INT. EDITING ROOM - DAY

DAWSON sits at digital editing suite, accompanied by a classmate. STEVE looks like a proper film geek, he has the forehead, big hair, and thick rimmed black glasses a la Soderbergh. They are both reviewing footage from a project.

STEVE

I don't know, Dawson. It's a wonderfully fluid shot. I'd hate to break it up with a cutaway.

DAWSON

I agree, Steve. Gliding camera - its Kubrick, its Scorsese, its De Palma. I know this. I don't get out much. Mr and Miss Eight Dollars a pop in the multiplex, on the other hand ...

STEVE

... want to see the story developed. And I know, it's all in the editing.

DAWSON

So you're okay with it, we can split it up?

STEVE

(Grinning)

Obviously, I reserve the right to bring out a directors cut.

DAWSON

Feel free, but you'll regret showing the inside of the mothership...

STEVE

Hey, that's what the "Collector's Edition" is for. Anyway, I gotta go - I've got cinematography in ten.

DAWSON

Cool. I'll keep going on this - I've got the suite booked all afternoon.

STEVE

Later.

DAWSON

Adios.

EXT. YACHT DECK - DAY

A ROLL OF TOOLS lies on the gleaming white deck of a racing yacht, next to an open hatch on the decking.

VOICE (O.S.)

Okay Skip, turn her over.

The vessels captain, in his early fifties and immaculately dressed in his white uniform, turns the engine over. It splutters twice then fires. He smiles.

CAPTAIN

Well done, Mr Witter.

PACEY WITTER emerges from the hatch, covered in oil but otherwise intact. He switches off his flashlight and starts packing up his tools.

PACEY

My pleasure, Captain. Quite simple really, once the plugs were cleaned she fired up easily.

CAPTAIN

Well, Pacey. It wasn't pleasant to find myself stuck in the middle of a flat calm after twenty days under sail, and with a non-functioning motor. You've proved yourself to be just as good a mechanic as you are a yachtsman.

PACEY

Thank you, sir.

CAPTAIN

You know, we've got to put in for supplies in the next couple of days. I've got no preference where exactly. Is there anyone on the West Coast you'd like to look up.

PACEY

I do have an old friend from back home studying here. How close can we get to L.A.?

The CAPTAIN opens his charts.

CAPTAIN

I'd prefer somewhere outside the city limits, but let's see.