Mercy of Others (2024) Movie Script
(Ominous Music)
(Camera click)
(Video glitch)
(Video glitch) This is Shaun.
(Video glitch)
(Video Glitch)
(Video glitch)
I don't really know what to say here.
(Camera click)
(Camera click)
(Fuzzy video glitch)
I've just come back from school.
(Video glitch)
(Video glitch) I have
nowhere to go from here.
(Camera click)
(Camera click) They tell me to ignore them,
they'll go away,
to retaliate, and they
will no longer hurt me.
Do you agree with those words?
(Video glitch) I keep to myself,
I'm quiet,
I've never hurt anyone.
So I just don't understand, why me?
(Video glitch)
My brother always told
me that, tears mean nothing,
Someone else intentionally causes them.
Because of that I now refuse to cry.
(Video glitch) My mother tells
me I always see the worst in people
But she doesn't see what I see.
She's not there when they
pull the wool over my eyes.
(Video glitch)
She doesn't see how
difficult it is just to breathe
(Video glitch)
Sometimes the pills help,
sometimes they don't.
A collection of people
in my mind are puzzled,
and it's beginning to feel like the end.
(Dramatic Title Music)
(Electrical hum)
(Door Buzzer) (TV show talking)
(Door Buzzer)
(Rustling envelope) (Door Buzzer)
Alright, alright! I'm coming!
(Door Buzzer)
What the hell is i-
Hey.
Heya.
What do you want?
Uh, the girl across the hall said
you could help me with something.
Yeah, um,
What do you need?
Just need something to chill.
(Laughs, exhales)
Oh, sure.
(Door creak) I can help you with that.
You look like you've had a big night huh?
Now what is it that I can get for you, huh?
Want some...
Valium? Some Xannies?
What is it you want?
Your life.
(Bat smashes face) Ugh!
(Body drops to floor)
(Ominous beat)
(Ears ringing)
(Face slaps)
Uhg, fuck!
(Exhales)
(Paper on desk)
(Peper on desk)
(Exhales) (Paper on desk)
(Paper on desk)
Dayne Bell.
Who are you?
(Menacing footsteps)
Is this yours?
Unlock it.
Now guys, why don't we
have a few wo-(Bat taps chin)
The passcode, Dayne.
Alright, alright.
(Phone button taps)
There.
Take it and go, huh?
I'll go when I'm good and ready.
What's this all about, huh?
Look,
If I owe you some dosh, I-
(Book hits face) Argh!
Fuck!
Ungh!
Fuck!
(Dayne groans) Is this
where you're at now, Dayne?
Can't keep track of your
own debts? (Dayne sniffles)
What is it that you need?
Whatever it is, I can get it!
(Smacks lips)
Gutter vodka,
Dirt beer,
(Bottle placed on table)
Rollies,
Mi goreng! (Noodle hits face)
Something tells me you aren't
buying your way out of this one.
Tha-that's, that's where you're wrong mate.
I've got plenty of money
right he-(Bat hits table)
I don't want your money.
Then what is it you want, huh?
TELL ME!
(Page is unfolded)
(Paper flourish)
(Title music fades in)
(Menacing footsteps)
(Inhales) Fuck.
Where did you get this?
You've stolen a lot in your time,
But you should never have taken that.
(Angry grunt) (Heavy bat hit)
(Title music)
(Title Music) (now playing on radio)
(Phone vibrates)
(Phone vibrates)
(Hannah rolls to her side)
(Door Bell rings)
(Title Music fades out)
(Door opening)
(Hugging)
I can't believe this is real.
Have you heard anything else?
No. (Glass picked up)
Who would do something like this?
(Glasses touch)
Are the others coming?
Hey! Hm?
Are the others coming?
Yeah.
They'll be here soon.
I just...
can't stop thinking about
the last time I saw him.
Don't do that.
It's not fair on you.
Have you spoken to your Mum?
Hey,
(Glass put down)
We'll be fine, okay?
Yeah.
(Thunder)
It sucks that we're
all meeting up like this.
So I picked up a case of...
Dayne's finest.
(Bottles clink)
To Dayne,
We had our ups, and we had our downs,
But at the end of the day,
He was part of this family.
To Dayne! To Dayne.
To Dayne. Yeah, Dayne.
I'm gonna miss you, brother.
(Drinking beer)
(Smacks lips)
That's fucking terrible. (Summer gags)
Oh my god!
(Van slides closed)
(Pulls out hip flask)
(Drinks from flask)
I thought I told you to keep a clear head?
I'm crystal clear.
It's important you keep
your composure in there.
Just stick to the plan.
You always take all the fun out of it.
(Hip flask snatched)
No more bullshit, Brooke.
Sometime you act like you're
the only one that lost him.
He should be here with us.
Tonight is about accountability.
(Connor) Anyway!
Mrs Green ended up walking in, as-
as he was doing it, so
he didn't even get to do it.
So we had to fuck in,
piss-bolt outta there,
before we could get anything
in the coffee machine,
and we went out the window,
So we fucking leg it,
Dayne then says, "Split
up, They can't catch us all!"
(Summer laughs)
But during his park our
sesh, out the fucking window,
He ends up shattering
his ankle, (Group laughs)
And he can't play football for like,
was it like twelve months? (Group laughs)
(Group laughs) Man,
That was one of my favourite
moments with the D-Train.
(Mack) Yeah.
Mine was in Year Eleven,
I remember being so stressed that
I thought I'd failed my
English mid-year exam,
I told Dayne about it and
don't ask me how,
but he actually managed
to switch out my exam paper
with Kate D'Brauski's
(Laughing)
Ha-uh, what?
Yeah, True story!
I did so well that year.
That was horrible.
No!
No, in the end it was fine!
Kate was able to just pass.
What?
Jacinta, Why are you making that face for?
Dayne told me he did
it for you, all the time!
Really?
Yeah. Once or Twice.
(Drink pouring)
Ben!
Hey Kiddo.
How fucked was it?
Yeah.
It's fucked.
They know who did it?
I haven't heard anything.
(Grabs glass)
It was probably some prick
he sold some dodge merch to, or something.
(Puts down glass)
Doesn't mean he deserved to die like that.
(Gulps glass)
(Sniffles)
(Puts down glass)
You got any uh, (taps nose)
(Searching pockets)
(Cocaine bag shakes)
I thought Hannah didn't
want you doing it anymore?
(Sighs)
Who the fuck knows what
Hannah wants anymore?
Because I don't.
Yo, yo, yo!
It's your boy, Mack, here!
It's an old-fashioned,
Sunday beauty Sunday Sesh!
You know what it is!
We've got a game of
King's Cup in the progress!
We've got Dayne over there!
We've got Summer to his left! Woooo!
Got Connor right there!
Got the happy couple! Blurgh!
And we've got Jacinta!
She's just drawn the fourth king,
She's gonna have to
drink from the king's cup!
(Crowd laughing) Hey, turn it off.
No, turn it off! (Dayne) Drink it!
Stop, I'm not going to drink it!
(Summer) Come on!
No, I'm gonna be sick!
(Dayne) Drink it! I will be sick, No!
(Mack) Awwwwww (Summer) Come on! Let's go!
(Group) We'd like you to-(Mack) Jacinta!
(Mack) Party woman!
Alright! Alright! Okay.
I'll do what I have to do. (Summer Laughs)
(Ben mumbles)
As a great king,
THE king, as I've been known to be called,
(Ben) By yourself. (Group laughs)
(Sarcastic) Ha ha ha ha!
Oh, you're a fucking comedian?
Yeah? When did you
change jobs? Fucking idiot.
Alright. (Group laughter)
So,
As a great king,
I have to be ready to
make the ultimate sacrifice.
So,
Jaz,
(Exhales)
You can learn from this.
(Jacinta laughs) (Group cheering)
Yeah! Woooooo!
(Group cheering)
That... was a brutal night,
if my hazy memory serves me correct.
I can't believe you took the shot for me.
Well what can I say?
I didn't think you were gonna survive it.
I just can't believe he's gone.
Listen, (grunts)
Don't tear yourself up about it.
I know things didn't end... well,
But that's not on you.
Tell that to Mack and Summer!
Yeah, wel-well,
Mack doesn't have a
lot going on in the attic,
and don't worry about Summer, she's just...
being
Herself?
Herself. Yeah, I was gonna
word that differently, but...
Summer's Summer.
So how's...?
Uhm...
(Smacks lips)
Sammy?
Yeah!
I don't know.
You'd have to ask some cock stain named...
Dean
or...
Ben, or Josh, or... No!
Phillip...
Who fucks a Phillip?
It's okay.
I'm used to it.
Used to what?
Being a placeholder until
something better comes along.
Don't say that!
Don't worry about it. Look, Tonight is...
about Dayne.
To Dayne!
Thanks Mum.
(Dog barking)
(Door closes)
Where's your folks?
At Chloe's.
She had the baby?
You didn't even want to tell me that?
Could we please not do this tonight Ben?
I dunno.
I mean you close me out for two months.
When else am I gonna get a
chance to get some answers?
I'm sorry I just... needed some space.
Why?
What did I do?
There's bigger things happening right now.
Like what?
Dayne?
Fuck that piece of shit,
He got what's coming to him, alright?
You don't pretend to care about him.
Nice, Ben.
(Grabbing shirt)
What is wrong with you? Alright, look,
Alright, I'm sorry, okay?
But I'm losing my fucking mind.
One day we're good, and then the next...
You're moving back in with your folks!
After seven years,
Don't I at least deserve an explanation?
I invited you here because I
didn't want you to be alone.
You shouldn't be alone.
But that's it.
(Footsteps away) (Ben sighs)
To Dayne, my brother,
I can't believe you're gone too soon.
Ah, I miss you man!
(Sighs)
Rest easy big guy!
I love ya!
(Snorting cocaine)
(Sniff)
(Sniff, sniff)
(Sniff)
You should probably take it slow.
Oh, give it a rest.
Summer.
Our friend fucking died.
He died!
Why does nobody care?
Of course we care!
Look, I know he's done
a lot of fucked up shit,
Okay? Like I fucking get that,
God.
Y'know,
I never thought he should
have been banished.
He wasn't banished.
(Sighs)
(Steps forward)
You know,
You really should get
out from under her thumb.
(Running up stairs)
(Places down bowl)
(Places second bowl)
What's going on?
Just processing.
(Shuffling snacks)
Oh. Dayne?
Yes, Dayne.
What?
The fuck is going on with Han?
Seriously?
Now is not the time.
Don't pretend to shed tears for the dude.
(Gasps)
What is your problem?
My problem is you being in Hannah's head!
I'm not!
Bullshit!
One day we're good, and the next we aren't.
You explain that to me!
Have you just not considered
that you might be the problem?
(Footsteps approaching)
Who wants an Old-Fashioned?
Nice to see things haven't changed.
How ya going man? Good?
(Guys finger snap) (Door Bell rings)
(Dramatic audio cue) (Door opens)
(Eerie, suspenseful music)
(Dramatic audio cue)
(Connor) Like, first thing in
the morning, it's like super early,
and he gets me up, he gets
me up at like the crack of dawn,
(Connor) And we're going outside,
(Jacinta) Who was at the front door?
(Connor continues in background)
Nobody.
What's this?
It was left at the door.
(Flips envelope)
"The Girl Whose Eyes Hold No Secrets"
Who's that?
(Footsteps approach)
What's in it?
(Tense music)
(Opening envelope)
(Removing page from envelope)
(Opening sticky page)
It's our school photo!
Weird!
What the fuck?
What's this supposed to mean?
I dunno.
What do you mean, you don't know?
It means she doesn't know!
What's this?
Blood?
(Ben walking)
Where you going?
To have a look.
Someone's having a laugh.
(Descending staircase)
(Brooke) He's clocked us!
If he wanted to find what
he's looking for, he would.
What's going on?
Check this out!
(Grabbing page)
School photo?
Yeah, it's our Year Twelve photo.
Cool.
It was left at the front door.
'Scuse me, (sighs). That's weird.
(Drinking glass on table)
(Summer pours a drink)
(Footsteps up stairs)
(Drink placed on table)
(Ben walking)
(Ben sits down)
Couldn't see anything.
