Spontaneous_2020
<script>
  <scene>
    <character>SPONTANEOUS</character>
    <dialogue>Written by</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Brian Duffield Based on the novel by Aaron Starmer GREEN REVISION PAGES 1/19/18: PINK REVISION PAGES 1/12/18: BLUE REVISION PAGES 1/5/18:</scene_description>
    <character>PRODUCTION DRAFT 12/13/17</character>
    <dialogue>© (2017/2018) Spontaneous Film Productions Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this script may be performed, published, sold, or distributed by any means, or quoted or published in any medium including on any web site, without prior written consent. Disposal of this script copy does not alter any of the restrictions set forth above.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. PRE-CALC CLASSROOM - DAY (FALL)</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>MARA is bored as unholy fuck. Her teacher SPIROS drones on about some pre-calc bullshit. All of Mara's classmates share in her boredom, even the ones that are kiss-ass assholes. She flicks a pencil up her desk. It rolls back down. She flicks it back up. It rolls back down. She flicks it back up and- It rolls off the desk and hits the floor. Mara searches the ground for the pencil. All she sees are shoes and backpacks until- Finally, she finds it. Behind her feet. She bends out of frame to pick it up and- A strange puff is heard. Followed by the sound of splattering. Followed by the sound of gasping. Followed by the sound of screaming. Mara pops upright, eyes wide open. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Katelyn Ogden was a lot of things, but she wasn't particularly explosive, in any sense of the word.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A student covered in blood behind Mara begins to scream. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CLASS PHOTO - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The late great KATELYN OGDEN smiles for her class photo.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>She was a sundress of a person - cute, airy, inoffensive.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DALTON TWINS TRUCK - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>With some friends, Katelyn smokes a joint.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think God looks like stoned?</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Are you stoned seeing God or are you God and He is stoned?</dialogue>
    <character>KATELYN</character>
    <dialogue>Whatever the answer is, it's JK Rowling.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone in the car nods at this correct deepness.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>She was quickly becoming the Dalton Twins' number one marijuana customer, but that's hardly a reason to pop like a zit-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY - PRESENT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Moments after the Katelynblast, a GIRL is screaming.</scene_description>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>SHE'S ALL FUCKING OVER ME!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara is stunned as the class charges out the door.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Spraying all fucking over us.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS PHOTO - PAST</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Five year old Katelyn Ogden smiles for her yearbook photo.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I wasn't close with Katelyn, but we weren't enemies or anything.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>She was just, ya know, a classmate. For a decade. Lots of people liked her. Guys especially.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY - DAYS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A slow push in on JED HAYES as he declares into the camera:</scene_description>
    <character>JED</character>
    <dialogue>I was going to ask her to prom. She was so hot. I even narrowed down motel room options to two choices.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(starts to cry)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>She was so open minded.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Jed Hayes was particularly crushed.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON HIGH - PRESENT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Jed, covered on his back in his never-date's blood, stumbles around in shock. Mara looks down at her pants and shoes, which have flecks of red on them.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Mara!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara looks up and sees her best friend, TESS MCNULTY, running towards her.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>What happened?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Katelyn Ogden blew up.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>What?! Like... a bomb?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Like... a balloon?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>...What?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone quickly realized Katelyn Ogden was not a suicide bomber, seeing as the only thing that blew up was Katelyn Ogden.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. PRE-CALC CLASSROOM - AFTERMATH</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Investigators study Katelyn's bloody but undamaged desk.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Her desk remained unscathed by the Ogdenblast.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They put Katelyn's clothes into evidence bags.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>The only damage her clothes took was cosmetic.</dialogue>
    <character>INVESTIGATOR</character>
    <dialogue>This isn't right. She was just a kid.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>It wasn't right. She was just a kid.</dialogue>
    <character>INVESTIGATOR #2</character>
    <dialogue>This is fucking disgusting.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>And it was very fucking disgusting.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>9 OMITTED 9 \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE ROOM - LATER</stage_direction>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>After the unprecedented event, we \* got taken to the police station. \* Which was very exciting. We got \* asked a lot of important questions like-</dialogue>
    <character>OFFICER</character>
    <dialogue>Did Katelyn ever say anything suspicious?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>About wanting to blow up? All the time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Officer writes that down. Mara sighs.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I was kidding.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He shows her that he wrote down "MARA CARLYLE: NOT HELPFUL".</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Then they took all our clothes and let us shower.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE SHOWERS - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara wears a towel and drops her clothes in an evidence bag.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Will I get these back?</dialogue>
    <character>COP</character>
    <dialogue>Do you... want these back?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara clearly wants to say kiiiiiiinda. THEN: Mara stands by the open shower. It is COVERED in blood, even with the water running.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I only washed my hair. Then they gave us a bunch of ugly as shit sweat suits and made us wait.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE HOLDING - LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The sweat suit clad class sit together in quiet until-</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It was like a Cronenberg movie.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara laughs once. Everyone stares daggers at her. She stops. She shrugs an apology to the boy who said that, who she will have some sex with later on in the movie. He smiles at her, because he just read that too.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>What do you... think it was?</dialogue>
    <character>PERRY</character>
    <dialogue>Aliens?</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>It wasn't fucking aliens.</dialogue>
    <character>PERRY</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just saying. She was there. And then she wasn't.</dialogue>
    <character>JED</character>
    <dialogue>It's not fair. She was so nice. I was gonna ask her to prom.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>She was very open minded.</dialogue>
    <character>BECKY</character>
    <dialogue>When the hell are they gonna let us out of here?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>When they know it's not gonna happen again.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone shuts up and looks at Mara.</scene_description>
    <character>BECKY</character>
    <dialogue>When what happens again?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara makes a BOOM! motion quietly. No one responds.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>It happened again.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Becky throws up.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>It happened again a lot.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The students are released to their anxious parents. Mara's PARENTS hug their daughter tightly.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not going to school tomorrow.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>No shit, sweetheart.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CHARLIE'S CAR - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They drive home in silence.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They arrive home in silence.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you hungry?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No, not really.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Do you wanna talk?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I think I just wanna go to bed.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay, kiddo.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>We thought it was a shooter.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>God, Dad.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just trying to say I'm glad you're okay and your classmates are just assholes and not evil.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That is... a silver lining.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara starts to head up the stairs, when Charlie blurts out-</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>You're our whole world, ya know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara takes it in for a second.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know. You too.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is looking out the window when a text buzzes. \*</scene_description>
    <character>NEW TEXT</character>
    <dialogue>Hey just wanted to say I've had a crush on you for two years.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara raises her eyebrows.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>New phone who dis.</dialogue>
    <character>NEW TEXT</character>
    <dialogue>You got a new phone?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No same phone just wanted to say new phone who dis.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Please don't send a dick pic.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The texter sends her a pic of Richard Burton. Mara laughs.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Wow that's a beautiful dick.</dialogue>
    <character>NEW TEXT</character>
    <dialogue>You should see my other dicks.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'd love to see your other dicks.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Soon, pics of Richards Attenborough, Armitrage and Pryor begin filling her phone. She smiles and puffs away as-</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KATELYN'S MEMORIAL - SCHOOL HALL - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Skye sings Leonard Cohen's "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye".</scene_description>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>Your eyes are soft with sorrow. Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara stands beside Tess, staring at a group of students still wearing the sweat suits, which are now bedazzled in eternal remembrance of Katelyn. They are particularly into the song.</scene_description>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm. Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Is this song-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah it's definitely sexual.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. GRAVEYARD - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The funeral. Most of the town is there. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. GRAVEYARD PARKING LOT - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Katelyn Ogden's FATHER weeps while scratching off Katelyn's family member sticker from the back of his car with a key. Mara and Tess watch this in silence from afar.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I always wondered what happens to those when someone dies.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck me. I need-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DALTON TWINS HOME - DAY</stage_direction>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Drrrrrruggggggssssss.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Dalton Twins look at each other. Then at Mara.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Mushrooms?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Shit, mushrooms?</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>It's like weed, but a fungus.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I've never done shrooms before, but I can't honestly think of a better time to start.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>And that's why we love you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>OMITTED OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MOONLIGHT DINER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara dumps a baggie of shrooms into a mug. Tess is skeptical.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You're going to make yourself sick.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Nah-uh. You brew 'em in liquid to make sure you don't get sick. That's what Native Americans do.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>In pumpkin spice lattes?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Pumpkins. Thanksgiving. Duh.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Duh. Here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess shows Mara another Zillow for a beach side property.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I fucking love it.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Tess McNulty and I have been best friends since elementary school.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MOONLIGHT DINER - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Two eight year olds sit where Tess and Mara are sitting, dressed as their older counterparts are dressed.</scene_description>
    <character>BABY MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Will you be my best friend forever?</dialogue>
    <character>BABY TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Obviously.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They high five, before Baby Mara dumps a bag of normal mushrooms into her pumpkin spice bullshit.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>When Tess' shitbrain dad walked out on her and her mom we spent a few days at the beach and-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BEACH - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Baby Mara and Baby Tess stare up at a beachfront Victorian.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>We saw these baller old chicks in kimonos, holding hands and smoking a hookah with their toes in the sand.</dialogue>
    <character>BABY MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Let's do this.</dialogue>
    <character>BABY TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Yes, this and only this.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>It remains our life plan.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MOONLIGHT DINER - RETURN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tess and Mara raise their drinks.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>To Katelyn.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>To Katelyn.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They clink. Mara chugs.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't know her that well beyond social media.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know. Me neither. Did she get into college yet?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not sure. I know she wanted to be a journalist though.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh we have too many excellent journalists as it is.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Have you applied yet?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I've gotten in to every college I've applied to.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You haven't applied to shit.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Not a one.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>But college boysssss!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I knowwwww.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Did Katelyn at least get laid before everything?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh yeah. She was a total slut.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Ya know, good for her!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I agree! Get it while the getting is good. The only real downside is high school boys.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I can't wait to be old. I can't wait to be a cougar.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Imma be like, come hither, young man, and pleasure me eagerly.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>What do they call a not-yet-cougar? Like, someone that hates high school boys now but admits they will love them years from today.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>A McNulty.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Oh I like that.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I like you.</dialogue>
