Heavy Hearts

HEAVY HEARTS By Alexander Corsetti 617-308-1654 [email protected] FADE IN: INT. 1997 CAMRY - NIGHT - TRAVELLING SAM SAWYER, 17, congenial, even-tempered, cruises down a quiet, upper-middle class suburban street in the seacoast town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire listening to Pink Floyd's- Young Lust. He turns right, into the ROBINSON'S driveway, the large colonial with the brilliant blue door. BRILLIANT BLUE DOOR opens displaying in all her beauty, MRS. ROBINSON, 50, attractive, kind, currently adorned in a bandana on account of the chemo. INT. JOHN ROBINSON'S BEDROOM - NIGHT MULTIPLE VARSITY TRACK AND FIELD TROPHIES JOHN ROBINSON, 17, genius, adventurous, academically indolent, sits at his computer desk studying a picture of himself, Sam, and their friend MAX ESSENSA, all twelve years old at the time. INT. THE ROBINSON'S KITCHEN - NIGHT Sam responds to MR. ROBINSON, former F.B.I. Field Agent, highly intelligent, physically fit, 50, about convincing John to get back on the football team. SAM (TO MR. ROBINSON) (mouth full) -Will do. MR. ROBINSON (TO SAM) (ref. To John’s shoulder) He’ll be healed up soon. Mrs. Robinson, cooking, sees her husband hand Sam a glass of wine. MRS. ROBINSON (TO MR. ROBINSON) Bobby, he's driving. Mr. Robinson smiles, brushing off his wife's concern. MR. ROBINSON I'm all about the Barrolos, Sam. Sam chuckles, he's always admired their relationship. 2 MRS. ROBINSON Sam, don't tell your parents. SAM I can keep a secret. Mr. Robinson gives Sam a look of appreciation on how he handles his wife's 'chemo-brain'. INT. JOHN'S ROOM - NIGHT (KNOCKING) JOHN Come in. Sam enters. JOHN (CONT’D) Fuck took you so long? I could hear you jabbering down there for ten minutes. SAM I know what time it is. John swigs a flask and hands it to Sam who in turn takes a swig. EXT. MCDANIEL RIVER DAM - NIGHT (LATER) Sam’s TRUNK opens. Sam and John reach in and each grab a black duffel bag. John pulls out two Glock .40's, checks the chambers and loads both. Sam pulls out items of black clothing setting them aside on a foldable table next to the flowing dam, then a license plate and drill. He proceeds to replace the plates. John loads a pump Beretta twelve gauge then an AR-15. Both strip naked and dress into all black attire. Camry driver SIDE DOOR shuts/speeds off, tail lights disappear in the distance. EXT. REAR PARKING LOT, LAWRENCE, MA - NIGHT (LATER) Sam’s Camry parks softly. The two exit to the trunk, grab the weapons then creep down the alleyway staying in the shadows. 3 John peers around the corner seeing an empty street and signals Sam, both turn the corner and carefully/quietly enter onto an adjacent porch. The street dark except for the lights from 'MIKES CARPETS'. Sam peers through the window and signals John to switch positions. John rotates his right shoulder, raises his gun and gives Sam a nod. Sam blasts the door lock and kicks it in, both enter with presence finding SPIDER, FELIX, and ANGEL, 20’s, members of Lawrence, Massachusetts infamous Tres Filios gang, on a couch watching T.V., along with their associate, MELVIN, 20’s, in the hallway; frozen. John kills Spider. Sam wounds Melvin then kills Felix. John shoots Angel as jumps across the table, putting him down for good. JOHN (TO SAM) Cosina. Sam bolts upstairs. John grabs Melvin and drags him to a kitchen chair. At the top of the stairs Sam is met with gun fire by an AN UNIDENTIFIED LATINO MAN, 30’s. Sam ducks and shoots the man blowing him into the bathroom. Severely wounded, the unidentified Latino man kicks the door shut. Sam quickly clears the other two rooms. The unidentified Latino man struggles for his pistol wedged behind the toilet. Sam tosses in a pipe bomb. SAM (O.S.) Fuego! John interrogates Melvin in the kitchen, hearing Sam, hits the deck. The unidentified Latino man struggles to put out the wick but a metal bit protects the flame. The bomb explodes! BATHROOM DOOR blows apart. Sam peers in at the carnage and exits. In the kitchen, John squirts fluid onto a now unconscious Melvin and sets him ablaze. HE comes to, screaming and flailing. John enjoys the flaming spectacle before executing him. He then trails a stream of fluid and fire down the hallway onto the other dead men's bodies and tosses the bottle. ECU: PLASTIC BOTTLE melts on the men's corpses. 