Unbeatable

UNBEATABLE:
"Save Money. Die Better."

Or
"Always...Until Now."
by
Mead McCormick
Mead McCormick
5300 #3 S. Greenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60615
Mead.Mccormick@gmail.com
757-561-1588
2.
FADE IN:
INT. VALOIS CAFETERIA- 10:45 AT NIGHT
A group of teenagers sit around a long rectangular table,

eating pancakes and chatting.
JENNY, 18, white, has long hair and is generally pretty.
KAY, 18, is hispanic and wears glasses.
CHRIS, 15, is Kay’s little brother. He also wears

glasses, and plays his gameboy.
MARTY, 18, tall, sits with DEBBIE, 18, with a similar

haircut. They are one of those couples that look like
they could be related.
LUCY, 18, middle eastern, looks on at them intently.
TED, 23, is scruffy-looking, with a ragged leather

jacket.
VINCE, 18, white, is handsome, preppy, and has a small

mustache that he seems proud of.
Ted is opening all the butter packets and spreading them

around on his plate.
Marty and Debbie are making a display of affection that

Lucy watches. Her food is untouched.
LUCY
Marty? You need some sugar for your
coffee?
She holds the sugar in front of their locked faces. Kay

takes it from her.
3.
KAY
Of course he does.
She pours some sugar in the coffee.
KAY (CONT’D)
I think they’re busy.
Ted notices this interaction. He glances at Lucy for a

moment and smiles.
LUCY
What?
TED
Nothing, you’re cute.
Lucy gives him a a look of disgust.
Vince begins to pull a bottle of wine out of his

backpack, when the WAITRESS, walks up to the table. He
stuffs it away.
WAITRESS
Can I refresh y’alls’ coffees?
VINCE
Oh, yes please, ma’am.
She gives him a look. Ted holds his cup out without
saying anything.
JENNY
No thank you.
She fills the cups and walks away, looking disgruntled.

Vince clears his throat and taps his water glass with his
fork.
VINCE
Can I have everyone’s attention?
Everyone stops what they’re doing (except Marty and

Debbie) and looks at Vince.
VINCE (CONT’D)
As we all know, tonight is a very special
night for Jenny, and in fact, for all of
us.
JENNY
It is?
4.
Everybody looks at Vince quizzically.
VINCE
It’s her first anniversary of moving
here! And by default, the first
anniversary of our jobs, and our dear
Walmarts 1 year-old birthday. Happy
Birthday Walmart!
(to Jenny)
And, congratulations on surviving a year
in a place with nothing to do.
They laugh and a couple of them clap.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Now, I brought a little something to
celebrate-
He checks to make sure the Waitress is nowhere in sight

and then pulls the bottle of wine out of his bag and
reveals it to them.
CHRIS
Ooh!
JENNY
Oh, no no no. We have to be at work in...
She checks her watch.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Ten minutes! We can’t drink on the job.
VINCE
Aw, come on, it’s just tonight. No
customers, just us in there...
TED (TO KAY)

The cons of knowing the manager’s
daughter.
KAY (TO TED)

If it wasn’t for her you wouldn’t have a
job.
TED (TO KAY)

If it wasn’t for Vince I wouldn’t have a
job.
KAY (TO TED)

And where do you think Vince got it from?
5.
Vince makes a puppy face at Jenny. She grins but still

shakes her head.
TED
Here, let me open it.
He pulls a bottle opener from his jacket pocket and

starts to open it.
KAY
That’s not sketch.
TED
I don’t see you contributing!
Ted opens the bottle easily, and begins to pour it into

one of the glasses on the table.
The Waitress suddenly appears from the kitchen and stands

at the table, staring at the wine bottle in Ted’s hands.
LUCY
Uh-oh.
WAITRESS
What is this? Out! Now!
The group of teens grab their bags and leave money on the
table, grumbling at Ted.
TED
Come on! It’s a holiday!
WAITRESS
No holiday I ever heard of. Nu-uh, not
having it. Out, get out, get out!
EXT. PARKING LOT- 11:00 PM
The group of teens walk across a parking lot towards

WALMART.
Marty finds a shopping cart and Debbie climbs into it.
DEBBIE
Push me!
They zoom down the lot towards the main entrance of the
store, a wall of three sets of automatic doors. Lucy jogs
along behind them, ignored.
6.
TED
Oh well!
He starts gulping down the wine. Vince sees him, laughs

and then grabs the bottle from him, taking a gulp
himself. He hands it to Chris but Kay intercepts and
sips. She hands it over to Jenny, but Jenny shakes her
head.
Ted suddenly pretends to be drunk. He goes over to a semi

truck parked nearby and starts banging on it.
TED (CONT’D)
(shouting)
Hey! Anyone home? Hellooo!
A small, stray dog wanders over to the remaining four of

them from behind a car. He immediately approaches Jenny,
and walks next to her. She kneels down and pets him.
JENNY
Aw, hi puppy! How are you? What are you
doing out here?
She picks up the dog, cradling him.
VINCE
Don’t do that, Jenny. It’s probably
diseased.
JENNY
He is not. Look, he’s fine! Just a little
skinny!
(to DOG)
Are you hungry? You like hash browns?
Chris scratches the dog’s ear.
KAY
What- are you doing?
CHRIS
What? It’s a cute dog.
JENNY
We’ll just tie him up in the back and
I’ll take him home when we get off our
shift.
VINCE
Ok, but let’s go, we’re late.
Ted continues his prank on the truck.

7.
TED
Hello! Isn’t anybody in there?
The passenger door of the truck opens and a very tall man
with a beard and a John Deere cap, waits for Ted to walk
back around to his side. Ted bangs around the front of
the truck and then notices him.
TED (CONT’D)
Oh. Uh. Hi.
Ted sprints away.
JOHN DEERE
(muttering)
Kids is liable to get themselves killed.
He slams the door shut.
INT. CAR IN PARKING LOT- NIGHT
A man in his forties, LUNCHBOX, wearing a Walmart shirt

as well, sits in a run-down car parked at the far end of
the lot.
His fingers rap against something metal on the seat next

to him. He watches the group of teens walk into the
store.
Then he gets out of the car, grabbing the metal lunch box
beside him. The lunchbox is like that of a construction
worker’s, metal with an arched top and a buckle fastener.
It is painted in pastel colors with hearts on all sides.
INT. WALMART- FRONT ENTRANCE
The group walks in, and Vince sits on one of those ponies
for little kids to ride. He pulls a quarter out of his
pocket and slides it into the slot. A carnival tune plays
and the pony goes up and down and back and forth; a
ridiculous grin on its face. Vince imitates this
ridiculous grin at Jenny, who blushes.
JENNY
Come on, get off. It’s for kids, you’re
gonna break it!
VINCE
Nu-uh, I’m still a kid!
8.
The pony suddenly jerks, and Vince falls off of the front
of it.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Ow!
JENNY
Told you.
The pony keeps going back and forth. Vince rubs his head
and looks at it curiously.
VINCE
(trailing off)
But I didn’t break it...
Ted goes around to the rest of the claw games, fortune

tellers, scales, etc, checking to see if anyone’s left
change in the bottom. He finds a quarter and sticks it in
his pocket.
They catch up with the rest of the gang, who are at

ERNIE’s register. Late thirties, morbidly obese, with
dark hair, a mustache, and a scrubby beard. He’s the only
cashier there.
ERNIE
There’s my Jenny! Y’all are late.
KAY
She found a dog in the parking lot-
CHRIS
She’s going to adopt it!
ERNIE
Oh yeah, look at him! He’s cute!
JENNY
Isn’t he? You think it would be okay if I
tied him up in the back, just until the
morning?
ERNIE
I won’t tell anybody. Just make sure he
has water.
JENNY
I will!
MARTY
Oh yeah, We got you your favorite, Ernie-
9.
DEBBIE
Denver omelette!
They hand Ernie a styrofoam container and plastic fork.

He digs in.
ERNIE
(mouth full)
Delicious. Y’all better all get to the
back and start restocking. We have a long
night ahead of us if we want to get
inventory finished.
Ted, who has been stuffing his pockets with packs of

cigarettes, joins back up with them.
Lunchbox steps in and stops for a moment, looking at the

group of them, chatting around the register.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Evening, Lunchbox! How are you tonight?
(to Chris)
Go ahead and lock the doors.
He tosses Chris a huge ring of keys. Chris goes to the

wall of automatic doors at the front and begins to lock
them.
Lunchbox doesn’t answer him but walks towards the back.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Come on, it can’t be that bad. Can I just
have a smile? It would make my night that
much easier!
Lunchbox just shakes his head.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Never met a man so bitter.
LUCY
So crazy-
DEBBIE AND MARTY (IN

UNISON)
So creepy!
JENNY
Aw, come on guys. We don’t know what his
deal is.
TED
Maybe he’s retarded.
10.
ERNIE
Whatever’s wrong with him, he’s at work
and working, which is more than I can say
for all of you.
DEBBIE
Ok, ok, we’re going.
Chris returns Ernie’s keys to him.
ERNIE
Thank ya.
INT. MAIN AISLE
They walk down the main aisle of the store, towards the
back.
Ted takes a pack of the cigarettes he pilfered and hands

it to Chris. Chris goes to take it, but Kay steps between
them.
KAY
(to Chris)
Don’t even think about it.
Ted puts the cigarettes back in his pocket.
TED
What shouldn’t he be thinking about?
Being friends with me?
KAY
He knows exactly what he shouldn’t be
thinking about, Ted.
Ted drags Chris over to one of those phone outposts on

the end of an aisle and speaks into it with a nasally
voice.
While doing so, he slips a pack of cigarettes into

Chris’s vest pocket.
TED (P.A.)
Customer assistance needed in aisle 52B.
Customer Kay needs Motrin. Or was it
tampons? Customer assistance needed-
Kay grabs the phone and hangs it up. Ted and Chris laugh.
KAY
Shut up, dickwad.
11.
She hits Ted hard in the arm.
TED
Oww. See Chris, you should follow your
sister’s example and react violently to
your friends’ teasing.
KAY
You’re not my friend.
Ted grabs where his heart is in fake grief.
TED
Let’s take a walk, Chris. What do you
say?
CHRIS
Um, sure?
KAY
Um, no.
She grabs Chris by the collar and pushes him ahead. Ted
laughs at them lightly and grabs a pinwheel from a nearby
display.
INT. BACK ROOM
Jenny ties up the stray dog to a shelf in the back with a

spare bit of rope.
She sets down her leftovers and opens the box for the dog
to eat. She also sets down a bowl of water for him.
After petting him for a moment, she goes to get boxes for
her department. She gets a couple Blu-ray players but
cannot lift a box of Xbox 360s. Vince grabs it easily.
VINCE
Let me take that for you.
JENNY
Hey, thanks.
INT. AISLE
They walk to the electronics department.
VINCE
So when do you think you’ll take your
fifteen?
12.
JENNY
I don’t know, I hadn’t thought about it.
Why?
VINCE
I’m just trying to figure out when I
should take mine.
JENNY
Oh yeah? You want to avoid me or
something?
VINCE
No, the opposite, actually.
JENNY
I see. You want to stalk me.
Vince gives her a look. She laughs. They’ve reached her

department. He sets down the box.
INT. ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT
They look at each other for a moment, not saying

anything.
Vince looks around for something to do. He absentmindedly

presses the button on the CD sample display for Roy
Orbison hits. Some extremely romantic song begins to
play.
Vince bites his lip and quickly presses the big band
button instead.
It’s getting painfully awkward, when suddenly the lights

flash off, row by row down the store.
Everything is dark for a moment. Then the lights turn

back on, all at once.
Both of them blink to get used to the light again.
JENNY
That was weird.
VINCE
It’s probably Ted, fuckin’ around.
He shouts towards the back room.
VINCE (CONT’D)
You’re not scaring us, Ted! Nice try!
13.
Jenny laughs at him. Vince smiles at her laughter.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Well, I have several bags of mulch with
my name on them, so I’ll see you...at
one?
JENNY
One? Okay.
VINCE
Right here?
JENNY
Right here.
Vince suddenly leans over and kisses her on the cheek,

and then jogs off.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Hey!
She laughs, and unpacks the game consoles and put them on
a locked shelf. She turns on each of the video game test
monitors, and then goes to the back wall, where she turns
on each of the Hi-Def flat screen televisions.
A different movie plays on each, except for a few which

show a view of the store somewhere near the electronics.
She mutes them all with a universal remote, turns on a

stereo to her favorite station, and twists the volume
knob as far up as it will go.
She dances in front of the digital camcorders. She

appears on the row of flat-screen tvs as she lip syncs to
the song that’s playing.
Lunchbox stands in another aisle, watching her on the

tvs.
SERIES OF SHOTS
A) Main aisles of the Wal-Mart, empty
B) Row of registers. Ernie flips a switch. The blue,

numbered lights switch off
C) Cereal, cat toys, makeup, t-shirts with slogans
D) Rollback signs above clearance bins
E) Steaks, lawnmowers, bottles of pills, guns

