Draft 3

I’ve got to go upstairs and do some work

By Richard Parr


1. Int. Will's bedroom – Morning

Will is tucked up in bed; the only light source is the scrambling of the television. Will lies there for a while, and then he begins to squirm lightly, as if he feeling anxious, this continues until there is a blast of noise from Will's bedside table alarm clock (striking 6:00 am) and sounds of tyres screeching. This sound immediately makes Will sit up in bed violently, panicked and sweaty, with his eyes wide open.

He looks at the time and turns off the alarm clock, but whilst doing so he stares at a photo of Him and his girlfriend Hollie and begins to hold his head in his left hand whilst slightly stroking the photo with the right, after a short while he drags himself away from the photo and out of bed. He turns the television off, turns a light on and draws the curtains to discover that the sky is still dark. Will turns away from the curtains and collects a towel off the floor and walks out of the room.

2. Int. Shower – Morning

Will is washing his hair frantically, in the process he has a sharp pain in his hand and instinctively washes the soap suds away to reveal that it is bleeding. As he finds the cut hand he looks at his arms which are cut and bruised. His face throughout all this is blank and motionless. He hears a distant female scream, his blank face starts to frown whilst his head starts to dip, he stays in this position. Will then gradually turns the shower off, stands there with a blank face again, and then gets out of the shower.

3. Int. Will’s bedroom – Morning

Will walks into the room and starts to get dressed. Will drops his towel and starts to get dressed into a suit. He then looks in the mirror to correct his tie, he lifts his head to see his face, Will sighs and dips his head back down.



4. Int. Stairs and Dining room

Will walks down stairs, and as he reaches the bottom, the post is delivered, so he picks up the letters and ruffles through them. They are all addressed to "David Shale". He continues to walk through into the dining room where his friend David sits eating cereal.


David

“Are those for me?”

Will

(Reluctantly)

"Yea..."

David

“Hey, why the attitude? And the suit?”

Will looks back in disgust and surprise.

David realises the occasion and his face drops into a cautious/sympathetic expression.

David

“Oh... I’m sorry, it hasn’t hit me yet. I forget what happened and wake up sometimes believing nothing has happened.”

Will

“I’m glad you can get sleep, I think I have only had about 4 hours sleep since… well, you know."

David

“I know… well you know me, I have quite a lot of sleep, more than I want sometimes" (laughs)

Will looks back with yet again another look of disgust.

David

“Look, I’m sorry, I’m just trying to keep my head together and get on with it.”


Will

“Yea, but that isn’t easy for me, I caused it! It was my fault.”




David

“Look it wasn’t your fault! You didn’t mean for it to happen, it just did! I don’t blame you! (Whilst gesturing towards a framed photo) And I’m sure Hollie doesn’t blame you either.”

Will's face drops as he looks towards the photo.

They both look at the photo, which is simply Will, David and Hollie having a good time.

Will's head dips again

Will

“Are you sure you don’t blame me?”

David

“Of course I don’t, you couldn’t have known it was going to happen. It just happened! That’s life… well or was? You know what I mean.”

Will (still with his head down begins to nod)

David

“Well... Look Will, I’m sorry I can’t come today, I’ve got to go upstairs and do some work, you know how it is, don't you?”

Will

“Yea, I know”

David finishes off his cereal and then walks to the doorway, taps Will on the shoulder and walks out the room. Leaving him on his own feeling sorry for himself whilst hearing the stomps of David going upstairs.




5. Ext – Outside a florist

We see Will from across the road, exiting a florist with a bunch of flowers in hand and sauntering up the road.

6. Int – Backseat of a car

Will is inside the backseat of a car, being driven somewhere by one of his parents. He looks at the bunch of flowers and smells them. He continues with this miserable blank look and we hear his thoughts, his thoughts consist of David saying "its not your fault", then a general banter between him and his friends talking about going out, then driving around streets fast (David and Hollie), then a screeching crash, screams, Hollie screaming, David shouting and Will saying "I'm sorry, let me get help, I'm sorry", A policeman declaring breathalyser test, ambulance sirens and as the sirens become too much, the car stops.

Will's Parent

"WILL! It’s time to go, we are here"

Will

"Sorry...”

Will clambers out of the car and walks away.

7. Ext – Graveyard

Will walks towards the graveyard and the sounds of his thoughts continues with hospital sounds and Hollie screaming "It's all your fault you bastard, I hate you". Will continues to feel more uncomfortable. Will's thoughts become more frantic, as it continues to the sounds of a hospital machine bleeping and people screaming. Will gets to the grave and starts to weep!

Will

"I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry! I'm SORRY!"

As Will's weeps, a hand touches his shoulder (then the sound of the hospital machine starts to sustain one tone, a heart has stopped beating).

Will looks up to find Hollie dressed in all black, she tries to console him.

Will looks at the grave, revealing it to say "Here lies David Shale", we hear a doctor declaring David Shale's death.
We then see flash backs from the film like the conversation with David fades into him not being there, the photo of the three friends having a good time disappearing, the letters with David Gales name on disappear.

Then we hear the screeching tyres and the alarm. We come back to scene 1 where Will wakes up in a sweat.

Fade to black
End