Bird Box Page #4

She cleans herself up at the sink and stares at herself in

the mirror. Her own bloodshot eyes stare back.

Malorie washes her face. Then goes to the towels to dry her

face and hands.

Nearby:
A basket of reading material. Magazines. Pamphlets.

Flyers about parenthood, childbirth.

Malorie notices one. Picks it up.

The headline:
“YOU HAVE A CHOICE. // Give your child to a

good home!”

An informational flyer on adoption.

Malorie considers something.

Then puts the flyer in her purse.

11.

INT. HOSPITAL - DAY

A cacophony of noise.

Malorie navigates a hallway, leaving Lapham’s office. A pair

of PARAMEDICS rush by the other way, wheeling a MAN with a

leg injury on a gurney.

INT. HOSPITAL LOBBY

The commotion is louder here. Other PATIENTS waiting for

urgent care watch in horror at the scene playing out in the

corner of the room-

A WOMAN in a pricey jogging suit and glossy fingernails

shrills at two NURSES trying to close in on her-

As she SCREAMS non-words she digs her fingernails into her

right cheek and begins to tear into her flesh-

With her other hand she starts with the thin skin around her

eyelid and pulls-

And the NURSES go for her and blood gets everywhere and

Malorie hurries out the door amid the AD LIB SHOUTS-

EXT. HOSPITAL - MOMENTS LATER

Malorie gets to Jessica’s car in visitor parking. Shaking.

Jessica waits in the driver’s seat, texting on her phone.

INT. JESSICA’S CAR

Jessica doesn’t look up from her phone as Malorie gets in.

JESSICA:

How’d it go? Still having a baby?

MALORIE:

It’s happening now.

This gets her attention.

JESSICA:

The baby?

MALORIE:

No, the-- whatever it is in Russia.

The thing that makes you go crazy?

I think it’s here.

12.

JESSICA:

Doctor Lapham is crazy?

MALORIE:

Can we get going please?

JESSICA:

Okay, number one, you gotta calm

down for me. And B-

Outside, an ambulance drives up, lights and sirens going, and

screeches to a halt at the door. The back of the ambulance

rocks violently from some struggle playing out inside.

Jessica notices, tosses her phone in her purse, throws it in

back, and starts the car.

EXT. PARKING LOT

Jessica’s car tears out just as two squad cars pull in.

INT. JESSICA’S CAR - DAY

Malorie holds her phone to her ear.

JESSICA:

Who are you calling?

MALORIE:

Mom and Dad.

JESSICA:

They’ll be fine. Takes an act of

congress to get them out of their

house more than once a week.

Malorie listens with the phone to her ear.

MALORIE:

Voicemail.

(to Jess)

It went to voicemail.

Jessica lets out a stiff breath, then changes lanes.

JESSICA:

We’ll swing by. But I’m calling it

now:
They’re both fine.

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