Freedom (Show Version)

KELLY Let’s go. The highway’s calling. The sun is shining. Let’s get in the car and just remember. Let’s go. SAM Kelly drove on all of our roadtrips. She believed in list’ning to the highway. You start driving, And keep driving. There’s no stopping ‘til Kelly says you’ve arrived. KELLY You’re not doing it right. SAM Doing what? KELLY You’re not in it. SAM What are you talking about? KELLY You’re not in the moment, Sam. Talk about what it felt like. SAM What did it feel like? KELLY You remember. Feeling the wind blowing your hair. Picking a road and going anywhere. We’re heading south. Or maybe west. We don’t know much. We’re making up the rest. Tear up the atlas. Don’t read the road signs. Driving for the sake of driving anywhere. That’s freedom. SAM Freedom. KELLY What bug do you have up your ass? SAM I don’t have a bug up my ass! KELLY Do you even realize how epic this weekend is going to be? There’s like six parties and I’m taking this lecture called Sex and you have to come. SAM I’m on break. I don’t really feel like going to class. KELLY Well what do you want to do? SAM I don’t know. KELLY Samantha Brown. Do you see that fork up ahead? SAM Yeah. KELLY Well, one way leads to my school and the other leads somewhere else. Which way do you want to turn? SAM I don’t know. KELLY If you don’t choose, we’re gonna hit that house. Left or right? SAM Hold on, I’m looking at the map. KELLY Maps are for brain deads. Left or right! SAM Ah… Left! *KELLY turns the car fast. A car horn honks. She flips the guy off.* KELLY Very slow, Brown. SAM So where are we going? KELLY I have no idea. Counting the miles as we go past. SAM The tank is full. The sun is high. KELLY Knowing that every mile could be our last. SAM Just watching the day go by. SAM AND KELLY We won’t look back. We never will. SAM We’ve come too far. KELLY We’ll drive til we hit Nashville. SAM Nashville. SAM AND KELLY Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. KELLY So what do you want to do *now*? SAM Make a right? KELLY In *life*, Sam. Think big. What do you want? SAM Uh I don’t know – I want to get my license. KELLY Bigger. SAM I want the deafening sound of driving fast with the windows down. KELLY More! SAM I want to break rules and do something unexpected. KELLY Good. I want Arby’s. SAM I want to hold on to this moment right now. KELLY I want to go skinny-dipping in the ocean. SAM I want to drive forever. And I’m almost starting to feel it. How she took a day and made it special. KELLY Freedom. SAM The long highways. The cheap rest stops. KELLY Freedom. SAM The last minute get in the car and let’s go. KELLY Oh, let’s go. Let’s go. Pick a road. Pick a highway. Any road is going my way. Let’s go. Live it up with no complicated philosophies. No college, no career, No kids, no fancy house, no. Let’s go. Any road but the one we’re on. SAM AND KELLY No college, no career, No screaming kids, no mortgage. Driving anywhere. KELLY Just driving straight into the dawn. That’s freedom. SAM (KELLY) Kelly driving. Me riding shotgun. Just a couple girls out on the highway With no road map And no curfew. Just two girls with nowhere we have to be. (Freedom.) Now she’s laughing. And I start laughing. (Freedom.) It’s so real and so like a memory. (Freedom.) And the sun is so bright that I’m squinting. And it feels like I found freedom. SAM AND KELLY Freedom. KELLY Yeah. SAM (KELLY) Driving fast, the radio blaring. (Yeah) Windows open, singing like we’re rock stars. KELLY Oh yeah. SAM Yeah. KELLY Yeah. SAM Yeah. KELLY Yeah. SAM Yeah. KELLY Yeah. SAM Yeah. KELLY Yeah. SAM Yeah. KELLY Yeah. SAM AND KELLY Freedom. Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.