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hwp FADE IN:
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EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE, 1983 -- EVENING
A typical house in a pleasant suburban neighborhood.
Spielberg country.
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INT. BENOIT HOME -- EVENING
Whack!
A pick axe slams into a sofa, barely missing MELINDA BENOIT.
Sixteen, pretty, and athletic, Melinda scrambles over the
sofa, escapes the swinging pick axe. She runs to...
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INT. BEDROOM -- EVENING
Slams the door closed, no lock, wedges her body against it.
Scared to death.
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INT. BENOIT HOME -- EVENING
The KILLER climbs over the sofa in pursuit.
We cant see the Killers face, only the garden gloved hands
holding the pick axe and an occasional flash of long hair.
The Killer SLAMS his body against the bedroom door.
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INT. BEDROOM -- EVENING
Melinda scoots as the door is forced a few inches open.
She presses back on the door, closing it.
WHAM! Its slammed open again.
Melinda tries pressing it closed, but the Killers gloved
hand reaches in and grabs her. Yanks on her hair. Melinda
screams and slams the door closed on the Killers hand.
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INT. BENOIT HOME -- EVENING
The Killer withdraws his hand, raises the pick axe.
2.
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INT. BEDROOM -- EVENING
The door SPLINTERS over Melinda. She screams, scrambles away.
Spots the telephone on the night stand, crawls to it as the
pick axe splinters away at the door.
In the bed, her parents MR. & MRS. BENOIT lay dead.
Melinda grabs the (rotary) phone, starts dialing 911.
The door rips open, the Killer enters, pick axe swinging.
Melinda lets go of the phone, hides under the bed.
The Killer hits the hang up bar on the phone, returns handset
to cradle, reaches under the bed for Melinda.
Melinda crawls away from the searching hand.
She crawls to the left side of the bed, the gloved hand
reaches in from the left.
She crawls to the right side of the bed, the hand reaches
from the right.
In the center of the bed, out of reach of the sides. Safe.
Until the gloved hands grab her ankles and YANK her out from
under the bed. Melinda screams as the pick axe falls.
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EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE, 1983 -- EVENING
A siren screams as a Santa Mira sheriffs car pulls up.
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INT. BENOIT HOME -- EVENING
A pair of SHERIFFs cautiously enter the house, guns drawn.
Used to breaking up domestic disputes and making sure drunks
dont drive home, they arent prepared for all of the blood.
Sitting on the floor, singing a childish lullaby, is YOUNG
ROGER Grandfort. Fifteen years old, long hair, baby faced.
Clothes blood stained, the pick axe lays on the floor nearby.
YOUNG ROGER
(sings lullaby)
Hush little dreamer, off to sleep.
No reason to fear the shadows creep.
Drift little sleeper, off to dreams.
Slumber through the midnight screams...
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(CONTINUED)
3.
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SHERIFF #1 keeps his gun on Young Roger as SHERIFF #2 looks
into the bedroom... almost gets sick.
SHERRIFF #2 (O.S.)
Roger? Roger? What have you done?
Young Roger keeps singing the lullaby as Sheriff #1 and
Sheriff #2 cuff him, and lead him away from the carnage.
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EXT. GRANDFORT HACIENDA -- DAY
Elegant, secluded. The Grandfort family built Santa Mira,
and lives in the single story palace on the outskirts.
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INT. LIVING ROOM -- DAY
Small town Attorney DON LARRUE paces across from wealthy
widow MRS. GRANDFORT, who relaxes on a divan.
MRS. GRANDFORT
But Roger says hes innocent.
Attractive, early forties, shes used to getting her way.
Unhappy at this situation.
LARRUE
Ruth, he was at the house...
MRS. GRANDFORT
He went to see that daughter of theirs,
found them all dead.
LARRUE
He had the victims blood on his
clothes...
A servant, CASSY, enters with a tray of iced tea and glasses.
MRS. GRANDFORT
Thank you, Cassy. You may leave.
She pours a glass from the pitcher.
MRS. GRANDFORT
Iced tea?
LARRUE
No.
(beat)
Roger has been in trouble before.
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(CONTINUED)
4.
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MRS. GRANDFORT
Drugs, drink, brawling. Youthful
indiscretions. Nothing like this.
Why would he want to kill that girl?
LARRUE
She was two months pregnant. His
child, he admits it. Maybe she refused
to get an abortion. Wanted him to
marry her. I dont know, and Roger
isnt talking.
MRS. GRANDFORT
He said hes innocent.
LARRUE
Melinda put up a hell of a fight.
Scratched the killer. Had his blood
under her fingernails. Rogers blood.
MRS. GRANDFORT
How can you know that?
LARRUE
The Benoit family are Type A, Roger
is O negative.
Mrs. Grandfort sets her iced tea down. Worried.
LARRUE
The blood evidence ties him to the
crime. So does the murder weapon.
It was the pick axe from your shed.
(beat)
He brought the weapon with him. Thats
premeditation.
MRS. GRANDFORT
Do you think he did this?
LARRUE
(reluctant)
Yes.
MRS. GRANDFORT
My God.
(beat)
What should I do?
LARRUE
The DAs going to try him as an adult,
maybe even go for the death penalty.
(MORE)
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(CONTINUED)
5.
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LARRUE (CONTD)
(beat)
Im good for contracts and wills, but
Rogers going to need a big gun lawyer
for this. Someone like F. Lee Baily.
MRS. GRANDFORT
I dont know.
LARRUE
You can afford it. Hes your son.
MRS. GRANDFORT
Is he? How could my son do something
like this? My own flesh and
