Final Script

Final Script – The Institute, Opening Sequence Shooting Script 2nd December 2009 SHOT 1 EXT. PARK IN WOODS, CRIME SCENE, DUSK 14:00 VOICE OVER NEWS READER: Today a body was found in Upton Park by local dog walkers. Forensic investigations are underway to find out what happened. The family have been informed. FADE TO: SHOT 2 INT. COUPLES FLAT, IN HALLWAY, 13:30 JANE AND MARK [COUPLE ARGUING IN HALLWAY OF FLAT, JANE BECOMES INCREASINGLY ANGRY] JANE: I know I had the money in here this morning. MARK: What you looking at me like that for? JANE: You’ve done it again, haven’t you? [MARK APPROACHES JANE. HE REACHES OUT FOR HER SHOULDER WITH HIS HAND AND JANE PULLS AWAY. MARKS TONE OF VOICE BECOMES INCREASINGLY AGGITATED AS HIS ANGER INCREASES] MARK: What are you saying? Just say it! [JANE BEGINS TO RAISE HER VOICE AS SHE BECOMES ANGRIER] JANE: It’s an invasion of my privacy, I earned that money myself. MARK: Well here we go again! ‘I do all the work, I earn all the money, I pay the mortgage’, just you know! We live together, we should share everything.

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JANE: It’s not sharing when it all comes from me, you arsehole! [JANE STORMS OUT OF FRONT DOOR, SLAMMING IT BEHIND HER. MARK IS LEFT STANDING ALONE AND ANGRY] CUT TO: SHOT 3 INT. NURSES STAFF ROOM, 10:00 TWO NURSES (NURSE 1, NURSE 2) [NURSE 1 MAKING CONVERSATION WITH NURSE 2, A HUSHED VOICE FROM BOTH NURSES, MAKING SURE NO ONE ELSE CAN HEAR] NURSE 1: Have you heard the news? NURSE 2: [SOUNDING PUZZLED] What news? NURSE 1: He’s gone...he’s gone! NURSE 2: [SOUNDING SUPPRISED AND SHOCKED] Noooo! NURSE 1: [SARCASTICALLY] I’d like to see how this one turns out! NURSE 2: [TONE IS LOWERED SOUNDING SERIOUS] But this time it’s serious. You know as well as I do what he’s capable of. [CAMARA SHOT OF MURDERS CONFIDENTIAL PAPERS ON TABLE IN STAFF ROOM, NURSES CAN STILL BE HEARD TALKING] CUT TO: SHOT 4 EXT. IN WOODS 13:30 [ESCAPED MAN RUNNING FRANTICALLY THROUGH LEAVES, HEAVY BREATHING CAN BE HEARD, ONLY HIS FEET CAN BE SEEN] CUT TO:

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SHOT 5 EXT. IN PARK IN WOODS 13:45 [JANE ON SWING THE ONLY SOUND THAT CAN BE HEARD IS HER CRYING AND THE RUSTLING OF LEAVES FROM UNKNOWN CHARACTER WALKING – HIS IDENTITY IS STILL UNKNOWN] CUT TO: SHOT 6 EXT. IN WOODS 13:45 [ESCAPED MAN RUNNING FRANTICALLY THROUGH LEAVES, HEAVY BREATHING CAN BE HEARD, ONLY HIS FEET CAN BE SEEN] CUT TO: SHOT 7 EXT. IN PAKK IN WOODS 13.47 [BACK OF MANS HEAD IS SEEN LOOKING AT JANE FROM A DISATANCE AS HE IS STANDING IN A BUSH] [MAN APPROACHES GIRL, JANE. SHE IS STILL UNAWARE THAT HE IS THERE. HE THEN PLACES HIS HAND ON HER SHOULDER] CUT TO: SHOT 8 INT/EXT. [MONTAGUE OF ALL SHOTS, RAPIDLY SHOWN TO CREATE A BLURRED EFFECT OF THE OPENING] FADE TO: SHOT 9 EXT. IN PARK IN WOODS 13:50 [EMPTY SWING, NO SOUND CAN BE HEARD OTHER THAN THE SWING STILL SWINGING] ROLLTITLES

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