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FADE IN : 1 INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT DONOVAN, early twenties, lies on a mattress. He wears a sleep mask with two bloodshot eyeballs printed on it. An EXPLOSION. Donovan leaps up, clawing the mask off. DONOVAN Donovan looks around, blinking. Nearby is GARY, scruffy, in his military sleeping bag. He wears a headlamp, has a cast on his foot, and is focused intently on his cell phone. DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN Donovan whumps back into bed. He rustles around, trying to get comfortable. As he does, the bed stand wobbles. A boxed set of Chinese therapeutic balls falls off. One of the balls hits the floor with a CHIME, bounces, rolls across the floor. The ball comes to a stop with a DING against a PISTOL. Next to the pistol is a SKI MASK. DONOVAN Donovan shakes a Magic 8-ball and gazes into it. GARY Donovan sits up, hiding the Magic 8-ball. DONOVAN GARY Gary clicks on a light. On the floor is an intricate scale diorama of a liquor store and parking lot, made from popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and other garbage. Dramatic music plays as we see the model from different angles. Gary turns off his boom box, the source of the dramatic music. He points a telescoping pointer into the diorama.
2 INT. DIORAMA OF CONVENIENCE STORE - NIGHT An action figure stands, holding a pistol. GARY Gary points to another action figure. GARY A clerk action figure is behind the counter, hands up. DONOVAN JUMP CUT - The clerk action figure holds a machine gun. GARY DONOVAN GARY Gary’s figure cocks his gun, and REAL GUNSHOT NOISES emit. The clerk contorts into different poses with each shot. DONOVAN A huge, muscular commando-looking action figure emerges from a doorway, holding twin pistols. GARY A heated pistol exchange. Gary guns down the manager. A woman action figure pulls a gun from her purse. DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN Gary’s figure has a lit stick of dynamite in his hands. DONOVAN GARY Gary’s action figure appears behind the counter, wearing lab goggles, a series of beakers and tubes in front of him. DONOVAN Plastic cop cars screech into a circle outside the store. GARY Gary’s action figure appears out in front, holding a gatling gun. He sprays the parking lot with imaginary bullets. The cops scream and tumble behind their cars. GARY A toy car has a large 16mm gun mounted to the top. DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY A huge platoon of little green army men arrives on the scene, accompanied by tanks and artillery. Gary’s figure gets in a gunfight with the National Guard. The scene gets progressively more violent and chaotic, until finally a plane flies overhead, dropping a plastic A-bomb out of its cargo bay. The parachute floats down. An image of a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION is projected on the diorama and the wall behind. 3 INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT Donovan sits in his bed, back against the wall. The mushroom cloud footage is painted across his face. DONOVAN Gary is by the diorama. A projector casts the images of war on the wall. He lights an action figure on fire, and makes the sound effect of someone being incinerated. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK Donovan jumps. He and Gary both look at the alarm clock. Donovan reaches for the clock. He pushes buttons. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY Gary suddenly has a pistol in his hand. DONOVAN Gary loads a red rubber dart into the pistol. He cocks it. GARY Gary turns off his headlamp. He sort-of disappears. GARY Gary, totally visible, worms his way along the floorboards, like he’s crawling through a trench. DONOVAN Gary pops up and puts the gun in Donovan's face. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY 4 INT. CONVENIENCE STORE – NIGHT (DREAM SEQUENCE) Donovan enters a typical convenience store. He looks around nervously, scanning the store. A WOMAN is by the counter, trying to choose a flavor of beef jerky. The ethnic CLERK is arguing into his cell phone in a foreign language. Gary is by the magazine rack, in disguise. He’s dressed in a white painter’s suit, with a long wooden roller in the crook of his arm. He pretends to read a guns-and-ammo type magazine. Mustering his courage, Donovan walks up to the counter. He pulls a folded note from his pocket. He places it carefully on the counter, and gives the clerk a serious look. The clerk is oblivious. At a loss, Donovan unfolds the note, smoothing the wrinkles so the clerk can read it. The clerk ignores him, continuing to argue into his cell phone. DONOVAN Gary doesn’t hear Donovan. He’s now actually absorbed in the magazine. Donovan tries to wave to him, to no avail. The woman sets her items on the counter. Seeing the note, she turns it slightly to read it. NOTE: Dear Clerk, (There's a magic-marker drawing of a stick figure holding a pistol, and another handing over a sack of money). Sincerely, Robber. The woman looks fearfully over at Donovan. DONOVAN Donovan reaches for the note. The