Part 1: Introduction

Simulation Transcript

PROLOGUE:

EXPERIENCE:

(SCENE OPENS IN THE WOMEN’S RESTROOM IN THE BUILDING WHERE MAGGIE’S PRESENTATION HAS JUST TAKEN PLACE. MAGGIE IS EXPERIENCING A FULL ATTACK. ROOM IS IN SOFT-FOCUS. WE’RE LOOKING THROUGH MAGGIE’S EYES (POV) AT THE START. SHE BURSTS INTO THE WASHROOM AND STAGGERS OVER TO THE SINK. SHE IS LOOKING DOWN AT THE SINK AND SLOWLY LOOKS UP TO THE MIRROR. WE SEE MAGGIE IN THE MIRROR. ALL AUDIO IS AUGMENTED, HARSH, TUNED TO THE ECHO-Y ACOUSTICS OF THE RESTROOM. ITS INTENSITY BUILDS THROUGHOUT THE SCENE. A LOUD PULSE/THROB PERMEATES. MAGGIE IS PRESSING THE KNUCKLES OF HER LEFT HAND INTO HER LEFT EYE. SHE CYCLES THROUGH A SERIES OF FRUITLESS GESTURES: PRESSING ON BOTH EYES WITH HER THUMB AND INDEX FINGER … RUBBING THE BACK OF HER NECK. SHE SPLASHES SOME WATER ON HER FACE, WE TRANSITION TO A 3RD PERSON PERSPECTIVE. SOMEONE EXITS A STALL BEHIND HER, SHUTTING THE DOOR ‘NORMALLY.’ HOWEVER, THE ACCOMPANYING SOUND BOOMS AS IF THE DOOR WAS SLAMMED WITH FORCE. MAGGIE RECOILS IN RESPONSE. THE OTHER PERSON TURNS ON THE FAUCET FULL THROTTLE, AND IT SOUNDS TO MAGGIE LIKE NIAGARA FALLS. MAGGIE, NAUSEOUS, SPITS IN THE SINK. PERSON NEXT TO HER TURNS TO HER AND ASKS, “ARE YOU OK?” MAGGIE WHISPERS, ‘I JUST NEED A MINUTE.’ AS SHE BRINGS HER HANDS TO HER FACE, THE SCENE TRANSITIONS TO OUTSIDE THE RESTROOM. KEN, HER BOSS, IS STANDING IN FRONT OF HER, SEES THAT SHE IS IN PAIN. SHE THEN TURNS TO WALK OUT).