Glitch

by

Urveesh Dadhich
FADE IN:

T.V. SHOW SPEAKER

But it was Eric who really, put
it together.

Grey background with T.V. Static overlay is shown.

FADE TO:

INT. ROOM - DAY

(T.V. Show still plays in the background.)

Bright Sunlight coming out of the window.

ZOOMS IN.

Camera pans to Sagar's tablet. On the tablet, r/conspiracy is

open.

Camera pans to Sagar's laptop on which the t.v. Show is

playing.

Camera pans to Sagar who is sitting unfazed on his bench with

his mouth open pointing upwards. He suddenly wakes up.

ZOOMS OUT.

Match cut to him waking up with a jerk. He rubs his face with
his hand and looks out of his window. He takes out a chewed
up chewing gum out of his mouth.

ZOOMS IN TO HIS HANDS.

He spreads that chewing gum with his fingers and put it under
his table.

CAMERA UNDER THE TABLE FACING UPWARDS.

Match cut to him pasting the chewing gum under the table.

Zoomed in shot of the laptop

INT. ROOM - DAY

Sagar is walking beside his almirah while yawning and

suddenly he breaks his yawn and put his left ear on the
almirah gate and nods and then looks down.
 2.

ZOOMS IN TO THE LOCK

He checks the lock.

CUT TO:

He opens his drawer and picks up an old looking one among

many others.

Camera points down to him putting a battery inside that old

phone.

He walks towards the window and looks out of the window.

CUT TO:

Animated people passing by the neighbourhood.

Zoom in on the family walking.

Zoom in on the lady jogging.

Close us shot of sagar's curious face.

Zoom in shot of lawnmoving guy's face.

Close up shot of Sagar's face. Sagar sighs and looks down.

CUT TO:

Wide shot of sagar standing looking down and switching off

his phone and keeping it in his pocket.

Sagar then sits at his laptop.

CUT TO:

Laptop screen is playing a screen saver. He pressed a key on

keyboard and a login screen appears. He stars entering the
password and keeps typing after 1 second camera shows his
face still typing the password and then cut to the screen
after 2 more seconds of typing the home screen appears.

He opens an application and a window pops up. "Operation

terminate" is written on the application. The camera zooms in
the that text and a voice in the background reads the text in
a weird way.

CUT TO:
 3.

Sagar's face. A montage begins with a glitch effect , it

shows "TOP SECRET" written on a door. A snake headed man. UFO
sighting clip. Alien bodies and Narendra modi at the end.

BACK TO SCENE

Sagar nods. And clicks on the terminate button and a popup

appears he leans into the screen with a confused face and
clicks again and same popup appears.

He takes his phone out and dials a number. ( This scene is

shown in a side by side window).

He stands up and calls the Internet service called Quantum

Link.

(Wide Shot)

He walks towards his window while taking on the phone.

SAGAR
Hey Quantum Link

QUANTUM LINK
Hello Sir how may I...

Sagar interrupts the person in between.

SAGAR
Actually my Internet stopped
Working.

QUANTUM LINK
Stopped working?

SAGAR
You know since I woke up this
morning.

QUANTUM LINK
Ok. Stopped working!

SAGAR
I mean I tried to make it work
but..

QUANTUM LINK
Sir we are sending our Technician
"Aaryaman khurana"(In a male
voice) to your house.
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SAGAR
No. No thanks.

QUANTUM LINK
Ok Sir thank you for reacing us
out. Now I'd terminate (male
voice) the call.

Sagar puts his phone inside his pocket. (Lower body shot)

Camera zooms in on his face. His mouth is open. He breathes

havily and music changes and a layover of a satellite and a
planet appears on his face and suudenly the bell rings.

Sagar Opens the door. Camera moves from Mr. Y's legs to this
face (normal music starts).

Mr. Y
Hello Sir. Mr. Y from Quantum
Link.

Sagar's confused face is shown.

Mr. Y (CONT'D)
Aapka internet nahi chal rha tha?

Sagar's confused face is shown.

