Asylum Page #15

DOUG:

Okay everyone it's time for the

performance. Tonight, we have a very

special presentation of an

experimental piece titled Psychosis.

There's no cover charge but you can make

a donation in the box as you go in and

the bar will reopen afterwards. The

balcony is open but, like the auditorium,

DOUG (Cont_d)

you must stand; please don't go taking

these chairs......Take your places

now, it starts in five minutes.

People start to file out, Doug and Holly come together for a kiss and

Chris comes out from behind the bar. Doug and Holly are the last

people out through into the foyer.

INT - ASYLUM FOYER - DOUG/HOLLY/STUDENT(3) - NIGHT

People are making there way to the balcony and down into the space and

around the roped off area. Doug and Holly stand by the student who is

guarding the pay-phone box which now has a Czech/English donation sign

by it. Doug walks down towards the walkway with his arm around Holly.

INT - ASYLUM - CHRIS/PEOPLE/PERFORMING STUDENTS - NIGHT

Show some of the performance which is essentially the group represents

an "Organism_ up against the rear wall that breaks up into individuals

representing the seven sins which, one by one, fire up and express

themselves before coming back to the "Organism_ and dying. ANGLE

Chris looking on squeezed between some girls against the rope. Music

is new age and the spotlights track the action and change colour.

INT - ASYLUM - DOUG/HOLLY/PEOPLE - NIGHT

Doug and Holly sit on the lowest of the foyer steps along with some

others, they are watching intently. Foyer is in the background.

STUDENT(3) from the door has gone.

EXT - BETLEMSKA STREET - STUDENT(3)/PAVEL/POLICE - NIGHT

The Student is urinating between some parked cars and commando-style

police are moving cautiously along the street to the entrance of the

Asylum. The student is grabbed from behind and dragged away. Police

group around the side-door and one speaks into his radio. PAN to show

police vans and cars moving silently down the street. A one hundred

yard strip either side of the Asylum is cordoned off and Pavel emerges

from a car. Police everywhere.

INT - ASYLUM AUDITORIUM - OCCUPANTS/POLICE - NIGHT

The "Organism_ is firing up in rage with the music tracking. Show

Doug and Holly and the foyer area behind them, down which masked

POLICE COMMANDOS suddenly run.....Mayhem, Doug, Holly and others are

held at gun-point while Police secure the auditorium, disrupting the

performance and shoving people up against the rear wall. Curtains are

torn down music stops when stereo is kicked. Police yell in Czech and

English.

POLICEMAN:

You are all under arrest....

Stay where you are!

INT - ASYLUM ANTEROOM - PAVEL/POLICE - NIGHT

Pavel inspects the hole in the wall before entering the cafe area, he

looks around in amazement and throws chairs aside as his anger swells.

INT - ASYLUM - DOUG/HOLLY/POLICE/PEOPLE - NIGHT

Doug gets pushed back against a wall.

DOUG:

What the hell's going on?

.....You can't do this!

People stream down from the balcony area escorted by police who direct

them down to the auditorium. Doug and Holly are shoved in the

direction of the auditorium and people comply with orders and form

lines against the rear wall. Chris is a distance from where Doug and

Holly line up. A Policeman talks into his radio. ANGLE Pavel's entry

into foyer and down towards auditorium, accompanied by two senior

officers, he storms down to the auditorium.

INT - ASYLUM - OCCUPANTS/PAVEL/POLICE - NIGHT

Pavel barks some orders in Czech and the rest of the people from the

balcony are shoved to the rear wall. Guns are drawn.

PAVEL:

Silence.........Silence!

People quieten down and listen.

PAVEL:

I want those responsible to step

forward....NOW!

ANGLE Chris who looks to Doug. Doug and Holly look at each other.

PAVEL:

If those that are responsible do not

come forward, you will all be arrested.

People look at each other. Suddenly Chris steps forward and is soon

followed by some Czechs. Doug notices this and pushes his way forward

with Holly trying to hold him back. Doug gets close to Pavel but is

blocked quickly by police. Chris and some others try to grab him

back.

DOUG:

It's me you want, I'm responsible

for all this.

CHRIS:

He's lying! I am.

Jahn and some of the Czechs try and move further forward but are held

back as is Holly.

DOUG:

Shut up Chris, stay out of it.

Jahn, tell them to stay back, do it!

Holly tries to get to Doug. Pavel orders his men to bring Doug to

him.

PAVEL:

This is your doing?

DOUG:

Yes, they had nothing to do with

it.

PAVEL:

And you broke into that room?

DOUG:

That's right.

PAVEL:

You will wish you hadn't.

DOUG:

F*** you!

Pavel strikes Doug across the face.

HOLLY:

Doug!

PAVEL:

(to the restraining Officer)

(Subtitles)

Take him to the station!

Doug is hand-cuffed and dragged off. Pavel turns to one of his senior

officers.

PAVEL:

(Subtitles)

Take the details of all these people

before releasing them. Search the

building, secure it and then report

to me.

Officer stands to attention and nods, Pavel turns and exits. Show the

downcast people and Chris moving over to Holly who is crying.

EXT/INT - BETLEMSKA STREET - DOUG/POLICE - NIGHT

Doug is in the back seat of a police car and looks out at the Asylum,

the car drives off and is let through the cordon. Show PAVEL's exit

from the Asylum, he walks to his smart Western model police car. His

DRIVER opens a rear door and Pavel gets in and give order to the

driver before being driven off. ANGLE COMMANDOS winding down and

regular OFFICERS entering the Asylum.

INT - POLICE INTERROGATION ROOM - DOUG/PAVEL - NIGHT

Doug is sitting on a chair in a bare room with his hands hand-cuffed

behind him and a strong light overhead. Doug's mouth is bleeding and

his head is slumped. There is an OFFICER standing behind Doug. Pavel

is smoking a cigarette and pacing around, he acknowledges something

Doug has just said and addresses the Officer.

PAVEL:

(Subtitles)

Have someone go to Betlemska and

locate that drum.

Officer hesitates.

PAVEL:

(Subtitles)

Now!

Pavel looks at Doug.

PAVEL:

Are you quite sure you destroyed all

the files and the disks?

Doug nods slowly.

PAVEL:

Why did you break into that particular

building?

DOUG:

It was the biggest I could find.

PAVEL:

What was the real purpose behind this

venture?

DOUG:

A kind of freedom.

PAVEL:

Either you're a liar or you are a fool.

Pavel goes to Doug to offer a cigarette.

PAVEL:

Go on have one, it will be a long night.

Doug opens his swollen lips and takes the cigarette which Pavel

lights. Doug soon slumps and the cigarette falls to the floor.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT - JAIL INTERVIEW ROOM - DOUG/DIPLOMAT - DAY

A British Consular official sits at a table with vacant chair on the

other side. Bars on window and daylight outside. ANGLE door opening

and Doug being led in by a POLICE OFFICER, Doug is hand-cuffed and

walks to chair and sits down. The Officer stops a moment then exits.

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