I Spit on Your Grave Page #4

EARL MESSAGE(V.O.)

You've reached the answering machine

of Earl Wooderson.

(MORE)

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EARL MESSAGE(V.O.) (CONT'D)

The office is closed, please leave a

message and someone will call you

back on Monday. If you're calling

about buying or selling an exotic

animal, please leave your name --

Jennifer snaps the phone shut in frustration, when her eye

catches the water-damaged remnants of a service sticker

hanging to the refrigerator door.

Amazingly, the phone number is still visible. She shrugs to

herself and dials the number.

19 INT. CABIN, BATHROOM -- DAY 19

She lifts the lid and looks inside - dry - and flushes a few

more times to no avail - then dirty water begins to gurgle

up.

JENNIFER:

(LISTENS INTENTLY)

No, it won't flush... I did that

already... yes... look, I'm really

in a spot... okay... thank you...

I'm not going anywhere.

As Jennifer snaps her phone shut, the handset gets caught on

her chin, and tumbles into the toilet. PLOP!

JENNIFER (CONT'D)

Oh sh*t!

Jennifer reaches down into the toilet and immediately fishes

it out. She shakes it off vigorously.

20 INT. CABIN, KITCHEN - DAY 20

Jennifer stands next to the kitchen counter. She holds her

hair dryer which is going at full blast. Her cell phone is

propped open on the counter in front of her. She's doing her

best to dry it out.

Suddenly, a hand reaches out and taps her on the shoulder.

Jennifer SCREAMS and spins around, turning the hair dryer on

her assailant.

An equally frightened MATTHEW throws his hands up in front of

his face and SCREAMS just as loudly. He has several think

colored rubber bands on his wrist.

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MATTHEW:

P1... please! I... I came to fix

the plumbing.

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Jennifer turns off the hair dryer.

MATTHEW (CONT'D)

I... I was knocking on the d...door

a...a... while.

Jennifer breathes a sigh of relief, especially after she gets

a look at Matthew. He's in his mid-30's, but could pass for

a good ten years younger. Awkward and shy, he can barely

make eye contact with her.

JENNIFER:

(FRIENDLY)

I think you may have taken a few

years off my life.

Matthew doesn't get the joke.

JENNIFER (CONT'D)

Uh... thanks for coming on such

short notice.

(NO RESPONSE)

You need to see the bathroom,

right?

21 INT. CABIN, BATHROOM - DAY 21

Matthew works away underneath the sink. Jennifer watches him

from the bedroom sitting on the end of the bed, trying to

make small talk.

JENNIFER:

Is this gonna take much longer?

MATTHEW:

(muffled, under the sink)

N...not much.

JENNIFER:

So what's wrong with it?

MATTHEW:

Uh... it's just older pipes.

Matthew continues his work, you can tell he is uncomfortable

with the conversation.

JENNIFER:

So do you live around here?

MATTHEW:

No...no one lives around here.

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JENNIFER:

Yeah, I kind of get that. I meant

in town?

Matthew comes out from under the sink. He snaps nerviously

at one of the rubber bands on his wrist.

MATTHEW:

My... my whole life...

Jennifer looks to his wrist. It's all red.

Matthew turns on the faucet. Out comes a hard stream of

cold, clear water. He flushes the toilet and then turns on

the shower to the same result.

MATTHEW (CONT'D)

All fixed.

Jennifer squeals with excitement. She wraps her arms around

Matthew and plants a kiss on his cheek.

JENNIFER:

Thank you!

Matthew blushes furiously and fumbles his tools as he packs

up. For him, the kiss was more embarrassing than enjoyable.

JENNIFER (CONT'D)

I'm sorry. I just... you saved me

from having to bathe in the pond.

Once his tools are all packed away, Matthew dashes out of the

cabin. Jennifer follows him to the front door.

JENNIFER (CONT'D)

Hey. Hey! I didn't even pay you!

But Matthew is long gone.

22 EXT. FISHING HOLE - DAY 22

ON MINIDV CAN LCD

A wooden bat crashes down on a fish. It goes still.

Stanley takes a MINIDV CAMCORDER away from his eye. He looks

at Andy who's holding the bloody bat, and takes a large gulp

from his beer, then--

STANLEY:

Ground rule double.

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ANDY:

(ANGRILY)

A double! Look at its head. I

knocked the eye clear out.

Andy has, in fact, knocked the fish's eye clear out. It lays

next to the creature, all weird and googly-looking.

STANLEY:

Fine. Maybe a triple. But that's

it. You got to knock the guts out

its mouth to score a run.

ANDY:

Would you turn that thing off?

Gonna get us in trouble with that

human society.

JOHNNY:

Humane you dipshit.

Johnny site in a chair holding his fishing rod between his

knees. A cigarette dangles from his mouth and a beer is

perpetually glued to his hand.

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