The Lunchroom
Episode 2x05
"Cold Blue"
Written by
Vincent Biga
Created by
Bruce Snyder
INT. BRIAN'S BEDROOM – MORNING
There is a pair of sais and nun chucks on his bed, they
are on top of towels, Brian seems to be considering
something.
BRIAN
Hmmmmm...
Brian puts on his shoes, he looks back at the weapons.
BRIAN
Hmmmmm...
Brain leaves the room, then comes back in eating a pop
tart.
BRIAN
Hmmmmm...
INT. STACY'S CAR – SAME
She is waiting inside. She looks at her watch and gets
out. She walks up the sidewalk and opens the door.
STACY
Brian hurry up or were gonna be
late!
INT. BRIAN'S ROOM – SAME
Brian grabs his bag and heads out the door.
BRIAN
Coming!
Brian leaves, we see that the weapons are no longer
there.
INT. STACY'S CAR – MINUTES LATER
Stacy drives in silence.
STACY
What’s your school like?
BRIAN
Full of preps, jocks, and jerks.
STACY
Oh.
BRIAN
They'll go crazy for you.
STACY
I’m sure they will, the way you and
Joel were staring. Christ, it was
like you two never saw a pair of
tits before.
BRIAN
(sarcastically)
Sorry.
Brian looks into the mirror.
BRIAN
Crap.
STACY
What?
She ruffles his hair again.
BRIAN
I just got my hair the way I like
it and now it's messed up.
STACY
You need a comb?
BRIAN
No.
Brian shakes his head back and forth, his hair is still
wet so water flies every where.
BRIAN
There, all better.
STACY
You got every thing all wet.
BRIAN
That’s what happens with the wet
dog effect.
STACY
You have a name for it?
BRIAN
You bet I do.
Pause.
STACY
So where are you going after school.
BRIAN
Will’s house.
STACY
Who's Will?
BRIAN
My friend.
STACY
Is he a good friend?
BRIAN
Hmmm lets see we’ve been friends
since preschool so I’m going to go
with yes.
STACY
No need for sarcasm.
BRIAN
What do you care anyway?
STACY
I’m your sister.
BRIAN
So?
STACY
I should know your friends.
Brian starts to look out the window.
INT. LUNCHROOM – BEFORE SCHOOL
Will, Reicther, Casey, Brock, Chris and Joel are sitting
at a table. Will and Chris are reading a note.
WILL
(reading)
"Hey babe."
Will looks up at Reicther.
REICTHER
It gets worse.
CHRIS
(reading)
"It would really make my day if you
gave me a hug."
Every one looks at Reicther, he shakes his head.
REICTHER
Never gonna happen.
WILL
"I would love it if you would take
me to the movies you sexy-"
Will looks at the note in disgust.
WILL
I can’t read any more.
He throws the note on the table.
JOEL
That’s wrong on sooo many levels.
BROCK
What are you going to do?
REICTHER
Nothing.
CHRIS
That seems a little cruel. Remember
what happened to Brian?
REICTHER
He got depressed.
BROCK
Yeah, really depressed
WILL
If he wasn’t so much of a chicken I
think he would have...done it.
REICTHER
What?
JOEL
You know...it.
REICTHER
No I still don’t know what your
talking about.
Brian enters and sits down.
BRIAN
Suicide.
REICTHER
Oh...
There is an awkward pause.
JOEL
So where's dear old sis?
BRIAN
(annoyed)
Get over it.
WILL
I wanna see her too.
Brian sighs
BRIAN
Oh you'll see her.
The bell rings, every one gets up.
INT. DRAWING CLASS – MINUTES LATER
We see Brian sitting alone, doodling on a large
piece of paper.
MR. HARRISON moves to the front of the class.
HARRISON
Ok boys and girls here’s what I
want you to do for today.
Suddenly there is a voice over the intercom
VOICE (V/O)
Teachers, we would like to inform
you that a 'Code Blue' is in
progress, you know the procedures,
shut the blinds and lock all the
doors. That is all.
Every one in the room starts to talk amongst themselves.