14.
F) The automatic doors, with EXIT in big letters across

them
END SERIES OF SHOTS
INT. GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Lucy carries a number of deli meats and cheeses to the

butcher counter. She stocks them inside the refrigerated
case. There is a high-pitched squeal of laughter. Lucy
comes out from behind the counter and looks down the main
aisle.
Marty and Debbie are chasing each other with pillows,

giggling. Lucy growls.
LUCY
Get a hold of yourself.
She goes back to the butcher counter and starts taking

inventory of the different meats. More laughter. She
can’t help it. She goes back to look at them.
They stand in the middle of the aisle, kissing. Tears

well up in her eyes. She stalks back behind the counter
and resumes her work, leaning down under the glass case.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Obviously, he doesn’t give a fuck about
you. Get over it.
TED
Who? Marty?
Lucy looks through the glass and sees Ted staring at her.
Startled, she jumps and hits her head on the case. She
yanks a log of honey ham out of the meat slicer and
throws it at Ted.
Ted catches it, smells it, and frowning, puts it back on

the counter.
LUCY
Go back to Toys, asshole.
She starts up the meat slicer. It jams.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Shit. Look, you made me break the damn
thing again.
15.
TED
Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. I just want to help
you. We’re good friends, right?
LUCY
No.
TED
Huh. I’ve been hearing that a lot
tonight.
LUCY
Maybe there’s a reason.
She struggles with the slicer. Then, unjamming, it slices

her finger.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Ouch, fuck!
She pinches her finger and watches blood ooze out of it.
Suddenly, she begins to cry.
Ted sees this and joins her behind the counter. He grabs
a first aid kit from a cabinet, and takes out a tube of
neosporin and a band-aid.
TED
Hey hey-
LUCY
Get off!
He grabs her wrist. She gives in. He fixes up her finger,

and glances at her as she tries to wipe the tears off her
face as nonchalantly as possible.
TED
You want me to break them up?
LUCY
What? No.
He shrugs and wraps the band-aid carefully around her

finger and checks the rest of her hand to make sure there
are no other cuts. Lucy watches him do this.
LUCY (CONT’D)
How would you do that?
Ted begins to massage her hand.

16.
TED
Easy. I would seduce Debbie.
Lucy grabs her hand away from him.
LUCY
Psht. Like you could ever. No thanks.
TED
Sure I could. She’ll jump in any dude’s
pants.
Lucy huffs. Ted leans back against the counter.
TED (CONT’D)
You enjoy being miserable.
LUCY
That’s not true!
He starts up the slicer. It works fine. He throws the

honey ham in the trash and puts away the first aid kit.
TED
Ok. I know what we could do to cheer you
up.
Lucy leans against the counter where he was before. Ted

rests his hands on the counter, on either side of her. He
looks her in the eye.
LUCY
Alright. What?
TED
We can pull a prank on Lunchbox.
LUCY
Oh come on, the last one didn’t work.
TED
No look, I saw him over in the Auto
department just now. He won’t be back for
a half hour at least. We can rearrange a
bunch of boxes and see if he figures it
out.
Lucy makes a sort of half frown.
TED (CONT’D)
Aw, come on. The look on his face will be
priceless.
17.
LUCY
I guess so. I have to go back there to
get fish sticks anyway.
INT. BACK ROOM
Lucy and Ted, perched on the arms of a forklift, manage

to push a microwave to the back of a top shelf. They high
five, jump down, and rearrange a bunch of smaller boxes.
TED
Who knows, maybe he’ll get fired. Then
you can get Nancy a job here.
LUCY
Or we could get fired. I won’t get my
hopes up too much. Lunchbox is clever.
Lucy kneels down and pets the stray dog. He wags his
tail. She refills his water bowl.
TED
Maybe. Hey, want to, uh, join me out back
for a smoke?
LUCY
I don’t smoke.
Ted grins.
TED
(pause)
The other kind.
LUCY
Ohhh. Then yeah, sure-
Chris shows up in the back and goes to get a car seat

from a shelf.
Ted winks at Lucy.
TED
Hey Chris, you’re not busy, are you?
CHRIS
No, but I should finish th-
He pauses when he sees both of them smiling at him.

18.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
What? Are you guys trying to get me in
trouble?
TED
No way. We just want to make your sister
angry.
CHRIS
My sister’s always angry.
Ted puts an arm around Chris’s shoulder and steers him

out the back door. Lucy follows them.
EXT. BACK OF BUILDING
Lucy, Ted and Chris lean against the brick wall of the
building and take puffs from a joint.
LUCY
This is what I needed tonight.
Ted puts his arm around her shoulder.
TED
If you need anything else, just let me
know.
LUCY
Gross. You’re like twenty-five.
TED
(defensively)
Twenty-three!
Chris takes a puff and laughs, which turns into a violent

cough. The other two laugh at him. Ted pats him on the
back.
INT. BACK ROOM
Lunchbox comes in with a small, handheld computer scanner

thing, and a clipboard.
He goes to the furthest left shelf and begins to count

the boxes of each product.
He stops, confused by his count of microwaves along the

bottom of the shelf. He goes back and counts them one
more time. Still not right.
19.
Then he notices the forklift is still on, humming.
Angrily, he looks up and sees the missing microwave on

the top shelf.
He climbs up on the forklift and tries to reach the

microwave. He can barely get it.
He stands on his tiptoes, and manages to get a hold of it

pulling it towards the edge of the shelf.
Lunchbox grabs both corners of the box and tries to lift

it off of the shelf, but the forklift suddenly lurches
up.
He lets go of the box and falls fifteen feet to the

concrete floor below.
A moment later, the microwave falls off of the shelf.
The corner of the box hits Lunchbox in the head. His

vision goes black.
INT. BACK ROOM
Lunchbox wakes up on the floor, with the box next to him.
He feels his head. He is bleeding. He gets a fierce

grimace on his face and wipes the blood off with his blue
vest.
Then he gets up and walks out of the back room.
The dog watches him throughout, and whines when Lunchbox

leaves the back room. He tugs on the rope, and struggles
against the shelf.
Finally, he pulls himself free and follows Lunchbox out.
INT. HOUSEWARES DEPARTMENT
Debbie and Marty lean against a shelf, making out.
MARTY
Deb, I should really get to work.
DEBBIE
(pouty)
No, you shouldn’t. You should stay here,
and help me!
20.
MARTY
Uh. Okay, why not. But after break, I’m
going back to my section.
DEBBIE
Okay, finnnnne.
They unwrap throw pillows and put them on the shelf.
DEBBIE (CONT’D)
You know, I could help you out after
break.
MARTY
Oh yeah? How so?
DEBBIE
Well, actually, there’s this thing I’ve
always wanted to do...in your department!
She twists back and forth girlishly and smiles at Marty.
MARTY
What?
INT. BACK ROOM
Ted, Lucy, and Chris come back inside, Chris and Lucy are
laughing at something Ted has just said.
They stop laughing when they see that the dog is gone.
CHRIS
Where’d the dog go?
TED
He must have pulled himself out of the
rope. Look, it’s still tied and
everything.
LUCY
(laughing)
Ernie’s gonna be pissed!
INT. HOUSEWARES DEPARTMENT
Marty has his hands over his eyes and grins, puzzled.
DEBBIE
(suggestively)
Oh, Maaaaarty...
21.
Marty takes his hands away from his eyes.
DEBBIE (O.S.) (CONT’D)

Maaaaarty!
Marty follows her voice, wandering through the aisles

until he reaches a display with tents set up.
INT. CAMPING/SPORTS DEPARTMENT
Debbie is laying inside one of the tents, sprawled on her

stomach, head and arms outside it. She smiles at him.
DEBBIE
Hey babe. Wanna go camping sometime?
MARTY
Very cute, Deb.
DEBBIE
The sign says it sets itself up. How does
it do that?
She pats the space next to her in the tent. He goes and
sprawls beside her, head and arms also outside the tent.
MARTY
It’s like an aerobed. See the remote? You
just spread it out, press a button and it
sets itself up. Then when you’re done,
you take out the stakes, press the
button, and it breaks itself down again.
DEBBIE
Uh-huh. So I guess we can’t afford to buy
one of these.
MARTY
No, I don’t think so.
Debbie gets a mischievous look.
DEBBIE
Then...wanna make it?
Marty laughs.
MARTY
Here? In Walmart? I don’t know...
22.
DEBBIE
Nobody’s here. No customers. And we have
a tent. It’s so private.
She leans over and kisses him. He pulls the tent entrance
closed and zips it up. They laugh and the tent quivers as
they move around inside of it.
INT. TENT
Marty stops kissing Debbie for a moment and looks up.
MARTY
What was that?
Debbie listens and shakes her head.
DEBBIE
I didn’t hear anything.
(pause)
Really, hon, it’s nobody.
(pause, she laughs)
You’re being paranoid! It’s probably
Kay’s little brother peeping on us.
MARTY
If it is, I’m gonna kick his ass. Be
right back.
Marty goes to look outside. Nobody.
MARTY
Chris?
No answer.
MARTY (CONT’D)
Lucy? ...guess not.
DEBBIE
What are you doing, roasting
marshmallows? Come back inside!
He goes back to the tent and zips it closed.

23.
INT. MAIN AISLE
Ted, Lucy, and Chris are passing and see this. They all
wear expressions of disgust. Ted covers Chris’s ears as
Debbie starts to make noises, and they hurry away.
INT. TENT
Marty and Debbie are nude now, kissing passionately.
POV MARTY
Debbie smiles at him and kisses him. When she pulls away,
she has stopped smiling.
MARTY
What is it Deb? Am I doing something-
DEBBIE
No, you’re fine. But, I think, the tent
is deflating.
They stop for a moment and Marty looks up. The ceiling of
the tent is falling toward them.
MARTY
(angry)
You’re right. Someone’s messing with us.
They pressed that button.
He tries to unzip the tent, but the zipper won’t budge.
MARTY (CONT’D)
What the-
The tent is completely down now, but it keeps drawing in

towards them, as if a vacuum is sucking the air out of
the tent.
It wraps them tightly. Marty struggles with the zipper

but it still won’t work.
DEBBIE
Marty! Get us out!
MARTY
I’m trying to!
DEBBIE
I- I can’t- breathe-
24.
He holds Debbie as the tent continues to wrap them up.

