Third draft

Script (Third draft)

A 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)

The three of them are shown leaving the church and the scene changes, establishing shot of an abandoned warehouse, 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 beers, passing 2 of them to Liam and Cal before joining them on one of the sofas and opening his can. The music fades out.

OLLY

 So… You reckon United are gonna win on Saturday?

CAL

 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.

CAL

 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-

Cal interrupts him.

CAL

 Well there’s nothing we can do now is there eh?

Olly looks at Cal in shock.

LIAM

  We can find the bastard that did this to him

CAL

 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.

CAL

 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)

Cal scoughs.

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 –

CAL

Everything’s fine.

MEL

 People think you lot have got somet to do with this you know.

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’?

CAL

 Yeah, what’s that about?

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- 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.

CAL

 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.

CAL

 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

 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’?

MEL

 Don’t give a shit? I had to see his fucking body in pieces, I had to-

LIAM

 Maybe I should just go…

CAL

 Yeah, maybe you should mate.

MEL

 No need, I’ll go. Leave you lot to your shitty party, or whatever you call this. (Smugly) See you at college.

Mel storms out.

LIAM

 I should probably go after her shouldn’t I?

OLLY

Yeah… probably a good idea.