A Quiet Place Page #5

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EXT. WOODS - AFTERNOON

They enter a small patch of forest. Fast as they can.

EXT. WOODS, PATH - AFTERNOON

April trips and falls. Will doesn’t stop to help her.

INT. WOODS, HORSE STALL - AFTERNOON

Will lunges into an empty horse stall. He tips over a TOOL

BOX and grabs a pack of MATCHES.

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INT. FARMHOUSE, BATHROOM - AFTERNOON

Mia’s face is flush and sweaty. A pool of blood surrounds

her. She breathes heavy as...

A NEWBORN BABY BEGINS TO CRY -

EXT. WOODS, PATH - AFTERNOON

-- April gets very still. She turns up the VOLUME on her

hearing aid.

Just faintly, through the high frequency static, we hear the

baby CRYING in the distance.

April stifles her breathing.

The sound of SOMETHING else continues breathing behind her.

OUT OF FOCUS, JUST TEN FEET AWAY, WE SEE IT MOVE SLOWLY

TOWARDS THE SOUNDS.

INT. FARMHOUSE, UPSTAIRS - AFTERNOON

Mia takes the crying baby in her arms. She covers it with a

FLEECE BLANKET, trying to dampen the cries.

John looks out the window at the shed. Wondering how to get

there safely.

AND THAT’S WHEN THEY HEAR THE FLOORBOARDS CREAKING

DOWNSTAIRS. SOMETHING IS INSIDE THE HOUSE WITH THEM.

Tears stream down Mia’s face. A look that says, “It’s too

late. We’re already dead.”

EXT. WOODS, TRACTOR - AFTERNOON

Will arrives at his destination. Out of breath and sweating.

He reaches under a RUSTED-OUT TRACTOR, searching for

something. His hand sweeps back and forth...

...we see a BLACK FUSE just barely out of reach. His fingers

getting

closer

closer

CLOSER!

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INT. FARMHOUSE, UPSTAIRS - AFTERNOON

The FOOTSTEPS creep up the stairs. Nails scrape and click

against the wood. They don’t sound human.

EXT. WOODS, TRACTOR - AFTERNOON

Will reaches as far as he possibly can...

...grabs the FUSE and LIGHTS IT. It takes. The spark

disappears under the tractor.

Will immediately starts running back to the house.

INT. FARMHOUSE, UPSTAIRS - AFTERNOON

The FOOTSTEPS stop at the top of the stairs. We can hear the

creature BREATHING now. Wheezy and hollow, like air slowly

being sucked through a straw.

Mia and John stand frozen, too afraid to move. They are

staring at THE SILHOUETTE OF A NIGHTMARE...

IT STANDS ON FOUR LEGS, HUNCHED LOW, PREDATORY AND DANGEROUS.

ITS SKIN DEEP DARK RED - THE COLOR OF DRIED BLOOD.

THERE ARE NO EYES ON THE MONSTER’S FACE. AND AS IT SAUNTERS

TOWARD JOHN AND MIA, WE REALIZE IT CANNOT SEE THEM. IT SIMPLY

HEARS THE BABY’S MUFFLED CRIES.

THE CREATURE’S JAW UNHINGES, AND THEN -

--BA-BOOM!!

EXT. CORN FIELD - AFTERNOON

FIREWORKS EXPLODE over the crops.

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