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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

As he does this we notice his arms are wrapped in bandages,

along with a hospital bracelet around his wrist reading “Jay
Wader” he stares down the bandages and bracelet before looking
away like it is nothing and proceeds to rummage through his
pockets

SOUND - MUSIC FROM EARPHONES

JAY Grabs a pill bottle out of his pocket with a label that
reads ​Aripiprazole (Abilify) 10mg a day he stares the bottle
down with an uninterested expression on his face before he
tosses it to the side, the cap loose and falling off tossing
the contents across the carpet

He clutches his head as if in pain before looking upwards and

taking a deep breath, his body slightly shaking as he does so,
and looking worse than he already did, more tired and more
uninterested in anything.

He continues to go through his pockets before pulling out a

small bag of small tablets, some broken and crushed and he
looks them down before doing the same with them, tossing them
to the side as he keeps rummaging

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 a smile
growing across his face. 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.

He slowly shambles up onto his feet the bar in hand and

stumbles a bit as he does so, still woozy from the drugs and
clutches his head for a moment before continuing to move

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, he has a small look
around before leaving.

JAY sighs with relief and steps back he begins walking back
out of the room feeling less stressed and way more relieved as
he sees nothing there.

JAY
It's...all in my head, its ok, there's nothing there, it's all
in my head

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 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

The kitchen is not clean, but is more clean then the rest of
the house, the floor doesn't have anything on it, but there is
a table in the corner covered in dirty laundry, the sink is
full of dishes and silverware, and the walls are slightly
stained with some kind of liquid.

A Bloody hand comes around the doorway as Jay enters, he

slowly shambles into the kitchen whilst he clutches his
stomach and turns towards the drawers to grab a knife from it,
he pulls one out and is immediately pushed back slamming into
a freezer in the back of the room, dropping the knife on the
floor as he does so

Jay struggles to move his body falling limp with pain and
aches, he tries to stand and his body won't let him as the
figure stands ominously watching him from the other end of the
room, slowly crouching down to pick the knife off of the floor
and slowly approach.

Jay pulls his body into an upright position sitting up trying

to stand up and failing horribly, his expression one of pain,
desperation and shock, blood seeping from his nose and mouth
as he tries to escape tries to run and fails,

The figure stands before Jay taunting him with the knife
screaming vulgar insults at him and mocking him in his
weakened vulnerable state, covered in blood and seeming half
dead

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

The Figure stares him down before crouching getting into his
face fading in and out of vision, as like a shadow hit by
sunlight, the figure lets out an ominous laugh before
continuing to scream at him, telling him all of his darkest
fears flamboyantly waving the knife around as he does so.

Jay slumps down, fully giving up on his attempts to get away

beaten and bruised, his face drenched in his own blood unable
to move he stares the figure down his face now one of
confidence, a look on his face determined and full of rage,
the change obvious from fear and terror to confidence out of
nowhere as he slowly laughs

The figure sits him up and waves the knife in jays face,
placing it to the sides of his mouth, the underside of his
chin and throat, 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,
JAY grabs the knife and disarms the figure, giving himself a
small cut on his neck as he does so and shuffles upwards a
little sitting up

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... end all of this. The pain I caused… The
pain...you've 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 quiet)
You...have not sustained any injuries during this...so why
would you hold onto your stomach like your in
pain...unless...this isn't real

Figure
(Confident with slight laughter)
You don't know that...you don't know anything, you don't have
any guts or brain, you're nothing but a worthless junkie

JAY
(Weak and beaten)
You're not real...you're only up here
(Jay gestures to his head)
Only one thing can end this...all this pain...all this
suffering...and you…
(he slowly drags the knife against his own 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, his body
laying on the floor, pale and blood flowing from his neck 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.

The film shows two officers outside the house talking about
what went on within the house and talking the case over

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 turn back and head into the car, the scene begins
to fade as the car leaves along with the ambulance leave and
the house stays within frame, still as a reminder of what had
occurred within