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DETECTIVE:
-- and you didn't load the gun?
ARTHUR BARRINGER
Why would I load the gun?
CUT TO:
INT. APARTMENT/HALLWAY - THAT MOMENT
CAMERA moves through as OFFICERS are talking to and getting
statements from VARIOUS NEIGHBORS...CAMERA closes in on
an EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY, speaking with a DETECTIVE.
NARRATOR:
A young boy who lived in the building,
sometimes a vistor and friend to Sydney
Barringer said that he had seen,
six days prior the loading of the shotgun --
The DETECTIVE turns his head and calls to another --
DETECTIVE:
C'mere a minute --
CUT TO:
INT. APARTMENT - DAY - FLASHBACK.
CAMERA moves into a bedroom area where we see a FIGURE from
the back sitting on the bed --
NARRATOR:
It seems that the arguing and the
fighting and all of the violence was far
too much for Sydney Barringer and knowing
his mother and father's tendency to fight,
CAMERA reveals that it is Sydney Barringer who is loading
the shotgun. The YOUNG BOY is sitting nearby, watching Sydney
mumble to himself as he loads shells into the shotgun.
CUT TO:
INT. APARTMENT/HALLWAY - PRESENT
CAMERA moves in on the YOUNG BOY, who looks INTO CAMERA.
YOUNG BOY:
He said he wanted them to kill
each other, that all they wanted to
do was kill each other and he would
help them if that's what they wanted to do --
CUT TO:
EXT. BUILDING/ROOFTOP - DAY - FLASHBACK
This is a WIDE ANGLE REPLAY of the whole event. We see the whole
bui1ding...Sydney starts to jump and the film suddenly slows down...
A diagram is made to reflect the narration...this is done like NFL
coverage where the x's and o's and arrows and lines are drawn to
indicate placement and moves, etc.)
An x appears on the top of the building over Sydney.
NARRATOR:
Sydney Barringer jumps from the ninth floor rooftop --
His parents argue three stories below --
An o is marked to indicate their position. Image goes into MOTION
with Sydney jumping...an ARROW is drawn that displays the PATH of
his fall --
NARRATOR:
Her accidental shotgun blast hits Sydney
in the stomach as he passes the arguing
Freeze Frame shows Sydney, hanging mid-air -- the glass shattering and
starting to fall to the ground -- an X marks the spot where he is hit.
NARRATOR:
He is killed instantly but continues
to fall -- only to find, three stories
below -- a safety net installed
three days prior for a set of window washers
that would have broken his fall and saved
his life if not for the hole in his stomach.
A squiggly line with an arrow is drawn from Sydney to the net to
indicate the path -- UNFREEZE frame and watch Sydney fall into the net
CUT TO:
INT. APARTMENT - DAY
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