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"This IS It?

Episode #101

 
 

Written by

Gloria Calderon KelIeit
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Mike Royce i:

 

?on the Original Series 
Developed by
Norman Lear

   
  
 

Directed by
Pamela Fryman

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?This is It"

  
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
 
  
  
 

f? Rev. Shooting Draft 
5/4/16
Cast Listl



Moreno

Dr. 

Todd Grinnell

Isabella Gomez

Marcel Ruiz

Griffin

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One Day at a Time



211d Rev. Shooting Draft (PINK) 5.4.16

SCENE A (DAY 1)

1 INT. DR. OFFICE LATE AFTERNOON
(Penelope, Dr. Berkowitz, Carl)

 

 

 

SCENE (NIGHT I)
2 INT. APARTMENT - EVENING
(Penelope, Lydia, Elena, Alex)

 

 

 

SCENE (DAY 2)
3 INT. APARTMENT MORNING
(Penelope, Lydia, Schneider, Elena, Alex)

 

 

 

SCENE (DAY 3)
4 INT. DR. OFFICE AFTERNOON
(Penelope, Dr. BerkowitZ)

 

SCENE (NIGHT 3) NA
5 INT. APT. EVENING .3
(Penelope. Lydia, Schneider, Elena, Alex)

   

 

 

 

 

  
 
   
   

SCENE (NIGHT 3) (39)
6 INT. EVENING

(Penelope, Alex) 

SCENE (NIGHT 3) (41)

7 INT. BEDROOM EVENING 
(Penelope, Elena)

 

 

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SCENE (NIGHT 3) 
LATER

8 INT. BEDRO
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SCENE A

 
   
  
   
 
  
  
 

INT. DR. OFFICE LATE AFTERNOON (DAY ll
(Penelope, Dr. Berkowitz, Carl)

OUR HERO, PENELOPE ALVAREZ (308), A NURSE, ATTRACTIVE, 
A SKILLED GIVER AND TAKER OF SHIT, IS FINISHING UP WITH 

PENELOPE

Okay Carl, your blood pressure looks

oithat means ten or twelve.

    
  
 

CARL 6
or twelve.

PENELOPE 7
Would you also like to lie to me aboup
smoking?
CARL I 8

I stopped smoking.

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PENELOPE 9
Carl, the mouthwash works but the shirt
smells Virginia Slims?_
CARL
(DEFEATED) They make my hands look
bigger. 

PENELOPE

CLIPBOARD. ONE OF WHICH SHOWS HER <i f?y REE BUDDIES,
DRESSED IN ARMY FATIGUES. 

CARL 12
13
14
15
16

Christmas?
PENELOPE 17

I?m gonna give you a sec.
CARL FINALLY GETS IT.
CARL PENELOPE (cont'd)

There you go. 18'19

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CARL 20
So let me ask you-?

PENELOPE
(BY ROTE) No I never killed anyone. Yes
it was hot over there. You?re welcome for
my service. Anything else?

CARL

is also a badass soldier.
PENELOPE

Oh yes. He was.

CARL 24
Oh God! Sorry.
25
26
427
Ldink
CARL 28
(FACE FALLS) Single mom.
PENELOPE 29

Well, this was fun.

DR. BERKOWITZ (508, AN ADORABLE MESS) APPEARS IN THE DOORWAY, A
LITTLE HARRIED, A LITTLE LOTTA.STUFF ON HIS PLATE TODAY.

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DR. BERKOWITZ 30
Penelope. (SEES CARL, BIG FAKE SMILE) Hey
Carl! (BACK TO PENELOPE) Don?t you have
to go? My phone told me you?re leaving
early. (TO CARL) My phone tells me things

DOW .

 

PENELOPE

      

Yes, I put a reminder in there so

wouldn?t freak out._

  
   
      
  
  

DR. BERKOWITZ 32
?e
-. . .W
Oh thank God because I was E?eaking out.
How does my phone know W%ngs? Did
33
34
PENELOPE 35

(UPBEAT) I?m bringing back family dinner
night! (TO CARL) We used to do it every

Friday. It was kinda my husband?s thing,
so we stopped. But tonight I'm making it
my thing. ?Cause we?re still a family,

dammit!

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PENELOPE 



(POINTING TO CARL) He smokes lady

  
   
   
  
  
   
 
 
  

cigarettes. Bye!
SHE EXITS. DR. BERKOWITZ CHUCKLES AS HE PERUSES THE CLIPBOARE
DR. BERKOWITZ
She's great, huh?
CARL
(MATTER OF FACT) Yeah.
DR. BERKOWITZ
Easy pervert.

