Screenplay 2nd Draft

 Procrastination

[Establishing Shot: Zoe’s House]

[Scene: Zoe’s Kitchen, Zoe is stood making herself a cup of tea, takes a sip and then she walks into the living room]

Zoe: hey guys, have you done any--

[Zoe looks around and sees the room is empty]

Zoe: guys? [Zoe looks suspicious and then sits on the couch to watch the TV but it’s nothing but static, she changes the channel and it’s still static] what? [She hears a crash and car alarms from outside, she goes to the window and looks outside she then grabs her coat and walks away]

[Scene: Outside Zoe’s house, Zoe runs out and looks around with car alarms blaring off, she then turns to her left and see’s something, the camera then fades to white]

[Scene: Living room, Chris is sat by his computer with his fingers on the keyboard but not typing anything, it is dead silent apart from the sound of a clock ticking, he brings his hands up to his hands, briefly puts his fingers back on the keyboard as if he’s about to type but then brings his hands back to his face, he then looks at the clock and see’s that the time reads 10:20, he then looks back at his computer with the page remaining blank, it then cuts to that night with Chris lying on the couch asleep and the computer still on]

Mysterious Voice: Chris…Chris…Christopher!

[Chris wakes up and sits up and see’s the lead character Zoe on his computer screen]

Zoe: hi

Chris: Zoe?

Zoe: yep

Chris: …am I dreaming or am I losing my mind?

Zoe: doesn’t matter--

Chris: --for me it does--wha--what are you doing here!?

Zoe: what am I doing here? It’s been 12 hours! How come you haven’t finished writing the episode!

Chris: I-I just haven’t been able to come up with a good way to end it; I mean it’s the final episode, how can I end it?

Zoe: you’re a writer! Think of something dumbass!

Chris: now there’s no need to behave like that

Zoe: bite me frog face!

[Chris taps the computer and it changes to his YouTube with Zoe gone, he then sits back and sighs, until Zoe shows up on screen]

Zoe: still here!

[Chris sits back up]

Chris: wha--leave me alone!

[Chris taps the computer several times changing to Wikipedia, Twitter and Google]

Zoe: you can press that button as many times as you want Otacon, you’re not getting rid of me, at least not until you write the episode

[Chris rubs his eyes trying to wake up]

Zoe: hey, have you ever googled “do a barrel roll” it’s really cool

[Chris shuts the computer to turn it off]

Chris: …time for bed

[Establishing Shot: Chris’s house at night and then fades in to morning]

[Scene: Kitchen, Chris walks downstairs looking really tired, he pours himself a cup of tea and takes a sip, he then turns around and see’s Zoe stood behind him and makes him jump]

Chris: AH!

Zoe: did you write the episode yet?

Chris: How are you here!? You’re not even real!

Zoe: I told you last night that I’m not leaving until you write the episode

Chris: why is this important enough for you to give me a mental breakdown!?

Zoe: you’ve been writing this episode for weeks and haven’t thought of anything, and I’m sick of waiting; so I’m here to make sure that you finish writing it

Chris: …you’re not gonna leave me alone until I finish are you?

Zoe: unlikely

Chris: one minute

Zoe: okay

[Chris Leaves]

[Scene: Hallway, Chris enters and pulls out his phone and calls someone]

Dan: [Over the phone] hello?

Chris: hey Dan it’s Chris, listen I don’t think I’m gonna come into work today, I think I’m having a mental breakdown; you see Zoe has come to life and is haunting me until I write the end of the script

Dan: …you know Chris most people pretend to have the flu to get off work

[Chris hangs up and goes back into the kitchen]

Chris: alright then, we’ve got the whole day, let’s get to work

Zoe: okay then

[Chris and Zoe walk away]

[Scene: Living Room, Chris and Zoe sit down on the couch and Chris turns the computer on]

Chris: Alright, let’s get to work

[Cuts back to outside Zoe’s house, repeating the scene from earlier with Chris talking over]

Chris: how about as soon as she leaves the house, she turns to the left, and gets hit by a car!

[Cuts to black as a car crashes, cuts back to the living room]

Zoe: that’s terrible! I don’t wanna die in a car crash! And not to mention the fans would tear you apart

Chris: [Sarcasm] strange, I didn’t think my hallucination would care for my health

Zoe: shut up

Chris: well then you think of something better

Zoe: okay

[Cuts back to the final scene with Zoe talking over the scene]

Zoe: I come out of the house and it turns out that I’m all alone; and then it turns out my house is on an island and I’ve been dead all along!

[Cuts back to the living room]

Chris: …you know for a figment of my imagination you’re not very creative

Zoe: screw you

Chris: okay then well [They start talking over with the footage of what they’re talking about] maybe it ends with the police arriving and you being sent to jail

Zoe: or it ends with a spaceship showing up to take me on adventures

Chris: or maybe you are an alien

[Cuts back to the living room]

Zoe: and my dog is an alien as well and speaks fluent Japanese!

Chris: …we’re not very good at this

Zoe: yeah, you probably are insane to think up these things

Chris: well we’ve gotta do something, I mean it’s not like we can just end it like The Sopranos and cut to black mid sce--

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