    <character>BOY (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Mind if I join you guys?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And with that, the boy who made the Cronenberg joke sits beside Tess, across from Mara. He smiles sweetly.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Tess. Don't look now, but there's a boy staring at us.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I think he's staring at you.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Ah, right you are. Hey, Dylan.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Mara. Hi, Tess.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Dylan.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>How you guys doing?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Alright. It was definitely the best memorial I've ever attended.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Best funeral, too.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Second best for me. My Dad's was better.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Well holy shit, Dylan.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It's okay. The Ogden's can just try harder next time.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Well holy shit, Dylan.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Am I bombing this banter thing?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Like the end of Dr. Strangelove.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Don't you think that movie is kinda ruined now?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah I kinda do.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>What is going on.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What is going on?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I thought talking to you at the memorial would be icky.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Icky?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It's an adjective.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know it's a- Oh holy shit! You're the guy! You have a crush on me!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hello.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>What is happening.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>This is the guy! This is dick pic Dylan!</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Ew! You sent her a dick pic?!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>No, that would be gross!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>He sent me pictures of Richards.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>That's worse!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>How is that worse?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Why did you text me that?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>The Richards?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The declarative statement.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan considers how best to answer.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Katelyn exploded in the middle of pre-calc, and it got me thinking about life and what if that was me that popped, ya know? And then you said, maybe it'll happen again, and I thought, I gotta get shit done, in case she's right.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess and Mara reluctantly appreciate this. Mara sizes him up.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You are pretty cute. Wanna go to the ladies room with me?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Uhhhh-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Come on, it'll be fun.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>-hhhhhh-</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>She's gonna throw up in the bathroom because she drank a ton of mushrooms and wants you to hold her hair back.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara snaps a gun hand at Tess.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Oh. In that case-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LADIES ROOM - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is throwing up while Dylan holds her hair.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not usually like this. I can usually really hold my drugs. Also: I usually never do drugs.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>We live in strange and unusual times.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara leans back, eyes closed.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That is so true.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She opens her eyes. Stares.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Ohhhhhhh. There are a lot of you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>It's true. There are about eight Dylans in the room.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>How many?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'll throw up if I count but... more than one.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>That's awesome.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She sits against the wall. The Dylans roam about the room.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You guys should make out.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>How do I do that?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>With your tongues oh shit-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She bends over to throw up and-</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. SIDE OF THE ROAD - LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara throws up again. About twenty Dylans are present.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I saw Katelyn's dad scratch her stick figure sticker off the back of his car.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I always wondered what happens to those when someone dies.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What happens is, I get shroomed.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Did you see... Katelyn...</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Go boom? No, did you?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I only heard it. It's weird being right there and... missing it.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Like I'm sad I missed it and that makes me feel terrible.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. It must be so invigorating.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Invigoratinggggg.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She bends over to throw up again and-</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. MARA'S HOME - LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara throws up outside her home. Dylan holds her hair while Tess tries to clean up.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I feel like I should help her.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>One of you should.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>How many Dylan's can we afford? And yet, none of them help.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Thanks for saying you like me.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Sure. Wanna go with me to the homecoming game?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara eyes him suspiciously.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm trying to think of a reason to say no.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I can give you some.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Shoot.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I could be a guy just after you for grief-induced sex.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Way sluttier girls than me. Wouldn't stick around while I hurled either.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>True. How about homecoming sucks?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But it's really fun to make fun of. Plus, Halloween.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hm. Thennnn, how about you don't really know me?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But I know a lot about you.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Oh yeah?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fo sho. You're in a bunch of my classes. You're a movie nerd. You're pretty cute. Your dad died when a ton of manure fell on him.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(a horrified beat)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I just realized I said that out loud.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Well now you have to go with me to the game.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I really do. I'm so sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I blame the shrooms.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yes! They are at fault. Not I who willingly ingested them.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>My dad was a farmer. He died of a heart attack. The rumor of getting crushed to death by shit is false.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>And impossible, if you've seen any Back to the Future movie.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Kids are cruel. I'm sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It's okay. We're all cruel.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She smiles at him.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You're a really nice distraction from the end of the world.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He smiles back.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara, crashing hard, is curled up in her bed beside ever- loyal Tess.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>This isn't gonna become a regular thing, right?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The intoxication? No, no. I just needed... I don't know what I needed.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Have you cried yet?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara shakes her head. Tess strokes her hair.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Have you?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I cry all the time.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Not in front of me!</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>That's when I'm taking care of you!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Well what do you get out of this best friendship?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I just love vomit. I love cleaning it up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The girls devolve into laughter.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON HIGH - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>It's Halloween, motherfuckers, and this is that establishing shot.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>It's just not the same without the \* blood. \*</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL ROTUNDA - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara wears a pink prom dress. She sighs.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I knooooooow. I just look like a \* fucking prom queen now. You could \* have helped me out and gone as \* Carrie's mom but noooooo, you had \* to stick with being a sexy witch. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess is dressed as a witch. \*</scene_description>
    <character>TESS \*</character>
    <dialogue>You never asked me to be your mom! \*</dialogue>
    <character>MARA \*</character>
    <dialogue>It was implied! \*</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>And I'm just a normal witch. Not \* even cleavagey!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But your sexiness is unavoidable.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They turn and find- Katelyn's locker. Memorialized with flowers. Some of the sweat suit-folk sit around it. Dylan is also standing there. He is dressed as-</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hello, Quaker Oats.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hello, Prom Queen.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's not... nevermind.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Wait, what is it supposed to be-</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Don't ask.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's fine. Katelyn fucked it up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone looks at Mara, horrified.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, she didn't intentionally-</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You're making it worse-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara sighs-</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CAFETERIA - LUNCH</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara continues to sigh while gazing at chocolate.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>This will make it better.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan is sitting across from her.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I should stick to chocolate instead of shrooms.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>That's probably a lot more boring.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You don't know. You just don't.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>That's why I'm here. To know.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's a good point. What gives, Quaker Oats?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Well, our football team are the Quakers-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No, not your costume, the crush you have on me.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Well, you're the prom queen-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughs)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fuck you. I want like, a timeline.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan looks at her and nods.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>So-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CLASSROOM (MONTAGE) - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dylan address the camera while he walks into a classroom.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>First day of school. New town after my Dad died. Teacher introduced me-</dialogue>
    <character>TEACHER</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone, this is Dylan Hovemeyer, he's new here. Don't be yourselves. Be nice.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan spots Mara staring at him. She rolls her eyes into the back of her head like she's possessed.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It was a good first impression.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>35 OMITTED 35 \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MOONLIGHT DINER (MONTAGE) - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dylan has diner-dinner with his MOM, DENISE. A few booths away Tess and Mara sit with Mara's then-current boyfriend.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>A few weeks later I saw you at the Moonlight and when Patrick McCoy wrapped his arm around you, you-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara begins convulsing at his touch and slides down the seat onto the floor. Patrick is eternally annoyed.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FIELD (MONTAGE) - DAY</stage_direction>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>And then on the day after the election-</dialogue>
    <character>GYM TEACHER? COACH? WHO CARES!</character>
    <dialogue>Mara, why are you wearing that?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara is wearing a full black outfit with a black veil.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Cuz I'm motherFUCKING GRIEVING.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>You got detention for the profanity.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Motherfucking worth it.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CLASSROOM (MONTAGE) - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is reading a poem. Dylan is listening.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It's cliche but you wrote a poem last spring and it made me feel like you understood me, even though we've barely talked. I friended you on facebook afterwards. I looked at your pictures sometimes. I even got your number but I think you forgot and never saved it in your phone. I hoped maybe I'd run into you during the summer but never did. And then it was senior year and I thought, why try, we're going to college. And it made me sad, because you seemed so cool, and original. But then-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HALLWAY (MONTAGE) - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The day Katelyn died. The madness. Everything's frantic. Dylan sprints out of the room but realizes-</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>When Katelyn died I noticed I didn't see you anywhere.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He turns around and heads back towards the classroom when Mara runs out, holding a backpack. No. TWO backpacks.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>And then you ran out and you had two backpacks and I realized you had Katelyn's.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She stops in the hall and they look at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what to do with this.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I can take care of it for you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She nods, dazed. Dylan takes it from her as she runs away.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE HOLDING (MONTAGE) - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <character>BECKY</character>