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SCENE 

INT. APARTMENT EVENING (NIGHT ll
(Penelope, Lydia, Elena, Alex)

   
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 

?a


THE FRONT DOOR KICKS OPEN TO REVEAL AN EXHAUSTED 

PENELOPE
Alex! (NOTHING) Alex,

STILL NOTHING. PENELOPE TAKES A
TOSSES IT ONTO CHEST. HE

PENELOPE
Papito, let?s go! You 9"

shoulder, I need help

  
      

E'Eggext time I'll Skype you.

SHE STAREEHTO DS THE KITCHEN BUT SUDDENLY THE CURTAIN IN THE



DRAMATICALLY, REVEALING MOM LYDIA
5? FIT AND GLAMOROUS, TRADITIONAL WITH A TWIST).

LYDIA 43
We have a problem.

PENELOPE 44
I know, the hipsters have discovered

Portos. Line around the block, it?s the

freaking Apple Store now.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME A IS [101] 7.
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DAUGHTER ELENA SMART, PROUD NERD, STORMS IN.
(NOTE: BOTH KIDS ARE STILL IN THEIR CATHOLIC SCHOOL UNIFORMS,
ALTHOUGH IN A BIT MORE OF A CASUAL MODE.)
ELENA
Mom??l
LYDIA
This one? I don?t like her anymore.
ELENA

I don?t care if you like me!

PENELOPE

LYDIA 49
Your 
have a quinces.
50
51
I researched the history of?
qu bea?eras and found out they?re
totally misogynistic. A
LYDIA 52

She's been reading again! Why do you let

her read?!

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PENELOPE 53

I know, I let her do math too, Mami. I?m

    
   
  

a monster.
ELENA
By the way, they made me captain of the
debate team today at school, but all Sh?j
wants to talk about is this. I
LYDIA
She has to have a quincesi How

we know the day our girl b1 omes a woma

 

 

   

ELENA 56
You missed it. I was 12
Ironically, it happenec
57
58
59
sis?.
w%
So?Etne thinks they' re worth a lot.
PENELOPE 4 60
9 

What century do you two think it is.
Elena, relax, it's just a fun party.

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PENELOPE 

I?ll haVe a little too much wine,

  
  
  
  
 
  
   
 
   
  
  

embarrass you while I sob during my
toast, Abuelita will dance
inappropriately with one of your guy
friends.

LYDIA

You can count on it.

 
 
 
 

PENELOPE 62
It?s gonna be great.
ELENA 63
What about any of that do
sounds good PULLS HIS HEADPHONES DOWN.
LYDIA - 67

(TO ALEX) Ella ni siquiera sabe la

palabra sin verg?enza.

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ALEX 68

(LAUGHS) Oye, que tonta.

  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

LYDIA

(LAUGHS) Que malo!

BIT HE AND LYDIA HAVE. ELENA STEWS.

ELENA

you learn English.

LYDIA 71
(OUTRAGED) I know the
your abuelo, God rest his
marry me for my mind.
ELENA ROLLS HER EYES AND EXLTS.
72
73
PENELOPE 74
What are you doing? (RE: SCREEN)
Are you shopping? Who said you could
shop?
A ALEX 75

You said I could order sneakers for

school.

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PENELOPE
(RE: SCREEN) Five pairs?
ALEX
Monday through Friday. Don?t worry, I
don?t need weekend sneakers.
VPENELOPE
I can?t have my son walking around
Monday sneakers on a Saturday liky

peasant!

nowlars 

      
 

w-

sneakers to last the whole year.

ALEX

.4

TheEWhole year?? (DEEP BREATH) Okay Mom,
I know we?re not rich. But are we (WITH
BREAD) poor?

PENELOPE
No! (CAREFULLY) fine.
ALEX

That sounds like poor!

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PENELOPE

We?re not poor! Look around! We have a

TV, a refrigerator, you have a laptop!
ALEX

These are things that poor people have!
PENELOPE

We have an air conditioner!
ALEX

You never let us turn it on!

PENELOPE

It?s Friday night, family
time! Let?s go. (CALLING) Elena,

Vset the table. (TO ALEX) Alex, you

?Theltime make a salad.

 

PENELOPE 
This meat was heavily discounted so I

need to cook it before it turnsPENELOPE LOOKS AT ALEX, WHO LOOKS GUILTY, THEN ELENA ENTERS, ALSO

LOOKING GUILTY, AS DOES LYDIA. PENELOPE REALIZES:

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PENELOPE 94
You already ate, didn?t you?
ALEX
She made ropa Vieja! I'm not made of stone!
PENELOPE
Mami, I told you this morning I was going
to cook tonight.
LYDIA
I thought it was a joke. And I

was hilarious.

  

ALEX 98
Sorry mom. Do you want W?lt and
watch you eat?
99
100

101
if you don?t want to eat your sad meat.
PENELOPE 102
I bought this, I?m eating it.
LYDIA 103

Okay.

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PENELOPE TURNS ON THE SINK TO WASH HER HANDS. JUST A DRIBBLE OF

WATER EMERGES ALONG WITH A LOUD TROUBLING SOUND.
SFX: PLUMBING NOISES.
LYDIA 
Yeah, that's not working. Don?t worry, I
told Schneider. Here?s some hand
sanitizer. (HANDS IT TO HER) And here.
(HANDS HER A SMALL TUBE) 
PENELOPE
I don?t need lipstick.
LYDIA
Yes you do.
PENELOPE

(SHUTTING IT DOWN) Okay?

a,

  
 

let?s talk quinces.

PENELOPE

I don?t want to force her. This is
me now, I want to handle it right.

LYDIA

You know, a father would make sure his

little girl had a quinces.

PENELOPE TURNS TO HER, STARING DAGGERS.

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PENELOPE . 111

You really want to go there? I'm holding

   
   
  
  
 
  
 
 

a hammer.

LYDIA
I?m just saying maybe when Victor gets
back you can work it out.

PENELOPE

114

Yes.

?age

a;

A VERY LONG BEAT As SHE LOOKS QUIZZICALLY.

5

      
  

LYDIA MUTTERS MORE @gW
PULLING CLOSED HER 
GIVES UP. SHE 
THE SOUND OF 

AMAZING.

EXITS TO HER ROOM, HUFFILY

PENELOPE POUNDS THE MEAT, THEN
TUB, AND COUGHS TO COVER
INSIDE IS ROPA VIEJA. SHE TAKES A BITE.

   
 

LYDIA (0.3.) 116

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INT. APARTMENT MORNING (DAY 2)
(Penelope, Lydia, Schneider, Elena, Alex)

KNOCK AT THE DOOR. PENELOPE CROSSES AND OPENS IT TO REVEAL 
BUILDING MANAGER, SCHNEIDER, LEANING AGAINST THE DOOR 
BIG ONE PART AGING HIPSTER, ONE PART HANDYMAN. 
LARGE, WAXED HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE. 1
PENELOPE
Hi, Schneider.
SCHNEIDER
(RE: MUSTACHE, SUPER PROUD) Huh

PENELOPE

 
 
  
 

You grew out the mustache,

  

SCHNEIDER ?120
121
122
PENELOPE 123
The face of an old timey boxer.
SCHNEIDER 124

You are on fire, but seriously

(DESPERATE) you like this, right?

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PENELOPE 125
I like making fun of it. Oooh. I got one
more. You?re forty, and you look stupid.
SCHNEIDER
I knew it!

HE RIPS THE MUSTACHE OFF, REVEALING HIS ACTUAL MODE-
UNDERNEATH.

PENELOPE

What?! Hold up. That?s fake?

SCHNEIDER 128
I not gonna grow a real
know if people like it An@?
not testing well.

PENELOPE 129

130

131

132
That?s very

expensive Damascus steel.

PENELOPE 133
So we?ve got two fancy tools up in here.
SCHNEIDER 134

I know I look tough, but words hurt.

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PENELOPE 135

You don?t look tough.

 
   
   
   
  
  
  
  

HE STARTS TO ROLL HIS TOOLS BACK UP, SHE STOPS HIM.
PENELOPE 

Oh, come on, you know you?re the only non?

Latino I trust to fix stuff. Is that

racist? Who cares? It?s just us.

SCHNEIDER 137
Orale g?ey!

PENELOPE 138
Yeah, don?t do that.

SCHNEIDER 139

I regretted it as soon

Here we go.

   
     

SCHNEIDER TURNS THE

  

LISTENING TO DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM.

