Cherry Falls Page #12

BRENT:

She works at a church?

CARETAKER:

She resides there. Out back.

She died a year and a half ago.

Brent feels terribly guilty about what he did to Lisa Sherman, but also

terribly relieved that he'll never have to face her. It's been a long

time since he's confronted his hidden past. He puts his gun away.

BRENT:

Of what?

CARETAKER:

A bullet to the right cerebellum.

BRENT:

She was murdered?

CARETAKER:

No. She ate a pistol for lunch

one day.

Brent can't help but feel responsible.

BRENT:

Can you describe her? How old

was she?

CARETAKER:

I never met the woman. I'm just taking

care of the place until they sell it.

BRENT:

Can you get inside?

CARETAKER:

I can.

BRENT:

I knew Lisa Sherman long ago.

It's extremely important that I

get inside and try to verify that it's the

same woman who lived here.

CARETAKER:

I don't give a f*** what your reasons

are. You pay me ten dollars, you can go inside

Otherwise, get a warrant.

He pulls out his wallet.

Cut to:

EXT. KENNY'S HOUSE

Jody rides up to Kenny's house.

INT. HOUSE

Kenny sees her from his bedroom window.

INT. FRONT HALLWAY

Kenny comes tearing downstairs.

EXT. FRONT DOOR

Kenny, opens the front door, very excited.

KENNY:

Jody!

(he kisses her)

Yes! You're here.

Jody wipes a tear from her eye. Kenny notices how upset she is.

KENNT(CONT'D)

What's the matter?

Jody bursts into tears. She hugs him. He hugs her back and leads her

inside.

INT. HOUSE

An old rundown house. The clutter smells. Whoever lived here had little to

no self respect. Garbage is piled up in every corner, order is nowhere.

Brent is repulsed by what he sees. he wasn't expecting such chaos. He

knows he helped create this mess.

BRENT:

Is there a picture of her somewhere?

CARETAKER:

No pictures. No mirrors.

Was she a crazy woman when

you knew her?

BRENT:

(feeling very guilty)

No.

CARETAKER:

Couldn't tell she going to off

herself, huh?

BRENT:

No, you couldn't.

CARETAKER:

I've been in a lot of people's

houses and this one's the creepiest.

BRENT:

Really?

CARETAKER:

Yeah. You should check downstairs.

BRENT:

Why?

CARETAKER:

People always keep their secrets in their

attics or in their basements. All the

weirdness in this house took place in the

basement.

The woman flips on the basement light. There are several locks on the

door. Brent is very scared of what he's going to find down there.

INT. BASEMENT

Brent steps down into the basement.

It is a combination prison/bedroom. It looks like it hasn't been cleaned

in years. Water drips for the ceiling. Rat traps are everywhere. Old

broken child's TOYS are stacked in one corner below some handcuffs which

are bolted into the wall above a cot. The cot is small, the mattress

rotted. Old sh*t lies dried on the floor piss stains line every wall.

Huge nails and odd iron objects sit in one corner.

Brent walks over to the dresser and looks in it. He pulls out a pair of

grown man's trousers. He examines them.

CARETAKER:

They look like they'd fit you.

Three bucks.

Brent things for a moment then throws the pants down. He darts back up the

stairs. The caretaker laughs.

INT. KENNY'S

Jody and Kenny are in Kenny's bedroom, sitting on his bed.

KENNY:

All our parents are weirdoes.

I think my dad is into hookers.

I know he lit cats on fire when

he was a kid.

JODY:

(all wound up)

My dad acts like he's Johnny F***ing

Perfect and he's really Johnny F***ing

Rapist.

KENNY:

(compassionately)

I think this is a big part of growing up.

It's losing your spiritual virginity.

It's when you finally discover that your

parents aren't anything they told you they

were. They're even bigger hypocrites than

your friends.

JODY:

I can't believe I listened to one word of

his sh*t.

KENNY:

But if he'd been sent to jail,

there would be no Jody.

JODY:

So I should feel happy that he got

away with it?

KENNY:

I don't know. I kind of am.

Jody, still crying, stares at Kenny for a second then leans in and kisses

him with everything she's got, Ready for action.

KENNY:

Are you coming to the party?

JODY:

Let's just start a party right here,

right f***ing now.

Jody quickly takes her own shirt off, rips off his, and pounces on him.

He's taken aback by her sudden aggressiveness. He has no idea how to

respond to it.

INT. TOWN HALL

Brent comes storming out of the hall of records.

INT. PHONE BOOTH

Frantic dialing. Brent is on the phone.

INT. PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE

The phone rings. The answering machine picks up.

BRENT:

(leaving a message)

Tom? Lisa Sherman is dead. But you'll

never believe what I found out. Meet

me at the Roadhouse on Route nine in a

half hour. We need to talk in private.

As Brent finishes his message the camera moves across the principal's

desk, first revealing a few blood drops on a piece of paper and then the

killer's hand, holding the razor. The killer has been listening to the

message.

Tom, the principal, is sitting in the corner in a large puddle of his own

blood, tied to the radiator. He's barely alive. His tongue has been cut

out, his foot cut off at the ankle and shoved into his mouth. One eye is

missing, the other one has been left in only so that Tom can look into the

killer's face as he's tortured.

The razor blade is lifted off the table.

Tom braces himself, gripping his hands, preparing for more pain.

The camera moves back to the phone as we hear Tom gag and then the killer

walking out of the room.

INT. KENNY'S

Jody is all over Kenny. He's really weirded out by her aggressiveness.

She reaches for his crotch and finds that he's soft. She rolls over,

embarrassed.

JODY:

(worried)

What's wrong? Am I doing something

wrong?

KENNY:

Just making me feel like a piece

of meat.

JODY:

I'm making you feel like meat?

KENNY:

Yeah.

Jody rolls over, a bit pissed off and very confused.

JODY:

You break up with me because

I won't f*** you.

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