Fade In
EXT. Santa Monica pier - night.
Camera flashes the frame. A person is taking a picture of a
couple on a date.
Stanley walks toward the man.
STAN
Thank you very much.
Stan gives a dollar and a smile to the person. He then
continues his walk with Natalie. Stan is a 20 + years old,
an okay looking kind of a guy. He is nerves at times and is
not very confident. Natalie walks beside him. She's in her
20's and looks like a fun girl that likes to laugh and is
very confident about her self. (The credits are showing
while they stroll along the pier). They are both looking at
the picture.
Montage:
. The couple is walking around.
. Stan buys Natalie a flower.
. The couple is eating dinner.
. They walk around during the day (second date).
EXT. Natalie's Apt - night.
End of the third date. Stan escorts her to the front door.
Natalie turns to him.
STAN
I really had a nice time with you Natalie.
NATALIE
Yeah, me too.
STAN
Well we should do this again sometime.
NATALIE
Sure, why not.
STAN
Well... Goodnight...
Stan bends over to kiss her. Natalie hesitates a bit but
then decides to kiss him back. They back off from the kiss;
Stan shows a big smile while Natalie shows a small fake
one.
NATALIE
Well I think I should go in now.
STAN
Oh, of course. Well have a goodnight.
NATALIE
(With a smirk on her face)
You already said that.
STAN
Oh right... well sweet dreams.
NATALIE
You too Stan.
Natalie enters her apt.
INT. Natalie's apt - night.
Natalie is watching TV when suddenly the phone rings.
NATALIE
Hello.
STAN
Hi Natalie It's Stan.
NATALIE
Oh, hi Stan how are you doing?
STAN
I'm fine, how are you? Is this a bad time?
NATALIE
No, I'm just watching TV.
STAN
So... You feel like doing something later?
NATALIE
Well I'm kind of tired today Stan.
STAN
Sure... maybe you want to do
something over the weekend?
NATALIE
Well I think I'm going to be busy,
cause I have a lot of work to do.
STAN
oh... well... okay so maybe I'll give
you a call next week. Anyway I got to
go right now, so you have a pleasant evening.
NATALIE
You too Stanley, thanks for calling... bye.
STAN
Bye.
INT. Natalie's office - morning.
Natalie sits at her desk clicking on the keyboard. Her
secretary Jill enters. Jill is a free spirited, easy going,
fun loving, in my 20's kind of girl.
JILL
There's a Stanley on the phone for you.
NATALIE
(Whispering)
Tell him I'm not here.
JILL
Okay.
Jill Closes the door. Natalie looks disturbed from the fact
that Stan called her at work. 5 seconds later Jill enters
again.
JILL
Who was that guy?
NATALIE
He's just a guy I dated a few times.
And to whom I didn't give my work number.
JILL
How do you suppose he got it?
NATALIE
I don't know.
JILL
Anyway, he sounds kind of cute.
NATALIE
He's okay, I don't know, It's just that
the chemistry wasn't there.
JILL
So why is he still calling?
NATALIE
That's a good question.
Natalie shows a troubled face and then gets back to work on
the computer.
JILL
(Looking confused)
Okay.
Jill leaves the room.
INT. Natalie's office - mid day.
Jill is going through some papers on her desk; a delivery
guy arrives with flowers.
GUY
I have flowers here for a Natalie.
JILL
Flowers?! Okay, I'll take care of it.
Thanks.
Jill grabs the flowers and enters the office. She walks
toward Natalie while reading the card.
JILL
"I had a really nice time with you,
hope to do it again some time"
oh, a secret admirer?
NATALIE
Oh no. Don't tell me it's from Stan.
JILL
Well it's not signed, but who else can it be.
NATALIE
Yeah, you're right.
JILL
Why don't you just tell him off?
NATALIE
Well now I'm starting to think I should.
It's obvious I wasn't clear enough.
Natalie leans back with a disturbed face, Jill leaves the
room.
INT. Natalie's Apt - night.
Sound of keys trying to open the door. Natalie enters her
apt, she checks her machine for messages and the machine
reads 4 messages. She starts the machine.
MACHINE
You have four new messages.
STAN
(On the machine)
Hi it's me, just checking if you got
back, anyway I'll call later, bye.
STAN
(Second message)
Hey Natalie, it's me again.
I guess you're still not home
I was wondering if you're doing
something later. Anyway call me
when you get back, it's Stan.
