Close in on a Dark Green Landrover
Jealousy
Written by Joseph Lund
2001
Final Draft
Act 1/scene 1
Close in on a Dark Green Landrover.
INT. CAR – NIGHT
Janine is driving.
Janine Jonestein
Marie Cransworth
Tyrone Challercloth
Killer
Marie:
Did you hear about Cassidy
Linewaker?
Janine:
No… why, what happened
To her?
Marie:
She was ran over by
A motorbike!
Janine:
That’s terrible! Is
She still alive?
Maria:
Yeah, but barely!
Janine:
Are they suing the the
Owner of the bike?
Maria:
Yeah, like the next time
We see Cass, she’ll be
Filthy rich!
Tyrone:
[puts a cigarette into his mouth and lights it]
Hey, hey, that’s all wrong, it was a bus and it
Flattened her, she’s anything but alive.
[laughs]
Marie:
It was not, she’s alive her friend told me!
Janine:
Could you not talk about it as if it’s some
Kind of joke.
Marie:
OK, so maybe it was just a rumour, but she was
In some kind of accident.
Janine:
Well, there was something in the newspaper
About a car crash on the M55, is that anything
To do with it?
Marie:
Maybe, but I know she’s alive.
Tyrone:
[his cigarette drops
out of his mouth]
Well, I don’t think he is!
Marie:
[looking through windshield]
Oh shit!
Tyrone:
Doesn’t Marcus Lileten have a red Mercedes?
Janine:
Yeah, he drove me home
Last night after our
Date. Why?
Tyrone:
[he indicates foreword
through the windscreen]
Janine! Look!
EXT. CAR.
Close up on a dead body lead in a pool of blood, outside a red Mercedes, dead!
INT. CAR.
Janine:
Oh my god!
[she puts her hand to her
mouth]
That’s Marcus’ car!
The car skids to a halt, Janine steps out from the drivers seat door.
EXT. CAR.
Janine paces slowly towards the gruesome corpse. Breathing heavily, she stops at the body.
INT. CAR.
Marie:
Janine, maybe we should go
[she is terrified]
W-we’ll get some help! Janine,
Just get in the car! PLEASE?!
[to Tyrone]
God she’s always like this, she can never
Accept calling the police.
Tyrone:
Cut her some slack, that could be her boyfriend!
Marie:
We should still just let the police deal with it!
God damn it!
Marie gets out her mobile phone.
EXT. CAR.
Janine kneels down beside the body, she turns him/her over. It’s Marcus, her boyfriend!
Janine:
[in a shocked whisper]
Marcus!
Suddenly, the red Mercedes’ headlights flash on and the engine revs up. There’s someone in the car, the car heads towards her.
Marie:
JANINE!
She stands up and runs back to the Landrover, the Mercedes on her tail. She screams and dives into her car.
INT. CAR.
She turns the key, but before she puts her foot on the pedal, the Mercedes crashes head on with the car. Sparks fly everywhere, and the car is thrust backwards by the car ahead.
Tyrone:
Oooh SHIT!!
The car crashes through the barrier, Janine dives out of an open window and the car somersaults down the grass-covered hill.
EXT. CAR.
Janine:
[breathing heavily]
MARIE!! TYRONE!!
[there’s a deadly silence]
MARIE!!
Marie:
[Screams]
Janine! [screams again]
Don’t you come near me
With that don’t you!!
INT. WITH MARIE AND THE MAD DRIVER.
A shadowy person with his/her face covered steps towards Marie, a sharp, black handled, kitchen knife in his/her hand.
Marie:
NO! JANINE!
Knife is plunged into her stomach, she screams.
INT. WITH JANINE.
Janine hears the screams. Marie’s dead body rolls down the hill to Janine’s feet. Janine screams out in terror. Suddenly, the shadowy person appears above Janine, from where Marie fell, he/she raises the blood-drenched dagger. Janine screams once more and heads off into the night, down the dark hill. Janine slips and goes sliding down the hill, she crashes into her crashed car at the bottom with a bump, she lies motionless on the ground. Tyrone is still in the car.
INT. CAR.
Tyrone:
M-Marie?
[groans in pain]
EXT. CAR.
Janine:
Tyrone, Tyrone! Are you ok?!
He attempts to climb out of a door window, which is facing to the sky. He falls.
Janine:
Tyrone. [frightened]. We
Gotta get out of here!!
Tyrone:
Why?
