troubled minds

Shot of dark, unfocused room, police sirens in background

door opens, man with brown hair and jeans walks in with big

wal*mart bag, whistling cheery tune.Man walks across room,

background unfocused.Tosses bag to ground and zoom in on

bag, visible red stains on bag.Zoom back on man walking

through house.theres an arm hanging from a vent and obvious

stains on carpet. other corpses mildly hidden across

house.man doing daily life activities. sits on chair and

turns on tv. Zoom in on tv. Detective in 50s clothing giving

speech on how he caught a killer. Words on bottom of screen

read “estranged detective catches killer”

Detective: “… it was quite obvious to the great owl, it

turns out that she killed her own mother in an attempt to

collect insurance money. after all dames go with murder like

crackers go with bree.”

switches back to man on chair laughing.

Man: “amature”

Man switches channel Children show is on, man gets up walks

to window and pushes aside curtains Wide shot of house and

of him peering out of the window

car passes camera and shot moves up into the sky and lowers in to the window of detectives office

detective: “The little blue bird flew from the safety of her

nest to ask assistance of the great owl, but the great owl

don’t know if he wants to help”

Woman in blue dress walks in the office

woman: (Sobbing) “I need your help”

detective: “I know”

Woman has confused look on her face but ignores it

detective: “The peacock is underestimated by many, but no one is unseen by the great owl”

woman: “The peacock?”

detective: “only a matter of time until the peacock shows

its teeth, he blinds most of us with flamboyant colors but

the great owl sees past its facade”

lady: “Um, I want to catch a killer… Or actually I want

you to”

detective: “hmm, the great owl accepts your distress and

will take on this noble quest, the only unanswered question

is… the great owls compensation”

woman: “does 1500$ cut it?”

detective: “hmmm, great owl will consider this offer, (snaps

fingers and points at door) leave!”

Woman leaves

ZOOMED IN ON AN APPLE on a cutting board, background black.

man picks up knife, blood stained and begins cutting apple,

smiling to himself. suddenly a rat scampers across counter.

without even looking at target, man throws knife at the rat.

man picks up knife again and continues cutting apple.

phone rings

walks over, chewing on piece of apple, to phone and waits

for it to go to voice mail.

girl on phone: ” Phil? Phil? are you there? It’s Jessica.

pick up the phone. I haven’t heard from dad for a few weeks,

are you okay?”

smile widens on mans face then looks backwards at the hand

hanging from vent.

detectives office. zoomed in on door of detective. which reads “great owl” Phone rings at which point the detective

detective picks up phone.

detective: ” go for great”

woman: “another persons gone missing, we think it could

the same person”

detective: “very well, the great owl is on the case”

hangs up the phone.

detective turns on computer and signs in to twitter posting:

“The owl is on the prowl. :D”

shot of woman walking around looking curious.

she goes to her house and rips off crime scene tape to look

around for any evidence, house looks as though there was a

struggle. she lifts up various objects looking closely at

them.

Thinking inside voice of woman: ” if he was taken between

the hours of 5:00 and 7:00 while I was out shopping, then I

should probably look for anyone without an alliby.”

ZOOM IN OF FRONT DOOR, THERE’S A KNOCK THE DOOR IS ANSWERED AT WHICH POINT YOU SEE woman.

woman: “where were you between the hours of 5:00 and 7:00?”

voice behind door: “I think I was at the strip club.” DOOR CLOSES

ZOOM IN OF FRONT DOOR, THERE’S A KNOCK THE DOOR IS ANSWERED AT WHICH POINT YOU SEE woman.

woman: “where were you between the hours of 5:00 and 7:00?”

voice behind door: “I was dancing at the strip club.” DOOR CLOSES.

ZOOM IN OF FRONT DOOR, THERE’S A KNOCK THE DOOR IS ANSWERED AT WHICH POINT YOU SEE woman.

woman: “where were you between the hours of 5:00 and

7:00?”

voice behind door: “The great owl was eating a cheese steak

sandwich.” DOOR CLOSES.

ZOOM IN OF FRONT DOOR, THERE’S A KNOCK THE DOOR IS ANSWERED AT WHICH POINT YOU SEE woman.

woman: “where were you between the hours of 5:00 and

7:00?”

voice behind door: “I was… at the… rectory! confessing

my sins… before… the budha… yeah…you jerk.”

Thinking inside voice of woman: “the rectory is Christian

not Budist… he must be lying.”

ZOOMED INTO DETECTIVES DOOR, PHONE RINGS AND THE GREAT OWL ANSWERS.

detective: “go for great.”

woman: “I think I found a suspect. he wasn’t able to answer

my questions”

detective: “good job. I’ll be right there”

woman: “great” hangs up

Voice behind woman : “who would you be talking about?”

detective jumps on man from tree

detective: “so the peacock rears his venomous head? but the

great owl sees all!”

man: “your demented!”

detective: “say that to my gunchucks!” pulls out two guns

attached by chains from his coat and flails them around,

sound of bullets firing off and woman falls down shot.

detective: “darn. I’m out of ammo!” throws gunchucks away

start fight scene (intense music)

end of fight scene, woman and detective make out, woman dies  saying

woman: “you know I’m a dude right?”

detective looks at camera

detective:”the great owl takes what he can get”

role credits with outrageously happy music in background

By: Julien and Billium