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movement only she is privy to. A thin wind is whistling
through the cabin wreck though there are few clouds in the
sky and the branches do not sway in the breeze.
HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - MORNING - INT
Everything is clinically pale, even Lee. Crutches and a
wheelchair lie abandoned. All is silent but for the tooloud
ticking of a wall clock. She walks down this
corridor. Ahead, a sign points to A + E, the morgue and
ICU.
18.
She swallows, steps forward and stops. The clock ticks , a
battered coffee machine coughs and displays OUT OF ORDER.
A doctor flings open a door beside her and blurs past and
through another door. The sign above the door reads ICU
and three beds are occupied and visible in the internal
window. Presses a hand to the window, bites lip and Lee
glances up at the sign then runs after the doctor, leaving
a sweaty handprint on the glass. She bursts through a
swing door and -
STAIRS - CONTINUOUS - INT
A grey flight of stairs. A shadows turns a corner and
vanishes below. Lee begins to descend and steps over the
discs of gum pressed into the steps.
LEE
That is so gross.
At the foot of the steps is a large window, showing the
words THEY WALK in black spray paint. It begins to change
colour, lightening to red, oozing as if blood.
LEE (CONT'D)
No. This can’t be happening
again.
She runs down the last two flights and pushes open the fire
door filling the dank staircases with sunlight.
FRONT ROOM - MORNING - INT
Crash in lying on the sofa. The phone rings on the table.
He groans and presses a cushion over his face. The ringing
carries on and he snakes a hand out from his pillow to feel
for it. It stops ringing as he grabs it and he grunts
again.
19.
CRASH
The world hates me.
There is a third of a bottle of rum on the coffee table,
surrounded by four shot glasses, two on their side. He
reaches for it, hesitates, pulls back.
His phone starts to ring again. UNKNOWN NUMBER. Crash
answers as he staggers over to the mirror. A pale,
stubbly, unwashed face stares back. Its eyes widen and
dart around as the phone emits crackly silence then a high
scream. Phone falls to floor as reflection blinks out of