Script Final Draft - Yeet

1/25/2019 Script Final Draft- Yeet
Can a Schizophrenic Love?
Julia Attridge
Based on the "real life fake experiences" of a person with

Schizophrenia
juliaattridge@outlook.com
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D'S OFFICE- INTERIOR DAY 1
Therapist's office, warm but sterile.
Denice, 55, larger woman with twinkling eyes, wiry gray hair,
She has a soft, warm look to her.
Denice sits down with a clipboard, and puts on her glasses.
DENICE
Well Ms. Jay, why don't we start with
why you came in today?
Jay, 19 Nervous, Tired, in a large chair, She has squashed

herself into one corner of the chair, and holds one of the
throw pillows on her lap.
JAY
My friends are worried about me.
DENICE
And why is that?
Jay is very still at that question, not making eye contact.
FLASHES OF IMAGES-VARIOUS 2
FLASHES OF SHORT CUTS OF SCENES:
JAY DRIVING DOWN A DARK DIRT ROAD FOLLOWING SOMEONE, A

FRANTIC LOOK IN HER EYE.
JAY TURNING AROUND TO SEE A 9 FT TALL SHADOW PERSON LOOMING

OVER HER IN HER DORM ROOM.
JAY CUTTING X'S INTO HER ARM IN THE SHAPE OF THE ORION
CONSTELLATION.
Jay looks up, finally making eye contact with Denice.
JAY
I'm getting messages.
DENICE
What do you mean?
JAY
(slowly) Through the radio and
numbers. They're in code.
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Behind Jay's head, text is scrolling to represent her inner

dialogue and delusions. This text is muddled with numbers and
other repetitions of other words. But the main text is:
Don't say too much. Can't tell her.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8. If I say

it they'll know. 8.9. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8. I can't tell her
everything.
(Note about Thought Text Scroll:

Jay cannot see this text and it
is not a hallucination. It is a
way to represent what Jay thinks
or leaves unsaid. Depending on
what the scene calls for Thought
Text Scroll may contain images,
gif boxes, text, or be absent.)
DENICE
These people, sending you messages,
what do they want?
FLASHES OF IMAGES- VARIOUS 4
FLASHES OF IMAGES OVERLAIN WITH DISTORTED AUDIO
CURLY HAIRED BOY V.O.:

Don't Forget Me, Don't you Dare Forget
me.
THE CONSTELLATION ORION
THE GRAY ROOM
(BRIEFLY)THE CURLY HAIRED BOY REACHING AND RUNNING TOWARD THE

CAMERA
JAY'S HANDS FLICKING A LIGHTER
Jay doesn't answer for a moment. Her eyes down and wide as
she thinks. Thought Text Scroll scrolls behind her:
To save me.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 To help them. To get me out of

this- SIMULATION. To save them. I have to help them. They're
trying to save me.
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JAY
I don't know.
CAR- NIGHT 6
Jay has just parked at her dorm, she rummages in her bag
about to get out of the car. A song plays on the radio.
SONG ON RADIO
Meet me in the hotel lobby...
Jay stops listening intently. Delusion scroll starts behind

her:
Meet me. Meet me. Meet me. Meet me.
She looks down at her car radio. In the same glitchy style as
the Thought Text Scroll the station numbers reconstruct and
translate into:
MESSAGE
Jay pulls out her phone quickly searching as the song

continues. Hotels pictures and their names appear behind her
in the Thought Text Scroll. The numbers for reviews and
ratings float slightly out of place in the display. She looks
through them, swiping them aside one by one, faster and
faster, until she reaches one with just a gray place holder
picture.
Mary Ann Inn, 2.8 miles away. 9 reviews.
The numbers and letters reconstruct to say:
THIS ONE
Jay restarts her car and peels out. She drives through
winding neighborhood streets passing a water tower with an
Eagle mascot painted on it.
The song has changed. A lyric catches her attention:
SONG ON RADIO
Set it on fire.
Jay glances at the lighter in her cup holder, hesitates, and

tucks it in her pocket as she drives.
PARK- NIGHT 7
Jay steps out of her car, looking at her phone. The maps app
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on the screen is displayed in the Thought Text Scroll behind

her.
You have Arrived
Jay looks around the park. No one is around.
She walks past the play ground slowly,looking around with her
phone flashlight. She picks through a trash can, unwrapping
cigarette stubs.Thought Text Scroll:
Message inside, have to find it. They aren't here. Must have
left something.
A white car screeches to a halt several feet ahead of her.

tossing something out of the window and driving away again.
Jay watches the car speed away and walks slowly out into the
street. She looks down, finding no sign of what they threw.
There is a loud revving sound down the street where the car
had gone. Jay looks up and the white car drives past her
going the opposite direction. Her phone beeps
Low Battery
The flashlight turns off and she looks down one last time,
giving up on finding what ever it was, and dashes to her car.
CAR- NIGHT 8
Jay starts her car tossing her phone aside. And follows after
the white car.
They turn out of the dark neighborhoods, and onto a dirt

road.
All sight of houses are gone. There are fields on either

side. Thought Text Scroll:
This is Crazy. This is Crazy. This is Crazy.
JAY
This isn't crazy. (beat) Right?
A black truck appears from around the corner in front of her

car honking their horn. Jay slams on the breaks as the truck
passes and the white car disappears from sight.
JAY
no. nononono!
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Jay follows where the white car went, but reaches an

intersection. She has lost them. She lets her head fall back
into the headrest sighing.
She looks around. Thought Text Scroll:
West Niagara street? Lost.
(Picture of Gandalf meme) "I have no memory of this place."
Where am I?
JAY
...Fuck.
DENICE
Well Jay how about I get to know you a
little better? How did last semester
go?
JAY
Good? I kept my GPA at a 3.65 so I
kept my scholarship I-
DENICE
(laughs) well, that good but that
doesn't tell me how it went for you.
JAY
oh. (beat)
Jay makes a face "like I don't know what you want from me"
DENICE
well how 'bout you tell me what you
do?
JAY
I'm a double major Psychology and
Theatre student?...(searching)I act..?
(she draws out the last statement
hoping that this answer is sufficient)
DENICE
oh fun! This is a really good down for
it with the festival.
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JAY
Yeah, I do tech too. But, I'll be
honest, running around like an idiot
in a wig is significantly more fun
than actually doing work.
Denice laughs.
DENICE
Do you have any family near by?
JAY
Not terribly far? Four hours north
DENICE
hm. How about close friends?
JAY
Yeah, I got a few good ones.
MARTIN'S HOUSE- EXTERIOR NIGHT 10
Jay knocks on Martin's apartment door and is let in.
MARTIN'S HOUSE INTERIOR 11
JAY
Hey
MARTIN AND LEMON

Heeeyyyy!
JAY
Louise is on her way. And I have stuff
for Alfredo if you guys still want
that.
MARTIN
YESSSSSSS.
JAY
Cool, you got pots?
MARTIN
Nope.
JAY
cool. I'll just roast the noodles over
the stove
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(Martin laughs. He gets up walking towards the kitchen)
MARTIN
I'll show you where they are
KITCHEN 12
Martin rummages in the cupboards for a pot.
JAY
How you doing?
MARTIN
(passionately) Tired
JAY
I'm sorry man.
MARTIN
It's alright, my brain is just being a
dick and I just can't sleep you know?
JAY
Yeah, if you ever need anything just
text me. I can... I don't know take
you out for burritos or something.
MARTIN
I'll have to take you up on that.
The sound of the front door opening.
LOUISE (OFF SCREEN)

Party!!!!!!!!!!
EVERYONE
WOOOOOOOOO
LEMON (OFF SCREEN)

(laughing) does this count as a party?
MARTIN
(Shouting with mock indignation)Yes!
LOUISE (OFF SCREEN)

