In the Flesh Page #9

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SHIRLEY:

(to goldfish)

Night, night Goldie Hawn.

Philip shakes his head at his mum’s affection for the fish.

Shirley waves a good night to Philip and exits.

Philip stares at the snooker, checks his watch, checks the

door. On screen we see there’s a number of reds...

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45 INT. TUNICLIFFE-WILSON HOUSE - LOUNGE - NIGHT 2 45

...Same shot of the TV. Only the pink and the black remain.

Philip cranes his neck to check the coast is clear. He gets

up and crosses to Shirley’s LAPTOP, booting it up. He moves

the cursor to a folder- “WORK”. Clicks on it.

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The folder opens. His eyes grow wide. Vicar Oddie was right.

His mum is a PDS Community Care Officer. Inside is a pdf doc

called ‘UNDERSTANDING PDS’ and two further folders ‘ROARTON

PDS CASES A-G’ and ‘ROARTON PDS CASES H-Z’. The case folders

have little stop sign symbols next to them. PHILIP tries

clicking on the folder ‘ROARTON PDS CASES A-G’.

SHIRLEY (O.S.)

Philip?

Philip jumps out of his skin. Shirley is standing in the

doorway in her dressing gown holding a glass of water. Philip

slams down the laptop.

SHIRLEY (CONT’D)

What yer doing?

Philip freezes; no idea what to say. Finally he blurts:

PHILIP:

I’m watching pornography.

Beat.

SHIRLEY:

Pornography?

PHILIP:

Uh... Yeah. On the, on the, on the

world wide web.

Shirley looks at him perplexed. Philip blunders on.

PHILIP (CONT’D)

It’s, it’s been a stressful couple

of days and this is what I do to,

uh, relieve stress. I may be one of

those sex addicts. I’m not sure

yet.

SHIRLEY:

Oh. Well. I really don’t like the

idea of you using my personal

laptop to feed your...addiction.

PHILIP:

Absolutely. I’m going cold turkey

right now.

Philip pushes the laptop away from him.

SHIRLEY:

I’m to bed. Scan for viruses when

you’re... finished.

PHILIP:

Will do. Good night then, Mum.

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Philip gives her a sweaty smile. Shirley gives him a funny

look, then exits and closes the door. Philip lets out a heavy

sigh of relief. He opens the laptop again and stares at the

screen. The ‘ROARTON PDS CASES A-G’ folder has not opened.

Instead, a security management box has appeared and it’s

asking for a PASSWORD.

Philip thinks. He types in “Shirleypassword”. An error box

pops up - incorrect password entered. Philip considers, types

in “Ilovephilip”. Incorrect. Philip rubs his face in

frustration. Spots the GOLDFISH looking at him from the

mantlepiece.

Lightbulb. He types in “ilovegoldiehawn”. Nothing happens

for a moment then the folder opens and Philip finds himself

staring at a word document with names and addresses of PDS

sufferers located in Roarton, A-G.

A noise from the floor above panics PHILIP and he hastily

reaches into his pocket.

CLOSE ON A USB put in the laptop. CLOSE ON the folder

‘ROARTON PDS CASES A-G’, the cursor moves to the Save icon.

CLOSE ON UPLOADING GREEN BAR - it loads. A box pops up:

Folder saved to removable disk.

Philip SLAMS down the laptop.

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INT. WALKER HOUSE - KIEREN’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 2 45A

Kieren lies on his bed, thoughts whirring round his head,

wierded out about being back at home after all this time.

After a beat, he closes his eyes and falls asleep.

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SLAM. Lisa’s head goes through the supermarket’s refigerator.

(we’re picking up from where Kieren’s first flashback left

off:
a rabid Kieren has a petrified Lisa Lancaster in his

grasp.)

After her head going through the fridge. Lisa’s skull cracks

open and she collapses on the floor. Rabid Kieren kneels

down, cracks Lisa’s skull apart like a pistachio nut and

starts to feed on her brain. Rabid Amy joins him. They feast.

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Kieren wakes with a jolt. He looks around the dark room.

Crack of lightening. The flash illuminates A FEMALE FIGURE

standing by the wardrobe. Kieren cries out. Scrambles for his

bedside lamp. Switches it on.... Jem is leaning by the

wardrobe. A pint of water in her hand. She sways a little.

JEM:

What are you? Are you a demon? A

monster sent from hell?

Beat.

KIEREN:

I don’t know.

JEM:

My brother was a kind gentle

person. He wasn’t a monster. Who

are you? What’s your name?

KIEREN:

Kieren.

JEM:

No, don’t believe you, sorry.

KIEREN:

That’s my name.

JEM:

Prove it.

KIEREN:

I don’t understand?

JEM:

Tell me something only my brother

would know about me.

(beat)

Come on tell me!

KIEREN:

When you were eleven you walked on

your tip toes for nine months.

(beat)

No one knew why you had started

doing it. But you had since

starting secondary school. Mum and

Dad tried you on all sorts of pills

and therapy and god knows, but

still you tip toed.

JEM:

Everyone knew I did that.

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KIEREN:

Those special clogs. Remember those

clogs? You wore them in the morning

but after mum dropped you off at

the bus stop, you’d take them off,

shove them in your backpack, put on

some pumps and be back on your toes

by time coach pulled up. Everyone

thought you’d be like that forever

and no one knew why.

JEM gives KIEREN a challenging look.

KIEREN (CONT’D)

But I did. You didn’t want to be

noticed. You thought you were

strange in some way so you walked

around quiet as a mouse. But I knew

how to fix it. I made you a mix CD.

A hardcore metal mix CD. Mum

thought I was mad to give you songs

with so much swearing on it, but...

but I knew it’d do the trick.

Beat.

JEM:

You didn’t even leave a note.

Kieren looks away.

KIEREN:

I just wanted to disappear, Jem.

When I heard about Rick

JEM shoots KIEREN a ‘What the f***’ look.

KIEREN (CONT’D)

It was my fault he died.

JEM:

Bullshit. He died in Afghanistan.

Taliban killed him.

KIEREN:

It was my fault he joined the army.

JEM:

What about me?

KIEREN:

I’m sorry, Jem.

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JEM:

F*** you. Not allowed to say that

to me.

KIEREN:

Sorry.

JEM:

F***ing did it again.

Jem throws the pint of water at him. It misses him by inches

and SMASHES on the wall. She flings the door open and exits,

pushing past Steve. Steve sees Kieren’s upset.

STEVE:

(to Jem)

What have you said to him?

Jem in her doorway. Turns.

JEM:

Don’t know why you’re stressing?

He can’t kill himself twice.

And with that she slams her door.

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EXT. WALKER HOUSE - DAY 3 50

Morning.

INT. WALKER HOUSE - LOUNGE - DAY 3 51

The LOUNGE has an oppressive atmosphere. The curtains areclosed - because of KIEREN.

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