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(Third message)
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STAN
(Fourth message)
Hi it's Stan, why haven't you
called me yet?! Anyway just give me a call
when you get home. Bye.
Messages end. Natalie goes to the fridge and grabs a bottle
of wine. When she lifts the glass to drink, the phone
suddenly rings. She lets it ring for a while and walks
slowly towards the phone. She picks up the phone.
NATALIE
(Troubled)
Hello?
(Pause, and then a sigh of relief)
Oh, hi mom. No, I was just doing
the dishes... Me? I'm fine, how are you?
(Pause)
Oh, that's nice...Well listen ma, I just
got in, can I talk to you later?
... sure, bye.
Natalie hangs up the phone. She goes to her bedroom when
suddenly the phone rings again. She goes back to the phone
thinking it's her mother that's calling.
NATALIE
Hey mom, did you forget to tell
me something?
STAN.
It's me, Stan.
NATALIE
(Troubled)
Oh hi Stan.
STAN
Hey Natalie, why haven't you called me?
NATALIE
I got in a few minutes ago and I just
heard your messages. Listen I think we
need to talk.
STAN
What do you mean?
NATALIE
This is not working...
STAN
How come? I thought we had a
good thing together.
NATALIE
Yeah but I'm having a rough time right
now at work so I think It's better off
if we just stayed friends?
STAN
Guess it's your call but I don't think
we're better off that way.
NATALIE
Listen Stan I don't really want to talk
about this right now so...
STAN
Okay, okay I get the message.
NATALIE
No it's not that, you're a nice guy...
STAN
sure, sure. Whatever, you have a nice
night, bye.
NATALIE
(Uncomfortable)
Bye.
Natalie hangs up the phone and then sits on the couch
pondering.
INT. Natalie's office - Morning.
Natalie is making her way to the office. She enters and
finds flowers on Jill's desk. Jill appears behind the
flowers and greets her.
JILL
Morning Natalie.
NATALIE
Morning Jill, you got flowers?
JILL
No, actually they're for you.
NATALIE
I can't believe this.
JILL
Didn't you tell him off?
NATALIE
Yes I did. Last night.
What does it say on the card?
JILL
"We're good together, hope you'll
come around." Signed "You know who"
NATALIE
I can't believe he sent flowers again.
JILL
I think it's kind of cute.
NATALIE
What's so cute about it, he's obsessed.
JILL
Maybe he's just trying to win your
heart back for a second chance.
NATALIE
Listen I'm going into my office.
If he calls, tell him I'm not here.
JILL
What about the flowers?
NATALIE
I don't know, get rid of them!
INT. Natalie's office - mid day.
Natalie sits at her desk working hard on her reports. Jill
enters.
JILL
Listen Natalie, it's the sixth time he
called I'm running out of excuses.
NATALIE
Well I don't want to talk to him.
JILL
Well I think you should, he's not
showing any sign of stopping.
NATALIE
Alright I'll deal with him.
Natalie picks up the phone, beginning to lose her patience.
NATALIE
Hello, Stanley?
STAN
Hi Natalie. I'm glad I caught you,
just wondering if you're doing
anything tonight.
NATALIE
I told you already, it's over.
STAN
Come on, be a sport. Let's do
something.
NATALIE
(Getting angry)
I don't feel like doing something.
STAN
Well at least let me stop over.
We'll watch a movie or something.
NATALIE
No, Stanley I'm busy and I'll say
it again, it's over.
STAN
Just give me one more chance.
You won't regret it.
NATALIE
I'm hanging up now Stanley.
STAN
No, no don't hang up let's
talk about this.
NATALIE
I have work to do bye.
Natalie hangs up on Stan; Jill who overheard comes in the
room.
JILL
So?
NATALIE
Couldn't make it any clearer than that.
Natalie picks her things and goes to lunch.
NATALIE
Want to grab lunch with me?
JILL
Sure.
EXT. Natalie's apt - Evening.
Natalie on her way to the apt's door, She hears a
screeching sound from behind her. She jumps of fear and
turns around. She then proceed on with opening the door. A
little scared and in a rush, she opens the door, jumps
inside and locks the door behind her with all the locks she
has. She looks over to her machine to see that she has 3 new
messages. She activates the machine while arranging her
things.
MACHINE
STAN
(Message 1)
It's not nice to hang up
on people like you did.
I think you owe me an
apology.
STAN
(Message 2)
Where are you?!
I know you're home
at this hour. You can't fool
me dear.
