Project Blueberry Man Pilot

This is the pilot for a web-series I wrote titled "Project Blueberry Man".  The premiss is six people wake up in a room, and discover that not only do they not know how they got there, but they also don't remember who they were...

Project Blueberry Man
“Pilot”
INT. ROOM - UNDETERMINED
The camera slowly pulls back from a CU of a woman lying on
the floor. As we do this, she starts to come two. She rubs
her head as she sits.

WOMAN 1
Ugh, where am I?
The camera rack-zooms to a man that springs up behind her.

MAN 1
(huge gasp of air)
What’s going on?!... Where am
I?!...

The woman quickly gets to her feet to see that there are five
other people - four men and one other woman - in the room
with her. Breathless, she scans the room as the others start
to regain consciousness.

WOMAN 2
(frantic)
They’ve come for the sheep! Get
your minos on!

MAN 4
Where are we? Who are you people?

MAN 2
(stuttering)
J-j-just st-st-stay calm. We just
have to assess the situation and...

MAN 3 is cut-off by a female voice over a loud-speaker.

ANGLE ON: LOUD-SPEAKER

WOMAN (V.O.)
Please remain calm. You will
receive further instruction
momentarily.

MAN 3
That was a voice. There is a
voice.

MAN 4 starts walking around the perimeter.

MAN 4
We have to find a way out of here.

MAN 1
Uh, guys. I have a question.

MAN 4
(looking around)
Oh, that’s great. You’re all just
gonna’ to stand there.

There is a buzzing sound followed by a door swinging open.

WOMAN (V.O.)
The door is open. Do not go trough
the door.

MAN 3
So we don’t go through the door?

MAN 4
Fuck that. I’m getting out of
here. There’s an open door, I’m
walkin’ through it. Who’s with me.

WOMAN 1
I would like to go now.
(beat)
I don’t like this place.

WOMAN 2 lets out a blood-curdling scream.

WOMAN 2
Noooooo! That’s how he tricks you!
With candy and treats. He makes
you feel safe, then SNAP! The
hammer slams shut.
(repeats over and over in
a whisper:)

The hammer slams shut...

MAN 4
Good idea. You stay here, man the
fort.
(looks around)
You guys with me?

MAN 3
I believe we received very specific
instruction asking us to NOT go
through that door. Just an idea:
how about we listen?

MAN 4
Or, how ‘bout we not stay bunkered
up in the room of fun and death?
Who knows when it’ll close, or when
- or IF - it’ll open back up again.
Right now, I see an opportunity
that needs to be seized upon just
over that threshold. I’m not
waitin’.

MAN 4 walks brusquely toward the open door.

MAN 3
Please wait!

MAN 4 spins around, annoyed.

MAN 3 (CONT'D)
We don’t know what’s out there. It
could just be a room that leads
to... another room!

MAN 4
That’s great.
(to WOMAN 2)
Now you have a buddy to play house
with. Happy?

WOMAN 2
A buddy with whom to play house.
Shouldn’t end a sentence with a
preposition. Anybody knows that.
You can speak, so they didn’t take
that away from you.

MAN 4
I’ll keep that in mind.
(motions to door)
Clock’s spinin’.

MAN 2
Maybe we should wait.

MAN 4
Yes, because nothing takes you
places.

MAN 1
Excuse me. I have an interjection.

MAN 2
He’s right. We don’t know what’s
on the other side of that door. I
agree, we can’t stay here. But it
doesn’t do us any better going out
there without a plan.

MAN 4
How are we going to plan for what
we don’t know? I think this calls
for a little improvisation. The asyou-
go kind.

MAN 1
Really, I just have one simple
query.

MAN 4
I say we query ourselves on out of
here.

WOMAN 2
(laughing)
You speak like an ape. But you
haven’t a reason for it. All
reason’s gone. Unless, it’s who
you really are; naked on the
inside.

MAN 4
Oh, you guys are going to have a
blast. That leaves you, miss, and
you’ve already staid you don’t like
it in here.

WOMAN 1
(in a whisper)
I’m scared now.

MAN 4
I’ll go first, show you there ain’t
no reason to worry your pretty
little head.

MAN 4 takes a couple of steps through the door, then turns
back to the group.

MAN 4 (CONT'D)
olly olly oxen free!

WOMAN 2
(joyous laughter)
Words are like nonsense.

MAN 4
Safe as... safe as safe.

WOMAN 1
I think I’d like to go now.

MAN 4 turns to lead the way.

MAN 4
Anyone who wants out...

As MAN 4 speaks, a blast is heard, and MAN 4’s head explodes.
Blood and matter hit WOMAN 1’s face.

WOMAN 1
(screaming franticly)
Am I dead?! Am I dead?!

There is a lout buzzing sound as the door slams shut.
MAN 2 rushes to WOMAN 1’S aid. He tries to wipe the blood
from her face, but she squirms.

MAN 2
(in soothing tone)
Hold still, hold still.

WOMAN 1 starts to calm.

WOMAN 1
Am I dead?

MAN 2
(with WOMAN 1’s face in
hands)
No. Shh. You’re fine.

WOMAN 1
I am?

MAN 2
Say it for me.

WOMAN 1
I’m fine.

MAN 2
Good. See, everything’s going to
be okay.

WOMAN 1
(struggling)
I’m fine. Everything’s going to be
okay.

MAN 2
Now I need you to be brave. We’re
going to get through this, but I
need you to be strong for me. Can
you do that?

WOMAN 1 nods.

MAN 2 (CONT'D)
I need you to say it.

WOMAN 1
I’m with you.

MAN 2 clears more blood from WOMAN 1’s face, then puts an arm
around her.

MAN 2
Okay, first we need to...

MAN 2 is loudly interrupted by MAN 1:

MAN 1
Excuse me! May I ask one simple
little question? I have been
waiting patiently for my turn to
speak, and I would like to go now!

MAN 2
By all means.

MAN 1
Do any of you know your own names?
Do you know anything about
yourselves?

MAN 2
Well... I...

WOMAN 1 lowers her head.

MAN 3
I’m going to say that’s a big
collective “no”.

MAN 2
Lessons in how to make a really bad
situation infinitely worse...

WOMAN 1 buries her head into MAN 2’s shoulder.

WOMAN 1
What is this place?

WOMAN 2 is running her fingers over the walls as she speaks.

WOMAN 2
Can’t you tell? This is hell.

END OF EPISODE 1
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