Where's uh, where's Mack? Maybe,
Maybe Mack's fucking with us.
Mack's in the bedroom.
Of course.
Hey.
What's up?
I dunno.
(Inhales)
Guys!
It's a fucking photo!
Who cares?
Do you think this has
something to do with Dayne?
What do you mean?
Well he was murdered, and now
someone is sending us our yearbook photo.
That's a bit of a stretch, Han.
Is it?
(Message tones on everybody's phones)
(Ben) Fuck! (Connor) You guys seeing this?
(Gasps) Is... is...
Is that Dayne?
That's a joke yeah? It's a fucking joke!
Well it's a pretty sick fucking joke!
But who sent it?
What the fuck guys?
(Whimpers)
(Phone dings)
(Summer exhales)
(Gasps)
What is it?
(Summer) Show me!
(Connor) Nah, let's call the cops!
Is that out the front of THIS house?
(Jacinta) Can you see anything?
No.
Han?
(Summer) The fuck is
going on? (Connor) Yeah,
No, we need police!
Calling all units, Priority Three,
Three Twenty-Eight in Shady Grove,
Any units in the vicinity?
(Turns off police scanner)
(Jacinta) This doesn't make any sense.
It's the Sixteenth.
What?
The girl whose eyes hold no secrets.
That's what was in the letter.
What letter?
The letter.
(Phone rings)
(Summer exhales)
Who the fuck is this?
A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
His shadow shouts,
on a nightmare scream.
Do you know what it's like?
To be a caged bird?
You're at the Mercy of Others.
(Phone disconnects)
Alright, what the fuck was that?
Please tell me you locked the front door.
(Jacinta walks away)
The fuck was that?
A caged bird?
It's a poem by Maya Angelou
So we're dealing with a fucking poet?
(Locks door)
(Exhales)
(Steady breathing)
(Unfolds page)
What is it?
Help!
I'm falling again, and it
feels impossible to stop.
Collected memories, and
poisonous people I try to forget.
The Queen,
The Brute, the Vixen,
The Jester,
The Thief, the Troll.
Sym-
Symbolic sense, and worn-out closeness,
My skin has felt numb for so long.
Blistering caution and
anxiety to work through,
The reminders of scars they wrote.
What does it mean?
It's him.
It's about him.
He can't...
The fuck are you guys talking about?
The Sanders Kid.
(Summer whimpers)
No...(gasps)
That... that was a long time ago.
The kid from school?
Yeah.
How do you know it's about him?
Because those are his words.
What makes you so sure? Huh?
Because today is the Sixteenth?
Because it's the day that he-
Maybe it's a coincidence!
Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah?
The Queen, the Brute, The Vixen, the...
What, it this supposed to be us?
Who else is it meant to be?
The Brute?
Who's that meant to mean?
Well what does that make you then, huh?
The Queen or the Vixen, huh?
Because I never know! (Hannah) Stop it!
(Page unfolds)
The Jester.
Well, fair enough.
The Troll, who's the Troll?
What the fuck is the point of any of this?
We're wasting time!
We may as well try and figure
out what the fuck is going on, yeah?
Mack!
What?
You're the troll.
And Dayne was the Thief.
(Ominous music cue)
Alright, what the fuck is going on, Han?
Is there something you need to tell us?
(Exhales)
(Door bell rings)
Cops?
(Boots treading on grass)
(Bat tapping stairs)
(Footsteps down staircase)
Let's just get the fuck out of here.
We don't know what, or who, is out there.
So? We c-
We can just make a run for the cars.
Did you not see that picture of Dayne?
Can we all just take it easy?
(Taps window)
It's a girl.
What?
(Mack grabs doorknob) Wait!
Well she looks harmless,
She might need help!
(Door bell rings)
I am not waiting around
for whoever the fuck that is!
Summer, can you just hang on?
(Dramatic music cue)
(Woman screaming)
Hannah! (Door knob turns)
What the fuck is going on?
Sit down.
Get fucked.
Sit. Down.
Ben.
Move
(Footsteps up staircase)
(Summer gasps)
(Thunder)
(Glass slides along table)
(Sips glass)
(Swallows drink)
What do we have here?
Old-Fashioned.
You make em?
It's not bad.
How about I make a couple
to go, and you guys can...
go get your buzz on?
(Chuckles)
Yeah, you always liked a good joke, hey?
In the right time and place.
Right time and place?
(Mack typing on phone)
Interesting.
Who are you?
(Footsteps from staircase)
(Mack typing on phone)
He's crafty.
Give it to me.
(Slaps Mack) (Ben) Holy shit!
(Mack groaning)
The phone!
(Mack panting)
How much do you think this weighs?
Oh come on,
It's practically glued
to your palm, isn't it?
You stream every
moment of your fucking life,
As if any one of those virtual friends
you're so desperate to impress...
gives two shits about you.
You trade your values for a like,
Your self-respect for a comment.
(Phone) Miss you man.
You even traded in your friend's death
for some form of validation.
(Phone) Rest easy big guy!
(Phone) I love ya.
Just like I knew you would.
Or maybe you're just
crying out for some affection?
What do you want with me, man?
(Smacks lips)
One-hundred and eighty grams.
That's all.
And yet it holds so much weight over you.
Pathetic.
(Brooke) Phones.
(Phone put into bag)
(Brooke) Come on. (Phone put into bag)
I don't have it on me.
Yours?
(Phone put in bag)
You know the police are on the way?
You registered a disturbance.
That's a Priority Three.
Response time can be
anywhere between twelve and...
twenty minutes.
Which I'd say is about that time.
(Radio click)
Unit Three to VKG
Go ahead Unit Three!
(Radio clicks)
Twenty-Three A Shady Grove clear, copy.
Copy that Unit Thr-
(Radio click)
So what now?
The cold-hearted beauty queen,
always basking in the warmth of others.
What is it that you
think you know about us?
(Rummaging in jacket pocket)
You're not going to like seeing
yourself through a different lens.
This reveals what you truly look like.
(Connor) Listen man,
I don't know what that
book is telling you, but-
Ah, the class clown!
(Opens diary)
He who draws the attention,
directs it, and makes me suffer it,
That resounding laughter echoes in
my ears long after the final bell has rung.
I hope every day his hilarity
will be hurled onto another
but every day the
Joker's eyes fall upon me.
His humorous joke,
(Closes diary) My cruel torment.
Look, I told some jokes.
Okay?
Man, what the fuck is this shit?
Maybe it's all just a bit of fun, huh?
Some harmless push and shove?
Something you might be familiar with?
What?
This isn't funny anymore?
Why was it funny then?
Why can't you fight inside
your own weight class?
Fuck you man, you don't know shit about me.
(Snickers)
You can't hear the
cries of an unborn child?
What?
Well this is a far cry from
the self-obsessed brats
that roamed the halls of St. Peters
Where's the bravado?
Insults? The judgment?
The lies?
And the harm?
Most people's biggest
fear in life is death.
But our brother chose
to face that fear head-on
because he felt like his
life was worse than death.
And the people responsible for that,
are all under this roof.
And each and every one of you will pay.
Get up. (Mack) Why?
Just get up!
(Mack pushes Aiden)
(Bat hits Mack's leg) Argh!
ANYONE ELSE??? HUH? (Mack moans in pain)
(Mack groaning)
(Aiden grunts)
Mack! (Mack groaning)
Where is he taking him?
Shut the fuck up.
(Drops bag)
(Thunder and rain)
Now the challenge,
Is to keep a hand steady.
You did some of your
best work with your hands.
Being creative,
Humorous,
Cruel, hm? (Mack breathing nervously)
Should we have a look?
(Takes phone out of pocket)
(Mack moans)
(Phone placed on armrest)
Look at it.
Look at it!
That's my brother.
Hm?
Anything you want to say for yourself?
No?
(Reaches into pocket)
Here's how this is going to work,
Do you know where your brachial artery is?
(Touches brachial artery)
Once cut open,
you have about ninety
seconds before you bleed out.
(Mack moans)
And then I'm going to
ask you some questions.
Short answers only, because
time will be of the essence.
(Mack breathes nervously)
(Grips Mack's arm) Look at me.
Now sit still,
This could get messy.
Wa-wa-wai-wait!
AAAARGH!
You're Shaun's sister?
You don't have to do this.
(Breathes)
I know what happened to him was horrible,
But none of us knew
what he was going to do.
How could you know?
The "Girl Whose Eyes Hold No Secrets"?
That was all a fucking lie.
How do you justify this?
(Snickers)
The "Queen".
Excuse me?
What's it about you that
made them all serve?
Don't look like shit to me.
You don't know what you're talking about.
(Brooke) Yeah...
What did you have against my brother?
Answer me!
It wasn't always about him.
I am sorry,
for what happened to him.
(Spits)
Fuck your apology!
(Mack screaming in pain)
Argh!
Aaaugh.
Aaungh!
Aaaargh!
Why Shaun?
I don't know, I-
Think harder! (Mack)
We were just kids, man!
Yeah, so was he!
Your fucking time is running
out! (Blood trickles to floor)
It was meant to be fun for the group,
but the guys - they wanted to - No!
What, it wasn't enough for you
to laugh at him in your little group?
You had to take it public?
(Blood trickling to floor)
How many followers did those
accounts get? (Mack) Argh!
I can't remember.
More or less than a thousand?
Stay with me, huh?
More or less?
More.
Please.
One more question. (Single blood drop)
How did my brother die?
He killed himself.
HOW???
I don't know.
(Sharp musical sting)
He bled out.
(Drip)
(Drip)
(Shaun) It's lies.
Social media,
is made up,
of false lives.
Followers, virtual friends,
Like a currency at our school.
I mean they laugh, but,
it's a bad stock.
When your image is being used.
I mean, I can't control that.
They control that.
My torment is worth
over five hundred likes,
over fifty re-shares.
My torture is their entertainment.
(Thunder, rain on window)
Can I ask you a question?
Why have you waited 'til now?
What, does it make it okay?
That it was all those years ago?
I'm not saying that.
Just figured kids get bullied in
school all the time, you know?
Yeah,
You'd know, wouldn't you?
What was his home life like?
That's what I'm wondering.
I mean, you and your brother are piling
it on a little bit here, don't you think?
Where were you when he killed himself?
His family loved him.
After he was dead, maybe?
(Cocks gun) Yeah?
The fuck do you think you know huh?
I mean we might have
teased him in school, but
You and your brother are
pretty fucking psychotic, yeah?
Yeah, we fucking are!
Yeah? Well, maybe your
brother was too weak!
Ben stop!
Fuck you!
(Connor tackles Brooke) (Gunshot)
(Women screaming)
(Muffled scuffling)
(Women screaming)
(Connor hit in face)
(Bodies fall to ground)
(Ben and Brooke struggle) (Hannah) Ben!
(Brooke screams)
(Connor grabs Brooke)
(Brooke struggling) (Connor hit in face)
(Brooke and Connor struggle)
(Women shuffle off couch)
(Brooke grunts and struggles)
(Yelling)
(Brooke panting)
(Nervous breathing)
(Brooke) Aiden!
Argh! Ungh! (Bat smacks hand)
(Growling)
(Growling)
(Nervous breathing)
Get up!
Get up! (Hannah crying)
Down. Knees!
Look at your girl.
This is what happens when
cowards try and be heroes.
(Cocks gun)
Look at her!
You understand me?
(Nervous breathing)
Good. (Nervous breathing)
(Exhales)
(Walks outside)
(Terrified breathing)
(Exhales)
(Inhales)
So you just all of a sudden
want to know how to fight?
You fight.
(Snickers) I used to.
But it didn't solve any of my problems.
Violence only makes things worse.
Trust me.
I don't want that for you.
You're the hope for this family, remember?
Mum's shining star.
Me and Brooke ain't going anywhere special.
What else can I do?
I used to write things down.
Helped me get it out of my head.
Catches diary.
It was good for me.
Maybe it will be good for you too.
What if these guys just
make things worse for me?
Just write.
I'll take care of the rest.
(Opens diary)
(Raindrops)
(Thunder)
It's euphoric, isn't it?