The rods that give the tent shape start to press tightly
against them. Marty and Debbie begin to shout.
MARTY
Stop! Let us out! Stop! Help!
DEBBIE
Help! Please help us! Please!
The rods draw in even tighter and something of Marty’s,

it sounds like a rib, breaks.
Marty looks horrified. He looks down at himself. Debbie

stares at Marty in desperation. The sound of another
breaking bone. They gasp and scream.
SERIES OF SHOTS
A) Ted presses the buttons on all of the toys he is

restocking so that each of them cries, sings, laughs,
dances, etc.
B) Lucy is in the meat freezer with the door closed.
C) Kay has her headphones in and bops to some tune while

she folds cardigans.
D) Vince is out in the greenhouse, whistling as he stacks

bags of mulch.
E) Chris is in the back room, playing with the forklift,

trying to pick up the fallen microwave.
F) Jenny stands directly in front of a large flat screen

tv which blares the sound of the action movie playing on
it. She watches absentmindedly.
END SERIES OF SHOTS
INT. FRONT ENTRANCE
Ernie cocks his head to the side, listening. Nothing.
He picks up the phone.
ERNIE (P.A.)
Chris, can you come up front fer a
moment? Chris, up front please.
25.
He hangs up the phone and continues to work on the

register.
CUT TO:
INT. BACK ROOM
Chris hears Ernie’s announcement over the P.A., stops and

turns off the forklift, and leaves the back room.
The dog suddenly turns up at the door, wagging his tail

and whining at him.
INT. NEAR BACK ROOM
CHRIS
Hey, boy, there you are!
He leans down and pets the dog.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
I have to go see Ernie, you want to come
with me?
The dog whines and barks. Chris whistles to him.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
Come on!
They walk down the main aisle. A big, pink, plastic

bouncy ball rolls out of one of the aisles, and comes to
a stop in the middle of the path where they’re walking.
Chris stops and stares at it.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
Ted?
He goes to the ball, picks it up, and looks down the

aisle.
The dog growls at the ball.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
What? It’s just a ball. It must’ve-
fallen out of the cage, I guess.
He brings it back to the cage of balls like it in varied

colors, and tosses it up into the cage.
26.
They take a different route to the front, avoiding the

camping and housewares departments.
INT. FRONT ENTRANCE
Ernie comes into view, as does Lunchbox, who is sitting

on the conveyor belt of the next register over, looking
at himself in a mirror.
ERNIE
(to Chris)
There you are. Do you know who’s
responsible for this?
The dog runs to Ernie and Lunchbox, sniffs them, and

sits, whining restlessly.
CHRIS
No! He just got off of his rope, I found
him just now when I was-
ERNIE
I’m not talkin’ about the dog! I don’t
give a rat’s ass if the feller runs
around. I’m talkin’ about Lunchbox here.
Chris is confused. Lunchbox lowers the mirror and reveals

the cut on his head.
CHRIS
I, no, I’m sorry, Lunchbox. What
happened?
LUNCHBOX
Fucking microwave happened.
ERNIE
You don’t know anythin’ about this?
Chris stares at the dog. Lunchbox glowers at him.
LUNCHBOX
He knows something.
Lunchbox uses a wet wipe to get the blood off, but the
cut is too large for a band-aid.
ERNIE
You should go to the hospital for that.
27.
LUNCHBOX
No need. I have work to do here. Don’t
have the insurance, anyway.
He puts three band-aids across the cut.
CHRIS
It was Ted.
ERNIE
Uh-huh. Surprise, surprise. Go get him
and bring him up here.
CHRIS
Sure.
ERNIE
And while you’re at it-either of you hear
a noise earlier? Like screaming, or-
either of you hear screaming?
Lunchbox and Chris share a glance.
LUNCHBOX
Can’t say I did.
CHRIS
Uh- nnnnnno.
ERNIE
Don’t use that tone with me Chris. Go
make sure everybody’s alright. But first
send Ted up here.
Chris starts to walk away.
The dog suddenly yelps, as if someone has stepped on him,

and runs to the front entrance. He scratches at the crack
between the doors and tries to sniff the outside.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
What’s got into him?
Lunchbox stares at the dog.
Lucy opens the door to the freezer and comes back to the
deli counter. On her way, she trips on something, and
falls straight toward the meat slicer.
28.
She sees what’s happening and leans away just in time,

falling on the floor.
LUCY
God, now you’re trying to kill yourself.
She looks around at what she must have tripped on. It’s a
huge piece of meat from the freezer she was just in.
LUCY (CONT’D)
How did that get here? Ugh, Ted.
Lucy drags the slab of meat back into the freezer. The
door shuts behind her.
She manages to lift the meat onto one of the shelves.

When she goes to open the door again, it is locked.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Oh, fuck no, you did not just lock
yourself in.
She takes her cell phone out of her pocket, clicks Ted’s
contact number and waits. The phone beeps at her. She
looks at it.
It says, “CALL FAILED.”
She flips it closed and open again. The screen says,

“SEARCHING FOR SERVICE”.
She types in a text message and sends it. It fails to

send. She bangs the phone against the shelf and goes to
all corners of the freezer, but it won’t work.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Ok, don’t panic, Lucy, they will
definitely realize you aren’t there.
Anyway, it’s not that cold in here.
She sits in the corner and pulls her vest closer around
her.
The fans turn on, and icy air begins to blow in. Lucy
exhales and can see her breath.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Oh no. No no no. Ted? Is this a joke? Ted
open this door right now! It’s not funny!
I’m freezing! Come on!
The level of cold only increases. Lucy’s teeth chatter

and she shakes uncontrollably.
29.
There is a thermometer on the wall, to adjust the level

of cold. She presses the button to turn it off. Nothing
happens. Then she manually turns the knob to make it
warmer. The knob falls off in her hand.
LUCY (CONT’D)
Shit!
She throws herself against the door and tries to open it,
but to no avail.
She bangs as hard as she can, kicks and shouts, but

nothing happens.
Finally, she sits back down in the corner and stares,

blue-lipped, at the door.
LUCY (CONT’D)
They’ll be here. They’ll find you. It’s
almost break time anyway, it’s fine.
It’s...fine...
Jenny is staring at the televisions and absentmindedly

taking inventory.
A hand reaches out and grabs her shoulder.
Jenny jumps and turns around to see Vince standing there.
JENNY
Vince!
VINCE
(laughing)
I got you. The look on your face-
JENNY
Not fair! Is it one already?
Vince’s watch beeps. He turns it off.
VINCE
Now it is. All is fair, Jenny.
He offers her his arm. She takes it.
JENNY
Let’s get Kay. She’ll be bored out of her
mind.
30.
VINCE
Aw, do we have to?
Vince pouts at her.
JENNY
Yes, we do.
They walk away, towards the clothing department.
Behind them, one television shows a romantic scene from a

movie.
All the televisions suddenly turn to this scene. The

musical theme of the scene follows them.
After a moment, the televisions change back to varied

displays.
INT. TOY DEPARTMENT
Ted keeps hitting one of the buttons on a singing toy and

sings along with it.
KAY
Why do you have to do that?
TED
Cause I like to see you get mad.
KAY
You’re such a creep.
TED
Thanks! You’re such a bitch.
Vince and Jenny turn the corner. They are holding hands,
but Jenny pulls hers away as soon as they see Kay and
Ted.
Ted sees this, catches Vince’s eye, and grins. He makes a

fist and gestures at his face, pressing his tongue
repeatedly against the inside of his cheek.
Vince laughs. Jenny turns to look at him, and Ted

immediately puts on an innocent face.
JENNY
Kay, we were looking for you.
Vince picks up a cabbage patch doll and presses its hand.

It cries loudly.
31.
TED
Aw, Jenny, look, Vince is real good with
kids.
He puts his chin on Jenny’s shoulder. Jenny shrugs him

off.
VINCE
You remember that scandal years ago with
the cabbage patch dolls?
TED
Yeah, I remember that! They started
eating people’s fingers, right?
KAY
Worse than Chucky.
She shivers at the thought. Ted grabs the doll from Vince
and coos at it.
TED
(to the doll)
Are you hungry?
He brings it over to Kay and takes one of her fingers and

puts it in front of the doll’s mouth.
TED (CONT’D)
There you go! Eat up!
Kay pulls free of Ted’s grip and looks disgusted at the

doll.
KAY
Fuck off, Ted.
TED
Didn’t you ever play with dolls?
JENNY
I bet she preferred dinosaurs and G.I.
Joes.
KAY
So what if I did? I can’t play with
soldiers cause they’re for boys? That’s
like saying I shouldn’t have watched Ren
and Stimpy.
JENNY
No one should have watched Ren and
Stimpy.
32.
TED
I love that show. I have the collection
on DVD.
VINCE
Yeah, cause it was in the two for ten
bin.
Kay laughs.
KAY
I doubt he paid that for it, even. He
lifted it, just like everything else he
owns.
Ted gets a rare, hurt look.
TED
Where’s everyone else?
JENNY
You mean Debbie and Marty?
KAY
Probably shacking up with one of the
display camcorders.
Jenny cringes.
JENNY
Eww.
TED
No, I mean Chris and Lucy.
KAY
Chris is supposed to be restocking car
seats or something.
TED
When I left him he was dickin’ around on
the forklift.
Kay sighs in exasperation.
VINCE
Well let’s get Lucy anyway. She’s the
least annoying of the four.
Jenny makes a noise that suggest she might disagree.

33.
KAY
Hey. You know my brother’s one of those
four.
VINCE
You say he’s annoying all the time.
KAY
I’m his sister. I’m allowed.
As Chris walks back towards the Toy department, he passes

the camping section.
There is a faint dripping sound coming from one of the

aisles.
Curious, Chris looks for the source of the sound. He

stops at the tent display, where one of the tents is
completely wrapped up in the center of the floor.
At one end of the tent, a puddle forms. Droplets fall

from the end of the zipper to the floor.
Chris comes nearer. His eyes grow wide as he sees that

the puddle is red. It’s blood. He looks afraid, but then
gets a skeptical look.
He kneels down next to the puddle, hesitantly dips a

finger in it, and tastes it.
He spits and throws himself back, terrified.
For a moment, he doesn’t know what to do. He gets up,

walks back toward the front of the store, then comes
back, shaking his head.
Finally, he goes to the tent, and pulls on the zipper. It

jams for a second, but then gives.
As he unzips, he reveals the dead and bloody bodies of

Marty and Debbie, intertwined, barely recognizable.
Chris shakes uncontrollably, still holding the zipper.

Suddenly, he covers his mouth and runs to another aisle,
where he vomits.
Next to him is a number of sports goods, including a

selection of baseball bats. He picks up the one that
looks like it could do the most damage: metal with a
black grip.
34.
The dog runs up the main aisle and joins him. Chris
collapses and hugs the dog, staring at the tent.
CHRIS
(to dog)
Who do you think did it?
The dog whines and nuzzles into him.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
It’s okay. We’ll get the others. We’ll
stick together.
He gets up and goes to the telephone.
CHRIS (P.A.) (CONT’D)

Ah-ah-assist-assistance needed in aisle
twenty. Vince? Ted? Can I get some help
in a-a-aisle twenty?
Chris hangs up the phone and hides in a side aisle,

staking out the tent with the bat in his hand.
The dog sits beside him, and somehow knows to be silent.
Ted opens a bag of oreos and starts to munch on them. He

offers them to Vince and Jenny, who both decline, and to
Kay, who accepts one.
TED
(imitating Desi)
Luuuuccccyyyyyy! I’m hooooooommmmmmmme!
KAY
God, that gets old.
TED
Never.
They go to the deli counter and look around. No sign of

Lucy.
Chris’s announcement comes on over the P.A. system. They

listen.
VINCE
What is your brother up to?
KAY
I don’t know... he’s such a weirdo.
35.
JENNY
Lucy’s not here, let’s go see what he
wants.
TED
You guys can go. I’m gonna look for Lucy.
JENNY
What if she’s with Chris?
TED
Aisle twenty? That’s the camping
department. She won’t be there.
VINCE
(puts on a silly voice)
Ah, I see. Our assistance is probably
needed to help Chris reveal the
embarrassing love life of Debbie and
Marty to the world, possibly through the
medium of surprise photos?
KAY
Never do that again, Vince.
Kay, Vince, and Jenny leave. Ted stays back and looks
around for Lucy.
TED
Lucy? You okay?
He walks around the frozen foods section, opening every

few doors.
TED (CONT’D)
Nope, not in this one!
He goes to the aisle with household cleaning products. He

takes a mop down and pretends to mop the floor. He
whistles and does a little dance back and forth down the
aisle, as if to draw her out of hiding.
Nothing. Finally, he takes out his cell phone and types a

text message to her: “Where R u in the store???”
He sends it, but it fails. He has no service either.
TED (CONT’D)
Hm.
He goes back to the deli counter and eats another oreo.

