Panic Room Page #14

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He looks up at Raoul, hulking overhead, gun in hand.

BURNHAM:

Or I can't stop what he's gonna do.

Do you understand?

Harris, regaining some semblance of consciousness, nods

feebly.

BURNHAM:

Good.

Burnham stands up, turns to the video camera, and SHOUTS.

BURNHAM:

OPEN THE GOD DAMN DOOR!

INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT

Sarah and Meg see the horrifying sight on the video monitors.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Burnham SHOUTS at the door to the room.

BURNHAM:

OPEN UP!

ON THE MONITORS,

they see Burnham, standing over Harris; they faintly hear him

call to them to open the door.

And then they hear another VOICE, calling back to them.

Sarah sits up, recognizes her father's voice.

SARAH (O.S.)

DADDY!

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Harris is SHOUTING against the closed door.

HARRIS:

DON'T DO IT! NO MATTER WHAT

HAPPENS, DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!

DON'T O --

He's silenced by a vicious kick to the ribs. Raoul begins to

beat him.

Burnham stands by, powerless, horrifies, watching as Raoul

savages Harris, who continues to call out, as long as he has

strength, telling Meg not to open the door, no matter what.

INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT

Meg and Sarah SHOUT in horror, she covers her daughter's

face, turn her away from the screen, SCREAMS in incoherent

anger of her own.

But she doesn't open the door.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Burnham SHOUTS at Raoul, pleading.

BURNHAM:

STOP IT, MAN, STOP IT, THAT'S HIS

KID IN THERE, HIS KID IS WATCHING

THIS!!

But Raoul whips the gun up, into Burnham's throat, backing

him off, shutting him up.

He resumes his pounding of Harris.

Burnham turns, looks up at the camera in the corner of the

room.

He can't stand it anymore. He whips off his jacket, runs to

the camera, and covers the lens.

INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT

While Meg watches, the monitor that cover the master bedroom

abruptly goes black, mercifully sparing them the sight of

Harris's beating.

She holds Sarah, who's sobbing, shaking.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Harris finally lapses into unconsciousness. Raoul stands

over him, chest heaving.

Burnham stand in the doorway, neither in nor out of the room,

a silhouette, head hung.

INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT

Meg tries desperately to see something on the bedroom

monitor, but it's hopeless, it's covered. On the hallway

monitor, she can just see shadows, as two men in the bedroom

lift a third off the floor and carry him across the room.

A sudden BEEPING sound tears her attention away. Still

holding Sarah, she pulls her back, off her shoulder. Her

face is completely white, her lips blue, her eyes rolled back

into her head. The BEEPING sound grows louder, she checks

Sarah's wristwatch, the reading is dire:

57

Meg GASPS, horrifies.

MEG:

Oh God, oh my God...

Sarah begins to convulse, she bucks right out of Meg's arms

and falls back onto the floor of the panic room. Meg clears

everything away from her, tries to make room for her.

The convulsion worsens. Meg searches through the piles of

supplies, comes up with a plastic-handled screwdriver. She

opens Sarah's jaws, wedges the plastic handle between her

teeth.

She helps Sarah ride out the convulsion. Finally, her eyes

roll back into her head, she slowly re-orients herself.

Sarah reaches over, turns off her still-BEEPING

wristwatch/monitor herself.

Sarah sighs, a shuddering sigh of relief, but she is nowhere

near normal.

Her skin has passed through white and is turning a sallow

yellow color. She moves her lips, Meg can't hear her, she

bends down:

SARAH:

You gotta jab me, Mommy...

Meg turns, looks back at the monitors. What she sees is good

news --

ON THE MONITORS,

the jacket has been removed from the bedroom camera. Burnham

and Raoul are gone, the only person there is HARRIS, who lies

slumped on the far side of the bed.

IN THE PANIC ROOM,

Meg looks quickly over at the monitor for the living room.

ON THAT MONITOR,

she sees Burnham and Raoul having an urgent conversation,

Burnham sitting in a chair, Raoul pacing in front of him,

ranting.

IN THE PANIC ROOM,

Meg's face lights up, she practically laughs, she's so

overjoyed at this turn of events.

She turns, looks back at Sarah, who is starting to tremble

again.

That does it. Meg leaps up, hits the button that controls

the steel door, and it starts to crank open, almost

impossibly slowly.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Meg steps out of the panic room, into the master bedroom.

She looks at Harris, on the bed. With his back to her she

can't even tell if he's alive or dead, but first things must

be first, so she turns and races out of the room.

INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

Meg flies up the stairs, bare feet on padded carpet.

INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

In the living room, Raoul looks up, hearing the pitter-pat of

her feet on the stairs above.

He smiles and pulls his ski mask back on, to cover his face.

Coming around behind him, we see Burnham sitting in the

chair. Except it isn't Burnham at all, it's Harris,

unconscious, wearing Burnham's shirt.

And if Harris is the person in the chair, that means --

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

-- the person on the bed in the bedroom is Burnham, wearing

Harris's shirt. His eyes pop open, he sits up, sees the wide

open door to the panic room.

INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Meg races into Sarah's bedroom and tears open the door of a

mini-fridge. Inside are dozens of little bottles of insulin

and something called Glucogen.

She grabs a bottle of Glucogen and a black leather pouch and

takes off.

INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT

As Meg nears the bottom of the stairs, she sees a horrifying

sight. It's Raoul, ski mask over his face, standing in the

doorway of the master bedroom.

She SCREAMS, he SLAMS the door, she takes off down the hall,

reaches the end, throws the door open --

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

-- and races into the master bedroom, where Raoul is

motoring, fast, headed for the panic room, where she can

already see Burnham, standing in the middle of the open

doorway, in front of Sarah, wearing Harris's shirt and a grim

"tricked you" expression.

Meg hurls herself at Raoul, lands clinging to his back. She

claws and wrestles with him, gets one hand on his ski mask,

tears it from his head. He reaches up to try to stop her

from pulling it off --

-- his gun slips from his fingers, falls to the floor --

-- and caroms off his boot, spinning across the floor away

from them.

Raoul flips her off his back violently, she CRUNCHES to the

floor, clutching his mask and getting a good long look at his

face. He makes a move toward his gun, but she's faster,

she's already pawing herself frantically across the hardwood

toward it.

Raoul measures the distance, knows he'll lose, and sprints

for the panic room instead. Meg turns, looks down at the

medicine in her hands, then at the door to the panic room,

where Raoul is right now reaching up to push the button that

controls the steel door.

She makes a fast decision and lunges, hurling the plastic

bottle of Glucogen and the black leather pouch through the

gap just before --

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