Cherry Falls Page #3

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EXT. STACY'S HOUSE

Brent pulls up. A lot of official cars are already there.

EXT. WOODS

A trail of flares eerily light up the woods, leading to the crime scene.

EXT. WOODS

The murder sit. Police cameras flash. Stacy is still nailed to the tree.

Rod is dead on the ground below her in a puddle of his own blood.

Brent walks up, immediately repulsed by the gruesome sight. His deputy,

JACK WEBBER, sidles up next to him.

DEPUTY:

Her parents reported her missing about

an hour ago.

A flash bulb momentarily lights up the scene. Brent pulls out his

flashlight to better survey the carnage.

He starts on Rod, throat slit, chest gutted. He then moves to Stacy,

looking at one nailed hand, then the other.

BRENT:

What kind of a person wakes

up in the morning and says

to themselves, 'Think I'll nail

a sixteen year old girl to a tree today'?

DEPUTY:

The same type that decides to carve into

her stomach.

Brent finally shines the flashlight beam on Stacy's stomach. Carved into

her flesh is the word 'VIRGIN'.

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MONTAGE:

High school kids are getting ready for school.

Body parts are being covered. Pants and stocking are pulled up over bare

teenage legs.

Shirts and bras cover bare teenage chests.

Zippers are pulled tight. Buttons are buttoned.

The school bell rings and the kids arrive in cars, on bikes, walking.

IT'S A TYPICAL small town American high school, somewhat repressed but

alive. The news spreads quickly about the double killing as the crowd

splits into its various tribes: punk rockers, jocks, potheads,

cheerleaders, nerds.

The killing is on everyone's mind.

EXT. SCHOOLYARD

Jody rides up on her bike and glances across the schoolyard as she locks

it in the bike rack.

Jody's POV - Kenny is leaning against a tree, talking with a busty girl,

SHARON.

Jody is upset to see Kenny flirting with someone else. As she starts

toward the front door of the school, a few other CLASSMATES run up to her.

She keeps glancing over at Kenny but he doesn't notice her.

CLASSMATE 1

Jody!

JODY:

Hi.

CLASSMATE 2

Was Stacy raped?

JODY:

I dunno. My dad never came home

last night.

Jody's POV - Kenny takes Sharon's hand for a second.

CLASSMATE 1(O.C.)

I bet she was. I heard someone

stuffed a tent spike up her ass.

CLASSMATE 2(O.C.)

Gives new meaning to the idea

of getting 'nailed'.

CLASSMATE 1(O.C.)

Ha-ha. So funny. Sickfuck.

Jody doesn't respond. She stares at Kenny.

Jody's POV - Kenny walks into school with Sharon.

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INT. HOMEROOM

Jody enters her homeroom, still upset.

Her teacher LEONARD MARLISTON is lecturing the class. Leonard is twenty-

five and quite hip looking for a teacher. He has long somewhat stringy

brown hair. He is a bit thin and is dressed casually, almost in hippy

attire. He wears wire-rim glasses and lace-up boots.

MR. MARLISTON

No one understands what leads people

to do irrational things. We only

know that unpunished violence

festers, then explodes.

Jody sits down in the back.

MARLISTON(CONT'D)

Witness the L.A. Riots. Years of

police brutality in forty-eight hours. Jody?

JODY:

Yes Mr. Marliston?

MR. MARLISTON

Your dad's in the principal's office.

He wants to see you.

INT. HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE

Brent is talking to TOM SISLER, the principal. Tom is a wiry, hard

featured man in his mid-forties. They have known each other for a long

time but are not really friends. Brent knows Tom too well. Tom's a cynical

bastard.

Tom is examining the photos taken at the crime scene.

TOM:

You aren't planning to tell these kids

that 'virgin' was tattooed into both Stacy

and Rod, are you?

BRENT:

No.

TOM:

Good.

BRENT:

But I am going to have to question

all of their past boyfriends and girlfriends.

TOM:

Fine, just don't mention the carving

This is going to be a tough enough day

as it is.

There's a knock at the door. Jody enters.

BRENT:

Hi honey.

JODY:

Hi Daddy. Hi Mr. Sisler.

TOM:

Hi Jody.

BRENT:

I just wanted to check that

you were okay?

JODY:

I'm fine. I've just never had

someone my age die before.

It's so weird.

BRENT:

How well did you know Stacy and

Rod?

JODY:

I've been in the same class

with Stacy for years but we

weren't tight or anything.

BRENT:

Had either of them broken

up with someone recently?

Hurt someone?

JODY:

No. Those two were together

before Kenny and I started

hanging out and that's over,

what, God a year now.

BRENT:

I want you to head right home

after school.

JODY:

I will. Is that all?

TOM:

Could you tell Mr. Marliston

we'd like to see him.

JODY:

SURE.

She leaves.

BRENT:

Why'd you send for Lenny Marliston?

TOM:

The kids adore him. They confide

in him. His patchouli reeking rear

might know if Stacy and Rod were

really virgins. Why didn't you

ask Jody that?

BRENT:

She's my daughter, Tom.

TOM:

So?

BRENT:

So you just don't point

blank ask your teenage daughter

about sex.

TOM:

Why not? You worried you might

find out how much she actually

knows?

Brent gives Tom a 'keep your cynical sh*t off my daughter' look.

LEONARD:

You rang?

TOM:

Come in Leonard. Have you

met Brent Marken?

LEONARD:

No but I've always wanted to.

He shakes his hand firmly.

BRENT:

Nice to meet you too. My

daughter speaks highly of you.

Leonard examines Brent's face carefully. Brent is a little taken aback by

his intensity.

LEONARD:

We have the same color eyes.

BRENT:

I guess we do.

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INT. CAFTERIA

MARK SHALE, a seventeen year old, rail thin pothead is sitting at a table

in the crowded cafeteria eating lunch. The place is a zoo. CINDY, a cute,

mini-skirted brunette, and BEN, a frizzy-haired, tattooed, pierced, punk-

rocker, are sitting with him.

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