Scene 6: Scrap The Experiment

from MADE OF SHADOWS by ABEARICA & DEEP ROOTED

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EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - MOMENTS LATER

The sirens are picking up now. Slow, steady footsteps of Alicia and Gerald.

ALICA:
Intelligent Design is a comforting thought, don’t you think?

GERALD: Excuse me?

ALICA: Look at the sky.
(beat)
Billions of galaxies, infinite space, you could spend the lifespan of a species just getting from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’. Unless of course, you knew how to travel shortly.

GERALD:
You mean ‘quickly.’

ALICA:
No. I mean ‘shortly’. Anyways. Some
time ago, one race beget another. Like the cultures in your petri dish.

A woman runs screaming, not too far away. The sound of the Walker rushing, and she is gone.

GERALD:
Alicia, honey, what’s going on here?

ALICA:
And at the same time, a clock
started ticking. The scientists involved wanted to see, wanted to understand, and maybe by creating life, they could understand what created them.

An explosion, somewhere in the distance.

GERALD:
Fine. What’s the hypothesis?

Footsteps stop.

ALICIA:
Does that even matter right now? I
think it’s pretty clear right now that the conclusion didn’t live up to the expectations.

Another, muffled explosion.

GERALD:
I’m losing my god-damned mind right now! Okay! Fine! Doesn’t make any sense to...

ALICIA:
Scrap the experiment?

Beat.

GERALD:
Kill your darlings.

ALICIA:
Kill your darlings.

GERALD:
And you’re...

ALICIA:
One of them.

Beat.

GERALD:
So... Is that it? One of these things is going to do away with me? While you watch!?! End of story?

ALICIA:
No. Not for you.

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from MADE OF SHADOWS, released December 24, 2013
Script written by Jeremy Berger

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