PARTY!!!!!!!
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Everyone has pretty much fallen asleep. The T.V. casts

dancing lights across the couches. Lemon and Louise are on
one couch, Martin is laying in Jay's lap, entirely asleep.
Louise gets up, walking passed Jay
LOUISE
I'm gonna go to bed, I'll see you at
home.
JAY
okay
LEMON
yeah, I'm headed to bed too. G'night!
JAY
G'night, I'll wake him up and make him
go to bed after this episode.
Time continues to pass, Martin doesn't wake up. Jay

absentmindedly runs her fingers gently through his hair,
getting closer and closer to falling asleep with each shot.
MARTIN'S HOUSE MORNING 14
Jay is asleep leaning on the arm of the chair, Martin is

still asleep on her lap. The T.V. is still droning.
Lemon comes down the stairs. Jay wakes up.
LEMON
Did you sleep here?
JAY
Apparently, whoops
Lemon laughs and goes to the front door
LEMON
(loud whisper) Paarrrty!
The door closes behind Lemon, waking Martin up.
JAY
Oh, hi (smiling at him, and
stretching.)
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MARTIN
Did I fall asleep on you?
JAY
Looks, like it. I don't know how
though, that doesn't look comfortable.
Martin stretches out from his odd positon on the couch and
sits up picking his glasses up off the side table.
MARTIN
I don't know, I think that's the most
I've slept in ages.
JAY
r.i.p. Well, I'm gonna go home,
Louise's probably woken up and
wondering where I ended up.
MARTIN
cool
Jay puts on her shoes and goes to the door.
JAY
(joking) If you ever can't sleep, we
can have another sleep over. I'll
knock you right out.
(She pantomimes a whacking him over the head and laughs)
JAY
See ya.
CLASSROOM 15
Jay sits doodling in the margins of her notes, she's drawing

a boys face, he has curly hair.A professor paces, lecturing
very animated.
PROFESSOR CALLHOON
-and so at this point Segismundo has
been drugged, and convinced he's
dreamed everything he knows he's like-
'listen I don't know if anything is
real'-
Jay looks down at her drawing and her vision glitches for a
split second. The boy in the drawing is running towards her.
Jay is no longer paying attention, She looks down at her
drawing, recognition in her eyes.
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Jay's vision shifts suddenly, like a memory, she sees THE

CURLY HAIRED BOY.
THE CURLY HAIRED BOY is Jay's age, with brown curly hair.
The Curly Haired boy is running toward the camera/Jay.

Everything is distorted.
CURLY HAIRED BOY

Don't forget me, don't you dare forget
me.
Jay looks up Callhoon is still lecturing.
PROFESSOR CALLHOON
remember all that life is but a dream
stuff? But he's king now and he's like
"I have no freaking clue whether I’m
dreaming or not. But in case I’m not I
am going to do the right thing.
Because life is but a dream
The bell rings, Jay rushes out, packing the drawing away.
HALLWAY- INTERIOR 16
Jay gets a text. Though text:
Martin: Hey. Burritos?
Jay: Yeah, of course. I'll be right over. You okay?
Martin: Just a low day.
ALFREDO'S/ALBERTO'S A MEXICAN FOOD- INTERIOR 17
Jay sits across from Martin in a Tex-Mex restaurant. Jay

examines her Styrofoam cup it says Alberto's A Mexican Food
JAY
Wait, didn't the sign outside say
Alfredo's?
MARTIN
What?
JAY
The cup say's Alberto's, but isn't
this place called Alfredo's?
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MARTIN
Yeah it's Alfredo's it says right over
there on the-
He looks at his cup and a sign above the counter. They both
say Alberto's.
MARTIN AND JAY

Whaaaat?
JAY
We crossed a bridge, dude we're in
another dimension.
MARTIN
(laughing) and the only difference is
the name of this restaurant?
JAY
(joking) yeah, this whole town was
already- wait!
Jay points to another sign it says Alfredo's. She slaps the

table excitedly.
JAY
Oh my god
MARTIN
Does this place just have two names?
JAY
Apparently
MARTIN
Alburfredos
JAY
Alfreburdos
An EMPLOYEE calls from the counter
EMPLOYEE
Two veggie burritos?
Martin and Jay both start to get up
JAY
I got it
Martin sits back down, Jay comes back with a tray of
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burritos.
JAY
So how you doing?
MARTIN
I'm okay, I just, today was really
just a really grumpy low and I'm tired
of being tired all the time
JAY
I'm sorry man, that sucks. Whats been
going on?
MARTIN
Just school I guess, I'm failing
capstone. And when I mentioned it in
group therapy they weren't really
helpful.
JAY
If you want we could do homework
together? Keep each other company?
MARTIN
That sounds nice. How are you doing?
JAY
I'm okay... I- There's a lot
happening. But I'm fine, I'm good. I'm
fine.
MARTIN
Whats up?
JAY
I'm good never mind
MARTIN
Are you okay?
JAY
(beat) I don't know... its like. It's
like I'm popping in an out of reality
or something. Like one minute I'm
completely fine- but I have one foot
here and one foot somewhere else and
I- I'm seeing things?...
MARTIN
What's been happening
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JAY
I think I'm loosing my mind.
Jay's eyes are wide and her hands are flat on the table like
she's trying to hold her self down. Her eyes well with tears,
but she doesn't blink and she doesn't look at Martin.
JAY
-I.. don't know whats happening. I'm
sorry I never mind. I didn't mean to
hijack your burritos trip. I'm sorry
Martin grabs one of her hands, searching her face, concerned.
MARTIN
Hey, you're okay. It's okay.
Jay continues to look down. Calming her breath.
MARTIN
you (beat) you don't have to tell me
anything you don't want to and- tell
me if I'm overstepping but (beat) have
you thought about maybe going to CAPS?
JAY
CAPS?
MARTIN
It's the counseling program on campus
its were I go for group, but I've been
thinking I might want to sign up for
individual again. I could go with you
to sign up if that would make it
easier.
JAY
I don't think I (beat) yeah... Yeah
that sounds like a good idea.
CAR- INTERIOR 18
Jay is driving, the radio plays
VOICE IN SONG
Follow me
Jay sees the car she had followed before on that night at the
park. The car flashes their lights 4 times. Numbers and
messages begin to float in there Thought Text Scroll. The
station number shutters. Jay grips the steering wheel.
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JAY
(through gritted teeth) no
The radio gets louder and the car turns off the road into a
side street. Thought Text:
Turn now! Before they disappear again, chase them! Don't you
want to know what's happening? They need help! They need your
help! They Need YOUR HELP!
JAY
No. Shut up! SHUT UP!
Jay slams the radio off
JAY
This isn't real
Thought Text:
That was the only thing that is real. THIS isn't real. Go
Back. NO, go back. Loosing them! GO BACK! NO
JAY'S DORM ROOM- INTERIOR 19
Jay pushes her laptop aside. She stretches and closes her
eyes. The second her eyes close everything goes gray. We see
what she sees. She sees the gray room. The Curl Haired Boy
looks beaten and bruised he is being held up by to people in
uniform
Jay gasps and stumbles back, opening her eyes. In her thought
text we see her drawing of the Curly haired boy and the
memory of "don't forget me..."
Thought Text:
They have him. A prisoner. They have him.
Jay steps back blinking back tears. Like a strobe effect

every time she blinks we see The Curly Haired Boy thrown to
the ground in front of her.
JAY
No!
Jay falls to her knees, eye wide.
JAY
No! nononono- This isn't real. It
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isn't real.
Jay pulls out her phone, shakily. She texts Martin
Jay: Hey you busy?
Martin: No, what's up
Jay: Do you maybe want to hang?
Martin: Sure!
Jay pulls herself together and gets up and leaves.
DENICE
It's sounds like this is causing you a
lot of distress, would it be alright
with you if I sent some of this to
some of my colleagues?
Jay looks nervous
DENICE
Dr. Nelson is a Psychiatrist that
works with us and I'd like to see what
we can do about getting you on
medication.
JAY
I-
DENICE
I think it would really help you.
JAY
I just don't think its a great idea to
medicate me if we don't even know what
it is yet.
DENICE
I understand, I was also going to ask
if you'd be willing to be evaluated
for diagnosis.
JAY
(beat)I guess that's the next step
DENICE
(patiently) I think you're right. In
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the mean time is it alright if I talk

to Dr. Nelson?(Beat) I think
medication is very important at this
point, you are very high functioning,
but I'm afraid if we don't get this
under control we might end up having
to hospitalize you.
Jay's Thought text:
I can't be hospitalized. No! Is that a threat? I'd loose my

mind in there. I need to keep busy.
JAY
(reluctantly) if you think it will
help.
DENICE
I think it will.
DIAGNOSIS SEQUENCE- (NOTE) 21
Shots switch rapidly, and what the doctors say begin to

overlap and become overwhelming- Flooring at "Schizophrenia"
DR. NELSON'S OFFICE 22
Dr. Nelson sits in an overstuffed chair in dim light across

from Jay who looks very nervous.
DR. NELSON is a lanky white man with unsympathetic features.
DR. NELSON
Hello Ms. Aldridge, I'm Dr. Nelson
EMILY'S OFFICE 23
Emily sits on a small chair reaching out to shake hands. Her

office is bright and colorful.
EMILY is a young woman with tasteful tattoos peeping out of

the sleeves of her cardigan. She has a kind face.
EMILY
Hello Jay, I'm Emily. I'm going to be
conducting your assessment.
DR. NELSON
We're just going to go over some
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things, see how the medication is

working
EMILY'S OFFICE 25
EMILY
Denice has already sent me over some
things, so what we're going to do is
take some survey style questionnaire
and some other exercises to try to
figure out what is going on, okay?
DR. NELSON
Yes some drowsiness is to be expected,
the anxiety is concerning how about we
switch you over to olonzapine
DENICE
Have you been doing your tapping
exercises? That bilateral motion
should really help you. Do what ever
you need to do to calm down, just
avoid counting
EMILY'S OFFICE 28
EMILY
Tell me about your self
DR. NELSON
Schizophrenia is an incredibly
ruthless disease I don't think you
have it but the dopamine that helps us
determine context is not working
properly so they might see a stop sign
and misinterpret that it means stop
what you're doing in your life, which
sounds an awful lot like whats
happening here so lets try Latuda, its
a little expensive but-
EMILY'S OFFICE 30
EMILY
Oh you like D and D! My nephew loves
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video games too. What's your sexual

history?
DR. NELSON
Schizophrenia is very interesting, by
about 60 the brain degenerates to a
point that it looks like the kind of
dementia that-
EMILY'S OFFICE 32
EMILY
Tell me what you think of this picture
DR. NELSON
Schizophrenia only gets worse, it
really destroys a person, like I said
before its probably not what you have-
you should get a CAT scan to see if-
EMILY'S OFFICE 34
EMILY
Your results should be in soon
DR. NELSON
Suicide
EMILY'S OFFICE 36
EMILY
Family history?
DR. NELSON
Very low functioning
EMILY'S OFFICE 38
EMILY
Fill this out
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DENICE
Have you been using the app I showed
you?
DR. NELSON
degradation to a point that
EMILY'S OFFICE 41
EMILY
We should have your results in next
week
DR. NELSON
A person's brain becomes so damaged-
EMILY'S OFFICE 43
Emily and Denice sit in the room with Jay. The beginning of
this scene still overlapping with the last
EMILY
I've worked with my adviser and Denice
and we've been able to agree on a
diagnosis.
DR. NELSON
Schizophrenia is incurable, but this
might not be-
EMILY'S OFFICE 45
All the overlapping dialogue and sound halts.
EMILY
Schizophrenia
Jay tries stares forward expressionless. Her eyes beginning

to tear up.
EMILY
It took a long time to come to this
decision but I and my associates
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believe it is the
Emily's words drone out as she explains the diagnosis. Jay's

thought text is empty except for a flashing cursor.
Emily pops back into focus, extending a hand to shake.
EMILY
I'll send you the full report when it
is all ready
JAY
I- Thank you
Jay stands up leaving the room with Denise and Emily
DENICE
Do you want to come back to my office
and talk about this
JAY
(wanting to escape) No, no I'm okay
DENICE
No, come with me, lets talk about this
Jay's eyes are still tearing up as Denice leads her down the
hall to her office.
The door to Denice's office closes behind them but through

pane of glass on the door we see Jay crumple into the chair,
head in hands sobbing.
CAR- INTERIOR DAY 46
Jay sits in the parking lot of CAPS. Her face is red and raw.
She looks drained.
Her phone buzzes with a text from Martin.
Martin: Hey, is your appointment over? Offer still stands if

you want to come over?
Jay: That sounds nice.
Martin: Alright, see you in a sec.
Jay sets down her phone and takes a deep breath. She starts
her car and pulls out
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MARTIN'S HOUSE- EXTERIOR DAY 47
Jay walks up to the door and is let in.
Martin greets her with a hug. Jay's face is still puffy and
raw. She looks exhausted.
MARTIN
How'd it go?
JAY
(trying to joke) My face hurts
MARTIN
Did they have a diagnosis I know
they've been postponing for a couple
of weeks-
Jay hugs Martin tighter, he looks down trying to see her

face.
MARTIN
(concerned) Hey, what's going on?
JAY
Schizophrenia
MARTIN
what?
JAY
That's what they said
MARTIN
oh, Jay. Are you okay.
Jay shrugs her shoulder, trying not to cry
JAY
I'll be okay
MARTIN
Come sit down.
She does.
MARTIN
Is there anything I can do?
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JAY
(Exhausted) You're already doing it.
Thanks for being my friend.
MARTIN
yeah,
Martin pulls her into another hug
MARTIN
You're gonna be okay
Jay leans into the hug briefly before wiping away the tears
in her eyes.
JAY
(abruptly) ugh! I need a nap!
Jay laughs, tying to break the mood.
MARTIN
(Concerned but supportive) That can be
arranged.
He tosses a blanket from the couch over her head, burying

her.
JAY
Perfect.
She lets herself fall over into Martin's lap shrouded in a

layer of blanket like a ghost.
ESTABLISHING SHOT- NIGHT 49
Jay and her dorm mate Louise, enter an apartment.
Louise is short and fashionable, died hair and piercings.
INTERIOR MARTIN'S APARTMENT 50
Jay and Louise enter and LEMON and Martin greet them.
LEMON, 22 beautiful, chubby, curly haired girl.
Martin, 22 tall as fuck,brown curly hair, converse and baggy

earth toned jacket.
LEMON AND MARTIN

Ayyyyyyyy!
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LOUISE AND JAY

Ayyyyy!!
LOUISE (TO LEMON)

Omygod I have to show you this thing
Noe sent me.
JAY (TO MARTIN)

hey
MARTIN
hey, any preference (gesturing with
controller to Netflix on the T.V.)
JAY
nah-
Louise and Lemon laugh at whatever is on Louise's phone
LOUISE
(abruptly) Oh my god, is The Pallet
open?!
MARTIN
(checking phone) no I think it closed
at 6
Louise groans
LOUISE
noooo!
JAY
We keep forgetting!
LEMON
We could get Frosties or something?
LOUISE
okay yeah (beat) oh! (to Lemon) look
at this.
Louise shows Lemon something on her phone. No one moves.
MARTIN TO JAY
I don't think we're ever going to get
ice cream
JAY
(snorts) (beat) okay lets go!!
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Jay gets up, body rolling as she backs towards the front
door.
JAY
Gotta get that sweet sweet frozen
dairy!
LEMON
What?
LOUISE
Those good good, milkshake bois.
Everyone is getting up
MARTIN
Yeah you know, these cow cones
Everyone loads into Martin's car. Laughing.
CAR- NIGHT 52
Everyone is in the car, laughs quieted down to just sighs and

the occasional giggle.
(beat)
JAY
cold cow juice.
Laughing picks back up with a chorus of "noooo" "Jay nooo" as

they pass a gas station
LEMON
oh! can we stop at Maverick? I want to
get a soda?
LOUISE
Wendy's has soda?
LEMON
But not the soda I waaaaaant.
MARTIN
Yeah we can stop by Maverick
GAS STATION- NIGHT 53
Everyone enters the Gas Station, goofing around. Jay wanders
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into an aisle, the number 8 on price tags and advertisements

begin to shutter.
Jay stops. Thought Text scrolls behind her:
Message. 88888888. Pay attention. 88888888. They're trying to

tell me something. 88888888.
Other letters and numbers begin to reconstruct, becoming

variations of the Thought Text
The thought text around Jay begins to swirl, getting out of

control, confusing, deafening white noise blocks everything
out.
MARTIN
hey
Jay jumps startled. Everything is normal again. Her eyes are

still wide.
MARTIN
You ready to go?
JAY
yee
CAR- NIGHT 54
They go through the drive thru. Martin, Lemon, and Louise are
chattering, Martin adjusts the aux chord on his phone as
music plays.
Jay is quiet looking out the window.
The next song plays through the car speakers.(I'm always

walking as somebody else- American Murder Song)
SONG ON RADIO
1,2,3,4
And the Lord set a mark upon Cain
1,2,3,4,5, 6,7,8
Jay looks up. Eights swirling around in her Thought Text

