Script Draft Two

SCENE ONE

INT. Kitchen. Morning

JOHN AND COLIN are eating and getting ready for school in the kitchen, LINDA is already in the kitchen in her nightgown itching her arm. JOHN attemps to speak to his mother as she start's a convo with COLIN. JOHN gets up and leaves for school as his brother COLIN slowly follows.

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SCENE TWO

EXT. THE HOUSE. MORNING

JOHN walks through COLIN'S friends waiting outside as they mock and tease him he begins his journey. COLIN comes out and shakes his head and laughs with his friends about his brother tentively. They begin there journey to school.

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SCENE THREE

EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL - AFTERNOON

JOHN enters school not paying any attention to anything around him. He bumps into a girl. She looks up and curses him. JOHN see's his brother at the corner of his eye and they go there seperate ways. He stops and begins to think about all the abuse he receives at school. [VO]

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SCENE FOUR

INT. HOME - AFTERNOON

LINDA picks up a handful of letters, and browses through them until she comes across one that catches her eye labelled NHS. She hears someone come into the house, quickly hiding the letter she shouts out john? But then sees it is her eldest son COLIN, he can see through her eyes that she has something to tell him and ask what’s wrong she sits him down and tells him of the letter she received and how she is in desperate need of a kidney. JOHN then comes home from school, he hears the conversation taking place in the living room and quietly approaches the doorway, he is unheard.

LINDA

(CRYING)

Kidney Transplant

COLIN

(SHOCKED/CONFUSED)

Who Me?

COLIN then storms out of the room heading for the front door, barging JOHN on the way out they lock eyes and stare for a few seconds. LINDA drops into the sofa chair and begins to weep, COLIN then slowly walks in and tries to console mother but she politely brushes him off and instead asks what he wants for dinner. We then see a shot of JOHN's facial expression, he looks determined. 

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SCENE FIVE.

(THE NEXT DAY)

EXT. UPNEY WALK IN CLINIC – MORNING

JOHN walks in.

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                               (2 WEEKS LATER)

SCENE SIX 

  

INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY

LINDA is at home watching TV, the phone rings and she goes to pick it up without any interest, After 30 seconds of conversation she drops the phone in excitement. John walks into the living room. Although JOHN was outside the door and heard the whole conversation. LINDA embraces JOHN and tell him she had found a compatable kidney donor.

LINDA

(CRYING TEARS OF JOY)

I wonder who was man enough to do this.

LINDA hurries off to inform family and friends, leaving JOHN to smile to himself.

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