The Script

Script

OPEN ON:

1. EXT. QUIET RESIDENTIAL STREET, NORTH LONDON – DAY

A soldier is walking through dead bodies (CU from back of feet as he walks). There is an upwards pan as the soldier takes in his surroundings. There is an establishing long shot of the road, which is full of dead bodies; the forensic officers are checking the bodies. POV shot of the soldier looking around the street at all these dead bodies. This cuts to MS two shot of forensics checking a dead body. They turn as soldier approaches. This cuts to a LA OTS S/R/S of soldier talking to forensic officers.

Soldier (removing mask): Have you found anything yet?

Forensic 1: Nothing yet sir.

SOLDIER LOOKS AWAY FOR A MOMENT, UPSET/ANNOYED.

Soldier: Alright, I want you to turn this place over. This was the centre of the leak. We need to find something…anything (Looking towards Alleyway) What about over there?

Forensic 2: Just two bodies, we haven’t given them a full check over yet.

Soldier: Check them now!

Forensic 2: *SIGH* Yes Sarge.

Two forensic officers walk into the alleyway. The forensic officers are seen walking past the soldier OTS. The soldier continues to check bodies and he starts to talk on his radio. We see the alleyway from the POV of the soldier; he is standing in the corner of the alleyway. The forensic officers check the bodies and notice cuts.

Forensic 1: What the hell?! Why is this one ripped open?!

LA POV of the ‘beast’ hiding from the forensics/soldiers gazes (+key signifiers making it clear that it is an abnormal creature, e.g. strange breathing/rustling). The first forensic looks at the body and the second one looks around and towards the soldier. This is followed by a POV shot of forensic 2 looking at the soldier who has walked away and is talking on his radio. Then there is a LA POV shot from the ‘beast’ and the camera ‘pounces’ towards the forensics up to an ECU. *SCREAMS* CU of Soldier turning towards alley. There is a MS of the soldier cautiously and stealthily raising his gun. Then lots of close ups of the soldier making his way towards the alleyway, for example his feet moving across the camera and his face as he looks shocked when discovering the death of the forensics. This is followed by a MS of the forensics dead in the alleyway. The soldier begins to check their bodies when at a LA POV the ‘beast’ jumps at him and the camera again ‘pounces’ up to an ECU of the soldier’s scared face.