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EXT. burnham Bus stop - Day MAX is sat in the bus stop swinging his legs looking blankly up and down the road watching people walk by as he waits for the bus. INT. STUDIO - DAY A MAN walks up to a table and sits down on the chair. The studio is non descript and dark but the man is lit and clearly visible. It is a classic interview set up and the man is sat upright trying to look smart for the camera. He looks thoughtful but concerned. INTERVIEWER So what actually happened that day? INTERVIEWEE Max hurt someone, got changed and got on the bus to Wellington. INTERVIEWER What were your immediate thoughts when you heard? INT. STUDIO - DAY SARAH is sat on a chair in a studio, similar to the set up of the INTERVIEWEE but without the table. The studio is dark accept a dim spotlight on her. Her expression is passive to begin with but ends with her breaking the fourth wall and staring straight down camera. The interview acts as a VOICEOVER. INTERVIEWEE Some might say she had it coming; I dont wish to say. There wasnt much hope for either of them anyway. Its not my job now to dish out blame, to give punishments the situation was beyond that I just thought, theyll put Max in prison; poor guy wouldnt cope with that. Theyd ask him questions like What made you do it? and How do you feel about what youve done? Thing is he doesnt feel all that much, not the type of things he should feel anyway. Even if he could articulate his feelings Im not sure Id really want to hear it. Hes so very private. INTERVIEWER What was he like as a person? INTERVIEWEE
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Hes not stupid by any means; not aggressive, not anything. Just Max. Well hes Max the murderer now. INT. SCHOOL CORRIDOR - DAY MAX is walking down a corridor at school with his things, while children whisper to one another and a couple shout various insults at him and laugh. (filmed with some sort of steady cam?) INTERVIEWEE Ive heard people call him a creephe is, I suppose, the outsider.(The definition of creep is to move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed.) In that sense yes he was a creep. Kids these days though they dont mean it that way. (some sort of shots of his face and eyes close up? jump cuts etc) Hes was that kid who holds your gaze for a little too long or stares blankly when you talk to him. Its all in the eyes - a rich, dark brown. You know when your stare at someone but when you catch their gaze you quickly look away? Not Max. INT. STUDIO - DAY Back in the interview room INTERVIEWER asks another question. INTERVIEWER Did he ever display any concerning behaviour? INT. CLASSROOM - DAY The class is rowdy but MAX is sat quietly at his table in the center of the room. A boy behind him turns around to poke him at SARAH's command but MAX sees him out of the corner of his eye and grabs his finger. The boy screams in pain as MAX bends it back, before the teacher realises and shouts at MAX to stop. INTERVIEWEE I remember one time a kid reached out to jab him in the head and Max grabbed his finger and nearly snapped it clean in half. He never meant to do these things I just dont think he knew his own strength. Sarah was in his form group, she called him a creep and he went so pale. Never red. It was
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as if any normal reaction fell from his face and to the floor where he just stared at it. It got back to me that he supposedly stamped on her dogs throat, oh I dont know. INTERVIEWER Is there any blame elsewhere? INTERVIEWEE He plays so many video games; maybe they give him ideas, who knows. (flashing shots of video game screen in dark showing scenes from GTA/COD?) Everyone wants, needs something or someone to blame. No will accept responsibility. Nothing is anyones fault these days. Max knew what he was doing but he was so young and so troubled. He walked around like he was on another earth, one we arent aware of, and it must be so much better for him. I'm sure he hoped everything would be better after what he did. Everything wouldve got better and he couldve been that man he was on that other Earth. INTERVIEWER Do you think it was planned? INTERVIEWEE To an extent it mustve been. As much as he couldve as a twelve year old boy. Supposedly there was 10.50 in Sarahs purse; it cost 7.20 to get a one way bus fare and then perhaps a bar of chocolate. That left maybe, 2.70 left to start his new life. Ive often thought about what he mustve thought would happen. Hed get a job,something unsuspicious like factory labour and get enough money to rent his own flat, maybe earn enough to keep a pet. One of his only comments to me was of wanting a pet. INT. DARKENED BEDROOM - EVENING MAX is peering into jars, watching the spiders crawl around inside them. (time lapse shots of spiders?) He had spiders though he'd catch them and keep them in a jar until they perished, I found one before. He mustve been fascinated by life and how it could be put in his
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control. "Out, out, brief candle" Shakespeare once wrote. INTERVIEWER Where there any incidents with Sarah that stand out to you in hindsight? INTERVIEWEE She filled his locker with mud or paper or something. It was pretty soon before it happened so maybe that was the moment when something clicked in him. People might say he snapped. He knew what he was doing. Im sure the fantasy was there all along, it just took that last digit of the code that clicked open his locker. INT. DRAMA STUDIO. Shows MAX under a white spotlight that turns red when it is mentioned that he has snapped INT. INTERVIEW ROOM. SHOWING LIGHTING AND CAMERAS - DAY Shows them shaking hands and ending the interview with the teacher. INTERVIEWER Thank you for your time and answering our questions. INTERVIEE No worries. VOICEOVER NARRATION SHOWING ACTED OUT SCENE OF SARAHS DEATH. INT. MAXS BEDROOM NARRATOR He hacked into one of Sarahs friends Facebook account. Laura her name was. Told her to meet by the lake. She went, why wouldnt she? No one couldve anticipated it. Shows MAX behind a computer and typing out the message CHANGE IN NARRATION VOICE TO SARAHS FRIEND LAURA LAURA Hey Sarah, Ill meet you at 6 by the lake yeah? Bring some money for sweets or whatever, see you then. EXT. THE LAKE EVENING

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It is just about to start getting dark. No one is around and the lake looks gloomy. MAX waits behind a tree for SARAH to arrive. She arrives and waits with her back to the tree, arms crossed across her chest in the cold. He goes up quietly behind her, on hearing MAX she turns around and he wraps the scarf around her neck. SARAH goes limp and falls to the ground. MAX walks away, out of shot. NARRATOR Max took the law into his own hands, was the strong one, it was just like a game. Revenge was the ultimate achievement. And then he changed his clothes behind the tree, walked to the bus stop and got on the bus to Wellington. EXT BUS STOP EVENING

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