Inside Out Page #6

Riley smiles, in spite of all the eyes on her.

RILEY:

Yeah, it gets pretty cold. The lake

freezes over, and that’s when we

play hockey. I’m on a great team.

We’re called the Prairie Dogs. My

friend Meg plays forward. My Dad’s

the coach. Pretty much everyone in

my family skates.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

Joy recalls a MEMORY: the family skating together.

INT. CLASSROOM

Riley “watches” the memory, smiling.

RILEY:

It’s a kind of family tradition. We

go out on the lake almost every

weekend.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

Joy smiles. Then, mysteriously, the IMAGE TURNS BLUE.

INT. CLASSROOM

Riley’s smile fades, her brow furrows.

RILEY:

Or we did, ‘til I moved away.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

Confused, Joy looks around.

FEAR/DISGUST/ANGER

Huh?/Hey, what gives?/What?

JOY:

Hey-She

spots Sadness, who is guiltily touching the memory.

INSIDE OUT 41.

JOY (CONT’D)

Sadness! You touched a memory?! We

talked about this.

SADNESS:

Oh yeah, I know. I’m sorry.

JOY:

Get back in your circle.

(trying to eject memory)

Gnnh! What’s going on? Why won’t it

eject?!!

She fiddles with the console, but the blue memory won’t move.

FEAR:

Get it out of there, Joy!

INT. CLASSROOM

RILEY:

(sniffling)

We used to play tag and stuff...

INT. HEADQUARTERS

DISGUST:

Cool kids whispering at 3 o’clock!

INT. CLASSROOM

The other kids whisper and stare.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

FEAR:

Did you see that look?!? They’re

judging us!

JOY:

Oh no.

Joy tries pulling the memory. Anger, Fear and Disgust help.

JOY (CONT’D)

Somebody help me. Grab that...

everybody...

They pull with all their might, but the memory’s not budging.

INSIDE OUT 42.

INT. CLASSROOM

RILEY:

But everything’s different now.

Since we moved...

TEARS stream down Riley’s face.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

FEAR:

Oh no! We’re CRYING AT SCHOOL!!!

Joy turns to the console. SADNESS IS DRIVING.

JOY:

What? No! Sadness, what are you

doing?

Joy finally yanks the memory out. She runs to the console and

pulls Sadness away from the controls.

SADNESS:

Oh no, I'm sorry... I... oh...

PING! A memory is created. BRIGHT BLUE.

JOY:

Huh?

ANGER:

Whoa!

FEAR:

It’s a core memory!

DISGUST:

But it’s blue!

The bright blue core memory rolls through the memory shelf

and STARTS TOWARDS THE CORE MEMORY HOLDER!

JOY:

No wait... stop it! No! Ahh!

Joy leaps to the holder and pops it open, preventing the new

blue core memory from going in. Joy grabs it.

She pushes the end-of-day “memory flush” button. The tube

comes down from the ceiling.

INSIDE OUT 43.

SADNESS:

(trying to take her memory

back from Joy)

Joy, no. That’s a core memory, Joy!

JOY:

Hey! Stop it. Let go.

As they struggle, they bump into the Core Memory Holder,

KNOCKING ALL OF THE CORE MEMORIES OUT onto the floor.

FEAR/DISGUST/ANGER FEAR

Ahh! The core memories!

Out the window, the ISLANDS OF PERSONALITY GO DARK.

INT. CLASSROOM

Riley, her face tear-stained, looks up.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

JOY:

Ahh!

Joy tosses the blue core memory aside to collect the yellow

core memories.

Sadness grabs the blue core memory and heads to the Core

Memory Holder to plug it in. Joy lunges, knocking the blue

core memory out of Sadness’s hands. It’s SUCKED UP the vacuum

tube.

Joy trips backward. In the chaos a yellow core memory rolls

toward the tube.

JOY (CONT’D)

No, no, no, no!

She reaches to grab it and gets sucked up the tube herself,

along with the other core memories -- and Sadness!

