INT. JAMIES BEDROOM - NIGHT

               Opening credits over images from the bedroom of JAMIE 19, she

               sound asleep in her bed. Slow ominous music and roomtone.

 

               TITLE CARD: THE PACT

               Her alarm clock shows 3 am. She seems tense and worried in

               her sleep. The atmosphere in her room has changed. Shadows

               play and from the dark corner of the room the shadow of a man

               emerges. It walks towards Jamie in her bed. Close to her face

               it watches as she sleep. Jamie wakes up from her nightmare.

               She is just about to call her best friend CHRIS when her

               cellphone rings. It is CHRIS, and we can her from her

               description she has had the very same dream. The idea of them

               both dreaming the same dream is freaking Jamie out and when

               Chris asks her if she too had a bad dream, Jamie lies and

               alters and understates her own dream.

 

 

               INT. THERAPISTS OFFICE - DAY 

               Jamie sits silently opposite the therapist, a woman in her

               fifties. The therapist try to restart the session, mentioning Jamies

               issues with trust and authority and the connection with her

               moms alcoholism. Jamie says she doesn't respect the therapist

               and that she wants to stop seeing her. The therapist gets

               unprofessionally annoyed and the session turn into a rather

               silly fight. You are childish, the therapist say. You are

               oldish Jamie replies, provoking the therapist even more.

 

               EXT. CAMPUS   - DAY

               Jamie and CHRIS 19 discuss the decision to stop seeing the

               therapist. Chris argues that it might do her good to

               continue. Jamie agrees but argues she must find a better

               therapist in that case, this one was just on a weird

               powertrip she says.

               They talk more about the dreams and Jamie admits to having

               bad dreams as well.

 

 

               INT. JAMIES BEDROOM - NIGHT

               That night Jamie dreams again of a shadow of a man in her

               room staring at her as she sleeps. (NOTE: need to plant clues

               here, pointing towards the future members of the pact) Again

               Chris calls her right when she wakes up. Chris decide it must

               be an omen of something about to happen, a warning of some

               kind. She says she wants to talk to someone about the dreams,

               the only one she can think of is the college chaplain. Jamie

               is skeptic and claims she doesn't think it means anything.

               Yet when they hang up she can't sleep.

 

 

               INT. COLLEGE CHAPLAIN - DAY

 

               Chris and Jamie see the CHAPLAIN 60. He is polite and nice,

               when Jamie says something skeptical he agrees with her

               winning her confidence. He says that still today no one knows

               if dreams can tell us something. Only way to find out is to

               wait and see, either the dreams will go away or the will grow

               in intensity. Some people are vessels that can house

               supernatural entities, he continues, if the entity is good

               natured we call them touched by an angel and often that is

               the beginning of most saints, if they are evil on the other

               hand we call them possessed by a demon. Either way it's very

               rare, he concludes but asks them to pay attention to what

               clues they see and come back to tell him, if they're on the

               verge of becoming two saints he sure wouldn't wanna miss it,

               he says and smiles. Chris promises to see him regularly.

 

 

 

               EXT. CAMPUS – DAY

 

               They talk about their meeting with the chaplain, they both

               liked the old priest. But Jamie thinks it was too much to

               promise to see him again. Suddenly Jamies mom DEBORAH 50

               comes by with a lunch box as a nice, humorous gesture. She is

               ironic about the fact that Jamie never comes by to see her.

               Jamie is provoked but tries to hide it. Chris sides with Deb

               which irritates Jamie. You should be glad to have such a

               loving mom, she says. You should be glad to have such a best

               friend, Deb says. She complains to Chris, isn't my daughter

               weird, she won't accept help from me, do you still see your

               therapist, Jamie? Yes, mom to get over the fact that my mom

               is a drunk, Jamie snaps irritated.

 

 

 

               INT. PARTY - NIGHT

               That night at a party Jamie and Chris are drunk (stoned?) and

               getting sentimental. We are best friends forever and ever,

               Chris says, wanting them to vow their eternal friendship but

               for some reason Jamie is getting uncomfortable. Chris is

               irritated and wonders why Jamie is distancing herself. Jamie

               explains she feels a bit trapped, although she values Chris'

               friendship she also values independence. To her nothing human

               is everlasting, people change and make mistakes. Friendship

               is a great thing but it never last, people are simply not

               that trustworthy. Chris is offended and accuses Jamie of

               being a coward. You are seriously fucked up, you do need help

               she concludes before leaving her alone. Jamie tries to hide

               her sorrow as she leaves the party.

 

 

 

               EXT. JAMIES HOUSE – NIGHT

 

               Jamie stands outside her small apartment in a big old house

               converted into student apartments. She doesn't go in, instead

               she turns and walk away.

 

 

 

               EXT. DEBORAHS HOUSE – NIGHT

 

               Jamie stands outside a scruffy looking semidetached house.

               The lights are on in the kitchen and we can se DEB sitting by

               the table smoking and drinking. Jamie enters.

 

 

 

               INT. DEBORAHS HOUSE, KITCHEN – NIGHT

 

               Debbie comes back into the kitchen after letting Jamie in.

               Jamie cries into her arms. Debbie agrees with Jamie, trust

               does not last, sooner or later you are betrayed. Debbie

               trusted Jamies father once and he left her alone. I trusted

               you Jamie says softly. Debbie nods, and here I am drink in

               hand. But I think I handle it better nowadays don't you?

               Jamie shrugs and smiles.

 

 

               INT. ASULYM – NIGHT

 

               A man is walking inside an asylum for the criminally insane.

               There are guards waving him by, handing him a key. We can not

               see his face as we see things strictly from his point of

               view. He is breathing as if excited. He walks down a corridor

               and opens a door to a cell and steps inside. He walks to the

               centre of the room where a male patient lies tied down,

               moaning. The patient is in his fifties, pale almost

               transparent skin after decades in confinement. The man walks

               closer, now panting as he leans in and whispers something

               inaudible in the patients ear. The patient goes suddenly

               calm, then after a few long seconds starts twitching and

               jerking and giggling in a unnatural way making unsettling

               eerie sounds. The man who whispered also starts giggling, an

               excited almost aroused giggle. 

 

 

 

               INT. DEBORAHS HOUSE - NIGHT

               Jamie wakes up from a nightmare at her moms place. After

               shaking the dream off she leaves. Walking home in the night

               she thinks about the dreams. Repeating the images to

               herself.(NOTE: need to plant clues here, pointing towards the

               future members of the pact)

               The dreams have definitely grown in intensity and become more

               specific.