Man in Red

EXT. ENTRANCE TO MATHERSONS BUILDING – LATE MORNING

PETE is CONFIDENTLY making his way to the entrance of the MATHERSONS BUILDING. Outside the entrance is a man DRESSED in a BRIGHT RED COAT (MR. REDFORD) enjoying a CIGARETTE.

PETE

Good day sir

MR. REDFORD

Why hallo

PETE walks at a fast pace past him, about to enter the MATHERSONS BUILDING.

MR. REDFORD

Where you going?

PETE stops at the entrance door. Slowly turns to FACE MR. REDFORD.

CUT TO: several busy ROADS in the TOWN.

CUT TO: MR. REDFORD and PETE seemingly have been CHATTING for sometime.

MR. REDFORD

So you’ll like this job?

PETE

I think I will

MR. REDFORD

You think? sir this job might be your career, there might nothing after this

PETE

Well true..

MR. REDFORD

Do you love working for this job

PETE

Well there is a lot of work to do usually, but the outcome is always worth it

MR. REDFORD

Success is not the outcome mate, it’s the process of doing what you love.

MR. REDFORD

Look sir, I didn’t mean to make things difficult, I just thought off…

PETE(interrupting)

No it’s alright

MR. REDFORD

It just seems that you might want be more confident with this?

PETE

I suppose so

MR. REDFORD

Can you always come back another day?

PETE

Yes I should be able to

MR. REDFORD

Why not think about it then.

2 Get a Job

INT. LIVING ROOM – LATE AFTERNOON

BUDDY walks into the room QUIETLY. MUM is SLEEPING on the couch, fully tucked in and confortable.

BUDDY sits in the closet CHAIR to the couch. For a while it’s quiet. Despite looking asleep MUM is AWAKE, and fully aware that BUDDY is in the room.

MUM (tiredly)

Yes Buddy?

BUDDY SURPRISED to see MUM is awake.

BUDDY

Hey Mum

MUM

Is there something?

BUDDY

Well, yes there is

MUM

What is it then

BUDDY

I’m boredom mum, what can I do

now that Faisel’s gone.

MUM

Well what do you normally do after

you’ve taken Faisel out for a walk

BUDDY

Clean house, typical housework, watch

films.

MUM

Can’t you do more of that then.

BUDDY

No of course not, I can’t watch films

all day and there’s not always house work

to do.

MUM starts to SIT UP on the couch

MUM

How about getting a job Bud.

BUDDY(startled)

What, no I can’t do

MUM(interrupting)

Yes you can, it’ll be good for

BUDDY

But mum what job wants me

MUM

No job wants you, you want the

job, get yourself some work, get

money, start something, you have

the time for it now

BUDDY

But, what about, the, the, the

house!

MUM

I can clean this house Buddy, it’s

mine. You can get a job because it can really help you. Also I want to be

proud of you for something, you

just staying here doing what your

told, Can’t you do something yourself

without being told, because that’s

something I can be proud of.

Fox, Boy with Red Hair

EXT. PRIMARY SCHOOL PLAYGROUND – EARLY AFTERNOON

FOX a little kid with BRIGHT RED HAIR, is STROPPING ABOUT in the CORNER of the PLAYGROUND. He’s ANGRY that he wasn’t CHOSEN to go to REDCLIFF PARK this afternoon.

FOX get’s TIRED of STROPPING and LEANS against the WALL.

FOX STARES at the other CHELDREN PLAYING DIFFERENT GAMES.

FOX looks ABOVE HIM. He REALIZES the WALL isn’t so TALL. FOX SCANS the PLAYGROUND to see if he is being WATCHED by anyone.

FOX CLIMBS the WALL

EXT. PRIMARY SCHOOL LANE – EARLT AFTERNOON

FOX safely LANDS outside the SCHOOL WALLS. The street is EMPTY, and the only SOUND to be HEARD is the CHILDREN PLAYING back in the SCHOOL PLAYGROUND.

For a WHILE FOX stands still FEELING NERVOUS. There is nothing happening around him.

FOX TURNS AROUND to FACE the WALL again. He CLIMBS it again and safely returns to the SCHOOL PLAYGROUND.

EXT. PRIMARY SCHOOL PLAYGROUND – EARLY AFTERNOON

Nobody SAW FOX exit the PLAYGROUND. FOX APPORACHES the other CHILDREN PLAYING GAMES KEEN to join in. The BELL RINGS playtime is over.

Murdered

EXT. FLEET STREET FLATS – LATE EVENING

WE DESCEND UPON the BODY of RITCHIE FLANKS. He lies LIMP close to the EDGE of the PAVEMENT. SHARDS of GLASS surround him, as he has FALLEN out of the WINDOW of APARMENT 7B from FLEET STREET FLATS.

BAKER wearing a long PURPLE COTTON COAT, IS STANDING next to the FLANKS’S BODY, LOOKING at the crime scene, and up at where the BODY had FALLEN from.

POLICEMAN

Ms. Baker!

A SHORT policeman APPROACHES BAKER, PREPAREING to QUESTION her.

POLICEMAN

Baker, do you know the tenant

that lives in apartment 7B where 

this man seems to have fallen from?

BAKER

I knew him. Last I heard from

him though was that he moved it

that very apartment.

POLICEMAN writes the information down on to a NOTEPAD.

POLICEMAN

So you haven't heard of him every

since?

BAKER

No

POLICEMAN

Do you know this man?

BAKER

I do not, never seen him before

POLICEMAN

Alright, our prime suspect happens 

not to be present in the apartment 

and from looking at the scene of 

the crime, it is illogical to 

believe that this was a suicide.

So one last question, do you find 

it reasonable to consider that 

Mr. Trotter committed this murder?

BAKER looks back at the BODY of FLANKS for a brief moment.

BAKER

Officer, I’m not to sure, but

I would like to be the one to

speak with him first.

Gareth's Gift

EXT. BRIGLING AVENUE – LATE EVENING

GARETH is walking at a FAST PACE home STRESSFULLY. The STREET is LOUD and BUSY, with NOISES coming from CARS and other PEDESTRIANS.

INT. 41 BEIGLING AVENUE GARETH’S HOUSE – LATE EVENING

The HOUSE appears very EMPTY and QUITE. We see different ROOMS from the HOUSE:

LIVING ROOM seems fine, except for some sort of MUD PRINT on the FLOOR

KITCHEN is A MESS, from OBJECTS that have been KNOCKED OVER

BEDROOM IS THE TIDEEST

Lastly in the HALLWAY, we watch, GARETH ENTER through the front door and TAKES OFF his COAT, from the FLOOR. We are now the VISION of SOMETHING, as we watch GARETH later making his way down the HALLWAY, we quickly MOVE to the LEFT into another ROOM.

GARETH ENTERS the KITCHEN and SEES the state it’s in.

GARETH LOUDLY GROANS at the MESS

TOO STRESSED and ANGRY he leaves it for now, and HEADS for the LIVING ROOM.

IN THE LIVING ROOM, it’s DARK and we see NOTHING, until GARETH ENTERS and SWITCHES the LIGHT ON. GARETH gets SHOCKED, by SOMETHING we CAN’T see.

GARETH SLOWLY APPROACHES what we STILL CAN’T SEE.