The Room Page #9

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Lisa:
I love you.

Mark:
Why don’t you ditch this creep? I don’t like him anymore.

Lisa:
I know. He’s not worth it. Why don’t I come up there and be with you?

Mark:
Sure baby, come on up. I want your body.

Lisa:
You got it. I’m on my way. Bye.

Mark:
Bye.

Johnny enters the bedroom.

Johnny:
Who were you talking to?

Lisa:
Nobody.

Johnny:
We’ll see about that.

Johnny retrieves the tape from the recorder (or something; the technical process here makes very little sense).

Johnny:
We’ll see about that.

He plays the tape.

Mark (recording): Hello?

Lisa (recording): Hi, Mark? I need to talk to you.

Mark (recording): What’s going on?

Lisa (recording): Don’t worry about Johnny, he’s just being a big baby. You know, I love you very much. You’re the sparkle of my life (this is a deviation from the original conversation, you’ll note). I can’t live without you. I love you.

Johnny:
You little tramp. How could you do this to me?! I gave you seven years of my life! And you betray me. Let’s see what else we have on this tape.

Lisa:
No. Stop. You little prick. I put up with you for seven years. You think you’re an angel. You’re just like everybody.

Johnny:
I treat you like a princess, and you stab me in the back. I love you, and I did anything for you to just please you, and now you betray me! How could you love him?!

Mark (recording): Why don’t you ditch this creep? I don’t like him anymore.

Lisa (recording): I know, he’s not worth it. Why don’t I come up there and be with you?

Mark (recording): Sure baby, come on up. I want your body.

Lisa (recording): You got it.

Johnny:
Aughhhhhhhh!!! (he hurls the tape player against the wall) Everybody betray me. I don’t have a friend in the world.

Lisa:
I’m leaving you, Johnny.

Lisa exits downstairs.

Johnny:
Get out, get out, get out of my life! Agh!

Johnny collapses on the bed.

Cut to Johnny descending the stairs into the room.

Johnny:
Haughhhh-augh! Why, Lisa, why, why?!

Flashback of Lisa laughing with Johnny’s tie around her head.

Flashback of Lisa and Johnny kissing.

Flashback of Lisa and Johnny having sex.

Johnny:
You b*tch!

Johnny knocks over a bowl of fake fruit, some furniture, and everything on the mantle. He picks up the TV and hurls it out the window.

Johnny:
You b*tch! You b*tch!

Cut to Johnny re-entering the bedroom, howling incomprehensibly. He knocks stuff off the dresser, pulls out all the drawers, and shoves it over. He pulls all the sheets off the bed. He flings himself on the bed.

Flashback to Johnny and Lisa having sex.

Johnny knocks over some more stuff and shatters a mirror. He sits on the floor and picks up Lisa’s red dress.

Flashback to Lisa trying on the dress.

Johnny dry-humps the dress amid flashbacks of f***ing Lisa when she was wearing it.

Johnny:
You tramp!

He tears the dress up.

Flashback to Lisa and Mark dancing.

Flashback to Lisa saying “I put up with you”

Johnny picks up a box and opens it to reveal a handgun.

Johnny:
Why? Why is this happening to me? Why?! It’s over. God, forgive me.

Flashback to Lisa saying “everything will be alright”

Johnny puts the gun in his mouth.

Flashback to Lisa saying “goodbye, Johnny”

Johnny fires the gun and falls backward in slow motion.

Fade to black.

Cut to Mark and Lisa dashing into the bedroom to find Johnny’s bloody corpse.

Mark:
Wake up, Johnny, come on!

Johnny is clearly dead and blood is everywhere.

Lisa:
Is he dead? (sobbing) My god, Mark, is he dead?

Mark:
Yes, he’s dead. Yes he’s dead!

Lisa:
(sobbing) Oh my god…

Mark slowly kisses Johnny’s forehead.

Lisa:
Oh my god.

Mark and Lisa embrace.

Lisa:
I’ve lost him, but I still have you, right? Right?

Mark:
You don’t have me. You’ll never have me. You killed him.

Lisa:
Mark, we’re free to be together. I love you. I love you!

Mark:
Tramp! You killed him. You’re the cause of all of this. I don’t love you. Get out of my life, you b*tch!

Denny enters.

Denny:
What’s happening?!

Mark:
Johnny’s dead!

Denny:
Wake up, Johnny, please, please! It’s not right! It’s not right!

Lisa:
Denny, he’s in a better place.

Denny:
Leave us! Both of you leave.

Mark:
As far as I’m concerned, you can drop off the earth. That’s a promise.

Denny:
Just leave! Both of you!

Mark:
Leave him, alright! Let him be with him!

Denny:
Why, Johnny? Why? Johnny, why? Why?

Denny sobs. Mark and Lisa, who were in the process of leaving, rejoin Denny and comfort him. We hear police sirens. The three of them appear to take turns fellating Johnny’s corpse as we hear generic police chatter.

Fade to black and roll credits.

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