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Quoted Text VOICE #2 (V.O) (periodically sniffing) My name is Allen Sutton. (sniff ) I’m 34 years old, I was born on August 22ND, 1985 in Flint Michigan. (sniff) I’m a technical support representative at a call center. |
Quoted Text His eyes glisten as he stares off camera. |
Quoted Text A pair of old hands are vigorously typing. Pan upwards to AGENT THOMAS (54), the source of the typing. |
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Quoted Text AGENT THOMAS And have you ever seen anyone who shared the same disease as you? |
Quoted Text ALLEN I don’t understand....... AGENT THOMAS (interrupting Allen) I want you to go over the events of last night. |
Quoted Text COWORKER #1 Hey...um...Allen, Some guys are here for you at the front. ALLEN Oh....really? |
Quoted Text ALLEN DAD! Please for the love of god turn on the TV and look at the news! You won’t believe this! I’m not the only...... |
Quoted Text ALLEN Wait....If I’m the only one with this disease until yesterday, how have you been researching it for 30 years? AGENT THOMAS We’ve been watching..... DOCTOR ELIZABETH I’VE...been watching you.. |
Quoted Text ALLEN They....want.....to...kill...you |
Quoted Text Energetic and teaming with movement, like ants on a rotting apple. |
Quoted Text Allen, on a call, sits at his desk littered with sticky notes and books. Various religious and philosophy titles. Books from Nietzsche to C.S. Lewis. A more prominently placed note reads “Bible study every Thursday at Lunch!”. |
Quoted Text A coworker passes by Allen. Concerned and confused. |
Quoted Text Before she could finish what she was saying a group of people pass by and grab her arm. |
Quoted Text VARIOUS COWORKERS Oh my god are you seeing this!? |
Quoted Text TV.ON. The T.V. in the upper corner of the breakroom reports -- REPORTER (O.S.) |
Quoted Text Allen approaches the vending machine and pulls out a dollar bill from his wallet. Inserting it into the machine he selects the water. It tumbles down into the receptacle as he reaches in through the metal flap. It clanks with his retracting hand. He rises up and starts to unwind the lid of the water bottle. Allen glances over at the TV, but his eye is caught when -- |
Quoted Text ALLEN Look man I just want to know what’s going on! I don’t want trouble! I can give you my identification but I’m not going with you! I know my rights, I’m a tax paying citizen and you HAVE to let it be known to me why you’re arresting me! |
Quoted Text Allen is looking around. Frantic. Confused. ON the armed men, his eyes catch a green EXIT sign. |
Quoted Text DOCTOR ELIZABETH(CONT’D) ..from the moment you were born to now. For thirty years Allen, I’ve (MORE) (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: DOCTOR ELIZABETH(CONT’D) (cont’d) watched you grow and progress, assimilating into the world around you in ways we could never have anticipated. |
Quoted Text ALLEN (with a sarcastic laugh) HA, not until yesterday. Which to answer your earlier question is probably why I’m here. |
Quoted Text AGENT THOMAS (sarcastically) HA! We don’t know a damn thing son. |
Quoted Text Allen grabs the guards arm, rips it off and kicks him down the hallway. |
Quoted Text inside lay three people INFLICED WITH THE DISEASE and MATURED. |
Quoted Text Agent Thomas busts through the door to an empty rooftop. With his gun drawn he is scanning the landscape for any sign of the 7 foot man. |