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TRETT FILMS
Pandemic
Josh Trett
joshtrett@hotmail.co.uk
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FADE IN.
EXT. WOODS. DAY
The camera work is shaky as we see our main character , DON,
running through the woods. He is young, around 17, with
grazes, cuts and mud on his face. He is breathing heavily
and scraping against twigs from trees. He holds his hands in
front of him, guarding his face from the twigs. He
eventually hides behind a tree to catch his breath.
The camera pans to the right and we see aninfected-like
creature searching for DON. Hepulls a knife from his jacket
and waits for the infected creature to come closer.The
infected creature sniffs out DON and heads towards his
direction.As he reaches him DONquickly lunges out to the
creature making him fall to the ground. He plunges the knife
rapidly with anger until the creature is lifeless. He stands
up, wipes the blood from his knife against his leg and
replaces it back in his jacket .
He kneels down and checks the pockets of the infected
creature. He pulls out a mobile phone (useless) so chucks itaside, he then pulls out a wallet and checks the ID. He
sighs, drops it to the floor and stands back up. He stands
for a second or two and then hears distant growls of more
creatures. He looks around and decides to leave.
CUE TITLE.
We see a montage of DON walking around deserted areas as the
titles fade in/out.
EXT. EMPTY STREET.DAY.
DONis walking along an empty road; there is little sign of
life. He spots a bird and stops to look at it. Heconcentrates on it until it flies away and then he walks on.
EXT. OUTSIDE OF HOUSE. DAY
He comes to the front of a house. He looks at it for a few
seconds and slowly approaches the door. He places his hand
on the handle and opens the door as quietly as he can. DON
opens it alittle bit and moves his head in slightly.
INT. HOUSE HALLWAY. DAY
DON
Hello?
He opens the door fully but doesnt go in.
DON
Is anybody in?
He steps in slightly.
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DON
(to himself)
Apparently not.
INT. HOUSE LIVING ROOM. DAY
He is searching around the house looking for any supplies
such as food and clothing. He heads into the kitchen.
INT. HOUSE KITCHEN. DAY
He kneels down to the fridge and looks around. He puts some
of it in his bag. He opens a jar, smells the contents, loo ks
disgusted and quickly puts the lid back on and puts it back
in the fridge. He stands back up and looks around and
notices some rifle bullets on the work top. DON walks over
to the work top and picks up a bullet, studies it for a
second before shrugging his shoulders and putting it back
down. As DONwalks out of the kitchen the bullet rolls off
the work top and onto the floor. DON sees it fall but ignores
it.
INT. UNKNOWN ROOM. DAYWe see an ECU of somebodys eyes quickly opening; reacting
to the noise of the bullet dropping.
INT. BATHROOM. DAY
DON sorts his hair out in the mirror.
INT. UNKNOWN ROOM. DAY
A gun is loaded.
INT. BATHROOM.DAY.
DONdoes up his fliesand flushes the toilet. A sound of a
pump is heard.
INT. BEDROOM.DAY.
He enters the bedroom and a gun is a fired at him from
somebody on the bed. DON quickly jumps back out of the
bedroom and takes out his knife .More shots are fired and
then we hear the gun is empty.
DON
Stop shooting!
The guy on the bed stands up and checks his gun. He is
scruffy and unshaven and looks around the same age as DON.
His name is RALPH.
RALPH
You dead?
DON looks annoyed and angry.
DON
No!
He stands up and faces RALPH .
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DON
What the hell are you playing at?
DONputs his knife away.
RALPH
Sorry. I thought you were one of them.
DON
Did you not hear me say stop?
RALPH
Nope.
There is a pause.
RALPH
(contd)
Sorry.
DON
(Sighs)
You hear by yourself?
RALPH
Yeah.
DON
Village looked dead to me.
RALPH
It is, apart from me...and a few of them obviously.Im RALPH
by the way.
DON
Im DON. You want your food back?
He holds out the bag of food and supplies.
RALPH
Nah, you keep it. Where you stayin anyway?
DON
Nowhere.
RALPHNowhere?
DON
I just travelfrom place to place.
RALPH
So youre not from round here?
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DON
Not really.
RALPH
Look, Im gonna have some brea kfast. You want some?
DON
No thanks, Ive eaten.
RALPH
Suit yourself.
INT. KITCHEN.DAY.
