, it’s ANDY’S ASSISTANT. He apologizes for the misidentification of ERIC and asks to set up a lunch meeting. ERIC agrees. Smugly, ERIC tells VINCE the good news.
SCENE 2 - ARI’S OFFICE - MORNING
ARI comes into the office, LLOYD is waiting for him. LLOYD tells ARI that LEFT and VINCE have a lunch meeting and tells ARI where it is. Sarcastically, ARI offers his body to LLOYD if this works out. ARI departs the office for the restaurant.
SCENE 3 - OUTSIDE RESTAURANT - MIDDAY
ERIC, VINCE, TURTLE, and DRAMA roll up in the Hummer. They get out, walk down the sidewalk then turn the corner to see ARI standing there. VINCE tells ARI to go away. ARI stands his ground. He then gets down on his knees and apologizes. “I told you, ARI, it’s too late!” says ERIC. ARI then hands VINCE a few pieces of paper stapled together. “Who the fuck is Diego Murillo?” says VINCE. VINCE gives the papers to ERIC. ERIC reads them and says “This actually looks like a decent part, VINCE. Not the lead, but a good role.” VINCE realizes that ARI understands what he wants and what he likes to do and that it would take time to build up that kind of understanding with another agent. TURTLE asks how much the role pays. ARI says it pays about the same as Escobar if VINCE agrees to do it. Two stars in one movie equals blockbuster. Reluctantly, VINCE accepts ARI’S apology. He agrees to go back with ARI so long as ARI agrees not to fuck him over again like he did with the Ramones movie. The two hug it out. ERIC goes into the restaurant to give the bad news to ANDY LEFT.
SCENE 4 - INSIDE RESTAURANT - CONT.
ERIC approaches LEFT in the restaurant. ERIC explains that they’ve decided to go back to VINCE. LEFT is very aggravated. He feels jerked around by VINCE and ARI. He vows to join the ever increasing list of VINCE and ARI’S enemies (TERRENCE, WEINSTEIN, Warner Brothers, and dozens of others). He promises to do everything in his power to fuck over VINCE, and ARI whenever he can in the future.
THE END
ACT I
SCENE 1 - ENTOURAGE’S HOUSE - DAY
ERIC wakes up hung over and groggy from a night of drinking. His cell rings. It’s ARI. ARI begs ERIC to talk to VINCE for him. ERIC replies “It’s too late, ARI.” and hangs up. ERIC looks at the clock and goes back to sleep.
SCENE 2 - ARI’S OFFICE - DAY
ARI, frustrated, hangs up the phone. He calls LLOYD into the office. He asks LLOYD for a samurai sword so he can ritually Seppuku (Japanese ritual suicide) himself.
SCENE 3 - PIZZA JOINT - THAT AFTERNOON
The Entourage is eating lunch at a pizza joint. DRAMA gets a call on his phone. It’s ED BURNS. BURNS asks DRAMA to come in for a meeting right away. DRAMA, excited, but still worried, departs. VINCE seems abnormally frustrated and anxious. ERIC notices this and asks what’s wrong. VINCE explains that he’s sick of not working. TURTLE chimes in mentioning that with VINCE unemployed, ERIC not earning commission, and SAIGON signed with another manager, DRAMA might be the Entourage’s top earner. VINCE is shaken by this and orders ERIC to find him work or an agent, soon. The three get up and go to the cashier. VINCE tries to pay for the meal with his credit card, but it is rejected. TURTLE offers to pay to repay VINCE for the custom sneakers. ERIC asks “Are you going to spring for $20 of pizza a thousand times, Turtle?”
SCENE 4 - ARI’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON
ARI is lying on his couch in a weird sort of meditative state, staring at the ceiling. BABS walks in with a smirk. The two exchange condescending banter before BABS gets to the point. She gives ARI an ultimatum. VINCE is the cornerstone of the agency, if ARI can’t get him back, she’s going to take her money and her clients out of the agency and find another partner, perhaps “TERRENCE or JOSH WEINSTEIN.” BABS leaves the office. ARI yells for LLOYD. LLOYD enters. ARI, for the first time in his life, is at a loss for what to do. LLOYD simply tells him to give VINCE what he wants, get Medellin back for him. ARI explains he’s tried everything to get the movie. LLOYD mentions that he hasn’t tried begging for it. ARI realizes he has no choice, he has to go all out to get this project back for VINCE or his career as Hollywood’s top agent might be over.
SCENE 5 - ED BURNS’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON
DRAMA walks in, somewhat apprehensive. BURNS, sitting at his desk, seems somber. He tells DRAMA that the pilot didn’t get picked up for 12 episodes like they had hoped it would. DRAMA begins to flip out. All the angst of JOHNNY DRAMA explodes at what seems to be another failure in an unending line. Before DRAMA destroys his office, BURNS says that the pilot actually got picked up for 24 episodes. DRAMA is jubilant, and even busts out the “Victory!” war cry.
ACT II
SCENE 1 - PAUL HAGGIS’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON
ARI enters HAGGIS’S office and immediately drops to his knees. He begs for PAUL to put VINCE back on Medellin. HAGGIS, shocked to see ARI GOLD prostrate before him, is taken aback. He tells ARI to get up and that he’ll call Del Toro’s people and see what he can do. HAGGIS picks up the phone and dials. ARI nervously listens as PAUL exchanges “Yeah”s and “I see”s on the phone. HAGGIS hangs up the phone and explains that Del Toro wants this movie more than anything in the world and refuses to drop it. ARI is crushed. HAGGIS then mentions that the role of Diego Murillo is till open. ARI has no idea who that is. HAGGIS says it is an important role in the movie and that’s the best he can do for VINCE. While exiting, VINCE calls LLOYD and tells him to Google Diego Murillo and try to get ERIC on the phone.
