A Screenburn Original · Sweet contemporary romance · New
The Nanny Said No
A nanny with a rule against dating employers takes a job with a rancher and his six-year-old, and the child decides her father is going to marry the nanny by harvest. The child's mother writes from the road.
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Suitable for live-action or AI-hybrid production.
- Cast size
- 11 speaking roles
- Locations
- 27
- Page count
- 228 pages
- Episodes
- 80
- Episode runtime
- About 120 seconds
- Total runtime
- 2 h 40 min
- Genres and tropes
- Sweet contemporary romance
- Language
- English
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91out of 100
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- 95 (30%)The opening of episode one.
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- 90 (30%)The end of every episode.
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- 76 (20%)How often each episode gives the viewer something new.
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- 100 (20%)How the tension builds across the season.
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The Nanny Said No
91/100
- Opening95
- Endings90
- New information76
- Shape100
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Written by Nell Harcourt.
A Screenburn Original.
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Screening room
The Nanny Said NoEpisode one
Free to read · Nell Harcourt · about 120 seconds on screen
INT. COLE RANCH KITCHEN - MORNING
Late May light through the window over the sink. A long pine table with two chairs pulled out, a fridge covered in crayon drawings, a calendar pinned beside them. On one side of the table sits RUBY COLE, 6, in a red shirt with a horse on it, braids uneven, a postcard flat under both hands. Across from her sits ELENA MARSH, 32, dark hair tied back, a canvas bag on her knee, a pen held over a form. Through the open door to the hall, WYATT COLE, 38, in a work shirt with the sleeves rolled, kneels at a door with a screwdriver and a hinge pin. He does not look in. He does not turn the screw.
RUBY
Would you like to be my mom?
Elena caps the pen.
ELENA
No.
Ruby nods. She turns the postcard over and slides it across the table. A picture of Denver, mountains behind the towers.
RUBY
That's from my mom. She's in Denver. She sends one from everywhere.
Elena reads the back. Two lines in block capitals. A round postmark over the stamp reads Harlow, Mont. She hands it back.
ELENA
That's a good one.
RUBY
So you could be my mom until she's back. Then I'd have two.
ELENA
I'm here about the nanny job, Ruby. That's a different job.
RUBY
Dad says you're the third one this year.
ELENA
Then I'll tell you what I told the form. I have one rule.
RUBY
Rules have ends. Dad says.
ELENA
Not this one. I don't date the people I work for. I don't marry them either.
In the hall the screwdriver stops.
RUBY
Who said marry?
ELENA
You did. With your face.
Ruby puts the postcard in her pocket and looks toward the hall.
RUBY
Dad.
Wyatt stands, sets the screwdriver on the hall table and comes to the doorway. He looks at the bag on Elena's knee, then at the form.
WYATT
Nobody asked.
ELENA
Good.
WYATT
Start Monday.
He goes back to the hinge. Elena signs the form. Ruby crosses to the screen door and looks up at the sky over the yard. She wets a finger and holds it up.
RUBY
Clear tonight. Clear all week.
ELENA
You do the weather?
RUBY
Every morning. I'm right most days.
She turns from the door.
RUBY
Wedding by harvest.
Elena picks up her bag. In the hall the hinge pin drops on the boards and rolls.
End of episode one.
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