Wm



 

  

 

   
  

140
PENELOPE 141
You?ve really been eating here a lot
lately.
SCHNEIDER 142

Yeah, I like it too. Can you believe it's
only been ten months since you moved in.

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SCHNEIDER 
I remember ?oause I got my five years
sober chip and your mom baked me a cake.
PENELOPE
I remember. Sorry it was a rum cake.
SCHNEIDER
I enjoyed watching you guys eat it.

(REMEMBERING) Oh. By the way,

They were in the trash.

PENELOPE


What?s gorR 

    
   
 


SCHNEIDER
?s we both have secrets.

PENELOPE

BerRowitz thought I might need them. He

doesn?t know what he?s talking about.
SCHNEIDER

Sounds like he really cares about you.

What a dick.

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PENELOPE 151

I don?t need them! And I gotta get them

    
   
   
  
   
  
    

out of here, ?cause if my mom finds them,
it'll be ?Dias Mio she?s a junkie like

the Amy Winehouser."

SINK AS SCHNEIDER HELPS COVER.

 
      
  

SCHNEIDER 152
I?ll go grab a washer, we?lgf
thing right up.
LYDIA 153
(FLIRTY) Hello Schneide,
I 154
155
156
157
LYDIA 158

(CALLING) Elena mi ni?a, come here.

EMERGES FROM HER ROOM AND LYDIA LEADS HER TO THE COUCH WITH
THE PHOTO ALBUM.

ELENA 159

What?s up Abuelita?

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LYDIA 160
I know you have "issues" with the

quinces, but I want to Show you something

   
 

that might change your mind.

SHE OPENS THE ALBUM, REVEALING 15 OLD 
CHEESY QUINCES PHOTO, COMPLETE WITH DOUBLE IMAGES, 
DRESS, HEAVY MAKE UP, BIG HAIR. A DISASTER. -

  
  
  
 
   
     
    

LYDIA 161
This could be you.
ELENA 162
Ahht
PENELOPE 163
164
I kno . Your

165
166
Elena, I knew you?d come around.
PENELOPE 167

She didn?t. She thinks she?s being sold

into Slavery.


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SCHNEIDER 168

(CONCERNED) That?s not really part of it,

 
  
  
  
 
 
   
  
       
 

PENELOPE

SCHNEIDER

Let me talk to her. I?ve

to at?risk youths.

     
 

 

PENELOPE 171
I don?t think mm
SCHNEIDER y_ 172
(To ELENA) Hey girl, 
173
174
TENELOPE) I tried.
PENELOPE 175
So?%iider, she?s gonna do it. I got this.
(TO ELENA) You know What, Captain
Debater? Let?s debate.
ELENA 176

(AMUSED) You wanna debate me? I've never

lost.

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PENELOPE 177

 
   
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  

I was in war. You don?t scare me.

ALEX
You should be scared. They call her Darth
Debater. I guess it?s from a movie?

PENELOPE

now, 'cause

PENELOPE - OFF AND PLACES THEM IN LYDIA ALREADY
OUTSTRETCHED -V ALEX AND LYDIA SIT DOWN TO ENJOY
THE SHOW. . a

ELENA 182

(TO PENELOPE) Okay, so I?m you.
(AS HER, TALKING QUICKLY) ?Listen kid, a
quinces is just about the village
celebrating that you are a woman which I
know you know because you're the smartest

one in the family."

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PENELOPE 183
I have better moves. Right?

ELENA
?But ?village? isn?t literal, it just
means family and friends. So what?s so
bad about this modern Village coming
together to celebrate you??

LYDIA
de, she?s good.

SCHNEIDER AND ALEX APPROVAL.

    
 

SCHNEIDER 186
My money?s on her. Do 
bets? Actually, scratcg
187
ow I?ll be you. ?Oh
AXE he1r-yourself??
LYDIA 188

Well I'm not gonna Clap for that.


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ONE DAY AT A TIME Is [101] 25.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

ELENA 189

   
 
  
   

(ACCENTED) ?So you want to crush my heart
into pieces after I worked so hard to
give you opportunity in this land of the
free and home of the brave??
PENELOPE

That's not me, that?s (RE: LYDIA) here??

