Crossing Jordan Virtual Season 7

“Auld Acquaintance”

Written by
Madambeth

Art by
BigCJFan

“Crossing Jordan Virtual Season 7” is a fan-based effort not intended to infringe on the rights of Tailwind Productions, NBC/Universal or any of the other copyright holders of “Crossing Jordan.” No money was made from the writing or posting of any content.

Jordan Cavanaugh
Woody Hoyt
Garret Macy
Nigel Townsend
Kate Switzer
Mahesh “Bug” Vijayaraghavensatanaryanamurthy
Lily Lebowski
Madeline Lebowski-Brandau

Jeffrey Brandau
Jordan’s Grandmother
Emy
Mrs. Freedman
Young Woman
Janet
Philip Monroe
Edward Jacoby
Morgue staffers

THE PRECINCT
   WOODY’S OFFICE

YANG CHOW’S RESTAURANT
JORDAN’S APARTMENT
KATE’S APARTMENT
LILY AND BUG’S APARTMENT

EXTERIORS
19th PRECINCT
MORGUE BUILDING AT CORNER COFFEE VENDOR

TEASER

The Christmas Song - Nat "King" Cole

1. INT. MORGUE HALLWAY - LATE AFTERNOON

MORGUE STAFFERS are hanging winter holiday decorations: Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa. The camera moves down the hall until we enter LILY’S OFFICE. She and BUG are getting MADELINE ready to go get her picture taken with Santa Claus.

LILY is trying to fix a bow on the side of MADELINE’S head and sighing when the baby rips it off and stuffs it in her mouth. Again.

LILY strokes back of MADELINE’S hair and looks pained.

2. INT. MACY’S OFFICE - CONTINUING

Garret is at his desk, on the phone. The camera moves closer. He pauses and frowns as he listens to an answering machine pick up.

JORDAN opens and closes her mouth a few times; she looks around until she spots WOODY trying to sneak by her in the hallway.

3. INT. HALLWAY – CONTINUING
JORDAN strides off down the hallway toward her office.

4 . INT. JORDAN’S OFFICE – CONTINUING

JORDAN finds WOODY in her office leaning against the desk and shaking her snow globe.

JORDAN looks at his bright green coat and red sweater combo and pretends to shield her eyes from the reflection off it.

WOODY raises his eyebrows.

WOODY is looking at the envelope in her hand.

WOODY moves over next to her.

The camera zooms in on the snow falling inside the globe.

END OF TEASER

 

Crossing Jordan Theme

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ACT 1

You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch- Boris Karloff

5. INT. AUTOPSY ONE - AFTERNOON

The camera takes a downward angle on the face of an elderly man, deceased, covered to the neck, lying on an autopsy table. Just looking at the frown on his face and the deep wrinkling in his brow, we know he wasn’t a pleasant man in life.

GARRET is standing beside the table, wearing a microphone.

She shakes her head as she moves over next to GARRET and looks at the body lying in front of them.

GARRET turns off the tape recorder.

GARRET does not look away from the slides he’s studying.

GARRET finally lifts his eyes from the microscope.

6 . INT. INTAKE DESK – LATE AFTERNOON

The camera pans up on the front intake desk at the morgue as people shuffle by and we hear Jewish music as the camera moves over a plastic menorah. Just past the first candle we can see into Lily’s office

7 . INT. LILY’S OFFICE – CONTINUING

JEFFREY is picking Madeline up. BUG stands beside the door in the office; JEFFREY, just outside, with LILY between them holding MADDIE.

The camera continues to push in.

JEFFREY speaks curtly as he looks over at BUG.

BUG and JEFFREY look at each other, still angry, until MADDIE giggles and babbles at them all. Their faces soften and they both nod reluctantly.

He smiles slightly; he’s trying.

LILY reaches out to rub the baby’s back and to give her one more kiss on the cheek.

Together BUG and LILY give the baby a last kiss and wave as JEFFREY heads down the hall, with MADDIE looking over his shoulder with an impish smile as her father steps on the elevator with her.