A montage stars with a glitch. Traffic , cars and vans and at

end a click running is shown.

Back to sagar's face.

A glith screen appears.

Mr. Y (CONT'D)
Sir aap hi hai Na Sagar Rajo...

SAGAR
Sagar? Oh hn Sagar hn. Aaao.

As Aaryaman walks in Sagar closes the door camera zooms in on

his face and title card appears with loud psychedelic music.

CUT TO:

Sagar and Aaryaman walking towards the laptop and sagar

stands beside him.

Mr. Y
toh aap Work from home krte h?
 5.

SAGAR
Hn? Hn. Actually Mai research krr
rha hu.

SAGAR (CONT'D)
You know , its interesting. (Wide
Shot -) I think sabkuch kisi Na
kisi tarah se connected hai.

Mr. Y
Hn hn! (Confused)

SAGAR
(close up) sab kuch milkar
something huge , substancial.

Mr. Y
Accha (slowly)

SAGAR
I think history is gonna repeat
itself. (close up)

A montage starts with a glitch

SAGAR (CONT'D) (FAST MUSIC)

You know like 26/11 and 9/11
(video shown), irag flag k beech
m triangle (video shown) you know
what that means, Illuminati.
(shows Mr. Y nodding awkwardly)
WWE , you know that's not real
fir bhi everyone watches it(video
shown), Mai bata rha hu media
consumption and politics go hand
in hand. (Mr. Y again). Neil
Armstrong, read that backwards
kya bana pata hai? Gnorts Mr
Alien.

MR. Y STANDS UP.

Mr. Y
Alright....

SAGAR
Teletubbies , who would design
something like that without alien
intervention.
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MR. Y
Ek switch khareed k Lana padega
aapko jakr.

Sagar's face zoom in confused.

(Wide shot of both)

SAGAR
Switch. (pointing ) alright

Sagar goes out of the door. And Mr. Y come in the frame and
takes his phone out and calls someone.

CUT TO:

EXT. CORRIDOR

Sagar towards window and suddenly remembers something and

goes back towards the room but he does not enter the room and
keeps walking towards left.

INT. ROOM

Mr. Y is talking on the phone.

Mr. Y
Nahi nahi Tu samjh nahi rha h.

Mr. Y (CONT'D)
Arre maine dekha uska laptop!
Mujhe pata hai maine kya dekha.

While Mr. Y is talking on the phone. The middle almirah

starts shaking.

Mr. Y (CONT'D)
You need to understand the
situation. (pauses) Toh should I
neutralize Project terminate?

X falls out of the almirah and Mr. Y gets scared funnily.

CUT TO:

EXT. TOILET
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Sagar taking a piss. (wide shot)

And a close up shot of sagar's face.

INT. ROOM

Camera points upwards towards Mr. Y's face.

Camera points at X. X was almost unconscious and as he looks

up at Mr. Y he gets scared and shouts in a funny way.

EXT. TOILET - DAY

Sagar finishes and zips his pants up. And walks towards right
Side window but as he reaches towards his room he hears a
sound.

As he enters his room, Close up shot of sagar's confused

face. Mr Y and X were doing something on their tablet.
Suddenly sagar's phone starts beeping. They look back and
startle.

They stand up and look at sagar.

(lower wide shot of sagar's pocket). He takes his phone out.

Terminate is written on the screen. Sagar looks at them. They
are scared.

As sagar reaches his finger towards terminate button , both

mr Y and X jumps towards sagar in slow motion.

Cut to black with a glitch.

Glitch error screen.

Fallback Mode running.

Fades in with a glitch.

He packs his bag and puts them in almirah.

Runs towards window.

Looks at phone. Due to impact with window he falls

unconscious and camera pans to window.

Time jump
 8.

Sagar comes handcuffed with a officer. Officer looks in the

room and looks at sagar and nods in question and sagar points
at almirah. He opens it and outside window video plays and
closes with a glitch fix animation.

Glitch. Fixed.

Simulation running.

Credits.

(CONT'D)