DON and RALPH are standing in the kitchen. RALPH is eating
some cereal and DON is drinking a glass of water.
RALPH
Well (swallows cereal) my mum was wiped out from the start
and then my dad was...changed by one of them.
DONOh.
RALPH
(mouth full of food)
So I shot him.
DON uncomfortably sips his water.
DON
Where do you get your electric and that?
RALPH
Well the house is running on an old car battery but I... errtry to use it as little as possible because, well eventually
it will just run out, the water seems fine for now.
DON
Whats with the gun?
RALPH
Me and my dad used to hunt. This is just what we had in the
house but I got a good amount of bullets. You have any
weapons?
DON pulls the knife from his jacket.
RALPH
(laughing)
Thats it? How many have you killed with that tooth pick?
DON
Enough. Im getting it down to a talent.
DONspins the knife and motions an attack.
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RALPH
Youre gonna get yourself killed using that!
DON
It does the job.
RALPH
For filing your nails maybe.
They hear a loud bang from outside.
DON
What was that?
RALPH
I dont know.
RALPHputs his bowl down, grabs his gun from the side and
check it is loaded.They slowly head towards the door and
slow down even more when they become close to it.DON opens
the door as RALPH points his gun, covering him. Nothing isthere.DON shrugs his shoulders.
DON
(whisper)
Looks clear.
There is a long pause as the s treet looks empty. A quiet
sound of the wind and birds is heard.
RALPH
Wait here.
RALPH steps out into the street.
EXT. STREET.DAY.
DON
(whisper)
RALPH! What are you doing?
RALPH ignores DONand steps into the middle of the road.D ON
looks confused. There is the quiet noise of a
growl.RALPHturns his head to the direction of the growl.
Aninfected jumps out from behind a car. RALPH looks at it.
The infected runs towards him.RALPH fires and the bullet
hits the infected straight in the middle of his forehead,causing him to fall down dead. He casually turns back to
the house.
RALPH
Let me see you do that with a knife.
He enters the house and locks the door shut.
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FADE INTO.
EXT. COLLEGE. DAY
DON enters the college. There are two people talk ing and
looking at a TV screen. A news report talking about a meteor
is playing. DON shakes his head, thinking it is all
nonsense.
INT. HOUSE.NIGHT.
DON and RALPH are in the living room. All lights are off,
they are using candle light. DON is sitting, rather
uncomfortably, holding his knife. RALPH is anxiously pacing
round the room. DON looks from his knife to RALPH several
times. RALPH looks out of the window. We hear a distant
growl.
RALPH
I swear that every day there is more and more of them! It
wont be long before were over run.
There is a long uncomfortable silence.
DON
Do you think there are many survivors?
RALPH
(Oblivious to DONs question)
I mean sure, I got a few bullets but th ey arent gonna last
forever.
DON
RALPH.
RALPH
And what about food? Going to get supplies will just mean
they will attack me! Every-fucking-time!
DON
RALPH!
RALPH
Sorry. (small cough) Im sorry. Its just difficult you
know?
DON
Look, why dont you travel with me. Think about it, we canlast longer together and well try and find any other
survivors.
RALPH
Yeah, yeah ok.
EXT. STRET. DAY
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DON and RALPH are walking along the road. Both with a
backpack/satchel.
We see a small montage of them walking.
EXT. FIELD.DAY.
DON stops walking and so does RALPH but confused why DON has
stopped.RALPH
What you stoppin for?
DON
Look.
He points up to a bird.
RALPH
(sarcastic)
Wow.
DONIts amazing.
RALPH
Its a fucking bird.
DONignores RALPHS comment and continues to stare at the
bird. All of a sudden there is a loud bang of a gunshot.The
bird falls to the ground. We see RALPH pointing the gun. DON
looks horrified. He looks from the dead bird to the RALPH.
RALPH is pointing the gun still, smiling to himself.
RALPH
(laughs)Pretty good shot, dont you think?
DON continues to look shocked. They carry on walking and the
montage continues.
EXT. FOOTPATH.DAY.
As the montage comes to an end we see that RALPH is trailing
behind, tired.
RALPH
Can we stop?
DONYeah, sure.
They sit down and take drinks from their bag. RALPH
scratches some dirt off his gun.
RALPH
Where we headin?
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Wherever we go.
FADE INTO.
EXT. SPACE. DAY
(back to college day)
An unusual meteor is heading towards earth, it is green and
glowing.