Fear, Anger and Disgust now stand alone in Headquarters. A

stunned silence as the tube retracts.

INT. CLASSROOM

Riley sits and wipes her tears.

INSIDE OUT 44.

TEACHER:

Thank you, Riley. I know it can be

tough moving to a new place, but

we're happy to have you here.

Alright everyone, get out your

history books and turn to chapter

seven.

Riley hides behind her book.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

Can I say that curse word now?

INT. TUBE

Joy and Sadness scream as they rocket down the tube. Joy

desperately tries to hold on to the core memories.

The blue core memory is sorted to a side tube.

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY CLIFF EDGE

Joy lands in a bin of memories. Sadness crashes next to her.

JOY:

Oh no...

(gathering memories)

One, two, three... okay, got ’em.

Wha-- where are we?

Joy takes in the shelving around her.

JOY (CONT’D)

Long-Term Memory...!

Joy grabs the core memories and jumps out of the dumpster.

She sees GOOFBALL ISLAND, silent and dark.

JOY (CONT’D)

Goofball Island.

Joy surveys the islands beyond. They’re all dark.

SADNESS:

Hoh... Riley’s Islands of

Personality. They’re ALL down! This

is bad.

INSIDE OUT 45.

JOY:

We-- we can fix this. We just have

to get back to Headquarters, plug

the core memories in, and Riley

will be back to normal.

Joy and Sadness hurry towards headquarters.

SADNESS:

Riley has no core memories, no

personality islands and no-

(gasp)

JOY:

Wha-- What is it?

SADNESS:

You! YOU’RE not in headquarters.

Without you, Riley can’t be happy.

We gotta get you back up there.

JOY:

I’m coming, Riley.

They set off across the bridge to Goofball Island. We see the

LIGHTLINE beyond it, leading towards Headquarters.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE - EVENING

Riley and her parents eat dinner.

MOM:

So as it turns out the green trash

can is not recycling, it’s for

greens. Like compost. And

eggshells.

DAD:

(not really listening)

Mmm.

MOM:

And the blue one is recycling. And

the black one is trash.

Riley pushes food around on her plate.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

DISGUST:

Riley is acting so weird. Why is

she acting so weird?

INSIDE OUT 46.

ANGER:

What do you expect? All the islands

are down.

DISGUST:

Joy would know what to do.

FEAR:

That’s it! Until she gets back, we

just do what Joy would do!

DISGUST:

Great idea! Anger, Fear, Disgust.

How are WE supposed to be happy?

MOM (O.S.)

Hey, Riley. I’ve got good news!

INT. KITCHEN TABLE - CONTINUOUS

MOM:

I found a junior hockey league

right here in San Francisco. And

get this:
try-outs are tomorrow

after school. What luck, right?

INT. HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

Hockey?

DISGUST:

Uh-oh. What do we do?

FEAR:

Guys, uh, this... Here, you pretend

to be Joy.

Fear pushes Disgust forward. She steps up to drive.

ON THE SCREEN:

MOM:

Won’t it be great to be back out on

the ice?

INSIDE OUT 47.

INT. KITCHEN DINING TABLE

RILEY:

(sarcastic)

Oh yeah, that sounds fantastic.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

FEAR:

What was that? That wasn’t anything

like Joy.

DISGUST:

Uh, because I’m NOT Joy.

FEAR:

Yeah, no kidding.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

Mom, taken aback, eyes Riley. Zoom in to Mom’s head...

INT. MOM’S HEADQUARTERS

MOM’S SADNESS

Did you guys pick up on that?

MOM'S ANGER

Uh-huh.

MOM'S JOY / MOM'S FEAR / MOM'S DISGUST

Oh yeah/Definitely.

MOM’S DISGUST

Something’s wrong.

MOM’S ANGER

Should we ask her?

MOM’S SADNESS

Let’s probe. But keep it subtle, so

she doesn’t notice.

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