The Belko Experiment Page #3

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Thanks for the water.

MARTY:
Did you get it all off?

Is it all off of me?

Hold on, doll.

(DOOR OPENS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

They're trying to freak us out by

shutting down the air-co, man.

That's their plan,

right, Bud?

Right, Bud?

Hmm?

Do you think it is, Bud?

Do you think

that's their plan?

I don't know, Lonny.

(BUD GRUNTS)

She's down, all right.

LONNY:
How can you tell?

BUD:
I can hear it, man.

The pilot's off. Everything.

Did they do it?

I don't know if

they did it or not.

(SWITCH CLICKING)

But we're gonna fix it.

They're trying

to break us down

so that we start

killing each other, Bud.

You just need to relax,

all right? Hmm?

(FEEDBACK WHINES)

THE VOICE:
I hope by now

we've demonstrated

that we aren't

blindly bluffing.

This game's a real one.

Each of you are

deep inside it.

You can choose to follow

our directives, or not.

Either way, you'll be giving us

the results we're looking for.

F*** you, man!

You are mostly free

to do as you please.

However, you must not

dismantle any more cameras.

And you must not remove

the tag from your body.

Next time we will not provide a

countdown as we did Mr. Milch.

If you break either of these rules,

your life will abruptly end.

There are currently 76 of you

left in the building.

The time is now 12:47 pm.

(ALL TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

Listen!

By 2:
47 pm, in two hours,

we want 30 of you dead

through whatever

means necessary.

If 30 of you are not dead,

we will end 60 of your lives

through our own methods.

Christ!

Begin.

F*** you! F*** you!

Calm down!

(ALL CLAMORING)

Everybody calm down!

Slow down, everybody.

(SOBBING)

Hey, hey,

Lonny, it's gonna be okay...

Get back off me!

Whoa!

Don't look at me

like that, man.

WENDELL:
Move.

Wendell, what are you...

Wendell, stop.

(CLATTERS)

TERRY:
Guys, guys, please.

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

What are you guys doing?

Why are you getting those?

Listen, a**hole!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(WHIMPERING)

Where are you going?

I'm just going to find

a quiet place to hide.

Come on!

(ALARM RINGING)

Ah!

Jesus!

What did you do that for?

This sh*t is hooked up

to the fire department, Chet.

They'll hear it

and come get us.

Everybody calm down!

The last thing we need

to do is lose our cool.

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Knock it off!

Come on!

(ALARM CONTINUES RINGING)

D*ckhead!

BARRY:
Now come on out here

and let's discuss this.

Raven, what are you doing?

I'm protecting myself,

Michael.

(STAMMERS) Guys, come on!

Cut it out, please!

Evan, does the fire

alarm alert the station

or is it

a self-enclosed system?

It's just us.

Can you turn it off?

What is that?

Lonny, calm down, man!

It's just a fire alarm.

No, it's not. They're trying

to make us kill each other.

Easy, cowboy.

Chill out, man!

Hey, come here.

Get back!

(GROANS)

Whoa!

Wait a second.

What just happened?

Hold on.

Uh... Wait, wait.

(SOFTLY)

Something is happening.

(SOBS) I'm so sorry, Bud!

(ALARM STOPS RINGING)

(CLANGING)

(LONNY GRUNTS)

I didn't see anything.

Okay?

Stop!

I'm just gonna go, okay?

Bud, he fell down

and he hit his head.

It's okay. I should go.

He tried to grab me. Shh!

Wait, wait!

(SHUSHING)

(WHIMPERING)

(SCREAMS)

(SOBS)

(SCREAMS)

BARRY:
God damn it!

Now, please, stop putting

words in my mouth.

I'm sorry,

but that sounds to me

like you're saying you wanna

kill innocent people.

No, I am not

saying that at all.

I'm saying that we need

to discuss all our options.

MIKE:
We understand.

But we are not going to entertain

the option of killing people.

We? What? Do you got a mouse

in your pocket there, Milch?

Mr. Norris has a point.

TERRY:
Absolutely he does.

But we have to think about what

is best for the whole group.

All right, look. I know no one

wants to actually think about

sacrificing 30 lives.

But if it means saving the lives...

No, uh-uh, f*** that.

(ALL ARGUING)

Consider it as

a f***ing option.

It does not matter

what the circumstances are.

We do not have the right

to take innocent human lives.

(ALL AGREEING)

And besides that,

there are practical reasons.

Like what?

You can't really

think that they're gonna

let anybody live

to tell about this.

This is not going to stop

after we kill 30 people.

Maybe not,

but it would buy us time

to figure out

another solution.

I can't even believe you're

considering this, Barry.

Vince, we cannot pretend

things aren't what they are.

(STAMMERS)

I might have an idea.

We can...

We can go up to the roof

and put banners up there

letting every car that comes

by know that we're in here.

That way, nobody gets hurt.

We should try that.

Leandra,

this isn't a pep rally.

We are in

the middle of nowhere,

the road traffic

is next to nothing.

The driveway's,

like, half a mile long.

People need to see

these banners.

Then they have

to call the cops,

who have to then get here,

all in less than two hours.

Do you have a better idea?

Yeah, jerking off into a cup

is a better goddamn idea.

Oh, there's something

I can do.

75% of us will die

if it doesn't work.

Okay, no disrespect

intended, Barry,

but some would fare

better than others

if this was turned

into a cage match.

What the hell does that mean?

That means not all of us are

Special Forces trained to kill.

(ALL MURMUR IN AGREEMENT)

Are you questioning my integrity?

I've read both your files.

MIKE:
Hey, hey! Come on!

Nobody is

questioning anything.

But we need to work together to

get the hell out of here, right?

I suggest we try the banners, okay?

See if it works.

In the meantime,

if anybody else comes up with anything

better, then we'll go for that.

And how long will that take?

We can do it in 30 minutes.

It's worth trying, Norris.

Come on, let's go.

We won't know unless we try.

(ALL TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

BARRY:
Can we sit in

and talk about this?

People!

We got to live in reality.

We're just wasting time.

We don't have time.

There was no...

I can't f***ing...

God damn it!

(GLASS SHATTERS)

Terry.

What?

You have kids, right?

Yes.

What's your conscience

telling you here?

What?

Who are you beholden to

first and foremost?

I mean, these people,

they're our friends, right?

Right.

But if you're like me...

My wife and kids need me.

I don't know what

they'll do without me.

Yeah.

We have to be bold here.

This isn't

the time for timidity.

You agree?

Yes.

(WATER RUNNING)

Hey!

It's in

the f***ing water, man.

What is?

Some sort of

f***ing psychotropic

f***ing chemical

or something, man!

It's making us

all on f***ing edge.

We're on edge because they just

killed four people, Marty!

Dude! Dude!

I'm protecting us,

motherf***er.

That's gonna get moldy.

Mike.

Mike.

Mike!

God, Mike, enough!

Enough what?

Listen.

Don't be f***ing mad at me

just because I thought that

we should have an open mind.

Oh, an open mind?

An open mind about killing people?

I did not want to kill people,

(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO)

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