Chaos

I am far too excited about this one! My third script! Inspired by James Roday's character from Psych. Hopefully nothing too much like any of their episodes though. This one is longer, but even I laughed while I was writing it. Too much fun! Also I used this image because it's real cool looking, nothing more.

"CHAOS"

Written By

Becca Zenga

FADE FROM BLACK:

INT. – LORI’S BEDROOM – NIGHT

Lori sleeps in her bed after a long days work. Just as she seems to have reached perfect peace her cellphone vibrates. She rolls her eyes when she see’s the name ‘Nick’ on the screen. She reluctantly presses ‘answer’.

Lori

What could you possibly want at eleven thirty at night?

Nick

Um. I uh. I wouldn’t have called if it weren’t an emergency.

Lori

Emergency? What’s going on?

Nick puts his hand on his head in REGRET.

SAMSH CUT TO:

INT. – GALLERY – NIGHT

A WATER COOLER is spilt over. Curtains ripped from the window are laying upon the ground.  AN ERNE is nocked over and ashes are spilt and smeared up into a pile. LORI is dressed in pajama’s and a dress coat and Nick dressed in a dress shirt, tie, and slacks covered in smudges of what looks like dirt and stands in silence evaluating the disaster.

Lori

(referring to the pile of ashes.) Are those?

Nick

Yes

Lori

Did you?

Nick

Yes.

Lori

And the Diamond?

Nick

Missing when I came in to get my jacket out of my locker. Lori! I don’t know what happened! I walked in like any normal night; the diamond was even there! I came back out.

(V.O.)

I backed up in shock and ran into the cooler.

NICK is shown backing up into the cooler and panicing as the water spills across the floor. He reaches for the nearest thing (Curtain) to clean it up.

Nick

(V.O.)

So I grabbed the curtain to start cleaning it up. That’s when my arm slipped…

NICK is shown scrubbing the tile with the curtain and slipping on his face, his hands knocking over the stand holding the erne of ashes.

Nick

That’s when I proceeded to pile up the ashes which let to a panic attack and me calling you.

Lori

Your lucky mom is already dead because if she were alive to find about this she would keel over dead!

Nick

Isn’t ‘keel over dead’ a little redundant?

Lori

Nick! (beat) We’ll have to call up Marty.

Nick

I don’t want to involve your boyfriend.

Lori

It’s too late.

Smash Cut to:

INT. – Marty’s dinning room - Night

Camera tilts up at Marty’s face sitting at the table, the coffee in his hand. Nick and Lori sitting across from him.

Marty.

You What!?

Nick

It’s not as bad as it sounds right?

Marty

Well as long as you haven’t tampered with the scene any more we can explain everything to Detective Gulag and he can take care of everything.

MARTY looks up to see NICK and LORI staring at each other with guilt.

Marty

You didn’t.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. - MUSEUM EXHIBIT – NIGHT

CAMERA pans left to right from Nick face, to Lori’s face, to Marty’s face. The Museum exhibit is spotless missing the stolen diamond, the erne of ashes, and a curtain on a window.

Marty

You did.

Nick

We should be okay. Right?

Nick walks around the room of the museum.

Nick

I mean we did great right? For not being cops we are awesome!

Marty

But the diamond is still missing! You guys didn’t take it right?

Nick

Of coarse not! We just- (trips) What was that?

Nick gets up to see a dead body on the floor.

Nick

Aaaaah!

Smash cut to:

EXT. – GALLERY – NIGHT

MARTY and LORI step out for air great panic. NICK follows them out.

Nick

Okay, Unexpected. But we can deal. We just have to-

Marty

Have to what! There’s a freaking dead body in there! I have to report this.

Nick and Lori

NO!

Nick

We do that we could all be accused of murder.

Lori

Then what are we supposed to do Nick?

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – GALLERY HALL – NIGHT

MARTY and NICK shove the dead body into the janitors closet with great strain.

Marty

I can’t believe we did that! (Exasperated)

Nick

It had to be done.

LORI comes in with rubber gloves and a trash bag full of bloody towels.

Lori

It’s all cleaned up.

SMASH CUT TO:

EXT. – COFFEE STAND – EARLY MORNING

MARTY and NICK and LORI walk from the coffee stand towards the gallery.

Nick

Now that we’ve had our coffee break I think we can go back and try to figure out properly how this should be dealt.

Marty

(Mumbling) We’re all going to Jail. We’re going to die and go to Jail.

Lori

Is that a cop?

Nick

Where?

Marty

Crap!

MARTY hides around the nearest corner of a building.

Marty

That’s my partner’s car. We really are going to jail!

Nick

Marty, no one is going to jail. You have to go talk to him, survey the situation. I’m sure everything will be fine.

MARTY roles his eyes, whines, the proceeds to walk down the side walk.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – GALLERY – MORNING

MARTY approaches DETECTIVE JAMES MADISON attempting to hide shakiness from the situation. Cops and forensics are swarming the scene.

Marty

Detective.

James

Officer Oakmont. Good to see you’re this morning. Have you been debriefed?

Marty

I have a good idea what’s going on.

SCARLET WINTERS walks over to MARTY and JAMES.

Scarlet

I can assure you the stolen jewel will be recovered. I wouldn’t say so if I wasn’t an expert.

James

Thank you miss Winters. Allow me to introduce to you my partner, Officer Oakmont.

Scarlet

(To Marty) How do you do?

