Recollection By Jacob Ayers

FADE IN: EXT. WOODS - LATE AFTERNOON David lies on the floor handcuffed. His eyes slowly open as he starts working his way towards getting up. Dirt and soggy leaves stick to his clothes as he makes his way towards a standing position. He nearly trips from dizziness. FADE WHITE INT. HOUSE - MORNING Jack wakes up from a nice soft bed. He sniffs the air. He leaves the bedroom and makes his way towards the kitchen where he finds David cooking canned beans from a portable gas stove. Light comes in through the windows contrasting with the dreary world that they live in. JACK Morning. DAVID Morning. Jack makes his way towards the beans. DAVID No. Look what I found. David points towards the dining room table that has a gas-container. DAVID I have decided that we stop procrastinating. JACK How many times have you said that? DAVID Well while you were sleeping in I went out to a nearby hotel and grabbed a map, and found a nearby Home Depot. David throws Jack a garden hose that has been cut at a length in order to get fuel from a cars gas tank.

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DAVID (CONTD) Ill keep your beans warm Jack. David switches the gas stove to low heat. JACK (smiling) Alright. DAVID I will scout out some nearby houses while you do that. Ill be back in an hour or two. David makes his way towards the front door. He grabs an empty duffel bag on his way. EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD - MORNING He starts making his way down the sidewalk. Everything on earth seems very stale from a lack of activity and sound. CUT INT. GARAGE - MORNING Jack has the garden hose in the engine of a car and starts sucking on the garden hose to get the liquid dinosaur out of the car. Jack gets a mouthful of fuel and spits it out and starts gagging and spitting to get the taste out. He suddenly realizes that the fuel is going everywhere, and then makes sure the hose starts dumping the fuel into the gas can. EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE - MORNING David opens the door to the house and is immediately met by an unbearable smell. It is a mixture of rotting corpses in the house and food that has been rotting in the refrigerator. David backs away, starts coughing, and spits to get the taste out of his mouth. CUT

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EXT. HOUSE - MORNING Jack is getting fuel out of a different car that is parked. David walks by as Jack gets a mouthful of fuel. David makes a groan as if he is enjoying food to mock Jack. Jack spits out the fuel and laughs. David make his way into the house. INT. HOUSE - MORNING David grabs a breathing mask. CUT EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE - MORNING With the breathing mask on, David makes his way into the house. The house appears normal on the inside. David makes his way towards the kitchen and sees the refrigerator that appears normal at first, but has a mysterious brown liquid that has both pooled and dried on the ground beneath it. David shifts his attention over towards the cabinets. He grabs whatever wouldnt be affected by whatever toxins are floating throughout the house. Once his duffel bag is packed with everything David makes his way towards other rooms in the house. One of the items is a big canister of Tang. David finds the living room where there is a rotting corpse on the bed. On the night stand next to the bed lies a hand crank radio. David grabs it. CUT EXT. HOUSE - MORNING Jack is outside, eating beans, as David approaches. DAVID Are they both filled? JACK Yup.

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DAVID Well get the generator running and well be in business. David goes inside and puts all of the food that he found, away into their own cabinets. He then to one of his other bags and pulls out a stack of DVDs. The films are: The Big Lebowski,Goodfellas, Zombieland, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Wars, Wall-E, and Pulp Fiction. MONTAGE: DAVID AND JACK WATCHING FAMOUS SCENES FROM EACH FILM Donnies funeral in "The Big Lebowski" "You think Im Funny?" from Goodfellas. The scene where Talihasee is in the concession stand booth from "Zombieland." The French Guard scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" The Mos Eisley scene from "Star Wars" where the band is playing the catchy music. The scene from Wall-E where Eve and Wall-E are flying through space While watching the scene from Wall-E Jack looks over and sees his little brother sitting on the floor watching Wall-E. This makes Jack feel happy but the happiness quickly turns to sorrow. "Say what again!" scene from Pulp Fiction. This time David and Jack imitate the scene as it is playing on the television. JACK You were finished? Well allow me to retort. What does Marcellus Wallis look like? DAVID What? Jack hits off some food plates that are on the table. JACK What country you from?

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CONTINUED: DAVID Wha, What? JACK What aint no country aint no country I ever heard of. They speak English in what? JACK Jack

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They both are finding it nearly unbearable to not break out laughing. DAVID English motherfucker do you speak it? David starts losing it. DAVID Yes. JACK Then you know what Im saying. Describe what Marcellus Wallis looks like. DAVID What? JACK Say what again! Say what again! I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker. Say what one more goddamn time. At this point they are both laughing too hysterically to be able to continue quoting the film. This continues till the scene finishes with the bible verse. After the bible verse ends David starts to doze off. FADE BLACK INT. DAVIDS OLD HOUSE - NIGHT It is before the apocalypse. The dancing scene in Pulp Fiction is playing on the television as David and his girlfriend are laying out on their couch. (CONTINUED)

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His girlfriend lets out a cute laugh as Vincent and Mia are dancing. Making David laugh with her. David begins stroking her hair behind her ear. FADE BLACK INT. HOUSE - NIGHT The car crash scene abruptly wakes David up. He looks down towards his hands and finds them in the position of which he was brushing his now dead girlfriends hair back. David relaxes his hands and sets them down. His eyes swell up with tears, but nothing actually begins to flow. David stands up and sees Jack who is asleep. He walks over and turns the television off. David lays back down on the couch and drifts asleep. FADE INT. HOUSE - MORNING Jack slowly wakes up. He can hear food on the portable gas stove. He makes his way towards the kitchen and finds David cooking some canned ravioli. JACK Any more tasks you need me to do before I eat mastah? DAVID (chuckling) No. David serves up a plate of ravioli for Jack. DAVID Want some fresh squeezed Tang with that? JACK (chuckling) Yeah. David scoops some of the powder into Davids water canteen. He starts shaking it up to spread out the powder.

