Script (Fourth draft)
Church bells can be heard
as well as the sound of rain, besides that it is silent, there are no cars
driving past despite the church being in the middle of town, rain is shown
coming down heavily, then the scene changes. Int. A church, the priest is shown
reading from the bible. Dan’s funeral is taking place. In the front row, 3 boys
can be seen (Olly, Liam and Cal), each dressed in black suits with a white
shirt, one of the boys, slightly shorter than the other two (Liam) isn’t
wearing a tie and has his shirt unbuttoned at the top, he has messy dark blonde
hair and pale skin, along with what look like hand-me-down shoes, he looks
rather scruffy, next to him is Olly and Cal, both dressed much smarter than
him. Next to the three of the boys is a girl with bright ginger hair, dressed
in a black dress(Mel), along with a woman who appears to be in her forties and
a man much younger than her who is her husband (Dan’s Mum and step Dad), both
also dressed in black. As the service ends and people begin to leave the
church, Liam, Olly and Cal approach Dan’s Mother, step father and Mel.
Liam taps Dan’s Mother on
the shoulder anxiously. As she turns around he gives her a small smile.
LIAM
Alright? Erm… Miss Green? (Stutters)
Olly and Cal whisper
amongst each other.
MRS GREEN
Yes? (She
snaps at him)
Liam and Cal exchange
glances
OLLY
Erm, we just
wanted to see how you’re doing? (Sympathetically)
MRS GREEN
How I’m
doing? My son’s mutilated body has just been found and the police have no idea
why, how do you think I’m doing? (sadness in her voice)
Mel puts her arm round Mrs
Green.
LIAM
Geez… what
did we do? (Whispering to Cal
MEL
Emma, why
don’t you go talk to Father Thomas?
Mrs Green smiles at Mel
and nods her head before going to speak to Father Thomas, a kind looking
priest.
MEL
Dan’s Mums been through a lot, you know how she
felt about you lot so I don’t reckon now’s the best time to chat with her.
Liam, Olly and Cal nod at
Mel in agreement.
MEL
I’ll meet
you at the warehouse after okay?
She gives an apologetic
smile to the three of them.
OLLY
Sure (he
nods at Mel)
Slow music is played
(piano) which sets the feeling as sad as the three of them are shown leaving
the church and the scene changes, the music becomes more upbeat then showing an
establishing shot of an abandoned warehouse, surrounded by several other
abandoned smaller buildings and a large field, the entrance is surrounded by a
metal fence with a a hole ripped through it, with a padlock over the door, as
they reach the entrance, Olly pulls a key out of his pocket and before
unlocking it he checks to see if anyone can see them. As the three of them walk
in, they walk up a staircase before reaching a room, they walk in and two old
sofas and a lot of empty beer cans and food wrappers can be seen cluttered in a
corner on the floor. Olly opens a shabby fridge in the corner of the room and
pulls out three cans of fosters, passing 2 of them to Liam and Cal before joining
them on one of the sofas and opening his can. The music fades out.
EXT.
ABANDONED WAREHOUSE - DAY
OLLY
So… You
reckon United are gonna win on Saturday?
Liam rolls his eyes and
takes a swig of beer.
Against
City? No chance mate, got money on that match anyway me.
OLLY
You joking!?
City don’t stand a chance man, I’m telling you, you ain’t winning shit off that
game.
You’re mad
you, Liam! What do you reckon, City or United?
Liam places his head in
his hands and sighs.
LIAM
Why the fuck
has this happened to us? (Muffled as his hands are covering his face)
OLLY
I don’t know
man, I just wish it hadn’t.
Olly puts his arm around
Liam.
LIAM
He was my
best mate, he was our-
Well there’s
nothing we can do now is there eh?
Olly looks at Cal
LIAM
We can find
the bastard that did this to him
C’mon, us? A
bunch of fuck ups? (sniggers) How do you expect us to find out who killed him?
