BLACKOUT V: THE HOUR AFTER - by Femzywrotethis

(Blackness.) (The sound of a clock.) TICK. TICK. TICK. (A man's breathing.) (Then Daniel's voice.) DANIEL:Sam. (Silence.) DANIEL:Sam, look at me. (Lights slowly rise.) (Daniel is standing in his bedroom. Blood stains his shirt, but he is still alive.) (SAM is on the floor, dazed.) SAM:Daniel... DANIEL:Get up. SAM:What happened? DANIEL:You need to leave. SAM:What? DANIEL:Now. (A noise comes from downstairs.) (Daniel looks toward the door.) DANIEL:They're here. SAM:Who? DANIEL:I don't have time. (The front door opens downstairs.) (Footsteps.) SAM:Daniel... DANIEL:When I tell you to run, you run. (Footsteps get closer.) (Daniel grabs something from the desk and puts it into Sam's hand.) SAM:What's this? DANIEL:Don't let them find it. (The bedroom door opens.) (A figure stands in the doorway.) (We never see their face.) VOICE:You're late. (SAM looks at Daniel.) DANIEL:Run. (The figure moves.) (A sudden impact.) (SAM falls.) (Blackout.) (Lights come up in the interrogation room.) (SAM sits across from MORROW.) MORROW:You remember now? SAM:Yes. MORROW:Everything? SAM:Enough. MORROW:Then tell me. (SAM looks at him.) SAM:Daniel wasn't the person you thought he was. MORROW:Neither were you. (A beat.) SAM:He'd been working with her. MORROW:The woman. SAM:Yes. MORROW:Doing what? SAM:I don't know. MORROW:You don't know? SAM:Daniel found out something. Something he wasn't supposed to find. MORROW:And the woman? SAM:She was trying to get it back. MORROW:What was it? (SAM looks down at his hands.) SAM:The thing Daniel gave me. MORROW:What thing? (SAM reaches into his pocket.) (He places a small USB drive on the table.) (MORROW stares at it.) MORROW:You had that the whole time? SAM:No. MORROW:Then where did you get it? SAM:Daniel gave it to me. MORROW:Before you were hit? SAM:Yes. (MORROW picks it up.) MORROW:Why didn't you tell me? SAM:Because I didn't know who I could trust. (A long silence.) MORROW:You could've trusted me. SAM:Could I? (MORROW looks at him.) SAM:You knew about the woman before you showed me her photograph. MORROW:That's my job. SAM:You knew about the call. MORROW:That's my job. SAM:You knew about 4:47. (MORROW says nothing.) SAM:And you knew about the second voice. (Silence.) MORROW:What second voice? (SAM looks at him.) SAM:Exactly. (A beat.) MORROW:What happened after you were hit? SAM:I woke up. MORROW:At the house? SAM:Yes. MORROW:Daniel was already dead? (SAM looks down.) SAM:Yes. MORROW:And you called for help? SAM:No. MORROW:Why? (SAM looks directly at him.) SAM:Because someone was still in the house. (Silence.) MORROW:Who? SAM:I never saw their face. MORROW:But you heard them. SAM:Yes. MORROW:The voice that sounded like you? (SAM nods.) SAM:They said something. MORROW:What? SAM:"Don't worry. They'll believe you did it." (MORROW goes completely still.) (A long silence.) MORROW:And you believed them? SAM:No. (SAM stands.) SAM:I recognized the voice. (MORROW's expression changes.) MORROW:Whose? (SAM looks toward the observation window.) SAM:Yours. (Blackout.) (Silence.) (Then the sound of a phone vibrating.) (Once.) (Twice.) (Three times.) (A message appears on the phone.) UNKNOWN:You were supposed to remember everything. (Blackout.) THE END

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