"Title"

                           by

                       Your Name

                                                  10th Draft
                                              March 6th 2003
                                             15 Minute Drama

1. INT. CABIN - DAY

A father is leaning over in a chair reading a newspaper. He
looks up as he sees his two kids come running in ready to do
something active.  Father gets up holding the newspaper.

                         KID 1
            Dad, can we go to the pond again
            today?

                         FATHER
            Sure we can. Do any of your new
            friends want to come?

                         KID 1
            No, just you!

                         KID 2
            You're more fun daddy.

He hugs both kids at once, smiling. They hug back.

                         FATHER
            All right then. Are we ready to go?
            Are you taking your boat?

Kid goes and picks up boat. A shadow passes by outside the
window. O/C, knock on door. Father turns and leaves frame. A
door shadow opens and someone is there, but we don't see who.
We see kid smiling then stunned, shock. O/C we hear shuffling
and a thud. A shadow looms over children. They cower. Kid's
boat falls from his hand. Camera level on floor in front of
unconscious Father, eyes still open staring into camera,
sideways.

                                            FADE OUT

2. INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

FADE IN

Sheldon Haunting is lying on the floor in front of his
couch, spooked, wrapped up in a blanket.

3. EXT. ROAD - NIGHT

Title - Sheldon Haunting appears Car drives down the road

4. INT. CAR - NIGHT

Liz in driver's seat.

                                                            2.

                         CAR RADIO
            And again, looks like showers on
            and off overnight followed by more
            of the same for Saturday...

Liz turns off the car radio.

5. EXT. ROAD/DRIVEWAY - NIGHT

Liz pulls car off the road into driveway.

6. INT. LIVING. ROOM - NIGHT

The room is temporarily illuminated. Sheldon is suddenly lit
by car headlights through the window shear. He snaps out of
his trance and looks up.

7. EXT. YARD - NIGHT

Car parks in driveway. Liz gets out of car, slams door, and
walks (ghost like) toward the house. She passes by camera.
Camera is still focused on car cooling. O/C we hear knocking
on front door. Cut to side view of her waiting for answer.
O/C shuffling behind door.

                         LIZ
            Sheldon?... It's Liz.

Liz looks behind her at the dark road. Sheldon unlocks door.
Opens. Liz looks back towards him.

                         SHELDON (O.C.)
            Hey... come in.

Liz exits frame. The door closes and locks behind. Hold for
a beat on darkness beyond the steps and house.

8. EXT. HOUSE - NIGHT

Extreme wide shot of the house.

9. INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

Close Up Shot of black and white movie on TV screen. Liz is
on the phone. It is ringing and she is waiting for someone
on the other line to pick up.

                         LIZ
            So, your parents went away, huh?

                         SHELDON
                   (Deadpan)
            Gone...

                                                            3.

Sheldon looks preoccupied, more nervous.

                         LIZ
            Hi, can I get a large pepperoni and
            sausage, with extra sauce?...
            Sheldon?
                   (Sheldon nods...)
            No, we'll come get it

                         SHELDON
                   (Nervous, close-up)
            No! I told you I can't leave the
            house!

Sheldon looks to the window, the soundtrack of the black and
white film intensifies.

                         LIZ (O.C.)
            Ok, umm, actually we will get that
            delivered. Haunting with an H. 15
            Widows Road. Thanks.

Liz hangs up phone.

                         SHELDON
            I'll get us some drinks.

Sheldon gets up, turns and exits, goes into kitchen taking
his bowl and glass with him from the table. Liz picks up DVD
case.

                         SHELDON (O.C.)
            Thanks for coming Liz. Hope you
            didn't have plans.

                         LIZ
                   (Calls after)
            The girls went down to the Pendulum,
            but I wasn't up for it tonight.
                   (The movie catches
                   her attention.)
            What is this movie I put on?

Camera on TV images. Strange show. Strange soundtrack.
Sheldon returns with drinks of pop. (Fizz rising)

Liz put down the DVD case.

                         SHELDON (O.C.)
                   (Standing behind couch)
            Good pick. It's funny how you can
            grow up watching something over and
            over but other people never see it...

                                                            4.

                         LIZ
                   (Uneasy)
            So... What's up huh?... You missed
            class and the game. I don't know
            how but they managed to win 6 - 3
            without you.

                         SHELDON
            Seriously Liz, I think I'm losing
            it. You'll think I'm crazy...

Sheldon gives her a glass and sits down next to her.

                         LIZ
            You don't have to worry about that
            Sheldon.
                   (Pause)
            I already think your crazy.

Sheldon picks up DVD case. Liz then quickly pulls the DVD
case away. She puts it on the table. And turns his face
towards her.

                         LIZ
            What is it, Mr. Haunting?

                         SHELDON
            Something happened. Something I
            wish I could get out of my head.

FLASHBACK, flickers intermix with TV flicker. Soundtrack of
B&W movie playing. Image gets stronger but slightly
fragmented. V/O Sheldon describing childhood memory...

                         SHELDON (V/O)
            ... My family and I. We used to
            vacation. This small town, same
            time, every year.

10. EXT. WOODS - DAY

...Kids playing with toy guns, running, and stopping to shoot.

                         SHELDON V/O
            I was playing outlaw with some kids
            from the other cabins. I stayed out
            all day. I remember my mum kept
            calling me but I didn't want to
            stop playing.

A few kids run past with toy guns. Young Sheldon follows. He
stops and looks back as if he hears someone calling his name.
He continues to chase other kids. Kids run past a man
standing with his two children.

                                                            5.

