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Silent Black
By Adrian Young

There is one set. It consists of one chair and a table. The table is approximately three feet by two feet. It stands roughly three feet off the floor. The room is completely dark accept for two spot lights, both focused in sharp eight to ten foot circles. The table and chair are separated by fifteen feet and are in mirror of each other. The chair is facing towards the table. The spot light on the table is set directly above it where as the spot light on the chair is set so that it shines down into the face of the person sitting in the chair*

There is a piece of fabric on the table covering a series of objects. There is a hand gun, a knife, a piece of rope ready made into a noose, a couple of straight razors, a bottle of pills, a full syringe with needle and ---.

After the initial credits the film starts with a pure black screen and a voice says,

" Pick a number"

There is the sound of very close confined and sporadic breathing with the sound of heavy booted feet falling on hard wood floor in the back ground. This last for close to six seconds then ,

"I said pick a number"

There is a quick cut from black to a scene with a person duct taped to the chair in the middle of the spot light with a sack over his head and a second man standing over him. The man who is standing cuffs the person in the chair soundly. The person in the chair mumbles the number one. The standing man rips off the sack covering the others head.

"And now would the lucky contestant like to know what he has won!? Of course he does. Our lucky contestant has chosen .........(He rips the cloth off the table revealing its contents)........ The gun. Oh definitely not an imaginative way of bringing about death, but still a most excellent choice. I mean a gun is not only effective and reliable but it is simple as well, all you have to do is pull this little trigger and ...(he points the gun directly at the man in the chair and pulls the trigger. The camera switches to a p.o.v. shot and goes to black. The trigger is pulled and the dry fire click resounds loudly. the scene fades in again to POV with gun barrel floating in the frame.)... boom. All you have to do is load it first.

you know the gun is the greatest influence in the advancement of technology. I mean think about it. Science is constantly trying to create bigger, better , and more deadly weapons all the time. We must have a more powerful form of assault than any body else. From rocks to slings to arrows to crossbows to guns. And the guns just keep getting better. More accurate and more deadly. I've seen all the movies of the future. lasers, pulse missiles. There're never gonna stop till they blow up the universe. No, you could not have chosen better.

Well I guess that it is time to say good-bye. You never know we may see each other again some day.Ha, yah right. No I have this funny feeling that death is rather final. I really do hope that you have enjoyed your life up until this. Actually I really couldn't care less about your life. I don't care if you have children or family, I don't care at all. I care about the fact that my life sucks and that maybe whatever life it was that you had before this is now going to be abruptly changed. (long pause) I suggest you close your eyes. DID YOU HEAR ME I SAID CLOSE YOUR EYES."

The screen goes black for several seconds and there is silence. Suddenly there is a shot fired and the screen immediately changes to a shot of the man in the chair. His eyes are wide open and he is staring straight ahead. After five to eight seconds he blinks and the camera switches to show the body of the first man crumpled in a pool of blood with the gun still in his hand. Switch to a high shot close up, zooming out and fading to black.