Your heart races,
You feel like you're drifting,
Then you don't take it for fun no more.
It becomes a necessity.
I tried every drug I could find.
Hoping one high would last.
Life was empty without it.
I guess it was just a sick, sad addiction.
(Throws bag at Summer) (Summer gasps)
(Summer gasping)
(Door opens)
(Summer gasps)
(Door closes)
Where's Mack?
He's hanging with your mate, Dayne.
(Phone placed on table)
(Terrified breathing)
He's finally gone viral.
The kid did it to himself!
I mean, he was clearly sick in the
head. What is this accomplishing?
He just put some fucking
posts on Instagram!
It was years ago! It was...
It was just high school!
Oh, it was just school, yeah?
That made it okay?
It was okay that he came
home broken and bruised?
Every time that bell rang,
He fucking died inside.
(Summer gasps)
(Opens revolver)
You thing this is suffering?
(Loads revolver)
(Summer nervously breathes)
Do you wanna know what real suffering is?
(Nervous breathing)
(Smacks lips)
How about being told...
that the pretty girl wants to
meet you? (Summer grunts)
Not just meet you,
Meet you...
at the Hill!
No?
You remember.
It was just a joke.
It was just a bad joke.
I don't know what to make of it.
The Hill!
It's where all the couples go.
I've heard she's had a few boyfriends.
Hannah says she gets bored easily.
I wonder if she'll get bored of me?
Apparently she's read one of my papers.
Thinks I'm cute.
I don't even know how to act on a date.
But, we'll see.
I'll check back in with you.
Future Shaun.
I told him to meet me at the hill.
It was just a joke.
We were just gonna see
how long he'd wait for.
That's what I thought we were doing.
It turned into something more.
I never wanted him to get hurt.
Oi! (Kicking sand)
Whatcha got there man?
You waiting for someone,
are ya? (Crumples paper)
Let us see.
Give it to me. Huh?
Huh? What are you waiting for?
(Ben chuckles)
(Face slap) Augh!
(Ben grunts)
Who hit him?
(Connor laughing)
(Punch to face) (Shaun falls to gravel)
Ben.
Good girl.
(Heavy breathing)
(Ben whimpering)
(Empty chamber click) (Hannah squeals)
(Terrified panting)
(Ben) Fuck!
Do you understand what
we're doing here now?
Why me?
Why do I have to?
Who was involved in this prank?
I don't remember.
(Brooke) Yes you can.
(Nervous breathing)
Ben.
Mack.
There was Connor.
Great!
Wait wait wait! I swear to God!
(Empty chamber click) (Summer cries)
This is fucking ridiculou-
(Cocks gun)
(Nervous breath)
Sweetheart! Eyes here.
Whose idea was it?
Please,
Please, I don't want to-
I know you don't want to,
But the walls are closing in on you, yeah?
So who the fuck...
came up with the plan?
Mack.
It was Mack!
Do you wanna bank your life on that answer?
Please! I don't want to-
Whose idea was it?
Mine!
(Whimpering)
It was my idea.
I told them to do it.
I'm so sorry.
A true queen.
(Hannah) No! (Ben) No!
(Empty chamber click) (Hannah crying)
(Whimpering)
(Jacinta exhales)
It took weeks for Mum to realise
something was up with him.
(Nervous breathing)
I heard what you said before,
that it's not on anyone?
That he did it to himself?
Nah, Cunt,
It was that fucking day on The Hill.
That day on The Hill, you took his life!
(Ben punches)
(Ben kicks)
Try to throw a punch at me?
(Ben punches)
(Brooke) He suffered a TBI.
And you! (Summer gasps)
You told him to go to
The fucking Hill, didn't you?
(Crumpling paper)
(Paper thrown on grass)
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
My brother always said an
apology means FUCKING SHIT...
In the face of consequence!
(Revolver fires)
(Pained breathing)
A Vixen, so cunning and smart,
The Vixen has all the boys smitten.
A Vixen what made you despise,
And gleam green and yellow,
Beneath your brown eyes.
I thought I would finally meet
the beauty that is Summer.
But instead,
I was met with the cold
loneliness of Winter.
(Ominous music)
(Whimpering)
(Sniffle)
(Brooke hyperventilating)
(Fumbling cigarette)
(Lights cigarette)
(Exhales)
(Steady breathing)
Brooke.
This is taking too fucking long.
I don't know why we're doing it this way.
I spent seven years...
paying for what I did.
And for all the pain he caused,
It was over in seconds.
He didn't feel a thing.
How is that fair?
This isn't just about...
life, and death.
This is about understanding our actions,
Ours, and theirs.
So are you with me or not?
I just want it to fucking
end, I just want it to be done!
Then you're no better than they are.
Make up your mind.
(Cigarette drops)
(Descending staircase)
Ah, fuck.
(Exhales)
Fuck.
(Exhales)
Mum?
Mum!
(Crying) Mum!
(Inhales)
(Exhales)
(Inhales)
(Exhales)
He wouldn't have wanted this.
How do you know?
Whatever you choose to
believe, I did know Shaun.
I knew him well.
He wrote beautiful poetry,
and stories.
He would tell me all the time
how he wanted to be an author,
and write fantasy.
I know he wouldn't have wanted
this because he looked up to you.
He idolized you,
Even after you went to prison.
He wouldn't tell me what for.
But he said you were his hero.
I wasn't a hero.
Why did you go to prison?
I killed our stepdad.
He was a deadbeat.
Married our mother for a
roof and some pocket money.
(Tense music building)
Seemed harmless for the most part.
But people are rarely what they seem.
One day Shaun came home
when he wasn't supposed to.
(Sniffing)
So he tried to help,
(Brooke gasps)
And got punished for it.
I thought I was protecting
my family from a predator.
(Bat hits stepdad) (Stepdad screaming)
Instead I just left them all
alone, (Muffled hits and screaming)
To become prey to a world with many
more. (Muffled hits and screaming)
You can't expect to get away with this.
I'm not deranged.
I'll face whatever consequences
are coming my way.
(Brooke) I bet this isn't how you
envisioned your night would turn out.
(Lights cigarette)
I never told anyone this,
but that night he did it,
I lied.
I said I wasn't home.
(Inhales)
The truth is...
I was.
Just the room over.
(Exhales cigarette)
I can still remember my Mum's scream.
(Door knocking)
Shaun?
(Gasps in horror)
(Crying)
(Wailing)
(Crying) Shaun!
I knew what it had to be.
He had this look in his eye
when he came home from school.
So I ran.
I swear I ran for what felt like forever,
and when I stopped, I
couldn't catch my breath.
I'm still trying to catch it.
(Exhales)
(Pops bottle lid)
(Thunder)
Dayne,
Mack,
(Sniffles)
This isn't happening, Connor.
We have to be strong.
Okay?
Why?
We're not gonna get out of this.
You don't know that.
(Sniffles)
(Sniffles)
I wanna wake up!
It's just a bad dream.
(Sniffles)
I wish.
But we're still here, okay?
We're still breathing.
(Sniffles)
For how long?
(Sniffles)
(Sniffles)
You okay?
We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me.
Don't be stupid.
This isn't on you.
(Sighs)
I was his friend,
and I couldn't admit it.
(Sniffles)
It's not a sin to not love someone back.
We're gonna die,
and I can't die without telling you,
Han? (Hannah inhales)
I was pregnant.
(Crying softly)
I was pregnant, but I
couldn't have the baby!
W-
Was it mine?
(Crying)
I'm sorry. Ben, please!
Ben!
(Crying)
(Footsteps up staircase)
(Slams bottle on banister)
(Glass placed on table)
(Bottle opening)
(Glass clink) (Pouring into glass)
(Bottle placed on table)
This is a twenty five year old scotch.
It must run for at least five,
Six hundred a head.
I've been sober for a while now.
(Walking around table)
(Restraint can be hard)
(Pouring into glass)
But it is possible.
I know right now it may not seem like it,
But not everyone here has to die.
(Pouring into glass)
Shaun had his demons,
just like the rest of us.
Some of us conquer them,
and others don't
But Dayne pushed him,
(Pouring into glass)
Mack suffocated him,
and Summer destroyed him.
How's a kid supposed to
survive, (Pouring into glass)
When a whole group
forces their issues onto him?
(Bottle placed on table)
It's our own responsibility
to conquer our demons.
But you lot seem incapable.
Whether it's your need for attention,
Your insecurity,
Your weakness,
Or all of the above.
Now drink.
(Picking up glasses)
(Drinking)
(Glass placed on table)
(Dripping liquid into glass)
(Glass moved to table center)
I want you to look around the
table at your so-called "Friends".
Some of you pushed
Shaun more than the others.
So which one of you four
will take responsibility?
Maybe it was the Jester?
The clown.
First entry has your
name written all over it.
You were the one that chose him,
Put the target on his back,
So my vote is for you.
Vote? W-W-Wh-what?
-w-what do you mean "Vote"?
What did you put in it?
Something to exorcise those demons.
(Poison bottle placed on table)
So that's one vote for Connor.
Brooke?
How do we look past the puppet-master?
Now if you're done
feeling sorry for yourself.
This is fucked.
Vote,
Or I'll vote for you.
Jacinta.
Ben!
Face it,
You were the puppet-master,
you stuck us on to him.
Fuck you!
What about the school guide?
Remember that?
You stuck us on to him!
Rough him up so he couldn't do
the photo shoot, you remember that?
No, I d-
What? We wouldn't be here if it
wasn't for you being so fucking pathetic!
Oh, don't pretend it was just me!
Every chance you had,
you messed with that kid!
You didn't have the balls to pick
anybody else because you were weak!
He was an easy target for you!
Please stop!
(Aiden) Well,
Safe to assume that's a vote for Ben.
You're so fucking weak!
Gosh-(Connor) Stop it!
Why are we turning against each other?
How about you, Hannah?
You know her better than anyone.
Was she the puppet-master?
No.
Gotta choose someone.
No.
VOTE!!!
(Connor) Han.
Choose me.
(Exhales)
It's okay, do it.
Han.
Please.
Two for Connor, and two for Jacinta.
The deciding vote is in your hands.
What happens if we refuse to drink?
There are more painful ways to die.
This is Mercy.
The timing isn't great for
me to let you know that...
I've been...
Crazy about you for like...
Ten years.
Yet time and time again
you chose douche bag...
After douche bag.
I mean you-
You picked Dayne over me!
Jaz, do you know how much that sucked?
Like what's wrong with me?
Nothing! Nothing, Connor.
You are way too important to lose.
I can't lose you!
You're the only one that could
make me laugh when I wanted to cry.
In another life, right?
I know I was...
so lucky to have you in my life, Connor.
Make it out.
You don't deserve...
to die because of me.
None of you do.
(Sniffles)
I deserve this.
Just so you know,
All the shit in that journal,
All the crap th-that was said about you,
You're not that girl anymore.
Sniffles.
It doesn't matter anymore.
It should.
Alright, that's enough.
(Sniffles)
(Glass placed in front of Jacinta)
Drink it.
No.
Drink it!
(Sniffles)
(Nervous breathing)
(Hannah grunts)
(Nervous breathing)
Han!
(Scared moaning)
(Nervous breathing)
Han.
(Nervous breathing)
Make it...
I haven't voted yet.
(Gasps)
To be a good king you have to be
willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
No, no, Connor! (Ben) No, wait up!
(Glass placed on table)
(Clears throat)
That is a good scotch.
(Gasps)
Shall we do another round?
(Nervous Breathing)
(Connor breathing heavily)
(Coughing)
Connor?
(Coughing and wheezing)
Connor?
No, C-Connor!
(Collapses to floor) (Vomits blood)
(Connor struggling) (Jacinta crying)
(Crying) No, no! What are you doing?
Connor, no! HELP HIM!
Please...
No, Connor, I...
Stay with me! Stay with me, okay?
You can do it! (Crying)
(Crying)
(Crying) Stay with me.
Connor! No, no no! Connor!
Connor, no! (Crying)
(Crying)
Connor! No!
Con! No, please!
(Wailing in anguish)
(Crying) Connor, No...
(Crying)
You absolute coward!