INT. COLLEGE HALLWAY.DAY.
DON steps into the hallway (out from a lesson). He stops at a
vending machine and looks at what it has to offer. He takes
out his wallet from his pocket and starts to take money out.
He hears screams coming from outside and looks th e
direction.He hears the same noise but louder and runs
outside.
EXT. COLLEGE.DAY.
DON looks at the sky, confused. A meteor is heading from sky
towards earth. DON looks panicked and runs back inside.
Screams are heard. The meteor crashes to the ground.
CUT TO BLACK.
FADE INTO.
EXT. FIELD.DAY.
Shot from the POV of the meteor hole.
A passer by walks into frame. He is confused but interested
by the crash. He bends down to look, picks up some of the
rocky remains, studies it and drops it back down. He stands
up again and the area around the meteor glows. The person
gives the meteor an even stranger look. The camera zooms
into the person as we see his blood cells get infected.
CUT TO BLACK.
An infected growl is heard.
FADE INTO.
INT. COLLEGE.DAY.
DON is lying on the floor. He has blood trickling down his
head. He wakes up, gasps in pain and touches his head to
find itsbleeding. He stands up and looks around. The halls
are empty. He walks on and hears a growl. DON looks confused
and walks on. The growl becomes louder and louder until an
infected walks around the corner.
EXT. FIELD.DAY.(back in present time)
A dog barking can be heard from the distance.
DON
You hear that?
RALPH
What?
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They hear the dog again.
DON
A dog.Come on!
RALPH
Ill wait here-Whats with your obsession with animals?
DONIts a dog!
RALPH
I will shoot the dog too...
DON runs off to find the dog.
EXT. ROAD. DAY
He slows down, listening out for the dog.
He turns around and sees an infected, no sign of a dog.He
looks horrified and pulls out his knife. The infectedspots
him and runs over to him. DON plunges his knife into theinfected, knocking it back. DON starts to run away but the
infected soon catches up and gets a hold of him. DON
struggles to push it back.
DON
RALPH!
DON punches the infected in the face but this does not seem
to cause much damage. RALPHappears and looks shocked. He
points, aims and shoots but misses, nearly hitting Don.
DON
Shoot it!
RALPH fires a couple more times but misses and runs out of
bullets.
DON
Shoot-it!
RALPH starts to reload, but as he is worried he dropsthe
shell. The infected reaches closer and closer to biting
DONS neck.RALPHis still struggling to reload. All of a
sudden the infected drops lifeless, blood gushing from his
head.
DON
About time.
RALPH
That wasnt me.
RALPH shows his gun is empty.
DON
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Then wh..?
DONturns around and spots three people heading towards
him.RALPH spots them as well and loads his gun. As the group
gets closer we see there are two guys and one girl.One of
the guys looks over the infected and shoots it a couple more
times with his gun.He is well dressed and equipped for
survival. His name is ROBERT.
ROBERT
Whats going on?
DON
(slightly confused)
Nothing. Were fine.
ROBERT
Didnt look like fine to me.
ROBERT looks back from DON and then to RALPH.
ROBERT
Im ROBERT.
DON
Im DON and this is RALPH.
ROBERT points at the other male; VINCENT.
ROBERT
VINCENT and...
RALPH
(laughing)VINCENT? What kind of name is that?
VINCENT
I dont know, RALPH!
ROBERT
And this is ANNIE.
RALPH
(to himself)
Its like the retarded name club.
ROBERT(ignoringRALPH)
What you two doing hanging around h ere? A lot of the
infected around.
DON
Were travelling.
ROBERT
Where?
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DON
Anywhere.
ROBERT
You have no shelter?
DON
Not really.
ROBERT
Well I suggest you find some.
ANNIE
ROBERT?
ROBERT
Yeah?
ANNIELet them stay with us.
ROBERT?
No!
ANNIE
Theyll die out here!
DON
Hey, hey were fine. Okay? Weve got a gun.
VINCENT
One gun?With how much ammo? And youre friend didnt seemmuch of a John Wayne just then.
ANNIE
You always say that if there are more of us we will survive
longer.
ROBERT
It will mean fewer provisionsANNIE!
ANNIE
We are fine for supplies!
There is a pause as ROBERT considers.
ROBERT
Okay, fine. We are staying about 10 minutes away. Come on.
They all leave to the house. DON walks up to RALPH.
DON
RALPH, what happened back there ?