    <dialogue>When what happens again?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara makes a BOOM! motion quietly. No one responds.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>And when you said it might happen again, I thought, whoa, maybe I've been wasting my whole life preparing for a year that might never come for me. So fuck it. I'm going to tell Mara how I feel. I'm going to spend the money I've been saving on a car. I'm not going to be scared anymore. I'm not... wait, are you even listening to me?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FOOTBALL GAME - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Montage Over! The homecoming football game is in full swing. Mara is beside Dylan. Her phone is out, pointed at the field.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, yeah, sorry. Seriously, that was wonderful and I don't want you to think I wasn't paying attention-</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Cuz it kinda seems like you are taking pictures of the game.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No! Not of the game. Never of the game. I'm waiting for the "we love cocks" moment.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I... would never have guessed that's what was about to be said.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She brings him close to her and points at the bench.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Look. Every game, Harper Wie, Perry Love and Steve Cox, for just one brief moment, line up for the "we love cocks" moment.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>That's so immature.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It really is.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks at him. She keeps her phone out, taking pictures in case the beautiful moment comes and she misses it.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I have a moment for you. Where I knew I liked you.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>You like me?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe. It was, like, forever ago. And I was just chilling and then you looked me in the eye and said, Mara. We love cocks.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Mara. We love cocks.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She smiles. The crowd screams. Our crazy kids keep smiling at each other. The crowd begin FLEEING from the stands. They stop smiling.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Did something happen?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara and Dylan look around in confusion. He sees it first.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I think everything happened.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>On the field where Perry Love used to be is a large red SPLATTER, his uniform floating in the middle of it.</scene_description>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>PERRY! NO, BRO!</dialogue>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>OH MY GOD! PERRYYYY!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara lowers her phone in horror. Doesn't move. Dylan takes Mara's hand and they run for safety.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FOOTBALL FIELD PARKING LOT - MOMENTS LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dylan and Mara run into the parking lot.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara stumbles through a nod. Dylan hugs her close. She sees a couple of adults glance at them, and for the first of many, many times, she sees them look at her with fear.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>So Perry Love was gay.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CLASS PHOTO - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Perry Love sits for his yearbook photo.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't know that until his memorial.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. PERRY'S MEMORIAL - SCHOOL HALL - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Perry's memorial. The whole football team is on stage.</scene_description>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>And when my bro came out to us in 6th grade, we loved him. Because he was our best bro. And we're progressive like that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara turns to Tess, shocked. Tess is not shocked.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Oh come on. Everyone knew.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not everyone?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The football players raise their helmets.</scene_description>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>Our boy was just too much rock for this world, bitch!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>He was that guy that just made everything better. He was air conditioning.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>INSERT. The photo of the "We Love Cocks" moment finally happening. And then a different photo one second later, the splatter.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>And then, he was gone.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. GRAVEYARD ENTRANCE - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara, Tess and Dylan leave Perry's funeral.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Have you seen the video?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Of his death, no.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan is silent. They look at him.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>How bad was it?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Bad. But fast.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The last thing he was thinking about was making a dumb pun for everyone.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Hold up-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They look up and see- An OLDER COUPLE holding up signs that read "The Devil Inside Your Children Has Found His Way Out!" and more simply "You Are The Covington Curse".</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's amazing.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>All three hold up their phones and take pictures when- A WOMAN IN AVIATORS walks up behind the protestors- Yanks the sign out of the man's hand. Breaks the handle over her knee, before tearing the woman's sign in half. The teens are far enough away that the only word they can hear is "fuck". They hear it a lot. She waves around a BADGE.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>This is the best thing I've ever seen.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We should come to more funerals.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Who is that?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Whoever she is, I bet she drives a Tesla.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I bet she plays poker.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I bet she's killed a man with a toothpick she chewed.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I bet they call her Lady Nightshade.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>As LADY NIGHTSHADE stalks back towards the graveyard, she sees the trio watching her and points at them.</scene_description>
    <character>LADY NIGHTSHADE</character>
    <dialogue>I want to talk to you tomorrow.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She doesn't wait for an answer. Mara and Tess are smitten.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. MARA'S HOME - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara sits on her front step when an OLD MILK TRUCK pulls up. Dylan pops out proudly.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Of course you don't drive a Hyundai or something like that.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It reminded me of that Springsteen song.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Which one?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>The one about the milk truck driver.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>There's a Springsteen song about a milk truck driver?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>You'll have to find out.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I swear to God I will never find out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They stand opposite each other, endearingly awkward.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I just bought it today.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>...WHY.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I was saving up for a college car and then was like, I might blow up tomorrow. So I went to the dealer-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Of milk trucks-</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>And I saw it and laughed and thought other people would laugh and it was so cheap so I figured, why not. Just get me through til graduation, baby.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That should be our school slogan.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It really should. You ready to go?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>In your milk truck? Fuck yeah.</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER (V.O.)</character>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HARPER'S HOUSE PARTY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Shittily printed out portraits of Katelyn and Perry hang on the wall as Harper Wie swings his red cup around.</scene_description>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>We are never forgetting them!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A group of partying teens cheer their red cups. Mara is standing beside Dylan. She looks at him.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Wanna go on a walk?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He smiles at her.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I love walks.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HARPER'S HOUSE PARTY BACKYARD - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The duo walk through the backyard, into the woods out back. Dylan is laughing hard.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Viggo Mortensen's dick wields a knife in it.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I love that movie and I swear that never happens.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I guarantee you it happens. I guarantee you I've thought more about Viggo Mortensen's knife wielding dick than you.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>No, I believe you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They laugh as a pre-make-out lull hits the conversation.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>How's your drink?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's very tequila-y.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you drinking straight tequila?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I mean... no?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just drinking beer.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Drink big, bro!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe alcohol is what makes it happen.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara throws her cup over her shoulder. They laugh.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think does?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I dunno.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's not good enough!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>But I don't! Who does! It is the cosmic bullshit of the universe.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>LAAAAAAAME.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm writing a book called "All The Feels". It's about this guy who whenever he touches someone, he gets all their feelings. And then they die. I wanted you to know something about me that no one else does.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you drunk?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, dude, yeah. Are you?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>No. Wait...</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>How many cups have you had?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>...Ohhhh shit. Numbers?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They laugh. She starts backing up towards a tree. He follows.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Tell me something, just for me.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>After my Dad died, I used to go out to this old barn with a tape player and dance by myself. Like to... Bon Jovi. I would cry and dance and rewind and play and cry and dance.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's the saddest emo thing I've ever fucking heard. And people are literally blowing up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They are very close together. Mara is against the tree.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Not people. Seniors.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Is that true?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It is. Also, we're not walking anymore.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The shocks keep coming.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(smiles)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I really wanna kiss you, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>So she does. He picks her up against the tree. There is some rowdy SCREAMING back from the house.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <parenthetical>(not stopping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fucking seriously?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(not stopping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>We should go-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <parenthetical>(not stopping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Nooooo.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <parenthetical>(not stopping)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>You taste like tequila.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The screaming continues. They finally stop.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You don't think-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. HARPER'S HOUSE PARTY - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, fuck me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan and Mara are alone in the room where the wall is SPLATTERED RED.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Who was it?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm too drunk.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know who either.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No, I know who. I just really don't want to laugh.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan slowly looks at Mara, who is deeply ashamed.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>...The fuck?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CLASS PHOTO - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A GIRL we've seen but haven't met yet sits, smiles and when the flash hits-</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Her name was Cranberry, alright? Goddammit.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. KITCHEN - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara sits with her parents at breakfast. No one is eating.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>How are you feeling?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't really know.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>We're really scared.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara looks at her mom.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>We don't know what to do.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>School's canceled.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>For how long?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They don't have an answer.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What about college?</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>We'll keep applying.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>At least now you can't say, back in my day things were so much harder.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Charlie smiles. Angela looks at her.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>It's true. You have it way fucking worse.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>After the third senior died, the barricades went up.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BORDER BARRICADES - DAY (WINTER)</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Border barricades get put up. A gaggle of reporters filming the sight.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone could come and go as they pleased. Everyone except us. The press loved it, especially when the FBI and every other fucking agency came to town.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FBI OFFICE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tess and Mara sit opposite Lady Nightshade, who is actually-</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Special Agent Rosetti. Thanks for coming in.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, you did call our parents.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Do you drive a Tesla?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>What? No. I wish.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Have you ever killed someone?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's so cool.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Is it?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Mara thinks so.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Also we call you Lady Nightshade.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Why do you call me Lady Nightshade?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We just thought it fit.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I've been called worse.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We're women. We all have.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>We saw you take down the creeps at Perry's funeral.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I got in trouble for that.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But worth it right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Rosetti looks at Mara and answers FUCKING YEAH! without speaking or nodding.</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>So... You girls blow people up?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>No, ma'am?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Wait, do you think someone's killing everyone?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I think we can rule that out. Unless there's a mad scientist or warlock or some such shenanigans.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Since kids are literally exploding, that's kind of possible, right?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I guess everything is possible, if you believe in warlocks.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what I believe anymore.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Do you have any idea why it's happening though?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I think we're close to figuring it out.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BEACH HOUSE - SUNSET</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara, older, in a kimono and smoking a hookah, addresses us.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>They never figured it out. Spoilers.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FBI OFFICE - RETURN</stage_direction>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Or so I'm told.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, that's great!</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah! I'd love to be able to sleep and not have constant nightmares of exploding.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We're living our nightmare.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry. Really.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>It's okay.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It could be worse. We could be Republicans.