BOY #1
Isn’t a code blue when there are
mad gun men in the school?
BOY #2
Yeah I think so.
HARRISON
People, people lets just calm down.
He goes to the white board and writes "Cold Blue" on the board.
HARRISON
Part of the Cold Blue is being
quiet, and going about your
business, now get busy people you
all know your assignments, get your
partner and start the portrait.
Brain continues to doodle on his paper, JAMES CORDRAY (a
hillbilly type) walks up to him.
JAMES
You have a partner?
BRIAN
No, looks like were stuck with each
other again.
JAMES
Fine then pose.
James sits down, and starts to draw Brian who is
staring at him.
JAMES
What do you think of this 'Cold
Blue' you afraid some one’s gonna
come in here and bust a cap?
Brian sighs in annoyed way.
BRAIN
No, James.
JAMES
Well good for you, besides its
probably just a drug bust.
BRIAN
(bored)
Really, that’s fascinating.
JAMES
Yeah they look in all the lockers
and every thing, they even get a
drug dog out in the parking lot.
BRIAN
(bored)
Wow.
Suddenly Brian goes wide eyed.
BRIAN
(to himself)
Every locker?
The screen flashes with the earlier scene of the weapons
on Brian’s bed.
BRIAN
Oh shit.
JAMES
Wow Brian you look really scared
all the sudden, try and hold that
pose.
INT. CLASSROOM – SAME
Brock is sitting reading a book, BOY#3 is trying to
lower the blinds.
BOY #3
They won’t go down Mr. Anderson!
ANDERSON
They’ll go down.
BOY #3
Do you think they’ll shoot us
though the windows?
ANDERSON
No ones going to shoot us.
BOY #3
But it's a code blue. That’s what
there supposed to do.
BROCK
(to himself)
I knew it, its happening, just like
the alien invasion...
INT. HALLWAY – MINUTES LATER
We see a class room door, the bell rings and the door
flies open. Brian runs out, he rushes down the hallways.
He comes to Will.
WILL
Hey Brian.
Brian keeps on running, Will looks back at him.
WILL
Brian?
BOY#2 walks down the hall, lunges at Will.
BOY #2
BOO!
WILL
AH!
Will stumbles, but he catches the lockers and doesn’t
fall down.
GIRL #1
That was mean!
BOY #2
So?
They walk off
INT. Inside Brian’s locker, it is pitch black, we can’t
see anything, suddenly the door swings open, we see
Brian out of breath.
BRIAN
Shit...
We see that Brian’s backpack is gone. Brian runs his
hand through his messy hair
BRIAN
(to himself)
Shit, shit, shit!
The door closes.
INT. Drawing class, we see Will, Brock and Casey, all
talking to each other.
CASEY
Did you hear?
BROCK
Hear what?
CASEY
They found drugs in someone's car
BROCK
Really?
WILL
I spy with my little eye...Brian's
sister.
CASEY
Where?
They all turn. In the corner of the room, Mr. Harrison
is explaining something to Stacy.
WILL
Wow.
CASEY
She is better than the Return of
the King.
Brock looks at him disgusted, but quickly returns to
staring.
HARRISON
Okay Stacy, I think you now know
every about it. You can take a seat
anywhere you want.
Stacy starts to look around the room.
WILL
Casey move!
CASEY
What?!
BROCK
Yeah take one for the team.
CASEY
What team?
WILL
The team!
BROCK
Yeah don’t you care about the team?!
WILL
Move your fat ass!
Will kicks Casey out of his seat. Casey, on the ground,
quickly grabs hold on Will's leg.
WILL
Damn it, Casey. Get off my leg!
CASEY
You shouldn't have kicked my out of
my seat, Will!
Hearing the name, Stacy turns and walks in their
direction. When she gets their, Will and Casey freeze
up.
STACY
Are you Will Cooper?
WILL
Uh...yes I am. And this fat fuck
that's on my leg is Casey.
CASEY
(still holding on)
Hi.