He grabs another, turns around, and looks towards the
wall of the store.
36.
He notices on the floor, there is a smear from something

being dragged. It leads to the meat freezer. The oreo,
about to touch his lips, falls from his hand.
TED (CONT’D)
(laughing)
Oh no. Lucy, you didn’t-
He goes to the door and opens it. A cloud of white

whooshes out, and when it clears he sees Lucy in the
corner, not moving.
TED (CONT’D)
Lucy?
He goes to her, picks her up in his arms, and takes her

out of the freezer. He sets her on the counter, as if to
sit, but she keeps falling on him. He pats her cheeks
lightly, and rubs her arms.
TED (CONT’D)
You’re freezing. Come on Lucy, come on.
She does not come around.
He checks for any sign of breath, and then holds her

wrist for a pulse. After a few moments, he drops her
wrist.
He lays her down on the counter and tries to do CPR.
He is unsuccessful.
TED (CONT’D)
Lucy. Debbie and Marty definitely weren’t
worth this.
He puts his hands on her cheeks, to warm them, and then

gives her a kiss. Then he picks her up in his arms again,
and carries her towards the front of the store.
INT. MAIN AISLE
Jenny and Vince walk along the main aisle, picking up

things from the shelves to examine along the way. Kay has
her headphones on, and dances slightly as they walk.
Vince picks up a fishing pole that someone has left

leaning against a shelf.
37.
He walks ahead of Jenny and taps Kay on the shoulder. She

takes off her headphones. He whispers something to her.
She giggles.
Jenny tries to hear what Vince and Kay are talking about,
but is unsuccessful.
VINCE
Come on, it’ll be fun!
KAY
I don’t know, I’m not creative enough to-
VINCE
I know you are! Come on. I’ll owe you
one.
Kay makes a hesitant growl.
KAY
Alright, fine...
JENNY
(interrupting)
What are you two up to?
Kay sprints off into the detergent aisle. Vince turns

around and smiles at her.
VINCE
You scared her off.
JENNY
Hmm. I don’t know, I think it’d take a
lot more to scare Kay.
(pause)
Do you think Ted is really looking for
Lucy?
VINCE
What else would he be doing?
JENNY
Uh, stealing. What else does he do?
VINCE
Eh, give him a break. He needs to steal
shit sometimes. We all choose our
weaknesses.
Jenny keeps walking. Vince keeps looking at her, walking

backwards.
38.
JENNY
And what’s your weakness?
VINCE
Apart from you?
JENNY
(blushing)
Oh, ha ha.
VINCE
Seriously? Fishing.
JENNY
Ah, well it makes so much sense now, you
carrying around a pole and all.
VINCE
Doesn’t it? Shall I catch something for
you?
JENNY
Noooo... You’ll get it caught on
something and I’ll be in trouble
tomorrow.
Vince stops in front of Jenny. She stops, blocked by him.
VINCE
Oh, Daddy cares about that stuff, does
he?
JENNY
Not really. But someone needs to be the
responsible one.
Vince turns around and stands beside her.
VINCE
See, fishing is about loosening up, not
being the responsible one.
He casts the fishing line five aisles ahead of them.

Jenny goes to start walking again, but Vince holds a hand
out in front of her.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Wait!
JENNY
What?
39.
VINCE
We have to be patient- see if I get any
bites.
Jenny laughs at him. The fishing line goes taut. She

stares.
VINCE (CONT’D)
(grinning)
Looks like I caught something!
He reels the line in. A white teddy bear holding a heart

drags along the floor til it gets to them. Vince takes it
off the hook and hands it to her.
JENNY
Oh, you’re a very good fisherman.
They start walking again.
VINCE
Should I see what else I can get?
JENNY
Yes! As long as it’s for me.
VINCE
(staring at her)
All of it’s for you.
She grins and swings her hair in front of her eyes.
He takes her hand. They walk for a moment, but Jenny

pulls away and holds her bear with both hands. Vince
stops and cast the line again. This time it brings back a
bag of marshmallows.
JENNY
(calling after her)
Hilarious, Kay.
VINCE
Hey! You’re letting Kay have the credit
for my fishing skills?!
JENNY
Let’s try one more time.
VINCE
Marshmallow?
40.
Vince tears open the bag, pops a marshmallow in his

mouth, and tries to put one in Jenny’s mouth, but she
purses her lips and crinkles her nose, refusing. She
takes it from him.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Okay, one more for me then-
She gives him another marshmallow. He makes a chubby

cheeked expression at her. She laughs. He casts the line,
into the Camping Department.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Tho- whath yo- thavrite cowor?
JENNY
I can’t understand you!
VINCE
No? Aww-
The line goes taut and they walk forward as he begins to

reel it in. It won’t reel. It’s stuck.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Thomethin’ big!
Kay wanders out of an aisle.
KAY
I can’t find anything else, I told you,
Vince, I’m no good at this stuff.
Vince swallows his marshmallows. Jenny laughs.
JENNY
Gave yourself away!
Kay laughs, but her attention is caught by the Shoe

Department, across the aisle.
KAY
(loudly)
Oh my god. Jenny. Wait up a sec.
Kay disappears into an aisle of platforms. Jenny looks

down at her old sneakers. Kay emerges with a pair of
thigh high lace-up pleather boots. She stares at Jenny
with exuberance. Jenny smiles.
JENNY
Try ‘em on.
41.
KAY
I will! These are amazing...
She drifts back into the aisle, slipping out of her clogs
and putting her headphones back on.
Vince is staring at the taut line.
VINCE
What did we catch, then?
JENNY
Let’s see!
Chris grasps the bat and sweats profusely. He creeps

closer to the aisle. The dog follows him.
Vince passes by, reeling in the line, and in his

surprise, Chris swings the bat out at him, hitting Vince
in the small of the back.
Vince falls forward.
VINCE
Chris! What the hell’d you do that for?
CHRIS
Sorry! I thought you might be, be-
He grasps the bat tighter as Jenny comes into view, but

then drops the bat and gives her a hug. He bursts into
tears.
JENNY
Aw, Chris, what’s wrong? What is it?
Chris can’t say anything, but he points, in the same

direction as the fishing line goes.
Vince and Jenny, an arm around Chris, follow the fishing

line. It has become caught in the wrapped up tent.
Chris pulls away from Jenny, but she continues to walk

towards the tent with Vince. The dog whines at them.
They stop and stare at the contents of the tent. Jenny

curls herself against Vince, who instinctively wraps
himself around her.
42.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Oh my god. That’s- those are-
VINCE
Marty and Debbie.
He looks to Chris for confirmation. Chris doesn’t nod,

but stares at them wide-eyed. He picks up his bat again.
VINCE (CONT’D)
What happened here, Chris?
CHRIS
I- I have no idea, I just, just found
them like that.
VINCE
What the fuck.
JENNY
The doors are locked. Someone already in
here must have-
VINCE
Murdered them.
Jenny looks at Vince.
JENNY
Who? Who would do something like that?
Vince looks at her for a moment.
VINCE, JENNY, AND CHRIS(IN

UNISON)
Lunchbox.
The dog growls deeply.
INT. SHOE DEPARTMENT
Kay walks to the end of the aisle, examining herself in

the mirror, humming. Her headphones are back on. The
thigh high boots are laced all the way up.
She poses in front of the mirror in time to whatever

she’s listening to.
She walks not down the main aisle but by one parallel to
it, til she gets to the hair and makeup products. She
opens one of the tubes of lip gloss and applies it with a
compact mirror.
43.
She then continues on to the Clothing Department, and,

familiar with it, picks up two dresses with short skirts.
She holds them up to her figure in the three-way mirror.
Shrugging, she takes both and walks towards the Fitting

Rooms.
INT. FRONT ENTRANCE
Ted carries the body of Lucy to the front of the store.

Lunchbox is no longer there, but Ernie is at one of the
registers.
Ernie stares.
ERNIE
It took Chris long enough. What are you-?
Ted doesn’t say anything.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Were you the one who put the microwave on
the top-
He stops talking and stares at Lucy.
TED
Lucy’s- I found her in the meat freezer.
She’s- I think she’s-
He lays her on the conveyor belt at Ernie’s register. The

laser that reads barcodes illuminates Lucy’s face in red.
Ernie is shocked. He feels her neck. He looks up at Ted.
ERNIE
She’s got no pulse.
Ted’s hands shake as he gets a cigarette out of his

pocket and tries to light it.
TED
She’s dead. She’s dead and frozen.
Ernie picks up the phone and dials to get an outside

line. They speak quickly and urgently.
ERNIE
How did she get in the freezer?
TED
I only found her. But, I have, a theory.
44.
ERNIE
She locked herself in?
Ted gives Ernie a look.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
How did she lock herself in? Was this a
prank?
TED
No! It wasn’t a prank! I think- she might
have locked herself in- on purpose.
Ernie takes a second to absorb this. He listens to the

phone. He hangs up, picks the phone up, and dials again,
outside line and then 9-1-1.
He listens for another second, and then hangs up.
ERNIE
I can’t get an outside line!
TED
What? But, we have to get her to the
hospital!
ERNIE
You don’t think I know that? Take the
keys and call outside from your cell
phone!
TED
Okay. Okay!
ERNIE
And put out that cigarette!
TED
If I’m outside-?
ERNIE
Call already! You want to smoke, smoke!
Ted goes to the register where keys usually hang on a

hook.
Ernie brushes Lucy’s hair away from her face and looks
closely at her.
TED
The keys aren’t here! You have them?
45.
ERNIE
No, they’re there!
TED
They’re not here!
Ernie looks confused.
TED (CONT’D)
Did you give them to someone? Does Chris
still have them?
ERNIE
No, he gave them back to me! I didn’t
give em to anyone! Who would have taken
them?
TED
Was anyone up here?
ERNIE
Yeah, Lunchbox, stitchin’ himself up
after one-a-yer nasty tricks.
TED
I don’t think it’s the time to dwell on
that.
ERNIE
(to himself)
Why would Lunchbox have taken them?
(to Ted)
He’s the only one I can think of. There’s
no time, use the emergency exit; it’s in
the greenhouse. I’ll get the
defribillator.
Ted takes off toward the greenhouse.
Ernie goes to a box at the end of the lines of registers

and gets the defibrillator from it. He brings it back and
sets it up, trying to figure out what to do from the
instructions inside.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
“Do not operate unless trained
professionally- well, no time to worry
about that- bla bla bla, remove handles,
bla bla, press green button to begin
charge-” -O.K.-
He presses a button to “charge” it, holds the handles and

while he waits for it to beep, he looks at Lucy.
46.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
You know, I always knew somebody’d die
while I was workin’ here. These things
happen. It’s like sweepin’ trash from
under a roller coaster... I had that job
once.
He looks at her as if waiting for a response.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
This probably idn’t much comfort to you.
(pause)
Least you weren’t the guy trampled on
Black Friday. This’s a much better way to
go. More dignity.
The defibrillator beeps. He applies the charge to Lucy’s

chest. She jumps. Ernie listens to her chest. Nothing. He
charges the machine again.
INT. SHOE DEPARTMENT
Chris and Jenny stick close together. Chris clings to his

bat and Jenny has a large frying pan.
They pass a mirror in the aisle and Chris swings his bat
into it. The mirror shatters. Vince shows up behind them,
holding a golf club. Chris and Jenny jump.
VINCE
Jesus, Chris, you’re eager with that
thing. Why don’t you just yell out what
aisle we’re in?
JENNY
He already did, on the PA. She’s not
here, Vince. What if-
VINCE
I’m sure Kay is fine. She’s just in
another part of store.
CHRIS
Yeah, I think she would have let us know
if she was being attacked.
JENNY
What if he knocked her out or something?
VINCE
It’s no good panicking about it, let’s
find Ernie and tell him.
47.
Chris gasps.
VINCE AND JENNY

What?
CHRIS
He’s probably dead already.
JENNY
Why? What happened?
CHRIS
I was up there earlier, and Lunchbox was
there, and he was really P.O.-ed cause
Ted pulled another prank on him. It was
bad. His head was all cut open.
Vince stares into the fragments of mirror on the ground.
VINCE
Maybe it wasn’t Ted. Maybe he got that
when he was killing Marty and Debbie.
JENNY
Let’s not go up there. I want to find
Kay.
CHRIS
Me too.
VINCE
Okay, okay, let me think.
The dog, several aisles away, starts barking viciously.

