A BLACK display screen.

The blackness is pierced via a unmarried, pulsing inexperienced light...

We waft, as if by way of boat, throughout a darkish bay closer to the light.

Then, we pay attention a bothered voice.

NICK (V.O.)

In my younger and extra vulnerableyears my father gave me someadvice: “constantly try to see the bestin human beings,” he could say...

A gentle snow starts offevolved to fall, obscuring the mild...

NICK (V.O.)

for that reason, I’m inclined to

reserve all decisions.

The snow grows heavier.

NICK (V.O.)

however even I... have a restrict.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. SANITARIUM - winter - DAY

continue drifting, via the snow, throughout an icy lake...

NICK (V.O.)

back then each person drank too much.

discover:

A stately Victorian constructing...

NICK (V.O.)

The extra in music with the times we

had been, the more we drank.

close ON:

The signal, “The Perkins Sanitarium.”

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NICK (V.O.)

And none people contributed whatever

new.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. SANITARIUM - physician’S workplace - wintry weather - DAY

discover:

a person shrouded in darkness. He leans against an oldfireplace, hand overlaying his face.

2.

NICK:

once I came again from new york I

turned into disgusted.

reveal:

NICK CARRAWAY (37), unshaven, morbidly alcoholic.

NICK (CONT’D)

Disgusted... with anybody, andeverything... simplest one man wasexempt from my disgust.

monitor:

A kind, elderly doctor.

medical doctor:

One man...? Mr. Carraway?

NICK:

(whispers)

Gatsby...

medical doctor:

changed into he a chum of yours?

NICK:

He become... the single maximum hopefulperson i've ever met... And amever in all likelihood to meet once more. Therewas some thing about him...

Nick wanders slowly closer to the window, remembering.

NICK (CONT’D)

A sensitivity. He became like one ofthose machines that registerearthquakes 10000 miles

away...

medical doctor:

wherein did you meet him?

Nick stops and stares out the window, haunted.

NICK: