Within

By
Adam Donovan
FADE IN

INT - HOUSE UPPER FLOOR BEDROOM - LATE EVENING

Scene opens at a staircase with the sound of a door closing as

we follow upstairs and enter a room. from around the side of a
bed A man (JAY) in a vest and cargo shorts sits on the floor
of a room, the surroundings are messy, there are clothes and
food on the floor, and his clothing is stained and tattered.
his arms are covered in bandages and across the floor around
him are small plastic bags, the lighting is very lowkey the
only light for the house coming in through the window from the
right side, the light is very faint. The house itself is
unkempt and eerily silent.

JAY puts his earphones in and turns on his music with the same
shot continuing

SOUND - MUSIC FROM EARPHONES

JAY proceeds to pull another bag full of small tablets and

takes a few out placing them into his mouth and swallowing
them. he drops the bag and stares around the room smiling. The
bag piles on top of many more small bags alike strewn across
the bedroom floor

JAY’S head bops from side to side slowly as the effects of

slight blurriness and distortion, with odd colour patterns are
on the screen, as a trippy drug effect, as he does he cracks
his knuckles continues to rock from side to side staring off
into nothingness.

As JAY is feeling the effects of his drugs, his head drops to

the side, looking out into the hallway as he sees something
dart by the room across, he takes out his earphones.

SOUND - MUSIC BUT MUCH QUIETER

JAY’S expression changes to one of distress and panic, Clearly

distraught by the thought of an intruder in his home, AS he
reaches for a metal dumbbell bar laying across the floor near
him

INT - HOUSE - UPPER FLOOR HALLWAY - LATE EVENING.

JAY walks down the hallway stepping carefully, The hallway is

filthy, dirty clothing everywhere, the floor looks damp and so
do the walls, there is staining everywhere, he enters the room
and wanders around looking to where the figure went, as he
looks behind where it darted he finds his cat

INT - HOUSE - UPPER FLOOR SPARE ROOM - LATE EVENING

The spare room is very unkempt, the bed and sheets are filthy,
there are unwashed clothing across the floor along with some
food boxes, and empty drug bags, some needles as well, along
with small blood patches across the floor

JAY sighs with relief and steps back he begins walking back
out of the room feeling less stressed and way more relieved,
he exits the room and stands at the top of the staircase
looking down before being punched in the back of the head and
thrown down the stairs

The figure pulls JAY up and a fight breaks out, each

exchanging punches and throwing each-other around, The figure
throws him to the ground and Jay grabs the bar from the floor

The figure picks JAY off the floor throwing him out into the
hallway, the fight continues going down the hall, and towards
the kitchen, both fall, and jay hits the ground with a loud
thud the bar rolling out of his hand as he looks towards the
kitchen seeing another shape dart across the doorway

INT - HOUSE - BOTTOM FLOOR BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE - LATE

EVENING

JAY shifts onto his hands and knees spitting up blood onto the
floor. He gets onto his feet slowly, he clutches his side
shambling towards the kitchen

INT - HOUSE - BOTTOM FLOOR KITCHEN - LATE EVENING

A bloody hand comes around the doorway and as JAY comes around
the door, a knife is plunged through his hand into the wall
blood pours out of his hand and onto the floor he proceeds to
collapse to the floor his hand still stuck in the wall with
the knife. The figure places his foot on JAY’S chest and
applies pressure causing the knife to slice up his hand and
slice it in two Our protagonist screams out in agony as his
hand eventually slices in two and he falls to the floor
covered in blood as he hits the floor.

JAY tries to crawl along the floor, towards the gun as the
figure grabs onto the knife trying to pry it out of the wall a
mix of fear and agony spread across JAY’S face, he tries to
crawl faster, through the vast pain surging throughout his
body, the slow consuming numbness of his right arm, the gun
just out of his grasp. He struggles to stretch the last few
inches his fingertips caressing the grip.

When all of a sudden, two hand grab onto his legs, pulling him
backwards out from beneath the table and across the kitchen,
the figure jumps on top of him turning him over, proceeding to
batter and beat him, JAY lays on the floor bruised and unable
to stand, his right arm numb and his body to weak to fight,
the figure slowly standing up and staring down at him,
towering over him.

The figure grabs the knife out of the wall slowly kneeling
back down to JAY, Slowly brushing the knife up his arms and
back down, as if tormenting him, as if this was some kind of
twisted game. Slowly raising it to his neck and tilting its
head before shaking it, as if to say. That death would be too
easy and fast.

JAY
(Tone - Rough, and weak)
Go on...do it...end it...FUCKING DO IT. KILL ME

The Figure stares him down before grabbing his wrist tightly
and yet again brushing the knife against his wrist slowly,
before applying a slight pressure the knife cutting into his
skin, JAY freezes in agony, his body tensing up, the numbness
in his arm fading and shifting to a vast pain shooting
throughout himself. He tries to pull away shifting his body
numerous times attempting to free his arm and run and failing
every time. The knife cutting deeper into his skin, his body
flailing as he does so. The figure grasping the knife performs
a quick slice causing JAY to scream and then plunges the knife
straight into his leg.

JAY falls to the floor, huddled into his knees, tears

streaming down his face as he screams for help. The figure
grabs his face and slaps his face to ensure he stays awake
walking backwards, still tormenting him treating this
endeavour like a game, doing a little dance as he approaches
Jay, and crouching down by the table pointing at it.

The figure sits him up and waves the knife in jays face,
placing it to his forehead, his mouth, the underside of his
chin, again tormenting him with this weapon. The figure
becomes serious standing firm and places the knife to his
throat, and as he is about to slash it across his neck, JAYS
eyes widen as he pulled the knife out of his own leg, covered
in his own blood, proceeds to turn the knife back on the
figure and stab him in the gut

JAY Raises the knife to the figure, his arms shaking as he

does so, bloodied and beaten on the floor. The figure mocks
him laughing a guttural deep laugh and says.

FIGURE
(Clutching his stomach and laughing)
“Go on then...do it...pull the trigger, end all of this. The
pain ive caused...end it...end me. End me. DO IT. END ME
(Proceeding to scream)
DO IT. GO ON. DO IT.

JAY falls silent moving the knife to his own throat and slowly
quivering as he does, the figure falls close to the floor in
front of him as the blade draws slowly goes across his neck,
slowly guiding it across his throat as tears stream down his
face his hand on the blade handle, ready to apply pressure
onto it
 JAY
(Weak and beaten)
Only one thing can end this...all this pain...all this
suffering...and you…

He pushes the knife down into his throat

JAY pulls the knife and the screen fades to black, a loud
slash is heard as it does. It cuts back to jays face on the
floor, pale and blood flowing from beneath it the camera zooms
out showing off the kitchen, with blood covering the floor,
knife still in hand, his limp corpse lying across the floor,
and the figures corpse is nowhere to be seen. As if it was
never even there.

FADE TO BLACK

EXT-OUTSIDE HOUSE-NEXT MORNING

The scene fades into a long shot of outside a house, depth of

field having focus shift from a wall to the exterior of the
house, with police cars and an ambulance placed outside, a
gurney comes out with a body over it and a sheet on top, the
only thing exposed is a hand hanging from the side, a pale
dead blue.

OFFICER ONE
What's the situation

OFFICER TWO
Seems like a sucide, but a possible murder, there are signs of
a struggle, a fight going through the house. But the wounds
and cause of death...seem self inflicted.

OFFICER ONE
Strange...probably just a suicide though. You've seen the
house, it was in disrepair, those signs of a struggle could
have just been the house

OFFICER TWO
You're probably right...wonder what drove the poor guy to it
though.
The officers walk out of frame and the camera zooms outwards
to a long shot showing the police cars leaving along with the
ambulance.