8 .INT. YANG CHOW’S CHINESE RESTAURANT – DINNER TIME

The dining room is reasonably full for a Thursday night. We travel through the front window to a table where JORDAN and WOODY sit, eating dinner. They are both looking out the window as they chew.

JORDAN sets a comforting hand on top of his.

WOODY shakes his head as he chews the top off an egg roll.

JORDAN shrugs and squeezes his hand back, trying to smile.

END OF ACT ONE

ACT TWO

9. INT. GARRET’S OFFICE - NIGHT

GARRET is on the phone again and as we move in we hear what he is saying.

RENEE walks in and sits down on the couch.

GARRET stands up and goes to sit beside her. He studies her posture and narrows his eyes.

RENEE smiles and snorts softly.

10. INT. MORGUE CONFERENCE ROOM - AFTERNOON

JORDAN is seated on one side of the table and a young woman, mid to late twenties, sits across from her. She has the build of a dancer. She and JORDAN are both wearing gray shirts and the young woman has long brunette hair similar to JORDAN’S.

11. INT. JORDAN’S APARTMENT - NIGHT

JORDAN is sitting on her couch in her duckie pajamas. She is staring off across the room at her bookshelf. She is specifically eyeing the binding of a large book with the word ‘photos’ written down the side of the binding.

WOODY opens the bottle of wine while JORDAN puts slices of pizza on their plates and carries them to the couch.

JORDAN smiles politely but again, she doesn’t seem herself.

JORDAN holds the stare for a full three seconds before she sighs and drops her shoulders.

WOODY sets his plate aside and chews a piece of his pizza for a moment before he responds.

JORDAN grabs the album with a sigh and flips it open to a page with a picture of a very young JORDAN standing on a step stool at a kitchen counter. She is smiling as she makes cookies with a woman we recognize as a younger version of her GRANDMOTHER.

JORDAN looks at WOODY, then the phone, then back to WOODY before she finally submits and starts dialing.

END OF ACT TWO

ACT THREE

The Chipmunk Song - Alvin and the Chipmunks

12. EXT. TRACE ROOM DOOR - AFTERNOON

NIGEL enters the room. He’s carrying a manila envelope, which he places in a paperwork tray marked “DR.MACY.”

KATE looks up from a machine through which she is running blood samples and furrows her brow at the envelope NIGEL has set in the tray. It is marked CONFIDENTIAL PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS.

As NIGEL passes her to sit at the computer near her arm, KATE speaks.

NIGEL leans back in his chair and smiles, refusing to take her bait.

KATE shrugs and removes a tray of blood samples from the machine, setting them down a little roughly and tossing a clipboard onto the desk with a thud.

KATE looks at the back of his head and opens her mouth to begin a retort but stops herself and looks thoughtful.

13.EXT. CORNER COFFEE VENDOR – 12:47 p.m. December 20th

JORDAN is fixing a coffee and saying a quick good-bye to WOODY, who hops in his car wearing plain clothes as GARRET walks out of the building wearing a beige overcoat and red scarf. He watches WOODY lean in and kiss her good-bye and smiles when he catches the little murmured sentiment WOODY leaves her with.

GARRET approaches as JORDAN watches WOODY drive off.

15. INT. LOBBY - CONTINUING

People hustle about in the mid-day rush.

GARRET and JORDAN start down the hall towards their offices when JORDAN looks towards the CONFERENCE ROOM and spots LILY and BUG talking to two people at the table.

JORDAN blushes at having someone ‘outside’ of her relationship with WOODY having heard something so private said to her. She pushes open her office door, irritated.

BUG and LILY sit on one side of the table while a white haired woman in her late seventies and a younger, similar-looking woman sits beside her. We can tell they are mother and daughter.

17. INT. LOBBY – CONTINUING

LILY is walking out the doors of the conference room to the lobby area in the Morgue. The elevator doors open as she hands EMY a clipboard and JEFFREY walks off with MADDIE in his arms.

JEFFREY nods and leans over to kiss MADDIE’S head and then gently kisses LILY’S cheek.

