Animal Kingdom Page #7

DARREN:

What?

POPE:

It looks gay. Are you gay?

Darren continues fixing his drink. He feels uncomfortable.

DARREN:

Get f***ed.

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POPE:

I’m asking a serious question. I’mcomfortable with your lifestyle. Ijust want you to talk to me about it.

Sometimes I worry we don't talk toeach other enough. You making yourselfa drink?

DARREN:

Yeah.

POPE:

Yeah? Whatcha making?

DARREN:

Rum and coke.

POPE:

Rum and coke? That's not a very gaydrink. I think if you're a gay man youshould feel like you can make yourselfa gay drink. You know what I mean?

This is what I'm talking about. Itkills me to see you living a lie.

DARREN:

Just f*** off, will ya?

Pope watches the back of Darren's head. Darren doesn't respond.

He takes a long time with his drink.

POPE:

What do you think we should do,

Darren?

DARREN:

We’ve gotta be there for his family,

for Cath and that.

POPE:

What are you gonna do, Darren?

DARREN:

I dunno. He’s dead. It’s wrong andthat but, you know...

Darren stops fixing his drink. He stares into the sink.

POPE:

You know, if it was Baz who wasstanding there right now, coz we'djust been to your funeral, we wouldn'teven be having this conversation.

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He would've already done somethingabout it.

Pope steps up close behind him. He's gentle with Darren. Darrenwatches the tap drip.

POPE:

If you don’t wanna do anything cozyou’re scared, then just say so. Is itcoz you’re scared? It’s alright if youare. I just want you to talk to meabout it.

Craig enters, all hopped up. He goes to the fridge, gets a beer,

then heads to the couch.

CRAIG:

That guy's driving me f***in nuts.

Tension hangs between Pope and Darren. At that moment, MUSIC

starts up loud in the lounge.

Pope gently pulls Darren by the arm to the lounge.

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INT. LOUNGE / CODY HOUSE - NIGHT 55

Mick is crouched before the stereo. Pope enters with Darren.

Pope pulls a handgun from his pants, steps across the room and

SHOOTS Mick in the back of the head.

Mick crashes face-first into the shelves. Knickknacks topple.

POPE:

That's what they've gone and done to

us.

Pope puts his gun back in his pants like it's no big thing.

POPE:

I just think we should do somethingabout it.

Craig enters.

CRAIG:

F***. The carpet.

Pope exits down the hall. Craig scurries for the back door.

Darren is left stunned with death and music.

56 INT. J’S BEDROOM / CODY HOUSE - NIGHT 56

J stands in his room, startled, listening. He opens his door.

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Pope passes in the hall on his way out. They make eye contact.

Still in suit pants, barefoot and no shirt, J walks the hall tothe lounge door, inches ajar. He opens it tentatively.

57 INT. LOUNGE / CODY HOUSE - NIGHT 57

Bent face first against the shelves, Mick lies dead. Darrenstands on the other side of the room, in shock. J stepsanxiously into the room. Darren looks over to him, blankly.

The back fly-wire door opens. Craig enters dragging a sheet ofthick black plastic behind him.

The dog charges past Craig from the back door and goes straightto the body, sniffing and licking.

CRAIG:

Daisy! Get out of it! Get him off the

carpet, Darren.

DARREN:

This suit's not mine. It's already

dirty. I already got pollen on it.

Darren heads for the door, strangely catatonic.

CRAIG:

Hey, get back here.

Darren exits without responding. The dog keeps licking.

CRAIG:

Daisy! Get out of it!

Craig grabs the dog by its collar, dragging it to the door. J isleft alone with the body. It makes a GURGLING MOAN.

Craig reappears. J can hardly breathe.

J:

I think he’s alive.

CRAIG:

Hey?

J:

He’s making sounds.

Craig switches the stereo off. He hears Mick moan. He stomps hisfoot down hard twice, then stops and listens. No sound. He laysthe plastic down.

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CRAIG:

Grab the other end. Lay it down flat.

Get him off the carpet.

J does so. Craig grabs the body, pulling it backwards. It flopsback awkwardly, face up, bloody and battered.

CRAIG:

Lift the corners up. Like this.

J grabs the corners of the sheet, keeping blood pooled inside.

Craig rolls the body onto it and takes the corners.

CRAIG:

Let's get him outside. You ready? One,

two, three.

They drag. Mick is huge and heavy. J slips and falls forward.

CRAIG:

F***. He's huge. We're never gonna gethim in the car.

Craig thinks, blinking a lot.

58 INT. BATHROOM / CODY HOUSE - NIGHT 58

Craig lines the bathroom walls with black plastic. J standsbeside him with a roll of masking tape, tearing strips off forCraig to use to hold the plastic up. J is freaked.

59 INT. BATHROOM / CODY HOUSE - LATER 59

J stands just outside the bathroom door as the sound of achainsaw starts up inside. And then the sickening sounds of thesaw's blade tearing into flesh and bone. The sound goes for awhile. J is stunned. And then the saw switches off.

CRAIG (O.S.)

Jesus Christ.

Craig appears in the doorway, covered head to toe in blood.

CRAIG:

This is gonna take longer than Ithought. Can you pass me that beer?

J hands him a beer. Craig sits on the edge of the bath, lookingat off-screen horror, just behind the bathroom door.

CRAIG:

Go and put your shoes on. We're goingbush when I'm done here.

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60 EXT. CODY HOUSE - NIGHT 60

Craig and J heave heavy garbage bags into the back of Craig'sstation wagon. Craig climbs up and drags them in.

62 INT. BATHROOM / CODY HOUSE - MORNING 62

J stands nude under the shower. The dog sits outside theshower, staring at him.

Pope enters the bathroom.

POPE:

Where's Craig?

J:

I dunno.

POPE:

I need a favour. Can you get us a car,

a Commodore or something? Craig said

your good with cars.

J doesn't know how to respond.

POPE:

I gotta go, but you can bring it to

Darren's place at 2am, yeah?

J:

How come?

POPE:

Coz I told you to.

Pope turns and leaves. J stands, uncertain.

64 EXT. STREET - NIGHT 64

J walks a quiet suburban street, sizing up parked cars, baseballcap pulled tight over his face. He sees a white Commodore, walksto the driver’s door.

He slides a metal strip from his sleeve and jams it in the door,

popping it open. He gets behind the wheel, pulls the casing awayunder the steering column and starts the car.

66 INT. DARREN’S APARTMENT - NIGHT 66

J knocks on the door. Pope lets him in. Craig paces in thekitchen. Darren is on the couch. He packs and smokes a bong. Heseems anxious.

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POPE:

Where is it?

J:

Parked round back. It's a white

Commodore. Where are you going?

Pope picks up a sports bag beside the couch. It's noticeablyheavy. Darren doesn’t move. He stares at the bong.

POPE:

Why are you getting stoned now? Whatmakes you think that's a good idea?

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