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Uhhhhhhnrelated as that may be, it seems as if something has made its way into your systems.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>So you're saying we're... fucked.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I just need some help. If there's something going on, anything you think, I don't know, an FBI agent should know about it-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Tattle.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>No! No one's going to get in trouble if they help save lives. We know everyone's scared, and scared people all want the same thing.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Which is?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>To survive.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara and Tess look at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We would actually love to survive.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Good. So maybe you could bring me something.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Whaddaya want?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DALTON TWINS HOME - DAY</stage_direction>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Drugs?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's what she said!</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>She thinks drugs is making us pop?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I think it's less accusational and more, what the holy fuck is going on, let's rule shit out-onal.</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>And you're not gonna tell this Scully-wannabe they came from us?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Girl, do I look like Benicio del Toro to you?</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>I don't... think I get it-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not sure I do either. I need to rewatch Traffic.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Daltons look at her, then at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>We're gonna sidebar.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Do your thang.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They sidebar. Mara pulls out her phone. A picture of Richard Linklater awaits from Dylan.</scene_description>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Alright, we're down. What do you want?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's the best part! America's reimbursing me!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The Dalton's Twins go wide-eyed.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>So you're buying-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>EVERYTHING.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Their eyes go wider.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>God bless America!</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>I'll get the keys!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Keys?</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>We don't keep our shit at home!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DALTON TWINS TRUCK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>We hide it!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Joe drives. Mara is in the backseat, surrounded by suitcases. Doris Day's "When the Red, Red Robin" plays on the radio.</scene_description>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Never know when the feds are gonna fuck ya.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I got a question.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Suitcase related?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Suitcase related!</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Leaving Jersey tomorrow!</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Getting the fuck outta dodge.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>I know a guy that'll get us through.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You think it's Covington?</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what it is, but I also don't really want to find out.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>It's a blessing for you to show up today. We have a buncha shit we don't really want to travel with.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What you got stashed?</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Besides weed and shrooms, got some acid. E. Molly. Meth.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Meth?! When'd you start selling hard shit?</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Once Katelyn popped, hard shit sells.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>In this one instance, I can respect that.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>So how you been doing during all this garbage?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hanging in there, yo. Started making out with a real sweet boy.</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>No shit! Who?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara smiles and begins texting Dylan.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hovemeyer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The twins laugh with delight.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Whaaaaat-</dialogue>
    <character>JOE DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>The world is a- Joe explodes.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>The inside of the windshield splatters crimson.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Mara's head was down at her phone, missing the blast.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Jenna's long hair plastered wet to her face.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>The car keeps driving with no one at the wheel as the two girls look around in shock.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>Until Jenna begins to moan.</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>Ohhhhhh-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh my God. Jenna, are you okay?! Tell me you're okay!</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>That wasn't, that wasn't-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car keeps driving. Faster even. Mara reaches over the driver's seat and grabs for the wheel. She tries steering but it's impossible to see.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Jenna, take the wheel!</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>It's wet. He was a good boy-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car hits a huge bump. The girls both scream.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Jenna!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jenna wakes up a little and grabs the steering wheel. She looks down towards the pedals and starts crying.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>It's flooded with Joe.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Blood sloshes around the pedals, over Joe's shoes and clothes.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, God. Hold on.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara climbs into the passenger seat as Jenna moves into the driver's. Doris keeps playing. Jenna turns on the windshield wipers. It doesn't work.</scene_description>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>He's staining the glass.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Put your foot on the brake!</dialogue>
    <character>JENNA DALTON</character>
    <dialogue>His shoes are there.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara wipes the gore off the window with her sleeves.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You can do it, Jenna. Just keep your eyes on the-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jenna explodes. Re-coating the glass.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>FUCK!!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The car swerves violently. Mara slides into the driver's seat. She opens the car door and the remaining gallons of Daltons spill out. Mara tries moving the four shoes and drenched clothes out of the way so she can hit the brake when she looks up and- Through the blood-soaked windshield, sees the trees coming towards them very, very quickly.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FOREST - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dylan rushes out of his milk truck.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>MARA! MARA!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He runs, looking for her when he finally sees- The wrecked Daltonmobile. Blood dripping out of the door.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>...Ma... MARA! MARA!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He runs aimlessly, searching for her when he hears something in the distance. He runs and finds- A river. And Mara sitting in it, up to her neck, furiously scrubbing herself in it.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Mara!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Dylan! I'm over here!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He drops his backpack and hurries into the water.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I crashed a car! It really hurt!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Where's Joe and Jenna?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I think they're dead.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>They are?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She nods, dazed.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I think I got them all off but-</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I thought it might have been you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He looks away from her so she can't see his face. She hugs him from behind. He cries.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. RIVERBANK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara opens the backpack Dylan brought and sees inside.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No, dude, seriously?!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't have time to think!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pulls out his ugly grey sweat suit.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not wearing this.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pulls out a t-shirt.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I called Rosetti. But I didn't call your parents.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Smart.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He turns around so she can change. She appreciates him.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>...What was it like?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It... it really fucking sucked.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>When she's done putting on the t-shirt, she looks up to him- But notices he's staring at something off screen. She stands and sees- THREE MEN in HAZMAT SUITS approach. Mara laughs.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The fuck is this E.T. bullshit?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She turns back and sees a DOZEN more coming near them. Dylan instinctively shields Mara from them when- One of the suits reaches out and grabs at Dylan and Mara pushes the suit away-</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Get your fucking hands off of him! What the fuck is this shit!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Mara, stop-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A different one picks her up from behind.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hey! Put her down!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Put me down you dickbag! What is this E.T. bullshit! Fuck you! Fuck you in half!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She flails uselessly against them as they carry her away, with Dylan being led on foot close behind and-</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENTS TESTING AREA - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>All plastic everything. Syringes. Oxygen. IVs. Sensors. And- Mara is lying on a bed, surrounded by doctors. She's high AF on painkillers and Xenu knows what else. A DOCTOR leans over to her-</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>Mara, my name is Dr. Rolanda, and we're going to help you, okay?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Help yourself, ladyyyyy.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks to her side and sees, behind a plastic partition, Dylan laying on another bed, surrounded by other doctors. She weakly reaches out towards him and-</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Eeeeeee-teeeeeee.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan looks up and sees her. Smiles and reaches towards her.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Elllliottttt-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>EEEE-TEEEE!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENTS TESTING AREA - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is asleep on her bed when-</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hey. Mara.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She opens her eyes and sees Dylan through the partition.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yo. Where are we?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I think they're doing tests on us. Whole class is here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He gets up and pushes his bed against the plastic wall. She does the same. They lie down and face other.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>They asked me a bunch of questions.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Like what?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Like what I've had to eat or drink in the last month. Everywhere I visited. How I'm politically inclined.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(embarrassed)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>My list of sexual partners.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara raises her eyebrows.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What did you say?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I just said... your mom.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara laughs.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Nice.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I thought you'd like that.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Have you ever done it?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>With anyone besides your mom?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He shakes his head, no.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you gonna ask me?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't actually care.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You don't?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Nah. Just don't like... screw someone while you're my girlfriend.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Am I your girlfriend?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Am I?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Do you wanna be my girlfriend?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I guess that's fine.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Cool.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They smile at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What's gonna happen to us now?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I think we just, ya know, date.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I meant in this plastic world.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Oh. I think this is our life now.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara processes this and leans her head against the plastic wall. He leans his against hers.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>How long we gotta stay in this condom?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>OMITTED OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENT COMMON AREA - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara, Tess and Dylan sit around Harper and Steve.</scene_description>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>For a while I think.</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>At least now we know we're super healthy.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We should try to break out.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone laughs. Mara looks at them.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What.</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>Why would we break out? We got here \* as soon as we heard about this \* place. This is where they're gonna \* cure us. \*</dialogue>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>Eh.</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>Eh, what?</dialogue>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just saying. This isn't an accident or a flu. It's not a fluke. It's focused on us. \*</dialogue>
    <character>TESS \*</character>
    <dialogue>Those conservative weirdos with the \* signs. They said we were cursed.</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone on reddit's trying to figure out why it's happening and who's next.</dialogue>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>Whose fault do they think it is?</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>Bro it's no one's fault.</dialogue>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>If it's a curse it's someone's fault.</dialogue>
    <character>HARPER</character>
    <dialogue>BUT THERE'S NO CURSE BRO.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I don't care what it is. I just want to know how do we stop it?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN \*</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe we just have to graduate.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They ponder this. Mara ponders something else as she stares \* at Dylan. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MARA \*</character>
    <dialogue>I'm like, looking at you and really feel like we should make out.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>That has nothing to do with college.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I beg to differ.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>It's just the vitamin drip talking.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's just the you're cute talking.</dialogue>
    <character>STEVE</character>
