The boogeyman

The Boogeyman By Releh Daloo

Readers notice: The reader must acknowledge that every interior space described in the text during night time, is lit, unless it is mentioned not to be so.

INT / SEVERAL BEDROOMs // NIGHT /// YEAR 1819 A.D Several shoots of people sleeping in their beds.

INT / LIVING ROOM // NIGHT A living room.The owner has fallen asleep watching tv,the tv is still on,on it,Helios´s enterprise ad.(song)"Choose Helios bulbs,that´s right!Or you will run out of light,and through the dark,they will come,they will come,rapers murderers of worst,The Boogeyman.But if you are with us,there´s no fright,there´s no fright, with our Safety light,if our bulb is broken or runs out of live (an image of an already useless bulb with a security led being lit inside 5 seconds later)5 seconds and everything is fine.Don’t wait for your deadline, put Helios at your service,the star that always shine" EXT / FRONT OF BUILDING // NIGHT The facade of an apartment building,light emanates from every window.Suddenly one of the rooms is plunged into darkness,5 seconds later light comes up again,a shadow is reflected over the walls, THE BOOGEYMAN. INT / WHITE´S BEDROOM // NIGHT WHITE and AMBER lie asleep on their bed.White´s phone rings.

WHITE Hi Rose.How old?(sighs)Ok, sent me a picture of the place,I´ll be there in five.(end call).

AMBER Another one?.Jesus Christ.What a monster, what-(lying down again)I justWHITE (Dressing up)I won´t be long,um,do you mind waiting for me,I´ll send you aAMBER Message, I know.

White´s phone vibrates-Rose´s message-in it a picture of a toilet,WHITE stares at it for a moment,puts the phone in his pocket,finish dressing and prepare to leave.

WHITE Can you?

Amber turns off the light.

INT / TOILET-AISLE-ROOM // NIGHT

2.

WHITE (In total darkness)Light please!

Door opens,light cames into the space,we see WHITE,he is in the toilet from the picture. (coming into the aisle) Bu. ROSE is at the other side of the door,after WHITE gets out,she turns the toilet lights on and close the door behind them.

ROSE (looking at him)Jesus,I thought my face was a poem.Are you ok?

WHITE (walking throught the aisle)I´ve slept 3 hours in the last 5 days,half of them dreaming about this nutter.Lucid fucking nightmare.Where...?

ROSE The room on the left.

WHITE pass by the living room,in it a desolated couple is talking with an officer,he studies them for a moment and continues to the incident´s room.The room is covered with blood, child´s toys are scattered over the floor,a kid lies on his bed,he has been stabbed several times,there´s no main bulb,a small lamp has been brought to take his place,it´s light stress the tragedy of the scene.WHITE contemplates everything quite perturbed.Rose comes in.

Dejavu um?

WHITE Any...em,any clues?

ROSE Nothing new;no traces, knife again, lacking bulb,no noise... the family is not the original owner,so we have thousands of persons who could know the place,the switch is on the parent´s room,as normal,so we know the lights were on the whole night,I´ve asked for the possibility of the bulb running out of live,but the house use Helios bulbs,as normal, and no safety mode was activated.

WHITE So this tosser has managed to turn off the lights, magically,then turn them on (MORE)

3.

WHITE (cont’d) again-or else I can´t imagine how the fuck he could remain silent over all this mess-stabb the kid... and take out the bulb so he could leave through darkness.(Checking a trace in the pool of blood)Now,why is he taking the bulbs with him...

INT / BASEMENT // NIGHT No light,we hear something being twisted,the click of a switch,a bulb covered in blood lights the place(close shoot).

INT / WHITE´S BEDROOM // NIGHT AMBER lies in bed reading a book.Amber´s phone vibrates, after checking it,turns off and on the lights.WHITE appears.

AMBER Where was it this time?

WHITE Glengarry,he is touring around all the damn country.

Blackout,5 seconds later,light comes up again.

Ogh,of all times.

AMBER What did you expect?its been a year since the last update,didn´t I tell you last week lights were going to burn out.Thank goodness we´ve Helios.

WHITE I know,I know...(realising)Fuck, hoooly shit(taking the phone).

AMBER What?What happens?

WHITE (Not now)Rose-listen-LISTEN.He don´t turn off the lights,he just knows when they will be off!-the kind of damn difference that will let us rip this fucker ass!Call Helio´s office, give them the victims adresses,I want a name,and I want the team working on it NOW. INT / BASEMENT // NIGHT

4.

More "blood" bulbs being lighted.

INT / AISLE-POLICE WORKROOM // DAY /// 7:00 WHITE comes out into the aisle from the police darkroom.

WHITE (Watching Rose at the end of the aisle)Rose! NAME. ROSE (Finish Helios call)Ok thanks.Nate Black,worked in all the victims houses,there´s no adress and he is on his free day so we can´t contact him,he had been working with them for 8 years,over 9000 houses to examine,I´ll have the list in a couple of minutes,now some good news,though they don´t have any personal monitoring of their workers schedule,they´ve checked the dates the victims houses were updated,there´s a chronological order.

WHITE So we just have to know which was the first house with children being updated after Glengarry.(coming into the workroom,dozens of sleppless faces)GOOD MORNING BOYS!I know you´re all tired and irritated,but SWALLOW IT,this psycho will kill a child TONIGHT,and between him and the kid,US and a MOTHERFUCKING LIST with over 9000 damn adresses,in it hundreds of potential victims,Helios got their dates of electricity update,only ONE match the timing,any questions (signals ROSE),midnight as we all know is our DEADLINE,until then WE DON´T STOP,need something to hang on to?Here´s a name, NATE BLACK. INT / BASEMENT // DAY Cenital shoot of the basement,BLACK opens his arms embracing the warm that emanates from the bulbs,his shadows spread over the floor and walls dressed in red.

INT / POLICE WORKROOM // DAY /// 14:00 BLUE brings coffees to the team,stops at BROWN table.

5.

WHITE How many potential victims?

BROWN Over 400,and we´ve only run through half of the list.

WHITE Fucking nutter, as if 55 kids wasn´t enough...

INT / BASEMENT // DAY BLACK opens a closet,in it a bulb greenhouse,dozens of bulbs are lit,labels mark their lifetime and when they were lit.(10000 H, 03/11/1817 21:00)Black takes one of them, then opens his work briefcase,in it several new Helios bulbs,there is only one remaining gap with a blank label in it,on the wall similar labels marking when and where a bulb will momentarily be off.He carefully place the bulb in the gap and close the briefcase.

INT / POLICE WORKROOM // NIGHT /// 23:00 VIOLET End of the list Chief!

WHITE Right!ADDRESS. BROWN Brick Lane 61 2 floor,phone 0...

WHITE (dialing)Now for Christ sake,take the phone...-Yes(checking Brown´s PC)Mrs Blue?-Right,I´m gonna need a picture of your place.

INT / BASEMENT // NIGHT BLACK gets ready,gloves,knife and pierced sack,THE BOOGEYMAN. INT / BLUE´S BEDROOM // NIGHT A worried Mrs BLUE leads WHITE into the bedroom,he lets her know she is free to leave,pulls out his gun and lantern,sighs deeply and knocks on the wall.Lights go off(Mrs BLUE),WHITE;a man pushed to his limit, a night owl,waiting for its prey;turns on the lantern,then off again,on,off,on,off...

Credits, on the background "the Boogeyman" by Henry Hall.