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RALPH walks ahead. DON looks at him with a concerned look.
EXT.ROAD OUTSIDE HOUSE. DAY
ANNIE
Here we are.
ROBERT walks up to the door, unlocks it and walks in.VINCENT lets ANNIE and DONgo before him but cuts in front of
RALPH. RALPH closes the door, checking outside as he does
it.
INT.HOUSE.DAY.
They follow ROBERT into the living room.DON happily sits
down on the settee. ANNIE sits next to him. ROBERT sits on
his own chair andRALPH sits on another chair.
VINCENT
RALPH!
RALPHYeah?
VINCENT
Thats my chair.
RALPH
What?
VINCENT
I said. That is my chair.
RALPH
Well...Im sitting here...
VINCENT
Move.
RALPH
Excuse me?
VINCENT
Huh. I think you heard.
RALPH
What is your problem?
VINCENT
You. Get out of my chair.
RALPH stands.
RALPH
What you gonna do?
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VINCENT throws a punch at RALPH. RALPH blocks the punch and
throws one back. VINCENT grabs his hand and spins him to the
ground. He heads over to RALPH to fight some more.DON and
ANNIE stand up.
ANNIE
Stop it.
They stop.
ANNIE
(contd)
What do you think youre doing? We arent going to survive
if we keep fighting each other.
VINCENT takes his seat. RALPH stands.
DON
So what do you lot...do?
ROBERT
Hunt. The less of them means we will have a higher chance of
surviving.
DON
Where did you get the gun from?
RALPH is checking out of the window.
ROBERT
We took them from a dead hunting squadron. Before that we
were pretty much hunting with kitchen cutlery.
ROBERT notices RALPH looking out of the window.
ROBERT
Keep away from the window .
RALPHignores him.
ROBERT
I said keep away from the window!
DON walks over to RALPH.
DONRALPH. You alright mate?
RALPH looks to DON.
RALPH
(shakes his head)
Yeah. Im fine.
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DON looks out of the window to see if R ALPH was looking at
anything. The street is empty. He turns his head to RALPH
who is still acting weird and looks concerned. We see that
ROBERT also notices this and looks from RALPH to VINCENT. DON
sits back down.
DON
Do you know anything about what actually happened?
ROBERT
You mean the pandemic?
DON
Yeah.
ROBERT
The meteor. It spread a virus. Im guessing it wiped out a
large number of the worlds population. Some survived like
us and some...
ROBERT pauses.
ROBERT
Half survived like them.
DON
I see.How come we survived?
ROBERT
Im not sure.
ANNIE
You notice that there a no old people. Its all teenagers.
DON
Yeah. Youre right.
ROBERT
Im guessing its to do with the stage of the human bodys
immune system. Ours must have been in the exact right phase
to be impervious to the disease.
DON
Thats a good theory.
ROBERT smiles.
DON
So apart from...hunting...what else do you do?
ROBERT
Well we have generator running in the garage but we use that
as little as possible but luckily we came across an
excellent amount of drink.
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Alcohol?
VINCENT
Thats right my friend.
ANNIE
So, if there is no infected killing needed...
VINCENT
We get absolutely munch bunched!
RALPH
Well, getting drunk is better than what I did for fun?
DON
Why? What did you do?
RALPH
Made card towers out of chocolate digestives.
ANNIE and DON laugh.
FADE IN.
INT. BATHROOM.DAY.
RALPH is asleep in the bath.
INT. LIVING ROOM DAY.
DON, VINCENT, ANNIE, and ROBERT are talking.
ANNIE
What? Thats crazy!
ROBERTIt will work if we all put our minds to it!
RALPH walks in, eating.
RALPH
Whats that?
VINCENT
Are you eating all the fucking food?
DON
ROBERT wants to capture one of the infected. Bring it in and
study it.
ANNIE
Which I think is the stupidest idea Ive ever heard.
ROBERT
Its just....I have another theory !
DON
What?
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ROBERT
Look, we are fine for the moment. Our immune system is
secluded from the virus.
DON
So what do we have to worry about?
ROBERT
As our immune system develops the virus could easily affect
us too.
DON
So capturing one of the infected and bringing it in here
will fix that?
ROBERT
I believe that within their cells and ours is the answer.
VINCENT
I know youre intellectual and everything but you cant curecancer.
ROBERT
This isnt cancer.
