Panic Room Page #5

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Meg picks up the bottle of wine.

Sarah's eyes flick over and watch as wine GLUGS into her

mother's glass.

CUT TO:

INT. SARAH'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

Sarah's bedroom is full of unpacked boxes, but her twin bed

has been set up and Sarah is in it, hair wet, pajamas on.

She reads from a book ("Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway")

while Meg, drowsy, lies next to her, listening.

SARAH:

"Tom's throat felt so dry and tight

that it was a moment before he could

make any sound come out. "Dad!" He

croaked. "I'm - inside - the -

machine!" "Great Scott!" The elder

scientist gasped. He dashed across

the laboratory and switched off the

repelatron's motor. "What happened,

son?" "The Durafoam hardened, Dad.

Get a solvent, quick -- you know the

formula!"

INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT

In the master bathroom, Meg soaks in a bath. She is

exhausted. She reaches for her wine glass, finishes the last

of it.

She stretches for the bottle, which is on the floor next to

her. She refills the glass. Again.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Meg, dressed in an old Knicks T-shirt and boxer shorts,

stands next to the alarm panel in the master bedroom, reading

from an instruction manual. She's frustrated. She mutters,

slurring, a bit drunk.

MEG:

Bypass non-ready zones... shunt,

enter, zone number...

She tries it, pushing a few buttons, but the alarm panel

BEEPS at her disapprovingly. She's doing something wrong.

She sighs, sits on the floor, gets serious about figuring out

the instructions.

MEG:

Bypass non-ready zones... ah, shunt,

enter, shunt again, zone number...

wait...

HER FINGERS:

dance over the alarm panel, some time later. She seems to

have figured it out, and a small light on the panel lights

up.

SYSTEM ARMED:

The very moment the red light goes on, we cut sharply to --

INT. PANIC ROOM - NIGHT

-- the darkened panic room, where the dozen small video

screens all suddenly wink to life, showing a dozen views of

the house. Whatever she pushed turned these on too, probably

not what she meant to do, but at least she got the alarm on

for the night.

The door that leads from the panic room to the master bedroom

hangs open. In the middle of the floor in here, somebody has

made a small tent of blankets and couch cushions. Sarah must

have been playing here before bed.

INT. MASTER BEDROOM - NIGHT

Meg puts sheets on her bed in the master bedroom.

She fills a glass of water, puts it on a box she's using for

a night table.

She plugs in a battery charger for her cell phone, places the

phone in the cradle. It BEEPS. "Charging."

She sets the digital clock, puts it next to the glass of

water. It's 12:
26.

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