CASE 39
Written by
Ray Wright
02/06/06
INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS
1.
Pitch black. We hear FOOTSTEPS sneaking up an old wooden
staircase. Two people moving as one.Topping the stairs, they creep down the hall to the closed
door that protects us. We can hear them behind it,
whispering, bickering insanely, one shushing the other.The squeak of a door knob slowly turning. The faint click of
the latch. And the door inches open, throwing a razor-thin
shaft of light into the darkness where it illuminates aFRIGHTENED EYE
As a ten-year-old GIRL sits up in bed. Dead tired. Staring
at the two dark faces peering in at her.GIRL