Cube Page #8

QUENTIN:

She... slipped.

KAZAN:

Holloway.

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Leaven sits down i a corner. Quentin walks over to her.

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WORTH:

Sssh! Come on Kazan. Kazan will you please stop doing that!

QUENTIN:

Leaven, you gotta be strong sweetheart.

LEAVEN:

Don't even talk to me.

QUENTIN:

We gotta get down to the bottom. It'll be easier to get on to shell from there. It's a long f***ing way with only one boot. But we gotta do it, before we get too weak. You gotta keep cracking the numbers Leaven.

LEAVEN:

I can't think anymore.

QUENTIN:

Sure you can. It's your gift.

LEAVEN:

It's not a gift, it's just a brain.

WORTH:

Let her sleep for a while. We haven't slept for f***ing hours.

QUENTIN:

Ok, one hour.

WORTH:

How the f*** are you gonna know how long an hour is?

QUENTIN:

An hour is as long as I say.

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The group go to sleep. In the background weird music is to hear. After a little while, we see someone taking the boot away from Worth. Then we see a hand holding Leaven for the mouth. Then Quentin is bending towards Leaven and afterwards we see him carry Leaven. The next we see is a door closing.

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LEAVEN:

What are you doing?

QUENTIN:

We have to make it down to the bottom. There'll be quiet there and you can concentrate.

LEAVEN:

Do you just wanna leave them?

QUENTIN:

They're traps! We are the key. I get us down there. You think us out. Believe in me. Try to see what I see, how my mind works. THRASH! When I look into someone's head like a f***ing x-ray. I looked through the walls. I dreamed him at his desk, designing everything. He can't let you solve the puzzle. There is a purpose. We are the purpose. The cube is us.

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Quentin begins to touch Leaven.

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LEAVEN:

Quentin...

QUENTIN:

We fit like numbers. A man and a woman. Two halves of the equation. I take you down. The perfect key.

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Quentin goes further and tries to touch her breasts.

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QUENTIN:

I'll slip you on the lock.

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Leaven runs away. Quentin stands up.

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QUENTIN:

Leaven... It's time to go down.

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Quentin tries to catch her. Meanwhile a door is being opened. Worth comes jumping hitting Quentin to the floor. Kazan enters the room too. The door closes.

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QUENTIN:

Get away from her. Leaven, they're f***ing spy's. Him, the retard. Holloway had outside information about my family. She went too far.

LEAVEN:

You dropped her.

WORTH:

Just go Quentin

LEAVEN:

Give us the boot, you pig!

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Quentin turns around and suddenly hits Worth with the boot. Then he walks towards Leaven.

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QUENTIN:

You don't want the boot.

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Then Quentin again hits Worth several times. Afterwards he opens the door in the floor.

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QUENTIN:

You wanna come with us Worth? Down the hatch.

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Quentin throws Worth down the hole in the floor. As Worth hits the floor, he starts laughing.

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QUENTIN:

What the f***'s with him?

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The others crawl down to Worth. He lies on the door, on the handle. As the camera switches angle, we see a corpse with the face down. Quentin turns the corpse with his foot. It's Rennes. Quentin drops the boot.

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QUENTIN:

How does he...?

WORTH:

(laughing) It's The Wren, the old Renster.

QUENTIN:

How could...?

WORTH:

(laughing) We've been going in circles

QUENTIN:

That can't be.

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Quentin grabs Leaven and opens a door.

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QUENTIN:

Where are we?

LEAVEN:

I don't know.

QUENTIN:

Where are we???

LEAVEN:

You figure it out! You haven't done anything. All you do is freak out! YOU MURDERER!

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Leaven starts crying. Worth stands up and laughs. Quentin sits down.

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QUENTIN:

You were right Worth. There is no outta here.

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Quentin starts crying. Kazan comes and touches his hair.

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QUENTIN:

(crying) Get away from me.

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Worth stands up.

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WORTH:

Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?

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Worth opens the door to were Rennes was killed. There's nothing. All we see is black. It's the edge, the shell.

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WORTH:

How come there's nothing out there.

QUENTIN:

You see an edge.

WORTH:

We were not at the edge before. Where's the room that killed Rennes?

QUENTIN:

F*** off!

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Quentin throws the boot after Worth, but the boot does not him it's being thrown out of the room.

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WORTH:

Oh, that was good.

QUENTIN:

What difference does it make? We're dead anyways.

WORTH:

HEY! Listen to what I'm saying! There was a room there before! We haven't been moving in circles, the rooms have!

LEAVEN:

Of course.

QUENTIN:

The rooms?

WORTH:

That explains the thunder, the shaking. We've been shifting the whole time.

LEAVEN:

It's the only logical explanation. I'm such an idiot.

WORTH:

What are you on to Leaven.

LEAVEN:

Give me a minute. The numbers are markers point on a map, right?

WORTH:

Right.

LEAVEN:

And how do you map a point that keeps moving?

WORTH:

Permutations.

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