Why did you have to stop? I don't
care! (Ben) No Jacinta, don't hurt!
You should have killed
me!' (Ben) No, hey, stop!
You're nothing! YOU'RE
NOTHING! (Ben) No! Stop! Stop it!
You're nothing! You should
have killed me! (Ben) Stop! Stop!
Stop!
(Jacinta crying)
(Crying)
(Shaken breathing)
Con! (Crying)
(Crying)
I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!
You say apologies mean nothing
in the face of consequences.
Fine! Blame me!
You want someone to blame? You blame me!
But let Hannah go, please just let her go!
You fancy yourself a fighter, don't you?
What do you think?
I see a coward who cherry-picks his fights.
Easy targets.
That's all I see.
Yeah, well that's easy for you
to say with that gun in your hand,
What does that make you?
Alright.
Let's make this a fair fight.
Bullshit! (Aiden) No bullshit!
You wanna save your
girl? Come and fight me.
Come on, fight me! Hit me! Come on!
Humiliate me!
Beat me down like you
did Shaun, you can all walk!
You're seriously gonna let us all go?
Brooke! He beats me,
you let 'em walk, yeah?
You serious? (Aiden)
I'm fucking dead serious!
Don't do it.
I have to.
(Grunts) No you don't!
Please!
I never deserved you, did I?
Don't say that! Please!
Whatever happens, you get out of here!
Okay? You run!
Don't look back! (Hannah) Don't! (Crying)
(Hannah whimpers)
I love you. (Hannah crying)
Please!
It's moments like this we can surprise
ourselves with the strength we possess,
And what we'll do to
protect our loved ones.
You've beat up a few kids, I know.
But do you have what it takes to beat
a man to death with your bare hands?
Watch the life drain out of his eyes?
Stop! Don't... you don't...
Make no mistake,
One of us doesn't get up from this.
(Ben) Argh! (Light punch to face)
(Grunting) (Hand clasps fist)
(Aiden and Ben grunt)
(Crunches Ben's wrist)
(Punch tapped away)
(Light kick) (Ben stumbling into Hannah)
No please, wait! (Ben) It's okay.
(Ben removes outer shirt)
(Ben Grunts) (Light shoulder grab)
(Light rib punch)
(Sharp rib punch)
(Knee to solar plexus)
(Ben kicked to floor)
(Aiden) Argh!
Even your brother hit harder than that!
Yeah? YEAH? (Aiden) Brooke!
Fuck you! (Gun smashes face)
Aargh!
Aaagh!
(Ben) Fuck!
(Brooke) Fuck you! Fuck!
(Panting)
(Yelling)
(Collapses into wall)
(Shoulder charge) (Aiden) Augh!
Argh! (Elbow strike to back)
(Elbow strike)
(Grunting)
(Ben groans) (Aiden grunts)
(Crying) (Background struggling noises)
(Arm slap)
(Face punch) (Grunts)
(Face punch)
How do you like it, huh?
(Punch blocked, arm deflected)
(Shove against wall) You
think this is fucking funny?
Is it?
Do you fucking hear laughing? Do ya?
Do ya?
(Brutal punch)
(Collapses to floor)
(Spits out blood)
Get up! Come on!
Get up!
Hit me. Come on,
Hit me!
(Weak face punch) (Ben grunts)
Hit me, come on!
(Weak face punch, Ben yells)
Again! (Weak face punch)
(Punch blocked) (Ben grunts)
(Bone crunch) Aargh!
(Collapses to floor)
(Ben choking)
Yeah? Yeah?
(Face crunches against bench)
(High-pitched ringing sound)
(Crashes on to table)
(Pounds stomach) (Ben) Aaargh! Aah!
Shut the fuck up!
You shut the fuck up!
Hmmm?
Hmmmm?
Hmm? Hmmm?
(Chest punch) (Ben) Aargh!
(Ben falls to floor)
Han! Hannah!
Han!
(Aiden yells) (Boot stomp)
(Heavy face punch) (Aiden grunts)
(Face punch)
(Face punch)
(Face punch)
(Crunching face punch) (Crying)
(Face punch)
No! No! Please! Stop! (Punching continues)
Let him-(Jacinta) No, he's...
(Primal yell)
(Sombre Music)
(Shaun) Monsters make us scream,
Make us cry,
(Slow-motion deep growl)
Leave us in fear.
What is a monster?
To a bug, any human is a monster.
Sometimes I step on an ant...
to feel power.
To feel control.
Maybe that's what I am.
An ant.
Something so insignificant,
that I get stepped on,
to make somebody else feel powerful.
There's always something stronger,
Something...
bigger, something more powerful.
Something that can out-monster the monster.
(Hannah crying)
(Hannah crying) (Jacinta) Let's go, hey.
Hannah!
Hannah! You have to go!
Hannah! Hannah, look at me!
You have to go.
We can go,
Okay? We can go... (Aiden grunting)
(Hannah) I can't. (Jacinta) Yes you can!
Please, you can!
(Whimpering) Please, go.
(Gunshot)
(Struggled breathing)
(Gasping for breath)
(Intense breathing)
(Whimpering gasps)
Go!
You have to! Go!
I don't want to. I don't want to!
Jacinta, I don't want to-
Hannah, Go!
Hannah, go now!
GO!
It's okay.
(Gasping for breath)
(Terrified breathing)
(Glothing grab) Come here!
(Grunting)
(Kick to body) Fuck!
Bitch!
(Groaning in pain)
(Gasping for breath)
How did you end up
with a brother like Shaun?
I didn't know him, but,
Were we really the ones
that made him feel alone?
He wasn't like us.
He was Mum's hope. (Panicked breathing)
She had raised two fuck ups, but he,
He was the light of her eye.
Have you ever thought that
if you weren't such a fuck up,
He would still be here?
Years of letting him know
what you thought of him.
I think it's time that you
learned what he thought of you.
(Moans in pain)
A cold girl,
Always hiding in the warmth of others.
The smiles you showed to newcomers,
Slowly biting your way
through gnashing teeth.
How many bodies are left?
How many skeletons still breathe?
The Queen Bee,
A leader with no leadership qualities!
(Page thrown at Jacinta)
(Missed swing whoosh)
(Punch in the back) Argh!
(Groaning in pain)
(Struggled breathing)
What you've done to us is far
worse than what we did to Shaun.
You destroyed my family! (Light kick)
That day, Mum had no idea she
had finished her last day of work!
(Light stomp)
You people took everything from her!
She just wanted her son back! (Light stomp)
You think that you've been
punished? (Kick to body)
How does a mother cope,
Knowing that her son didn't want to live,
And that no justice was served for her son!
This isn't justice!
This is closure!
(Angry grunting)
(Struggling with throat)
For the first time ion your life,
You're suffering!
(Brooke growling) (Jacinta choking)
(Choking for air)
(Brooke growling) (Jacinta choking)
(Arm falls limp)
(Anguished moaning)
(Crying)
(Loudspeaker turns on)
(Distant muffled music)
(Music gets louder and clearer)
(Music turned off)
(Thunder clap)
(Speaker click)
(Shaun, muffled) High School,
Is done.
I have nothing to do now.
I don't have anywhere to go.
No invites.
Everyone tonight,
Is going to be,
Celebrating.
People tonight are going to...
go out to dinner with their parents.
Set all their achievements,
What things they could...
Do when they're older.
And after that,
They'll go out, and get drunk,
Or laugh.
What am I going to do?
I'm just staying in my room.
Surrounded by...
Pieces of paper,
Unknown stories,
Partially written-down ideas,
It was my dream to be a writer.
From the comic accident of birth,
(Shaun on speaker) To my
final grotesque joke of death.
I know I've let you down.
I let a lot of people down.
I guess we are who we are in this world,
But it is evident I do not belong here.
Aiden,
You're my rock,
But I can't wear you down anymore.
You've suffered enough because of me.
Brooke,
I miss the person you used to be,
I wish those things never happened to you,
And I hope things get better for you.
Mum,
I love you,
This isn't your fault.
I want you to know that I'm alright.
I'm not afraid to die.
To Dayne Majors,
I hope you get what's coming to you.
To Jake MacDonald, I
hope you die painfully.
To Summer Cartwright,
I hope it's unexpected,
Like it was for me.
To Connor Reeves, I
hope you get ripped open,
Inside and out.
To Ben Pearce,
I just wish you get to feel
all the punishment that I felt.
Jacinta Banks,
Die. Slow.
And lastly,
Hannah Lockridge.
(Speaker click)
All those years,
Did you know you lived a few
houses down from each other?
This was him room,
His...
Safe haven.
I was locked up when it happened.
And when Mum was gone,
Brooke couldn't bring
herself to pack anything down.
Do you remember your last day of school?
(Sniffling)
December Sixteenth.
When I found his journal, I
thought to reach out to you.
I wanted to thank you.
You were there for him when I couldn't be.
(Nervously inhales)
Every Tuesday and Thursday, he wrote about
those forty-five minutes he spent with you.
You treated him like a somebody,
Took an interest in him.
Made him feel accepted.
But then...
I know.
(Sniffling)
If it wasn't for me,
Shaun would still be here.
Why?
Because he loved me!
And I was weak!
Because I didn't want to be laughed at,
Because I didn't want to be made fun of.
Because I didn't want-
(Aiden) Anyone to think less of you.
(Crying)
I was embarrassed.
(Whimpering)
I was so mean!
I was so harsh.
(Sniffles)
I was so angry!
And I have lived with that day ever since.
(Speaker click)
The girl whose eyes hold no secrets.
I guess I was wrong.
You eyes do hold lies.
Was it all a faade? (Sniffling)
Was it all for a grade?
I would gladly take every
bump, every bruise, every insult,
Just for the chance to prove myself!
(Sighs)
(And just like that)
I am stung by your touch.
The touch I always wanted.
(Picking up blade)
But your disconnect,
From looks to feeling,
Is the breaking of all
promises. (Sniffling)
How do you sleep,
With the weight of guilt to which
you've surrendered your spine?
(Whimpering)
(Fumbling with blade)
(Puts down blade container)
Now there is a shadow of remorse,
And sadly nothing more.
Maybe I'll be... (Hannah whimpering)
Forever imprinted in your mind.
(Gasps)
For I'm not the one you left behind,
But rather the one you never knew.
(Hannah whimpers)
Please, stop! (Shaun inhales)
(Shaun exhales)
(Shaun hyperventilating)
(Hannah moans in anguish)
(Shaun's breathing slowing) (Hannah crying)
(Blood dripping)
(Blood drip)
(Weak breathing)
(Blood drip)
(Blood drip)
(Slowed breathing)
(Blade drops to floor)
You watched them take their final breath,
And you wonder,
What have any of us done in life...
To be remembered in death?
(Cocks gun)
(Aiden) Take it.
If you truly feel responsible,
You know what you have to do.
(Whimpering)
I can't! (Gun clatters to ground)
(Aiden) Yes you can.
I can't!
Yes you can!
(Aiden) Do it. (Hannah whimpering)
Do it.
(Nervous breathing)
(Nervous moaning)
(Whimpering)
(Crying) I'm so sorry!
I know you are.
(Crying)
(Hyperventilating)
It'll be okay.
(Whimpering)
(Hyperventilating)
(Gun click)
(Exhales)
(Shocked breathing)
(Gun clatters to ground)
(Whimpers)
He wanted them all to die,
But he knew he wasn't
strong enough to do it.
But all he wanted for you
was for you to remember him.
(Sniffling)
Now you always will.
This is your repentance.
I don't understand.
Your soul might survive,
But you'll never find peace.
(Shocked breathing)
(Light rain hitting the street and van)
Did it all go down how you wanted?
It had to.
None of them were even really sorry.
They were just scared.
And halfway through the night I realised...
I should be scared too.
I know you know I could have stopped him.
None of them were any
more responsible than I was.
Is that what you wanted?
You wanted me to feel it?
That's why it had to go to plan?
You should have stopped him, Brooke!
Yeah.
I know.
And I'm going to have to live with that.
If I see you again,
I'll know why.
(Credits music starting)
(Police sirens approaching)
(Shaun) They say it takes
a tragedy to make a change.
But that in itself is the tragedy.
