Better Call Saul

Written by Gordon Smith|2014
DramaCrime
51 pages36 scenes12 characters296 dialogue blocks26 locations
SCENE 1pp. 1

EXT. NEW MEXICAN DESERT - DAY

A train races through the New Mexican desert toward Albuquerque.

EXT. NEW MEXICAN DESERT - DAY

Flat scrubland and dust. The Sandias crouch in the distance. Quiet. We're out past the eastern outskirts of Albuquerque, in the valleys that stretch away to Colorado and Kansas.

In the distance, a TRAIN races toward edge of frame.

CLOSER: it WHOOSHES past us.

Now the train carries us along with it, through...

A SERIES OF WESTERN BEAUTY SHOTS --

-- The desert unspools alongside the rails.

-- Roads cut long black arroyos to the horizon.

-- Wide-sky country giving way to the dots of houses, warehouses, suburbs.

We're approaching Albuquerque, rolling closer and closer to town. It's our version of the opening of "Bad Day at Black Rock", announcing:

Someone's coming.

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