Scroll.
SONG ON RADIO
Woke upon th
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e wreck
Stood upon the land
Blood in my footprints
Gun in my hand
Gun in my hand
Carved in my arm
The mark of Cain
1,8,1,6
Jay grips her seat. Thought text:
Mark of Cain. 1 2 3 4 Mark of Cain. 1 2 3 4 Mark of Cain 5 6

7 8 Mark of Cain 5 6 7 8. Carved in my Arm
The song continues quietly, while Thought Text Scrolls

quickly behind Jay.
MARTIN TO JAY
You want anything?
JAY
No I'm good
Jay get on her phone. Thought Text showing what she's seeing.
It glitches or jumps occasionally, numbers and words popping
up and disappearing.
She scrolls through google results for "Mark of Cain"

clicking on a few but does not seem to find what she's
looking for.
The car pulls up,in front of Martin's house. Jay watches out
the window. A man passes by the front of the house dropping
something in the gutter.
Everyone goes inside, Jay follows lingering behind looking

back towards the gutter.
MARTIN
You okay?
JAY
Yeah, I just- I just uh, I think I
dropped something, I'll grab it and be
right in.
MARTIN
okaayy..
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He looks concerned, but goes inside.
Jay goes to the gutter, glancing around. She picks up a

washer and a cigarette butt and tosses them back. Frantically
looking for whatever was dropped.
Something on the cement catches her eye. 9 circles in

geometric pattern are chiseled into the curb.
She pulls out her phone. The "Mark of Cain" search is still
pulled up. She looks at the circles. And swipes the search to
the side opening up images. She swipes down to the ninth one.
It's the constellation Orion. She clicks it and Thought Text

text envelopes everything we see.
Some scholars hypothesize the Mark of Cain could be a

Constellation. Protection. The Stars.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.
The Stars. Protection. 8 9
Constellations. The stars the stars the stars the stars the
stars the stars the stars the stars the stars the stars
Thought Text Swirls, glitching, jumping, and changing.
Images Flash rapidly:
The constellation in the website
Jay looking up
Glitching text: 8; 9; constellation; Mark of Cain. Carved

into my arm; Stars; Carve; Carve ;Carve
The song from the radio replays, broken and repeating.
Jay stands up looking up at the stars. The Constellation

Orion is bright, encompassing, looming above her.
Thought Text swirls behind her. Mark of Cain Carved Carve

Carve Carve
FLASHES OF IMAGES- VARIOUS 56
Flash of the Constellation Orion glitching and jumping
Flash of shaking hands over a sink with isopropyl alcohol
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A kitchen knife, held at a point to her forearm
Sound raises to an unbearable pitch and volume and quiets

suddenly as we see the stars outside as they really are.
Jay sits on the floor dry sobbing, her arm in front of her.
there are 8 X's cut into her arm forming the constellation
Orion.
Jay lies on the bed staring up at the ceiling. Thought Text

box is behind her, but is empty aside from a flashing cursor.
Light in the room changes, showing the passage of time. Jay

has not moved.
Her phone buzzes. She does not move. Her phone buzzes again.
And she finally moves. Thought text 'boots up':
....................
Jay picks up her phone, the screen is displayed in Thought

Text scroll. Blurry. She opens a text message.
Martin: Hey, where'd you go last night? Also I didn't see you
in class today, you okay?
Jay: (Cursor flashes for a long time)I don't know what-

(Backspaces, and deletes everything) I'm scared that- (she
backspaces again)
Jay: Yeah, I think I've just got a cold or something.
Martin: That sucks, you need anything?
Jay looks up, doesn't know what to say. Thought text slowly
pops up with gifs, images, and text of warm embraces/
comfort/ etc.
Jay: No, I'm good.
Jay locks her phone screen and leans her head back on the
wall.
She closes her eyes. Instantly the screen is enveloped in

black but silhouettes and shadows move in it. She can see a
room with a large barred door and people mulling around in
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it.
(NOTE: "Jay" describes it as an image with the grain all the

way up and the brightness very down, in very dark gray scale)
She reopens her eyes with a start. She looks around her dorm
room everything is normal. She blinks and the screen flashes
to the dark silhouette of the Grey Room. One of the people is
closer and walking quickly towards Jay/the camera.
Jay scrambles back blinking rapidly. Every blink brings a

flash of the shadowy room and the man quickly getting closer.
Jay is up against the wall eyes wide open, breathing rapidly.

(Beat.) She slowly closes her eyes. Nothing, just the
staticky blackness behind her eyelids.
An alarm goes off on her phone: Plasma Appointment
She looks at it and thought text pops up.
They've seen you, They know you know now. They saw you open
your eyes. there going to shut you down there, kill you. If
you go there you'll die. If you go there you'll die. I'm
going to die if I go there...
Jay sits very still for a moment. "You'll die" swirling

behind her.
JAY
Fine.
Jay gets up and grabs her back and leaves.
BIO-MAT 59
Jay walks in to the Plasma Donation Center. Her face is flat,

but the words continue to swirl.
She checks in. They're going to kill me/ I can't stop them,
I'm not going to run away
She sits in the waiting room, scrolling through music putting

on her earbuds. I have to run! I don't want to die, I don't
want to die/Maybe if I die here we wake up there. Maybe the
only way to escape is to die, and be ready for it.
She gets called in and walks down the hallway. I'm gonna die
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. Her face is still emotionless,
She is ready.
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She is sat down in a long row of donation chairs. I'm done.

I'm ready, if they want to kill me- fine. I'm not going to
die running and screaming.
Here playlist on her phone pops up in her Thought Text

showing the next song.
All we hear is the song, as a NURSE preps a needle. Jay

closes her eyes.
This is a good song to die to.
Jay is pricked. The screen jumps to black.
DENICE V.O
So what happened?
JAY
I don't know. I thought I was going to
die. I was convinced (beat) and I went
anyway... Of course nothing happened
and I snapped out of it- and felt
stupid
DENICE
How did you feel?
JAY
I don't know- when?
DENICE
at any point.
JAY
I felt... numb. I was nervous but I-
never mind. I was embarrassed after
but I still almost think I was right.
Like, they realized I knew what was
going on and stopped.
DENICE
(prompting) This sounds very
frightening
JAY
It's exhausting. Like I have half of
me here and the other half sees whats
happening over there. And everything I
do has to line up with both.
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DENICE
What do you mean
JAY
Like if I want to buy apples like a
normal person I would go to the store
and buy them but if the other half of
me knows they're poison- I won't. But
it works the other way too sometimes I
tip farther into this reality I ignore
what I know is happening over there.
And everything I say and do has to be
safe here and there- And I can't tell
you things sometimes because it'll put
people over there in danger- I'm never
sure which place is real. Here or
there... so I've just been trying to
balance both without getting anyone
hurt. (beat)
DENICE
Where is this other half of you? What
is this other reality?
JAY
I'm... trapped in a Gray Room, and
everything I see here is fake. I'm
locked into a chair and there are
needles, and they cut into me. And
there are people who can hack into
this simulation- they're trying to get
me out. They want me to wake up
Lemon and Louise sit on one couch chatting. Martin and Jay
sit on the other doing homework.
JAY
How's it going
Martin sets is laptop aside with an exasperated groan
JAY
That good, huh?
MARTIN
I'm done, I'll do it tomorrow.
Martin falls over dramatically his head landing in Jay's lap.
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LEMON AND LOUISE

Woooooooo!!!!!!
LOUISE
Hell yeah, fuck homework.
Jay tries to finish what she was working on around Martin's

head.
JAY
this isn't working
MARTIN
I'm sorry I'll move
LEMON
Nooo! Fuck homework let's finish
American Horror Story!
LEMON AND LOUISE

A.H.S.! A.H.S! A.H.S
Jay slowly pushes her homework aside
LEMON MARTIN AND LOUISE

Woooooooooo!!
MARTIN'S HOUSE INTERIOR- LATER 62
Jay absentmindedly runs her fingers through Martin's hair.

