Inside Out Page #7

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

MOM:

So! How was the first day of

school?

INSIDE OUT 48.

INT. RILEY’S HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

She’s probing us.

DISGUST:

I'm done.

(to Fear)

YOU pretend to be Joy.

FEAR:

What? Uh... okay... hmm.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

RILEY:

(nervous)

It was fine, I guess, I don't know.

INT. RILEY’S HEADQUARTERS

DISGUST:

Oh, very smooth, that was JUST like

Joy.

INT. MOM’S HEADQUARTERS

MOM’S ANGER

Something’s definitely going on.

MOM’S DISGUST

She’s never acted like this before.

What should we do?

MOM’S SADNESS

We’re going to find out what’s

happening. But we’ll need support.

Signal the husband.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

Mom clears her throat at Dad. He doesn’t notice. Zoom in to

Dad’s head...

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

All of Dad’s emotions are watching a HOCKEY MATCH, cheering.

INSIDE OUT 49.

SPORTS ANNOUNCER

...with a nice pass over to Reeves,

he comes across center ice...

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

Again Mom stares, clears her throat. Dad looks up, clueless.

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

DAD’S ANGER

Uh-oh. She’s looking at us.

(turns off the memory)

What did she say?

DAD’S FEAR

What? Uh, sorry, Sir. No one was

listening.

DAD'S ANGER

Is it garbage night? We left the

toilet seat up? What? What is it,

woman, what?!?

INT. MOM’S HEADQUARTERS

MOM’S DISGUST

(re:
Dad on the screen)

He’s making that stupid face again.

MOM’S ANGER

I could strangle him right now!

MOM’S SADNESS

Signal him again.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

Mom raises her eyebrows and tilts her head towards Riley. Dad

finally gets it.

DAD:

Ahh, so, Riley! How was school?

INT. MOM’S HEADQUARTERS

Mom’s Emotions give up.

INSIDE OUT 50.

MOM'S JOY / MOM'S SADNESS / MOM'S FEAR

/ MOM'S DISGUST

You gotta be kidding me!/He really

needs to start paying attention./

Is he paying attention at all?

MOM'S ANGER

For THIS we gave up that Brazilian

helicopter pilot?

INT. RILEY’S HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

Move! I’LL be Joy.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

RILEY:

(snarky)

School was great, alright?

MOM:

Riley, is everything okay?

Riley rolls her eyes.

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

DAD’S FEAR

Sir, she just rolled her eyes at us.

DAD’S ANGER

What is her deal? Alright, make a

show of force. I don’t want to have

to put “the Foot” down.

DAD'S FEAR

No. Not the Foot.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

DAD:

Riley, I do NOT like this new

attitude.

INT. RILEY’S HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

Oh I’ll show you attitude, old man.

INSIDE OUT 51.

FEAR:

No, no, no! Stay happy!

Anger shoves him away and hits a button.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

RILEY:

What is your problem? Just leave me

alone.

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

DAD’S FEAR

Sir! Reporting high levels of sass!

DAD’S ANGER

Take it to DEFCON 2.

Sirens begin to BLARE.

DAD’S FEAR

You heard that, gentleman. DEFCON 2.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

DAD:

Listen young lady, I don’t know

where this disrespectful attitude

came from...

INT. RILEY’S HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

You want a piece of this, Pops?

Come and get it!

Anger grasps two levers with all his might.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

RILEY:

Yeah, well... well...

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

DAD’S ANGER

Here it comes... Prepare the Foot!

INSIDE OUT 52.

Dad’s Emotions uncover “Launch Station” buttons, insert keys.

DAD’S FEAR

Keys to safety position! Ready to

launch on your command, Sir!

INT. RILEY’S HEADQUARTERS

ANGER, flames and yell at full blast, pushes up the levers.

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

RILEY:

Just SHUT UP!

Dad and Mom are shocked.

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

DAD’S ANGER

FIRE!

INT. KITCHEN TABLE

DAD:

That’s it, go to your room! Now!

Riley pushes away from the table and goes upstairs in a huff.

INT. DAD’S HEADQUARTERS

DAD’S FEAR

The Foot is down! The Foot is down!

They all CHEER.

DAD’S ANGER

Good job gentlemen. That could have

been a disaster.

INT. MOM’S HEADQUARTERS

MOM’S SADNESS

Well, that was a disaster.

Mom’s Anger recalls a memory: the Brazilian helicopter pilot.

HELICOPTER PILOT

Come fly with me, gatinha.

INSIDE OUT 53.

They all SIGH.

INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Riley slams her bedroom door.

EXT. MIND WORLD, LIGHTLINE

In the distance, Family Island RUMBLES.

Joy and Sadness have made it across Goofball Island and must

now walk across the thin lightline. Below is the darkness of

the Memory Dump.

SADNESS:

We’re gonna walk out there? On

that?

JOY:

It’s the quickest way back.

SADNESS:

But it’s right over the Memory

Dump. If we fall we’ll be forgotten

forever!

JOY:

We have to do this. For Riley. Just

follow my footsteps.

SADNESS:

Hohh... ok.

JOY:

(stepping onto lightline)

It's not that high. It’s totally

fiii... Whoa...

She loses her balance. Almost drops a memory over the side.

Sadness steps out onto the lightline. They inch along.

INT. RILEY’S ROOM - LATER

Dad knocks on Riley’s door, peeks in.

DAD:

Hey.

Riley’s in her sleeping bag. She doesn’t answer.

INSIDE OUT 54.

DAD (CONT’D)

So uh, things got a little out of

hand downstairs. You want to talk

about it?

(still no answer)

Come on. Where’s my happy girl?

Monkey.

(he tries monkey noises)

INT. HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

He’s trying to start up Goofball.

Fear looks at the empty Core Memory Holder, then out the

window:
GOOFBALL ISLAND is dark and silent.

INT. RILEY’S ROOM

DAD:

Come on.

(tries more monkey noises)

Riley looks at Dad, but TURNS AWAY.

EXT. GOOFBALL ISLAND

Goofball Island crumbles and breaks.

EXT. GOOFBALL ISLAND LIGHTLINE

Joy sees the lightline breaking ahead.

JOY:

Ahhh! Go back! RUN! RUN! RUN!

They run back onto Goofball Island as the lightline crumbles.

EXT. GOOFBALL ISLAND

Joy and Sadness frantically outrun collapsing debris.

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY CLIFF EDGE

They leap across the buckling bridge, making it over to the

cliff just in time to see Goofball Island fall into the dump.

INSIDE OUT 55.

JOY:

What-- ?

Joy watches it sink. FLASH CUTS of Young Riley:

* Riley twirling until she falls over.

* The family jumping on a trampoline.

* Riley riding on Dad’s shoulders, making silly faces with

ice cream all over her face.

INT. RILEY’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS

DAD:

I get it, you need some alone time.

We’ll talk later.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

The Emotions stare out the back window in disbelief.

DISGUST:

We have a major problem.

FEAR:

Ohh, Joy where are you?

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY CLIFF EDGE

Joy and Sadness stare down into the abyss.

SADNESS:

We lost Goofball Island. That means

she can lose Friendship, and

Hockey, and Honesty, and Family!

You can fix this, right Joy?

JOY:

I... I don’t know.

(Sadness sighs in despair)

But we have to try. C’mon.

The sky darkens.

JOY (CONT’D)

Riley’s gone to sleep.

(more sighs from Sadness)

...which is a good thing, when you

think about it, because nothing else

bad can happen while she’s asleep!

We’ll be back to Headquarters before

she wakes up. We’ll just go across

Friendship Island.

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