A Monster Calls Page #4
SuLLY
Your puppy’s here to save you,
O’Malley!
Outraged, Lily - who is, in fact, a little puppy-ish - pushes
Sully hard. Surprised, he falls backwards over a shrubbery.
LILY:
I’m just making it a fair fight!
23.
MISS KWAN (O.S.)
LILY EVANS!
Everyone freezes as Head of Year MISS KWAN (late 30s, British-
Chinese descent, stern but fair) storms over.
LILY:
They started it, Miss!
MisS KWAN
I don’t want to hear it.
(to Sully, now rising)
Are you hurt, Sullivan?
Sully, seeing an opening, fakes injury. Badly.
SullY
I might need to go home, Miss.
MISS KWAN:
Don’t milk it.
(to Lily)
My office, Lily.
LILY:
But, Miss, they were-
MISS KWAN:
Now.
LILY:
They were making fun of Conor’s
mother!
Everyone freezes. A dangerous silence.
Miss KWAN
Is this true, Conor?
Conor looks from Anton to Sully, and on to Lily, her face
burning with injustice, but then to Harry, who is as calm and
firmly fixed on Conor as ever.
ConoR
(eyes on Harry)
No, Miss. I just fell. They were
helping me up.
Lily looks like she’s been slapped.
MISS KWAN:
Get to your forms.
(to Lily)
Not you.
Miss Kwan drags an aghast Lily away. Conor watches them go.
When he turns back, Harry is holding out Conor’s bag for him.
24.
Harry
Well done, O’Malley.
Beat. Conor takes the bag and makes his way inside.
25.
19 Int. Physical Social and Education class - lATER 19
A Powerpoint display at the front of the class reads: “THE
MIRACLE OF BIRTH”. MR CLARK, 40s, wry, kind, perhaps a bit
soft, steps up next to it.
Mr Clark
Brace yourselves.
Conor sits at the back, an empty desk next to him. He looks
very drowsy.
MR Clark (CONT’D)
We’ve been studying this all week.
You’ve seen the diagrams, heard the
descriptions. You think you’re
ready to watch the real thing.
He gives a you-have-no-idea-what-you’re-in-for chuckle and
clicks to start a hilariously graphic CHILDBIRTH DOCUMENTARY
on the Powerpoint.
The sounds from the documentary (”The cervix fully dilates to
10 centimeters and the baby's head crowns when the widest
part of it reaches the vaginal opening”, complete with sounds
of a mother in labour) fade as we focus on Conor, looking
exhausted, falling asleep propping up his face with his hand.
He’s sitting under the A/C vent and the sound of it starts to
merge with a WIND sound, that eventually rises to the
SOUNDTRACK of the NIGHTMARE we heard over the TITLES. We
close on Conor, the soundtrack rising to a FAINT SCREAMING
(”Conor!”).
Mr Clark (CONT’D)
Conor?
Conor jumps as Mr Clark is right next to him. He waits to see
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