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... Alan is now inside a coffin.
He’s KICKING AT THE WOODEN BOARDS ABOVE and SCREAMING TO BE RELEASED.
It’s not helping.
From above, we hear the familiar LAUGHTER OF THE SCHOOLBOYS.
REVEAL: The “coffin” is make-shift; the Boys have constructed it out of the broken floorboards of a half-finished class room. Alan is buried underground, and they’re nailing him in.
ALAN TURING (V.O.)
Do you know why people like
violence? Because it feels good.
The THUMP THUMP of nails entering the boards.
ALAN TURING (V.O.)
Humans find violence deeply
satisfying. But remove the
satisfaction, and the act
becomes... Hollow.
FROM INSIDE THE COFFIN: Alan goes silent.
The Boys pound away, but the silence unnerves them.
BOY #1
Alan? Alan?
BOY #2
C’mon don’t be such a kike about
it...
BOY #3
Leave him to bloody rot.
The Boys LEAVE.
There’s still only SILENCE from inside Alan’s coffin.
Alan breathes slowly. Quietly. Controls his shivering to barely a tremor. He waits.
ALAN TURING (V.O.)
I didn’t learn this on my own
though. I had help.
Suddenly, the boards above him CREAK. Then BEND. Then SNAP.
Then an ARM REACHES DOWN and PULLS Alan out of the coffin.
REVEAL: CHRISTOPHER MORCOM, 16, tall, pretty, and charming in ways that Alan will never, ever be.
CHRISTOPHER
Christ, I thought they were going
to kill you.
Christopher PULLS Alan from the floorboard coffin and they —