Janine:
He killed her! He killed
Marie!
Tyrone:
Who!?
Janine stumbles to her feet, the person is watching from behind the car, he/she rises. A terrified expression appears on Janine’s face.
Tyrone:
NO! No! Janine, help me,
Janine! Jesus, get me the
Hell out of this car!!
[he rumbles about in the car]
Janine’s POV; Petrol in beginning to flood the ground. Looks up at the person, he/she strikes a match and waves it at Janine. He/she drops it and runs.
Close on flames spreading across the petrol covered floor.
Janine:
No, NO!!
[she makes a run for it]
Janine’s heel sticks into the ground.
Janine:
SHIT! NO!
She tugs at her ankle it finally comes loose. The car explodes, Janine falls over and a piece of metal lands on her, almost stapling her to the ground.
Janine’s POV, her vision blurs and everything turns pitch black.
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 2
INT. WITH JANINE ON HILL – DAY.
Man #1 (Jerome)
Man #2
Janine
Janine wakens, she is still where she was when the car exploded. Her sight isn’t very good, but she can just make out two men up on the road above.
INT. ROAD.
Man #1:
Hey, I think there’s someone
Down there!
Man #2:
I’ll call for the rest of the
Crew!
The 1st man comes down to her aid.
Man #1:
Listen, you’ll be OK.
The crew’ll be here any minute!
Janine:
Where’s Marie? He, he killed
Her! [tears form in her eyes]
Man #1:
It’s OK, my name is Jerome,
Me and my crew are gonna get you to
A doctor, real soon, OK?
Janine:
OK.
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 3
INT. STREETS OF MANCHESTER – DAY.
Eve Jonestein [Janine’s mother]
Eve walked down a street toward the hospital, she spots a person in black climbing the fire escape of the S. O. S centre and go into a door saying ‘no entry’ on it. She thinks nothing of it and carries on to her destination.
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 4
Eve Jonestein
Janine
Doctor
INT. HOSPITAL – DAY.
Janine lies motionless on an uncomfortable hospital bed. Her mother, Eve Jonestein, enters.
Eve:
Are you OK, honey?
Janine:
Mum? Is that you?
Eve:
It’s ok, darling, I’m here.
Janine:
Yeah, here to see how
Much compensation I’m
Gonna get!
Eve:
Janine! I am deeply offended!
Where did you hear such talk?
Janine:
MUM! Don’t play dumb, it was
exactly the same with dad!
Eve:
What? How can you say
Such a thing?
Janine:
Don’t think I haven’t
Realised already! It’s
Always been like that!
You’re just selfish
And greedy.
Doctor enters the room.
Doctor:
Is everything OK, ladies?
Eve:
Fine! [she storms out through the door]
Doctor:
May I get you anything, Ms. Jonestein?
Janine:
No! I’m fine, thanks!
[she calms herself and lies
her head back down on the pillow]
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 5
INT. S.O.S CENTRE – DAY.
Jerome Midcot [the one from the hill] sits down for his lunch-break.
Jerome Midcot
Dale Bontlen
Wayne Mingern
Killer
Dale and Wayne enter. Jerome is reading newspaper.
Dale:
So, who’s the chick
You found today at
The hill?
Jerome:
Dunno, but she was quite…
Wayne:
Slutty?
Jerome:
Yeah [rises and folds
Up newspaper] so I think
She’s more your type!
Since you’re so desperate.
And oh yeah, found
an article for you in
the paper! [throws
newspaper to him]
Wayne opens up the Newspaper and reads aloud;
Wayne:
‘Dial-a-date; Single?’
Hey! That was uncalled
For, I’m not desperate,
I’ve got women lining up
Around Manchester for me!
Jerome:
[grins]
Sure![sarcastically]
Dale walks off behind Jerome, laughing.
Wayne:
Well, thanks man…
Dumb ass!
Wayne walks into the gents.
INT. GENTS.
He pushes on one of the doors, it is locked, he tries another, locked. All of the doors are locked accept for the one at the end, he walks in, leaving the door open. He is about to undo his zipper when a figure scurries past the doorway behind him, he senses the presence of the person.
Wayne:
Hello? Anyone there?
He walks out of the toilet, as he does one of the doors slam shut.
Wayne:
Hello? [he walks over
To the door]
Jerome? Dale? Is that
You, guys?