He appears in their aisle, runs to them, and then runs
away again.
The three follow the dog, towards the grocery section,

away from the toy section.
INT. FITTING ROOM
Kay wears a skimpy dress and looks at herself in the

mirror. She puts her leg up on the seat and examines how
the boots cling to her leg.
She hums to her music.
Then she takes the dress off, and examines herself in

just her underwear and the boots. She cups her bra and
looks at her chest, seemingly dissatisfied with it.
48.
Then she pulls another dress off the hanger and slips it
on. It fits even better than the first.
KAY
Ooh!
She examines the price tag. Shrugging, she tears it off

the dress. She plays with her hair, trying different
styles with the dress.
INT. GREENHOUSE
Ted, cigarettes in one hand, cell phone in the other,

jogs toward the emergency exit at the far end of the
building, but stops short.
TED
What- Vince, you are losing it, man.
He looks ahead of him, where there is an enormous mound

of mulch blocking his path.
TED (CONT’D)
Shit, of course this is the only exit I
can actually get out of.
Undaunted, he begins to climb the pile of mulch, slipping

as he goes.
TED (CONT’D)
I’ll be asking a lot of questions when I
come back in here. What the hell was he
doing?
Finally, he reaches the top, and can see the red

emergency exit sign.
There is a sudden jerk, and his right leg begins to sink

into the mulch. He grabs the corner of a nearby shelf,
and tries to pull himself out.
TED (CONT’D)
Vince?! You’re scaring the shit outta me,
dude!
The pile absorbs his box of cigarettes and his cell

phone.
His other foot gives way and sinks. He is waist-deep in

the mulch.
49.
INT. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
Kay leaves the fitting room and looks through the racks,
picking up anything that interests her.
SERIES OF SHOTS
A) Kay picks up a beret...
B) A hoodie...
C) Brightly colored leggings and a pair of fishnets
D) A low-cut top, a skirt
E) Earrings and an obnoxious plastic jewel necklace
F) A number of lacy push-up bras
END SERIES OF SHOTS
INT. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
She brings these back to the fitting room, closes the

door, and tosses her dress over the side of the door.
INT. GREENHOUSE
Ted reaches for a pair of hedge clippers hanging nearby.
TED
I need to help Lucy, she’s gonna die!
After a moment of struggle, he manages to get them.
TED (CONT’D)
This isn’t funny! Let go or I’m gonna
hurt you!
He stabs at the pile of mulch violently. For a moment, he

frees himself, and is almost to the emergency exit, when
his ankle gets caught again.
He slams into the window of the door, but cannot press

the bar to release himself. Slowly, he is pulled back
into the pile of mulch, up to his shoulders.
TED (CONT’D)
Fuck you, flowerbed!
50.
He whacks at the mulch with the hedge clippers, but then

the hedge clippers are sucked in, too.
Ted shouts and struggles, and then suddenly convulses,

several times. Blood runs from his mouth.
The top half of his body, hedge clippers stuck in it,

rolls out of the mulch pile and rests against the
emergency door; Ted’s face looks out at the parking lot.
After a moment, his cigarette box and cell phone come

flying out of the mulch pile as well, and land next to
him.
The cell phone beeps and reads “ONE NEW MESSAGE FROM
LUCY”.
The dog stops in an aisle with baking goods, panting.

Jenny stops next to him and kneels down, petting him.
JENNY
What is it? What’s wrong?
Vince looks around at the shelves.
Chris gasps loudly and suddenly, pointing down the aisle.
Vince puts a hand over his mouth and all three of them
flatten themselves against the side of the aisle.
In the main aisle, Lunchbox passes by. He does not notice

them. They sneak up to the corner of the aisle and watch
him pass by. He has the ring of keys.
He heads toward the back room. Vince stares at the back

of his vest, which reads, “How may I help you?”
VINCE
You can help us by dying, you son of a
bitch.
He brandishes his golf club, but Jenny holds him back.
CHRIS
What do you think he’s doing with the
keys?
JENNY
Should we follow him?
51.
VINCE
No, I have a better idea. But we need
some fishing line.
Chris and Jenny look at him in confusion.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Hear me out. Jenny, you get a bell.
JENNY
What kind of bell?
VINCE
Any kind. Just make sure it rings.
JENNY
Okay...
VINCE
And Chris, you get handcuffs.
CHRIS
What? I don’t know about this...
JENNY
Yeah, me either-
VINCE
Trust me!
CHRIS
I don’t even know where to find
handcuffs!
VINCE
I don’t know, try the toys section, or,
uh, the lingerie section, or something.
He blushes after saying it. Jenny and Chris both laugh.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Just meet me back here in...
He looks at his watch and sets it.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Ten minutes. How does that sound? And if
you see anyone else, Ted or Lucy, or Kay
or any of them, bring them back with you.
CHRIS
Shouldn’t we stick together?
52.
VINCE
We know where Lunchbox is right now. If
any of us see him somewhere else in the
store, go on the PA but don’t say
anything. Just blow into it. That way, it
will give us a heads up.
They nod, and start in different directions.
VINCE (CONT’D)
And-
They stop and listen.
VINCE (CONT’D)
In that case, forfeit the plan and come
back here as fast as you can. Got it?
JENNY
Yes, sir.
CHRIS
Got it.
They go, but Vince catches Jenny’s shoulder and pulls her
back for a moment.
VINCE
Jenny...
JENNY
Yes?
VINCE
Are you- scared?
JENNY
I’m very scared. Are you?
He pauses.
VINCE
No, we’ll be fine. But be careful. I
don’t want anything to happen to you.
They gaze at each other.
JENNY
Same here.
Vince leans in and kisses Jenny. She kisses back. They

pull away, and look to the end of the aisle.
53.
Chris and the dog stand there, both staring at Vince and
Jenny with the same slightly upset expression, their
heads tilted to the side.
VINCE
(defensive)
What?
CHRIS
I just wanted to see if you guys were
coming, that’s all.
VINCE
Get out of here! We’re down to eight and
a half minutes.
They jog off in different directions.
INT. TOYS SECTION
Chris examines three different pairs of handcuffs. They

all look pretty shoddy.
One is advertised as police cuffs, and comes with a small

rubber baton and plastic gun. The handcuffs are neon
orange and plastic.
Another set is very small, and comes with a Chewbacca

action figure.
The third set looks metal, and looks big enough, but is
also covered in pink feathers, and the key is in the
shape of a heart.
Chris lays them out on the floor, giving each plenty of

space and stands back to look at them, thinking.
The dog looks at them too, barely interested.
CHRIS
These are too small.
He tosses the Star Wars ones away.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
(to the dog)
What do you think? The ones we found on
our way over, or the cops and robbers
ones?
The dog sniffs at the romantic ones.

54.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
I know, but they look awful. No killer
will take it seriously if we put him in
those. He might even hit on us.
Chris makes a grossed-out face.
The dog looks up, perking his ears.
There’s a jingle, a couple aisles away.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
The keys! That must be-
His bat at the other end of the aisle, Chris picks up the
object closest to him, a canister of silly string, and
opens it. He points it at the aisle and pauses.
Kay walks by in a ridiculous outfit, and Chris unloads

the silly string on her. It covers her eyes. She lets out
a yell.
Kay wipes the string from her eyes and sees that it’s her
brother.
KAY
Chris! You’re dead!
She launches at him and he recoils, throwing the can of

silly string away from him.
CHRIS
I didn’t mean to! I thought you were-
KAY
No excuses!
She takes a can of silly string, opens it, and sprays it

at him.
He stands there and takes it. She laughs.
KAY (CONT’D)
Okay bro, that was pretty good, but you
have to admit, I got you.
Chris hugs her.
KAY (CONT’D)
What are you doing?
55.
CHRIS
(quickly)
Kay I’m so glad you’re alright. We
thought you were dead maybe. Vince said
you were okay, but he was being-
KAY
Shut up for a second. What are you
talking about?
She hugs him back, completely mystified.
CHRIS
D-d-d, Debbie and Marty, th-th-they’re
dead.
KAY
Chris, this isn’t funny.
CHRIS
I swear, I’m not being funny. They’re
dead, Kay. We think Lunchbox did it.
Kay pushes him away from her and looks at him.
KAY
Chris. Start from the beginning.
INT. CRAFTS SECTION
Jenny walks along a row of paper, paints, googly eyes,

and pipe cleaners. Finally she finds a couple of bells
but they’re very small.
She rings them. They’re hardly audible.
She manages to find slightly bigger ones, and, satisfied

with them, turns to go back to the grocery department.
INT. MAIN AISLE
Passing the camping and sporting goods department, she

hears the sound of a motor.
She quickly hides on a mostly empty bottom shelf of the

aisle with the glass case of shotguns and rifles.
Looking out from her hiding place, she sees the forklift
slowly approach. It stops right at her aisle.
56.
Lunchbox takes the keys out of the forklift and gets out
of it.
He walks down the aisle to the gun case, and opens it

with a key from the ring.
Jenny holds a hand over her mouth, trying not to breathe

too loudly.
Lunchbox takes a shotgun from the case, looks at it, and

then loads it. He drops the rest of the box of ammo into
the pocket of his blue vest. He rests the gun on his
shoulder, and goes back to the forklift.
He turns the forklift down another aisle, away from

Jenny.
She stays in hiding for a moment, and then, convinced

he’s gone, crawls out, and looks at the gun case.
She thinks for a moment, and then gasps.
JENNY
(whispering)
A hundred and nine ninety-five... top of
the line, walnut stock, cobalt blue
steel...he took the twelve gauge double-
barreled Remington!
She runs to the nearest phone and picks it up, blowing

into it.
A loud buzzing sound comes over the P.A. system and

permeates the store.
INT. CAMPING DEPARTMENT
Vince holds a spool of fishing line.
He hears the buzzing sound over the P.A. system and jogs
for the grocery department. He cuts through the detergent
aisle, and before he can see what he’s doing, he slips
and falls.
Groaning, he looks up and around him.
The entire top row of detergent containers are tipped

over and a huge puddle of blue detergent surrounds him.
He is soaked with the stuff. He spits it from his mouth
and wipes it off his face.
57.
For a second, he looks around and smiles at the

detergent.
Then, carefully, he gets to his feet, holds onto the

shelf, and slides across the puddle. He kicks his shoes
off on the other side.
He runs to the auto department, then runs back towards

the grocery department a moment later, carrying several
bottles of motor oil.
The four and the dog meet up in the baking goods aisle.
KAY
(to Vince)
What happened to you?
JENNY
Vince! Are you alright?
She runs to him and stops right before she embraces him.
He gives her a soapy peck on the lips.
Kay looks at Chris. He nods at her.
VINCE
It’s okay, it’s just laundry detergent.
But it gave me an idea. He’s fucking with
us; we can give him a taste of his own
medicine.
He gestures to the motor oil.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Who gave the signal?
JENNY
I did.
VINCE
What happened?
JENNY
He’s driving the forklift around. He
stopped at sporting goods and got a
shotgun out from the case. It’s loaded.
CHRIS
We might need a better plan.
58.
KAY
Shit. Why didn’t you grab guns for us,
then?
JENNY
I don’t- like guns.
KAY
Yeah, that really matters right now.
VINCE
Hey, come on, we can’t do this, we have
to work together. We don’t need guns.
We’ll use our wits.
Chris and Kay look at him in disbelief. Jenny smiles.
SERIES OF SHOTS
A) Chris and Vince stretch fishing line across the main

aisle.
B) Jenny ties the bells to the dog’s collar.
C) The dog tries to shake them off, they jingle.
D) Jenny shh’s him.
E) Kay empties bottles of motor oil around the fishing

line.
F) Vince looks at the feathery handcuffs, then pockets

them.
END SERIES OF SHOTS
Jenny, Kay, and Chris sit in the baking goods aisle. Kay
eats chocolate chips out of a bag. Jenny throws dog
treats into the main aisle.
The dog runs out to the main aisle, eats the treat, runs
back, and begs until she throws another one.
Vince comes back with a box of Miller High Life.
VINCE
All we can do now is wait. Who wants one?
They’re cold.
Everyone takes one except Jenny.

