Interdimensional Door

Written by

Zachary Dushenko

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Los Angeles, CA 90024

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FADE IN:
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EXT. CITY STREET - DAY

Friends GEORGE and JIMMY(early twenties) are walking down

the street, shooting the breeze

JIMMY

I dunno George, it just feels like theres gotta

be something else going on, you know? I dont
feel like I can be fully happy with life, if this
is all life is.

GEORGE

What do you mean this?

JIMMY

You know, This!

Jimmy makes flustered movements, gesturing towards

everything around him.

GEORGE

Karen really fucked you up, didnt she?

JIMMY

I just woke up and she was already gone. Didnt

even leave a note, just sent me an e-mail saying,
bye bitch.

GEORGE

I know, Jimmy. She sent the e-mail to the whole

office.

JIMMY

An E-mail!

GEORGE

I know. Sent a picture of you sleeping, too. Drew

a dick on your face.

JIMMY
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We running late, what time is it?

George looks at his watch

GEORGE

Oh weve got plenty of time, were good.

Close-up on Georges watch, as the time changes from 4:18

to 4:19. The instant the number changes, a door in the
background begins to glow. Neon psychedelic lights glow
around the edges. The door comes into focus, and THE CLOWN
steps out the door, followed by a billow of smoke and
random screams. The clown coughs heavily, closes the door
and transitions, jarringly, into playing the part of a
salesman.

CLOWN

QUICK WHAT YEAR IS IT?

GEORGE

WHAT?

CLOWN

WHAT YEAR GODDAMNIT

JIMMY

2017! Its 2017!

CLOWN

Is Trump still president? Yet to be replaced by

the giraffe?

JIMMY

Yeah? Maybe? I-

CLOWN

Good, so theres still time. Tuesday, right?

GEORGE
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No, its Monday. What th-

CLOWN

Shit, got that wrong. So then you must be

Clown looks at George

George, and

Clown looks at smudged sharpie note on his hand

Janet!

JIMMY

No, its Jimmy

CLOWN

Doesnt matter Terry. What does matter is that

you COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE.

JIMMY

Its Jimmy.

CLOWN

DOESNT MATTER! Come on!

The clown runs to the door. The two friends look at each
other, shrug, and follow the clown to the door. With one
hand on the doorknob, the clown turns to the friends.

CLOWN

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to THE

INTERDIMENSIONAL DOOR. Keep all arms and legs
inside the doorway, especially if they arent
yours. You may feel a slight burning sensation,
followed by the unending screams of your cells
being torn apart; that is completely normal. Hang
on to your ego, exhale, and close your eyes.
Otherwise, your lungs may burst and you may lose
your sight.

JIMMY
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Uhhhhhhhhh,

GEORGE

Hold on, who did you say you were again?

Jimmy and George have been looking at the door. Turning to

say his line to the Clown, they find that he is not where
he just was. The Clown pops up from behind them.

CLOWN

I didnt. Have fun!

The clown pushes the two boys through the door.

CUT TO Other side of the door

We see the two boys fall through the door, and begin
plummeting through the sky. They begin screaming, and
reasonably so.

GEORGE

WHAT THE FUCK?

JIMMY

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

The Clown floats down between the two boys, now wearing a
parachute backpack and goggles

CLOWN

By my calculations, it would appear that we are

falling!

JIMMY

NO SHIT, WHY ARE WE FALLING?

CLOWN

Well, I lost something, and I need help finding

it!

JIMMY
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WHAT DID YOU LOSE?

CLOWN

Doesnt matter!

GEORGE

DID YOU LOSE IT IN THE SKY?

CLOWN

Nope!

GEORGE

THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING HERE?

CLOWN

DOESNT MATTER!

JIMMY

DOES NOTHING MATTER TO YOU?

CLOWN

(facing GEORGE)

Hey, this guys starting to get it!

The Clown flips over and pulls the pin on his parachute.
The fabric unfolds in a frantic slurry, white folds
reflecting psychedelic lights coming from the bag. All
three are wrapped up by the parachute.

CUT TO PILLOW FACTORY

All three fall through a door and onto a pile of mismatched

pillows. Groans are heard emanating from the pile of three
bodies and pillows. From around the corner, a flashlight
sweeps light in. The flashlights owner, GUARD, lets out a
startled bark

GUARD(off-camera)

Hey! Hey, you cant be here!

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CLOWN

Oops, looks like thats our cue to leave! Come on

boys!

The Clown climbs out of the stack of pillows, backpack gone

and goggles replaced with a cartoonish black Bandit mask.
He opens the door again, stepping through. Jimmy follows,
but George hesitates.

GEORGE

What the fu-

Guard comes in frame, and begins looking for his gun.

George, seeing this, decides to do the smart thing and
follow them through the door.

CUT TO BEDWORLD

We see George, Jimmy, and the Clown stand in front of the

door, staring at a bed. Only the corner of the bed is
visible; the bed is shaking and we hear panting coming from
the bed.

JIMMY

Karen?

KAREN

Oh hey Jimmy, did you get my E-mail?

JIMMY

What th-

GEORGE

MOM??