DON
Well, it may as well be.
ANNIE
We could all get killed out there. It doesnt seem worth it.
ROBERT
So you want to slowly get infected and die?
ANNIE
No.
ROBERT
Well, we need to hunt one of the infected.
ANNIE
ROBERT, its...
ROBERT
Are you scared?
ANNIE
So what if I am? I dont like going out there unless we
really need to.
ROBERT
You know there is no room for the pathetic and the weak in
this team. So unless you pull yourself together Ill...
ANNIE
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(angry)
Youll what ROBERT? Kill me?
ROBERT is thrown back by ANNIEs reply.
ROBERT
If it means.
ROBERT pauses.
ROBERT
If it means that youre slowing the team down. Yes.
ANNIE takes a gunfrom the side and hands it to ROBERT.
ANNIE
Go on then. If youll go to that extent.
ROBERTlowers the gun.DON takes the gun.
DONGive me that. Now, everybody calm down.
ANNIE slaps ROBERT and walks out.
RALPH
Dont get on the wrong side of her.
DON, VINCENT and ROBERT give RALPH an evil glare.
RALPH
What?
INT. ROBERTS ROOM.NIGHT.ROBERT is lying in bed. We see he is looking at a photo of
him and what we assume is his girlfriend, before the
pandemic. They look happy.
INT. VINCENTS ROOM. NIGHT
He is doing push ups. He hears somebody murmuring and stops,
confused. He grabs a bat nearby and walks out of the room.
INT. ROBERTs ROOM.NIGHT.
VINCENT gently knocks on the door and lets himself in.
ROBERT looks sad but when he sees V INCENT, he hides the
picture.
ROBERT
What?
VINCENT
Come with me.
ROBERT
Why?
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INT. RALPHS ROOM.NIGHT.
RALPH is sitting almost perfectly still, talking to himself.
ROBERT looks at VINCENT , they both have a sinister look on
their face.
INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
(MORNING AFTER)
RALPH walks in, just doing up his shirt. Looking out ofplace. DON and ANNIE are already dressed; DON is drinking
from a mug.
DON
Sleep well?
RALPH doesnt hear and starts to bite his nails.
DON
RALPH?
RALPH
What?
DON
You alright?
RALPH
Yeah.
He walks out of the room.
ANNIE
Whats wrong with him?
DONI think hes losing it.
ANNIE
Well, Im worried. If ROBERT sees him like that hell kill
him and to be honest, I think VICNENT would be more than
happy to help.
DON
(whisper)
Well what are we supposed to do? We cant get him
counselling. Any doctor in fixing stuff like that for people
is dead!
ANNIE
Oh you think?
INT. KITCHEN. DAY
VINCENT and ROBERT are in the kitchen, Annie gets herself a
glass of water and starts to leave.
ROBERT
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ANNIE, wheres RALPH?
VINCENT looks to ROBERT.
ANNIE
Um, I dont know. Why?
ROBERT
Never mind.
ANNIE
Okay.
She looks at ROBERT perplexed.
EXT. HOUSE.DAY.
RALPH is standing at the front of the house, very still. DON
comes out of the house and looks at RALPH
DONRALPH.
RALPH says nothing and stays still.
DON
(contd)
RALPH, are you okay?
RALPH
How much longer?
DON
What?
RALPH
(turns head to DON)
How much longer are we going to last out here D ON?
RALPH turns his head back, looking forward once again.
DON
RALPHlisten to me!
RALPHcontinues to stare forward.
INT. KITCHEN. DAYVINCENT and ROBERT are talking about killing off RALPH.
ANNIE is outside the room, listening.
ROBERT
When?
VINCENT
When what?
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ROBERT
We need to get rid of him, hes slowing us all down. He is a
pathetic excuse for a survivor!
VINCENT
Whoa ROBERT, arent you getting a little carried away with
this team thing?
ROBERT
Of course not, you agree with me, right?
VINCENT
Yes but...
ROBERT
Youre gonna help me take him out if you like it or not!
VINCENT
When?
ROBERTTonight.
EXT. HOUSE.DAY.
DON
If you dont pull yourself together theyll.
DON pauses.
DON
VINCENT and ROBERT are gonna kill you. You saw ROBERTwhen
ANNIE backed down. He wont think twice about doing the same
to you.
ANNIE walks out.
ANNIE
DON, can I talk to you please?
