Room Page #19

121 INT. NANCY’S CAR - DAY 121

Ma and Jack are parked outside a Mom & Pop Burger Joint. They

eat in the car.

JACK (V.O.)

Ma and I have decided that because

we don’t know what we like we get

to try everything.

122 EXT. SUBURBS -NIGHT 122

Jack and Ma walk in the darkness through quiet suburban

streets.

123 EXT. NANCY AND LEO’S HOUSE - DAY 123

Ma and Jack sit in a hammock in the back yard. The weather is

turning warmer.

JACK:

We have so many things to do.

Flying in an airplane.

MA:

Definitely. Making new friends.

Pause.

(CONTINUED)

123 CONTINUED:

JACK:

Can we go back to Room?

Ma looks concerned.

JACK (CONT’D)

Just for a visit.

124 INT. POLICE CAR - DAY 124

A police car pulls up outside Old Nick's. Jack, Ma and

Officer Parker get out. They stare at the house, still

surrounded by crime-scene tape.

OFFICER PARKER:

Follow me, guys.

125 INT. OLD NICK'S HOUSE - LOUNGE - DAY 125

The car port is now sealed off and the only way out back it

through the house. Jack follows Ma and Officer Parker inside.

It’s tidy (except for a desk ransacked by police),

anonymously banal: a leather suite, a cross-trainer, a flat-

screen TV.

126 EXT. OLD NICK'S HOUSE - BACK YARD - DAY 126

They step out into the back yard. Jack's gaze moves to the

grey shed. A double-take: it's Room.

With an enormous bulldozer beside it.

(CONTINUED)

126 CONTINUED:

JACK:

(to himself)

Dylan!

Ma heads for the shed, Jack right behind her.

Officer Parker stands nearby. There’s a MALE OFFICER there

also, guarding the scene.

127 INT. ROOM - DAY 127

They step in. Drawings stripped off the walls, furniture

shifted:
the magic's gone. Jack stares and sniffs the air.

JACK:

This isn't Room. Has it gotten

shrinked? Our friends...

MA:

Taken away for evidence.

(explaining)

Proof that we were here.

Jack retraces their track marks around the bed. He draws a J

in the fingerprint powder on the table.

Their Plant is all shrivelled. Jack strokes it.

Under the bed, he finds Eggsnake; touches the needle tongue.

He comes back to the doorway, where Ma stands frozen. He

measures his height with his hand: an inch over the 5.

He hears bird song from the yard; patter of rain.

JACK:

It's because Door's open.

MA:

What?

JACK:

It can't really be Room if Door's

open.

MA:

Do you - would you like it closed?

Jack shakes his head.

(CONTINUED)

127 CONTINUED:
127

MA (CONT’D)

I have to go now. Is there...

anything you need?

Jack looks around at the detritus of his childhood. Then he

walks to the wall behind the bed and pats it.

JACK:

Bye-bye.

MA:

Jack

He goes around Room fast, whispering his bye-byes.

MA (CONT’D)

Please, Jack.

He looks up at the skylight, rain running down it. He climbs

onto the table.

JACK:

Bye-bye.

(to Ma)

Say bye-bye to Room.

Ma says it but on mute.

128 EXT. OLD NICK'S HOUSE - BACK YARD - DAY 128

Crane up as Jack and Ma emerge from the shed, hand in hand,

and walk away without looking back.

FADE OUT.

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