Get Out Page #5

CHRIS:

The get-together?

ROSE:

The party tomorrow? I told you.

CHRIS:

I must have forgot.

MISSY:

Oh, well we host a shindig once ayear for our friends.

DEAN:

A tradition. Some of my Dad’s oldsocial club. Some old patients.

Some just friends...

MISSY:

Drinks, good food, good people...

CHRIS:

Sounds fun.

Georgina has been pouring Chris’ drink too long and his glasshas overflown.

MISSY:

Georgina!

Georgina snaps out of her daze. She realizes what she’s doneand starts to clean.

MISSY (CONT’D)

It’s fine George, I’ll get it.

Maybe you need a nap.

Georgina nods, smiles and walks away. Chris and Rose look atDean. That was odd. Dean shrugs.

A CAR HORN HONKS in front of the house.

DEAN:

Jeremy’s home.

JEREMY, 29, rounds the house with open arms.

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He’s “Rich kid intense”; handsome and strong with anunpredictable wildness behind his eyes.

JEREMY:

Who answers the door around here?!

INT. ARMITAGE DINING ROOM - LATER/NIGHT

Everyone laughs.

Dean pours the remainder of a bottle of wine into Chris’glass. Their meal is done and they are tipsy. Jeremy pops thecork on a new bottle of wine as he energetically holds court.

JEREMY:

One more... So, let me set the

scene. I’m a junior; Ro’s afreshman and she has a crush on

this guy Connor-

ROSE:

--No. Mom.

MISSY:

Jeremy...

CHRIS:

No, no... These are good. I wannahear this.

DEAN:

Manners, Rose. Give the guest whathe wants.

JEREMY:

Yeah, Rose.

ROSE:

I hate you.

JEREMY:

Connor Garfield was on my lacrosseteam. Huge guy, like 6’3”, andcrazy, just like “Looney Tunes,”

right? We had thrown a party-

ROSE:

You did.

JEREMY:

I think my parents were in Greeceor something. We had gotten intotheir liquor cabinet and we’re allshit-faced.

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MISSY:

No you weren’t. Were you?

JEREMY:

We put water in the bottles so youwouldn’t know. Let me finish.

Okay, so I’m upstairs in myparents’ bathroom hooking up withJenny Richardson. Hottest girl inour class.

MISSY:

Uch.

ROSE:

You realize you’re coming off likea total douche right now, right?

JEREMY:

Thanks. All of a sudden Connor

starts banging on the bathroomdoor, right? I open it, and he’sgot blood gushing out of his mouthand he’s screaming “Your thith-terbit my f***in’ thongue off!!!!”

CHRIS:

Whoa, what?

JEREMY:

Sure enough, there is a centimeterof tongue meat missing right here.

Jeremy demonstrates and Chris winces.

CHRIS:

(To Rose)

Ahhhh! You bit him?

ROSE:

He cornered me and shoved his

tongue in my mouth, so yeah.

CHRIS:

Damn. That’s badass, Bae.

MISSY:

I’m going to see how dessert iscoming along.

(to Dean)

Maybe we can change theconversation to something a littlelighter.

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ROSE:

Yeah, great story. Thanks formaking it totally uncomfortable.

Missy walks out of the dining room into the kitchen. The doorswings open and Chris gets another glimpse of Georgina whostands with a kitchen knife and wears an intense and wicked

little smile. The door swings shut.

DEAN:

Okay, new subject. Chris, Yanks orMets?

CHRIS:

Ah, Orioles. My mom was fromBaltimore so-

JEREMY:

You an MMA fan?

ROSE:

Oh God.

JEREMY:

What?

DEAN:

She’s right. Let someone else talkfor a bit.

JEREMY:

You’ve had your chance. He’sdating my sister. I can’t bondwith the guy?

Dean exhales.

CHRIS:

You mean like UFC? Yeah, nah. Too

brutal for me. I’m a lover, not a

fighter.

JEREMY:

You ever get into street fights asa kid?

CHRIS:

Not really. I did take Judo forafter-school in 1st grade.

ROSE:

Awww.

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JEREMY:

Cause, with your frame, yourgenetic make-up? If you pushedyour body, I mean really trained,

you’d be a beast.

CHRIS:

Cool... Thanks?

The kitchen door swings open again, and Missy walks back inwith a perfect carrot cake. Georgina is gone.

MISSY:

What’d I miss?

ROSE:

More ramblings from King Awkward.

JEREMY:

We’re talking about sports.

(To Chris)

Stand up. Let me show yousomething.

MISSY:

No karate at the dinner table.

JEREMY:

It’s not karate, it’s jiu-jitsu.

He stumbles a little towards Chris and tries to put him in aheadlock. Chris stands.

CHRIS:

I’ve got a rule. I don’t play-

fight with drunk dudes.

JEREMY:

I’m just-

DEAN:

--Alright, enough Jeremy!

JEREMY:

I wasn’t going to hurt him.

Dean is loud and stern for the first time. Jeremy’s eyesflutter, DRUNK and embarrassed. He grabs a wine bottle andgoes upstairs`.

ROSE:

And that’s my brother.

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EXT. THE ESTATE. NIGHT

Full moon. CRICKETS.

INT. ROSE’S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Rose and Chris make hushed love in her bed. A stuffed lion

seems to watch Chris. He turns it away.

INT. ROSE’S BEDROOM - LATER

Rose sleeps, but Chris is wide awake. There’s a buzz in hisear. He smacks his own head and sits up. A soft HOWL of WINDrushes through the room. The CLOSET DOOR CREEKS open.

Chris’ eyes drift to the pack of cigarettes sticking out ofhis camera bag pocket draped on the desk chair.

INT. ARMITAGE HALLWAY - NIGHT

Chris leaves Rose’s room and walks down the dark hallway. Afloorboard creaks under his feet. He turns down the stairs.

INT. ARMITAGE DOWNSTAIRS HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Chris gets to the bottom of the stairs. He hears thefloorboard creek upstairs. He stops and turns, expectingsomeone to follow him down. Nothing. Chris continues to walkdown the hallway past the pictures towards the kitchen.

The basement door is open a crack. Chris peers into itcuriously. A stairwell leads down into pitch darkness. Chrisshuts the door. A figure now stands at the end of the hallwaybehind him. He doesn’t notice. He just keeps going into...

INT. ARMITAGE KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS

Chris walks through the kitchen. He bumps into a bar chairmoving it slightly. He keeps walking. He continues out thesliding back door of the house.

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EXT. BACKYARD - CONTINUOUS

Chris steps out the back door and takes a cigarette out. Chrislooks into the vast night around him. The CRICKETS aredeafening.

Suddenly, something DARTS FAST across the yard in thedistance. Chris peers out into the darkness. The thing RUNSacross the lawn again. A moment of terror comes over Chris. Hemakes out a shape. It’s now running towards him. Chris backsup in fear just as the figure emerges from the shadows andinto the moonlight. It’s Walter, the grounds keeper. He passesChris without noticing. Chris gathers his breath.

The kitchen light turns on and floods the backyard. Chrisdrops the cigarette and stomps it out. He turns back towardsthe house and finds himself face to face with Georgina, whoglares through the window dead in Chris’ eyes. He’s caught.

Georgina doesn’t react. Chris it still. Georgina suddenlyexposes her teeth in a frightening grimace. Chris backs awayslowly.

INT. ARMITAGE KITCHEN - NIGHT

Georgina sucks her teeth. She doesn’t actually see Chris atall. She’s looking at her teeth in the reflection in thewindow which, front lit, reflects her and the room around her.

Outside is invisible.

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