There’s a little hole, in which a clothes hanger was once hung on the inside he peeks through. Something plunges through and scratches his eyeball, he screams in pain. The door bursts open, almost flying off its hinges. The person stands there with a hook, obviously used to hook meat up in the butchers. He/she swipes the hook at Wayne, missing his body by centimetres. Wayne runs to the door, but the killer pierces the hook into his back, preventing him from reaching the door. Wayne screams in pain. The hook still in Wayne’s back, he/she swings him down onto the floor.
Wayne:
[struggles]
H-help, Dale!!
The killer raises a block-hammer in his hand.
Wayne:
No…[breaths heavily]
Get away from me, get
The FUCK away from me.
NO!!
He/she swings the hammer and hits him in the head. And again, and again. He/she lifts Wayne off the floor by the hook and drags him through the emergency exit. A trail of blood is left in his/her path.
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 6
Close on Hospital sign. Royal Infirmary Hospital, Manchester.
INT. MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY HOSPITAL – EVENING/SUNSET.
Janine
Chloe Lund
Patients/doctors/nurses etc.
Receptionist
Janine gets up out of her uncomfortable bed and walks through the door.
INT. HALLWAY.
Stretchers carrying sick or wounded people where sprouting from doors everywhere. Nurses where talking to doctors.
Chloe:
Janine? Janine what
Are you doing out of
Your bed?
Janine spins around, her friend, Chloe Lund, has come to see her.
Janine:
Chloe, I’m so glad your
Here! Its Marie, last
Night, I saw her, I
Saw her get-
Chloe:
Murdered [she puts
Both her hands on
Janine’s shoulders]
I now, I’m sorry, I
Know she was your friend,
C’mon lets get you
Back to your bed!
Tears stream down Janine’s face.
INT. JANINES HOSPITAL ROOM.
When they get back to the room, Chloe flicks on the TV. A reporter appears on screen and begins to speak.
Reporter (on TV):
Last night Three
Teenagers-
Janine:
Teenagers!? I’m
22 on Wednesday!
Reporter:
Were found, two dead,
One badly injured…
Janine:
They never get the proper story!
Turn that off!
Chloe is about to turn the TV off when something else comes up…
Reporter:
News just in;
Another murder has
Been reported!
Police are investigating,
More news just in,
He was found hung from
His neck from the
Fire escape of the
S. O. S centre
In Manchester.
His name, Wayne Mingern.
Chloe & Janine:
[in unison]
Oh my god!
Chloe:
[looks at Janine]
Janine, that’s my ex-boyfriend!
Janine:
Who the hell is doing this, Chloe!
Chloe walks over to Janine and puts her arm around her.
Chloe:
I don’t know, Janine, I don’t know.
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 7
One year later. Janine and Chloe are now at The University Of Manchester.
Janine is walking down the crowded corridor, her books start to slip from her arms, she drops them completely.
Janine:
Oh, SHIT!
She bends down to pick them up, two feet come into her view.
Janine’s POV, follows up to see Jerome’s face.
Jerome:
Need some help?
Janine:
Is that, Jerome?
Jerome:
Yeah, how d’you… are you the
One from the accident?
Janine:
Yeah… Janine Jonestein,
Nice to meet you… again.
[she shakes his hand]
Well, erm, what class
Have you got next?
Jerome:
Literature, you?
Janine:
Same, care to join me?
Jerome:
Sure.
They walk down the corridor together. They come to the classroom door.
INT. CLASSROOM.
Lots of students are talking to each other.
Janine
Jerome
Stacey Martigough
Collin Hardin
Mrs. (Diane) Opalson
Janine:
I didn’t know you went to
University, I thought you were
A lot older.
Jerome:
I took the job for a
Summer-break job, just to
Earn a bit of money,
You know?
Janine is about to reply, when a long, brown haired woman enters the classroom. She is quite old, but hardly looks it.
Janine:
Is that the teacher?
Jerome:
I think.
Mrs. O:
Quiet, class. Take your
Seats please.
Everyone sits down.
Mrs. O:
Today, we are going to look at
The book, ‘Flowers in the attic’
By Virginia Andrews. I will give you
Each a copy at the end of the
Lesson, I want you to have read at
Least half the book by Wednesday.
But now, I think I’ll get to know
What books you’ve read. Any volunteers?
Janine turns her head and looks around the classroom and realises that no one is going to volunteer, with a sigh she puts up her hand.
Mrs. O:
Yes Ms…
Janine:
Janine Jonestein.
