Attack the Block Page #15

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BOOMS and HOWLS puncture the silence. SAM has found a

towel and is changing PEST’S blood sodden dressing.

PEST:

Anyone got skins?

MOSES:

Nah fam.

PEST:

Bare weed and no skins? This is

a nightmare!

MOSES turns to SAM.

MOSES:

Listen, yeah? We didn’t even

know you lived in the block, is

it? If we knew you, we wouldn’t

have stepped to you.

SAM:

What, it would have been okay to

mug me if I didn’t live here? Is

that how it works?

PEST:

Boy, you’s tetchy! He’s tryin’

to apologise to you!

MOSES stands, walks over to inspect the carcass. PEST

is pale and week. He looks up at SAM.

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PEST:

You’re quite fit you know. You

got a boyfriend?

SAM:

Yeah.

PEST:

You sure about him? Cos he’s not

exactly looking after you

tonight, is he?

SAM:

He volunteers for the Red Cross.

He’s helping children in Ghana.

PEST:

Is it? Why can’t he help

children in Britain? Not exotic

enough is it? Don’t get no nice

BREWIS is staring at MOSES and PEST. There’s a GLOWING

LIQUID spattered across their clothes like BLOOD.

suntan...

BREWIS:

Hey, look at that stuff on your

clothes...

PEST:

Rah! My hoodie’s gone rave!

BREWIS looks over at the CREATURE. It too GLOWS, as

does the floor around it, a smeared trail.

BREWIS:

Maybe it’s a pheromone?

PEST:

Maybe it’s a who?

SAM:

It’s like a scent. Insects use

them to send messages.

BREWIS:

Maybe that one’s a female and

the other ones are male. Maybe

that’s how they find each other?

SAM:

You mean you think that’s what

they can smell?

BREWIS:

Moses, you said it fell out of

the sky, right?

(MORE)

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BREWIS (CONT'D)

Well maybe they like, drift

through space on solar winds or

something, like spores. And

whatever planet they hit first,

the female leaves a pheromone

trail, then the males follow it

to breed. Like moths.

PEST:

F***ing funny looking moths.

MOSES keeps his back turned. But he’s LISTENING. BREWIS

indicates their glow-spattered clothing.

BREWIS:

You’re both covered in it. I bet

if you took off your clothes

they wouldn’t even know you were

there.

BREWIS:

No, I’m trying to save your

life! And in answer to your

question earlier, yes I do have

skins.

PEST’S face lights up.

PEST:

Oh thank f***!

Now he spots the contents of BREWIS’ PLASTIC BAGS.

PEST:

PEST:

You fancy us or something? You

tryin’ to get us naked?

Is that sweets in there too!?! I

swear I’ll never cuss you again!

PEST takes the skins, throws his arms around BREWIS and

HUGS him. BREWIS looks shocked.

PEST:

Sorry I messed up your eye man.

PEST takes out a bar of chocolate and rips into it with

his teeth.

BREWIS:

That’s okay. It’s good actually.

I’m gonna tell my Dad I got

beaten up and carjacked, so...

it actually helps my story.

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PEST:

Yeah?

BREWIS:

Yeah.

PEST:

I’ll do the other one if you

like?

BREWIS:

Nah, I’m fine thanks.

PEST:

Up to you.

PEST moves away and starts plucking BUDS. For the first

time, MOSES makes eye contact with BREWIS.

who had that scent on them. So,

if they follow the smell on

that, then... I can lead them.

BREWIS:

Where?

MOSES:

Somewhere I can blow them up.

PEST:

Yes fam! Deffo! Blow them up!

PEST sparks his joint, lets out a cloud of smoke.

MOSES:

Yo Brewis? Everyone who touched

that thing got murked you know.

Dennis. Jerome. Tonks. Them Feds

after they touched me. Everyone

MOSES:

I killed that thing. I brought

it in the block. If I hadn’t, no

one would be dead.

MOSES hides his eyes under the brim of his cap.

MOSES:

I’ve gotta finish what I

started.

106 INT. MUNICIPAL BIN - THAT MOMENT 106

BIGGZ’S BIN sits where we left it in the shadows. The

CREATURE’S there too, motionless, ready to STRIKE.

PROBS and MAYHEM watch from an overlooking walkway.

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MAYHEM:

What if it jumps at us?

PROBS:

Then throw the banger.

MAYHEM:

What if I miss?

PROBS:

Then we run.

MAYHEM:

What if it kills us?

PROBS:

No one’s ever gonna call you

Mayhem if you keep on acting

like such a p*ssy!

INT/EXT. MUNICIPAL BIN - MOMENTS LATER

Face lit by the glow of his phone, BIGGZ is on his

phone to his mum.

BIGGZ:

(into phone)

No mum! I’m tellin’ the truth! I

know I’ve lied to you before,

but it’s for real this time, I

swear!

CRAZED ALIEN HOWLS are heard outside.

BIGGZ:

I gotta go mum, just do what I

say and stay indoors. I love you

mum. I won’t ever do anything

bad again. I promise. I love

you, yeah?

BIGGZ hangs up. He opens the lid of the bin a crack.

Peers out and sees the CREATURE SCREAMING with rage as

it’s SPRAYED from above with a jet of fluid.

108 EXT. WALKWAY JUNCTION - THAT MOMENT 108

PROBS is SHOOTING the creature with his SUPER SOAKER.

MAYHEM furiously lights a string of BANGERS. He THROWS

them!

The bangers land beside the creature and EXPLODE,

ignite the ground beneath. The CREATURE ROARS!

CLOSE ON THE BIN:

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BIGGZ’ eyes peer out, a fireball reflected in them as

he watches the creature burn. It flails, a ball of

fire, and scrambles out of sight.

Astonished, he drops the lid closed.

109 EXT. HIGHER WALKWAY - THAT MOMENT 109

PROBS and MAYHEM BOLT away from the CREATURE. They jump

and punch the air!

PROBS:

Boom shakalaka!!!!

MAYHEM:

Burn motherf***er burn!!!

Any time blood! Any time!

PROBS:

We don’t give a f*** man!

They round a corner and see: SIX ARMED OFFICERS in

PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, GUNS trained RIGHT AT THEM.

PROBS/MAYHEM

F***!!!

INT. MUNICIPAL BIN - THAT MOMENT

The lid is THROWN OPEN. BIGGZ is startled to see PROBS

and MAYHEM LEAP INSIDE with him and SLAM the lid shut.

MAYHEM:

Wagwan Biggz!

BIGGZ:

What are you doin’???

PROBS:

Armed police fam...

BIGGZ:

Swear down.

111 INT. RON’S FLAT. WEED ROOM - THAT MOMENT 111

SAM has CHANGED. She wears BREWIS’ HOODIE. Her body’s

bathed in vivid purple UV light. MOSES, PEST and BREWIS

are checking her for traces of pheromone.

BREWIS:

You look clean.

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PEST:

You look niiiice.

SAM:

I’m betting my life we’re right

about this.

BREWIS:

Believe me, I’d go out there

myself if I wasn’t so profoundly

stoned.

PEST:

Likewise.

MOMENTS LATER:
MOSES and SAM meet by the door. MOSES

holds SAM’S phone in one hand and BREWIS’ in the other.

SAM:

He hands SAM’S phone to her.

MOSES:

You got bare missed calls.

SAM takes it. Looks at the screen.

SAM:

Jesus. My mum. She worries a

lot.

MOSES:

Why?

One floor down. First on the

right. One-nine-one.

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