59.
KAY
(to Chris)
This is an exception. Don’t expect me to
let you drink all the time just because
of this.
CHRIS
Ok, ok, god.
Vince sips his beer thoughtfully, watching the dog run

back and forth, his bells jingling joyfully.
JENNY
I like your outfit, Kay.
KAY
It was supposed to be a joke.
She sighs.
KAY (CONT’D)
I’ve always had bad timing.
CHRIS
What if it doesn’t work?
VINCE
Don’t worry. It’ll work.
CHRIS
What if he drives the forklift through
the fishing line?
VINCE
The oil will fuck up the wheels. And
anyway, he’ll have to stop to get the
dog.
KAY
(sarcastic)
Or he could shoot the dog. With his gun.
VINCE
He didn’t kill Debbie and Marty with a
gun.
KAY
How do we even know he killed them?
The other three look at each other.
JENNY
Who else would have killed them?
60.
KAY
Anyone else in this fucking store could
have done it. Vince could have, you could
have, I could have.
CHRIS
I could have!
KAY
No, you couldn’t. I mean, for all we
know, it was Ernie.
JENNY
It wasn’t Ernie. He’s-
KAY
I’m just putting it out there. It’s a
possibility. That’s all I’m saying. Let’s
just be real.
She pops a handful of chocolate chips in her mouth. They

go silent. Vince chugs his beer.
INT. GREENHOUSE
Lunchbox stops the forklift and gets out, looking at the

mound of mulch.
He draws closer to it, hesitantly.
Nervous, he points the shotgun at the mound.
A motor sound suddenly roars.
Lunchbox shoots at the mound. Nothing happens.
He goes right up to the mulch and picks up a handful of

it. He feels it in his hand, smells it, and then throws
it down. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Sighing, he turns around to go back to the forklift, but

it is gone.
LUNCHBOX
God-fucking-dammit, Ted.
He leaves the greenhouse and looks around. Drips of oil

lead towards the auto department.
He leans the gun over his shoulder and walks towards the
auto department. There is a clink in one aisle. Lunchbox
stops and turns. He walks down the aisle.
61.
In the distance, the forklift crosses the main aisle

quickly.
Lunchbox pops back out of the aisle, frowning.
LUNCHBOX (CONT’D)
I know what’s going on here’s more than
the usual mischief.
(pause)
Never thought these kids would be...so
cold.
He sniffs grumpily at the air. There’s a honk. Lunchbox

hurries down the aisle towards the sound.
He steps into an aisle in the auto department.
Step by step, he carefully makes his way towards the wall

of tires.
LUNCHBOX (CONT’D)
Must be the video games. Shit. Wiis never
did anyone good. Just makes it more real,
if you ask me.
(puts on a high voice)
Make a motion like you’re slicing him!
Now shoot! Points for accuracy!
POV FORKLIFT
The engine hums quietly as two long metal rods protrude

towards Lunchbox.
It adjusts so that one of the metal rods is lined up with

his back perfectly.
He reaches the wall of tires, looks left, looks right,

and turns around.
He sees the forklift. His jaw drops. He lifts his gun and
cocks it.
The forklift speeds up, driving straight towards him.

Lunchbox pulls the trigger right before the metal rod
rams through him. He drops the gun.
The forklift runs straight into the tires. The screen

goes black.
END POV
62.
INT. FRONT ENTRANCE
Ernie listens, holding the handles of the defibrillator.
There is a gunshot, and then a clatter. It seems to echo

all around him.
He turns off the defibrillator and stares at Lucy.
ERNIE
Sounds like somewhere near the back...
(pause)
Want somethin’ done right...
(pause)
I’ll be right back. Not that it’ll help.
He closes Lucy’s eyes, takes a box cutter from his pocket

and walks towards the back of the store.
The four and the dog listen intently.
VINCE
That’s two gunshots.
KAY
We should investigate.
CHRIS
No, we shouldn’t!
JENNY
But what if it’s Ted, or Lucy? Or Ernie?
CHRIS
So what? I think we should stick
together. This is always what happens.
We’ll split up and Lunchbox will kill all
of us. It’s a trap! I know it! No one’s
dead, he’s just onto us, he wants to lure
us away!
KAY
Stop whining, Chris, this is real life,
things don’t really work like that.
CHRIS
Yuh-huh!
63.
KAY
You’ve had enough to drink.
She reaches for his beer. He leans away from her.
CHRIS
Fine, let’s investigate.
Vince laughs at him.
KAY
You’re not coming.
CHRIS
Why not?
KAY
Cause you can’t protect yourself.
CHRIS
And you can?
VINCE
Enough, guys. Kay and I will go see what
the sound is, and you two will stay here
and try to trap him if he comes by.
JENNY
Why don’t I get to come?
VINCE
I don’t want you to get hurt.
JENNY
Well, I don’t want you to get hurt
either. That’s not fair.
KAY
Sure it is, Jenny. You’re a girl and he’s
a misogynist.
Jenny frowns.
VINCE
If I was, I would have enlisted Chris
instead of you.
CHRIS
What’s a misogynist?
They ignore him.

64.
KAY
Let’s just go.
JENNY
(stubbornly)
I’m coming.
Kay and Vince sigh.
CHRIS
But then who will stay with me?
VINCE
The dog. Look, we’ll be right back. Just
sit tight and drink your beer.
The three leave Chris looking crestfallen.
He takes a gulp of his beer and throws a treat for the

dog. Energetically, the dog goes after it and eats it,
then comes back, begs for a moment, and lays next to
Chris.
Whining, the dog sets his chin on Chris’s leg and stares
at him in concern. Then he sniffs at Chris’s vest pocket.
Chris, noticing this, pats his pocket, and pulls out a

pack of cigarettes.
Realizing, he smiles.
CHRIS
(to the dog)
Ted gave me these! Maybe it’s a
sign...that he’s okay.
He unwraps them and opens the box. He takes out one out
and smells it.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
This’ll teach Kay to bully me so much.
He searches along the grocery aisles until he finds a

pack of matches. He lights the end of the cigarette and
takes a puff.
He isn’t very graceful about it. He takes another sip of

beer, a puff, and tries to look cool.
Then he pours some beer on the floor for the dog to lap
up.
65.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
Cheers.
INT. AUTO DEPARTMENT
Jenny, Vince, and Kay walk along the aisles slowly,

carefully.
Vince’s socks squeak soggily with each step.
KAY
(whispering)
You should really change.
VINCE
(whispering)
So should you. Where did you find that
beret?
The sound of a running motor becomes audible.
JENNY
What’s that?
They run to the end of the aisle. The forklift is facing

a wall of tires, running idly.
Kay and Vince go over to it. Jenny keeps her distance.

There is a body pinned against the wall, face turned away
from them.
VINCE
I’ll get it.
He jumps into the forklift and backs it up, away from the
wall.
Impaled on an arm of the forklift is Lunchbox, tire

groove impressions still on his face from being pressed
against it.
As his body is freed from the wall, copious amounts of

blood and other things that should remain inside the body
spill out onto the floor.
Kay gets sprayed in blood.
KAY
Ugh! Gross!
Jenny runs over.

66.
JENNY
It’s Lunchbox!
VINCE
That means-
JENNY
It wasn’t him!
KAY
What did I say?
JENNY
But then, who was it?
KAY
Oh shit, Chris is all by himself.
Jenny goes to a phone at a nearby aisle, picks it up, and

dials four digits.
The phone at the end of the aisle rings.
Chris looks at it, and then at the dog. He goes and picks
up the phone.
CHRIS (OVER PHONE)

H-h-hello?
INTERCUT GROCERY DEPARTMENT AND AUTO DEPARTMENT
JENNY
Chris? Are you okay?
CHRIS
Yeah, I’m fine! Why?
He hides the cigarette behind his back, as if Jenny can

see him through the phone. The cigarette is dangerously
near the pool of oil on the floor.
JENNY
It wasn’t Lunchbox.
Vince stands next to the forklift, looking at him.
VINCE
At least we can see what he keeps in the
lunchbox now.
67.
Jenny gives him a disapproving look.
Kay leaves the aisle, searching for something.
CHRIS
How do you know?
JENNY
He’s dead. Someone ran the forklift into
him.
CHRIS
What?! How! He had a gun!
JENNY
We don’t know. Just- we don’t know who it
is and they could be anywhere, so, just
be really careful until we get back,
okay?
CHRIS
Duh.
Jenny sighs.
JENNY
You’re just like your sister. See you
soon.
CHRIS
Bye.
She hangs up.
END INTERCUT
JENNY
Where’s Kay?
KAY (O.S.)
He must have dropped the gun around here
somewhe- here it is! Found it!
She reappears with the shotgun. Dextrously, she opens it

and sees that it has not been reloaded.
KAY (CONT’D)
Vince, check his vest, he must have some
shells for this thing.
68.
VINCE
I’m not going near him! He’s all- oozing.
KAY
So are you, just in a different color.
VINCE
Hey, at least my insides...are inside me.
Kay goes over to Lunchbox and reaches up into his vest,

grimacing.
She pulls out six shells, loads the gun, and puts the
rest in her pocket. She holds the gun at ready.
JENNY
Should we, do something with the body?
VINCE
What can we do with it? It’ll just weigh
us down. I say we go back, get Chris, and
get the hell out of this store.
KAY
I second.
Jenny stares at Lunchbox.
JENNY
Yeah...
Chris stands in the center of the main aisle, in front of

the fishing line, looking around, holding his baseball
bat with both hands, cigarette hanging from his lips.
The dog paces back and forth, sniffing.
INT. BACK ROOM
Ernie goes to the door to the back of the building and

presses the bar to get out.
The door doesn’t budge. It’s locked.
ERNIE
What in the hell is goin’ on here? Who
locked this?
69.
He gets out his wallet and pulls out a Walmart credit

card. He tries to slide the lock open, but it doesn’t
work.
He leaves the back room, mumbling curses.
Chris paces along with the dog.
CHRIS
Not Lunchbox.
He turns and goes back the other way.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
Not me. And not you.
He puffs on his cigarette.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
Not Kay, not Vince, and not Jenny. Since
they were all here when we heard it.
He turns back again.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
That leaves- Ted or Lucy, but they were
both with me right before Debbie and
Marty were, well, you know-
He stops for a moment and looks down at the dog. The dog
looks up, hoping for a treat. He throws one for him. The
dog goes after it.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
-so I don’t think it could be them. That
only leaves, but it couldn’t be-
ERNIE (O.S.)
(shouting)
Chris?
Chris looks towards the back of the store. Way down the
aisle from him, but approaching quickly, is Ernie,
holding the box cutter. Chris’s jaw drops.
CHRIS
Ernie?
He steps backward, toward the fishing line.

70.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
(shouting)
Don’t come any closer Ernie!
ERNIE
Chris, you alright? I heard gunshots.
CHRIS
I know it’s you Ernie, stop pretending to
be innocent! I know you killed them!
ERNIE
Killed who? You talkin’ about Lucy? Cause
that was an accident-
CHRIS
Stay back!
Chris gingerly steps backwards over the fishing line as

Ernie comes towards him.
He slips as soon as his sneaker touches the oil on the

other side of the line.
The cigarette flies out of his mouth and hits the oil as
well, and the entire puddle blazes up in flame.
Chris’s head hits the floor. For a moment, he has the

wind knocked out of him. Then, realizing his jeans are on
fire, he pulls himself away from the puddle and rolls
around until he is extinguished.
The dog, having leapt away in time, whines and runs away
from the fire, to another part of the store.
The fishing line that was stretched across snaps from the
heat.
ERNIE
Chris!
Chris gets to his feet and holds the bat out, as if

nothing has happened.
CHRIS
Try to get to me now, boss! I know
everything! Started with Debbie and
Marty, and Lunchbox, and you just
admitted to Lucy! You won’t get to me, or
the rest of us!
Ernie looks at him in bewilderment.

71.
The P.A. system starts buzzing loudly.
Around them, several items fall off of shelves.
Ernie and Chris look around, not understanding.
INT. AISLE
Kay with her shotgun, Jenny, and Vince walk down an

aisle. Kay stops.
KAY
Do you guys smell something?
JENNY
Yeah, like something burning.
The dog runs down the aisle to them.
The P.A. system buzzes.
KAY
Dog! You were supposed to stay with
Chris!
JENNY
(to dog)
Did something happen to him?
She tries to pick up the dog, but he growls and runs just
far enough away from her that she can’t reach him.
VINCE
I don’t think the dog’s gonna tell us,
let’s just go.
They run down the aisle, but are suddenly blocked.
Hundreds of toys and action figures are lined up across

the aisle, staring at them. The dog growls and barks
fiercely.
A wind-up dinosaur walks towards them, runs into Vince’s

leg, and falls over.
At the front of the line of toys is a Bratz doll, with a

complexion and outfit that matches Kay’s perfectly.
It turns its head, and looks up at Kay. The rest of the

dolls and action figures follow suit.
72.
KAY
Was I the only one who just fucking saw
that?
VINCE
Fuck no.
JENNY
(whimpering)
I saw it too.
Kay cocks the shotgun and shoots at the Bratz doll.