INT. HOUSE HALLWAY. DAY
ANNIE
I heard them talking.
DON
What?
ANNIE
Theyre gonna kill RALPH tonight.
DON
Tonight?!
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Dont say anything. You wont be able to stop them both.
DON
Well we cant just...
VINCENT comes from the living room.
VINCENTWhat you two doing?
DON
Nothing.
VINCENT
Well get your things together. We goin hunting boy!
He laughs. DON and ANNIE give each other a concerned look.
CUT TO.
A montage of them packing guns and equipment ready to hunt.
EXT. FIELD DAY.
They are all spread apart and silent . As they reach a corner
they hear a noise.
ROBERT
(whisper)
Wait here.
ROBERT checks his gun is loaded and approaches the corner.
He slowly pokes his head round and sees one of the infected.
He turns back to the rest of the team.
ROBERTThere is one round there. Dont kill it! Understand?
VINCENT
What do we do?
ROBERT
Go for the legs or the arms.
They all turn round the corner and the infected notices
them.He runs towards the team and they raise their weapons.
ROBERT
Remember, just injure it!
VINCENT stands forward and begins to attack the infected
with his bat but the infected pushes him back.
ROBERT
Move Im gonna shoot it in the leg.
They all back away and ROBERT shoot it in the leg, it
screams. They all move forward to fight some more.
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ROBERT
Stay back, thats enough.
The infectedlies on the ground in pain.VINCENTslowly moves
forward towards the infected and taps it with his bat. The
infected jumps out and tries to bite VINCENT. VINCENT tries
pushing it off.
VINCENT
Get it off me!
We hear a gun shot and see that RALPH has shot the infected.
There is a few seconds of silence as VINCENTclimbs out from
underneath the corpse.
ROBERT
You
ROBERT punches RALPH. ROBERT goes in for another punch but
DON stops him.
DON
Look, well capture another one! What is wrong with you?
ANNIE pushes ROBERT away.
ANNIE
Lets get back before it gets dark.
They all head back to the house.
INT. HOUSE LIVING ROOM.DAY.
They are all sitting, not saying anything to each other andcompletely silent.Ralph starts to look irritated about
something.
RALPH
Excuse me a minute.
DON
Okay.
He gets up and leaves.
DON
Okay, look
ROBERT
I dont need anything from you right now.
ROBERT gets up and leaves too. VINCENT follows.
INT. BATHROOM.DAY.
RALPH is staring at himself in the mirror. He gently touches
his own face and runs his hand down it. Then there is a loud
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bang on the door and RALPH spins his head to look. He wipes
his nose with his hand, sniffing.
RALPH
Who is it?
ROBERT
What are you doing in there?
RALPH
Nothing. Leave me alone please.
ROBERT tries opening the door.
ROBERT
Open this door.
RALPH slowly opens the door. ROBERT punches him in the face
knocking him back into the bathroom. RALPH unsuccessfully
tries to fight back. ROBERTtakes out his gun and cocks it.
VINCENT comes in.
ROBERT
Hold him still.
VINCENT holds RALPH still. ROBERT shoots RALPH.
INT. LIVING ROOM.DAY.
DON and ANNIE hear the gunshot.
DON
Theyre all upstairs.
DON grabs a gun and him and ANNIE run upstairs to thebathroom.
INT. UPSTAIRS HALL WAY. DAY.
DON and ANNIE see RALPHs corpse.
DON
What have you done?
ROBERT
He was weak! We didnt have room for him on this team!
DON
He wasnt weak!
VINCENT
He was a clumsy idiot.
DON
(calmer and sarcastic with but still angry)
Right. Okay. I get it. Since were killing idiots. What do
we say to firing a bullet through your head?
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DON points the gun to VINCENT.
DON
And them him!
ROBERT
You wouldnt dare.
There is a moment of silence.
DON starts to aim his gun but VINCENT jumps on him and takes
it.
ANNIE
Everybody calm down!
Moment of silence.
ROBERT
I killed him. Okay? Maybe it was a bit over the top but he
was losing it and obviously couldnt take the pain, I puthim out of his misery.
DON
He isnt a sick dog!
There is another moment of silence.
ROBERT
I need to work out the cure to save the rest of us and any
other survivors, and I need your help. Okay?
DON
Okay.
ANNIE
What?
DON
Whats wrong?
ANNIE
He gives a crappy little speech and now weve forgivi ng him?
