Screenplay for 2 min opening

MEMOIRE

By Jack Monaghan

INT. CORRIDOR

We fade up on a door at the end of a long, white corridor. What is it? What significance does it have on an average human being? These are the questions running through the head of an individual walking slowly towards the door (from his POV). Upon reaching it, he places his hand on the doorknob, turns it and enters the room.

CUT TO:

INT. THE ROOM

The person stands behind the door (which has just closed behind him) and surveys the white, windowless room he stands in. Nothing to unusual stands in the room, just a chest of drawers in one corner and a table and chair in the other. But something then catches the person's eye, and shockingly we see that it is a dead person lying next to a wall, his face stained in blood.

Out of curiosity, the person walks slowly towards the body. Upon reaching it, he stops and looks at it as if examining it. He then procedes to take out a notebook and a pen and make notes about the body. Now and again he looks into its dead, lifeless eyes as he writes.

Once he finishes his notes, his attention then turns to the chest of drawers in the corner. We track alongside him as he wanders over to the chest of drawers. He then, upon reaching the drawers, opens the top drawer to see what's inside. From his POV, we can see that there is nothing in the drawer but a full ream of paper and a dead fly. Upon opening the second drawer, something catches the person's eye. He reaches in and we see that it is a small black book. Assuming it's something to do with the dead body near the wall.

From his POV, we can see that the book's pages contain a long list of various people's names. The person just stands there confused and without a lead or clue to what this.

PERSON

What does all this mean?

Suddenly the sound of a door creaking open catches the person's attention. We then see the barrell of a revolver poking through the gap in the door intercut with the part shocked, part alarmed look on the person's face.

BANG! The gun goes off and the person collapses on the floor dead. A voice is then heard over an intercom-like system.

VOICE

Unwanted memory, erased. Please clear the erasion room.

We then get one final glimpse of the room before we cut to black and go into the opening credits.