5. INT.NIGHT. CORRIDOR-FIRST FLOOR

 

The door to room forty shuts.

 

ELIJAH hastily makes his way along the corridor and knocks on the door of room forty; as he is doing this he takes keys from his pocket and opens the door; knocking again before entering.

 

INT ROOM FORTY

The room is sparse except for a bed, table and a yellow comfy chair on which CLEM is sitting.

 

ELIJAH

            Where is it Clem?

 

CLEM reaches into his pocket and produces a small radio adjusting the aerial; he begins to tune in to the BBC world services.

 

ELIJAH

            I’ll have to search.

 

ELIJAH begins to look around the room, feeling underneath the bedcovers and inside the pillow case; he then lifts the window and checks the window ledge.

 

CLEM

            You won’t find the bag in here, it’s in the

            bin.

 

CORRIDOR-FIRST FLOOR

 

The spit stained lid on swing bin rocks to and fro.

 

INT ROOM FORTY

 

CLEM stands lifting his arms.

 

ELIJAH

            No need for that. I can see you haven’t

            got anything about your person but rules are

            rules, no alcohol or drugs allowed on the

            premises; I had to check.

 

CLEM

            Or brown paper bags. I understand. Elijah,

            can you leave the door open on your way out,

            only I get claustrophobic.

 

ELIJAH wedges the door open.

 

ELIJAH

           Don’t have that too loud you’ll wake the

           other residents and that chair, it belongs in

           the skip, dump it first thing tomorrow 

           …goodnight.

 

CORRIDOR-FIRST FLOOR

 

DEWI is loitering by the bin; noticing ELIJAH, he then makes his way down the stairs.

 

ELIJAH sighs shakes his head and walks down the corridor; pausing he looks at the spit stained bin lid; grimacing, before making his way downstairs.

 

 

6. INT.NIGHT. ROOM THIRTY THREE-FIRST FLOOR

 

The room is lit up the glow of the television.

 

WESLEY sits on the bed flicking a lighter on and off; BAG ED sits by him both are caught up in the flicker of the flame

 

FLY BOY sits on the dressing table; a chubby, freckle faced young man in his early twenties, he is wearing an aviator hat and is clutching hold of the BROWN PAPER BAG; he looks on in silence.

 

WESLEY 

           What came first with you Bag, was it the drugs

           or being homeless?

 

BAG ED

           I ran away from home then got into drugs, hard

           drugs at the first hostel I stayed at; It was

           like a warm treacle flowing through my veins.

           That said, I used smoke a weed and drop an E.

         

WESLEY

           Wow ! stoning and watching the curtains crawl

           and dropping an E, ha.. I haven’t had an for E

           for years...

 

WESLEY begins to sing the lyrics to born slippy  by underworld

 

WESLEY

(Singing only)

           Drive boy dog boy

           Dirty numb angel boy
           In the doorway boy
           She was a lipstick boy
           She was a beautiful boy
           And tears boy

BAG HEAD joins in rhythmically nodding his head in sequence with WESLEYS

 

BAG HEAD and WESLEY

(Singing only)

           And all in your innerspace boy
           You had
           Hands girl boy
           And steel boy
           You had chemicals boy                  (Both point at each    

           I’ve grown close to you                    other and are now on

           Boy and you just                            their feet bopping

           groan boy                                      rhythmically in  time with each other)

           she said comeover comeover  

           She smiled at you boy.      

 

WESLEY

           Classic!

 

BAG ED dances back to the bed; miming the tune which is clearly still in his head. Sitting down he to takes out some drug paraphernalia from beneath the pillow.

 

WESLEY

            So what’s happening fly boy?

 

FLY BOY

            Are you going to share that needle?

 

WESLEY

            Fuck off man; I don’t know where you’ve been. 

 

BAG ED

            What’s in the bag Fly boy?

 

FLY BOY

            Wings...wings to make me fly

 

BAG ED

            Sounds like good gear?