Summary: An Inspector Calls

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The first scene starts with a 27-year-old Harper Skye working on her computer. She continues typing until her secretary walks in to tell her she has a phone call on line three. Harper says thank you and picks up the phone, just to realize it's her mother on the other line. We hear a slight swear word from under Harper's breath while her mother has already started talking a mile a minute . They continue to talk about little topics until her mother tells her that Sebastian, her ex-boyfriend called.Harper seems visibly irritated as she tells her mother that they broke up months ago and that they should change the subject. As her mother tries pushing the subject again Harper begins to rush her mother off the phone by telling her that she’s going to call her back.Right after the phone call Harper's secretary comes back in to ask her if she ready.

The next scene is going to start with a montage of Harper going about her daily task. She answers phone calls, approves projects, goes to the gym, has business meetings, etc. Finally, the montage ends on her back in her office at her computer again. She looks at the clock and see it’s 10 O’clock . As she’s closing her laptop about to leave she sees Sebastian,31, in the doorway. He has flowers in his hands and he sticks them out to her with a question on his face as she shakes her head no. She ask him what he wants ,he says her and there's an awkward pause. As he starts to apologize for the way things ended in the relationship she begins to get up. She starts saying she doesn’t want to fight and he begins to beg her to talk to him. As she starts to get irritated she starts working herself up. She keeps yelling until she feels a pain in the side of her stomach and as she pauses from the pain she starts to feel another one. She starts to get dizzy and her speech starts to slow until she to collapses. Sebastian rushes towards her while shouting her name as her head hits the ground. He crouched next to her and starts looking her up and down and realizes she’s bleeding from her butt. The next scene starts with Harper waking up in a hospital in a haze. She starts to look around and realizes where she is as she sees her mother,brother, and Sebastian talking to each other. She starts to speak for the first time to ask where her cell phone is and everyone everyone turns around to look at her with happiness. As her family begins to ask her how she’s doing the doctor walks in. She asks the doctors if she can be let go. He tell her of course he just needs to check on the baby. The whole room gets quiet until Sebastian ask what baby. Harper has a confused look on her face because she didn't know she was pregnant. Sebastian keeps saying what baby as her mother starts to shrink with joy and she starts to talk to, Johnny, her brother. Harper stays quiet and she starts to get a panicked look on her face.she tells the doctor that she didn't know she was pregnant as he starts to set up the ultrasound. Before the doctor can put the gel on her stomach she stops
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The doctor quiets everyone down and he then explains to her that there's nothing that he can do and he starts to talk to Harper about adoption or other options. While Harper's in deep thought ,Sebastian steps up and says that he wants the baby. Harper disagrees they start to argue again and finally Sebastian put his foot down and tells her that if she doesn't want the baby him and the baby can both disappear, he just wants the baby. The doctor chimes in and tells them that it might be a good idea and Harper feels defeated. The doctor tells her that everything's gonna be OK and they start to prepare her for poor ultrasound and Harper does not look. Instead she gets her cellphone and starts working from

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