Lemon and Louise get up
LEMON
(whispers) Good night
LOUISE
(whispers) see you at home.
Jay looks down at Martin, curled up to fit on the couch,

completely asleep on her lap.
Thought Text:
He's cute...
OH FUCK!
HE'S CUTE!
Martin stirs and Jay freezes. He adjusts his arm, now holding
on to her legs, still asleep.
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Jay runs her fingers through his hair, settling in for the
night.
CATWALKS/STAGE OF THEATER 63
Jay hurries up a ladder into the catwalks/grid of a theater.
She fastens her wrench to her belt loop.
JAY
what are we doing?
MARTIN
Focusing the First Electric, you wanna
take that end?
Jay walks over to a glowing unit, pulls it's shutters and

gel. Jay calls down to JAMES on the stage.
JAY
Standing By!
JAMES
Actually Jay, Can you collect all the
gel up there and bring it down? We
need the frames!
JAY
Yeah!
Jay walks around the cat walks past Martin and other
Electricians to reach their discarded gels. One gets kicked
into a crevice. She reaches down, her sleeve gets in the way.
She rolls it up not even thinking, she reveals the 18 X's cut
into her arm in the shape of Orion.
She pulls out the gel, and realized Martin has seen the cuts.
She quickly rolls down her sleeve and hurries off.
She lowers the gels in a bucket.
JAY
Bucket coming down stage right!
JAMES, ELECTRICIANS (OFF SCREEN)

Thank you, stage right.
JAMES
Come down here, and re-frame gels Jay.
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JAY
Yeah
Jay hurries down the ladder. About half way down she stops
swiping at her neck like something has touched her. She looks
around. Nothing is there. She continues down, flinching again
She hops off the ladder holding the back of her neck looking
around. There is still nothing around her. She flinches
again,ans again she continues to jerk away swatting at
nothing, becoming more frantic.
Every time she blinks faces loom over her.
Thought Text:
They're moving me, they're STOP TOUCHING ME they're

paralyzing me. STOP
The image we see shifts rapidly between the Jay here, and the
Jay in the Gray Room. Hands grabbing at her face and
shoulders as another pair of hands with green cuffed sleeves.
Shove a thick needle into her neck at the base of her skull.
STOP TOUCHING ME! STOP PLEASE STOP TOUCHING ME!
She shoves the air, and stands still, trying to ignore it.
Jay grabs the bucket of gels and hurries on stage. She is

rigid, trying not to let James see her flinch at being
touched. She sets down the bucket.
JAY
I'll be right back
BELOW STAGE 64
Jay hurries back stage and down into the trap room. She's
loosing control now. She whispers at the invisible hands her
voice hoarse.
JAY
Stop! Stop touching me. STOP PLEASE!
PLEASE
Jay backs into a corner, punching and swatting at the air.
JAY
STOP!
Jay holds on to the back of her neck, shuttering. She slowly

calms. Her breathing is ragged and she straightens up. She
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walks slowly back to the stage area.
CATWALKS/STAGE OF THEATER 65
Jay walks onto the stage where James is directing the

Electricians in the cat walks and Martin is now on stage
sorting gels.
JAMES
There you are, will you count out 12
cuts of L201
JAY
Seven and half inch or six and a-
JAMES
Six and a quarter
JAY
yeah
Jay sits down next to Martin.
MARTIN
you okay?(beat) Hey, you okay?
JAY
Yeah, Yeah sorry, I'm good.
MARTIN
(beat) Sorry, I- I saw your arm. Is
that part of what you were telling me
about?
JAY
(beat)(ashamed) yeah
JAY'S DORM ROOM- INTERIOR (NIGHT) 66
Jay is asleep, a figure moves, blurry, in the back ground.

She wakes up with a start There is a man in her room
THE MAN is dressed in a suit and a collared green shirt. His

eyes are dark. He doesn't flicker or glitch.
Jay get up, clamoring back against the wall, tangled in her
sheets.
THE MAN
Where are they?
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Jay doesn't move,staring at this intruder,Frozen.
THE MAN
Where are ____ and _____?
As the Man say's the names, they are muffled and

unintelligible. Jay doesn't move or speak.
The man smiles maliciously, like shes said all he needs to

know. And he disappears.
Jay shakes,wide eyed, staring where The Man was.
DENICE
Have you seen any other things, that
you find out later weren't there?
JAY
Not really other than the things I've
already told you about. (beat) Yeah
just the- Wait.
DENICE
What?
JAY
It might have been- well it was either
a hallucination or a ghost.
DENICE
(amused by Jay's shift in demeanor)
yes?
JAY
(excited) I'm gonna have to tell you
the whole story. It's my favorite
story- Don't get me wrong it was
fucking terrifying at the time but
it's a great story.
DENICE
(laughing) okay?
JAY
Okay, so I was at my old apartment at
the kitchen-
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APARTMENT INTERIOR 68
A younger Jay sits at the kitchen counter facing the front

door. Stairs with a solid wall banister come down in front of
the door and there is a mirror by the door that can see part
of the stair case.
JAY V.O
-counter. It was audition season, and
for some reason I thought this was the
best time to write a stand up comedy
routine. Bam!
Young Jay dot's a line in a cartoonistic flourish.
JAY V.O
I thought I was fucking hilarious but
in hindsight I think everything that
was about to happen was the universe
saying-
JAY
(whispering as the universe) no. stop.
No more.
JAY V.O
So I'm sitting there writing my
masterpiece when I see a hunched over
figure on the stairs hiding behind the
banister.
Young Jay chuckles at her paper silently and glances in the

mirror which reflect this hunched silhouette on the stairs.
JAY V.O
And I blink and it's gone. So I'm
like-
Camera zooms in on Young Jay's face, her expression is one of

mellow dramatic fear. Jay V.O takes a breath... there's a
pause-
JAY V.O
"weird"
Young Jay mouths what Jay V.O say's she said.
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JAY V.O
And went back to my Oscar winner. Its
at this point I assume the universe is
just like-
JAY
(as universe) no. no. no. I ain't
having this.
Denice laughs,this is a side she hasn't seen before.
JAY V.O
So I look up again and this time I see
a head popping up over the banister
and I look in the mirror, and I see
the rest of it crouching on the
stairs.
The creature is lanky, humanoid, and way taller that it

should be.It is black and white like a grainy black and white
photo. It disappears again.
JAY V.O
And I was like "fuck". So I get up and
what do I do? Go out the front door
that's right in front of me? "Nah dog,
I'm a white person in a horror movie,
I'm going upstairs"
Young Jay mouths the words and goes up stairs, into her room.
JAY V.O
Now, like I said-
JAY
-It's audition season
YOUNG JAY'S ROOM- INTERIOR 74
Young Jay stands at the mirror, putting on mascara. The door

way goes all the way up to the ceiling opening up into the
rest of the room.
JAY V.O
and I need head-shots so I'm dolling
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myself up putting on some mascara-