(Camera click)
(Credits Music)
(Camera click)
(Video glitch)
(Video glitch) This is Shaun.
(Video glitch)
(Video Glitch)
(Video glitch)
I don't really know what to say here.
(Camera click)
(Camera click)
(Fuzzy video glitch)
I've just come back from school.
(Video glitch)
(Video glitch) I have
nowhere to go from here.
(Camera click)
(Camera click) They tell me to ignore them,
they'll go away,
to retaliate, and they
will no longer hurt me.
Do you agree with those words?
(Video glitch) I keep to myself,
I'm quiet,
I've never hurt anyone.
So I just don't understand, why me?
(Video glitch)
My brother always told
me that, tears mean nothing,
Someone else intentionally causes them.
Because of that I now refuse to cry.
(Video glitch) My mother tells
me I always see the worst in people
But she doesn't see what I see.
She's not there when they
pull the wool over my eyes.
(Video glitch)
She doesn't see how
difficult it is just to breathe
(Video glitch)
Sometimes the pills help,
sometimes they don't.
A collection of people
in my mind are puzzled,
and it's beginning to feel like the end.
(Dramatic Title Music)
(Electrical hum)
(Door Buzzer) (TV show talking)
(Door Buzzer)
(Rustling envelope) (Door Buzzer)
Alright, alright! I'm coming!
(Door Buzzer)
What the hell is i-
Hey.
Heya.
What do you want?
Uh, the girl across the hall said
you could help me with something.
Yeah, um,
What do you need?
Just need something to chill.
(Laughs, exhales)
Oh, sure.
(Door creak) I can help you with that.
You look like you've had a big night huh?
Now what is it that I can get for you, huh?
Want some...
Valium? Some Xannies?
What is it you want?
Your life.
(Bat smashes face) Ugh!
(Body drops to floor)
(Ominous beat)
(Ears ringing)
(Face slaps)
Uhg, fuck!
(Exhales)
(Paper on desk)
(Peper on desk)
(Exhales) (Paper on desk)
(Paper on desk)
Dayne Bell.
Who are you?
(Menacing footsteps)
Is this yours?
Unlock it.
Now guys, why don't we
have a few wo-(Bat taps chin)
The passcode, Dayne.
Alright, alright.
(Phone button taps)
There.
Take it and go, huh?
I'll go when I'm good and ready.
What's this all about, huh?
Look,
If I owe you some dosh, I-
(Book hits face) Argh!
Fuck!
Ungh!
Fuck!
(Dayne groans) Is this
where you're at now, Dayne?
Can't keep track of your
own debts? (Dayne sniffles)
What is it that you need?
Whatever it is, I can get it!
(Smacks lips)
Gutter vodka,
Dirt beer,
(Bottle placed on table)
Rollies,
Mi goreng! (Noodle hits face)
Something tells me you aren't
buying your way out of this one.
Tha-that's, that's where you're wrong mate.
I've got plenty of money
right he-(Bat hits table)
I don't want your money.
Then what is it you want, huh?
TELL ME!
(Page is unfolded)
(Paper flourish)
(Title music fades in)
(Menacing footsteps)
(Inhales) Fuck.
Where did you get this?
You've stolen a lot in your time,
But you should never have taken that.
(Angry grunt) (Heavy bat hit)
(Title music)
(Title Music) (now playing on radio)
(Phone vibrates)
(Phone vibrates)
(Hannah rolls to her side)
(Door Bell rings)
(Title Music fades out)
(Door opening)
(Hugging)
I can't believe this is real.
Have you heard anything else?
No. (Glass picked up)
Who would do something like this?
(Glasses touch)
Are the others coming?
Hey! Hm?
Are the others coming?
Yeah.
They'll be here soon.
I just...
can't stop thinking about
the last time I saw him.
Don't do that.
It's not fair on you.
Have you spoken to your Mum?
Hey,
(Glass put down)
We'll be fine, okay?
Yeah.
(Thunder)
It sucks that we're
all meeting up like this.
So I picked up a case of...
Dayne's finest.
(Bottles clink)
To Dayne,
We had our ups, and we had our downs,
But at the end of the day,
He was part of this family.
To Dayne! To Dayne.
To Dayne. Yeah, Dayne.
I'm gonna miss you, brother.
(Drinking beer)
(Smacks lips)
That's fucking terrible. (Summer gags)
Oh my god!
(Van slides closed)
(Pulls out hip flask)
(Drinks from flask)
I thought I told you to keep a clear head?
I'm crystal clear.
It's important you keep
your composure in there.
Just stick to the plan.
You always take all the fun out of it.
(Hip flask snatched)
No more bullshit, Brooke.
Sometime you act like you're
the only one that lost him.
He should be here with us.
Tonight is about accountability.
(Connor) Anyway!
Mrs Green ended up walking in, as-
as he was doing it, so
he didn't even get to do it.
So we had to fuck in,
piss-bolt outta there,
before we could get anything
in the coffee machine,
and we went out the window,
So we fucking leg it,
Dayne then says, "Split
up, They can't catch us all!"
(Summer laughs)
But during his park our
sesh, out the fucking window,
He ends up shattering
his ankle, (Group laughs)
And he can't play football for like,
was it like twelve months? (Group laughs)
(Group laughs) Man,
That was one of my favourite
moments with the D-Train.
(Mack) Yeah.
Mine was in Year Eleven,
I remember being so stressed that
I thought I'd failed my
English mid-year exam,
I told Dayne about it and
don't ask me how,
but he actually managed
to switch out my exam paper
with Kate D'Brauski's
(Laughing)
Ha-uh, what?
Yeah, True story!
I did so well that year.
That was horrible.
No!
No, in the end it was fine!
Kate was able to just pass.
What?
Jacinta, Why are you making that face for?
Dayne told me he did
it for you, all the time!
Really?
Yeah. Once or Twice.
(Drink pouring)
Ben!
Hey Kiddo.
How fucked was it?
Yeah.
It's fucked.
They know who did it?
I haven't heard anything.
(Grabs glass)
It was probably some prick
he sold some dodge merch to, or something.
(Puts down glass)
Doesn't mean he deserved to die like that.
(Gulps glass)
(Sniffles)
(Puts down glass)
You got any uh, (taps nose)
(Searching pockets)
(Cocaine bag shakes)
I thought Hannah didn't
want you doing it anymore?
(Sighs)
Who the fuck knows what
Hannah wants anymore?
Because I don't.
Yo, yo, yo!
It's your boy, Mack, here!
It's an old-fashioned,
Sunday beauty Sunday Sesh!
You know what it is!
We've got a game of
King's Cup in the progress!
We've got Dayne over there!
We've got Summer to his left! Woooo!
Got Connor right there!
Got the happy couple! Blurgh!
And we've got Jacinta!
She's just drawn the fourth king,
She's gonna have to
drink from the king's cup!
(Crowd laughing) Hey, turn it off.
No, turn it off! (Dayne) Drink it!
Stop, I'm not going to drink it!
(Summer) Come on!
No, I'm gonna be sick!
(Dayne) Drink it! I will be sick, No!
(Mack) Awwwwww (Summer) Come on! Let's go!
(Group) We'd like you to-(Mack) Jacinta!
(Mack) Party woman!
Alright! Alright! Okay.
I'll do what I have to do. (Summer Laughs)
(Ben mumbles)
As a great king,
THE king, as I've been known to be called,
(Ben) By yourself. (Group laughs)
(Sarcastic) Ha ha ha ha!
Oh, you're a fucking comedian?
Yeah? When did you
change jobs? Fucking idiot.
Alright. (Group laughter)
So,
As a great king,
I have to be ready to
make the ultimate sacrifice.
So,
Jaz,
(Exhales)
You can learn from this.
(Jacinta laughs) (Group cheering)
Yeah! Woooooo!
(Group cheering)
That... was a brutal night,
if my hazy memory serves me correct.
I can't believe you took the shot for me.
Well what can I say?
I didn't think you were gonna survive it.
I just can't believe he's gone.
Listen, (grunts)
Don't tear yourself up about it.
I know things didn't end... well,
But that's not on you.
Tell that to Mack and Summer!
Yeah, wel-well,
Mack doesn't have a
lot going on in the attic,
and don't worry about Summer, she's just...
being
Herself?
Herself. Yeah, I was gonna
word that differently, but...
Summer's Summer.
So how's...?
Uhm...
(Smacks lips)
Sammy?
Yeah!
I don't know.
You'd have to ask some cock stain named...
Dean
or...
Ben, or Josh, or... No!
Phillip...
Who fucks a Phillip?
It's okay.
I'm used to it.
Used to what?
Being a placeholder until
something better comes along.
Don't say that!
Don't worry about it. Look, Tonight is...
about Dayne.
To Dayne!
Thanks Mum.
(Dog barking)
(Door closes)
Where's your folks?
At Chloe's.
She had the baby?
You didn't even want to tell me that?
Could we please not do this tonight Ben?
I dunno.
I mean you close me out for two months.
When else am I gonna get a
chance to get some answers?
I'm sorry I just... needed some space.
Why?
What did I do?
There's bigger things happening right now.
Like what?
Dayne?
Fuck that piece of shit,
He got what's coming to him, alright?
You don't pretend to care about him.
Nice, Ben.
(Grabbing shirt)
What is wrong with you? Alright, look,
Alright, I'm sorry, okay?
But I'm losing my fucking mind.
One day we're good, and then the next...
You're moving back in with your folks!
After seven years,
Don't I at least deserve an explanation?
I invited you here because I
didn't want you to be alone.
You shouldn't be alone.
But that's it.
(Footsteps away) (Ben sighs)
To Dayne, my brother,
I can't believe you're gone too soon.
Ah, I miss you man!
(Sighs)
Rest easy big guy!
I love ya!
(Snorting cocaine)
(Sniff)
(Sniff, sniff)
(Sniff)
You should probably take it slow.
Oh, give it a rest.
Summer.
Our friend fucking died.
He died!
Why does nobody care?
Of course we care!
Look, I know he's done
a lot of fucked up shit,
Okay? Like I fucking get that,
God.
Y'know,
I never thought he should
have been banished.
He wasn't banished.
(Sighs)
(Steps forward)
You know,
You really should get
out from under her thumb.
(Running up stairs)
(Places down bowl)
(Places second bowl)
What's going on?
Just processing.
(Shuffling snacks)
Oh. Dayne?
Yes, Dayne.
What?
The fuck is going on with Han?
Seriously?
Now is not the time.
Don't pretend to shed tears for the dude.
(Gasps)
What is your problem?
My problem is you being in Hannah's head!
I'm not!
Bullshit!
One day we're good, and the next we aren't.
You explain that to me!
Have you just not considered
that you might be the problem?
(Footsteps approaching)
Who wants an Old-Fashioned?
Nice to see things haven't changed.
How ya going man? Good?
(Guys finger snap) (Door Bell rings)
(Dramatic audio cue) (Door opens)
(Eerie, suspenseful music)
(Dramatic audio cue)
(Connor) Like, first thing in
the morning, it's like super early,
and he gets me up, he gets
me up at like the crack of dawn,
(Connor) And we're going outside,
(Jacinta) Who was at the front door?
(Connor continues in background)
Nobody.
What's this?
It was left at the door.
(Flips envelope)
"The Girl Whose Eyes Hold No Secrets"
Who's that?
(Footsteps approach)
What's in it?
(Tense music)
(Opening envelope)
(Removing page from envelope)
(Opening sticky page)
It's our school photo!
Weird!
What the fuck?
What's this supposed to mean?
I dunno.
What do you mean, you don't know?
It means she doesn't know!
What's this?
Blood?
(Ben walking)
Where you going?
To have a look.
Someone's having a laugh.
(Descending staircase)
(Brooke) He's clocked us!
If he wanted to find what
he's looking for, he would.
What's going on?
Check this out!
(Grabbing page)
School photo?
Yeah, it's our Year Twelve photo.
Cool.
It was left at the front door.
'Scuse me, (sighs). That's weird.
(Drinking glass on table)
(Summer pours a drink)
(Footsteps up stairs)
(Drink placed on table)
(Ben walking)
(Ben sits down)
Couldn't see anything.