There is a fresh dead body only feet away.
DON
I know ANNIE! I know. But we need to stick together , ascheesy and as unintelligent as that sounds we must keep
strong.
ANNIE
Youre full of shit.
DON
ANNIE. Please.
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ROBERT
Tomorrow, well go out on the hunt for another one of them.
Well capture it, and Ill study it.
ANNIE
What if it doesnt work? What if you capture it, study it
and then find that there is absolutely nothing to do to cure
it.
EXT. ROAD.DAY.
They are all walking, all looking tired apart for R OBERT who
is determined to find one of the infected and study it.
ROBERT
Come on! Keep up!
DON
Were tired. Lets just stop for a minute.
ROBERT
No.
DON
Its not like weve gotta rush.
ROBERT
Yes we do, before it gets dark!
ROBERT continues.
VINCENT
(to DON)
DON, Im sorry.
DON
Its okay.
DON starts to carry on.
VINCENT
DON, really. Im so sorry. I didnt...I mean...
ROBERT
Did I say stop?
They start to carry on walking but suddenly one of the
infected jumps out and grabs ANNIE. ROBERT runs back. DONtries to pull it off but no luck. VINCENT grabs it and pulls
it back. He pulls out his gun.
ROBERT
Dont shoot it!
VINCENT shoots the infected.
ROBERT
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No! What is wrong with you people? Shit!
VINCENT
Stop this.
ROBERT
What?
VINCENT
I dont want to do this anymore.
ROBERT
Vincent.
VINCENT
You cant just kill anybody you like!
ROBERT
VINCENT. Youre the last person I thought would be like
this.
VINCENT
Youre not gonna find a cure Robert. Your impossible target
is just to stop your own insanity getting to you, to keep
you occupied! Nobody can be cured! And youre just
slaughtering anybody you wish? And what for?Some personal
vendetta.
ROBERT
I trusted you.
ROBERT shoots VINCENT.
ANNIENo!
DON pointshis gun up at ROBERT.
ROBERT
So is that how it is?
DON
You twisted bastard!
DON moves his gun closer to ROBERT.
ROBERTSo what? All of you knew that when you join me you cant be
weak?
DON
You think youre stronger? Youre as weak as any of us.
ANNIE, come on lets go.
ROBERT
Where are you going?
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DON
If you think youre better than all us then you catch your
damn infected creature by yourself! ANNIE, were leaving.
ROBERTturns back, lifts his gun-pointing it at DONs back.
ANNIEDON!
She pushes his arm to the side causing the bullet to hit the
ground. She then elbows him in the face and he falls back.
DON spins back round. ROBERT is now on the ground.
DON
Lets go.
He grabs ANNIES hand and they run off. ROBERT shoots at
them.
CUT TO.EXT. DUSTY ROAD. DAY
DON and ANNIE are running, b ullets hit the trees, skimming
them. ROBERT is chasing them, with aggression in his face.
EXT. DEAD END ROAD.DAY
DON and ANNIE come to a dead end .
DON
No!
They hear ROBERTs gun fire in the distance.
DON(whisper)
Get down.
They hide. DON checks his gun is loaded.
ANNIE
DON?
They exchange glances.
DON
Trust me.
DONjumps out and fires his gun in ROBERTS direction.
ROBERTturns and shoots bullets back in DONS and ANNIEs
direction. We hear his gun click as it empties. DON has
jumped to the ground.
DON
ANNIE lets move out of here while hes reloading.
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DON checks his gun.
DON
ANNIE! Lets go.
He turns back and sees ANNIE is lying on the ground with
several marks of blood on here where bullets have hit.
DON
No! Shit. Shit!
DON holds on to ANNIEs hand and looks down to her lifeless
body. ROBERT walks over and looks down to the both of them.
He grabs DON by the collar and drags him off. We see that
DONs hand is pulled from ANNIEs. Anger fillsDONS face as
he is being dragged. He pulls himself up and punches R OBERT.
A fight scene commences ending with ROBERT pointing a gun at
DON, DON cowers in fear as ROBERT prepares to shoot him.
There is a moment of silence. A gun s hot is heard. ROBERT
falls to the ground. DON opens his eyes, confused.
DON slowly uncovers his face and looks to see what has
happened. He sees ROBERT lying on the floor and looks into
the distance and sees a group of rebels /military men. One
lowering his gun.
Cut to black.
THE END.
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