4 EXT. NIGHTINGALE AVE, GREENLAND, N.H. - NIGHT (LATER) Sam and John stroll down a well-lit, safe suburban street carrying a bottle of Zhenka and a thirty rack of Natural Ice. They arrive at the opulent Victorian style entrance of one of their friends. BLOOD RED DOOR opens with a blinding light. SUPERIMPOSE: 'HEAVY HEARTS' (RED FONT) EXT. PORTSMOUTH, N.H. ROAD - DAY (MORNING) AERIAL P.O.V. - 1995 RED VOLVO travels down a windy, leaf littered road. SUPERIMPOSE: 'THE PAST' (RED FONT) MAX ESSENSA, 17, Mexican-American, taps his thumbs on the wheel, belting Coheed and Cambria's-Three Evils (this song will play and be referenced throughout the movie). At the same time, he pays a toll, shifts gears and hits a bowl. He is St. Thomas's star junior quarterback, popular in every circle. Caring yet tough, and most importantly John and Sam’s lifelong best friend. EXT. THE ROBINSON'S BACKYARD - DAY John emerges from the tree line, 30.06 in hand. INT. THE ROBINSON'S KITCHEN - DAY John enters the back door with rosy cheeks. WE notice Mr. Robinson through the glass doors of his office. MR. ROBINSON (TO JOHN) Get any of those bastards? John shakes his head “no” and heads down to the basement. Mr. Robinson grasps a picture of what was once his tricolored English Setter, Toma. (killed a year before by coyotes) INT. SAM'S ROOM - DAY (SAME TIME) Sam finishes a Calculus assignment. MONICA, (Sam’s sister), 14, calls to Sam off-screen. 5 EXT. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL - DAY A large brick monstrosity of a building, home to the illustrious St. Thomas Aquinas private collegiate day school. The grounds crew meticulously trim shrubbery. MR. CANZA (teacher) creepily breathes in the scent of cut grass. INT. ST. THOMAS JUNIOR HALLWAY - DAY SERIES OF SHOTS: A) crouched juniors against lockers sharing answers. B) A MOODY PREP changes ties. C) junior girls covertly throw bagels down the hallway. ROTH, 16, witty and neurotic, stands at John’s locker, steaming at the news that John didn’t finish the home work. ROTH (TO JOHN) (ref. to Calc assignment) -You copied down the odds!? That’s it! JOHN (TO ROTH) Relax. Sam did the evens. Do you have a clean tie? Sam opens his locker and grabs a tie. Suddenly, the locker door swings shut hitting Sam’s fist into his nose. SAM Agh. (holding nose) SAMANTHA (Sam’s girlfriend), 16, brunette, beautiful, loyal, emerges from behind the locker door to comfort Sam. John and Roth hurriedly copy down Sam’s even answers from the Calculus assignment. The bell SOUNDS. STUDENTS exit to their homerooms. In the congesting crowd Max converses with a few peers. INT. STA CAFETERIA - DAY (LATER) Max, Sam and John enter the cafeteria, over to their allies ALEX CHENG, DANIEL KLEIN, TEDDY ROTH, and DEVON GEREK (all juniors). Alex is STA’s star running back, reliable. Klein, husky, loud and freckled. Gerek, soft spoken, stoner, jovial. Alex fidgets with the functionality of his TI-83 calculator. KLEIN (TO ALEX) Such a child of your generation. 6 ALEX (TO KLEIN) (pressing buttons) Shut up. KLEIN I don't need a calculator for every little thing. I'm grounded in the fundamentals of mathematics. ALEX Only thing you're grounded from is pussy. Roth and Devon laugh. KLEIN (heated) Alex, you're Asian. The only women that find you attractive are Jews and other Asians. Everyone else thinks you're a fucking cartoon character. ALEX At least I'm not a fat fucking kike. KLEIN Go build another bamboo restaurant. ALEX I will, then I'll put up a sign that says 'free buffet except for fat fucking kikes'. MAX Brutal. KLEIN (TO ALEX) (amused) Fuck off. The 'infamous fondler' FATHER MICHAEL, 50’s, enters the cafeteria. ALEX (TO ALL) (noticing FATHER MICHAEL) Think he's here to arm wrestle the freshmen? SAM That's Wednesdays. MAX It's amazing how more people don't find that a bigger deal. 7 John stands up in a huff and exits. SAM (TO ALL) He was touched. KLEIN He's not happy with the current state of affairs in Social Justice I presume. MAX He redid the whole semester thesis in three nights. Fucking nuts. ALEX That's three weeks of research alone. MAX And got a C. KLEIN Well, three nights. Why does he care so much? He's got the grades to make up for it. MAX Because he swallowed his pride, took the deal and they fucked him. John returns and tosses his tray on the table. JOHN Why are we paying for our food when we pay to go here? Fucking bullshit. KLEIN (TO JOHN) Your parents pay for you to go here. John glares at Klein. Klein winces off the ocular threat. MRS. CORR (Cafeteria Monitor), 40’s, arrives eerily out of nowhere. Everyone stealthily secures their top buttons except John and Max. MRS. CORR (TO KLEIN) Daniel, you're getting a demerit. KLEIN (blows out mouth) Third strike, don't back me into a corner, Mrs.

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