The Room Page #3

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Denny:
I just need to borrow some sugar.

Lisa:
Help yourself, Denny.

Denny:
I also need a cup of flour and half a stick of butter.

Claudette:
Doesn’t your home have a kitchen?

Denny:
I’ll come back later.

Denny exits.

Claudette:
Tell me, what does Denny do?

Lisa:
Johnny wanted to adopt Denny. It’s really a tragedy how many kids out there don’t have parents. When Denny turned eighteen, Johnny found him a little apartment here in this building and he’s paying for it until he graduates from school. Johnny really loves Denny even though he doesn’t say it much. He’s like a father figure to him. I told you, mom, Johnny is very caring about the people in his life. And he gave Denny his own set of keys to our place.

Claudette:
Please, don’t hurt Johnny. Now if you really don’t love him, so be it, but you should tell him.

Mike enters.

Mike:
I forgot my, uh, book.

He grabs a book but somehow this leads to Claudette holding his underwear.

Claudette:
What’s this?

Everyone laughs.

Mike:
That’s nothing!

Mike takes the underwear and exits as everyone continues to laugh.

Claudette:
Homework!

Lisa:
(laughing) Don’t worry about it.

Claudette:
If I were a burglar, you would be my best friend.

Lisa:
Look, I don’t want to talk about it.

Claudette:
You know I worry about you. I have to go home.

Lisa:
Okay, mom.

Claudette:
Bye bye.

Claudette exits.

Lisa:
(sighing) Oh my god.

Cut to exterior shot of the San Francisco skyline.

Cut to the roof, where Denny is dribbling a basketball. This scene is in HD for some reason. Chris-R enters.

Chris-R:
Hey, Denny.

Denny:
Chris-R. I’ve been looking for you.

Chris-R:
Yeah, sure you have. You have my money, right?

Denny:
Yeah. It’s coming. It’ll be here in a few minutes.

Chris-R:
What do you mean it’s coming, Denny? Where’s my money?

Denny:
Okay. Just give me five minutes. Just give me five!

Chris-R:
Five minutes? You want five f***ing minutes, Denny? You know what? I haven’t got five f***ing minutes! (he pulls a gun on Denny) I’m going to ask you again, Denny. Where’s my money?

Denny:
I don’t have anything.

Chris-R:
Where’s my money, Denny? Where’s my f***ing money, Denny? What’d you do with my f***ing money?

Denny:
I swear to god, it’s coming!

Chris-R:
Where’s my f***ing money, Denny?

Denny:
Put the gun down.

Mark and Johnny enter.

Chris-R:
My f***ing money! Where’s my f***ing money, Denny?

Johnny and Mark grab Chris-R and disarm him. Lisa and Claudette enter, or rather, they are suddenly in the scene without explanation.

Lisa:
What’s going on?!

Johnny and Mark haul Chris-R away amid indecipherable commotion.

Johnny:
Let’s take him to the police.

Lisa:
Denny, are you okay? What did that man want from you?

Denny:
Nothing.

Claudette:
Oh, that was not nothing!

Lisa:
Tell me everything!

Claudette:
You have no idea what kind of trouble you’re in here, do you?

Denny:
I owe him some money.

Lisa:
What kind of money?

Denny:
I owe him some money.

Lisa:
What kind of money?

Denny:
Everything is okay, he’s gone!

Claudette:
Everything is not okay. Denny, that is a dangerous man!

Denny:
Calm down, he’s going to jail!

Lisa:
Denny, what kind of money, just tell me!

Claudette:
What do you need money for?

Lisa:
Mom, please, Denny’s with me and Johnny!

Claudette:
A man like that, with a gun! My god!

Lisa:
Denny, look at me in the eyes and tell me the truth. We’re your friends.

Denny:
I bought some drugs off of him. Things got mixed up. I didn’t mean for this to happen.

Lisa:
(sobbing) Denny…

Denny:
But I don’t have them anymore.

Lisa:
What kind of drugs, Denny?

Denny:
It doesn’t matter, I don’t have them anymore.

Claudette:
It doesn’t matter? How in the hell did you get involved with drugs? What are you, giving them to him, selling them to him? Where the hell did you meet that man?

Lisa:
What kind of drugs do you take?!

Denny:
It’s nothing like that!

Lisa:
What the hell is wrong with you?!

Denny:
I just needed some money to pay off some stuff.

Lisa:
How much do you have to give him?

Claudette:
This is not the way you make money!

Lisa:
How much?!

Denny:
Stop ganging up on me!

Claudette:
Well it is time somebody ganged up on you, for god’s sake! A man like that! Where in the hell did you meet a man like that?

Denny:
It doesn’t matter!

Claudette:
It matters a great deal! A man holds a gun on you, you almost got killed, you expect me to forget that happened?

Denny:
You’re not my f***ing mother!

Claudette:
You listen to me, boy!

Lisa:
No!

Claudette:
Somebody had better do something around here.

Lisa hugs and comforts Denny. Johnny enters.

Johnny:
Are you okay, Denny?

Denny:
I’m okay.

Johnny:
Are you okay?

Denny:
I’m okay!

Mark has materialized behind Claudette and Lisa.

Claudette:
What’s okay? He’s taking drugs.

Mark:
Come on, stop, it was a mistake.

Claudette:
A mistake, that he takes drugs.

Johnny:
Let’s go home.

Mark:
Come on, it’s clear.

Claudette:
What’s clear? I am going to call the police.

Lisa:
Mom, stop, it was Denny’s mistake, just stop!

Mark:
Let’s go.

Mark and Claudette exit.

Johnny:
Why did you do this? You know better, right? Why?!

Denny:
I’m sorry.

Johnny:
You know better, Denny, you almost got killed.

Denny:
I’m sorry. It won’t happen again, I promise.

Lisa:
Denny, you know that Johnny’s like your father. And we’re your friends. We’re going to help you.

Johnny:
Let’s go home.

Everyone exits.

Cut to Mark on the phone with Lisa.

Lisa:
I miss you.

Mark:
I just saw you! What are you talking about?

Lisa:
I’m just wanting to hear your sexy voice. I keep thinking about your strong hands around my body. It excites me so much. I love you.

Mark:
Is Johnny there?

Lisa:
He’s in the shower.

Mark:
I don’t understand you. Why do you do things like this?

Lisa:
Because I love you. You just don’t care, do you?

Mark:
I do care. But we agreed, it’s over between us.

Lisa:
I understand, it’s our secret. But I still have feelings for you. You just don’t care.

Mark:
I do care!

Lisa:
I have to go now. I’ll see you later, darling.

Mark:
Don’t call me that.

Lisa:
Okay, bye.

They hang up.

Cut to the roof. Johnny enters, mid-sentence.

Johnny:
I did not hit her! It’s not true! It’s bullshit! I did not hit her! I did not! (he throws a water bottle to the floor) Oh, hi Mark.

Mark:
(holding a football) Oh hey Johnny, what’s up?

Johnny:
I have a problem with Lisa. She says that I hit her.

Mark:
What? Well did you?

Johnny:
No, it’s not true! Don’t even ask! What’s new with you?

Mark:
Well I’m just sitting up here thinking, you know? I got a question for you.

Johnny:
Yeah.

Mark:
You think girls like to cheat like guys do?

Johnny:
What makes you say that?

Mark:
I dunno. I dunno, I’m just, I’m just thinking.

Johnny:
I don’t have to worry about that because Lisa is loyal to me.

Mark:
Yeah man, you never know. People are very strange these days. I used to know a girl, she had a dozen guys. One of them found out about it, beat her up so bad she ended up in a hospital on Guerrero Street.

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