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Inheritance

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The Scene

INT. LAWYER'S OFFICE - DAY

CLAIRE (45) and DANIEL (41) sit across from ATTORNEY GLASS (60s).
Glass opens a sealed envelope with practiced calm.

GLASS
Your mother amended the will
six weeks before she passed.

CLAIRE
Amended it? She told us—

GLASS
I know what she told you.
(reading)
"The entirety of my estate, including
the property at 14 Whitmore Lane,
is to be transferred to a third party
upon condition of a task completed."

DANIEL
What task?

GLASS
(reading)
"They'll know what it means when I say:
find the box I never opened."

Silence. Claire and Daniel look at each other.

DANIEL
(barely audible)
She told me she burned it.

CLAIRE
She told me it never existed.

END OF SCENE