    <dialogue>Plus all the walls are see through.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan and Mara look at each other.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENT BATHROOM/SHOWER - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The walls are not see through here as they make out.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>How are you doing?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>About?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>The Daltons? Everyone?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Can we talk about it later?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I just want you to know you can talk to me.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'd rather just make out with you.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>But later.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>There is no later.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They suddenly stop kissing and stare at each other.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That was fucking DEEP, son!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>That's what your mom said.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>OH SHIT THAT WAS GREAT!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They continue making out.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>You're disgusting.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENT COMMON AREA - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The students are all sitting around facing a screen. Mara's hair is disheveled. Tess is disgusted.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Ah so you've discussed me.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone's doing it because they're afraid of dying.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We didn't do it.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You didn't?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not going to have sex in a tent toilet, gross.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You've done way worse.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That was younger, less matured Mara.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hey guys, still right here.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No one cares.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>An OFFICIANT comes out and everyone hushes up quickly.</scene_description>
    <character>OFFICIANT</character>
    <dialogue>Hey everyone! Thanks for coming!</dialogue>
    <character>TEEN (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>WE HAD NO CHOICE, DWEEB!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The group laugh. The Officiant laughs along.</scene_description>
    <character>OFFICIANT</character>
    <dialogue>I get it, I get it. We know this hasn't been ideal but to make it up to you, we've arranged a special little chat with someone who cares a great deal about you, and is doing everything he can to help solve the situation as fast as possible.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(to back of the room)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Can you bring him up?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They wait awkwardly for a minute until- The room audibly gasps when the MAN's face fills the screen. The Officiant looks on proudly.</scene_description>
    <character>MAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hello, students of Covington High!</dialogue>
    <character>OFFICIANT</character>
    <dialogue>Hello, sir!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The students all kind of react but not really.</scene_description>
    <character>MAN</character>
    <dialogue>We are so proud of how you have handled yourself during this difficult time, and you have our thoughts and our prayers every day. I have done everything in my power to get you cured, you have my word, top people working on it right now-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey I have a question.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The room all stare at Mara. Tess is terrified.</scene_description>
    <character>MAN</character>
    <dialogue>Yes, alright.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Firstly, thanks for talking to us today. Super cool.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Secondly, when Russian whores pissed on you, did it make you laugh at all or were you just super turned on and into that weird pissy shit?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>There has never been more silence in a room. Because Mara just said that to the President.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Also, go fuck yourself, you dumb cunt. Choke on my dick.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Yeah, we're going there.</scene_description>
    <character>MAN</character>
    <dialogue>I will NOT-</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, fuck you! Putin's hand is so far up your ass I heard you got asked to go on Sesame Street and teach Nazis how to count.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They are frantically trying to cut the connection.</scene_description>
    <character>BECKY</character>
    <dialogue>You're worse than Andrew Jackson! \* Fuck you!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We're dying here and you put this sun burnt Pennywise in front of us?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>My soul's been dead for years because of you.</dialogue>
    <character>COLE</character>
    <dialogue>You make me embarrassed of my parents every single day.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>My only regret is that you didn't come here in person so I could slap your dumb fucking face, you prickless bag of smegma. Fuck you and the horse you fucked in on.</dialogue>
    <character>EVERYONE</character>
    <dialogue>FUCK YOU!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The line is cut. The President is gone. Everyone erupts into cheers. Harper explodes.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENT BATHROOM/SHOWER - LATER</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara stares at the shower, stained pink.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. TENT COTS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Some students are crying. Mara sleeps on a cot between Tess and Dylan.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>He was the first one I saw.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara reaches out and they hold hands.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>What if it happens to you?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It won't.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You don't know that. I'd fucking die without you.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Not if I died without you first.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>That doesn't make any sense.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know. It's been a stressful time and I'm off my game. I just know I'm not a Mara without a Tess.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess smiles at her as they try to fall asleep. And by now, it sounds like we need a motherfuckin'- MONTAGE! - LAB AREA Mara goes through tests with Dr. Rolanda. Blood taken. Urine taken. Therapy sessions. Dr. Rolanda asks Mara questions and takes notes.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>Tell us about Katelyn Ogden. Harper Wie. Jenna Dalton. Perry.</dialogue>
    <character>STUDENTS</character>
    <dialogue>Perry was gay. Katelyn was straight. Jenna was an atheist. Harper was a vegan. Joe didn't own a cellphone.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>What do you hope to do in college?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Stay alive.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dr. Rolanda makes a super serious note about this.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70A INT. COMMON AREA (MONTAGE) 70A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara and Tess watch as two hazmaters remove and replace a bloodied plastic wall tarp.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70B INT. COMMON AREA (MONTAGE) 70B</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Cole gets covered in blood when his (off-screen) opponent pops onto them.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70C INT. COMMON AREA (MONTAGE) 70C</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Skye and another Sweatsuiter write names on each others outfits.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70D INT. COMMON AREA (MONTAGE) 70D</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A hazmater carves a turkey for Thanksgiving for the students.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70E INT. COMMON AREA (MONTAGE) 70E</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Closed circuit cameras watch the students. The students watch the closed circuit cameras.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70F INT. COMMON AREA (MONTAGE) 70F</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Two students turn a corner into a hallway. That horrible PUFF! is heard, and one of the students stumbles back into frame, covered in his buddy's blood.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70G INT. LAB AREA (MONTAGE) 70G</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>-Hazmaters work on finding a cure. -A crying hazmater gets consoled by a fellow hazmater. - A hazmater throws down their clipboard in anger and kicks the trash can after another student dies. -Bloody hazmat suits pile up. -Two hazmaters slap a congratulatory high five.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70H INT. COTS - NIGHT (MONTAGE) 70H</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>While everyone is sleeping, a body in the background POPS in bed.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70I INT. COTS (MONTAGE) 70I</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Hazmaters remove bloodied bed sheets.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70J INT. SHOWERS (MONTAGE) 70J \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dylan and Mara goof off with each other.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>70K EXT. TENTS - NIGHT (MONTAGE) 70K</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara's parents witness other parents being informed their kid died.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. TENTS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara hugs her parents, free as a bird.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>We have to stop meeting like this.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know right. I'm too old to have to miss you jokers.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks at Charlie, who has clearly lost a shitload of weight. She clocks it with concern, and hugs him again. Over his shoulder, she sees Dylan walking away, his mom's arms wrapped around him. He looks back and smiles at her. She smiles back.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CHARLIE'S CAR - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara hangs out the window like a dog, enjoying the cold air.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Where are all the decorations?</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>No one really felt festive this year.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh. Bummer.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Charlie looks up at her through the rearview.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The family file into their home, to find a completely bare Christmas tree.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You got a tree!</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>We just really hoped you'd get out in time.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara squeals and heads to the tree and boxes of decorations. The family decorate the FUCK out of it. 73B OMITTED 73B</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara and Angela finish decorating the tree-</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>They're calling the pill the Snooze Button?</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>That's what that Dr. Rolanda lady said on the news.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh I know her. She's very professional. For a bitch.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Well, she can call it whatever they want so long as it works.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>True dat.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Charlie walks in and slumps on the couch beside them. He offers a VAPE PEN to Mara.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>...This feels like a trap.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>We know you smoke pot. You're really bad at hiding it.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>...No I'm not.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Just let him be cool dad already.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara smiles and takes a drag. She hands it back to Charlie, who does the same.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Is this what adulthood is like?</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah it's just like this, with more anxiety and complete terror.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>We just got to get you through graduation.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone keeps saying that. You really think that's the winner?</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>I gotta think something.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara cuddles up beside them, as they smoke into the night. 75 OMITTED 75 \* \*:</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BEDROOM - DAY 76 \*</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara gives Dylan a tour of her room. The door is shut. \*</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN \*</character>
    <dialogue>I've never been in a girl's room \* before. Like a girl I dated. \*</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You can knock that off your bucket list. Also: Got you a present.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>No! I haven't had time to get you one.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara stands there, smiling coyly at him. He smiles back, confused.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>...What's the present?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's my body, in a sexual \* situation. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan stares at her with all of the terror in the world. AFTERWARDS. They lay beside each other. He looks at her.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Hey.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm really glad I didn't explode all over you.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara bursts out laughing.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Way to hold it in.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I just kept thinking, don't explode, please don't explode.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Guys have it so tough.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>So tough.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I really like you.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I really like you too.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Do you think we're safe now?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know. I hope so. I just figure we stick to the plan, go back to school and then we just take it a day at a time.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>What to what?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The school part?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>You didn't hear?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON HIGH - DAY (SPRING)</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara stares up at the school.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>FUCKKKKKKKK.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>All the other classrooms are meeting at the community center so they don't catch our disease.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuuuuuuuuck.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>It could be worse?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>How.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>We could be like Katelyn.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck Katelyn.</dialogue>
    <character>SPIROS (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Katelyn wasn't the first person I saw blow up.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A whiteboard states:</scene_description>
    <character>DAYS SINCE: 37</character>
    <dialogue>DAYS TO GO: 72</dialogue>
    <scene_description>About half the students are wearing the grey ass sweat suits, now incredibly crowded with the names of the deceased. Mara stares at one student in particular, wearing a suit made out of football gear, cardboard and plastic from head to toe.</scene_description>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>When I was stationed, I saw a buddy of mine, Mark Jensen, step on a landmine. It was a lot louder than what happens here. For a few seconds I thought the ringing in my ears was his voice, but then you realize why you're sticky and what's actually happened. No goodbyes, or last words. That's it.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I don't know why this is happening and I'm not going to tell you it'll be okay, because that's bullshit. But I'll help you graduate. I think that's all I can do. Sound good?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The class affirm this choice. Cardboard kid raises his hand.</scene_description>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, Cole.</dialogue>
    <character>COLE</character>