END OF ACT THREE

ACT FOUR

1. INT. AUTOPSY ONE –LATE AFTERNOON

GARRET is standing with a scalpel, ready to begin a y-incision on MR. CARMICHAEL. His face shows a deep sadness for this man lying in front of him. GARRET can’t help but wonder how a life can go so wrong. Just as he is about to begin slicing, EMY sticks her head into the room.

19. INT GARRET’S OFFICE – CONTINUING

Two elderly gentlemen are seated across from GARRET’S desk. They both wear suits and ties and one has an expensive-looking briefcase open on his lap.

The man closest to GARRET stands and offers a handshake. He identifies himself as PHILIP MONROE and introduces his partner as EDWARD JACOBY.

FADE SLOWLY

Police cruisers are parked amongst street cars, uniformed and plain clothes officers mill around on the sidewalk.

21. INT. WOODY’S OFFICE DOOR – CONTINUING

The door to WOODY’S office is opening.

22. INT. WOODY’S OFFICE - CONTINUING

JORDAN steps in and sees WOODY standing by a full length mirror which is propped against his desk as he fixes the knot on his tie. JORDAN watches him while he still doesn’t know she is there. He wears a pair of shiny black shoes, flat front black slacks, a black and blue striped dress shirt with a similarly striped tie worn under a charcoal wool vest and a black velvet sport coat. He looks fantastic. And she’s not doing too bad herself in an elegant red cocktail dress.

JORDAN kisses him back briefly with one hand placed on his chest.

23. INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - NIGHT

GARRET sits on one side of the table and the family of LEONARD CARMICHAEL on the other. His brother, ex-wife, children and grandchildren all look at GARRET in stunned silence. The YOUNG WOMAN, CARMICHAEL’S granddaughter to whom JORDAN spoke previously, speaks first.

GARRET gently slides the paper across the table to the family.

24.EXT. JORDAN’S GRANDMOTHER’S BEACON HILL ESTATE—NIGHT

The house is decorated in an elegant, Victorian Christmas fashion. There is a candle burning in every window and a wreath with a burgundy bow fixed to the outside of each window.

The camera enters through the front door into a large foyer where coats are being collected from guests by butlers in black tuxedos.

We see JORDAN and WOODY as they are handing their coats over with a nod and a thank you.

She looks him over. Clearly she’s been thinking the same thing and is impressed that JORDAN has found someone who won’t take her crap. And even more so, someone who JORDAN will let not take her crap.

JORDAN’S GRANDMA raises her own glass to gently clink WOODY’S.

JORDAN nods slowly and finally smiles as she holds up her own drink, albeit a little uncomfortably.

25. INT. BEACON HILL HOUSE BALLROOM – LATER IN THE EVENING

WOODY holds JORDAN close in his arms. They move comfortably amongst other couples. WOODY leans down a little to whisper something in her ear to which JORDAN chuckles heartily and lays her head on his shoulder.

JORDAN looks at their position, tucked close together.

26. BEACON HILL HOUSE HALLWAY – CONTINUING

WOODY pulls JORDAN, who is smiling, close beside the staircase to the second floor.

A sudden flash in JORDAN’S mind takes her to a picture she’s seen on a shelf in WOODY’S apartment: WOODY as an infant in his mother’s arms, his little fingers tangled around the chain of the very necklace now in front of her.

WOODY places the necklace around JORDAN’S neck and closes the clasp.

27 . INT. BEACON HILL HOUSE DANCE FLOOR – CONTINUING

WOODY pulls JORDAN out onto the floor and, grinning, tugs her into his arms.

28. INT. KATE SWITZER’S OFFICE - NIGHT

KATE walks into her office and sits behind her desk. She begins to look through her e-mail messages, secretly hoping that someone, anyone has sent her well wishes for the holiday when she notices it is snowing outside. She turns in her chair and looks out the window.

She looks contemplative and takes a deep breath before turning back to her desk and looking at the computer screen again. One e-mail catches her eye. The subject heading reads “Merry Bloody Christmas, Luv”. She opens it and we see the screen loading a picture of NIGEL on a couch with KATE’S dog BINKY on his lap wearing the reindeer antlers from the caroling outing. NIGEL is smiling and BINKY is licking his cheek. Across the bottom of the picture it reads “We wish you a Merry Christmas and A dogg-y rein-deer!”