when I see it.
Young Jay see's it in the mirror and turns around. Her mouth
forming a perfect silent film scream.
JAY V.O
It was standing in the door way
hunched. It was so tall it had to tilt
its head to fit and the side of its
head still brushed the ceiling. (beat)
And finally I was like nah dog "I'm
out"
Jay rushes past grabbing shoes and a jacket and runs out the
door.
Denice is trying to stifle her laughter, but is failing.
DENICE
(snorts) oh?
JAY
But wait there's more!
Young Jay runs down the stairs and out the door.
JAY V.O
So I tear out of there and sit on the
stairs to put on my shoes and I hear
at the window
DENICE V.O
noo
JAY V.O
Tap. Tap tap tap tap. So I ran.
Young Jay runs down the side walk- freeze frame.
JAY V.O
It's at this point that a truck full
of hick went by
A loud honk and a scream sound are heard.
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JAY
(with mock composure) And so in my
compromised state. I froze up (beat)
and tipped over. Like a fainting goat.
Jay demonstrates, tipping over on her chair. Laughing. Denice

laughs with her.
DENICE
Oh darling you make me laugh.
JAY
Thanks, you're probably the only one,
since my comedy career has been halted
by the universe.
Denice laughs again.
JAY
Yeah, I guess I was going crazy...
makes for a good story though!
DENICE
No no, You're not crazy, your brain is
just firing off the wrong signals. I
hope you don't think you're crazy.You
are an intelligent, beautiful young
woman.
JAY
(joking) yeah I am pretty great.
DENICE
Don't.
Her voice is firm and stops Jay dead in her tracks
DENICE
You are absolutely hilarious and I
love you to death, girly. But I need
you know- you are not crazy.
Internalizing that stigmatizing-
Thinking you are "batshit as you said
earlier" isn't going to help you,
alright. You've got schizophrenia-
you're not a crazy person.
JAY
Alright.
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JAY'S DORM ROOM- INTERIOR (NIGHT) 78
Jay wakes up, slowly. She sits up and the Curly Haired Boy's
body is at the food of her bed. Dead.
Jay is expressionless. She puts a hand on his cheek
The scene flashes to Jay in the gray room as she experiences

it there simultaneously.
THE GRAY ROOM 79
Jay is kneeling on the cement floor beside a lifeless Curly

Haired boy. There is a chair with restraints behind her. Here
her face is not expressionless. She sobs cradling his head in
her hands. We hear no sound in the Gray Room
JAY'S DORM ROOM NIGHT 80
Jay, still expressionless here, pushes the body off her bed.
He falls to the ground next to two other bodies. A woman with
a short black pixie cut and a blond man with glasses (both
her age).
THE GRAY ROOM 81
Jay crawls to the two other bodies, on the floor. Sobbing.

THE MAN stands in the background, flanked by two people in
uniform. We don't see their faces.
Jay lays down between the two bodies, The Curly Haired boy
near her feet. She cries, though we don't hear her. "Kill me
too, Kill me too, I'm so sorry"
The Man gestures and the people in uniform pick up Jay,

slamming her back into the chair.
JAY'S DORM ROOM NIGHT 82
Jay lies on the floor, alone, expressionless.
Jay sits in the big chair pillow on her lap. She picks at the
fringe as she talks.
JAY
I wore blue socks to their funeral, I
haven't been able to get my self to
wear them since- it feels wrong to
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DENICE
Funeral?
JAY
It was just me. I just sat in my room-
I wanted to say a few words or-
Jay's voice breaks, she mourns them, they are so very real to
her.
JAY
I couldn't even do that. I- don't know
their names. I- couldn't bury them- I
don't have anything to. I could't give
them a real funeral- I could gather
their friends or family because I'm
the only one who knows that they
exsis- and I cant even remember them
I- couldn't say their names, or take
comfort in memories of them. I can't
mourn them they took that away from
me.
Jay's words are coming out broken as she cries. She is in so

much pain.
DENICE
I can see that this is very real to
you-
JAY
(louder, Angry and guilty) He told me
not to forget him. He begged me not
to. And I did! I can't remember him. I
just have his face and I can't even-
DENICE
Jay I need you to calm-
JAY
I know them, I know I do. I can't
remember their names or anything about
them but I know I loved them. I love
them so much, and I miss them. I know
they were like family because I feel
like THIS. And they're dead because of
me! I didn't listen and it's my fault-
Jay's words give way to sobs as she talks. Three people are
dead, three people she loves are dead, because she didn't
listen.
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Denice moves closer to Jay, sitting in front of her, trying

to calm her.
DENICE
(Gently) Jay, Jay. Calm down
sweetheart, I need you to breath.
JAY
I can't remember them and now they're
dead because me,I can't do anything. I
can't even say a few words at a
funeral or tell them I remember them-
Because I don't I can't remember! They
took that from me.
DENICE
Who did?
JAY
I don't know! (beat) The man I saw,
the people in the Gray Room.
Jay hands shake and she tries to stop crying- her breath
hitches, she can't breathe smoothly. Tears run down her face,
this is not a controlled cry. This is real grief and guilt
that she can't shake.
JAY
I know your supposed to say they're
not real, but how can this hurt so
much, if they're not real?
Lemon gets up from the opposite couch as Martin and Jay.

Louise is already at the door.
LOUISE
Goodnight!
LEMON
G'night!
MARTIN AND JAY

Good Night!
MARTIN
(to Louise) Be safe!
The door closes and Jay and Martin are left alone. Martin's
head is on Jay's lap. The TV thrums softly.
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MARTIN
(abruptly) I'm gonna get a drink, you
want some water?
JAY
I'm good.
Jay pulls her laptop onto her lap closing down windows.
Martin sits down next to her and she moves the computer
clearing her lap for him. He doesn't lay down. She looks at
him and he leans in and so does she.
Thought Text:
oh fuck, oh no! What do I do , oh fuck! fuck fuck fuck fuck

fuck!
They kiss.
Thought Text:
oh!...
They kiss again. Jay smiles
Jay and Martin settle in turning back to the TV. Snuggled

together. The TV hums for a moment.
JAY
(amused) So... You wanna go on a date
sometime?
MARTIN
(laughs) Yeah. Yeah that sounds fun.
Jay sits on her bed her homework surrounding her. Psychology

text books everywhere. She stops, looking around.
Thought Text:
Can I even be a therapist?
She pulls out her laptop and Googles, Can Schizophrenics be

therapists-
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She stops as she notices Googles search predictions. She

backspaces to Can Schizophrenics
In her thought text we see the search predictions
Can Schizophrenics
love
vote
live normal lives
feel love
Her cursor hovers over the completion Can Schizophrenics love
She clicks it And her Thought Text changes with the screen
highlighting phrases like
I didn't sign up for this.
Schizophrenia could put a strain on your relationship.
I found out he was a schizophrenic and got the hell out of

there.
"Schizophrenia makes it hard for people to form close bonds.
I ALMOST DATED A SCHIZOPHRENIC 😱.
A burden.
"Get out, just get out."
We just…can't
Jay's phone buzzes:
Martin: Hey, when can I come pick you up for our date?
Jay looks back at her computer screen, the words swimming

behind her. She picks up her phone.
Jay: I'll be ready in 15 minutes
Jay slams her laptop shut.
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HIKING TRAIL- DAY 86
Jay and Martin walk up a trail carrying picnic supplies