GEORGES MOM

Oh hey boys! I Gotta say, this Karen girl sure

knows her way around in the bedroom! Shes a
keeper, Jimmy!

CLOWN
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Ookay, Im done with this.

The Clown opens the door again, and they step through.

CUT TO Hospital Hallway

The three begin walking down a long hallway with a hospital

feel. Red emergency lights are flashing, as is a warning
sound. Unnatural barks and screams are heard in the
distance, but not that distant.

GEORGE

What the FUCK is going on?

CLOWN

Didnt I tell you? Interdimensional travel.

JIMMY

No, you did not tell us. You have told us a grand
total of... nothing, actually.

ClOWN

Jammie, I thought you were on my side.

JIMMY

Its Jimmy.

CLOWN

Alright, you really wanna know whats going on?

GEORGE

I just wanna go home.

CLOWN

Well too bad, its time to get learned!

The Clown takes a deep breath in.

CLOWN
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Depending on who you ask, there are nine to

eleven dimensions, each of them more a pathway
than a singular plane on which we exist. The
perfect representation for this would be humans.
Third dimensional beings with fourth dimensional
minds who create seventh dimensional connections,
all the while playing out fifth dimensional
deviations. Brane Theory supposes that we dont
perceive every dimension because we are
restricted to a third-dimensional submanifold,
upon which all known particles besides gravitons
are restricted. If you ask me, its all a buncha
cockamamey. I think every dimension is just
vibrating through one another at a consistently
inconstant rate. Its just easy to pretend were
only in one place at a time, or one time at a
place, or that we exist at all.

JIMMY

What the-

GEORGE

I understood exactly none of that.

CLOWN

Ah, here we are!

The Clown opens a random door and steps through, followed

by the boys.

CUT TO Soundstage

Clown opens door and leads boys through, only to lead into
a soundstage. This exact soundstage. The camera sweeps from
the door to the crew. The CREW stop what theyre doing, and
quickly try to hide their equipment. The DIRECTOR
frantically motions for the Clown to leave. The camera
sweeps back to the door, where the Clown is now wearing a
beret and is holding a director cone.

CLOWN

Whoops, wrong way. (through the cone)Back through

boys!
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A door is rolled by, and the clown opens the door stepping
through.

CUT TO Montage of different scenes. First, they step

through into a pool, the door, sitting on the bottom of the
pool. Then, into a college dorm where somebody is hitting a
bong upside-down while another person is about to microwave
a cat. Then, they walk onto a beach. Then they become lines
on a piece of paper. Then, they step through into a dark
closet, but their clothes are switched. Finally, they go
through one last time.

CUT TO PILLOW FACTORY

The same pillow factory as before, but now it looks as if

its been abandoned for decades. Where the Guard stood is
now a skeleton in his clothes.

GEORGE

Augh, screw this, Im going back. We have to go

back to work.

JIMMY

What? How can you just go back to work when you

know all this exists?

GEORGE

Easily, watch me.

George goes to the door they came from. He tries the knob,
only to discover the door is locked.

CLOWN

Hey buddy, that doors for employees only.

The camera pans up from Georges hand to the upper section

of the door. Sure enough, theres an Employees Only sign.

GEORGE

Im so fucking done with this

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George goes and sits by Jimmy. During the following

conversation, the Clown is seen in the background, as is
the Employees Only door, and the skeleton.

JIMMY

Hey bud, whats wrong?

GEORGE

What do you mean whats wrong? We have been

running around through different dimensions, or
worlds, or realities, or whatever the fuck these
are for what feels like years! Nothing makes any
sense anymore. Hell, For all we know, by the time
we get back to our own world, everything will
have been nuked. Maybe a, a, giraffe killed the
president, and Kim Jong Un or, fuckin- Putin
misunderstood the murder as a declaration of war,
or some shit, and now everybodys dead.

During this speech, the Clown has picked up the skeleton

and used its key to open the Employees Only door. The door
opens to reveal a fiery inferno.

JIMMY

George. There is no way to know if thats true or

not.

The Clown throws the skeleton into the fire, and closes the
door.

JIMMY

Also, dont you have a watch? How long HAVE we

been doing this for?

GEORGE

I dont know, man. The watch still says 4:19. I

think its broken or some shit.

JIMMY

Weird.

CLOWN
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Oh hey, would ya look at that?

Close-up of a spiderweb, holding up a wallet. The Clown

grabs the wallet, opens it up, and then pockets it.

CLOWN

I found it!

GEORGE

This whole thing was just to find your wallet?

CLOWN

Yup! Thanks you two, you can go now?

JIMMY

Wait what?

CLOWN

Goodbye!

JIMMY

Wait nononononono-

The clown pushes the boys back through the door, in a

similar manner to the way he did at the beginning.

CUT TO CITY STREET - Day

JIMMY

What in the fuck?

Georges watch beeps and he looks down at it. It has just

turned 4:20

GEORGE

What the fu- all of that happened in a minute.

JIMMY

Wait for real?

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GEORGE

See for yourself.

JIMMY

Well- fuck. Should we go back to the office?

GEORGE

Sounds good to me, man.

FADE OUT as they walk along the street to work.

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