Screenplay for our Opening Scene

FADE IN:

VHS VIDEOS PLAYED OF TWO GIRLS

FADE TO: LIVING ROOM - DAY

A living room setting with an arrangement of family photos on shelves with a chair beside the shelf with a stack of newspapers and the top one headlined ‘Twin Girl Found Dead’ with more information below and a photo of her and her twin

DISSOLVE TO:

The same picture but in a photo frame held by a young girl, SARAH, who is wearing a dress and tights.

SARAH is looking at the photo in the frame.

MOTHER, a fairly tall woman with medium brown hair in her 30s, walks over to SARAH and rests her colourless hand on her daughters shoulder.

MOTHER

She’s in a better place

Her MOTHER leaves whilst SARAH doesn’t keep her eyes off of the photo

SARAH places the photo frame back on the shelf. Takes a few steps  away and the photo frame falls unassisted from the shelf onto the floor.

FADES TO BLACK

FADES IN: KITCHEN – DAY

MOTHER is boiling potatoes and it is clear that she has used sharp knives to do this as they are out on the counter.

SARAH is outside in the garden.

CONSERVATORY

MOTHER sits down in the conservatory with her cup of tea leaving the potatoes boiling.

SARAH is facing a swing that is swinging by on its own while SARAH talks to it

The MOTHER then picks up her phone to text her husband STEVE

‘I’m worried about SARAH’

MOTHER looks up from her phone and SARAH has suddenly appeared in front of the window of the conservatory the MOTHER is sat at.

END OF OPENING