Pilot for Dark Comedy Rom-Com, Adult Animated Series.
Banana Van for Claire
One of the protagonists, she is a competent and intelligent, beautiful social worker, who is constantly exhausted, overworked, and under-paid. She struggles to actually make a dent in her clients’ lives in a system designed against them, and to have any time to have a personal life at all. Medium or slightly high pitch, not a super high, and not super low pitch, calm and reliable, nice-sounding person. Don’t be afraid to make her sexy too—she’s a class act. (30’s)
(In shock, hopeless, broken. A child you were trying to protect has just committed suicide. She begins to cry halfway through.)
"They would just get away with it. Forever. She’s... She was ten years old, Jeff. They’ll just kill her and walk away. I c- ... I can’t. Even if I could land in jail, I can’t just...I already failed her in every other possible way. I can’t let them get away with it."
(Livid, shouting, reactive. A child both of you were responsible for has just killed herself, and his refusal to intercede is largely to blame in your eyes)
"YOU’RE SORRY?! You’re fucking sorry?! Where was ‘sorry’ last month, when it could have made a difference! Last week! This-FUCKING- morning!"
(gentle, kind, but playful at appropriate moments, speaking with a child in a bad home environment)
"There’s a guy working at your library named Jake-- he’s about 26, looks like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, without a beard. He’ll get you a secret card, one without your mom attached to it, and you can check out whatever you want. Just--be careful. Read them away from home, and don’t keep the books in your house. Do you think Molly would hold onto them for you?"
