Draft 4

I’ve got to go upstairs and do some work





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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.

CUT TO

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.

CUT TO

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.

CUT TO


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
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.”

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3.

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.

CUT TO

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.

CUT TO

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.

CUT TO

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.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5.

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