Where's uh, where's Mack? Maybe,
Maybe Mack's fucking with us.
Mack's in the bedroom.
Of course.
Hey.
What's up?
I dunno.
(Inhales)
Guys!
It's a fucking photo!
Who cares?
Do you think this has
something to do with Dayne?
What do you mean?
Well he was murdered, and now
someone is sending us our yearbook photo.
That's a bit of a stretch, Han.
Is it?
(Message tones on everybody's phones)
(Ben) Fuck! (Connor) You guys seeing this?
(Gasps) Is... is...
Is that Dayne?
That's a joke yeah? It's a fucking joke!
Well it's a pretty sick fucking joke!
But who sent it?
What the fuck guys?
(Whimpers)
(Phone dings)
(Summer exhales)
(Gasps)
What is it?
(Summer) Show me!
(Connor) Nah, let's call the cops!
Is that out the front of THIS house?
(Jacinta) Can you see anything?
No.
Han?
(Summer) The fuck is
going on? (Connor) Yeah,
No, we need police!
Calling all units, Priority Three,
Three Twenty-Eight in Shady Grove,
Any units in the vicinity?
(Turns off police scanner)
(Jacinta) This doesn't make any sense.
It's the Sixteenth.
What?
The girl whose eyes hold no secrets.
That's what was in the letter.
What letter?
The letter.
(Phone rings)
(Summer exhales)
Who the fuck is this?
A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
His shadow shouts,
on a nightmare scream.
Do you know what it's like?
To be a caged bird?
You're at the Mercy of Others.
(Phone disconnects)
Alright, what the fuck was that?
Please tell me you locked the front door.
(Jacinta walks away)
The fuck was that?
A caged bird?
It's a poem by Maya Angelou
So we're dealing with a fucking poet?
(Locks door)
(Exhales)
(Steady breathing)
(Unfolds page)
What is it?
Help!
I'm falling again, and it
feels impossible to stop.
Collected memories, and
poisonous people I try to forget.
The Queen,
The Brute, the Vixen,
The Jester,
The Thief, the Troll.
Sym-
Symbolic sense, and worn-out closeness,
My skin has felt numb for so long.
Blistering caution and
anxiety to work through,
The reminders of scars they wrote.
What does it mean?
It's him.
It's about him.
He can't...
The fuck are you guys talking about?
The Sanders Kid.
(Summer whimpers)
No...(gasps)
That... that was a long time ago.
The kid from school?
Yeah.
How do you know it's about him?
Because those are his words.
What makes you so sure? Huh?
Because today is the Sixteenth?
Because it's the day that he-
Maybe it's a coincidence!
Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah?
The Queen, the Brute, The Vixen, the...
What, it this supposed to be us?
Who else is it meant to be?
The Brute?
Who's that meant to mean?
Well what does that make you then, huh?
The Queen or the Vixen, huh?
Because I never know! (Hannah) Stop it!
(Page unfolds)
The Jester.
Well, fair enough.
The Troll, who's the Troll?
What the fuck is the point of any of this?
We're wasting time!
We may as well try and figure
out what the fuck is going on, yeah?
Mack!
What?
You're the troll.
And Dayne was the Thief.
(Ominous music cue)
Alright, what the fuck is going on, Han?
Is there something you need to tell us?
(Exhales)
(Door bell rings)
Cops?
(Boots treading on grass)
(Bat tapping stairs)
(Footsteps down staircase)
Let's just get the fuck out of here.
We don't know what, or who, is out there.
So? We c-
We can just make a run for the cars.
Did you not see that picture of Dayne?
Can we all just take it easy?
(Taps window)
It's a girl.
What?
(Mack grabs doorknob) Wait!
Well she looks harmless,
She might need help!
(Door bell rings)
I am not waiting around
for whoever the fuck that is!
Summer, can you just hang on?
(Dramatic music cue)
(Woman screaming)
Hannah! (Door knob turns)
What the fuck is going on?
Sit down.
Get fucked.
Sit. Down.
Ben.
Move
(Footsteps up staircase)
(Summer gasps)
(Thunder)
(Glass slides along table)
(Sips glass)
(Swallows drink)
What do we have here?
Old-Fashioned.
You make em?
It's not bad.
How about I make a couple
to go, and you guys can...
go get your buzz on?
(Chuckles)
Yeah, you always liked a good joke, hey?
In the right time and place.
Right time and place?
(Mack typing on phone)
Interesting.
Who are you?
(Footsteps from staircase)
(Mack typing on phone)
He's crafty.
Give it to me.
(Slaps Mack) (Ben) Holy shit!
(Mack groaning)
The phone!
(Mack panting)
How much do you think this weighs?
Oh come on,
It's practically glued
to your palm, isn't it?
You stream every
moment of your fucking life,
As if any one of those virtual friends
you're so desperate to impress...
gives two shits about you.
You trade your values for a like,
Your self-respect for a comment.
(Phone) Miss you man.
You even traded in your friend's death
for some form of validation.
(Phone) Rest easy big guy!
(Phone) I love ya.
Just like I knew you would.
Or maybe you're just
crying out for some affection?
What do you want with me, man?
(Smacks lips)
One-hundred and eighty grams.
That's all.
And yet it holds so much weight over you.
Pathetic.
(Brooke) Phones.
(Phone put into bag)
(Brooke) Come on. (Phone put into bag)
I don't have it on me.
Yours?
(Phone put in bag)
You know the police are on the way?
You registered a disturbance.
That's a Priority Three.
Response time can be
anywhere between twelve and...
twenty minutes.
Which I'd say is about that time.
(Radio click)
Unit Three to VKG
Go ahead Unit Three!
(Radio clicks)
Twenty-Three A Shady Grove clear, copy.
Copy that Unit Thr-
(Radio click)
So what now?
The cold-hearted beauty queen,
always basking in the warmth of others.
What is it that you
think you know about us?
(Rummaging in jacket pocket)
You're not going to like seeing
yourself through a different lens.
This reveals what you truly look like.
(Connor) Listen man,
I don't know what that
book is telling you, but-
Ah, the class clown!
(Opens diary)
He who draws the attention,
directs it, and makes me suffer it,
That resounding laughter echoes in
my ears long after the final bell has rung.
I hope every day his hilarity
will be hurled onto another
but every day the
Joker's eyes fall upon me.
His humorous joke,
(Closes diary) My cruel torment.
Look, I told some jokes.
Okay?
Man, what the fuck is this shit?
Maybe it's all just a bit of fun, huh?
Some harmless push and shove?
Something you might be familiar with?
What?
This isn't funny anymore?
Why was it funny then?
Why can't you fight inside
your own weight class?
Fuck you man, you don't know shit about me.
(Snickers)
You can't hear the
cries of an unborn child?
What?
Well this is a far cry from
the self-obsessed brats
that roamed the halls of St. Peters
Where's the bravado?
Insults? The judgment?
The lies?
And the harm?
Most people's biggest
fear in life is death.
But our brother chose
to face that fear head-on
because he felt like his
life was worse than death.
And the people responsible for that,
are all under this roof.
And each and every one of you will pay.
Get up. (Mack) Why?
Just get up!
(Mack pushes Aiden)
(Bat hits Mack's leg) Argh!
ANYONE ELSE??? HUH? (Mack moans in pain)
(Mack groaning)
(Aiden grunts)
Mack! (Mack groaning)
Where is he taking him?
Shut the fuck up.
(Drops bag)
(Thunder and rain)
Now the challenge,
Is to keep a hand steady.
You did some of your
best work with your hands.
Being creative,
Humorous,
Cruel, hm? (Mack breathing nervously)
Should we have a look?
(Takes phone out of pocket)
(Mack moans)
(Phone placed on armrest)
Look at it.
Look at it!
That's my brother.
Hm?
Anything you want to say for yourself?
No?
(Reaches into pocket)
Here's how this is going to work,
Do you know where your brachial artery is?
(Touches brachial artery)
Once cut open,
you have about ninety
seconds before you bleed out.
(Mack moans)
And then I'm going to
ask you some questions.
Short answers only, because
time will be of the essence.
(Mack breathes nervously)
(Grips Mack's arm) Look at me.
Now sit still,
This could get messy.
Wa-wa-wai-wait!
AAAARGH!
You're Shaun's sister?
You don't have to do this.
(Breathes)
I know what happened to him was horrible,
But none of us knew
what he was going to do.
How could you know?
The "Girl Whose Eyes Hold No Secrets"?
That was all a fucking lie.
How do you justify this?
(Snickers)
The "Queen".
Excuse me?
What's it about you that
made them all serve?
Don't look like shit to me.
You don't know what you're talking about.
(Brooke) Yeah...
What did you have against my brother?
Answer me!
It wasn't always about him.
I am sorry,
for what happened to him.
(Spits)
Fuck your apology!
(Mack screaming in pain)
Argh!
Aaaugh.
Aaungh!
Aaaargh!
Why Shaun?
I don't know, I-
Think harder! (Mack)
We were just kids, man!
Yeah, so was he!
Your fucking time is running
out! (Blood trickles to floor)
It was meant to be fun for the group,
but the guys - they wanted to - No!
What, it wasn't enough for you
to laugh at him in your little group?
You had to take it public?
(Blood trickling to floor)
How many followers did those
accounts get? (Mack) Argh!
I can't remember.
More or less than a thousand?
Stay with me, huh?
More or less?
More.
Please.
One more question. (Single blood drop)
How did my brother die?
He killed himself.
HOW???
I don't know.
(Sharp musical sting)
He bled out.
(Drip)
(Drip)
(Shaun) It's lies.
Social media,
is made up,
of false lives.
Followers, virtual friends,
Like a currency at our school.
I mean they laugh, but,
it's a bad stock.
When your image is being used.
I mean, I can't control that.
They control that.
My torment is worth
over five hundred likes,
over fifty re-shares.
My torture is their entertainment.
(Thunder, rain on window)
Can I ask you a question?
Why have you waited 'til now?
What, does it make it okay?
That it was all those years ago?
I'm not saying that.
Just figured kids get bullied in
school all the time, you know?
Yeah,
You'd know, wouldn't you?
What was his home life like?
That's what I'm wondering.
I mean, you and your brother are piling
it on a little bit here, don't you think?
Where were you when he killed himself?
His family loved him.
After he was dead, maybe?
(Cocks gun) Yeah?
The fuck do you think you know huh?
I mean we might have
teased him in school, but
You and your brother are
pretty fucking psychotic, yeah?
Yeah, we fucking are!
Yeah? Well, maybe your
brother was too weak!
Ben stop!
Fuck you!
(Connor tackles Brooke) (Gunshot)
(Women screaming)
(Muffled scuffling)
(Women screaming)
(Connor hit in face)
(Bodies fall to ground)
(Ben and Brooke struggle) (Hannah) Ben!
(Brooke screams)
(Connor grabs Brooke)
(Brooke struggling) (Connor hit in face)
(Brooke and Connor struggle)
(Women shuffle off couch)
(Brooke grunts and struggles)
(Yelling)
(Brooke panting)
(Nervous breathing)
(Brooke) Aiden!
Argh! Ungh! (Bat smacks hand)
(Growling)
(Growling)
(Nervous breathing)
Get up!
Get up! (Hannah crying)
Down. Knees!
Look at your girl.
This is what happens when
cowards try and be heroes.
(Cocks gun)
Look at her!
You understand me?
(Nervous breathing)
Good. (Nervous breathing)
(Exhales)
(Walks outside)
(Terrified breathing)
(Exhales)
(Inhales)
So you just all of a sudden
want to know how to fight?
You fight.
(Snickers) I used to.
But it didn't solve any of my problems.
Violence only makes things worse.
Trust me.
I don't want that for you.
You're the hope for this family, remember?
Mum's shining star.
Me and Brooke ain't going anywhere special.
What else can I do?
I used to write things down.
Helped me get it out of my head.
Catches diary.
It was good for me.
Maybe it will be good for you too.
What if these guys just
make things worse for me?
Just write.
I'll take care of the rest.
(Opens diary)
(Raindrops)
(Thunder)
It's euphoric, isn't it?
Your heart races,
You feel like you're drifting,
Then you don't take it for fun no more.
