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Scene 1

(Joseph, a large and muscular man with course brown hair and hazel eyes, stands in front of one of the fridges in the convenient store and begins unloading a crate of Cola. He forcefully shoves the bottles onto the racks. He scowls as he does so.
Cut to: Joseph. Now sitting behind counter.
The camera view is from over is shoulder and we see him flip through the pages of a hunting catalog. He is wearing a black T-shirt.
Cut to: CU of the black telephone that sits next to him on the counter.
Telephone rings.
Cut to: frontal view of Joseph.)

Joseph: Damn it.

(Joseph puts down his catalog.
Cut to: Another CU of phone.
It's still ringing. Josephs hand comes from off-screen and picks up the reciever.
Cut to: Fronatl view of Joseph as he holds the reciever to his ears and listens.)
Cut to: Williams Apt. Interior.
William sits on a moth-eaten sofa. He has black hair and pale blue eyes. He looks rather scrawny. He wears a loose-fitting red shirt and baggy black jeans. On his feet he wears nothing but a pair of grey, worn-out socks. William holds the receiver to his ear with his left hand as his right hand rests by his side.)

William: Joseph, Hey!

(Camera pans the room and we see, for the first time, what condition the room is in. There are empty beer bottles and old newspapers littering the ground.
Cut to: CU of wall.
We can clearly see how old the wallpaper is. Most of it is peeling from the wall in strips.
Cut to: CU of a plate of food sitting on the cloor.
The food on it consists of  a mound of hardened macaroni and cheese, a half-eaten dinner roll, and a small piece of beef. Several cockroaches feast upon the remains of the meal.
As all of this takes place, we hear Josephs voice over the phone.)

Joseph: Hey, William. What do you want?

(Cut to: View of Willaim from his waist up.
The camera is viewing him from his left and the arm of the sofa prevents us from seeing the rest of his body. For the first time, we see that there is a small table on this side of the sofa. On it, there is a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, a tube of chapstick, and a candle.)

William: You remember Justin, right?

(Cut to: Store. Interior. Frontal view of Joseph.
He continues to sit behind the counter but now has his elbow up on the counter and his head rested in his left hand as he holds the phone with the other.)

Joseph: Yeah---

(Cut to: Apt. Interior.
CU of Williams right hand. His index finger taps the sofa. We hear Josephs voice on the phone as we view this.)

Joseph: Sort of.

(Cut to: Store. Interior. Same view.)

Joseph: Wasn't he that guy that sold us those CDs?
William: That's the one.

(Cut to: Apt. Interior. CU of William's face. The view point is from his left side. )

Joseph: What about him?
William: Well, he's going out of state next week to visit some relatives---

(Cut to: Store. Interior.)

William: And he wants us to take care of his place while he's gone.

(Cut to: Apt. Interior. Another CU of William. Same view)

Joseph: Us?

(Cut to: Store. Interior.
Joseph removes his elbow from th counter and immediatly sits up straight.)

Joseph: I barely even know the guy.
William: I know-----

(Cut to: Apt. Interior.  
Full view of William. Once again, from his left side.)

William: But I do. We've been friends for awhile. He wants me to do him a favor.

(As he says this, he reaches his free hand over to the side table and takes a cigarette out of the pack.
Cut to: Store. Interior.)

William: And I want you to help me out. Justin has a pretty big place and you know about my...Cleanliness issues.

(Cut to: Apt. Interior. William puts the cigarette in his mouth and holds it between his teeth as he speaks to Joseph.
Cut to: View of Lighter.
Williams hand comes from off-screen and picks up the lighter.
Cut to: CU of the end of the cigarete.
We see the lighter come up from off-screen and Williams thumb comes up and lights the end of it. The tip of the cigarette is engulfed in flame until William turns off the lighter. At which point, the end of the cigarette glows bright orange and it begins to smoke.
Cut to: Full view of William from the from his left.
William inhales deeply and then takes the cigarete between his thumb and index finger and out of his mouth before exhaling a stream of smoke.
As all of this happens, we hear Joseph's voice over the phone.)

Joseph: Yeah...Fine. I'll help you out.
William: Thank's, Joseph.

(Cut to: Store. Interior)

William: I owe you one.
Joseph: Damn straight you do. So how many days do we have to be there?

(Cut to: Apt. Interior.
William holds the cigarette in his right hand.)

William: Only four.
Joseph: Just four, huh?

(Cut to: Store interior.)

Joseph: Fine then.
William: Good. My friend leaves next saturday. But he wants us to be there Friday night so he can give us all of the information that we need.
Joseph: Alright.

(Cut to: Apt. Interior.)

Joseph: See ya then.
William: See ya then.

(Cut to: Store. Interior.
Joseph hangs up the phone and puts his face in his hands.
Cut to: Apt. Interior.
William hangs up. He then takes a long drage from his cagarette and exhales a stream of smoke.)
I'm writing a movie script. Just for the hell of it. I'm not entirely sure where this is going. But I will certainly make this a horror movie. I'm workig on scenes 2 and 3 at the moment and will submit then when they are finished.
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Ooooh! I like that Idea! I'll put something like that in there as soon as I'm finished with scene 3.