FADE IN:

INT. Copier Room of Workplace � MORNING � The copier is humming loudly running through its paces.

Coughy McChokesOnPhlegm stands over the copier keypad like a bulldog over a favorite bone, wheezing slightly.

The heat from the overworked copier, the small space and Coughy�s ill health combine to make a slight sheen of sweat cover Coughy�s brow. She doesn�t even notice.

(Camera cuts into a tight shot of Coughy�s watery red-rimmed, almost colorless eyes.)

INT. Suzanna Danna�s desk as she puts together a folder of paperwork to take to the copy room. The camera follows Suzanna Danna down the short hallway from her desk to the copy room. Suzanna Danna enters the copy room, and finding it occupied stops short.

Coughy finishes her copying and exits with her papers, coughing the whole way.

The camera zooms in on a little speck of spittle that becomes airborne from one of Coughy�s many hacks (a la the movie scene in Outbreak) as it finds its way into Suzanna Danna�s lungs.

FADE OUT.

END OF ACT ONE.

FADE IN:

Slap a clock at the bottom of the screen, count down to 72 hours for incubation.

INT. Suzanna Danna�s bedroom at 2:15 am the next evening.

END OF ACT TWO.

FADE IN:

EXT. Outside Chick-Fil-A on Tuesday when Mister comes to get Suzanna Danna for lunch. She loves Chick-Fil-A. Yay, he�s sweet. Show them walking up to the double doors.

INT. Watch as Suzanna Danna changes her mind several times on her menu choice. Decides she doesn�t like what she ordered. Orders chicken soup, doesn�t eat that either.

INT. Back at the office, Suzanna Danna finishes up her pressing matters and tells her boss she�s feeling �icky�. She goes home.

INT. At home Suzanna Danna sits in the big chair freezing, wrapped in blankets with the heat on a frillion degrees, her temperature keeps rising from 101.4. Mister declares that he will be taking her to the doctor on Wednesday.

INT. Wednesday 2:35 am Suzanna Danna flopping around in bed, whining.

INT. Wednesday 10:00 am @ PrimaCare (because Dr. W the family physician is always on �Emergency� when we call) but the cultures are done for strep and flu. Suzanna Danna calls her boss with the news.

INT. Mister gets the prescriptions filled for all of the medications that it will take to get Suzanna Danna to feel better. She naps on and off for five days. Misses getting to go to her parent�s lake house for Easter and the celebration there, but gets better. Her first day back in the office she runs into Coughy in the hallway outside the copy room.

Suzanna Danna screams and runs in the other direction.

FADE OUT.

END OF ACT THREE.