SCENE 2 - ENTOURAGE HOUSE - EVENING
VINCE, ERIC, and TURTLE watch a baseball game on TV. DRAMA enters on cloud nine. He tells the family the good news. VINCE thinks they should go celebrate, but TURTLE asks how they’d pay for it. DRAMA says “Don’t worry bro, I’m gonna be there to support you through this hard time.” VINCE feigns gratitude but is horrified at this concept, as is ERIC. DRAMA’S phone rings. He answers and says he’ll call them back later. He mentions that his phone has been ringing off the hook all day with agencies looking to represent him. Oddly, they all want VINCE to go with him for their introduction meetings. TURTLE suggests that agencies want to get DRAMA in order to get VINCE as well. DRAMA doubts it but says that the Chase brothers are now a legitimate double threat. ERIC asks who has DRAMA spoken to. DRAMA checks his call history. “All of the big names except for ANDY LEFT.” ERIC suggests that maybe LEFT actually has some integrity and won’t hire VINCE or DRAMA because of what he thinks ERIC said to his ASSISTANT over the phone. VINCE decides that LEFT is the agent he wants, someone with integrity and character; unlike ARI whose dishonesty and conniving cost them the Ramones movie.
SCENE 3 - ARI’S CAR - EVENING
ARI is driving, his phone rings. It’s LLOYD back at the office. LLOYD explains that Diego Murillo was a member of Pablo Escobar’s cartel until he turned against Escobar and joined the underground anti-Escobar movement in Columbia. Murillo eventually became a drug kingpin himself. LLOYD tells ARI that the part in the movie isn’t as good as Escobar’s, but the character is still very good and VINCE should enjoy doing it. ARI says he’ll go to VINCE with it, but he needs to find him. He asks LLOYD to use the network of gay assistant’s to see if VINCE is meeting with anyone else.
SCENE 4 - ENTOURAGE HOUSE - EVENING
ERIC calls ANDY LEFT’S office. His ASSISTANT answers. Once he learns it is ERIC calling, he hangs up.
SCENE 5 - LLOYD’S HOUSE, HOT TUB - NIGHT
LLOYD sits in his hot tub. LEFT’S ASISSTANT enters with a glass of Champaign. The ASSISTANT mentions that ERIC called ANDY a fag over the phone. LLOYD tells him that ERIC is the only nice person in Hollywood and would never call ANDY a fag. The ASSISTANT asks if it was ARI maneuvering. LLOYD denies any knowledge, but he insists ERIC wouldn’t call anyone a fag. THE ASSISTANT believes him and says “Well, I guess I’ll call him back tomorrow and set up a meeting between VINCE and ANDY.”
ACT III
SCENE 1 - ENTOURAGE HOUSE - NEXT MORNING
ERIC and VINCE are shooting pool. VINCE misses a shot and snaps. “Fuck!” ERIC asks what’s wrong. VINCE rethinks out loud his decisions over the past few months, passing on Aquaman 2, buying the $20,000 sneakers, even firing ARI. VINCE even goes so far as to suggest that maybe he needs entirely new representation: new agent, new publicist, and new manager. ERIC is speechless. Then his phone rings, it’s ANDY’S ASSISTANT. He apologizes for the misidentification of ERIC and asks to set up a lunch meeting. ERIC agrees. Smugly, ERIC tells VINCE the good news.
SCENE 2 - ARI’S OFFICE - MORNING
ARI comes into the office, LLOYD is waiting for him. LLOYD tells ARI that LEFT and VINCE have a lunch meeting and tells ARI where it is. Sarcastically, ARI offers his body to LLOYD if this works out. ARI departs the office for the restaurant.
SCENE 3 - OUTSIDE RESTAURANT - MIDDAY
ERIC, VINCE, TURTLE, and DRAMA roll up in the Hummer. They get out, walk down the sidewalk then turn the corner to see ARI standing there. VINCE tells ARI to go away. ARI stands his ground. He then gets down on his knees and apologizes. “I told you, ARI, it’s too late!” says ERIC. ARI then hands VINCE a few pieces of paper stapled together. “Who the fuck is Diego Murillo?” says VINCE. VINCE gives the papers to ERIC. ERIC reads them and says “This actually looks like a decent part, VINCE. Not the lead, but a good role.” VINCE realizes that ARI understands what he wants and what he likes to do and that it would take time to build up that kind of understanding with another agent. TURTLE asks how much the role pays. ARI says it pays about the same as Escobar if VINCE agrees to do it. Two stars in one movie equals blockbuster. Reluctantly, VINCE accepts ARI’S apology. He agrees to go back with ARI so long as ARI agrees not to fuck him over again like he did with the Ramones movie. The two hug it out. ERIC goes into the restaurant to give the bad news to ANDY LEFT.
SCENE 4 - INSIDE RESTAURANT - CONT.
ERIC approaches LEFT in the restaurant. ERIC explains that they’ve decided to go back to VINCE. LEFT is very aggravated. He feels jerked around by VINCE and ARI. He vows to join the ever increasing list of VINCE and ARI’S enemies (TERRENCE, WEINSTEIN, Warner Brothers, and dozens of others). He promises to do everything in his power to fuck over VINCE, and ARI whenever he can in the future.
THE END
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