Sheldon runs towards them shooting.  He stops and looks up
at them. The father looks at Sheldon and smiles slightly.
Sheldon laughs and shoots at them some more

                         SHELDON
            Bang! Bang!

Sheldon runs past them after his friends.

11. (FLASHBACK) EXT. POND - DAY

Young Sheldon runs down and stops by pond. He can't see his
friends anywhere. He turns and stops short. He looks down
into the water.

12. INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Liz looks interested.

                         SHELDON
            I came to the pond. For some reason
            I looked down into that water.
            There was that man, the Father of
            those two kids.

Flash of dead body, empty eyes staring. Moves suddenly.
Young Sheldon flinches.

                         SHELDON
            He was dead. But I swear I saw him
            move. That's when I remembered what
            he said to me that day

Father Standing in woods

                         FATHER
            You killed my family, Sheldon.

Flash - Young Sheldon's legs running through field. Flash -
Police tape roping off. Flash - Three bodies on the bank,
the last small one being covered like the others. Flash -
Detective points and looks towards Sheldon suspiciously.

13. INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

                                            FADE OUT

Memory. Flickering TV light and reality on Sheldon in a
fetal position on his couch.

                                                            6.

                         SHELDON
            The police said they'd been missing
            for five days. The cabin they
            rented was empty. Liz, I saw them
            that day. They weren't gone, they
            were still there.
                   (Beat)
            I think I saw something I wasn't
            supposed to.

                         LIZ
                   (Visibly shaken,
                   leans back in couch
                   to take it all in)
            Are you saying you think you saw...
            Wait - how... was it an accident?

                         SHELDON
            The police linked it to a series of
            murders by a crazy local they
            caught a few days earlier. Wanna
            know the weirdest part -
                   (Beat)
            the killer's name is Sheldon
            Haunting.

Liz is concerned for her own safety, looks at the phone.

                         LIZ
            Look, it was a coincidence. Lots of
            people who do terrible things have
            common names. Is that what's
            bothering you. The name?

                         SHELDON
            I don't have a common name. And
            it's more than just the name. It's
            that man. The father of those kids.

                         LIZ
            That would be pretty traumatic for
            a kid. You probably got some of it
            shuffled around in your head. It's
            called a fabricated memory. It
            happens all the time.

                         SHELDON
            But it wasn't just once. It happened
            again. As much as I resisted my
            parents dragged me back the next
            year, a place a few miles away from
            that cabin. I was playing by a
            stream when everything went quiet...

                                                            7.

14. (FLASHBACK) EXT. WOODS - DAY

Flash - more fragmented - on young Sheldon at stream seeing
the ghost in the water, same situation.

                         DEAD FATHER
            You killed my family Sheldon.

15. INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

Sheldon comes back to reality. Shakes his head.

                         SHELDON
            He comes every year. Last year in
            the river under the town bridge.
            The year before at the rink. He
            Thinks I murdered his family. I
            couldn't even kill a fish.
                   (Beat)
            This year I'm staying away from
            water. I almost forget about it
            until this time of year, then it
            all comes creeping back into my mind.

Liz looks at the TV. Shot of black and white movie playing.

                         LIZ
            Did you ever think maybe these
            films you watch might have something
            to do with it?

Sheldon gives her a glare as if to say "seriously"

                         LIZ (CONT'D)
            Stay home, Sheldon. Every year, if
            you have to. Losing one day of the
            year isn't so bad if it saves your
            sanity.

                         SHELDON
            You're probably right. Thanks for
            being here. If you knew what you
            were in for you probably wouldn't
            have come, huh?

                         LIZ
            You underestimate me. I can take it.

A touching moment of silence, loud doorbell (bzzzz-dong).
Both jump and scream, Liz grabs Sheldon, then they relax and
laugh.

                         LIZ
            Pizza, woooo! I'll get it.

                                                            8.

Liz exits. O/C we hear door open. Liz re-enters with pizza.

                         LIZ
            We're a little short. Do you have
            four bucks?

Sheldon slumps over looking for his wallet on the table.
Swipes it, withdraws a five, gets up and on the way to pay
his share, passes her with pizza.

                         SHELDON
            Mmmmm.

16. INT. FOYER - NIGHT

                         SHELDON
            Here you go

Sheldon is at the door, turning back from smelling the
pizza, holding a bill up to a strange white, wet outstretched
hand. He looks up to see... the pizza man meeting his gaze.
He's wet from the rain, and

                         DEAD FATHER
            You killed my family, Sheldon.

Sheldon scrambles and drops the money. He sees a flashback
of images of events involving the ghost.

17. MONTAGE OF SHORT QUICK SHOTS INTERCUT WITH MONEY FALLING
IN S/M

18. INT. CABIN - DUSK

CUT TO toy boat falling into frame and hitting the floor
next to kid's foot. Father lying on the floor starring
forward. Reverse on the newspaper, slow zoom on headlines,
"Local Suspected in Killing Spree - Sheldon Haunting - Town
Shocked..." zoom continues on words Sheldon Haunting. Words
around it disappear.

CUT TO - face of dying father.

                         SHELDON'S MOTHER (O.C.)
            Sheldon! Sheldon Haunting!

19. EXT - WOODS - DAY

The ghost stands near the lake with the two children. Their
backs are all to the camera. He turns as he hears his
murderer's name being called out. The ghost looks shocked.
He turns his head to listen.

                                                            9.

Shocked and upset and then glares.

                                            FADE OUT

                         SHELDON'S MOTHER V/O
            Sheldon Haunting!

                                            THE END