It becomes a necessity.
I tried every drug I could find.
Hoping one high would last.
Life was empty without it.
I guess it was just a sick, sad addiction.
(Throws bag at Summer) (Summer gasps)
(Summer gasping)
(Door opens)
(Summer gasps)
(Door closes)
Where's Mack?
He's hanging with your mate, Dayne.
(Phone placed on table)
(Terrified breathing)
He's finally gone viral.
The kid did it to himself!
I mean, he was clearly sick in the
head. What is this accomplishing?
He just put some fucking
posts on Instagram!
It was years ago! It was...
It was just high school!
Oh, it was just school, yeah?
That made it okay?
It was okay that he came
home broken and bruised?
Every time that bell rang,
He fucking died inside.
(Summer gasps)
(Opens revolver)
You thing this is suffering?
(Loads revolver)
(Summer nervously breathes)
Do you wanna know what real suffering is?
(Nervous breathing)
(Smacks lips)
How about being told...
that the pretty girl wants to
meet you? (Summer grunts)
Not just meet you,
Meet you...
at the Hill!
No?
You remember.
It was just a joke.
It was just a bad joke.
I don't know what to make of it.
The Hill!
It's where all the couples go.
I've heard she's had a few boyfriends.
Hannah says she gets bored easily.
I wonder if she'll get bored of me?
Apparently she's read one of my papers.
Thinks I'm cute.
I don't even know how to act on a date.
But, we'll see.
I'll check back in with you.
Future Shaun.
I told him to meet me at the hill.
It was just a joke.
We were just gonna see
how long he'd wait for.
That's what I thought we were doing.
It turned into something more.
I never wanted him to get hurt.
Oi! (Kicking sand)
Whatcha got there man?
You waiting for someone,
are ya? (Crumples paper)
Let us see.
Give it to me. Huh?
Huh? What are you waiting for?
(Ben chuckles)
(Face slap) Augh!
(Ben grunts)
Who hit him?
(Connor laughing)
(Punch to face) (Shaun falls to gravel)
Ben.
Good girl.
(Heavy breathing)
(Ben whimpering)
(Empty chamber click) (Hannah squeals)
(Terrified panting)
(Ben) Fuck!
Do you understand what
we're doing here now?
Why me?
Why do I have to?
Who was involved in this prank?
I don't remember.
(Brooke) Yes you can.
(Nervous breathing)
Ben.
Mack.
There was Connor.
Great!
Wait wait wait! I swear to God!
(Empty chamber click) (Summer cries)
This is fucking ridiculou-
(Cocks gun)
(Nervous breath)
Sweetheart! Eyes here.
Whose idea was it?
Please,
Please, I don't want to-
I know you don't want to,
But the walls are closing in on you, yeah?
So who the fuck...
came up with the plan?
Mack.
It was Mack!
Do you wanna bank your life on that answer?
Please! I don't want to-
Whose idea was it?
Mine!
(Whimpering)
It was my idea.
I told them to do it.
I'm so sorry.
A true queen.
(Hannah) No! (Ben) No!
(Empty chamber click) (Hannah crying)
(Whimpering)
(Jacinta exhales)
It took weeks for Mum to realise
something was up with him.
(Nervous breathing)
I heard what you said before,
that it's not on anyone?
That he did it to himself?
Nah, Cunt,
It was that fucking day on The Hill.
That day on The Hill, you took his life!
(Ben punches)
(Ben kicks)
Try to throw a punch at me?
(Ben punches)
(Brooke) He suffered a TBI.
And you! (Summer gasps)
You told him to go to
The fucking Hill, didn't you?
(Crumpling paper)
(Paper thrown on grass)
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
My brother always said an
apology means FUCKING SHIT...
In the face of consequence!
(Revolver fires)
(Pained breathing)
A Vixen, so cunning and smart,
The Vixen has all the boys smitten.
A Vixen what made you despise,
And gleam green and yellow,
Beneath your brown eyes.
I thought I would finally meet
the beauty that is Summer.
But instead,
I was met with the cold
loneliness of Winter.
(Ominous music)
(Whimpering)
(Sniffle)
(Brooke hyperventilating)
(Fumbling cigarette)
(Lights cigarette)
(Exhales)
(Steady breathing)
Brooke.
This is taking too fucking long.
I don't know why we're doing it this way.
I spent seven years...
paying for what I did.
And for all the pain he caused,
It was over in seconds.
He didn't feel a thing.
How is that fair?
This isn't just about...
life, and death.
This is about understanding our actions,
Ours, and theirs.
So are you with me or not?
I just want it to fucking
end, I just want it to be done!
Then you're no better than they are.
Make up your mind.
(Cigarette drops)
(Descending staircase)
Ah, fuck.
(Exhales)
Fuck.
(Exhales)
Mum?
Mum!
(Crying) Mum!
(Inhales)
(Exhales)
(Inhales)
(Exhales)
He wouldn't have wanted this.
How do you know?
Whatever you choose to
believe, I did know Shaun.
I knew him well.
He wrote beautiful poetry,
and stories.
He would tell me all the time
how he wanted to be an author,
and write fantasy.
I know he wouldn't have wanted
this because he looked up to you.
He idolized you,
Even after you went to prison.
He wouldn't tell me what for.
But he said you were his hero.
I wasn't a hero.
Why did you go to prison?
I killed our stepdad.
He was a deadbeat.
Married our mother for a
roof and some pocket money.
(Tense music building)
Seemed harmless for the most part.
But people are rarely what they seem.
One day Shaun came home
when he wasn't supposed to.
(Sniffing)
So he tried to help,
(Brooke gasps)
And got punished for it.
I thought I was protecting
my family from a predator.
(Bat hits stepdad) (Stepdad screaming)
Instead I just left them all
alone, (Muffled hits and screaming)
To become prey to a world with many
more. (Muffled hits and screaming)
You can't expect to get away with this.
I'm not deranged.
I'll face whatever consequences
are coming my way.
(Brooke) I bet this isn't how you
envisioned your night would turn out.
(Lights cigarette)
I never told anyone this,
but that night he did it,
I lied.
I said I wasn't home.
(Inhales)
The truth is...
I was.
Just the room over.
(Exhales cigarette)
I can still remember my Mum's scream.
(Door knocking)
Shaun?
(Gasps in horror)
(Crying)
(Wailing)
(Crying) Shaun!
I knew what it had to be.
He had this look in his eye
when he came home from school.
So I ran.
I swear I ran for what felt like forever,
and when I stopped, I
couldn't catch my breath.
I'm still trying to catch it.
(Exhales)
(Pops bottle lid)
(Thunder)
Dayne,
Mack,
(Sniffles)
This isn't happening, Connor.
We have to be strong.
Okay?
Why?
We're not gonna get out of this.
You don't know that.
(Sniffles)
(Sniffles)
I wanna wake up!
It's just a bad dream.
(Sniffles)
I wish.
But we're still here, okay?
We're still breathing.
(Sniffles)
For how long?
(Sniffles)
(Sniffles)
You okay?
We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me.
Don't be stupid.
This isn't on you.
(Sighs)
I was his friend,
and I couldn't admit it.
(Sniffles)
It's not a sin to not love someone back.
We're gonna die,
and I can't die without telling you,
Han? (Hannah inhales)
I was pregnant.
(Crying softly)
I was pregnant, but I
couldn't have the baby!
W-
Was it mine?
(Crying)
I'm sorry. Ben, please!
Ben!
(Crying)
(Footsteps up staircase)
(Slams bottle on banister)
(Glass placed on table)
(Bottle opening)
(Glass clink) (Pouring into glass)
(Bottle placed on table)
This is a twenty five year old scotch.
It must run for at least five,
Six hundred a head.
I've been sober for a while now.
(Walking around table)
(Restraint can be hard)
(Pouring into glass)
But it is possible.
I know right now it may not seem like it,
But not everyone here has to die.
(Pouring into glass)
Shaun had his demons,
just like the rest of us.
Some of us conquer them,
and others don't
But Dayne pushed him,
(Pouring into glass)
Mack suffocated him,
and Summer destroyed him.
How's a kid supposed to
survive, (Pouring into glass)
When a whole group
forces their issues onto him?
(Bottle placed on table)
It's our own responsibility
to conquer our demons.
But you lot seem incapable.
Whether it's your need for attention,
Your insecurity,
Your weakness,
Or all of the above.
Now drink.
(Picking up glasses)
(Drinking)
(Glass placed on table)
(Dripping liquid into glass)
(Glass moved to table center)
I want you to look around the
table at your so-called "Friends".
Some of you pushed
Shaun more than the others.
So which one of you four
will take responsibility?
Maybe it was the Jester?
The clown.
First entry has your
name written all over it.
You were the one that chose him,
Put the target on his back,
So my vote is for you.
Vote? W-W-Wh-what?
-w-what do you mean "Vote"?
What did you put in it?
Something to exorcise those demons.
(Poison bottle placed on table)
So that's one vote for Connor.
Brooke?
How do we look past the puppet-master?
Now if you're done
feeling sorry for yourself.
This is fucked.
Vote,
Or I'll vote for you.
Jacinta.
Ben!
Face it,
You were the puppet-master,
you stuck us on to him.
Fuck you!
What about the school guide?
Remember that?
You stuck us on to him!
Rough him up so he couldn't do
the photo shoot, you remember that?
No, I d-
What? We wouldn't be here if it
wasn't for you being so fucking pathetic!
Oh, don't pretend it was just me!
Every chance you had,
you messed with that kid!
You didn't have the balls to pick
anybody else because you were weak!
He was an easy target for you!
Please stop!
(Aiden) Well,
Safe to assume that's a vote for Ben.
You're so fucking weak!
Gosh-(Connor) Stop it!
Why are we turning against each other?
How about you, Hannah?
You know her better than anyone.
Was she the puppet-master?
No.
Gotta choose someone.
No.
VOTE!!!
(Connor) Han.
Choose me.
(Exhales)
It's okay, do it.
Han.
Please.
Two for Connor, and two for Jacinta.
The deciding vote is in your hands.
What happens if we refuse to drink?
There are more painful ways to die.
This is Mercy.
The timing isn't great for
me to let you know that...
I've been...
Crazy about you for like...
Ten years.
Yet time and time again
you chose douche bag...
After douche bag.
I mean you-
You picked Dayne over me!
Jaz, do you know how much that sucked?
Like what's wrong with me?
Nothing! Nothing, Connor.
You are way too important to lose.
I can't lose you!
You're the only one that could
make me laugh when I wanted to cry.
In another life, right?
I know I was...
so lucky to have you in my life, Connor.
Make it out.
You don't deserve...
to die because of me.
None of you do.
(Sniffles)
I deserve this.
Just so you know,
All the shit in that journal,
All the crap th-that was said about you,
You're not that girl anymore.
Sniffles.
It doesn't matter anymore.
It should.
Alright, that's enough.
(Sniffles)
(Glass placed in front of Jacinta)
Drink it.
No.
Drink it!
(Sniffles)
(Nervous breathing)
(Hannah grunts)
(Nervous breathing)
Han!
(Scared moaning)
(Nervous breathing)
Han.
(Nervous breathing)
Make it...
I haven't voted yet.
(Gasps)
To be a good king you have to be
willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
No, no, Connor! (Ben) No, wait up!
(Glass placed on table)
(Clears throat)
That is a good scotch.
(Gasps)
Shall we do another round?
(Nervous Breathing)
(Connor breathing heavily)
(Coughing)
Connor?
(Coughing and wheezing)
Connor?
No, C-Connor!
(Collapses to floor) (Vomits blood)
(Connor struggling) (Jacinta crying)
(Crying) No, no! What are you doing?
Connor, no! HELP HIM!
Please...
No, Connor, I...
Stay with me! Stay with me, okay?
You can do it! (Crying)
(Crying)
(Crying) Stay with me.
Connor! No, no no! Connor!
Connor, no! (Crying)
(Crying)
Connor! No!
Con! No, please!
(Wailing in anguish)
(Crying) Connor, No...
(Crying)
You absolute coward!
Why did you have to stop? I don't
care! (Ben) No Jacinta, don't hurt!