     
  
 
     
 
  
 

 

LYDIA 191
You make me sound like I have a
ELENA 192
,w sees
Let?s end this. Elena, fEecked your
first communion becausegg
you wouldn?t
even refused
193
194
itit/then it comes to your quinces, I?m
%iplg%8ing with you: can?t you do this one
thing for your mother who loves you?"
LYDIA AND SCHNEIDER HAVE ACTUALLY TEARED UP.
PENELOPE 195
(SMILING) ?Okay mom, I?ll do it.?
ELENA 196

Wait, what?

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101]
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PENELOPE

I?m saying you win. You should have a

    
  
  
  
 
 
  
    
   
 

quinces. Like you just proved.
SCHNEIDER, LYDIA AND ALEX ALL 
ALEX
Mami set you up.

PENELOPE

think of! Mami, aretes.

LYDIA HANDS OVER THE EARRINGS.

ELENA 200

not
201

IS FURIOUS, UNABLE TO RESPOND. THEN:
ELENA 202

?In;

.E SEALKS OFF, LEAVING EVERYBODY SHOCKED. HER DOOR SLAMS 0.8.

We.

LYDIA 203

(TRIUMPHANT) She can speak Spanish.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 27.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

SCENE 

INT. DR. OFFICE AFTERNOON (DAY 3)
(Penelope, Dr. Berkowitz)

    
  

one more 

       
  
 

DR. BERKOWITZ 205
Mrs. Doyle has Alzheimer?s
PENELOPE 206
Oh no. I?m so sorry. 
DR. its . 207
fou. ?%ust racist.
"w you today? You?re
208
en%quinces. I?m not sure I did the
thing. She wouldn? talk to me all
DR. BERKOWITZ 209
Don?t worry, it gets better. Eventually,
they leave.
PENELOPE 210

It's it?s all on me now.


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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 28.
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DR. BERKOWITZ 211

Oh yeah. Every move you make is fraught

  
  
  
 

with peril. Is this going to be the one
that-scars them for life? And in my case,
the answer was always "yes.?

PENELOPE

  
  
 

k.

"mm . 

  
 
    

    

      

   

.ee
PENELOPE LOOKS TROUBLED. IT ALL A 
M- %ff?y
213
214
No. Threw ?em riggt in th? trash. (THEN)
ust a lot going on
215
that though, right? I mean
alking about nightmares 
2 6
row what I said.

DR. BERKOWITZ - 217
if there was something wrong with
heart and I gave you medicine, you?d
it, so why wouldn?t you do the same

with this?

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PENELOPE 218

Yeah (BEAT) To be fair, I probably wouldn?t

  
  
  
  
  
     
 

take the heart crap either. As a nurse, I
would totally recommend it, but as a Cuban,
I suffer in silence.

DR. BERKOWITZ

      

ea


 

 
    
 
 
 

 

220
221
telling you things?
PENELOPE 222
sordered some sneakers for school. I
Ean alert every time a package is
delivered.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
PENELOPE LOOKS. SCOWLS MURDEROUSLY.
DR. BERKOWITZ - 223
How many feet does that kid have?
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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 30.
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INT. APARTMENT. EVENING (NIGHT 3i
(Penelope, Lydia, Schneider, Elena, Alex)

SCHNEIDER IS FINISHING UP WITH THE SINK AS LYDIA WATCHES.
SCHNEIDER

Hey, so, for the quinces, is there any

way I can get a plus three? curreng%r

in a bit of a lady juggling SituatioHE

LYDIA 225

good.

THE DOOR KICKS OPEN ALA SCENE Alga
HOLDING FIVE BOXES OF 8. 

226

Alex!

   

REVEAL ALEX ENG FACING AWAY, HEADPHONES ON,
OBLIVIOUSLY ENGQ HIS LAPTOP.

    
  
 

 

EEPENELOPE 227

YDIA CALLS FROM THE KITCHEN.

LYDIA 228

PENELOPE WALKS OVER AND STANDS DIRECTLY FACING ALEX, INCHES AWAY.
HE STILL SEE HER. PENELOPE CLOSES HIS LAPTOP WITH HER
FOOT. ALEX FINALLY SEES HER. HE PULLS OFF HIS HEADPHONES.

ALEX 229

I can explain.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 31.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

PENELOPE 230

Really? You can explain how one pair of

 
 
   
   

sneakers magically became five? Because that
is some Jesus shit right there. (TO ALEX)

Sorry I cursed. (TO LYDIA) Sorry I said Jes

      
   
   
  
 
 
 

.

LYDIA CROSSES HERSELF. ALEX HOLDS UP HIS HANDS.