laughing and talking.
MARTIN
no I'm serious, so at the same time as
the cousin is turning her over to the
cops She's threatening eye patch guy
with her mob
JAY
who she doesn't know are all now in
jail
MARTIN
yeah! And the cousin didn't tell eye
patch guy anything so he hands over
the laptop to her and the second she
get it he shoots him and reads the
file right there in the living room
JAY
whaaaaat
MARTIN
And the second she finishes the cops
show up and she smashes the laptop and
surrenders
JAY
so she's in jail now?
MARTIN
I don't know that was the last
episode, and I don't know if they're
bringing it back
JAY
Daaaamn, we'll have to watch it
sometime.
MARTIN
Yeah.
Martin stops looking around
MARTIN
how's this spot?
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JAY
Looks good!
They set up their blanket and picnic and sit down. Looking at
the view
MARTIN
I always forget how small Cedar City
is. Look there's the whole thing
JAY
(laughs) Do you think if I yell loud
enough Lemon could hear us?
They laugh and eat as the sun sets, Jay lays her head on
Martin's shoulder.
MARTIN
You know... I've always wanted to
make-out on a mountain
JAY
What a coincidence
Jay leans in and they kiss.
MARTIN'S BEDROOM 87
Jay and Martin lay asleep in the bed, a laptop, paused on the
"Are you still watching?" screen.
A shadowy figure looms by the bed.
Jay wakes up, afraid, very still.
JAY
(whispering) There's a man in your
room.
Martin wakes up, and pulls Jay close.
MARTIN
You're okay
Jay looks back, and there is no one there. She still looks
worried but turns back to Martin who's already fallen back
asleep. She watches him breath for a moment and closes her
eyes again. Trusting, and going back to sleep.
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MARTIN'S BEDROOM 88
JAY
Hey,
MARTIN
(distracted by homework) hm?
JAY
I just- I want you know that if it
ever becomes to much... If me being-
(beat) If my having schizophrenia ever
becomes too much for you to handle,
just let me know okay? I don't want
you to keep dating me because you pity
me or anything.
Martin gets up going to her.
MARTIN
I'm not gonna break up with you
because you're mentally ill. If I need
space I'll tell you, but I don't think
that's gonna happen. Don't worry about
that okay
JAY
Yeah- (beat) I just wanted to- ...
yeah. So whatchu working on?
MARTIN
Master electrician things for
Eurydice.
JAY
Yeah?
MARTIN
I'm figuring out how many addresses I
need for the moving head lights.
'Cause the solo washes we're using
take up like 26 addresses- and there
are 512 universes
Martin continues talking getting muffled., and Jay is trying

paying attention- but is struggling to understand. The Math
Lady meme fades into here thought text.
MARTIN
so not too bad
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JAY
Yeaaaahhh... I have no idea what you
just said- have fun?
Martin laughs, pulling her into a hug.
MARTIN
I'll try. (comedic mushy voice)I'll
have fun as long as you're here.
JAY
Ew.
They both laugh.
PARK- EVENING 89
Jay and Martin walk through a park, its evening and not many
people are here. They carry ice-cream from The Pallet
As they walk Jay (like they're playing tag) taps/ slaps

Martin on the butt.
Martin tries to dodge and retaliate, this is obviously a

common occurrence.
MARTIN
Hey
JAY
(trying to look natural) What?
Martin takes of bite of his ice-cream raising his eye brows

in a "why you always lyin'" fashion.
JAY
(lying badly for the bit) I didn't do
anything.. musta.. uhhhh musta been
the gnome
MARTIN
oh that gnome-
Martin sneak attacks landing a slap on Jay's butt.
JAY
Hey!
MARTIN
(through a mouthful of ice-cream)
Gnome!
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Jay laughs. She looks over at him, smiling. Her eyes soft.
MARTIN
(still with a mouthful of ice-cream)
what?
JAY
Hey, do you wanna be my boyfriend?
Martin laughs
MARTIN
yeah!
JAY
(fist pumps, laughing) hell yeah
Martin sneak-a-slaps Jay's butt again, and runs off
JAY
hey!
Jay chases after him. They laugh, matching stride again,

walking through the trees.
DENICE
So how are things going with Martin? I
know you were worried. With what
happened with your last partner.
JAY
(smiling) It's going, amazingly. He's
great. We- We take care of each other.
MARTIN'S BEDROOM 91
Martin sits on the bed,in distress.Jay knocks twice and walks

in, going to him.
JAY
Hey, I got your text are you okay?
MARTIN
not really.
JAY
whats up?
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MARTIN
Just so many little things- I'm
overwhelmed and my dad's no fucking
use
JAY
Do you want to talk about it
MARTIN
I guess.
Jay sits down next to him
MARTIN
I'm failing half my classes, and its
partially because I've been at the
Anes at all hours of the night for
Eurydice, and since I'm the Master
Electrician for my production hours
I'm not getting payed so I'm behind on
bills,And my mom can't afford to help
anymore than she has-
JAY
I'm sorry
MARTIN
And I know my dad could afford to help
me he goes to Hawaii every few months-
he just won't or he'll have stings
attached- And he'll give me a lecture-
it's not like I haven't been working,
and I haven't spent money on anything
but bills and food.
Martin stops overwhelmed, tears in his eyes. Jay pulls him

into a hug.
JAY
Hey, you're gonna be okay. I can help,
I can buy you some groceries.
MARTIN
No, I can't make you do that
JAY
Try to stop me. Otherwise I'll just
have to come over and make you Alfredo
for every meal. You can't stop me, I'm
your dad now.
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Martin laughs.
MARTIN
noooo
JAY
Do you want to go grab groceries after
work
MARTIN
I can't make you do that.
Jay holds his face, looking into his eyes.
JAY
(gently) Hey. I love you and I care
about you and I wan't to take care of
you. Will you let me?
MARTIN
yeah. (beat) You said I love you.
JAY
(beat) yeah I did. And I meant it.
(gently) But you don't have to say it
back it's probably early for that I
just-
MARTIN
I love you too.
Jay smiles and holds him close. She kisses him on the
forehead.
CAR- INTERIOR DAY 92
Jay is driving, as Martin fiddles with the aux cord. He turns

on the radio.
MARTIN
There we go!
Music plays
JAY
what's this
MARTIN
It's the playlist I made for you.
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JAY
what?!
MARTIN
Yeah! When we first started dating
Jay laughs
JAY
You're so mushy! I love you so much
They stop at a red light. She glances over at him. Martins

face is wrong, it's not him.
Thought Text: Not Him. Not Him. Not Him. Not Him. Replaced.
Jay turns back to road. Martin sings along to the music, back
to normal.
LOUISE'S HOUSE- EXTERIOR DAY 93
Martin and Jay go to the door, with gifts in hand!
Louise opens the door
JAY AND MARTIN

Happy Birthday!
LOUISE
You guys made it!!
Jay and Martin go inside
LOUISE'S HOUSE- INTERIOR 94
Louise leads them into the livingroom were Lemon is sitting
LOUISE
So what have you guys been up to! I
haven't seen you since school ended
MARTIN
I've just been working at the
amphitheater in Murray, LEMON!!! I
missed you too!
They all hug, Jay smiles and tries to act natural. She
studies Martin's face. He looks normal again.
Lemon goes into the kitchen
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Thought Text:
Did I imagine that? Why couldn't I recognize him. Not Him.

Not Him. Not Him.
Lemon comes back from the kitchen in with a cake. They all
start singing.
LEMON MARTIN AND JAY

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday
to you! Hap-
Jay's phone buzzes, and the sound stops. They all continue
singing and Jay's mouth moves with the song, but we can no
longer hear it. Just white noise.
Jay looks at her phone as she sings!
He has an email. It displays in her Thought text
Subject: Did you know
Body: He died?
◻Image
◻Image
◻Image
(There are no images in the email just place holders)
Jay looks up at Martin as the song ends and sound returns.