Mrs. Opalson right?
Mrs. O:
Yes, dear, what books
Have you read?
Janine:
I’ve read ‘Bill Baileys
Lot’ by Catherine Cookson.
Mrs. O:
And would you care to explain
To the class what that’s about?
TIME CUT:
Janine and Jerome walk out of the classroom with their copies of ‘Flowers in the attic.’
Jerome:
So, what room are you staying
In?
Janine:
I’ve not been up to my
Room yet, so I haven’t
Met my roommate.
Jerome:
That’s not what I
Asked.
Stacey:
Janine!
Stacey appears behind Janine.
Janine:
Er, hi, who are you?
[she lets out a short
giggle]
Stacey:
Oh, I’m Stacey Marticough, I’m
Your roommate!
Janine:
Oh, guess now I have met
My roommate!
Jerome:
Hi, I’m Jerome Midcot.
[he shakes Stacey’s hand]
Stacey:
Hi! [she grips his
Hand for ages, as if
In her own world]
Jerome:
You can let go now.
Stacey:
Oh, yeah, sorry.
Jerome:
I wonder where Collin’s
Got to. [he turns his head
Looking for Collin]
Janine:
Who’s Collin?
Jerome:
He’s my roommate, I said
I’d walk from class
With him. Oh there he
Is!
A person comes running over.
Collin:
Alright Jerome? Who are
The chicks?
Janine & Stacey:
[in unison]
CHICKS?!!
Janine:
Who d’you think you’re
Talking to?!
Collin:
Calm down, Mrs. Robinson.
Janine:
Who?
Collin:
Never mind! Jerome
Are we going?
Jerome:
Yeah, see ya, Janine.
Janine:
Bye. [she waves as
Jerome and Collin walk
Up the staircase]
Stacey:
So, I guess we should
Go too.
Janine:
Yeah, ok.
END OF SCENE.
Act 1/scene 8
Janine lies down on her bed reading the ‘Flowers in the attic’ book. The phone rings.
She closes the book and goes into the study and answers the phone.
Janine:
Hello?
Chloe:
Listen, I’m sorry
I didn’t meet you
From class today.
Janine:
Oh, I forgot that
You was going to.
I met my roommate
Today, well
she meet me. But
I’d like it if you
Met me tomorrow.
Chloe:
OK, fine. That’s
All I was ringing
To say, so, bye.
Janine:
Yeah, bye.
She puts down the phone and walks out of study. The book is open.
Janine:
Didn’t I close that
Book? [she shrugs her
Shoulders and lies back down to read]
She turns the page and written in capital letters all over the page it says ‘Remember me Janine?’ she stands up and beckons into the closet door. Hard thuds come from the front door.
Janine:
W-who is it?
Jerome:
[from outside the door]
Janine? Open the door it’s me,
Jerome!
She runs to the door and opens it!
Janine:
Jerome! Look! [she points
At the book, it’s gone]
Oh my god! We gotta get
Out of here!
Jerome:
What is it Janine?
Janine:
The book! [she walks
Over to the bed, Jerome follows]
Jerome stands in front of the closet door, the door swings open, knocking Jerome onto the floor.
Janine:
Jerome!
In the doorway stands the shadowy figure.
He/she lunges at Janine with an axe. Jerome gets up.
Jerome:
NO! [he punches the person
In the face]
The figure falls slightly back, he/she gets steadied and hits Jerome in the head with the flat part of the axe. Jerome falls unconscious to the floor.
Janine:
NO!
The person looks up at Janine. She runs into the bathroom.
INT. BATHROOM.
She locks the door behind her. The door begins to splinter and an axe is made visible through the doors holes. Janine rummages through the cupboard under the sink for a weapon. She finds a screwdriver. The door gives way and the person comes in, he/she raises the axe, Janine stabs the screwdriver through his/her arm, the axe falls to the floor with a thud. The person growls in pain and anger.
INT. BEDROOM.
Janine runs past him and out of the bathroom, she gets to the front door and tugs at the handle, it’s locked.
Janine:
No, come on you piece of shit!
Come ON!
She steps away from the door,
Janine’s POV; looks down at Jerome’s unconscious body. Then up, the killer is gone from the doorway.
Janine walks slowly to the bathroom, she glances inside, there’s no-one there. She turns back around. A window in the bedroom is open and blowing the curtain around. She walks over and closes the window.