Sample Scripts

Sample Script 1

In the shadows, Script

FADE IN:

INT. Quiet, In car

Car is silent and camera is focused on DI Whelburn who is sitting in the driver’s seat looking down at his phone.

(Looks down at his phone before sighing and putting it back away in his pocket)

(He leaves the car and heads to the front door)

DI WHELBURN

(Knocking)

‘Hello…’

(Door opens abruptly)

DI WHELBURN

‘Oscar, DI Whelburn we need to talk’

(Shot cuts to the questioning scene)

DI WHELBURN

‘I need you to tell me everything you know about Jane Brooks’

OSCAR

‘I knew Jane, I guess our paths crossed a few times but we weren’t exactly what you would call close’

DI WHELBURN

‘Oscar, I hate to break the news like this but Jane Brooks was murdered in her apartment last Friday. We need all the information that we can get at this point do you understand me?’

OSCAR

(Looks in shock and stumbles on his words)

Wow… yes, I’ll try and help you in any way possible… just a bit of a shock she’s gon-

DI WHELBURN

(Interrupts)

‘I thought you said that you didn’t know her very well you seem pretty shocked that she has gone’

OSCAR

(Pauses for a few seconds before looking up and sighing)

‘Ok… she was a good friend at one point, I trusted her’

DI WHELBURN

(Interrupts again)

‘At one point? Surely something must have happened between you two to make you feel this way’

OSCAR

‘no… nothing really’

DI WHELBURN

‘Not really? Oscar, we need you to tell us everything that happened’

OSCAR

(Takes a moment to look down and then back up again)

‘We had an argument over some stupid thing a few weeks ago’

DI WHELBURN

‘Where did this argument take place?’

OSCAR

(trying to remember)

‘Erm… I can’t quite remember’

DI WHELBURN

‘And what was the argument over?’

OSCAR

(Rather disgusted)

‘And why should I tell you? That’s a rather personal question to be asking DI’

DI WHELBURN

(gets up to leave)

‘Only doing my job if you can’t help me I can’t help you’

OSCAR

(Pauses for a second before standing up, camera is focused on DI Whelburn)

‘I know who killed Jane’

Scene cuts to outside the house, DI Whelburn is leaving the house. Tony is in the car on his phone.

TONY

(Picks up the phone)

‘He’s at it again, this needs to stop’

(Puts the phone down and continues to look in the direction of Oscar and DI Whelburn)

Scene cuts back to Oscar inside the house. He is looking stressed and worried. He goes over to the cupboard and pours himself as glass of water.

(There are three large bangs on the door. Camera looking over Oscars shoulder as he opens the door to reveal Tony standing there)

TONY

(Deceivingly)

‘Looks like someone has some explaining to do’

Scene Ends

Sample Script 2

In the Shadows, Script

FADE IN:

INT. Quiet, Dark room

Room is silent and the only light is form a small light that is illuminating the table, the area around is completely pitch black

There is a small table in the centre of the scene with DI Bennett, DI Whelburn and Vicky sitting round it.

DI WHELBURN

‘This is a very serious matter Vicky; we are investigating a murder here some cooperation wouldn’t go a miss’

(Vicky looks blankly at Whelburn)

DI WHELBURN

‘Well then, refer to reference 5a in your documents. It shows the Analysis from the murder weapon that clearly shows your finger prints all over the weapon, would you like to explain this…’

VICKY

‘I have no idea how they got there honest’

(DI Whelburn begins to raise his voice and becomes more and more agitated)

DI WHELBURN

‘It’s all stacking up against you Vicky, we are trying to get the best out of it for you… So now you are saying that this is your firearms but it was stolen from you to commit the murder… but how?’

(Vicky raises her voice and starts to get angry)

VICKY

‘I don’t know who took it, but im telling you now… I don’t know who stole the weapon and I didn’t kill Daniel!’

(There is afew seconds of silence before DI Whelburn turns over his notes)

DI WHELBURN

‘This is document 6 it refers to a map that shows the area where the murder was committed now CCTV footage shows that you were in the area at the time and you can’t get anybody to verify your alibi for the time of the crime. You also stated that you were not in the area at the time which to be honest here, is making you look like the guilty one…’

VICKY

‘But you have to believe me here… I am inn- ‘

DI WHELBURN

(Interrupts)

‘But how? You claim to be in two places at once and despite all the evidence you still claim that you are nowhere near the crime scene. CCTV doesn’t lie Vicky’

(He pauses for a moment before getting out some pictures from his folder)

DI WHELBURN

‘This is the footage right here, it shows you walking towards Daniels flat around 20 minutes before his murder and we know that it’s possible to enter his apartment, shoot him then leave unseen. But why… why Vicky was it out of revenge or did you simply just murder him in cold blood?’

VICKY

‘I… I…’

DI WHELBURN

(Aggressive with raised tones)

‘We are trying to help you here, we already know you have perverted the cause of justice, let me remind you that can carry a life sentence. Just come clean Vicky, you are digging your hole deeper!’

(There is a pause for a moment before Bennett looks at Whelburn)

DI BENNETT

‘I think we should call it a day her-...’

DI WHELBURN

‘you won’t get away with this…’

DI BENNETT

‘DI Whelburn please calm yourself!’

(Vicky is escorted out of the room looking overwhelmed)

Scene Ends