Several of the dolls are blown away.
Vince grabs Jenny’s arm and they dart down a side aisle.
The dog follows them.
Kay stands there for a moment, with the shotgun, waiting

to see if anything happens.
The toys walk toward her, at a brisk pace.
KAY
Ohhh shit,this is not happening. Time to
wake up Kay! You’ve dozed off folding
cardigans again!
She backs up and shoots again.
The toys gain on her.
The T-Rex has gripped onto her boot laces with its sturdy
plastic teeth. She tries to shake it off.
She turns to run in the opposite direction, but a line of

toys comes at her from there as well.
She is completely surrounded. The toys make all sorts of

noises. A cabbage patch dolls crawls toward her, mouth
making a chewing motion.
A Santa dances toward her.
Some version of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” is being sung

in a silly voice.
BABY DOLL
Ma-ma! Ma-ma!
BARBIE
Let’s go shopping! We’ll take my
convertible to the mall!
73.
WOODY DOLL
There’s a snake in my boots!
Laughter from various toys becomes louder and louder.
A repeating Tucan plays back the sound of Kay’s shotgun.
Hearing this, Kay suddenly realizes, and loads the

shotgun again. She fires two rounds on the toys, but they
are undaunted. They climb up her boots and hang from the
bottom of her skirt.
She reaches to get her last two shells, but a toy snake
bites her hand when she reaches into her pocket.
Shrieking, she drops the gun, pulls the snake off of her,
and throws it as far as she can.
The toys engulf her and trip her. She falls backward.
Several toys lift her back slightly off the ground, and
hold her arms steady.
The Bratz doll she shot at reappears. It is missing an

arm and part of its body.
It slowly climbs up her leg, then her torso, and then

briefly looks her in the eye, before crawling into her
mouth, and down her throat.
Kay tries to scream, but can’t. She suffocates on the

doll, struggles for a moment, and then becomes still. The
toys fall silent and stare at her.
INT. JEWELRY
Vince, Jenny, and the dog run towards the grocery

department. Jenny looks over her shoulder.
JENNY
Vince! Wait! Kay isn’t behind us!
VINCE
Maybe she went another way!
JENNY
No! We have to check to make sure she’s
okay, we have to!
They stop for a second. Vince nods. They jog back to the
aisle they were in before, but just before they get
there, Vince stops her and holds a finger to his mouth.
74.
They are next to the cage of bouncy balls.
He climbs one of the shelves, and peeks over the top of

it, down the aisle to where they were before.
He sees the body of Kay lying limp among the toys. The
toys, as if omniscient, look up at him, and turn away
from Kay to walk towards him.
VINCE
Shit!
He climbs back down, looks around, and sees the cage of

bouncy balls.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Jenny, help me with this!
JENNY
What is it? Is she there?
He grabs the side of the cage and tries to pull it over.
VINCE
She’s dead. Help, quick, they’re after us
now!
Jenny grabs the cage and helps pull.
JENNY
The toys?!
VINCE
Yes, the toys, the fucking toys!
They tip over the cage, and the hundreds of big, plastic
balls roll out into the aisle.
They knock over the pursuing toys like bowling pins.
Then, after a moment, the balls turn themselves around,

and roll menacingly towards Vince and Jenny.
The toys pick themselves up, and follow the bouncy balls.
They run back to the grocery department as fast as they

can.
JENNY
Vince, why is this happening! I don’t get
it!
75.
VINCE
Me either Jenny. Me either. Let’s just-
survive.
INT. AISLE
Kay’s body lies alone in the middle of the aisle. Her

mouth is gaping.
After a moment, something bursts from her abdomen. It is

the doll that climbed down her throat, covered in Kay’s
blood.
It crawls away from her, picks itself up, and goes to

join the other toys.
Jenny, Vince, and the dog stop short at the sight of

Ernie and Chris, separated by a wall of flame, and piles
of things that have fallen from their shelves.
CHRIS
It was him! He did it! He’s the only one
who could have-
ERNIE
I don’t know what the hell he’s goin’ on
about, but he’s set fire to the store-
CHRIS
He killed Lucy too!
JENNY
Lucy’s dead?!
ERNIE
I did not, you little brat! Ted found her
in the freezer, she locked herself inside-
Vince curses under his breath. Jenny gasps.
VINCE
Shut up! It wasn’t Ernie, Chris.
CHRIS
How do you know?
Vince pauses and looks at Jenny. Jenny sets a hand on his

back.
76.
VINCE
Because- we think that- it’s the store.
CHRIS AND ERNIE

What?!
VINCE
A pack of toys just killed-
Jenny makes a noise to stop Vince from saying it. He

stops talking.
CHRIS
Killed who?
(pause)
Where’s Kay?
Jenny and Vince look at each other. Neither wants to say

it.
He throws his baseball bat at them.
CHRIS (CONT’D)
Where’s my sister?
VINCE
She’s dead, Chris.
For a moment, there’s silence. Ernie looks disbelieving

of all this.
CHRIS
D-d-dead?
He collapses to the floor. The dog, tail between his

legs, goes to Chris and burrows his head in Chris’s lap.
Chris just looks into the flames in shock.
Jenny goes over to him as well, sits down, and hugs him.
She looks around at the aisles of the store in fear.
Ernie leaves for a moment. He comes back with a fire

extinguisher, and douses the flames.
Steam rises from the blackened floor.
The P.A. system stops buzzing. Vince notices this.
VINCE
Wait a minute.
77.
ERNIE
What? You wanted the fire there?
VINCE
Yes! Well, no, but, a thought just
occurred to me. How did all this stuff
fall off the shelf?
ERNIE
It- it just did. We were wonderin’ about
that when you showed up.
VINCE
Before or after Chris started the fire?
ERNIE
Uh, after. Straight after.
Vince snaps his fingers.
VINCE
I have an idea.
ERNIE
What sort of idea?
VINCE
The kind that’ll get us out of this
possessed store. Alive.
He looks at Jenny protectively. She grasps Chris tighter.
INT. AISLE.
Jenny and Ernie walk down an aisle, towards the auto

department.
ERNIE
I don’t know about this plan.
JENNY
It makes sense to me!
ERNIE
Yeah, well, Vince could tell you fish
heads taste delicious and you’d believe
him.
Jenny looks simultaneously disgusted and hurt.

78.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Ah, I don’t mean to be mean. I think it’s
good you two have each other. Young.
Able. Attractive things. Hopefully we’ll
get out alive an’ it won’t be wasted.
JENNY
We will. I’m sure we will.
They are in an aisle with flagpoles on display. Flags

from different countries hang into the aisle and the tops
of their heads brush against them as they walk by.
Jenny stops for a moment and looks at them.
ERNIE
You hear somethin’?
JENNY
No...I, I left my frying pan in the
grocery department.
She slides a flagpole out of its holster, holds onto the

flag, and waves around the other end of the pole like a
spear.
ERNIE
We should get goin’ and get out. I’ve had
enough of this spooky bullshit.
JENNY
Just a sec. I need something to defend
myself.
She puts it back and takes out the flagpole with the
American flag. It is heavier and sturdier.
Ernie leaves her.
ERNIE
We can’t waste time. I’m gonna get those
keys!
JENNY
Okay, I’m coming!
They approach Lunchbox’s body, cautiously.
The forklift, as if sensing them, reverses, straight

towards them.
79.
Ernie puts an arm out and gets Jenny out of the way just
in time, pressing her against a shelf.
The forklift stops again, idling.
ERNIE
Stay here.
JENNY
You got it.
Ernie goes towards the forklift, moving toward its side.

The forklift suddenly turns direction and charges him.
He jumps out of the way just as the forklift hits the

wall, getting momentarily caught in the bicycles.
Ernie regains his composure. Jenny takes the opportunity

of entanglement to jump into the driver’s seat of the
forklift.
The bicycle wheels turn on the own, freeing the

forklift’s arms. Lunchbox slips closer to the end of the
arm.
The forklift goes after Ernie again, but Jenny launches

herself at the wheel and turns it in the opposite
direction. The forklift quickly changes direction and
zooms into another aisle.
The structure of the shelf it has run into creaks for a

moment, and shakes, before falling towards another shelf.
A domino effect is created, as one by one, several aisles

are pressed by the pressure of the other and fall over,
spilling merchandise everywhere.
Ernie and Jenny look dumbfounded at this.
ERNIE
I didn’t even know those things could
topple like that!
He continues to stare as the forklift changes its path

and goes for him again.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Whoa!
JENNY
No, you don’t!
80.
She grabs the wheel. But as if it has learned from her

previous action, the steering wheel goes against her,
holds its own, not turning the way she wants it to, but
not quite going after Ernie either. The vehicle whines in
struggle.
Jenny loses the strength in her arms to fight it.
Finally, she lets go of the steering wheel, grasps the

keys, turns them and pulls them out very quickly.
The engine dies, and there is silence for a moment.
JENNY (CONT’D)
(out of breath)
Keys...are ours.
She tosses the keys to Ernie, who has picked up a bottle

of motor oil in the meantime.
She picks up her flagpole again, and they begin to walk

to the front of the store.
The forklift starts up again, without its keys, and veers

toward them.
They run towards a bare concrete wall. The forklift, led

by them, runs straight into the wall, totaling itself.
ERNIE
I don’t think we need to worry bout that
anymore.
JENNY
Or about recognizing Lunchbox.
ERNIE
Ooh. Yep.
They jog away, to the front of the store.
Behind them, a thin trickle of blue laundry detergent

follows them closely but they do not notice.
Vince and Chris stalk down the aisle, Chris with his
baseball bat and Vince with his golf club.
CHRIS
Wait, I don’t understand!
81.
VINCE
What don’t you understand?
CHRIS
We’re trying to get out...why do we need
a camera?
VINCE
A camcorder.
CHRIS
Same thing!
Vince stops him, and puts a hand on his shoulder.
VINCE
Think of Debbie and Marty. Lucy.
Lunchbox. Your sister. Once we get out of
here, who do you think the police will go
to, to arrest for the murders? The store?
CHRIS
Jenny will stick up for us!
VINCE
Jenny’s word won’t be good enough.
CHRIS
But her dad is the-!
VINCE
Her dad’s word, even if he believes
Jenny, won’t be good enough either. This
is big, Chris. This isn’t just the
police. This concerns the entire
international corporation.
CHRIS
So it’s for proof? I don’t want to video
all of our friends...or Kay...dead.
VINCE
I’ll do it. Keep a look out while I get
one of these things going.
Chris plants himself along the wall of television

monitors, looking out at the rest of the store.
He holds out his bat menacingly. Nothing moves in his

range of vision. He chills out a little.
82.
Vince appears in the line of televisions behind him. He

looks at each screen for a moment, before approaching
one. The screen goes blue.
CUT TO:
Vince tears the cord from one of the sample camcorders.

He looks at it for a moment, and pops open the mini-dv
deck.
He goes to another aisle, grabs a four pack of dv tapes,

and begins to unwrap one of them.
CUT TO:
The line of monitors suddenly switch from the live

streaming of the camcorders, to an image of Lunchbox,
standing in the center of the screen.
He stares in the general direction of the store on most

of them. On the largest screen of all of them, directly
behind Chris, Lunchbox stares straight at him.
Chris looks around unknowing.
VINCE (O.S.)
What the fuck-?
CHRIS
What? What is it?
VINCE (O.S.)
Lunchbox. But he’s dead, and he’s- he
can’t be...here.
CHRIS
What? Lunchbox is alive?
VINCE (O.S.)
No, he’s not-
Chris, made anxious by Vince, looks around frantically.
The Lunchbox on the screens clears his throat.
Chris turns around and screams, swinging his bat into the
television full force.
83.
The televisions then change to security camera footage,

showing Kay, surrounded by the toys, and the doll
crawling into her mouth.
Chris shouts indistinctly at the screens, and tries to

pull the bat out of the tv, but it is stuck.
Vince drops the camcorder and goes to help Chris. The

screens change again and show Jenny and Ernie, jogging
quickly away from the auto area and towards the front of
the store, keys in hand.
Chris finally manages to wrench the bat out of the

screen, but drags the monitor with it.
The monitor falls off the shelf onto him, nearly

eclipsing him in size, and crushing him under its weight.
He screams and then goes still.
Vince runs to him and tries to lift the tv off, but to no

avail; it is too heavy.
The other screens change again, now showing Jenny and

Ernie drawing towards the front door.
JENNY (OVER TV)

(out of breath)
I wish Vince was here.
ERNIE
He will be. Just give him a couple
minutes. He and Chris will be here.
Vince looks up at the screens, encouraged by Jenny’s

words.
Behind Jenny and Ernie and approaching quickly are the

toys and bouncy balls, looking eagerly at the two, who
are ignorant of their presence.
Vince scrambles to the nearest phone, picks it up and

yells into it.
VINCE (OVER P.A.)