Louise, Martin, and Lemon cheer.
JAY
Is there a bathroom?
LOUISE
Yeah, first door on the left.
JAY
Thanks
BATHROOM 95
Jay closes the door and sits on the floor leaning up against
it. She reads the email over and over. Thought Text Swirling.
She counts the words.
3 2 3
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The numbers swirl
He's dead, they took him from me. The replaced him. He's
Dead. Martin's gone, they've replaced him.
Jay drops her phone holding her head in her hands.
CAR INTERIOR NIGHT 96
Jay drives, Martin looks out the window as they pull up to

Martins Apartment.
MARTIN
That was fun!
JAY
(distracted) (beat) oh yeah,it was
nice to see Lemon and Louise
MARTIN
Are you okay?
Jay pulls up to the curb, parking.
JAY
(beat) Are.. you real?
MARTIN
(concerned) What?
Jay grips the steering wheel, verging on tears.
Thought Text:
Impostor, he's gone. Impostor, he's gone. He's dead. He's

dead He's dead. He's dead.
MARTIN
(gently) hey, hey hey hey
Martin gently turns Jay's face toward his. He grabs her hand
putting it on his cheek and kissing her palm.
Thought text:
He's real
JAY
(breaking down) I thought I lost you
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MARTIN
What?
Jay pulls out her phone that still as the email pulled up.
Martin looks at it and pulls her close.
Thought Text:
They could still take him away again. They could take him.
They might kill him.
JAY
I don't want to lose you.
MARTIN
(confused) Don't worry, you won't.
Jay is watching Star Trek TNG on her laptop not really paying
attention. She is texting Martin, their messages appear in
place of Thought Text Scroll.
Jay: How's it going?
Martin: Good! I've got laundry 98% done and I'm about to put
pizza rolls in. I'll come over when I change over to the
dryer?
(The 9 and the 8 shutter a little,
Jay: yee!
Martin also look at this shit
(cute cow picture)
Jay starts typing back with heart eye emoji, but is

distracted
RIKER ON TV
"NO! LET ME OUT OF HERE! LET ME OUT OF
HERE! HELP ME! Help me."
Jay starts paying attention.
RIKER ON TV
This isn't real. There's only one way
out.
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Riker, sets his phaser to level 16 and blows up the whole

building, and himself. He reappears in the real world.
Jay is watching intently. Thought Text Scroll scrolls behind

her:
A way out. A way out. A way out. How to do it. (etc.)
Thought Text Scroll continues to scroll with intermingled

boxes of images of ways to die. (stick figure jumping off of
tall block, pill bottle, stepping into traffic, etc)
She looks at the episode number and time of the

episode.Thought Text Scroll behind her translates the numbers
2+1=3 Message
6, ward 47- message
ESCAPE
The Thought Text Scroll is swimming, and erratic.
I have to. I have to. I have to. Escape. They're telling me.
Thought Text Scroll becomes overlapping, numbers swim, and

gif box of a game over skull with Xs over the eyes appears,
splicing and glitching.
MUSIC CRESCENDOS, JAY PANICS AND SLAMS THE COMPUTER SHUT
Jay sits in the chair squished into the corner of it's arms a
pillow on her lap.She is looking down and is very still, not
squirming of bouncing her leg like usual. Denice sits across
from her as usual.
JAY
It was like they were telling me to...
DENICE
(short beat) Do you have a plan?
Jay continues looking down. And say's nothing.
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CATWALKS/BALCONY OF THEATER 99
Jay stands on an edge looking down at the ground far below.

Her jacket, and phone, and wrench are in a pile on the ground
beside her. She doesn't seem agitated, but her expression is
blank, unfamiliar, characterless. There are fresh X's cut
into her arm. Delusion-text translates the cuts visually:
I'm Coming.
Jay steps closer to the edge staring blankly down.
The following are shown in quick succession, switching and

confusing, Glitchy.
Glitchy- Visual of Jay jumping- stepping of the edge, leaning

forward
Short flash of Jay still standing on the edge holding onto

the wall.
Glitchy- Jay falling through the ground waking with a gasp in

the Grey Room, she is in the chair with the light and ceiling
fan above her.
Jay leaning forward on the edge, still holding on
THE GRAY ROOM 100
Jay fights against restraints and rips needle out of the back
of her neck,collapsing on the floor.
As the wires detach there are flashes of the "real world".
Alarms begin to flash in the Grey Room,it's over. Jay can

hardly get up off the floor.
Uniformed people burst into the room, we don't see their

faces. They pull Jay up, and she fights back falling back to
the floor. The one who had grabbed her kneels down, gently
tipping her face up. She sees The Curly Haired Boy. He is
alive.
There is chaos around them we hear yelling and scuffles.But

Jay's focus is on him and on the two others with him- the
faces she had seen dead.
Recognition: flashes of "Don't forget me, Don't you dare

forget me", and their faces dead on the floor of the Grey
Room.
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JAY
You're alive!
Flash of Jay in the real world. Her blank expression gone,

tears streaming down her face. Still looking down.
JAY
I can't do it.
THE GRAY ROOM 102
Jay embraces, The Curly Haired Boy. It is desperate, she hugs

him with same fear of loss that she held R.
Abruptly, before the hug settles, the scene changes again
Jay takes a step back, away from the edge. She leans heavily
against the wall, and slides down to the floor.
On her knees, she sobs, holding her arms. Thought Text Scroll
scrolls behind her:
I can't do it. They are waiting for me. This isn't real. I've
put them in danger.i can't do it i cant do it i cant do it
icant do i icant ido i cant i cand ti i cant do it i cant do
ti.If I don't go , they'll be in even more danger. There's no
one there. They're not real,They're already dead.I killed
them I killed them and now I can't.
Jay kneels crumpled. Still. (beat)
Her phone buzzes and she looks over startled.
The lock screen is a picture of her family,and the

notification is a text from Martin.
Camera focuses on his name, and then the faces of her family
members.
DENICE
Are you have a plan?
JAY
(beat) (Jay looks up) No. I think I'll
be just fine.
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60.
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Can a Schizophrenic Love?

Based on the "real life fake experiences" of a person with

D'S OFFICE- INTERIOR DAY 1

Therapist's office, warm but sterile.

Denice sits down with a clipboard, and puts on her glasses.

Jay, 19 Nervous, Tired, in a large chair, She has squashed

Jay is very still at that question, not making eye contact.

FLASHES OF SHORT CUTS OF SCENES:

JAY DRIVING DOWN A DARK DIRT ROAD FOLLOWING SOMEONE, A

JAY TURNING AROUND TO SEE A 9 FT TALL SHADOW PERSON LOOMING

D'S OFFICE- INTERIOR DAY 3

Jay looks up, finally making eye contact with Denice.

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Behind Jay's head, text is scrolling to represent her inner

Don't say too much. Can't tell her.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8. If I say

(Note about Thought Text Scroll:

FLASHES OF IMAGES- VARIOUS 4

FLASHES OF IMAGES OVERLAIN WITH DISTORTED AUDIO

CURLY HAIRED BOY V.O.:

THE CONSTELLATION ORION

THE GRAY ROOM

(BRIEFLY)THE CURLY HAIRED BOY REACHING AND RUNNING TOWARD THE

JAY'S HANDS FLICKING A LIGHTER

D'S OFFICE- INTERIOR DAY 5

To save me.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 To help them. To get me out of

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Jay stops listening intently. Delusion scroll starts behind

Meet me. Meet me. Meet me. Meet me.

Jay pulls out her phone quickly searching as the song

Mary Ann Inn, 2.8 miles away. 9 reviews.

The numbers and letters reconstruct to say:

The song has changed. A lyric catches her attention:

Jay glances at the lighter in her cup holder, hesitates, and

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on the screen is displayed in the Thought Text Scroll behind

You have Arrived

Jay looks around the park. No one is around.

A white car screeches to a halt several feet ahead of her.

They turn out of the dark neighborhoods, and onto a dirt

All sight of houses are gone. There are fields on either

This is Crazy. This is Crazy. This is Crazy.

A black truck appears from around the corner in front of her

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Jay follows where the white car went, but reaches an

She looks around. Thought Text Scroll:

West Niagara street? Lost.

(Picture of Gandalf meme) "I have no memory of this place."

D'S OFFICE- INTERIOR DAY 9

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MARTIN'S HOUSE- EXTERIOR NIGHT 10

Jay knocks on Martin's apartment door and is let in.

MARTIN'S HOUSE INTERIOR 11

MARTIN AND LEMON

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(Martin laughs. He gets up walking towards the kitchen)

Martin rummages in the cupboards for a pot.

The sound of the front door opening.

LOUISE (OFF SCREEN)

LEMON (OFF SCREEN)

LOUISE (OFF SCREEN)

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