Message 3 is just Stan calling again and hangs up without
leaving anything on. Natalie is getting worried about all
those messages, she sits by the phone and drinks a glass of
water. Then the phone starts ringing. Natalie lets the phone
ring for a while, then she just disconnects it. A sudden
knock on the door frightens her. She walks towards the door
unlocking the locks and looking at the pip hole. She can't
see a thing. Slowly she opens the door with the security
chain still on. She leans her head to see who it is. A hand
reaches through the door and grabs Natalie's hand, she
begins to struggle.
NATALIE
No! Leave me alone!
Natalie shuts the door on the hand. Someone screams of pain.
She locks all the locks and takes another look at the pip
hole. Again she can't see a thing. Somehow the door breaks
loose and opens with only the chain on. A foot appears on
the lower part of the crack and blocks Natalie's attempts to
close the door.
The scene then goes back to Natalie sitting by the phone and
there's a knock at the door. She gets up to answer,
understanding that she just had a day dream. She looks in
the pip hole to see that it's Stan.
NATALIE
What the hell are you
doing here Stan?
STAN
Come on Natalie I just
want you to hear me out.
She opens the door with the chain still on.
NATALIE
What do you want?
STAN
Can I come in?
NATALIE
I don't think so.
STAN
oh come on, let me in.
I just want to talk.
NATALIE
Okay, just a second.
She takes the chain off and lets Stan inside.
STAN
Okay just hear me out.
NATALIE
I don't want to talk about it.
STAN
Yeah but we went out a few
times, we had fun. I just don't
get it.
NATALIE
Yeah, you really don't get it.
Listen, it was a nice time but
I thought it over and decided
to end it.
STAN
But why?
Stan walks towards her.
NATALIE
Because I just didn't feel the
chemistry you felt.
STAN
(Leans over to kiss her)
come on.
Natalie pushes him away from her.
NATALIE
(Angry)
Just leave me alone!
Stan takes a look at her, disappointed from the rejection.
He walks out and slams the door.
INT. Natalie's office - day.
Natalie talks to Jill about some of the paper work at Jill's
desk, Stan comes down towards them. Natalie spots him and
reacts.
NATALIE
Oh my god, what is
he doing here?
JILL
(Lifts her head up)
Who? (Spots him) Is that...?
NATALIE
(Sighs)
Yeah.
Stan approaches the both of them with a stupid grin on his
face.
STAN
Surprise!
NATALIE
Get the hell out of here!
STAN
Why? I brought you something.
Stan shows the hand he's been hiding all along and shows
Natalie the chocolate he bought her. Natalie is losing her
patience while Jill reacts.
JILL
Oh, how cute.
NATALIE
(To Jill) What cute?! (To Stan) Listen Stan I
want you out of here. Seriously
now, I'm calling security.
STAN
Natalie...
Natalie goes inside her office to call security.
JILL
Better luck next time cowboy.
STAN
yeah, guess you're right, didn't
catch the name...
JILL
Jill.
STAN
What a lovely name.
I'm Stan pleasure to meet you.
JILL
Like wise.
STAN
Want some chocolate? No point
of wasting it.
Jill gives Stan a warm welcoming smile.
Inside Natalie's office, she tries to contact security with
no success. She heads back out to find Jill there by her
self.
NATALIE
Is he gone?
JILL
(Grinning)
You gave him quite the scare.
NATALIE
Well good. What's up with that smile?
JILL
Say Natalie. You won't mind if
I go on a date with Stan now
would you?
NATALIE
What?! You want to date him?!
Take him, is all yours, have fun.
JILL
Thanks.
NATALIE
Sure, anything to get him
off me.
JILL
Well I'll take care of that.
(Smiles again)
NATALIE
Have a blast dear.
Montage:
. Natalie can't sleep at night.
. Trying to work but can't concentrate.
. While shopping, she jumps out of her place when some guy
bumps in to her.
. Natalie walks to her office and sees Jill with some
flowers Stan sent her.
INT. Natalie's apt- night.
Natalie enters her apt. She looks over to the machine to see
zero messages. She seems a bit disappointed.
Time passes. She watches TV. She dozes off hearing all kind
of scary voices, Stan shouting at her. She wakes up with a
scream. She notices that the phone is ringing. She picks it
up.
NATALIE
Hello?
STAN
(In a scary voice)
Hi Natalie.
NATALIE
Who is this?
STAN
What's the matter? Don't you
recognize my voice?
NATALIE
Stan! What the hell are you
talking about. Aren't you on
a date with Jill.