INT LUNCHROOM – LATER THAT DAY
Will is sitting at a table by himself, he is working on
homework. Brian enters, and sits down.
BRIAN
Will, I’ve got problems.
Will looks up at him.
BRIAN
What?
Will nods in a direction off screen, Brian looks, the
camera pans so we see Stacy sitting with some other
girls and guys.
WILL
Never again will I doubt you.
BRIAN
Forget Stacy a second.
WILL
What?
BRIAN
Look you know how we were going to
do that kung-fu movie.
WILL
Oh yeah. I hope you got my message
last night. I decided to call it
off.
Brian becomes red in the face.
BRIAN
(angry)
...What?
WILL
Well I decided that it would too
much work to do something like
that.
Brian quickly Will's neck and begins to choke him.
BRIAN
YOU SON OF A BITCH!!! I'M DEAD
BECAUSE OF YOU!!!
WILL
(struggling to talk)
Brian...what...are you...talking
about?
BRIAN
MOTHERFUCKER!!! YOU HEAR ME!!! IT'S
ALL YOUR FAULT!!
Will grabs a lunch tray and quickly smacks Brian across
the face with it.
WILL
What the hell?! Why were you trying
to kill me?
BRIAN
Well, I decided to smuggle some
props in through my backpack.
Will looks at him in disbelief for a long moment.
WILL
You fucking moron.
BRIAN
Ok I deserved that, now what should-
WILL
No I really mean it this is quite
possibly the most idiotic thing you
have ever done.
BRIAN
Ok, but -
WILL
I mean come on taking weapons into
school.
BRIAN
Its not like I brought one of my
swords.
WILL
You think the school cares?!
Weapons are weapons.
BRIAN
I know –
WILL
What the fuck were you thinking? I
mean seriously!
BRIAN
Fuck it I’ll talk to Stacy.
Will watches Brian leave.
WILL
Wait! I want to talk to Stacy.
INT. HALLWAY – SAME
Sitting by the coke machine is Stacy. On her left side
sits Chris, and on her right, sits Reicther. Each one of
them are eating out of a bag of chips.
STACY
So you're his friends too?
CHRIS
Yep.
REICTHER
I'm the basket case.
CHRIS
And I'm the black Jew.
STACY
Oh.
Brian and Will run up.
BRIAN
Stacy, I need to talk to you.
STACY
What about?
WILL
Stupid over here, brought some
weapons to school.
STACY
You what?!
REICTHER
Idiot.
BRIAN
Listen, we'll talk about it later
right now I -
An announcement comes across the P.A. system.
VOICE (O.S.)
We need to see the following
students in alphabetical order:
Vandele, Brian. That is all.
BRIAN
Oh shit.
Brian is quiet a moment.
BRIAN
Well, I get to go beg for my life.
Brian walks down the hallway. Will quickly falls in
between Stacy and Reicther.
WILL
Make room for Will.
INT. School Office - MINUTES LATER
The CLERK sees Brian enter.
CLERK
The principal is waiting for you in
his office.
BRIAN
Ok.
Brain walks down the hall to his office, he looks in one
room and sees two officer’s talking to a student.
Brian come to the office and goes in, Brian sits down
PRINCIPAL
Do you know why your here Brian?
BRIAN
I have a guess.
The Principal opens a drawer, Brian closes his eyes,
afraid of what he is going to say.
PRINCIPAL
You know CD players aren’t allowed
in school.
BRIAN
(confused)
What?
Brian opens his eyes and sees the principal holding a
red CD player.
PRINCIPAL
CD players aren’t allowed in school,
since you’re a freshmen I’ll just
let you off with a warning...Brian?
We see that Brain’s face is beet red.
BRIAN
Is that it?!
PRINCIPAL
Yes. Now, get back to class.
Brian gets up and gets ready to go to class. Before he
can a police officer come in. The officer has Brian's
weapons in his hands.
OFFICER
Sir, we found this in a locker.
Brian looks stunned, but quickly snaps too.
BRIAN
Well...I hope you catch kid.
Brian quickly runs away.
FADE OUT.
END OF EPISODE