ALEX
Mom: this family?s been through a
I felt like I needed to providemg
I?m the man of the house new.
PENELOPE 232
(CONFUSED) That?s why
pairs of sneakers?
233
234
ALEX 235
returns, mom. I can order any pair I
wear them a couple times, as long as I
keep them clean, I can send them right back.
STANDS BACK TO ADMIRE THE REACTION TO HIS AMAZING PLAN.
SCHNEIDER 236

I know you want to be mad, but that?s

genius.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 32.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

PENELOPE 237
No it?s not. Alex, there?s no way to keep
all these sneakers clean enough to send

back.

 
  
   
   
 

day.

ALEX LIFTS HIS SNEAKER,


Oh no.

PENELOPE 243
(TO ALEX) No, this ends now. It?s like

you?re stealing.

ALEX 244

(GRINNING) Yes, it?s like I?m stealing.


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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 33.
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PENELOPE 245?

You?re not charming your way out of this!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
     
  
      
 
 
 
 

I said one new pair, you disobeyed me,
now you get no new pairs. Now you get
Elena?s old sparkly ones.

ALEX

With the multi?cultural princesses? Nj/

PENELOPE 247
Lucky for you she never wore th
they were too ?gender specggic.? 
like that they were 
ALEX 248
I?m not wearing 
still don't undens
these! Dong?
Papi?s goggi
249
250
gives you
PENELOPE 251
(TO ALEX) Sit down.
ALEX SITS. SCHNEIDER APPROACHES.
SCHNEIDER - 252

I'll talk to him. (TO ALEX) Hey little

man 


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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101} 34.
let REV. SHOOTING DRAFT (BLUE) 05/03/16 

PENELOPE 253

Out.

 
  
  
  
 
     
  

SCHNEIDER
Okay.
SCHNEIDER EXITS. PENELOPE TAKES A DEEP BREATH.

PENELOPE

PENELOPE 2 5 9
(STUNNED) But this is social studies, you
love this.

ELENA 2 6 0

Yeah. I guess I didn?t try because I 
don't need an education now that I?m

gonna be chattel.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME Is [101] 35.?
2nd REV. SHOOTING (PINK) 05/04/16 



And without schoolwork I?ll have more

   
  
  
 
 
  
  

time to plan my magical quinces.
PENELOPE
Okay, enough.

LYDIA

a quincesi (THEN) Wait.

PENELOPE 263

  
  
   

i?

  

r1.

ngiook at you

264

    
  
   

first?

ay I don?t want to participate in
5E1 think is a misogynist cultural

gy@al, you tell me to shut up and do it

anyway. So which is it, Mom?

LYDIA 265
You okay, Lupita?

PENELOPE GETS UP, WALKS OVER TO THE TRASH AND RETRIEVES HER PILLS.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101]
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16

LYDIA 
You?re like me, when you get upset you
Clean: (THEN) Wait, what?s that?

PENELOPE
It?s an antifdepressant that I?m going to
be taking, so just deal with it.

LYDIA

That's your answer? Drugs?

 

(GESTU

 

.35 
bei?g a good prOVider.

   

PENELOPE
There are jobs here where they don't
shOot at you.

LYDIA

We live in America. Name one!

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270

271

272

273

274

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 37.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

PENELOPE 275

It?s not just the job and you know that.

  
   
 
 

LYDIA

It?s not like he cheated on you.
PENELOPE

That?s not the only thing that matters!

LYDIA



EXPLODING Don?t ou thinggl mi?s
a

My!?

   
   
 
    
 

   
 
   
           
 
 
  

 

 

280,
You think I like being I wanted
to do this with sa ebody' at was the
and inside jokes
.ays something cute
?And even right
to say "Okay they?re
k??%?gwe?re not." A partner!
WM love, someone in your 
yeah I miss the good stuff! Sometimes
you just need somebody to give you a hug
and say got you.?
A BEAT. LYDIA IS CHASTENED AND TOUCHED. SHE OPENS HER ARMS.
PENELOPE 281

I meant a man.


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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 38.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

LYDIA 282

I?m very strong. I?ve been doing the yoga.

  
  
 
   

PENELOPE HELP BUT SMILE As LYDIA ENVELOPS HER.
LYDIA 

I got you.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 39.
.2nd REV. SHOOTING (PINK) 05/04/16 



INT. BEDROOM EVENING (NIGHT 3i
(Penelope, Alex)

 
  
   
 
 

ENTERS.