STAN
Jill? What Jill? There's no Jill
There is only you. You are all
I want.
NATALIE
Stop calling me!!
STAN
No! And as soon as I'm done here.
I'm coming over to have some
fun with you.
NATALIE
I'll call the cops!
STAN
What cops? I haven't laid a
hand on you. Do you really
think they'll take the time to
send someone over to guard
you because you're afraid of
some guy you dated before?
NATALIE
(Breaking apart)
Just leave me alone!!
Natalie hangs up the phone, She picks up her cell and starts
dialing Jill's cell number. Jill answers her.
JILL
Hello?
NATALIE
Jill! You've got to help me.
Stan just called and he's
threatening to come over
and hurt me.
JILL
What are you talking about?
Stan is here with me at dinner.
NATALIE
Is he in front of you?
JILL
No, he just went to the restroom.
NATALIE
You see. He called from
there. Said he still wants me.
JILL
Believe me Natalie, he is over
you. He is with me and he's
having a great time.
NATALIE
Yeah well ask him if he
called me.
JILL
No, I'm not. Because it's
stupid, you're imagining things.
Listen, he's coming back to
the table I got to go.
NATALIE
No Jill!
JILL
Bye.
Natalie starts crying. She goes to her bedroom, closing all
the lights on the way. She gets into bed trying to forget
all the ordeal and get some sleep.
INT. Natalie's apt - night.
Natalie is asleep when suddenly loud knocks from the
direction of the door wakes her up. She freezes in her
place, grabbing her blanket closer and tighter. She hears a
voice screams.
STAN
Natalie!! It's my time to play.
NATALIE
(Screaming back)
Get the hell out of here!!!
I'm calling the cops.
STAN
Again with the cops?! Don't
you get it? they won't come.
Let me in, I'll show you a
good time. I promise.
(Laughs)
NATALIE
Leave me alone You piece
of shit! I'm calling 911.
Natalie, while in her bed, dials the emergency number. Mean
time Stan continues to scream. We don't see him in the
scene, he is just a voice coming from behind the door.
Natalie falls to a deep sleep from trying to get the police
on the line unsuccessfully.
EXT. out side Natalie's office - morning.
Natalie sits on a bench and takes a breath of fresh air.
Jill comes from behind her and greets her.
JILL
Hey!
NATALIE
(Jumps out of her place)
Ha!!
JILL
What's up with you?
NATALIE
Why you have to come from
behind scaring me like that?
JILL
Would it be less scary if I
came from this side?
NATALIE
That's not funny Jill.
JILL
Is everything okay?
NATALIE
No, everything is not okay.
I have a stalker and the only
person who knows about it
won't believe me.
JILL
What Stalker? Because he made
a call from the date with me,
which I still don't believe he did.
NATALIE
And because he came in the
middle of the night and started
banging on my door.
JILL
oh, you're so full of shit.
NATALIE
What?!
JILL
I see, because he's going out
with me now and you don't get
the attention you're used to get
you decided to frame him for
stalking you.
NATALIE
Jill you have got to believe me.
He did come last night. I swear.
JILL
No he didn't!!
NATALIE
How the hell do you know?
JILL
I just know...
NATALIE
That's not an answer...
JILL
You want an answer?
NATALIE
yeah, how can he possibly not
come last night?
JILL
Because last night we had sex!
NATALIE
(Shocked)
what?
JILL
Yes, we slept together.
So you mean to tell me
that he got up in the middle
of the night, after a very
enjoyable evening. Drove
all the way from my place to
your place, started banging on the
door and then got back in bed
with me?
NATALIE
Listen, I don't know what to
think anymore. I know what I
saw and heard. I better get in
the office.
Natalie starts walking towards her office. Jill looks over
her with a pondering face of what to do with the situation.
INT. Natalie's office - day.
Natalie, looking troubled in her office, can't concentrate
or get any work done. Jill enters to apologize.
JILL
Natalie?
NATALIE
Yeah.
JILL
Listen, I want to apologize, I...
NATALIE
Forget it Jill it's fine.
JILL
No, it isn't. I really want to
believe you. But you've got
to see it from my point of view.
And you haven't been that stable
these last few days.
NATALIE
I know. Jill, just forget it.
I'll just call the police when
I get home today and that's
it. I had enough of this ordeal.
JILL
Well you do what you must.
Maybe you should first take a look
at yourself, Natalie you won't see the change
in you, no one ever does till it happens.
Plus you don't look so good. Maybe
you should take off early.
