FADE IN: 

INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT

Two twenty-somethings -- RICHARD and SOFIA -- watch television in a nice-but-not-fancy living room. They both hold their lotto tickets.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

-- your jackpot-lotto numbers after these messages!

Richard picks up the TV remote and mutes the TV.

RICHARD

Scrooge McDuck vault.

SOFIA

The first thing you’d buy would --

RICHARD

I’d convert some of the money to pennies. Fill up a vault. Scrooge McDuck vault.

SOFIA

Richard, a ball pit would be far more economical.

RICHARD

I want to swim through money. Balls aren’t money.

SOFIA

You realize that was a cartoon?

RICHARD

Okay, Sofia. You win the lottery. First thing you do. Go.

SOFIA

Photocopy the ticket and call a finance lawyer.

RICHARD

Try something different. I would buy a BWM X6. You would buy...

SOFIA

I’d hire a financial advisor to set up a range of low-risk investments.

RICHARD

And also...

SOFIA

And also a team of auditors.

RICHARD

What?

SOFIA

Asset management carries heavy moral risk!

RICHARD

Okay. A house. Would you buy a house?

Sofia gestures at the room.

SOFIA

I’ve got a house.

RICHARD

A big house. On a mountain. With a dragon or -- okay, just a big house.

SOFIA

Housing is an unstable investment.

RICHARD

The craziest thing you would buy. What is it?

SOFIA

I’d invest 3% of total assets in an international growth fund. I know. Crazy!

RICHARD

Sofia. I think you don’t know what money is for.

SOFIA

And I think you, Richard, would spend yourself broke in a year!

RICHARD

Just because I want a midget manservant to follow me around?

SOFIA

Dwarves have higher-than-average medical insurance, Richard, not to mention the bespoke uniforms, and --

The stops short, grabs the remote, un-mutes the TV.

In the background, Father DENTON (40s, white) enters. He holds his own ticket and watches the TV.

ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

That’s 09-38-44-48-49-13.

SOFIA

Oh well.

RICHARD

Damn.

DENTON

YEEAAAHHH!

Sofia and Richard turn around.

DENTON

I win! I win, bitches! And guess what? It’s all going to charity!

Father Denton exits.

DENTON (O.S.)

Orphanage gonna get paid, yo!

SOFIA

We can agree that we hate Father Denton.

RICHARD

Word.

They fist bump.

FADE OUT.