Donnie Darko Page #3

ELIZABETH:

I caught him flushing pills down the

toilet. He knows you check the

container.

INT. DONNIE'S ROOM - NEXT

Donnie lies on his bed, reading "Collected Short Stories" by

Graham Greene. His room is an organised wreck.

Rose enters and begins to pick things up of the floor.

DONNIE:

Get out of my room.

Rose bitterly turns to leave, but stops at the door.

ROSE:

I wish I knew where you went at night.

(beat)

Did you toilet paper the Johnson's

house?

DONNIE:

(still reading)

I stopped rolling houses in the sixth

grade, Mom.

(beat)

Get out of my room.

ROSE:

You know... it would be nice to look

at you some time... and see my son.

I don't recognise this person today.

DONNIE:

Then why don't you start taking the

goddamn pills?

Donnie leans over and turns off his lamp. Rose turns and

leaves her son alone in the dark, closing the door behind

her.

DONNIE:

B*tch.

INT. UPSTAIRS HALLWAY - NEXT

Rose stops in her tracks, hearing this. She then walks into

her bedroom and closes the door.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NEXT

Rose goes into bed with Eddie, who is reading a hardback

copy of Stephen King's "The Tommyknockers".

ROSE:

Our son just called me a b*tch.

EDDIE:

(beat)

You're not a b*tch.

INT. UPSTAIRS BATHROOM - NEXT

Donnie removes his pills from the medicine cabinet. We see

insert that reads: L. THURMAN M.D.

He looks at the bottle for a moment, and then takes three

pills and swallows them... staring at his reflection in the

mirror.

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