The Butterfly Effect Page #6

DR. REDFIELD

It's worth a shot. I can arrange a controlled meeting. A careful dose of sedatives for Jason, some security, you and I monitoring. Evan comes in for a quick visit and with any luck, no more missing father complex.

ANDREA:

How soon?...

INT. ANDREA'S CAR - COUNTRY ROAD - DAY

Evan, dressed in his Sunday best, writes copiously in a journal marked "AGE 7."

EVAN'S DIARY

April 15. Today I get to mete my father. His name is Jason and he is crazy. I hope he lets me call him dad.

INT. SUNNYVALE INSTITUTION - DAY

Andrea tightly grips Evan's hand as the pair follow Dr. Redfield down a corridor. Evan's enthusiasm is dampened by the sounds of distant screams and bloodcurdling laughter.

EVAN:

Dad lives here?

DR. REDFIELD

Not in this wing, actually. No.

ANDREA:

Now your father may seem sleepy to you, but that's just because of his medicine, okay?

EVAN:

Okay.

They walk to the end of the corridor and come to a "Visitor's Chamber". Dr. Redfield leads Evan inside. Andrea begins to follow, but the doctor gestures that she stay outside.

INT. SUNNYVALE - VISITOR'S CHAMBER - CONTINUOUS

Evan takes a seat at a long rectangular table. His eyes are fixated on the door on the other side of the room. Finally, a dark figure can be seen through the opaque glass.

JASON, thirty and haggard looking, enters the room. His eyes want to sparkle at seeing his son for the first time. But tranquilizers have dulled the effect.

Evan's eyes fixate on the leg-restraints and handcuffs that hinder Jason's movement. Finally Jason sits.

He smiles warmly and speaks in over-enunciated tones.

JASON:

It's okay. I won't bite. You've seen pictures of me, right?

EVAN:

Uh-huh. Mom says I have your eyes and your --

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. SUNNYVALE - VISITOR'S CHAMBER - DAY

Evan "comes to" in another unfamiliar place. Rather than seeing his father across a table, he's looking up at a ceiling.

Blocking his view of the ceiling is Jason, whose face is now monstrous with rage, and whose cuffed hands are wrapped around Evan's throat, choking the life out of him.

JASON:

(through clenched teeth)

I...love...you.

Suddenly, ORDERLIES tackle Jason from both sides and wedge a baton under his jaw to wrench him away. Andrea frantically struggles to rescue Evan from Jason's clutches.

JASON:

(panicking)

He has to die! You don't understand! It's the only way to stop it!

Jason wrestles the baton from under his chin, hits an orderly in the kneecap and comes for Evan with the baton!

Orderly #2 acts quickly, beating Jason with his baton. As Jason makes another desperate grab for Evan, Orderly #2 is forced to bash him in the skull. Down for the count.

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