We see her face register surprise and then annoyance (and maybe a little amusement) as she lifts her eyes towards the door.

28. INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUING

KATE hurries to the elevator.

29. INT. CRYPT – CONTINUING

The family of LEONARD CARMICHAEL is observing as his body is placed in a body bag and loaded onto a gurney for transportation to a funeral home. His daughter, JANET, shakes her head and wipes her eyes with a tissue.

GARRET puts a hand on her shoulder gently.

END OF ACT FOUR

ACT FIVE

30. INT. GARRET’S OFFICE – EVENING

GARRET sits at his desk filling out the paperwork. JORDAN walks by and shakes her head as she leans against the door frame.

GARRET looks up and removes his glasses with a smile as he leans back in his chair. He won’t have JORDAN pity him and so he just nods.

JORDAN steps back in the doorway with a smile.

32. INT. KATE’S APARTMENT BUILDING HALLWAY - NIGHT

Elevator doors opens with a ding.

KATE steps off looking up and down the hall quickly before she hurries to a door and starts to turn the knob.

She stops in her tracks as she opens the door.

33. INT. KATE’S APARTMENT – CONTINUING

A tremendous amount of light shines on KATE’S face from the apartment. Her mouth hangs open as the camera pans around to show NIGEL sitting on the couch directly in front of the door, a lit and decorated Christmas tree, candles in both windows, a mock fireplace with stockings for “Kate” and “Binky” hanging from the mantel and rows of lights strewn from one end of the apartment to the other.

NIGEL is smiling widely and standing with Binky in his arms.

KATE is at a loss for words looks around. She has to admit it’s beautiful.

34.INT. BUG AND LILY’S APARTMENT - NIGHT

The room is decorated brightly for Christmas, a tree in the living room with presents all around it. BUG is putting the finishing touches on tree trimmings as LILY talks on the phone and we come in mid-conversation.

35. EXT. WOODY’S APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

Snow falls softly; there is already a good amount on the ground outside, coating the streets and sidewalks.

36. INT. WOODY’S APARTMENT - CONTINUING

CUT TO INTERIOR WOODY’S APARTMENT

JORDAN and WOODY lay on his leather couch, watching the snow fall out the window beyond the small lighted and decorated tree they put up with a few presents beneath it. The lights in the room are all off except for the tree. JORDAN lays tucked into WOODY’S side. They wear comfy clothes. WOODY is in a pair of flannel pajama bottoms and a light blue thermal shirt; JORDAN wears red draw string sweats and a baggy zip up hoodie with a tank top underneath that we can see through the open hoodie. She wears large wool socks that are tangled up with WOODY’S hunting-socked toes. The only other light in the room comes from the flicker of the TV as they listen to the 1951 Noel Langley adaptation of Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Alastair Sim. It is nearing the end of the movie. Scrooge is just completing his visit from the ghost of Christmas future.

JORDAN smiles at his Dickens reference and glances towards the TV. She’s seen the movie enough to know what lines will be coming up in a few minutes.

JORDAN is laughing as CAL sets her on her feet.

She looks at WOODY who is standing behind them, arms folded and smiling from ear to ear.

The camera pans away from the trio and falls on the television screen, gradually moving in closer as ALASTAIR SIM as Ebenezer Scrooge sits at his desk laughing.

ON THE TV SCREEN

The scene fades to a snowy main street with citizens milling about happily. The camera follows SCROOGE as he bounces along the street happily.

The narrator’s voiceover continues, but the scene slowly fades from the movie to GARRET in the morgue, walking to a filing cabinet and opening it. He holds a manila folder in one hand and stops to look at the name on the case. It reads CARMICHAEL, LEONARD. He smiles slightly and places it in the drawer before closing it back up and turning the light off as he leaves the room.

GARRET’S OFFICE fades and the movie comes up again.

TINY TIM calls out “Uncle Scrooge!”

SCROOGE turns and smiles as TIM runs across the street, waving to him.

THE END

FADE TO BLACK

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"Boys Will Be Boys"
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