While you were sleeping
By Danny Peachey
SCENE 1:
INT. DARK CELLAR - EVENING
the capture is sitting in a chair, he wakes up confused, he looks around trying to figure out what has happened,he struggles to reach for his pocket,he finally manages to get his phone out of his pocket, he tries to phone someone,
SCENE 2:
INT. KITCHEN – EVENING
the camera cuts to a kitchen where another man is preparing dinner, his phone is on the side and it starts ringing, he cleans his hands and answers the phone, but it is a womens voice,
STACIE
“are we still on for dinner round yours tonight?”
TERRY
“ yea of course. Im just preparing the food now”
STACIE
“Ok.great.i will see you at 8 then.bye”
she puts down the phone,
SCENE 3:
INT. DARK CELLAR - EVENING
the camera cuts back to the cellar, and the phone is showing it has no signal.
SCENE 4:
INT. BEDROOM - EVENING
the man putting on his best suit, he looks in the mirror and is very pleased by the way he looks, he looks at his watch
TERRY
“ only a few more hours and she will be here, hope she likes what ive cooked for her”
TERRY
“o that reminds me, I better feed him,”
closeup shot showing to pieces of toast popping out of the toaster. He puts them in a dog bowl, and walks to the cellar door, he slowly opens the door, camera is shotting the back of his head, and it cuts to in the cellar looking up and the door opening..the capture walks down the stairs, and puts the dog bowl down on the floor, and walks away,
fades to black
SCENE 5:
INT. KITCHEN - EVENING
fades back in romantic music is playing, and we are seen in the kitchen as the capture is cooking a romantic meal,
SCENE 6:
INT. DINING AREA - EVENING
cuts to dining table.. a cover is being thrown over the table, plates and glasses are bin places on the table, candles are also put on the table.
SCENE 7:
INT. DARK CELLAR - EVENING
He then goes back down to the cellar to retrieve the dog bowl...
TERRY
“ arr your not eating whats wrong?”
camera pulls out to see a man tied to a chair
TERRY
“are you still mad at me because of what I said earlier?”
still he doesnt reply
TERRY
“kk kk give me one sec”
fade to black
SCENE 8:
INT. DARK CELLAR - EVENING
comes back in with two ties
TERRY
“ would you say the black or the red one for my date tonight?...o I almost forgot, would you like me to turn the page?”
JOHN
“Terry, id rather you let me go!”
TERRY
“you know I cant do that. What about your magazine, are you finding it interesting, would you like me to turn the page?
JOHN
“well I have read the same fucking page for the past four fucking days!”
TERRY
“didnt your mother teach you to show respect to other people”
hits the hostage round the face
TERRY
“im sorry I didnt mean too..”
he strokes the hostages face and then gives him a kiss on the cheek
doorbell rings
TERRY
“ that would be her.. wish me luck”
fade to black
SCENE 9:
INT. INTERCOM - EVENING
door bell is ringing, terry is looking through the camera at who it is. Camera as over the shoulder of terry,camera slowly pans in to have a closeup of the video screen of the girl,
TERRY
“ill be right out”
STACIE
“ok”
SCENE 10:
INT. DINING AREA- EVENING
a pan of the womens body starting from her feet up to her neck, when it gets to her neck, terry enters the shot and takes her jacket from her, terry then pulls the chair out for stacie
a closeup shot of terry pouring a glass of wine for stacie.
Fade to black
SCENE 11:
INT. DINING AREA- EVENING
fade in
terry picking up the plates, and leaving the room,
fade to black
SCENE 12:
INT. FRONT ROOM- EVENING
shows a bottle of wine and two glasses at the side of the sofer, with two pairs of feet, slow pan up to the bodies of terry and stacie
STACIE
“ theres nothing on tv”
flicking through the channels
TERRY
“well we can put a film on if you fancy one?”
stacie flips onto the channel where john is bing filmed
STACIE
“whats this?”
terry snatching the tv remote from stacie
TERRY
“its that crappy russian big brother, were not watching that”
STACIE
“I want to see what its all about”
TERRY
“No its boring. Lets just talk instead”
gets up. Walks over to t.v and turns it off
TERRY
“but before that im going to have a quick shower and freshen up”
SCENE 13:
INT. SHOWER - EVENING
shows closeup of shower and terry turning shower on
cuts to shower door closing and closeup of door locking
SCENE 14:
INT. FRONT ROOM- EVENING
stacie turns the tv back on and see john
JOHN
“terry. For fuck sake you cant keep me locked down here forever, and you got a fucking date upstairs... god I wish someone could hear me...HELPPPPP!!!!”
stacie mutes the tv and hears johns faint cry for help
SCENE 15:
INT. CELLAR DOOR- EVENING
stacie quite as possibility, unlocks the cellar door and slowly creeps down, to her puzzle and amazement she finds john down there, crying,
SCENE 16:
INT. FRONT ROOM- EVENING
terry walks into the front room to find that stacie is no longer in there, he looks at the tv and sees stacie trying to untie john,
terry rapidly turns and exits scene
SCENE 17:
INT. CELLAR – EVENING
stacie is trying to untie john when a shadow suddenly appears on the wall
a quite voice is heard
TERRY
“ I didnt want you to see this stacie, I liked you”
STACIE
“your fucking mental”
TERRY
“now stacie lets not say things we dont mean”
camera focuses on the shadows on the wall, shows jack grabbing stacie by the neck, and pushing her to the floor
fade out
SCENE 18:
INT. CELLAR DOOR- EVENING
terry walking down the cellar stairs just like at the start of the film, but this time with two plates,
TERRY
“i hope you two can behave yourself today... im entertaining a guest tonight, wish me luck”
terry turns and flicks the light off
cuts to pitch black
lights come back on and evryone is standing around
Janet
“ cut...cut ..cut...im not really feeling the ending.. danny you got to make john more of a weaker character... and jack... to need to show more of a change in terry's mental state... lets start from the top tomorrow”
the end