The One About The Public Convenience

1.  EXT.  SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE.  DAY.

Sunnyside is a vast, sprawling 21st century retail destination.  A shopping mall with palm trees and fountains.  Built near the banks of a river, it has streams and rock-pools with freshwater fish.  It has a multi-screen cinema, high-rise apartments and a luxury hotel; a 50-foot high monolith, a cross between the giant stone figures of Easter Island and a Henry Moore sculpture; underground car parks; a school; and it has a wooded park and landscaped gardens, with a restored nineteenth century smock windmill, a carousel and a steam-train for the kids.  It's so vast that one part of it is always still being constructed.  And because of the unusual abundance of crickets and lizards, some people think that Sunnyside has a special biosphere.

Outside the main entrance is a covered outer piazza, like the Great Court at the British Museum. Bursting out from above the entrance are the huge, three-dimensional sandstone letters S-U-N-N-Y-S-I-D-E, like the title of a crazy movie, KAPOW!

Beside the main entrance are state-of-the-art automatic self-cleaning public toilets with revolving, stainless steel doors.  It's the morning.  As PEOPLE are milling about, we focus in on a tall, fairly fat man in his early 50s, THOMPSON, and a tubby woman, MAEVE, in her 40s.  THOMPSON wears a khaki jacket and beige trousers, like he's on safari.  MAEVE wears a sweater with 'Greggs' inscribed on it.

THOMPSON

(To MAEVE)  I'll see you later.

Have a good day.

THOMPSON kisses MAEVE, then walks off towards the public toilets.  MAEVE is going to work and heads toward the main entrance to the shopping centre. 

2. EXT. SUNNYSIDE SHOPPING CENTRE. DAY.

See THOMPSON at one of the public toilets.  He presses a button, and the revolving stainless steel door glides open.  It is a vision of futuristic convenience and efficiency.  He steps inside and the steel door closes behind him.