As a person or two may have noticed I included Roderick Usher in a small part even though he never submitted a character. I'm going to try that with Kemal this time. Another quickie.
CHAPTER 4
FADE IN:
INT. BLAKE CITY INSANE ASLYUM, JAMES MACKY'S CELL - DAY
James Macky awakes in his cell, dazed. He's clearly been drugged. His clothes have been replaced by a white t-shirt and white sweatpants. He stands and weakly walks toward the door that is completely covered in rubber. There is a knock from the outside followed by a deep voice.
KEMAL (O.S.)
(laughs)
You up, Dynamo?
MACKY
Is that you, Kemal?
KEMAL (O.S.)
Yep. You know what that means, right?
MACKY
Lunch.
KEMAL (O.S.
You've been out longer than you thought. It's dinner time.
A small plastic tube feeds out of the wall and pours in a gas that puts Macky right to sleep. He hits the rubber floor of his cell. The tube goes back into the wall. Kemal opens the door and enters. He's a large, intimidating black man. He's holding a dinner tray and wearing a gas mask. He places it by Macky's face and walks out.
INT. BLAKE CITY INSANE ASYLUM, HALLWAY - DAY
Kemal pushes forward a rack, two trays sit atop it. He stops outside of the next cell, removes his gas mask and bangs on the door.
KEMAL
It's 4:30. Supper time, Mr. Romero!
INT. BLAKE CITY INSANE ASYLUM, JASON ROMERO'S CELL - DAY
Sitting in the corner of the room is what looks to be a corpse. But it lifts it's head, this is Jason Romero, the ZOMBIE MAN. His hair is in tufts, long and thin. His eyes are the shame shade of yellow that his teeth are. His skin is browned, dried, and cracked. The lower-right bit of his jaw is missing, as he turns his head his tongue swings out of the opening. The door opens and Kemal walks in. Jason leaps forward. Pulled back by a chain attached to the wall. Kemal laughs at him.
KEMAL
You never learn do you.
Saliva begins to pour out of the opening of Romero's mouth. He speaks, his voice slurred.
ROMERO
I've been thinking about this since I got here.
KEMAL
What's that? The apple cobbler?
ROMERO
The second your flesh touches my tongue.
KEMAL
Well, the apple cobbler's close enough.
Kemal exits the cell.
INT. BLAKE CITY INSANE ASYLUM, HALLWAY - DAY
Kemal pushes the cart to the last cell, it seems less secure than the rest. It's clearly a trusted resident's cell. Kemal opens the door and steps back. He looks in at a dead body of an inmate. He quickly grabs his walkie-talkie.
KEMAL (into walkie talkie)
We need help, Mr. Lee is-
Kemal stops moving, drops to his knees. Then becomes alert again, he looks around, his body now seems strange to him. He gets worried.
KEMAL
No, no, no.
He grabs his name-tag and reads it.
KEMAL
No! It was supposed to be an inmate!