    <dialogue>Can I get a bathroom pass?</dialogue>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>...Just go.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He ambles out of his seat and heads out the door. The entire class watch him go, clearly all wanting to ask "how does he go to the bathroom?" but choosing not to say it.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara walks the school hall by herself. They are completely empty. There are NO other classes here. She turns a hall and finds herself at the Ogden classroom. A group of the sweat suit gang sit around, studying.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What up, cultists!</dialogue>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>We're not cultists, Mara! We're just really sad.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry, man. I was just joking.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>What are you guys doing?</dialogue>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>We're working on our college essays. It's not like we're allowed to go anywhere else.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Tight. Whatcher essays about?</dialogue>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>They're all about what we've learned from... everything here.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What have we learned?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Skye looks at her, annoyed.</scene_description>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>What do you think?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I think that... is an excellent question.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BATHROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara taps out a blue pill. Regards it. Swallows it.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Have you heard of the infinite monkey theorem?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MOONLIGHT DINER - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No, but I'm way into how that sounds.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>It's the idea of like, if you have infinite monkeys, and you give all of them infinite typewriters and infinite amount of time, they'll write Shakespeare.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The word "Shakespeare"?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>No, like a full play of his.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sound like pretentious fucking monkeys.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <parenthetical>(laughs)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Stop.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Can't they write something else.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>They'll literally write every book of all time because they can't not.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>They can't... not.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I think about this a lot.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I think maybe it helps explain what's happening.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You think... Monkeys are writing books that make us explode-</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>No, the idea that because you can't say with certainty that something won't happen then eventually it has to happen. Like the big bang.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I like my idea about monkeys writing evil plays better.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>They're taking forever, aren't they?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara notices that, yes, the girls have not yet been served. They look towards the kitchen and see- The waitress inside, staring back at them. Terrified.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't think she's coming.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess just stares at the waitress blankly.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>No one's ever been scared of me before.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Let's just go somewhere else.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>No, this is where we go. This is our spot. This is our thing.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know. But maybe it's just not our thing anymore.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess nods after a minute, and gets up. Mara follows, giving the waitress the finger nonchalantly as she leaves.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>You ain't gonna abduct us again, are you?</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. FBI OFFICE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Rosetti takes Mara's blood pressure.</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Firstly, I never did. Secondly, no. We are very confident in the-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Don't say it.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <parenthetical>(over says it)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Snoooooze button.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Also, since my last check-up, I've become more regularly sexually active, if you wanna make some notes in your files.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Mara.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You said snooze button after I warned you.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>What do you have against it?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Literally just the name.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>What would you name it?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Something sciencey.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>It has a sciencey name, but no one remembers it because it's a dozen syllables long. That's why it has a nickname.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Thanks for FBIsplaining the concept of nicknames to me.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>You're welcome. You can go.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But why are you still here?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I work here.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But if you think it's done and cured. Why are you still here? There are tons of grunts that can take my blood pressure. But you have a badge.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone here has a badge.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You have cool sunglasses.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>What?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You don't think it's done, do you?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>You know what they say. Hope for the best-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. BARN - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>PREPARE FOR THE WORST!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan is blindfolded.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Is that a sex thing?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No. But maybe. Ready?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He nods. She takes off the blindfold. They are in a barn with some lights. And that's it.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Were you prepared?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Nothing could have prepared me.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I was like, what could I get my boytoy for Valentine's SLASH his birthday.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She runs over to an unseen boombox and hits play. A dope song from the eighties we can afford begins playing.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>And I thought, he had it so tough when he was a kid he would dance by himself in a barn to eighties music. So maybe he'd like to know he wasn't by himself anymore.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She beckons him over. Dylan is smitten.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>This is cool.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. Thanks, Mara.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He takes her hand and they start dancing.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Can we talk about something?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You're pregnant.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I am. It's triplets.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>My seed is mighty.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>What happens after we graduate?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You mean, like, with us? I actually haven't thought that far ahead.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I know, it's silly-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But I know I want to be with you.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Really?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah. You're like... the best thing to ever come out of spontaneous combustions for me.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>The very best?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The very best.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I love you-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh fuck!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Dylan bursts out laughing.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Whoa!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Sorry! I was! Wow!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>You can't reply OH FUCK!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know! I screwed that up! Say it to me later on!</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Deal.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She leans her head against his chest as they stop laughing.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Maybe in the summer we can just drive around for a while.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'd like that. If we're not fleshy dead bits.</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>If we're not fleshy dead bits.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BATHROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara looks down at the tiny blue pill in her hand. And keeps staring. And staring. And staring.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA (V.O.) \*</character>
    <dialogue>The last thing I want is for you to \* feel like science fair projects. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>OMITTED 87 OMITTED 87 \* 88 OMITTED 88 \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dr. Rolanda holds up the tiny blue pill as she addresses the \* students. Spiros sits at the side.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>Because of your help, the CDC and FDA are working around the clock with Washington to make the snooze button available over the counter to all Americans.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara watches this with 0% excitement. Some of the class are the exact opposite.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>So what is the Snooze Button. For starters, it's not, sadly, a cure. But it is a treatment. Give you an example. Sometimes you're typing away on your computer and, out of nowhere, it turns off. Crashes. Now when that happens to us, we're not so lucky. Can I get a volunteer?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A bunch of hands shoot up. Rolanda picks Steve.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>Steve, great, come on up.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Steve does happily.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>So Steve, can you pat your head for me?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He obeys.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>Can you rub your stomach.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He does.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>A little trickier, huh. Okay, stand on one foot.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Steve does with some effort.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>Now jump up and down.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Steve laughs, trying to do it all at once.</scene_description>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>So it's tough, right?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara turns back to Tess, sitting behind her.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>This feels like some horseshit.</dialogue>
    <character>DR. ROLANDA</character>
    <dialogue>And then when-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Steve explodes. Dr. Rolanda shrieks, coated in blood. Mara snaps forward again when- A student in the back row explodes. And the class descends into complete chaos. Everyone scrambling for the exit. A student bumps into Mara as she gets up from her desk and- Explodes. Mara hits the ground in shock- Shoes coming down on her. She covers her head. Another PUFF is heard, followed by more screams. Tess and Dylan reach down and pull her up.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>They force their way into the hall, through the photographers who can't tell whether they should run or take pictures- Mara looks back to see Rolanda stumble out of the room. Rolanda vomits. A student ahead of them explodes. Blood falls like rain. Another student explodes, the blast knocking Mara over, separating her from Dylan and Tess.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>MARA!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'LL MEET YOU OUTSIDE!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He nods and gets carried away with the masses down the hall as Mara tries to get up in the adjoining hall when- Cole, the cardboard kid, helps her-</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck is happening?!</dialogue>
    <character>COLE</character>
    <dialogue>I don't kn-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The cardboard suit puffs outwards for a moment when- Blood spills out of the cracks of his suit. Mara steps back in horror as the now-empty suit falls to its knees, and then forward onto its face. Mara scrambles away, running down the hall as fast she can.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON HIGH - CONTINUOUS</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara gets outside, where everything is now calm and quiet. She searches and sees Dylan running towards her. She runs to him. They embrace.</scene_description>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No! Are you?</dialogue>
    <character>DYLAN</character>
    <dialogue>I'm just glad you're still here.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks at him. He looks at her. THE SCREEN IS COMPLETELY RED.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>The next thing I saw was red. The combustion happens faster than it takes to blink. His blood, his blood covered my eyes before I had a chance to close them.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>THE SCREEN IS COMPLETELY BLACK.. .: .: .: .: .:</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I kept my eyes shut for as long as I could once I closed them. I don't remember wanting to walk but I guess that's what I did.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON TOWN - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>People move as Mara walks past them on the street. Drenched in blood. Her eyes are open, but completely vacant. A car screeches to a stop beside her and Agent Rosetti sprints out. She grabs hold of Mara.</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Mara! Mara, are you alright?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Have you seen Dylan? I can't find him. I can't find him anywhere.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Rosetti wipes the blood off of Mara's face, revealing a deep gash in her forehead that keeps bleeding.</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Oh, God.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>A fragment of his jawbone hit my forehead. I never felt it. I never felt anything.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE STATION - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara sits in shock as a doctor checks her wound and her eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I don't remember how long I waited. I don't really remember anything.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE SHOWERS - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Fully dressed, Mara stares at all of the blood on her and the shower floor. Her mouth is wide open but she doesn't breathe.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Mara!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Angela rushes into the shower, gripping hold of her daughter as if her life depended on it. Mara never notices she's there.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>All I remember is wanting to die.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CLASS PHOTO - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>In silence, Dylan sits for his photo. He laughs and makes small talk with the photographer. He smiles. The photo takes. Dylan shakes the photographer's hand as he walks away.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. PARENT'S BEDROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara lays awake between her parents. It is quiet as death.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BATHROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara taps a Snooze Button pill out onto her hand. Then pours the rest of the pills out into her hand. She stares at them, before letting them slide off her hand, into the toilet. She looks at herself in the mirror. She pokes the white bandage wrapped around her forehead.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Dylan's mom called for you.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BEDROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is under the covers as Charlie stands at the door.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>She wanted to know how you were doing. She hoped to see you at the funeral.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm not going to the funeral.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>Why not?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Because then he's dead.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Charlie stands there, not really sure what to say.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>What can I do, kiddo?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara gets out of her bed and crawls underneath it. Charlie watches her with concern. A second later, her hand reaches up and pulls the blankets off the bed down with her. He looks down the hall to his wife, who stands there, equally scared and confused.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. UNDER THE BED - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara reads a reddit post about the Covington Curse. Yearbook photos of her classmates are there with red X's through them. She sees her yearbook photo, where she makes a stupid face. She does what you should never do, and reads the comments about why she might be the curse.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. GRAVEYARD - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Dylan's mother watches her son's coffin get lowered into the earth. Tess is there. \* But there is no Mara. Because instead-</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. DINING ROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is addressing us.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You'll need vodka. Dry vermouth. Grenadine. Ice cubes. Mix three parts vodka with one part vermouth. Fill with ice, then stir, before pouring in a martini glass.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara picks up the grenadine.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>And then with the grenadine, pour basically the entire fucking bottle into the martini.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The clear martini is now a bright red.