Eliza Jane – The Countdown
Strangers Held by Unknown Forces and Tricked into Fucking for Freedom
SCENE opens on an unconscious 19-year-old girl, Nora, lying on the floor of an empty cell. She is wearing ‘weekend’ clothes: a tank top and skirt. From her perspective, we hear the voice of a man telling her to wake up. As she comes to her senses, she opens her eyes and, through her POV, sees a man, Alan, clearly older than her, mid 30s, dressed in boring business clothes (math teacher). ‘Are you okay?’ He asks. She screams and tries to get away from him. The man also gets frightened and moves away in his corner. ‘I don’t want to hurt you, I’m in here like you!’ The girl lets out a gasp and looks around the cell, nervously pacing. ‘It’s no use,’ says Alan, nervously. ‘I’ve tried.’ ‘Where are we?’ asks Nora. ‘I don’t know! I think we might have been… taken!’ While screaming and kicking, Nora notices a security camera in the corner of the cell, near the ceiling. She screams at it ‘LET US OUT!’ Alan, still in shock his corner of the cell, says ‘I’ve been here almost a full day, they haven’t said anything. I think they brought you in when I was sleeping.’ Nora sits down, her head in her hands. ‘What do they want from us?’ Alan responds ‘I don’t know… all I know is that we are being watched …. and… there is…that!’ He points to the ‘4th wall.’ From the POV of the wall, Nora gets up and slowly walks towards the camera. A reverse shot reveals a big digital clock reading ’82:32:24′ and counting down.
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