Attack the Block Page #5

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MOSES:

(deadpan)

That’s serious.

TONKS spots the CARCASS and crosses to investigate.

TONKS:

Check it out, he’s got a puppet!

You make that in college or

something? You got mad skills

for puppets! Looks proper rotten

and everything!

RON:

He found it in the park, didn’t

you Moses? Wants to know if he

can keep it in here overnight.

Thinks it’s worth money.

TONKS:

True say?

HI-HATZ is marginally interested.

HI-HATZ

Bring it.

TONKS takes the CARCASS from MOSES, crosses the room

and sits it on the table beside HI-HATZ.

HI-HATZ considers the carcass. Then he takes off his

sunglasses and puts them on its nose. He LAUGHS,

lifting its chin so everyone can see his handiwork.

TONKS and RON force laughter. MOSES doesn’t.

HI-HATZ releases the carcass and wipes his hand on his

jacket. His smile suddenly drops.

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HI-HATZ

Do what you like man. I don’t

care about that bullshit.

HI-HATZ turns his back on the CARCASS and turns his

gaze to MOSES, looking him up and down.

HI-HATZ (CONT’D)

You shot my weed from Ron still?

MOSES:

Sometimes.

HI-HATZ

There’s better ways to make P’ss

in the ends you know. Man of

your age should step his game

up. Move some white.

HI-HATZ turns. He’s tucking several newspaper WRAPS of

COCAINE into a tatty, empty CIGARETTE BOX.

HI-HATZ (CONT’D)

Gonna put you on bail. Get me

HI-HATZ holds out the box. RON watches warily. MOSES

three hundred back from this.

looks at the box. Hesitates.

HI-HATZ (CONT’D)

You’re my boy now, yeah?

MOSES steps forward, takes the BOX. Suddenly, HI-HATZ’

hand snaps tightly around his. Their eyes meet.

HI-HATZ

One thing though...

MOSES holds his eye.

HI-HATZ

This is my block, get me?

28 INT. RON’S FLAT. FRONT ROOM - MOMENTS LATER 28

The TV’s tuned to the DISCOVERY CHANNEL. A documentary

about insects. A SILK MOTH, antennae twitching.

TV NARRATOR:

(background)

...the female lands, and if this

new territory is hospitable, she

releases a pheromone, that the

males can detect from a distance

of over a mile. Within days, a

new colony has begun...

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BREWIS watches with narcotic intensity. RON taps him on

the shoulder, waking him from his trance.

RON:

Care to join me in my office..?

BREWIS stands and follows RON into another room. As

they exit, MOSES returns.

PEST and DENNIS rise to greet him. They see a tiny

smile play on his face.

PEST:

What fam?

DENNIS:

He got a job!

BIGGZ:

Is it?

PEST:

Hi-Hatz is gonna step you up!

PEST grabs MOSES, pulls him down and rubs his head.

JEROME, DENNIS and BIGGZ join in, cheer and cajole.

MOSES:

Off man! Off me!

Then; a BRILLIANT WHITE LIGHT washes down the room.

Just like the light that preceded the meteor earlier.

MOSES looks up. Room-wide windows give a PANORAMIC VIEW

of South London.

JEROME:

He got recruited innit!

MOSES:

Check it...

He pushes his friends off and moves towards the window.

Another FIREBALL drops silently and vanishes behind the

buildings around the block.

PEST:

What bruv?

MOSES:

More.

Another. A few streets away.

DENNIS:

More what?

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MOSES:

Them things.

PEST and the rest of the GANG gather at the window,

their faces lit by the white glare of the METEORS.

JEROME:

It’s just rockets innit.

PEST:

Nah. Rockets go up before they

come down. Them things are pure

comin’ down.

Another falls behind nearby buildings.

MOSES:

They’re the same!

DENNIS:

Same as what?

MOSES:

As what hit that car before.

PEST:

Trust!

BIGGZ:

Naaah! More of them nasty little

gremlins!

DENNIS:

It’s rainin’ Dobbies man!

MOSES:

Bare creatures.

PEST:

That one landed in the park fam,

close!

RON and BREWIS emerge again, BREWIS tucking a large,

cling-film wrapped bundle of WEED into his jacket.

RON:

Oh lovely, fireworks.

DENNIS:

Nah mate, it’s a alien invasion.

RON:

Right, course it is.

BIGGZ:

War of the Worlds blood.

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PEST:

War of the Worlds if the aliens

was a lot smaller and a lot more

easier to kill.

JEROME:

Let’s get down there cuz!

BIGGZ:

Boy yeah!

DENNIS:

Let’s go f*** them up!

BIGGZ:

I’m killin’ them. I’m killin’

them straight!

PEST:

Let’s get tooled up blood!

MOSES:

The GANG make for the door. RON turns to BREWIS and

Come...

RON:

Quite sweet really, aren’t they?

INT. STAIRS/CORRIDORS - NIGHT

FAST CUTS:
The GANG charge down through the block,

splitting off one by one and heading down various

corridors, a whirlwind of energy.

smiles.

30 INT. JEROME’S FLAT - CONTINUOUS 30

JEROME’S sister ROXANNE is opening the front door to

her friend BUBBLES just as JEROME arrives at speed.

JEROME:

Emergency situation, move, move!

ROXANNE:

Don’t shove me!!!

BUBBLES:

Some of us got exams tomorrow

Jerome!

He speeds towards his bedroom, lifts his mattress and

pulls out a rusty MACHETE.

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31 INT. BIGGZ’S FLAT - CONTINUOUS 31

BIGGZ races into his kitchen, where his mother’s making

dinner. He heads to a low cupboard and yanks it open.

BIGGZ:

...got to get the puncture

repair kit mum...

MUM:

Where’ve you been? You’re not

going out again.

BIGGZ:

Just to mend my tyre! Ten

minutes! I swear!

MUM:

You’d better not be hanging

around with Moses and those boys

BIGGZ:

Course not Mum!

The microwave PINGS. BIGGZ’ MUM turns. BIGGZ grabs a

BICYCLE CHAIN, tucks it under his jacket. She turns

again...

back to see him racing away.

MUM:

Ten minutes.

INT. PEST’S FLAT - CONTINUOUS

PEST throws open his WARDROBE and grabs a BASEBALL BAT.

He’s LIMPING through his FRONT ROOM, past his elderly

NAN watching TV. He kisses her on the forehead.

NAN:

What happened to your leg?

PEST:

Pulled a muscle. Football.

NAN:

Don’t you go getting into

trouble...

PEST:

Course not nan!

Out of sight, he tugs a BASEBALL BAT out from down his

trousers. As he heads out the door we see FIREWORKS

bristling from his backpack like a quiver of arrows.

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33 INT. DENNIS’ FLAT - CONTINUOUS 33

Three ornamental SAMURAI SWORDS mounted on a wall.

DENNIS grabs the biggest. As he exits, his DAD’S VOICE

booms from another room:

DAD (O.S.)

Dennis! Where are you going?

DENNIS:

Out!

DAD (O.S.)

Then walk your dog!

DENNIS:

I’m busy!

DAD (O.S.)

I’m not asking, I’m telling.

INT. MOSES’ FLAT - CONTINUOUS

MOSES arrives at his front door. He pauses a moment

before turning the key and entering. SLAMS it shut.

We don’t follow.

EXT. ESTATE PERIMETER - NIGHT

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