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“Only my truest soulmate would know what I need right now is Doritos and Erika Jayne.” Edie put her palm over her heart. “I love you.”

“I love you, too.” Lauren got out of the car. But then she paused and leaned back through the open door. “But no more reality shows, okay? Like, this is it.”

“This is it,” Edie agreed, nodding vigorously. “This is it.”

TAKE 5 PRODUCTIONS

THE KEY

EPISODE 9 TEASER [DRAFT FOR EP APPROVAL]

TAPE #592

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00:00:00 OPENING SEQUENCE

ADAM FOX: Tonight onThe Key…

BENNETT CHARLES HOLDS HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND SOBS.

ADAM FOX: Finding the key to your heart is never easy.

BENNETT PUSHES THE CAMERA AWAY AND LEAVES THE ROOM.

BENNETT:… I can’t, I can’t…

THE CAMERA JOSTLES, TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH A FLEEING BENNETT.

ADAM FOX CHASES BENNETT DOWN A CITY STREET.

ADAM FOX: Bennett! Bennett, wait up!

LONGSHOT OF BENNETT AND ADAM IN AN ALLEY. BENNETT IS HUNCHED OVER; THE PAIN IS TOO GREAT.

ADAM FOX: Can you tell me what’s going on, man?

BENNETT: She left, dude, she left. I don’t know why, but she left.

BENNETT MOANS, MOMENTARILY BLOWING OUT THE MIC.

ADAM FOX: Edie?

BENNETT: She didn’t even leave a note. She didn’t say anything, she just left. I don’t know what I did. What did I do?

ADAM FOX: If Edie Pepper holds the key to your heart, then you have to do whatever it takes to get her back.

A LONG PAUSE.

BENNETT STRAIGHTENS UP.

FADE TO BLACK

1:00:00 ADAM FOX: All that and more, tonight onThe Key.

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Peter Kennedy trudged up the stairs to Edie Pepper’s apartment, the apology he knew he was going to have to make stuck in his throat like one of those Key to My Heart–shaped cookies craft services would inevitably trot out at the finale. Peter hated those fucking cookies. So dry. So predictable. So Instagrammable.

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