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>And now you have my brand new cocktail, which I've called, All of My Friends and Boyfriend Are Dead.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She pushes it forward to reveal Charlie sitting there in a terrified silence.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>How... I have so many questions.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Okay but hold on.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara pulls back the martini and chugs the entire thing.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You can have the next one.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>I feel really unequipped for this.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I know, right? There is literally just one thing I've found that really helps that feeling go away.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara begins making another one.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HOME - PRE-DAWN</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara walks out the front door. She is wearing the shirt Dylan gave her. She holds a bottle of tequila.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. TESS'S HOME - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Tess exits her home in the morning to find Mara sitting cross- legged on her front yard. She is stupid drunk.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Mara?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Tessyyyy! Wanna fuck shit uppppp?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>How'd you get here?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I walked yo.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>That's like ten miles.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm fucking Wonder Woman. C'mon, lessgo, lessgo do something. Let's go throw water balloons of red paint at kids.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Mara... We have to go to school...</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>FUCK SCHOOL!</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>NO! I CAN'T FUCK SCHOOL!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara shrinks back a little at Tess's outburst.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I need to get the fuck out of here! And it sucks, it really fucking sucks about what happened to Dylan, but it's been happening for SEVEN FUCKING MONTHS. I'm losing my mind! I don't want to die.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Then don't die! Easy! Stop being a bitch and help me out.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>I can't help you the way you want me to.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>How do I want you to?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A black van pulls up at the curb.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You want to stop existing until you actually stop existing.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara doesn't answer as Tess walks to the van.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What's with the van?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>They don't want us driving anymore.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Those cocks. Just, just come hang with me instead.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Mara-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>If you don't, I'll never get a beach house with you, ever ever.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess looks at her and laughs sadly.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>As if we're really going to live that long anyway.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She gets in the bus and it drives away, leaving Mara alone. She sits there for a moment, before tossing the tequila bottle into the air. It sails through the sky and we match cut to:</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COMMUNITY CENTER PARKING LOT - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara jumping on top of a car.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>BOO, MOTHERFUCKAS!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A group of conservative protestors take a dramatic step back from her as she raises her arms in the sky.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Bow before me, you sluts of earth!</dialogue>
    <character>PROTESTOR</character>
    <dialogue>You are a very rude girl!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You are a very rude cunt! Your signs are about me!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Their signs are about the Covington Curse.</scene_description>
    <character>PROTESTOR</character>
    <dialogue>You are why this is happening! You're proving our point!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara ponders this, and struggles to find a reason.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You don't... And shit... And plus, puhlusssss, none of the seniors even go to school here. Also God hates you FUCK-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara slips off the car onto the tarmac, out of view. The protestors gasp and lean forward, trying to see their out- of-sight menace when- She bursts from out of nowhere, stealing a Covington Curse sign and running away maniacally.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON TOWN - DAY, SLOW MOTION</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Bleeding from her knee and the bandage on her head, Mara runs by terrified people, waving the sign as if it were on fire. OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIQUOR STORE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara grabs a bottle of tequila and strolls towards the door but the gruff ATTENDANT ain't having it.</scene_description>
    <character>ATTENDANT</character>
    <dialogue>You gonna pay for that?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>With what?</dialogue>
    <character>ATTENDANT</character>
    <dialogue>Are you even 21?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Nope, I'm 17 as fuck! But my boyfriend exploded and his bones broke my face.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She holds up the tequila.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>And the longer you keep me here, the more likely it is that I paint your shit red.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The attendant regards her for a second before he turns around, grabs a nicer bottle, and sets it on the counter.</scene_description>
    <character>ATTENDANT</character>
    <dialogue>I don't have a response to that.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara takes the bottle, while keeping the other.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>No one does, man.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. LIQUOR STORE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara walks outside to find Rosetti waiting for her.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Wassup.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara waves, and accidentally lets the cheaper bottle of free \* tequila fall. It shatters on the ground. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey it's like a metaphor.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>Mara.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What? Are you going to arrest me?</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>No, you need-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara hurls the other bottle of tequila at Rosetti's windshield- Where both it and the windshield shatter. Rosetti looks back at Mara and sighs.</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I just washed those seats.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. POLICE HOLDING - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is back in the holding room, marching back and forth anxiously while Rosetti watches.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want to be back here! This is where it all started. Before we all got Cronenberged to shit.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>What's Cronenberged mean?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You PHILISTINE.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI</character>
    <dialogue>I'm trying to be your friend.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>We're not gonna be friends. The \* only reason you even know who I am is because you wanted to use me. And when Dylan asked you for help, you threw us in tents and did tests \* for weeks that didn't work. So \* yeah, sorry, shut the fuck up and get me out of this room.</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI \*</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't put you in the tents- \*</dialogue>
    <character>MARA \*</character>
    <dialogue>You didn't stop it either! \*</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI \*</character>
    <dialogue>I couldn't stop it! \*</dialogue>
    <character>MARA \*</character>
    <dialogue>Then what good are you to us! You \* were supposed to be cool! Instead \* you're fucking useless! Just go \* home already. Why are you still in \* Covington if you can't fix me? \*</dialogue>
    <character>ROSETTI \*</character>
    <dialogue>I'm here because I care, Mara. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara rolls her eyes and groans. \*</scene_description>
    <character>ROSETTI (CONT'D) \*</character>
    <dialogue>Also, your parents are here to pick \* you up. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara groans again. \*</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara is still groaning. Her parents are spazzing.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>An agent's car?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It was funny at the time!</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>What time was that?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Like, four o'clock.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>NO SHIT, DAD.</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Are you still drunk?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>One thousand percent.</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>Where do you even get the alcohol?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I steal it!</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>Why would you tell me that?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>You asked and I'm drunk so why would I lie?!</dialogue>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>To make us feel better!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's all you care about! I've heard you call people about "helping" me!</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>We've called them in front of you! We only care about you!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She waves a packet of envelopes at her daughter.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Why do you think we keep applying to colleges?!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't want to go to any fucking colleges!</dialogue>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't give a fuck what you do as long as you're alive! That's the only way we'll feel better!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Well I'm going to die in a violent explosion of blood, probably all over you. Feel better?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Her parents both start crying. Mara rolls her eyes.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh fuck offffffff.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara stomps away, leaving them to cry and be powerless.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. UNDER THE BED - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara, hot boxing the shit out of the space, reads up about The Covington Curse on reddit. Specifically, reads about HERSELF on reddit. OMITTED OMITTED</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL ROTUNDA - DAY (SUMMER)</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara stares down the school hall where everyone died.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. PRE-CALC CLASSROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara sits on the ground where her desk used to be. She looks up and sees the still Katelyn-stained ceiling.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. COVINGTON HIGH - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara stands where Dylan exploded for a very long time.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. FIELD - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara bumbles up to a field, where a bunch of students sit on the ground, working on something. Spiros sees her and smiles kindly.</scene_description>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, Mara.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Is there a test?</dialogue>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>It's the SATs.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What? What's the date?</dialogue>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>It's almost May.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Fuck me.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He offers her a test. She looks at it for a second.</scene_description>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>It can't hurt.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She exhales and takes it.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Everything hurts, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She sits on the ground and begins. She looks up and sees Tess staring at her. Tess moves beside Mara, so Mara can see her answers. Mara takes out her vape pen and dangles it in her mouth like a cigarette.</scene_description>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>Mr. Spiros? What's the answer to number nineteen? B or D?</dialogue>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>My guess is D.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>The class all politely react accordingly. Because it doesn't really matter how they do. They just have to do it.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. PLAYGROUND - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara, wearing her Carrie prom dress, swings on a swing with her bottle of booze. Tess sits on the swing next to her, dressed nicely.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>They're doing yearbook photos inside.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hey, here's our yearbook. It is one pages long.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She offers Tess the booze. Tess shakes her head, before she \* takes out her phone and texts. Mara's phone dings. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Did you send me a beach house listing?</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Yes.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>But we're never gonna be old.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>But we're already really old.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I'm leaving tonight. I need my life to start. Even if it's just a few minutes long.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I hope you live for fucking ever. Like an elf.</dialogue>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>Elves live forever?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Unless they get murdered or die of grief. That's what Dylan said.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>He was a nerd.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess stops Mara's swing and looks her in the eye.</scene_description>
    <character>TESS</character>
    <dialogue>You'll always be my best friend.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara forces a nod. Tess heads back inside as Mara picks at her bandage and takes another swig.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SCHOOL HALL - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara enters the gymnasium, bottle in hand, revealing not just prom, but some sort of makeshift graduation. Mara judges this. She turns to Jed. \*</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What the fuck is this?</dialogue>
    <character>JED \*</character>
    <dialogue>It's graduation.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I thought it was prom.</dialogue>
    <character>JED \*</character>
    <dialogue>It's both.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara laughs.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's fucking stupid.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And she marches off.</scene_description>
    <character>CUT TO: \*</character>
    <dialogue>Mara is pouring her bottle of booze into a punch bowl. She looks up to find a chaperone watching her.</dialogue>
    <dialogue>When the bottle is empty, Mara places it on the table-</dialogue>
    <dialogue>And walks away with the punch bowl.</dialogue>
    <character>CUT TO: \*</character>
    <dialogue>Mara sits on the bleachers, drinking out of the punch bowl ladle, watching Spiros hand diplomas to desperate students.</dialogue>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>Becky Burke.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Becky practically sprints on stage to grab her diploma, crying once she has it gripped in her hands. Before Spiros can say something else- Mara is on stage, snatching a diploma and the mic.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I just wanna say that I'm sorry for killing everybody.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Everyone stares at her.</scene_description>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>Mara-</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Nah ish cool, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>And she starts to cry.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry I'm the Curse. I always have been. I did the math. From Katelyn to Perry and the Daltons and Dylan, I'm the reason why it happened. And I don't know why. I'm not a great person. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I hate myself for hurting everybody. I'm so sorry. I wish they were all here with us for this dumb bullshit.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She turns to leave and then returns.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Also, Springsteen's really good. I found that out the hard way.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara shrugs. Then pulls the mic off the stand and drops it. She laughs once, then starts crying as she walks off stage. Spiros tries to recover, putting the mic back on the stand.</scene_description>
    <character>SPIROS</character>
    <dialogue>Claire Hacklon. \*</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Claire goes right past her diploma for the microphone.</scene_description>
    <character>CLAIRE</character>