(OFF HIS LOOK) I?m sorry.

ALEX

(SIGHS) I think I can mak ?tgese wo??

 
 
     

PENELOPE 286



     
  
  

   
 

   
 

SHE PRODUCES A SHOEBOX FROM 

      
         
   
 
 
 

RERE 287

?ch means you were

on?
as?; 

e:

- thine before you did the

288

?As trying to be brave but even the 

PENELOPE 289
Listen, don?t worry about being the man
of the house.

(MORE)


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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101} 40.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

PENELOPE 

First of all we don't have a house. So

   
  
  
   
   

there?s that. But you just be a twelve
year old boy. Okay?

ALEX

about what?s going on down here (RE:
FEET) when I got so much going on up
here.



ALEX POINTS To HIS SMILE AS IF TO SAY 

   
  
  

PENELOPE as? 291
puberty?s gonna hit ?t
train. Goodnight!
SHE EXITS.
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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 41.
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EQENEMQ

INT. BEDROOM EVENING LATER (NIGHT 3)
(Penelope, Elena)

 
 
 
    
  

ELENA READS ON HER BED. PENELOPE ENTERS AND SITS NEXT
PENELOPE
Hey there.
ELENA
(WARY) Hello.
PENELOPE
SO there?s been a lot
it was mostly me. But
and you don?t have to
ELENA

Thank you thank you th?

 

         
 

 

296
7):
my quinoes tiara on you
fiep and post it to your
Do not test me, I know all
ELENA 297
(BEAT, SCARED) You know all my passwords?
PENELOPE 298
(SCOFFS) Please. You?re not as clever as 
you think, POWER with a zero 
instead of an (THEN) Look, I get the A 

whole misogynist thing, I do.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 41A.
2nd REV. SHOOTING (PINK) 05/04/16 

PENELOPE 

But I hate to tell you, lots of good

   
  
  
  

stuff was started for dumb man?reasons.
Like marriage used to just be a way to
pay off debts.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 42.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

PENELOPE 

Plus women were being raped everywhere,

 
  
  
 
    
   
 
 

so you?d ?marry" your daughter off to
some guy and say ?okay he owns her now!
No raping-this one!? (OFF SHOCKED
LOOK) My point is we?ve made progress.
ELENA

W2
I

I never knew you were such a feminist

 

 
 
 
  
 

Mom.
PENELOPE 300
as
I can assemble a rifle ini?hirteen 
ehr%
301
302
ghnto the cheesy ?my little girl

ng a woman" thing. Because
,e not a little girl anymore, and
is super weird.
PENELOPE 303

If I?m being honest with myself, I was
making your quinces about me.

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 43.
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PENELOPE 

I guess I wanted people to show up and

   
  
  
  
 
  
   
 
   
  
 

say "look at the amazing single mom
pulling it all together by herself." It
was dumb.
PENELOPE GOES TO LEAVE. A BEAT AS ELENA TAKES THIS IN
ELENA

It?s not dumb. They?re dumb.

   
 
 

PENELOPE 305
(TURNING) What? Who?
ELENA 306
The people.
307
308

PENELOPE 309
my god, that?s so great!
ELENA 310

We'll do the whole thing. The ceremony,
the stupid waltz. We'll show them what a
single mother can pull off. I will dress

like a child bride fer you, Mom!

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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] 44.
SHOOTING DRAFT 05/02/16 

PENELOPE 311

Okay now I feel like I should talk you

  
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
  

out of it. But I won?t. YOur Abuelita can
be a broken record, but she taught me
life can be tough so when you get
something to celebrate, you take it. And
-then take photos. Photos I?ll use to 

scare your children.

ELENA 312
I?m not having children.
PENELOPE 313
START) Not today
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ONE DAY AT A TIME IS [101] . 45.
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SCENE 

    

INT. BEDROOM NIGHT MOMENTS LATER (NIGHT 31
(Penelope, Lydia)

PENELOPE ENTERS AND LIES DOWN TO GO TO SLEEP, EXHAUSTED BUTAYAPPY.
A BEAT. .. 

LIGHT CUE: OFF

THEN LYDIA APPEARS IN THE DOORWAY, IN HER NIGHTGOWNM
LYDIA

Move over.

PENELOPE

PENELOPE



 

BUT LYDIA CLIMBS INTO BEE DOES SO. PENELOPE SIGHS. WEIRD.
BUT NOT SO BAD.

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