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CONTINUED: JACK So what is the plan for today? DAVID Well it has been a week too long since we have done a scouting mission, so I figured we should go a head and go down those train tracks that are right outside of town. Jack takes a bite of ravioli. JACK Sounds good. DAVID I also forgot to mention that I found one of those hand-crank radios while I was doing my supply run yesterday. JACK Really? Dude, lemme see.

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David makes his way towards the duffel bag and pulls out the radio. He makes his way back towards the kitchen. DAVID I havent gotten any time to fiddle with it yet. But I grabbed it because we dont have to go searching for batteries. David begins cranking the radio to get it to turn on while Jack is chowing down on his food. David gets it to turn on. DAVID There we go! JACK Good job David. He then begins to flip through the channels. They dont get anything back but static. DAVID Anyways, it gives us something do to while we are walking.

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JACK True. FADE EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - AFTERNOON The train tracks are surrounded by a forest. David is fiddling with the radio. DAVID Jack its your turn to use it. JACK Okay. David hands the radio to Jack. Jack looks at all of the buttons on the radio. The antenna is already out. He puts his hand on the crank. JACK Jesus David, I didnt know a person could sweat so much from the palms of their hands. Jack opens up a rubber tab on the side where he finds a whole bunch of ports for different kinds of electronics. JACK Holy shit! DAVID What? JACK Hold up a moment. DAVID Why? JACK Remember that Mp3 player you were nagging to me about holding onto? DAVID Yeah. JACK Well look at what this thing has.

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Jack pulls an MP3 player out of his bag and begins charging it off of the hand radio. FADE EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - LATER Jack is listening to music with one earphone on, the radio in one hand, and the MP3 player in the other. Meanwhile David is looking at the map. David gets Jacks attention. He shows him the map. DAVID If we take a right, here and go straight we will hit some suburbs that we havent been to before. FADE EXT. WOODS - AFTERNOON David and Jack walk along the woods. Jack is still listening to music, as David tests out other radio frequencies. David looks out and appears shocked by something. David quickly pulls Jack behind a tree for cover. JACK (Obnoxiously loud due to the music) What? DAVID (whispering) Keep your voice down. Jack pulls out his earphones. JACK Why? David points in the distance, and it is revealed that there is a group of four people walking in the distance. JACK What? Theyre just a group of fellow survivors.

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DAVID Lets just let them pass. JACK What? Why? We havent seen other people in practically a year. David that is your problem, even before everyone died you were suspicious of everyone. DAVID Lets just scout out that suburb and be done with today. JACK Calm down, it is not like all of the food and water is gone from the world and they will eat us. DAVID It isnt worth the risk. JACK There isnt a risk David. Lets see where they came from and where they are going. We dont need to take in more people or anything. DAVID No lets not do that. JACK Dude, there isnt any risk. DAVID I swear to god if youJACK (to the group of people) HEY! DAVID Son of a bitch. David bites down on his fist. The group of people seem confused at first then one of the members of the group points towards Jack and David and start making their way towards them. JACK Calm down David. Look they arent doing anything. (CONTINUED)

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David snaps and starts sprinting in the other direction. The group sees that and starts running towards them. Two members of the group are much faster runners than David and Jack and arent carrying anything. They manage to get hold of both Jack and David. David tries wiggling out of the grip of a man of which is much stronger than he is. The man isnt amused by this and throws David against a tree and follows up with a punch. FADE WHITE EXT. WOODS - LATE AFTERNOON David approaches the tree and touches where he was slammed against. He then looks over his shoulder and sees Jack lying on the floor. David begins frantically looking around where Jack is lying. FADE WHITE EXT. WOODS - AFTERNOON Jack is on the floor and is stunned by the punch. GROUP MEMBER 1 Grab their stuff, and put some cuffs on the one that just got punched. They proceed to grab Jack and Davids stuff and one of the bandits puts handcuffs on David. The group gets together to decide what to do with David and Jack. David is still barely holding onto consciousness. GROUP MEMBER 1 (looking towards Jack) Hey you... Think fast. The bandit throws the key to Davids handcuffs towards Jack. Jack misses the key and it lands amongst the leaves. The group starts laughing hysterically as Jack attempts to find the key. (CONTINUED)

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David was able to see the guy throw the key over towards Jack. One of the group members hits David again as another comes up from behind Jack and uses a rear naked choke to render him unconscious for a while. FADE WHITE EXT. WOODS - LATE AFTERNOON David wasnt able to find the key from his frantic searching. He looks down at an unconscious Jack. David wraps the metal that connect the two cuffs around Jacks neck and places his foot against his back. David proceeds to strangle Jack. Jack soon wakes up in a panic form being strangled. A close up of him being strangled shows panic in his eyes. In the foreground of this close up we see the key to the handcuffs laying slightly under a leaf. Jack attempts to point at the key, but to no avail, and dies knowing where the key to Davids handcuffs are. FADE OUT CREDITS