Marlowe
- Year:
- 2017
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FADE IN:
Underground on a Virginia farm, Marlow wakes up in his
burrow and realizes he is alone. He looks through the trash
and fur covered walls to the sun light coming down the hole.
Marlowe grabs his possessions – a human watch on a chain and
two rings which he drags to the top and looks out towards
the house and the barn.
Marlowe takes off towards the house pulling his treasure all
the way under the porch and into the darkness under the
house.
A large dark spider with green eyes leers across at Marlowe
as he hops across the dirt to an old sub floor.
He pulled his treasure up to the subfloor and then back
further into darkness where he leaves it as he peers up
through a hole in the real floor into a kitchen.
Marlowe crawls up and reaches the hole when a huge cat’s paw
slaps down across the opening and knocks Marlowe to the
subfloor.
LOUISE (O.S.)
What have you got down there
cat? Lloyd, have you seen this
hole down by the stove?
LLOYD (O.S.)
Haven’t seen it yet. I’ll come
look directly.
Marlowe waits and explores until he spies another hole where
the gas line goes up behind the stove. He crawls up the gas
line and waits for his eyes to focus.
He could see dust, old food particles, a dead mouse further
under the stove and out in the kitchen Marlowe could see the
cat and the dog playing.
He hopped back towards the hole but discovered kernels of
dog food which he picks up, sniffs, licks and sniffs again
and then he eats the nuggets and goes to sleep.
Marlowe wakes up from the purring of the cat who walks up
and back in the kitchen waiting. Marlowe sees the stairs on
the far side of the kitchen and decides it is now or never.
INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT
The mouse tears out from under the stove and hops like a
deer to the stairs. The cat is instantly right behind him.
Marlowe bounces up the stairs, two stairs at a time until he
hits the landing.
INT. HOUSE - NIGHT
The cat is just behind him. Marlowe picks the first door in
front of him and dives under the doorway as the cat smashes
into the door and bounces off.
INT. COLE’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
Eleven year old Cole sits up in the darkness.
COLE:
What was that? Who’s there?
Cole hears his mother outside the door.
LOUISE (O.S.)
Oh my God. Miss Penny knocked
herself out. Lloyd, the cat is
unconscious.
LLOYD (O.S.)
I’m coming, I’m coming for darn
sakes.
LOUISE (O.S.)
Cole, are you all right in
there?
COLE:
What happened mom?
LOUISE (O.S.)
It’s all right son, you go back
to bed now, the cat just knocked
herself out hitting your door.
Must have been chasing something.
Good night son.
COLE:
Good night mom, dad.
All is quiet as Marlowe steps out from the darkness and
examines the room. There are balls, bats, gloves, shoes,
clothes, books, belts, backpacks, toys, toys and more toys.
Marlowe sees, in the middle of a pile of toys – a miniature
house, just his size. He carefully scampers over to the toy
house and crawls in the front door.
There are rooms and rooms of small furniture made just for
a mouse. Upstairs there are beds and tables and bureaus
with drawers to hide treasure in. Marlowe is beside
himself.
He finds a mirror and suddenly sees himself for the first
time. He looks long at the mirror – changing his pose,
cropping his ears, holding his whiskers back and finally
turning so he can see his tail and his back.
He finds no food in the kitchen but plenty of boxes that
look like food. In another bedroom he finds doll clothes
and puts on a vest and goes back to the mirror to see how
he looks.
Marlowe runs back and finds pants and a shirt and puts them
on and plays in the clothes, sitting in all the chairs and
holding up toy glasses that are empty and toy plates with no
food.
Finally Marlowe climbs up the stairs and finds a warm bed
and crawls into it and goes to sleep.
INT. COLE’S BEDROOM – MORNING
The bedroom door slams open and Lloyd yells at his son.
LLOYD:
Cole? Get out of that bed and
get ready for school.
COLE:
Ahhh. K dad, just getting up.
LLOYD:
You don’t get to miss the bus
anymore this year, understand?
COLE:
Yes sir.
Cole climbs out of bed and dresses as he looks through his
toy pile. He finds his shoes in the pile right next to the
toy house.
Cole pushes the house sideways to get his shoe and the roof
accidentally slides off showing Marlowe, standing on his
back legs and sniffing the air.
Cole freezes and Marlowe freezes. Cole, slowly leans down
until he is on his knees towering over the top of the house.
He takes both fists and tries to scrub out his eyes using a
twisting motion back and forth. Marlowe does not move a
whisker.
Cole looks down again and shakes his head in disbelief.
COLE:
You – got clothes on.
Marlowe’s large dark, glistening eyes look like some kind of
moist candy frozen in the head of a mouse with clothes.
LLOYD (O.S.)
Cole! If you miss the damn bus
you’ll be grounded for a week.
COLE:
Okay dad, I’m coming.
Cole slowly lowers the roof back onto the toy house and then
turns toward the door but Miss Penny is standing right in
the middle of the doorway purring.
COLE:
Oh. So that’s what you were
chasing last night, huh Penny
girl?
Cole quickly picks up a backpack and then the cat and goes
out – closing the door behind him.
COLE:
Don’t anybody go in my room
today – I’m working on a project.
Marlowe steps out the front door of the toy house and begins
to explore the room. He goes into every corner and every
dark space looking for a crack or a hole or some other enemy
who might wait for him in the night.
On a kitchen plate on the edge of Cole’s desk Marlowe finds
a piece of pizza and after smelling it and licking it he
sits down on the desk with the pizza in his hands and looks
out the window as he eats.
Marlowe takes the pizza and drags it into the toy house and
finishes it sitting in the rocking chair.
INT. COLE’S BEDROOM – AFTERNOON
The roof is lifted off the house. Marlowe jumps out of the
rocker and rushes upstairs until he meets Cole’s eyes and he
freezes.
COLE:
How can you have clothes? Are
you an alaene?
Cole slowly lowers his hand into the toy house.
COLE:
Now, don’t bite me aleene, I’m
not going to hurt you.
Marlowe looks at the huge hand and doesn’t know what to do.
He looks at Cole and Cole looks back. Marlowe doesn’t feel
any fear so he steps slowly forward toward the hand when he
realizes that he still is holding onto the pizza. He pushes
the piece up above his head and places it in Cole’s hand.
COLE:
Wow. You’re offering me food.
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