You should have killed
me!' (Ben) No, hey, stop!
You're nothing! YOU'RE
NOTHING! (Ben) No! Stop! Stop it!
You're nothing! You should
have killed me! (Ben) Stop! Stop!
Stop!
(Jacinta crying)
(Crying)
(Shaken breathing)
Con! (Crying)
(Crying)
I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!
You say apologies mean nothing
in the face of consequences.
Fine! Blame me!
You want someone to blame? You blame me!
But let Hannah go, please just let her go!
You fancy yourself a fighter, don't you?
What do you think?
I see a coward who cherry-picks his fights.
Easy targets.
That's all I see.
Yeah, well that's easy for you
to say with that gun in your hand,
What does that make you?
Alright.
Let's make this a fair fight.
Bullshit! (Aiden) No bullshit!
You wanna save your
girl? Come and fight me.
Come on, fight me! Hit me! Come on!
Humiliate me!
Beat me down like you
did Shaun, you can all walk!
You're seriously gonna let us all go?
Brooke! He beats me,
you let 'em walk, yeah?
You serious? (Aiden)
I'm fucking dead serious!
Don't do it.
I have to.
(Grunts) No you don't!
Please!
I never deserved you, did I?
Don't say that! Please!
Whatever happens, you get out of here!
Okay? You run!
Don't look back! (Hannah) Don't! (Crying)
(Hannah whimpers)
I love you. (Hannah crying)
Please!
It's moments like this we can surprise
ourselves with the strength we possess,
And what we'll do to
protect our loved ones.
You've beat up a few kids, I know.
But do you have what it takes to beat
a man to death with your bare hands?
Watch the life drain out of his eyes?
Stop! Don't... you don't...
Make no mistake,
One of us doesn't get up from this.
(Ben) Argh! (Light punch to face)
(Grunting) (Hand clasps fist)
(Aiden and Ben grunt)
(Crunches Ben's wrist)
(Punch tapped away)
(Light kick) (Ben stumbling into Hannah)
No please, wait! (Ben) It's okay.
(Ben removes outer shirt)
(Ben Grunts) (Light shoulder grab)
(Light rib punch)
(Sharp rib punch)
(Knee to solar plexus)
(Ben kicked to floor)
(Aiden) Argh!
Even your brother hit harder than that!
Yeah? YEAH? (Aiden) Brooke!
Fuck you! (Gun smashes face)
Aargh!
Aaagh!
(Ben) Fuck!
(Brooke) Fuck you! Fuck!
(Panting)
(Yelling)
(Collapses into wall)
(Shoulder charge) (Aiden) Augh!
Argh! (Elbow strike to back)
(Elbow strike)
(Grunting)
(Ben groans) (Aiden grunts)
(Crying) (Background struggling noises)
(Arm slap)
(Face punch) (Grunts)
(Face punch)
How do you like it, huh?
(Punch blocked, arm deflected)
(Shove against wall) You
think this is fucking funny?
Is it?
Do you fucking hear laughing? Do ya?
Do ya?
(Brutal punch)
(Collapses to floor)
(Spits out blood)
Get up! Come on!
Get up!
Hit me. Come on,
Hit me!
(Weak face punch) (Ben grunts)
Hit me, come on!
(Weak face punch, Ben yells)
Again! (Weak face punch)
(Punch blocked) (Ben grunts)
(Bone crunch) Aargh!
(Collapses to floor)
(Ben choking)
Yeah? Yeah?
(Face crunches against bench)
(High-pitched ringing sound)
(Crashes on to table)
(Pounds stomach) (Ben) Aaargh! Aah!
Shut the fuck up!
You shut the fuck up!
Hmmm?
Hmmmm?
Hmm? Hmmm?
(Chest punch) (Ben) Aargh!
(Ben falls to floor)
Han! Hannah!
Han!
(Aiden yells) (Boot stomp)
(Heavy face punch) (Aiden grunts)
(Face punch)
(Face punch)
(Face punch)
(Crunching face punch) (Crying)
(Face punch)
No! No! Please! Stop! (Punching continues)
Let him-(Jacinta) No, he's...
(Primal yell)
(Sombre Music)
(Shaun) Monsters make us scream,
Make us cry,
(Slow-motion deep growl)
Leave us in fear.
What is a monster?
To a bug, any human is a monster.
Sometimes I step on an ant...
to feel power.
To feel control.
Maybe that's what I am.
An ant.
Something so insignificant,
that I get stepped on,
to make somebody else feel powerful.
There's always something stronger,
Something...
bigger, something more powerful.
Something that can out-monster the monster.
(Hannah crying)
(Hannah crying) (Jacinta) Let's go, hey.
Hannah!
Hannah! You have to go!
Hannah! Hannah, look at me!
You have to go.
We can go,
Okay? We can go... (Aiden grunting)
(Hannah) I can't. (Jacinta) Yes you can!
Please, you can!
(Whimpering) Please, go.
(Gunshot)
(Struggled breathing)
(Gasping for breath)
(Intense breathing)
(Whimpering gasps)
Go!
You have to! Go!
I don't want to. I don't want to!
Jacinta, I don't want to-
Hannah, Go!
Hannah, go now!
GO!
It's okay.
(Gasping for breath)
(Terrified breathing)
(Glothing grab) Come here!
(Grunting)
(Kick to body) Fuck!
Bitch!
(Groaning in pain)
(Gasping for breath)
How did you end up
with a brother like Shaun?
I didn't know him, but,
Were we really the ones
that made him feel alone?
He wasn't like us.
He was Mum's hope. (Panicked breathing)
She had raised two fuck ups, but he,
He was the light of her eye.
Have you ever thought that
if you weren't such a fuck up,
He would still be here?
Years of letting him know
what you thought of him.
I think it's time that you
learned what he thought of you.
(Moans in pain)
A cold girl,
Always hiding in the warmth of others.
The smiles you showed to newcomers,
Slowly biting your way
through gnashing teeth.
How many bodies are left?
How many skeletons still breathe?
The Queen Bee,
A leader with no leadership qualities!
(Page thrown at Jacinta)
(Missed swing whoosh)
(Punch in the back) Argh!
(Groaning in pain)
(Struggled breathing)
What you've done to us is far
worse than what we did to Shaun.
You destroyed my family! (Light kick)
That day, Mum had no idea she
had finished her last day of work!
(Light stomp)
You people took everything from her!
She just wanted her son back! (Light stomp)
You think that you've been
punished? (Kick to body)
How does a mother cope,
Knowing that her son didn't want to live,
And that no justice was served for her son!
This isn't justice!
This is closure!
(Angry grunting)
(Struggling with throat)
For the first time ion your life,
You're suffering!
(Brooke growling) (Jacinta choking)
(Choking for air)
(Brooke growling) (Jacinta choking)
(Arm falls limp)
(Anguished moaning)
(Crying)
(Loudspeaker turns on)
(Distant muffled music)
(Music gets louder and clearer)
(Music turned off)
(Thunder clap)
(Speaker click)
(Shaun, muffled) High School,
Is done.
I have nothing to do now.
I don't have anywhere to go.
No invites.
Everyone tonight,
Is going to be,
Celebrating.
People tonight are going to...
go out to dinner with their parents.
Set all their achievements,
What things they could...
Do when they're older.
And after that,
They'll go out, and get drunk,
Or laugh.
What am I going to do?
I'm just staying in my room.
Surrounded by...
Pieces of paper,
Unknown stories,
Partially written-down ideas,
It was my dream to be a writer.
From the comic accident of birth,
(Shaun on speaker) To my
final grotesque joke of death.
I know I've let you down.
I let a lot of people down.
I guess we are who we are in this world,
But it is evident I do not belong here.
Aiden,
You're my rock,
But I can't wear you down anymore.
You've suffered enough because of me.
Brooke,
I miss the person you used to be,
I wish those things never happened to you,
And I hope things get better for you.
Mum,
I love you,
This isn't your fault.
I want you to know that I'm alright.
I'm not afraid to die.
To Dayne Majors,
I hope you get what's coming to you.
To Jake MacDonald, I
hope you die painfully.
To Summer Cartwright,
I hope it's unexpected,
Like it was for me.
To Connor Reeves, I
hope you get ripped open,
Inside and out.
To Ben Pearce,
I just wish you get to feel
all the punishment that I felt.
Jacinta Banks,
Die. Slow.
And lastly,
Hannah Lockridge.
(Speaker click)
All those years,
Did you know you lived a few
houses down from each other?
This was him room,
His...
Safe haven.
I was locked up when it happened.
And when Mum was gone,
Brooke couldn't bring
herself to pack anything down.
Do you remember your last day of school?
(Sniffling)
December Sixteenth.
When I found his journal, I
thought to reach out to you.
I wanted to thank you.
You were there for him when I couldn't be.
(Nervously inhales)
Every Tuesday and Thursday, he wrote about
those forty-five minutes he spent with you.
You treated him like a somebody,
Took an interest in him.
Made him feel accepted.
But then...
I know.
(Sniffling)
If it wasn't for me,
Shaun would still be here.
Why?
Because he loved me!
And I was weak!
Because I didn't want to be laughed at,
Because I didn't want to be made fun of.
Because I didn't want-
(Aiden) Anyone to think less of you.
(Crying)
I was embarrassed.
(Whimpering)
I was so mean!
I was so harsh.
(Sniffles)
I was so angry!
And I have lived with that day ever since.
(Speaker click)
The girl whose eyes hold no secrets.
I guess I was wrong.
You eyes do hold lies.
Was it all a faade? (Sniffling)
Was it all for a grade?
I would gladly take every
bump, every bruise, every insult,
Just for the chance to prove myself!
(Sighs)
(And just like that)
I am stung by your touch.
The touch I always wanted.
(Picking up blade)
But your disconnect,
From looks to feeling,
Is the breaking of all
promises. (Sniffling)
How do you sleep,
With the weight of guilt to which
you've surrendered your spine?
(Whimpering)
(Fumbling with blade)
(Puts down blade container)
Now there is a shadow of remorse,
And sadly nothing more.
Maybe I'll be... (Hannah whimpering)
Forever imprinted in your mind.
(Gasps)
For I'm not the one you left behind,
But rather the one you never knew.
(Hannah whimpers)
Please, stop! (Shaun inhales)
(Shaun exhales)
(Shaun hyperventilating)
(Hannah moans in anguish)
(Shaun's breathing slowing) (Hannah crying)
(Blood dripping)
(Blood drip)
(Weak breathing)
(Blood drip)
(Blood drip)
(Slowed breathing)
(Blade drops to floor)
You watched them take their final breath,
And you wonder,
What have any of us done in life...
To be remembered in death?
(Cocks gun)
(Aiden) Take it.
If you truly feel responsible,
You know what you have to do.
(Whimpering)
I can't! (Gun clatters to ground)
(Aiden) Yes you can.
I can't!
Yes you can!
(Aiden) Do it. (Hannah whimpering)
Do it.
(Nervous breathing)
(Nervous moaning)
(Whimpering)
(Crying) I'm so sorry!
I know you are.
(Crying)
(Hyperventilating)
It'll be okay.
(Whimpering)
(Hyperventilating)
(Gun click)
(Exhales)
(Shocked breathing)
(Gun clatters to ground)
(Whimpers)
He wanted them all to die,
But he knew he wasn't
strong enough to do it.
But all he wanted for you
was for you to remember him.
(Sniffling)
Now you always will.
This is your repentance.
I don't understand.
Your soul might survive,
But you'll never find peace.
(Shocked breathing)
(Light rain hitting the street and van)
Did it all go down how you wanted?
It had to.
None of them were even really sorry.
They were just scared.
And halfway through the night I realised...
I should be scared too.
I know you know I could have stopped him.
None of them were any
more responsible than I was.
Is that what you wanted?
You wanted me to feel it?
That's why it had to go to plan?
You should have stopped him, Brooke!
Yeah.
I know.
And I'm going to have to live with that.
If I see you again,
I'll know why.
(Credits music starting)
(Police sirens approaching)
(Shaun) They say it takes
a tragedy to make a change.
But that in itself is the tragedy.
(Camera click)
(Credits Music)