Paper Angels

Marie Quintero

Victor Quintero

Emily Rice

Actor's mark visible on the hardwood floor when Marie lights a cigarette.

Front porch furniture disappears and reappears in subsequent scenes.

The story takes place exactly three weeks after 9/11, but the morning newspaper that Frank sets on the end table is post 2001.

Frank Rice: [last lines, deleted] "There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live." My father taught me those words. Marie helped me embrace them.

Frank Rice: [first lines, deleted] "There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live." John F. Kennedy. Words my father lived by. He was a high-rise ironworker and the bravest man I ever knew. But, I am not my father.