Get Out Page #13

ROD:

...See, I don’t know if the

hypnosis makes you a slave or if

just turns you gay or what, but

they already got two brothers that

we know of, and who knows how many

more there could be.

The officers are all riveted... Then... All three detectives

laugh. Rod is not being taken the slightest bit seriously.

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LATOYA:

(to her colleagues)

So, I don’t want none of yousayin’ I don’t do nothin’ foryou... White girls’ll get ya everytime!

They laugh even harder.

INT. GAMES ROOM - LATER

The SONG PLAYS Over and over. Chris is too weak to struggle.

CHRIS:

Is this the only song you got?

INT. GAMES ROOM - LATER

The SONG ends. It BEGINS again.

CHRIS:

Okay. Okay! What do you want? Youtryin’ to break me? I won’t sayshit!! I’ll just... I’ll do whatyou say, just answer me!

INT. CHRIS’ LOFT - DUSK

Rod sits by the window with Sid. He looks out over rooftopsand thinks. He picks up his phone and calls Chris again. Heknows Chris won’t answer. Then-

ROSE:

Hello?

Rod is taken off guard. He almost drops his phone.

ROSE (CONT’D)

Chris?

ROD:

Yo. Um, Rose? It’s Rod.

ROSE:

Hi.

ROD:

Where’s Chris?

INTERCUT WITH:

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INT. ARMITAGE HOUSE. DINING ROOM - DUSK

Rose stands by the dining table on Chris’ phone. Rose starts

to cry.

ROSE:

He left like two days ago.

ROD:

He left?

ROSE:

We got in a fight. He got allparanoid and flipped out; He tooka cab home. He forgot his phone.

Wait... You haven’t seen him?

ROD:

No. He never made it back here.

ROSE:

Oh my God.

ROD:

I’ve been calling. I went to thepolice and everything.

Rose is silent.

ROD (CONT’D)

Hello?

ROSE:

What did you say?

ROD:

I told them he was missing.

ROSE:

Uh huh...

ROD:

So... What cab company did he use?

ROSE:

I don’t know. A local one I’m

guessing. Maybe uber? Wait, I’m soconfused...

ROD:

Hold on a second.

Rod knows she had something to do with it.

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He opens up ‘Garage Band’ on Chris’ computer and puts thephone on speaker, recording her.

ROD (CONT’D)

So, last time Chris and I talked,

he told me your mom hypnotizedhim?

Rose is silent. Then...

ROSE:

Rod, just stop.

ROD:

Huh?

ROSE:

I know why you’re calling.

ROD:

Why is that?

We now see Rose’s family standing in the living room behindher. They watch her operate.

ROSE:

Come on. I mean, it’s kind of

obvious.

ROD:

What?

ROSE:

That there’s something between us.

ROD:

No. I’m calling about Chris.

ROSE:

We’d all go out drinking... Iremember you looking at me.

Rod is put on the spot. He becomes extremely uncomfortable.

ROD:

That’s my best friend. If you didsomething-

ROSE:

I know you think about f***ing me,

Rod.

ROD:

--No. You crazy... No.

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Rod hangs up in a panic. He looks at Sid helplessly.

Rose’s flirtacious smile goes blank. She places the phone onthe dining room table and looks back at her family. They watchin approval.

INT. GAMES ROOM

“You’ve Got A Friend” plays.

Chris, still strapped to the chair, hangs his head inresignation. Eyes shut, he sings along.

CHRIS:

...Winter, Spring, Summer andFall, all you need to do is call.

And I’ll be there. You got afriend. Ain’t it good to knowyou’ve got a friend. Ain’t it goodto know you’ve got a friend. Oh,

yeah, yeah, you’ve got a friend.

The song is over. After a moment. Chris begins to sing theopening guitar lick. He gets a couple notes before realizinghe’s singing alone.

The television in front of Chris flickers off and then back on

to the image of a tea cup comes into focus on the screen. Aspoon comes into the shot and clinks the side of the cup.

“TING TING, TING TING”

CHRIS (CONT’D)

No-

Before he can react, Chris falls asleep.

Later...

Chris wakes up bald. Static snow clicks fills the TV lightingthe room. The image clicks to that of...

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY (TELEVISION)

Jim Hudson, also shaven, sits on a hospital bed. And facesChris through the television.

JIM:

Hello Chris. How’s it going...?

You can answer. There’s an

intercom in the room; I can hear

you.

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CHRIS:

I need water.

JIM:

Yeah, sorry about that. If itmakes you feel any better, I’mthirsty too.

CHRIS:

I need to get outta here.

JIM:

Right. So, the reason I am talkingto you now is so you canunderstand what is happening toyou. I guess your ‘understanding’it raises the success rate of this

whole thing. Not even sure I‘understand’ it.

CHRIS:

Where’s Rose?

JIM:

Hot isn’t she? Hot voice anyway,

you dirty dog. You’re one of thelucky one’s. The son Jeremy’swrangling method sounds way lesspleasant.

CHRIS:

Is this some kind of a game toyou?

JIM:

They asked me for my favoritesong, which was hard; I like alltypes of music. Turns out theyreally just needed one I knew allthe words to: I went with James

Taylor’s “You Got a Friend.” Ihope it hasn’t been too torturous;

that wasn’t the point. The pointis that you learn it, and for usto have that knowledge in common.

CHRIS:

Who the f*** are you people?

JIM:

Oh right. Okay, let me back up andgive you the cliff notes. TheArmitages and I are a part of asociety. A pretty extraordinarysociety actually.

(MORE)

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JIM (CONT’D)

One whose sole purpose for manymany years has been a search for avery powerful object. Armitagelineage redefined the nature ofthat search. They proved that thepower didn’t just exist in thatobject; You see, with science theArmitage’s created a miracle.

CHRIS:

You hypnotize me? Break my will..?

Make me a slave like the others?

This is some crazy racist sh*t.

JIM:

No. Not racist, Chris. We don’t

hate you. We want to be you... Youare not going to be a slave.

You’re going to be a vessel.

CHRIS:

Wait, what?

JIM:

Missy’s hypnosis was merely tosedate you. Oh, that and toprepare you psychologically...

CHRIS:

For what?

Jim smiles.

JIM:

For the procedure.

CHRIS:

What’s the procedure?

JIM:

Are you ready...? Drum rollplease. Brain transplantation.

Some say it could never be done;

JIM (CONT'D)

They experimented for centuries,

but it turned out re-linking thebrain to a foreign central nervoussystem was impossible. The nerveconnections are far too intricate

and delicate.

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CHRIS:

What the f***?

JIM:

Dean’s the only guy who really

gets the science. He’s the one who

discovered that full brain

transplantation isn’t actually

necessary to transfer the soul,

and that partial brain

transplantation solves the little

nerve ending problem.

CHRIS:

No.

Jim holds up a Color coded diagram of the human Brain. Thereis a big red part that takes up 80% of the image. The other20% is blue and located near the lower back of his skull.

JIM:

Okay so... You see the blue part?

That’s the piece of your brain

that’s all rooted in the nervous

system. So that stays; keeping

those tricky little connections

intact. The rest is discarded.

Then they’ll remove the red part

of my brain from my skull and put

in yours. Your “blue” and my “red”

basically absorb each other. And

apparently the brain heals

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