Jenny! Look behind you! I’ll be right-
The P.A. system switches to static, and his voice doesn’t

go through.
At the same time, a game console launches itself off the

shelf at him. It hits him in the side of the head.
84.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Ow!
He turns around to see what the monitors display. Before

he can see her reaction, the monitors go blue, as if they
are all disconnected.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Shit. I’m coming, Jenny! Don’t worry! I’m
coming.
He runs down the main aisle of the store. A bicycle

crosses the aisle, aiming for him. He narrowly avoids it.
Then several tires roll towards him. He hits each hard

with his golf club as they come near him.
INT. FRONT ENTRANCE
The P.A. comes on suddenly and Vince speaks through it,

before it abruptly turns to static. Ernie stops and
listens.
Jenny turns around and sees the toys.
JENNY
Oh no!
She grabs the bottle of motor oil from Ernie, trading for
her flagpole. She empties the bottle onto the toys and
balls.
The toys begin to slip, covered in the dark brown,

viscous liquid. Some gurgle through their sound effects.
Jenny grabs a lighter from one of the registers, lights

one of the toys, and watches as the fire spreads to the
whole group of them.
They watch, revolted, as the dolls and toys slowly melt.
The bouncy balls pop and deflate. Faces slide off of

creatures.
The toys continue to make their sound effects as they

die. Their voices warp and become off-pitch screams.
DORA THE EXPLORER

Siempre Amigos!
ROBIN ACTION FIGURE

Holy Warner Brothers, Batman!
85.
BRAIN WARP
This game...is finished.
Jenny and Ernie cover their noses as the strong smell of

burning plastic reaches their noses.
They watch silently, as if at a funeral, for the toys to

burn completely.
INT. MAIN AISLE
Vince runs down the main aisle, holding his golf club
tightly, knocking away plates that are flying at him.
He notices ahead of him that the pool of laundry

detergent has extended and completely covers the width of
the main aisle.
VINCE
You think a little slipping through soap
will stop me? Nice try, store.
He goes to jog through it anyway, grinning smugly.
As he jogs, his feet move slower and slower, until they

are stuck in the puddle. A thin strand of detergent
travels up Vince’s khakis, up his shirt, and winds around
his arm, down his sleeve.
More strands slide up his legs. Vince laughs for a moment

as if he’s being tickled but then gets scared. He closes
his mouth and eyes tightly and tries to pull his feet out
of the puddle.
One of his feet pulls out, and strings stick to the

bottom of his socks, like super glue. A strand runs into
his ear. He yells and covers his ear.
He opens his eyes and shakes his head, trying to get the
detergent out of his ear. He opens his mouth, flexing his
jaw, as if that will help, like popping it or something.
A strand goes into his other ear.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Son of a bitch! Ah! That feels weird...
Detergent goes into his nostrils. He immediately sneezes.

Droplets of blue fly through the air.
86.
VINCE (CONT’D)
Jenny...I need, I need help.
It’s...cleaning me, Jenny. I don’t want
to be...clean.
He stops speaking as the detergent runs into his mouth.

He spits it out, but stops doing that even. He just
stares ahead, towards the front of the store.
The detergent slides over his eyes, covering them in

blue. He continues to stare. Then he falls face forward
into the puddle.
Small bubbles issue from the sides of his mouth.
INT. FRONT ENTRANCE
Ernie tries the key in the front door, Jenny behind him,
looking on.
ERNIE
Well, that’s weird.
JENNY
What?
ERNIE
The key, it’s not workin’.
JENNY
It’s not? But, that’s the right one,
right?
ERNIE
This is it. Here, it’s okay, we’ll just
try it in the other door.
He goes to the other door.
Out of nowhere, there’s barking. The dog shows up again,

and goes to Jenny, nuzzling her and whining.
JENNY
Where did you come from?! Aw, puppy, I’m
glad you’re okay.
She hugs him and stops, looking at his nose.
JENNY (CONT’D)
What did you get into?
87.
She uses her sleeve to wipe a blue liquid from the dog’s
nose. The dog sneezes briefly.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Is it working Ernie?
ERNIE
No, not on this one, neither.
JENNY
So the store’s not gonna let us off that
easy.
She goes to an aisle near the door with souvenirs on the

shelf. She takes a very heavy paperweight, that says,
“Virginia is for Lovers” and throws it as hard as she can
at the door.
Ernie gives up and tosses the keys away.
The dog pays no attention to the two of them, but sniffs

through the carnage of melted toys.
Jenny throws the paperweight one more time. It makes a

crack in the glass.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Yes! See Ernie, it’ll work! Help me!
But Ernie is preoccupied. He has taken the flagpole and

is beating a cash register with it.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Ernie! What are you doing?
ERNIE
I’m sick of this shit! A store can’t tell
me what to do! All it’s here to do is
make money, for us! For you and me, and
your dad, and that’s it! It ain’t
supposed to get self-righteous on us! It
ain’t right!
JENNY
Ernie! Please, stop! We can get out! It’s
okay!
The cash register is completely destroyed, but Ernie

doesn’t stop there. He goes on to another one and starts
beating it too, but with the other end of the pole.
The American flag unfurls as he beats the register,

waving gloriously in its violence.
88.
Lucy’s body lays on the conveyor belt next to the

register he is beating.
Jenny approaches Lucy and places a hand on her cheek.
She tears up, staring at Lucy.
The belt starts up, and Lucy’s body moves backwards on

it. She slides off the other end and lands in a sort of
sitting position on the floor next to the checkout lane.
Ernie doesn’t notice, but the corner of the flag he’s

using to beat the cash register gets sucked into the
conveyor belt.
After a moment, he does notice it, and tries to pull it

out, but the belt continues to eat the flag.
ERNIE
Gimme back my flag!
He leans over the checkout to pull the flag back out. The
register begins to beep, acknowledging there is a product
to read on the counter.
Ernie’s vest now gets sucked in. He yells and lets go of

the flagpole.
Both corners of his vest are now being sucked in. Jenny
drops her paperweight and runs to try to pull him out.
She puts all her weight into pulling his vest out, but it
doesn’t work.
ERNIE (CONT’D)
Jenny! Help me!
JENNY
I’m trying! I can’t get it!
ERNIE
(choking)
Jenny! Jenny! Please- He-
His chin is pressed against the belt and the collar of

his vest, sucked in around his neck, presses against his
skin. He struggles against it for a moment, trying to get
a breath.
Jenny continues to pull on him, even after she knows he

is dead. She cries and hugs his still form.
89.
Then she slides down and sits in the small corner of a

checkout, to cry and to be out of reach of the store.
She takes her blue vest off and throws it as far away as
she can, angrily.
She looks at the paperweight, not far away, and bursts

into tears again.
Suddenly, the dog, starts barking. It taps over to the

register where Jenny is hiding and barks at her.
The dog has something disgusting in its mouth.
Jenny doesn’t notice this. She gets up and looks around.
JENNY
Vince? Chris?
She walks out from the register and looks around but does
not see them.
The dog barks again. She turns around. One pair of double
doors are open, waiting for her to walk through them.
The dog runs through them and comes back in. He sits next
to Jenny and barks one more time.
JENNY (CONT’D)
I should wait for the others.
The dog growls at her.
JENNY (CONT’D)
I know I know. There’s no telling. And
once I’m outside, I can call the police.
She takes a deep breath and goes to the door.
JENNY (CONT’D)
Happy Birthday, Walmart.
She hesitates for a moment, and then goes to walk

through.
Just as she crosses the line, her foot slips on a toy

that is lying there.
She falls flat on her back. The double doors close

suddenly on her as she screams. They cut off her head at
the neck, quite cleanly.
90.
The doors pause for a moment, closed. Then they open

again.
The dog grabs the toy from under Jenny and scampers out
into the parking lot. He excitedly wags his tail, barks,
and flops around the toy he has.
The sun is rising in the distance. The sky is turning

from gray to pink.
A large truck drives over, and the passenger side door

opens.
The truck driver from the previous night sits inside,

leaning over and looking at the dog.
TRUCK DRIVER
There you are, Sam! Been lookin’ for you
all night! Where ya been?
The dog pauses playing with the toy to look up at the

truck driver and bark. Then he grabs the toy and jumps
into the truck.
The truck driver closes the door and they drive off,
towards the highway.
TRUCK DRIVER (CONT’D)

What’d you catch there, Sam? Did you go
huntin’ last night?
He laughs and pets the dog.
TRUCK DRIVER (CONT’D)

A long way to go today. A long way...
The dog lays on the seat, with the toy in his mouth. The
toy is charred and oily, with only one arm. The face is
still intact.
It is the Bratz doll that killed Kay. It turns its face

towards the dog, and pets the dog’s snout with its one
hand.
FADE OUT.
THE END.

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"Save Money. Die Better."

INT. VALOIS CAFETERIA- 10:45 AT NIGHT

A group of teenagers sit around a long rectangular table,

JENNY, 18, white, has long hair and is generally pretty.

KAY, 18, is hispanic and wears glasses.

CHRIS, 15, is Kay’s little brother. He also wears

MARTY, 18, tall, sits with DEBBIE, 18, with a similar

LUCY, 18, middle eastern, looks on at them intently.

TED, 23, is scruffy-looking, with a ragged leather

VINCE, 18, white, is handsome, preppy, and has a small

Ted is opening all the butter packets and spreading them

Marty and Debbie are making a display of affection that

She holds the sugar in front of their locked faces. Kay

She pours some sugar in the coffee.

Ted notices this interaction. He glances at Lucy for a

Lucy gives him a a look of disgust.

Vince begins to pull a bottle of wine out of his

She fills the cups and walks away, looking disgruntled.

Everyone stops what they’re doing (except Marty and

Everybody looks at Vince quizzically.

They laugh and a couple of them clap.

He checks to make sure the Waitress is nowhere in sight

She checks her watch.

TED (TO KAY)

KAY (TO TED)

TED (TO KAY)

KAY (TO TED)

Vince makes a puppy face at Jenny. She grins but still

He pulls a bottle opener from his jacket pocket and

Ted opens the bottle easily, and begins to pour it into

The Waitress suddenly appears from the kitchen and stands

EXT. PARKING LOT- 11:00 PM

The group of teens walk across a parking lot towards

Marty finds a shopping cart and Debbie climbs into it.

He starts gulping down the wine. Vince sees him, laughs

Ted suddenly pretends to be drunk. He goes over to a semi

A small, stray dog wanders over to the remaining four of

She picks up the dog, cradling him.

Chris scratches the dog’s ear.

Ted continues his prank on the truck.

Ted sprints away.

He slams the door shut.

INT. CAR IN PARKING LOT- NIGHT

A man in his forties, LUNCHBOX, wearing a Walmart shirt

His fingers rap against something metal on the seat next

INT. WALMART- FRONT ENTRANCE

Ted goes around to the rest of the claw games, fortune

They catch up with the rest of the gang, who are at

They hand Ernie a styrofoam container and plastic fork.

Ted, who has been stuffing his pockets with packs of

Lunchbox steps in and stops for a moment, looking at the

He tosses Chris a huge ring of keys. Chris goes to the

Lunchbox doesn’t answer him but walks towards the back.

Lunchbox just shakes his head.

DEBBIE AND MARTY (IN

Chris returns Ernie’s keys to him.

INT. MAIN AISLE

Ted takes a pack of the cigarettes he pilfered and hands

Ted puts the cigarettes back in his pocket.

Ted drags Chris over to one of those phone outposts on

While doing so, he slips a pack of cigarettes into