woman, interpreting it as an attack, gasps. WOMAN DONOVAN She runs for the back of the store. Gary looks up, sees the woman running into the aisles. He drops the magazine and runs to cut her off. TOY SECTION - Gary slows. Something catches his eye. Donovan, still by the counter, looks around. Gary walks out of the toy aisle, absorbed in a packaged action figure. The woman appears behind him, running for the door. Donovan hisses at Gary and points behind him. Gary turns, just as the woman careens past him. He topples backwards, disappearing into an aisle with a CRASH. Donovan is about to go to him, but freezes. There is the sound of a gun clicking. Donovan turns to see the clerk holding a SHOTGUN in his face. DONOVAN There is a CRUNCH. Donovan winces, then looks around. Gary is SCREAMING. He hops out from the aisle. He's now wearing a full hunter's outfit, and has a BEAR TRAP on his foot. The clerk gives a laugh. Donovan does a double-take: the bald clerk now has long, golden locks of hair. The clerk gives Donovan a smile and a wink. He pulls the trigger. 5 INT. AUTOMOBILE - DAY Donovan wakes up. He’s in the passenger seat of a cluttered old car, clutching a first aid kit. Next to him, Gary arranges action figures on the dash. GARY DONOVAN GARY Gary’s focus returns to the action figures. DONOVAN GARY His and Donovan's characters sit in snazzy, James Bond type sports car. It’s parked in front of a photograph of a convenience store. Donovan looks out the window. They're parked in front of the actual convenience store, but in their ratty, beat-up Pontiac Grand-Prix. DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN Donovan opens up the door and PUKES into the gutter. Gary looks at him questioningly. GARY DONOVAN Donovan stops. He opens the door, ready to puke again. GARY DONOVAN Gary's watch alarm goes BEEP BEEP BEEP. GARY Donovan closes the door. DONOVAN Gary turns off his video game. He opens the glove box. Inside are two ski masks, the real pistol, the rubber dart pistol, two walkie talkies, and some black makeup. Gary rubs black makeup around his eyes. They don their masks. They clip on walkie-talkies. Gary cocks his real pistol. Donovan pulls a rubber dart out of his and discards it. DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN Gary points his pistol at Donovan's action figure. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY A moment of silence. Donovan starts counting again. DONOVAN Gary looks over at Donovan. He's holding his action figure, white-knuckled, trying to put the arm back on. Gary grabs Donovan’s ski mask and tugs it off. DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY Gary throws the car door open. 6 EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY Gary’s foot, covered in the cast, thumps down. The rubber end of a wrist-supported crutch POKS on the pavement. With a POK...POK...POK Gary begins to slowly, slowly crutch across the parking lot. Gary mutters fiercely under his breath. He whips his gun around at any little sound. A kid on a BMX bike rides by, almost knocking Gary over. He recovers, and tracks the kid with his pistol. Back in the car, Donovan looks increasingly ashamed as he watches Gary crutch across the parking lot. 7 EXT. CONVENIENCE STORE - DAY Gary nears the door. His breathing quickens as he psychs himself up. He makes it right up to the door and then- SLAM! Gary crashes into the closed doors. He looks down. The sign reads ‘PULL’. In one hand Gary’s holding the crutch, in the other the pistol. Gary tries to open the door with the pinky fingers of the gun-hand. No dice. He then tries to put the gun sideways in his mouth, like a pirate. The gun CLATTERS to the ground. Gary sighs. He reaches down for the gun, fingers stretching. Another hand grabs the pistol. Gary looks up. It’s Donovan. His ski mask on, he holds the pistol limply. Gary *almost* smiles. A signal passes between them, unspoken, and the two step forward, reaching for the door handles. CLUNK! The doors are locked. GARY DONOVAN Gary mashes his face against the window. GARY DONOVAN GARY Gary KNOCKS on the glass repeatedly. GARY DONOVAN Gary looks at his watch again. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN
Gary pulls his ski mask off and throws it on the ground. DONOVAN Gary sits with a WHUMP on the curb, looking dejected. DONOVAN GARY Donovan sits down next to Gary and takes his mask off. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN GARY Gary pulls out his phone and starts playing video games. The two sit in silence for a moment. A CLERK walks into frame. He unlocks the front door of the convenience store and turns out the ‘OPEN’ sign. DONOVAN GARY 8 INT. CONVENIENCE STORE - DAY Donovan sets a cup of coffee down on the counter. He looks out the window of the store. Gary is on the curb, playing his video game, looking pretty dejected. 9 EXT. CONVENIENCE STORE - DAY DONOVAN Donovan hands Gary a packaged action figure. GARY DONOVAN GARY DONOVAN Donovan sips his coffee, glad to see Gary's reaction. GARY Donovan's smile freezes on his face. DONOVAN GARY
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Bradley
King, 1999-2004.