NATALIE
Maybe...whatever I don't know.
Anyway Jill I need to get
some work done.
JILL
Okay, Well I'll be here if
you need me... and Natalie..
NATALIE
(Annoyed)
What?
JILL
It's no shame to admit it.
NATALIE
Admit what?! Please Jill spare me
the psychology and just
leave me alone. Thank you for
your concern, I'm fine!
INT. Natalie's apt - day.
Stan calls and leaves a message on the machine.
STAN
Hi Natalie. You know I went
a few times with Jill. She's a nice
girl. But she's not you.
(Laughs)
EXT. Out side Natalie's office - day.
We see Natalie comes out of her office. She looks up at the
sun, and then continues on her way. She decides to take off
early.
INT. Natalie's apt - day.
Natalie gets back from work. The clock is showing 15:30. She
seems very tired. she locks the door and we cut away from
the scene.
EXT. out side Natalie's office - Twilight.
Stan comes running. He seems to be late for picking Jill up
from work.
JILL
Well it's about time. Where the hell
were you?
STAN
Sorry, got stuck in traffic, you ready?
JILL
Yeah, let's get out of here.
INT. Natalie's room - night.
Natalie wakes up, understanding that she probably dozed off
on her bed. She is still wearing the clothes from work. She
then looks around and sees that her APT is completly
trashed. Shocked of the idea that someone did that while she
was dozed off on her bed, she leaps to find the phone and
call 911.
INT. Stan's apt - night.
Stan and Jill are flirting with each other on the sofa. The
police knocks on the door. Stan gets up to open it.
POLICE
Are you Stanley Gibson?
STAN
Yeah.
POLICE
You are under arrest.
STAN
(Shocked)
What's the charge.
POLICE
Suspicion of breaking and entering.
JILL
(To the cop and Stan)
What breaking and entering?
STAN
(To Jill)
I have no idea what he's
talking about.
POLICE
(To Stan)
Come with me please.
The police officer takes Stan away. Jill seems shocked of
the charge. Her cell phone rings. She answers the phone.
JILL
Hello.
NATALIE
Hi Jill.
JILL
Hey Natalie, how are you?
NATALIE
I'm okay. Have you seen Stan?
JILL
I'm at his place, the police just
picked him up. What... oh my
god, he broke into your place?
NATALIE
Something like that.
JILL
God... I'm so sorry, stay
there I'll be right over.
INT. Natalie's apt - night.
Natalie looks around the apt. She starts cleaning
everything. She looks around for the phone charger to place
the phone back. She spots it under the table along with the
answering machine.
She picks it up and places it on the table. She checks the
machine. She sees zero new messages. She activates it to
hear if there's anything more.
MACHINE
You have one old message.
STAN
Hi Natalie. You know I went
a few times with Jill. She's a nice
girl. But she's not you.
(Laughs)
I'm just kidding.
I wanted to apologize for my
behavior, I hope we can stay
friends see you around, bye.
Flashback:
Natalie sees a flashback of what happened earlier when she
came to the apt earlier. We see that the clock is showing
15:30 and there's still daylight behind her. She enters and
checks the machine. The machine shows one new message. She
presses the button and Stan's Message starts again. When he
laughs Natalie starts trashing the place her self not
hearing the rest of the message in which Stan apologizes.
She loses her temper completely and when she starts trashing
her room she knocks her self out by bumping her head with a
wall.
End of flash back.
We see Natalie sited on her sofa, she seems shocked to the
instant memory that jumped to her head. She can't understand
how she would forget a thing like that. After a few seconds
of her pondering, Jill storms in.
JILL
Hey, are you okay?
She sees Natalie crying on the sofa, she goes to hug her and
support her.
JILL
Natalie I'm so sorry. I had
no clue. I'm such a bitch. How
could I not believe you. So it
was all true. That son of a bitch. The
call from the restaurant, the knocking
in the middle of the night. I can't believe
he did that. That twisted freak.
Jill and Natalie are still hugging each other. Natalie still
haven't said a word since Jill entered. We see her crying on
Jill's shoulder as she tries to figure out, what was true
and what was false from all of the things that she's been
through. She hears Jill's voice echoing in her mind saying
"Maybe you should first take a look at yourself, Natalie you
won't see the change in you, no one ever does till it
happens." and "You're imagining things".
INT. Police station - night.
The bars close on a man's legs. We go up to the face to see
Stan with an innocent expression.
Fade out accompanied by a whisper saying "you won't feel the
change"
THE END |
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