Final Script – The Institute, Opening Sequence Shooting Script

2nd December 2009

SHOT 1 EXT. PARK IN WOODS, CRIME SCENE, DUSK -

14:00

VOICE OVER

NEWS READER: Today a body was found in Upton Park by

local dog walkers. Forensic investigations are underway to find out
what happened. The family have been informed.

FADE TO:

SHOT 2 INT. COUPLES FLAT, IN HALLWAY, 13:30

JANE AND MARK

[COUPLE ARGUING IN HALLWAY OF FLAT, JANE
BECOMES INCREASINGLY ANGRY]

JANE:
I know I had the money in here this morning.

MARK:
What you looking at me like that for?

JANE:
You’ve done it again, haven’t you?

[MARK APPROACHES JANE. HE REACHES OUT FOR HER

SHOULDER WITH HIS HAND AND JANE PULLS AWAY.
MARKS TONE OF VOICE BECOMES INCREASINGLY
AGGITATED AS HIS ANGER INCREASES]

MARK:
What are you saying? Just say it!

[JANE BEGINS TO RAISE HER VOICE AS SHE BECOMES

ANGRIER]

JANE:
It’s an invasion of my privacy, I earned that money myself.

MARK:
Well here we go again! ‘I do all the work, I earn all the money, I
pay the mortgage’, just you know! We live together, we should
share everything.

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JANE:
It’s not sharing when it all comes from me, you arsehole!

[JANE STORMS OUT OF FRONT DOOR, SLAMMING IT

BEHIND HER. MARK IS LEFT STANDING ALONE AND
ANGRY]

CUT TO:

SHOT 3 INT. NURSES STAFF ROOM, 10:00

TWO NURSES (NURSE 1, NURSE 2)

[NURSE 1 MAKING CONVERSATION WITH NURSE 2, A

HUSHED VOICE FROM BOTH NURSES, MAKING SURE NO
ONE ELSE CAN HEAR]

NURSE 1:
Have you heard the news?

NURSE 2:
[SOUNDING PUZZLED] What news?

NURSE 1:
He’s gone...he’s gone!

NURSE 2:
[SOUNDING SUPPRISED AND SHOCKED] Noooo!

NURSE 1:
[SARCASTICALLY] I’d like to see how this one turns out!

NURSE 2:
[TONE IS LOWERED SOUNDING SERIOUS] But this time it’s
serious. You know as well as I do what he’s capable of.

[CAMARA SHOT OF MURDERS CONFIDENTIAL PAPERS

ON TABLE IN STAFF ROOM, NURSES CAN STILL BE
HEARD TALKING]

CUT TO:

SHOT 4 EXT. IN WOODS 13:30

[ESCAPED MAN RUNNING FRANTICALLY THROUGH

LEAVES, HEAVY BREATHING CAN BE HEARD, ONLY HIS
FEET CAN BE SEEN]

CUT TO:

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SHOT 5 EXT. IN PARK IN WOODS 13:45

[JANE ON SWING THE ONLY SOUND THAT CAN BE

HEARD IS HER CRYING AND THE RUSTLING OF LEAVES
FROM UNKNOWN CHARACTER WALKING – HIS
IDENTITY IS STILL UNKNOWN]

CUT TO:

SHOT 6 EXT. IN WOODS 13:45

[ESCAPED MAN RUNNING FRANTICALLY THROUGH

LEAVES, HEAVY BREATHING CAN BE HEARD, ONLY HIS
FEET CAN BE SEEN]

CUT TO:

SHOT 7 EXT. IN PAKK IN WOODS 13.47

[BACK OF MANS HEAD IS SEEN LOOKING AT JANE FROM

A DISATANCE AS HE IS STANDING IN A BUSH]

[MAN APPROACHES GIRL, JANE. SHE IS STILL UNAWARE

THAT HE IS THERE. HE THEN PLACES HIS HAND ON HER
SHOULDER]

CUT TO:

SHOT 8 INT/EXT.

[MONTAGUE OF ALL SHOTS, RAPIDLY SHOWN TO

CREATE A BLURRED EFFECT OF THE OPENING]

FADE TO:

SHOT 9 EXT. IN PARK IN WOODS 13:50

[EMPTY SWING, NO SOUND CAN BE HEARD OTHER THAN

THE SWING STILL SWINGING]

ROLLTITLES

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