Marty

Swell. (To James->) We’ve seriously got to talk.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – GALLERY HALLWAY – MORNING

JAMES, LORI, MARTY and NICK stand in a circle. JAMES has a look of great disappointment.

James

You fools! What have you gotten me into.

Nick

We really are sorry. It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.

James

Well where did you but the dead body?

MARTY points to the janitor’s closet behind JAMES.

James

(beat) Okay. Here’s what we’re going to do.

(V.O.)

First we’ll lock officer Oakmont in a cell at the station.

MARTY is shown being thrown into a cell.

James

(V.O.)

Sorry Marty but you have a terrible poker face and we can’t risk this getting out. Now Lori will come with me to question the security guard

JAMES and LORI are shown knocking on a door. ERIC the security guard answers the door.

James

(V.O.)

and Nick, you’ll go with miss Winters with whatever lead she may have.

NICK and SCARLET step up to the janitors home.

Scarlet

The janitor is always the last one out. If anyone saw anything, it was one Jordon Cytec. (Knocks on door.) Mr. Cytec. My names is Scarlet Winters, I have a few questions regarding the closing of the gallery last night. (To Nick.) How are you involved in all of this?

Nick

Oh, I work at the gallery. Yesterday was my first day.

Scarlet

Awfully convenient.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – ERIC’S LIVING ROOM  - DAY

JAMES and LORI are sitting on the couch across from ERIC TOWSON.

James

Is there anything else you can tell us.

Lori

Did you see anyone there last night before you headed home?

Eric

Just Jordon, the janitor. He always is cleaning up when I head home.

JAMES’ phone rings.

James

Excuse me.

JAMES walks into the next room.

James

Detective Madison.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – GALLERY HALLWAY – DAY

VAL a forensic officer holds his phone in his right shoulder and a wallet in his hands.

Val

The dead body in the janitors closet is none other than the janitor himself. His name is Jordon Cytec. He was shot in the chest with a Glock. I’m thinking a 21 or a 22.

James

Thanks Val.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – ERIC’S LIVING ROOM – DAY

JAMES walks back in putting on his jacket.

James

The dead body in the janitors closet was identified as Jordon Cytec, the janitor.

Eric

He was in the closet?

James

Thank you for your cooperation Mr. Towson. (To Lori->) You might want to call Nick. I believe he and Miss Winters were on their way to Mr. Cytec’s home.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – JAIL CELL – DAY

MARLA an assistant at the police station walks down the hall of cell’s and see’s MARTY sitting alone.

Marla

Mr. Oakmont?

Marty

Don’t worry about me Marla. I’m just taking a break.

SMASH CUT TO:

EXT. – JORDON CYTEC’S APARTMENT – DAY

NICK and SCARLET are sitting around waiting.

Nick

Obviously he’s not here.

Scarlet

Which can only mean one thing.

Nick

He has a girlfriend and stayed at her place for the night?

Scarlet

He stole the diamond and the Richmond Erne.

Nick

You don’t know he stole the Erne. He could have accidentally broken it on his way out.

Scarlet

Why would he have bothered to clean it up if it had simply broken?

Nick

Maybe he has O.C.D.

NICK’S phone rings.

Nick

Yeah?... Good news?... So I’m in the clear. Fantastic. I’ll meet you there. (Hangs up and turns to Scarlet.) Well, the case apparently has been solved.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. – GALLERY HALLWAY – DAY

JAMES, LORI, and NICK all stand gathered.

James

I know who murdered Jordon. (beat.) I also know where the Diamond is.

(V.O./narration)

(visual is set up like a security camera)

Jordon Cytec stole the diamond and stashed it so he could take it another day when he would have an alibi.

Jordon is seen taking the diamond and putting it in the water tank.

James

(V.O.)

Eric Towson, the security guard saw this take place and confronted probably telling him it was a bad idea.

Eric is seen arguing with Jordon.

James

(V.O.)

The two of them hear Nick coming in to get his jacket from his locker and hide in the janitors closet. Then follows the mess Nick made after flipping out about the missing diamond. (Smash cuts of what already happened but shorter.) When Nick stepped out to call Lori (Quick cut of Nick on the outside) Eric and Jordon searched for the diamond in the mess of the cooler but couldn’t find it. Later, after you two cleaned up the mess that Nick made, Eric and Jordon struggled and Eric shot Jordon and left him there.

JAMES walks into the main part of the gallery continuing his story.

James

That’s when Eric made a run for it, Nick tripped over the dead body, and Lori had to continue cleaning up, valuable evidence I might add.

Nick

Wait, so where’s the diamond?

James rests his arm on the water cooler, waiting for one of them to get it.

Lori

There’s more than one water cooler!

Nick

Buy how did you know that? And how did you know I tripped over Jordon’s dead body?

James

The entire thing was taped on the security camera. (quick cut of a security camera.) You’re lucky I’m the only one who saw it. Nick, don’t ever work in a place with valuables ever again. You invite Chaos around you.

Lori

What do we do now?

James

How’s lunch. I’m pretty hungry.

FADE TO BLACK.

FADE FROM BLACK:

INT. – JAIL CELL – NIGHT

Marty is still alone in the cell and pulls his phone.

Marty

Hey James, I know this may be a bit of an inconvenience but if you happen to stop by the station I would really like to be let go. That is if you’ve solved the murder already. I’ll just wait here for you. Alone. In the dark.

CUT TO BLACK.

CREDITS.