Day 15: Elevate Your Ending

[Elliott Williams]

Subject: Elliott Williams Amazing 3rd Act

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

I was only able to make small changes. I think I will find more once I work on the screenplay.

SET UPS

ACT 1

There is a secret being hidden in her broken home.

Her father is behaving very oddly.

Mom is murdered by Dad

There are symbols on pieces of paper that match magnets hidden in the basement of the house

The CIA, not the local police, takes Dad

April gets a clue to a closed military base where her father may be.

ACT II

April is told there isn’t anyone on the base with her father’s name.

April tries to get clues from a local dried up town.

She’s led to a retired security guard who tells her her father’s real name.

April tries to find information about her father and she finds that her father published papers on some odd behavioral research her father performed.

She follows an employee from the base, Kerry, to a strip club and convinces him to help her get inside the base, but she can’t find her father. Instead she finds old records that lead her to a survivor of the testing, Ayoki Koji. Kerry gets fired by his boss, Officer Gaskins.

Kerry and April find Ayoki but they are captured by Officer Gaskins. Kerry betrayed April.

April is now imprisoned on the base and questioned by Officer Gaskins. He says they want to hold her for observation since they believe her dad has a virus.

In her cell, she sees from Ayoki’s POV, the door to her cell open. He comes in, accuses her of leading the military back to him and tries to kill her. She convinces him that she is just trying to find her father.

Ayoki helps her find her father, but they find Kerry. He’s in bad shape as he’s been tortured. They are going to leave him, but Kerry tells them that he knows where her father is.

They find her father and he is part human and changing into something else. He confesses his wrongs, asks for forgiveness, before they escape and he changes into a beast.

ACT III

Dr. Gant has escaped his cell as a beast and starts killing soldiers while April et al scramble to escape, avoid capture and keep from ending up on the dinner menu. She is broken and lost.

24 (E7) INT. Military Base –Office – Day

They discover Field Officer Gaskins, noose around his neck, in preparation to hang himself. He reveals that there were beasts created years before that still exist, they have awoken and Dr. Gant was supposed to control them, but now they are doomed. Ayoki, a clairvoyant, offers to try to help. Gaskins has a plan.

25. (E8) INT. Military Base – Basement – Day

Gaskins tells all remaining soldiers to lead the Gant Creature to the basement. He and the team get tranquilizer darts on steroids. Kerry doesn’t think they will work. Gaskins explains that they are a nerve toxin that can kill humans. Bullets don’t work but maybe poison will.

They go to a secret chamber in the bowels of the building and find three big magnetic chambers with symbols engraved on them, same as the ones on the magnets from the house. The creature that’s awake can sense Ayoki’s presence which is making Ayoki start to lose control.

Kerry tries to guide Ayoki. He’s studied some of Gant’s research, but he’s shaky.

The second creature awakes with a bellow. They have limited time has Ayoki fights to control his mind.

26. (E10) INT. Military Base – Basement – Day

The Gant Creature breaks in, they try to disable it with the tranquilizer darts, it only slows him down a bit. Ayoki tries to use his senses to control the creature, but it only accelerates his change and excites both the creatures in the boxes. The excitement draws The Gant Creature to the boxes to help the Creatures escape. The team scrambles to leave as they witness the second case crack.

27 INT. Military Base – Hallway – Day

April et. al. get out of the basement before the creatures break out. They hustle to escape, but Ayoki is lagging. April tries to help him hurry and keep going. Kerry tells him there may be a way to save him. Ayoki doesn’t want it. He’s too far gone and there’s too far to travel. He will try to slow the creatures down, while he can.

28 INT. Military Base – Hallway – Day

April is unravelling with grief. Kerry snatches her to her senses. She is their last hope. Dr. Gant mentioned deep emotional links in psychoconnectivity. If she can tap into that, she may be able to control the creatures.

29 (E10) INT. Military Base – Lobby – Day

They make it to the lobby of the building, but they can’t escape as the doors are blocked with stacked bodies. The creatures show up, but now there are four. The team gets picked off one by one as April tries to find a way out, finally, out of fear, she finds the ability to control the creatures and uses it to make them destroy each other.

30 (E8) INT. Home – Basement – Night

April is at home in the basement. She is finishing arranging magnets in a circle on the floor. She places one of the tranquilizer darts on the ground, takes some meds, takes off her bloody clothes, lies down in the middle. A third of her body is flaking white ash and her eyes are crimson red. She takes pill after pill and breathes. We see her eyes roll up in her head and she passes out.

Outside of her house a convoy of military vehicles rides up on the lawn and soldiers surround the house.

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