Lost Highway Page #7

FRED:

Now! We're leaving now! I didn't

want to come here in the first place.

Fred drags the reluctant Renee out of Andy's house.

CUT TO:

INT. CAR - NIGHT

Fred is driving fast and recklessly. Renee is drunk and is

smiling at him.

FRED:

How'd you meet that a**hole, Andy,

anyway?

Renee stares out the front window - thinks back.

RENEE:

It was a long time ago... I met him

at this place called Moke's... We...

became friends... He told me about a

job...

FRED:

What job?

RENEE:

I don't remember... Anyway, Andy's

okay...

FRED:

He's got some f***ed up friends.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE MADISON HOUSE - DRIVEWAY - NIGHT

Fred and Renee's car pulls up in front of their house. Fred

jumps out of the car.

FRED:

Stay in the car!

Fred enters the house, careful to turn off the alarm first.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - NIGHT

There are only a couple of dim lights on, the house is mostly

dark. Fred moves slowly and carefully through his house -

searching each room for a possible intruder.

Fred's POV - moving creepily room by room through the dark

house - past the telephone - down the hall to the bedroom.

There is NO ONE there.

He goes back outside for Renee.

CUT TO:

EXT. THE MADISON HOUSE - DRIVEWAY - NIGHT

Renee is standing next to the car, shivering.

FRED:

I told you to stay in the car!

RENEE:

Why? what is it? Why did you make me

wait out here?

FRED:

I thought there might be somebody

inside.

RENEE:

Was there?

FRED:

No... of course not.

They enter the house.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - NIGHT

Fred switches on more lights.

RENEE:

It's so odd... Waiting out there, I

had the strangest feeling... Like

this had happened before. I mean,

your telling me to stay outside while

you went in like that.

Fred looks at Renee, then continues to look around the house,

disturbed, seriously disquieted. Renee, still tipsy, follows

him, moving from room to room.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - BEDROOM, ETC. - NIGHT

Fred and Renee are preparing to go to bed. Renee goes into

the bathroom off the bedroom. Fred takes another look out

into the hallway.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - HALLWAY - NIGHT

Fred walks down the hallway.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Fred looks around the dark living room. Then absentmindedly,

he begins to inspect objects. He picks up an ashtray and

studies it - lost in thought.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - BATHROOM - NIGHT

Renee is washing her face, standing at the sink in her slip.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Fred is staring at himself in a mirror.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - BEDROOM - NIGHT

Renee comes in. Fred is not there. She goes to the door and

peeks down the hallway.

RENEE:

(tentatively)

Fred? Fred, where are you?

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

No one is in the living room now - but a SHADOW moves slowly

across a wall.

CUT TO:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - HALLWAY - NIGHT

Renee's POV - down the hallway. There is just darkness at

the end of the hall. It is EERIE. After a moment, Fred slowly

walks out of the darkness toward Renee. He walks out of the

shot and the camera remains on the rectangle of darkness at

the end of the hall.

FADE OUT:

FADE IN:

INT. THE MADISON HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

Footsteps can be heard on the stairs. Fred's head appears at

the top of the stairway. He comes up into the living room

carrying a manila envelope, like the ones previously received.

His expression is strained. He is alone. Fred pulls a

videotape out of the envelope and inserts it in the VCR,

turns it on. He sits on the couch and watches. We go from a

WIDE SHOT to a FULL FRAME SHOT of the video.

On the tape is the same nighttime interior of the house,

accompanied by the DRONING SOUND. The camera moves eerily

down the hall toward the bedroom, sliding at a high angle.

The camera turns slowly into the bedroom - looking down.

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