We just need to leave it and move on, that’s what he’d want.
LIAM
No. He’d
want us to find out who did it, get them locked up, we need to, we could of
stopped this, if we’d of just listened to him.
He was
always getting himself into trouble, had it coming to him if you ask me.
LIAM
How can you
say that? He was your mate too! Just fucking dare you to say something like
that again. (Raising his voice)
OLLY
Right, calm
down. Arguing ain’t gonna solve anything, I mean maybe Cal’s right, if anyone
can find out who did this, it ain’t gonna be us, but Cal man, stop being such a
dick.
Mel walks in, she still
has tears rolling down her face but she manages to crack a small smile at the three boys. She exhales and
wipes her eyes, managing not to smudge the black makeup around her eyes.
MEL
Alright? (Trying
to sound cheerful)
Olly glances at Cal and
Liam, both looking angry with one another.
LIAM
Actually –
Everything’s fine.
MEL
People think
you lot have got somet to do with this you know.
Olly, Liam and Cal all
look at each other, with a mix of shock and anger in their faces, for a while
no one speaks, Mel doesn’t look at them, keeping her head down as a tear can be
seen rolling down her face, however her dark eye makeup is still kept perfect.
Olly appears as though he is thinking, unlike Cal and Liam he seems to be
remaining calm.
LIAM
Is that a
joke? (anger in his voice) people seriously think we’d kill our best mate!?
OLLY
What do you
mean ‘something to do with it’?
Yeah, what’s
that about?
Still trying to avoid eye
contact Mel looks down at her feet as she speaks to the three of them.
MEL
Emma- I mean
Dan’s Mum, after the funeral- after you left, she said something about the police,
about Dan and she said that-
Spit it out
then. (snaps at her)
OLLY
MEL
She told me
that- that the police were thinking of you as suspects, that since you were the
last to see him, that maybe you, erm –
Liam stands up, his facial
expression is angry.
LIAM
What? That
maybe we cut him up and dumped him in the woods? Why do they think we have
somethin’ to do with it?!
MEL
Look I
didn’t really ask, okay. She were pretty torn up, her sons just been murdered
you know.
Yeah but, we
didn’t do anything you know that… right?
MEL
Course not!
Look maybe I shouldn’t of told you.
OLLY
Shouldn’t of
told us? What and just let us think everything was fine. Listen, we have
nothing to worry about. None of us did anything wrong, our mates gone and
that’s it. All we can do is try figure out who did this to him, and hope the
bastard gets locked up for a long time.
No, we
should stay out of it, let the police do their job.
LIAM
Are you
kidding me? Do nothing? How can we stay out of it.
MEL
He’s right,
it’s better for you if you stay out of the way.
Liam is pacing around the
room, he trips over a beer can and Cal Cal Butler
LIAM
We aren’t
just going to do ‘nothing’ How can we? If you ask me, no one knows, or knew… No
one knew Dan better than us, so if not us then who else can figure out what
happened to him? We need to get to the bottom of it, I dunno, find his phone,
search his room or I dunno. We just have to do something.
MEL
No. He was
my boyfriend. We aren’t going to do anything.
LIAM
And he was
our friend. If you don’t give a shit what happened to him then you can piss
off, we’ll do it on our own. Right Ol’?
OLLY
Man, don’t…
Olly, Liam and Cal all
look at an angry Mel.
MEL
Don’t give a
shit? I had to see his fucking body in pieces, I had to-
LIAM
Maybe I
should just go…
Yeah, maybe
you should mate.
Mel wipes her eyes and
stares angrily at Liam.
MEL
No need,
I’ll go. Leave you lot to your shitty party, or whatever you call this. (Smugly)
See you at college.
As Mel storms out of the
room, Cal and Olly look at Liam shaking their heads. Liam loosens the collar
even more on his shirt and rolls up the sleeves of his blazer.
LIAM
I should
probably go after her shouldn’t I?
OLLY
Yeah… probably a good idea.
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