    <dialogue>It's all my fault. I'm the Curse.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara turns around with intense disapproval.</scene_description>
    <character>CLAIRE</character>
    <dialogue>I wasn't a good enough Christian and Jesus is punishing me.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>BOOOO SIT DOWN WHORE.</dialogue>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>No! It's my fault!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara looks and finds Skye crying off stage.</scene_description>
    <character>SKYE</character>
    <dialogue>I just wanted to be top of the class and I think I like, willed all my competition to die.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Skye starts crying. And soon, everyone starts crying. Everyone believing they are the one responsible. Mara watches all of this with a strange fascination. She looks around the room for Tess but she's already gone.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. STREET - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara wanders the streets, looking for her friend.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>TESSSSS! TESSSSSS!</dialogue>
    <scene_description>But there's no answer. Mara sees something off screen. Even in her drunken state, her heart breaks as she walks towards it.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. GRAVEYARD - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara walks through the graveyard like the saddest, drunkest zombie that never lived. She finally finds what she's been looking for. Dylan's grave. She stares at it for a moment, motionless, before she wipes her nose with her wrist.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yo. I fucking love you too, ya know.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She gets a little dizzy and lays down, curling up in a ball six feet above him.</scene_description>
    <character>DENISE (O.S.)</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Mara.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara looks up and sees Dylan's Mom standing over her.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Hi, Dylan's Mom.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>Can I join you?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara nods. Denise lays beside her.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry I didn't come to the funeral.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>I understand.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>It's a cool headstone though.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I threw up on a grave back there.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>You threw up on a lot of graves back there.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I didn't mean to.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>I know, sweetie.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>The first time Dylan and I really hung out, I was super sick on shrooms and saw so many of him, and it was so beautiful, and now I can't even see one of him.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>He told me he held your hair.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>He told you that? Did you think I was bad news bears?</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>No, I just thought you were in a lot of pain and you didn't know how to deal with it.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara tries to shrug it off but instead starts crying.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what to do with my body. I feel like I'm dying. I'm so scared all the time that I'm going to die that I wish sometimes I would just die so it would be over.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Denise reaches over and touches her face.</scene_description>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>That's what life feels like sometimes.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Life fucking sucks.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>It does. It really does.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Why is this happening?</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you remember the man in Florida with the sinkhole? He was asleep on his bed. And a sinkhole opened up and his bed went down into it. His brother heard him shouting from the next room and ran over and found this giant pit where the room was. And he heard his brother screaming for help. But it was impossible to help him. They never even got his body out.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Great. So I have to be afraid of sinkholes now too.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>It's just life. He was probably a nice guy. Or at least inoffensive enough not to deserve to fall into a sinkhole in his bedroom and wait days to die. But deserve's got nothing to do with it.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>That's a good line.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>I stole it from Clint Eastwood.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Oh.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I think Dylan got it. The answer, I mean.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>I really miss him.</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>I miss him too.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>He gave me a cool scar at least.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Denise doesn't really react, because how do you react when your son's jaw bone gives his girlfriend a cool scar?</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>What do we do now?</dialogue>
    <character>DENISE</character>
    <dialogue>Do you want to come over for dinner next week?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>Yeah, sure.</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(then)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Are you okay?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Denise shakes her head, and keeps stroking Mara's hair.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. LIVING ROOM - MORNING</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara finds her parents sitting in the living room.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I'm sorry.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>They quickly rush to her and hold her in their arms.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BORDER BARRICADES - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The barricades get taken down. Mara watches them pack up. She drinks water.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>After a few months, there were no more explosions.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Rosetti sees her and raises a hand. Mara waves back.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Everyone left and we were free to leave. It was super anti-climactic.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BATHROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara stares at more snooze button pills. Takes one.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>The Man was like, oh hey the snooze button works, we just got the first batch wrong, but we swear this new batch is legit. I think they just want to sell me pills for the rest of my fucking life.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MARA'S BEDROOM - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mostly packed up now. She looks around sadly.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. HOME - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara loads the last of her things into Dylan's Milk Truck.</scene_description>
    <character>CHARLIE</character>
    <dialogue>Are you sure this thing is safe?</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I mean, compared to what?</dialogue>
    <scene_description>He shrugs, terrified. She hugs them both.</scene_description>
    <character>ANGELA</character>
    <dialogue>Call us every hour. Or more often.</dialogue>
    <character>MARA</character>
    <dialogue>I actually think I will.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MILK TRUCK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara drives past Covington High.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>They're going to tear down the school, which makes sense. They're also going to make a memorial for the departed, which makes less sense, because let's be honest-</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She watches the school fade from her rear view.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>That sappy shit's gonna suck.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. THE ROAD - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The Milk Truck rides.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>At the end of the school year, 78 students died, or about two thirds of the senior class. I didn't die. I guess I'll never know why.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. MILK TRUCK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara waits at a red light in the truck. Ahead of her is a car with stick figure family members. Mara frowns, rubs her scar.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>So. What did we learn.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>She looks over and sees a school bus full of kids laughing at the milk truck. She stares at them for a moment.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>At the end of the day, it's all about... what you do with the time you are given or... Like... Gandalf wisdom or...</dialogue>
    <parenthetical>(she sighs)</parenthetical>
    <dialogue>Fuck this, man.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Mara turns her radio all the way up and floors it.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>The world is a fucking cruel piece of shit and nothing makes sense and the only thing you can do is put yo middle fingers up and be all like, fuck you, life!</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>131A EXT. BORDER BARRICADES - DAY 131A</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>The Milk Truck passes through where the barricades used to be, as Mara leaves Covington.</scene_description>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. CAMP GROUNDS - NIGHT</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara and a bunch of random campers laugh around a campfire.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm gonna be amazing in spite of all life's shit. Suck my dick! I'm gonna live forever! I'm gonna travel the world-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. COLLEGE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara sits for her student ID photo. She smiles calmly.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'm gonna get my bachelors of bullshit, and write some books-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. CHIMP CAGE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A chimpanzee slams his head repeatedly against a type writer and the title page emerges:</scene_description>
    <character>ALL THE FEELS</character>
    <dialogue>by</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Jonathan Franzen</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>And make a low-to-minimum wage but do really well online and shit. Probably date some nice boys.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>A SERIES OF NICE BOYS SMILING AT US.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'll probably marry a few of them. They'll tend to me like I'm a literal ticking time bomb and I will lord it over them in fights like "bitch, you don't know what I've seen!</dialogue>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I've seen some SHIT!" And sometimes, late at night when the world is quiet, I'll tell them about Dylan.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>DYLAN'S SMILING FACE.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>And what he meant to me, and how I think about him every day.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. PARK - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Adult Mara's face gets slammed with a water balloon. Little kids laugh as she pelts them with more balloons.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I'll probably have a bunch of kids and be a dope mom, and be terrified every day of my life that they inherited my senioryearitis. And then I'm gonna be, I don't know, no, you know, fuck it, I'm gonna be President.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. INAUGURATION - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Mara puts one hand on the Bible and gives the finger to the camera with her other hand.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Trump's gonna look up at me from his gold crusted coffin and go, who the fuck is this bitch, and I'll tell him, that's President Bitch to you, motherfucker.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>BLACKNESS. And then a BLAST OF LIGHT.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>The Big Bang happened out of nowhere for no reason. Or maybe God set it all into motion. Who knows, And then like the dinosaurs died-</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. DINOSAUR TIMES, BABY - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>A T-Rex watches the explosion of the asteroid.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>Because a meteor hit the earth at the exact worse spot, which is probably like a one in an all the numbers chance of fucked-</dialogue>
    <character>T-REX</character>
    <dialogue>Aw fuck, man.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>INT. SINKHOLE - DAY</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>From deep, deep in the ground, Mara looks up and sees the tiny sliver of day light above us. She lights a joint.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>And volcanoes explode and drunk drivers drive and sinkholes open up and people have brain aneurysms and it's all bullshit. All of it.</dialogue>
  </scene>
  <scene>
    <stage_direction>EXT. BEACH HOUSE - SUNSET</stage_direction>
    <scene_description>Old Mara drags her hookah from her beach porch.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>And maybe Gandalf and Clint Eastwood were right, though Clint Eastwood's a Republican so I'm skeptical. But Gandalf is tight.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Our regular aged Mara is on the porch.</scene_description>
    <character>MARA (V.O.)</character>
    <dialogue>I don't know what's gonna happen next. I hope it's dope. All I know is I could die any second now. Hell, so could you. Nothing's fair. But it's a beautiful world, and I'm happy I get to be here, if only for a little while. 'The fuck else can you do.</dialogue>
    <scene_description>Tess is beside her, smoking happily. Mara leans forward, staring at the sun setting over the ocean. It is blood red. THE END.:</scene_description>
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During a senior calculus class at Covington High, senior student Katelyn Ogden inexplicably explodes, spraying the surrounding students and classroom with blood. The police take the class into custody during an investigation, but aside from ruling out an attack, are unable to determine the cause of the explosion. During custody, senior student Mara Carlyle suggests to the class that it could happen again, a sentiment taken seriously by her peers. Afterwards, an unknown person texts her, claiming to have had a crush on her for multiple years. Following Katelyn's funeral service, Mara gets high on mushrooms purchased from school dealers, Jenna and Joe Dalton, and goes for tea with her best friend Tess; fellow student Dylan approaches the pair and reveals himself to be the unknown texter with said crush on Mara. Dylan explains how he had begun thinking of life and how quickly it could end, and upon hearing Mara's suggestion of the incident repeating itself, realized that he needed to take action. They begin seeing one another and attend a school football game and house party, although each is cut short when a jock, Perry Love, and drink server, Cranberry Bollinger, explode, respectively, sending the attendees into a panic. Classes are cancelled for a while, and people begin to dub the explosions "The Covington Curse". The incidents attract the attention of numerous government agencies, who place FBI Agent Carla Rosetti on the case; she enlists Mara and Tess as aid. While investigating the possible involvement of drugs, Mara goes for a drive with the school dealers, the Dalton twins; they explode and the car crashes. Dylan arrives and consoles a dazed Mara, before federal agents arrive in protective suits and detain them. The entire senior class is placed under observation while the government devises a "Snooze Button" pill to "cure" the students, during which multiple students explode. Realizing they should live like every day might be their last, Mara and Dylan continue seeing each other, pursuing a hedonistic lifestyle; they have sex and dance to music in an old barn. School resumes for the senior class, although the townspeople begin to fear the students and Agent Rosetti inadvertently admits to Mara that the explosions may not yet be over. While demonstrating the supposed effectiveness of the pill at a school seminar, a student explodes, triggering a chain reaction of explosions in the classroom. Dozens of students explode during the ensuing rampage, whereas Mara and Dylan are separated by the mob in a struggle to escape the building. After reuniting with Mara, Dylan explodes, injuring her in the process. Following Dylan's death, a despondent Mara turns to alcohol, and in the ensuing weeks drunkenly falls out with her parents and Tess, as well as accidentally breaking Agent Rosetti's car window with a stolen bottle of whiskey. Mara also reads student comments online speculating that she might be the Covington Curse, as she was present at the scene of each occurring explosion. At the combined graduation/prom ceremony, Mara reconciles with Tess, who reveals that she is leaving town for a beach house that night and invites her to come. Believing herself to be the curse, Mara casually apologizes to the attendees for causing the explosions, but others chime in, claiming responsibility over circumstantial personal problems. Leaving the event, Mara visits Dylan's grave, and has a heart-to-heart conversation with his mother, who convinces her to move on with her life. Mara apologizes to her parents and sobers up. After the rampage, the next "Snooze Button" pill seems to be effective and the explosions stop anticlimactically, leaving 31 students in the senior class dead. Covington High is closed by the authorities and scheduled for demolition. Mara gains possession of Dylan's milk van and – with her parents' blessing – moves into the beach house with Tess, as they had intended to do since childhood. The film ends with Mara telling the viewers to enjoy life while it lasts, as, "The fuck else can you do?"