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Dr.Lynda :

Hey Dani!

Daniela :

You lost your keys probably otherwise you don’t come to visit me!

Dr.Lynda:

You’re a genius. Bingo.

(Daniela puts house keys to the bar stand, Dr.Lynda takes them)

Daniela :

Don’t you want your usual drink since you’re already here?

Dr.Lynda :

I need something stronger, a Jack with ice please! Will you be late tonight?

Daniela :

You never learn my schedule,I have the night shift!

(Daniela prepares the drink, Dr.Lynda tries to call Dr.Dante but he’s not picking up the phone, Daniela sees the envelope at Dr.Lynda’s hand but doesn’t say anything)

INT. THE HOSPITAL’S BUFFET. MORNING

(Dr.Will sitting at the usual buffet’s table reading a newspaper, Dr.Lynda walking towards Dr.Will)

Dr.Lynda :

Good morning Dr.Will, how have you slept?

Dr.Will :

Hey Lynda good morning to you, where is Dr.Dante, today’s therapy day and he hasn’t shown up yet?!

Dr.Lynda :

I have no idea, I needed him last night but his phone was off!

Dr.Will :

I dialed his number too, no sign! He might be sick because lately I’ve seen him in hospital even after hours!

Dr.Lynda :

Oh okay then we shouldn’t call and bother him anytime soon!

Dr.Will :

Who’s going to give the therapy?

Dr.Lynda :

No worries, I am here!

Dr.Will :

I don’t know what woul I do without you ( smiles )

(Dr.Lynda immediately stands up to go to the therapy room, to welcome prisoners/patients for their daily doses, Frederick is next)

Dr.Lynda :

Hi Frederick, I know you’re used to do this with Dr.Dante, today he’s not here, I hope you don’t mind me being here instead of him!

Frederick ( yells ) :

No, he’s the devil, the devil!

Dr.Lynda :

Frederick, Dr.Dante is a good doctor.

Frederick ( talks by himself ) :

I don’t want to die, don’t want to die!

Dr.Lynda :

How have you felt these past days?

(Frederick ignores Dr.Lynda’s question, starts panicking and acting weirdly, doing weird hand movements)

Frederick :

Veronica, Johnathan, devil, satan himself!!

(While Frederick is talking Dr.Lynda is trying to figure out what Frederick is saying, fixing his daily medicament, aproaching it towards him)

Dr.Lynda :

Frederick, you love Veronica right?! Tell me about your love story.

Frederick :

Veronica, he didn’t even give him the water, he is the devil!

Dr.Lynda :

Did you play part in the acitivities, when was the last time you took the therapy from Dr.Dante?

(When Frederick hears Dr.Dante’s name gets anxious, looks at Dr.Lynda in the eyes with haunting glance)

(Dr.Lynda is trying to understand something out of this)

INT. PRISON FACILITY. NON-CONTACT VISITS ROOM. DAY

(Prisoners are waiting in the line to get into a phone line to call their loved ones. Josh is in the line, he is the one who is going to escape from the prison. He is speaking with someone over the phone, nodding his head in a form of approval. He is going to escape today, after the call is done, a security guard leads Josh with a sneak peek to go after him)

INT. DR.LYNDA’S OFFICE. DAY

(Dr.Lynda checking her phone to find Dr.Dante’s number)

Dr.Lynda :

Hello doctor, how are you today?

Dr.Dante :

Hello Lynda, I am good, how about you?

Dr.Lynda :

I’ve called you last night, but your phone was turned off!

Dr.Dante :

I had to take some time off of phone, needed to rest! I am sorry!

Dr. Lynda :

All good, I’ve seen you last night at the restaurant, going of the driveway from the parking lot, and I bet you didn’t notice that you dropped an envelope! Right!

Dr.Dante ( acts all surprised ) :

An envelope! A moment please.

( pretends like he is looking for the missing envelope )

Lynda looks like it is my envelope, it is a cheque I need to convey it to the bank tomorrow. Seems like it has discarded from my hands in the way to the car. Can we meet tonight?

Dr.Lynda :

Of course doctor, how are you today by the way because you weren’t present at therapy’s session at facility?!

Dr.Dante :

Feeling slightly better, lately I’ve felt tired. I had a flu and decided to rest. I apologize for not letting you guys know!

Dr.Lynda :

Don’t worry doctor, see you later!

INT. PRISON’S LAUNDRY ROOM. EVENING

(The security guards is counting the prisoners in their cells, checks on Josh to start the escaping plan in the laundry room, where he can get in uncleaning container full of prisoner’s uniforms. Guards will help him out through fast paced path to the garden. A sequence where guards open the prison/hospital’s main door and letting the prisoner to escape, a prison van takes the unclean clothing container inside and they leave)

(Continues)

(after prisoner’s counting some prisoners notice Josh is missing they make a mess out of it and alarm goes off)

INT. DR.WILL’S CAR. DRIVING. EVENING

(Dr.Will while driving on the way home gets a call, opens the cellphone)

Dr.Will :

Hello?!

Prison/Hospital personnel staff :

Dr.Will Im sorry for the inconvience, a prisoner named Josh has escaped from prison. Please can you come back as fast as possible!

Dr. Will :

What? Really? How did that happen? I’ll come right now!

(Turning his car to the main road to get back at prison/hospital facility, calls Dr.Dante therefore no answer from him, calls Dr.Lynda. Lynda picks up the phone)

(Scene continues at Dr.Lynda’s apartment where she picks up the phone)

INT. DR.LYNDA’S APARTMENT. EVENING

(Dr.Lynda enters in her apartment, recognizes the envelope is unfolded, for the time being she is talking to Dr.Will in the phone, he tells her how the prisoner escaped. She is reading Josh’s name in the envelope, behind her is Dr.Dante unnoticed with a gun in his hand pointed at her direction)

Dr.Lynda :

Hello Dr Will, what’s up?

Dr.Will :

Lynda a prisoner named Josh has escaped from the prison!

Dr.Lynda :

Josh

( she’s reading the name )

(Dr.Lynda turns around and witnesses Dr.Dante in her apartment with the gun in his hands, shocked, her cellphone drops with the envelope, envelope dives underneath the living room’s sofa. Dr.Dante shoots at Dr.Lynda )

(Dr.Will hears the shots from the reciever *cellphone*)

Dr.Will :

Lynda. Dr.Lynda are you okay. What was that shot?

(yelling)

INT. RESTAURANT. EVENING

(A quiet evening. Daniela is watching the news, a glass falls from her hands, the news report that a prisoner escaped, Dr.Lynda got killed in her own apartment and somehow this lines as the prisoner killed doctor Lynda. A tear reeks in Daniela’s cheek)

NEWS REPORTER :

Tonight a 37 year old Josh Dawson has escaped from the prison X and a bit later Dr.Lynda Mayhem has been kiled in her apartment. At the crimes scene there was found an enevelope with the fugitive’s name on it. Police suspects the late doctor was murdered from him

EXT. GRAVEYARDS. DAY

(Views from obsequial *funeral* of Dr.Lynda)

(Her friends, family, colleagues have re-united, all are wearing black. Present are Dr.Will and Dr.Dante praying for her soul. Funeral ceremony is over and people are going home)

(A scene where only related family stands still around the graveyards. Camera focuses at Dr.Will giving condolences to Daniela)

Dr.Will :

Daniela don’t cry!

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