AWAKE - BEGINS

INT. HOSPITAL – NURSES STATION - NIGHT

TIFFANY

Kassandra Blake is awake..

NURSE

Shut the f-

INT. BLAKE HOME – MASTER BEDROOM – NIGHT

Marquise brushes his teeth in the bathroom doorway and tries to listen to his wife’s phone conversation.

Sonay hangs up the phone.

Marquise questions her with his eyebrows.

SONAY

That was Tiffany with the hospital.

Apparently, there’s been an incident with

Vrail, and Kassandra is awake.

Marquise immediately spits in the sink and rips his night shirt off. Sonay heads to the closet.

INT. HOSPITAL – NURSES STATION – NIGHT

MOS (this means without sound).. The DOCTOR shakes his head in apology. Marquise catches his wife as she collapses nearly to the floor.

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – SAME

Sonay’s wailing is heard from down the hall.

Sean is startled from his doze on Blake’s stomach.

INT. HOSPITAL – NURSES STATION – NIGHT

Sean emerges from Blake’s hospital room, wobbly kneed. He meets Sonay on the floor and they sob together. Marquise is left shaking his head in disbelief, face in hands.

MARQUISE

What about Ravyn?

How is she doing?

DOCTOR

I can’t really—

TIFFANY

She’s stable. In and out of consciousness.

The Narcan worked on her, so she’ll live,

though she’s in bad shape.

Headache. Shivers. Nausea.

MARQUISE

Does Kassy know..

about Vrail?

SEAN

(absently)

Yea..

Marquise nods and heads to his daughter’s room. Vacant eyed Sean holds Sonay in his lap on the ground.

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – NIGHT

Blake’s head tilts like a confused puppy when her father walks in crying.

He grabs her hand, sits beside her, kisses her palm.

Blake watches him cry. Her eyes search his for all the memories she’s missed.

They stare at one another for some time, then Blake grabs his hand and draws a “V” in his palm with her finger. He swallows down the desire to sob and shakes his head.

Blake tosses his hand aside.

Her disappointed eyes search the far wall for a way to escape this place.

INT. HOSPITAL – ICU ROOM – SAME

Lieutenant Taylor approaches James’s bed just as he’s waking.

LT

Hey there, tough guy.

Thought we lost you there for a sec.

JAMES

Oh.. You can’t get rid of me that easy.

LT

Well, try this on.

I have some good news, some dark shit

and a whole lot of bad in between.

What you want first?

JAMES

Let’s just start at the bottom and

work our way up to the top.

End on a good note.

LT

Fair enough.

Your daughter is emerging

from critical condition after a near

fatal fentanyl overdose.

JAMES

Fentanyl?

Where did she—

LT

Apparently, someone laced

the marijuana she was smoking with

your son and Vrail Blake.

The Narcan brought her back

from the dead..

It was not successful in doing the

same for Mr. Blake.

JAMES

Lord.

Those poor people.

Where is Sean?

LT

He’s with the Blakes.

There’s silence for a few moments, then..

LT (CONT)

We have no idea who attacked you

outside your home. They

took out your Ring camera

before the attack. All we saw

was something hit it. Can’t tell what.

JAMES

Damn.

Well, what’s the good news.

LT

Not there yet.

We’ve lost contact with

Sandra Jacobs and Dagen Daniels

sometime last night.

Without him, we might

not be able to make this thing

stick to his piece of sh—

(she clears her throat)

-work stepfather.

James timidly awaits more bad news.

LT (CONT)

All that being said and what it is,

guess who’s awake.

James shakes his head questioningly afraid to guess.

LT (CONT)

Kassandra Blake.

James’s eyebrows can’t hide his shock. His face goes white. His eyes roll back in his head. He suffers a seizure. His machines go off with ALARMS.

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – SAME

Blake tries her damnedest to get out of her bed. Marquise tries twice as hard to keep her there. Sonay walks in on the struggle.

SONAY

Take your hands OFF of her.

Marquise immediately steps back, hands up.

Blake watches with wide eyes as her mother approaches. She touches her mother’s face and searches her eyes, ready to lose her damn mind.

SONAY (CONT)

Come on, baby.

Let’s go see Bubba.

Tiffany and Sonay help Blake out of bed.

SONAY (CONT)

Hun, can you grab a

wheelchair for—

Before she can finish, Sean slams through the door with a chair in tow. Marquise nods his head as impressed as he could be under the present circumstances.

INT. HOSPITAL – ICU – NIGHT

Sean heads directly for the door to Vrail’s room. The guard attempts to stand in his way, but he pushes through the door and Sonay follows, pushing Blake’s chair. Tiffany waves the guard off.

INT. HOSPITAL – ICU ROOM – CONTINUOUS

Sonay pushes Blake up beside her brother’s lifeless body. Sean and Marquise help her up out of her chair and she climbs into the bed with Vrail. She lays her head on his shoulder and caresses his face.

Her fingers find one of Vrail’s dreadlocks. She twists it soothingly between her fingers and smells his neck.

Marquise sits in the chair beside Vrail’s bed. Sonay sits on the bed opposite of Blake.

Sean leans back against the wall and tries not to cry.

After a while of trying to figure out what to do with herself, Tiffany leans in beside him.

TIFFANY

Have you seen your sister

since she woke up?

BLAKE

Ravyn?

Shock is painted on everyone’s face.

Blake searches Sean’s face to no avail, so she turns to her mother.

BLAKE (CONT)

Ravyn?

Sonay shakes the shock off with a literal head shake.

SONAY

Ravyn? You wanna see Ravyn?

Blake sniffles and swipes a tear from her own eye and seats herself back in the chair. She braces herself and nods. Sonay turns the chair around.

SONAY (CONT)

Let’s go see Ravyn.

INT. NIGHT CLUB VIP SUIT – NIGHT

Leyden, sweating through his clothes and spewing spit all over everything, loses his shit trying to stop the girl he “rented” for the weekend from dying in his arms.

SERIES OF SHOTS

- He pats her check, desperately pleading with his sweaty lips brushing her ear..

LEYDEN

Please don’t die

Please don’t die

Please don’t die

- heaves her limb body over his shoulder

- drops her in the shower

- shower on

- sprays her face

- screams in her face

- straddles her corps in the shower, shaking her shoulders, hollering obscenities

END SERIES

INT. NIGHT CLUB VIP SUIT – BATHROOM – SHOWER – NIGHT

RUNNING SHOWER

Leyden flings himself back off that poor girls corps, shoves a pistol in his mouth and pulls the trigger BLOW

INT. LEYDEN’S BEDROOM – SAME

Leyden snaps up out of sleep, sweat clinging to the sheets. Leyden checks his phone. No messages.

SERIES OF SHOTS

- he struggles out of the sheets, exposing a nude woman passed out beside him

- slams the toilet seat up

- scratches his bare ass and hocks a loogie in the toilet

- TOILET FLUSH splashes water on his face at the sink

- stares at his reflection in the filthy, imported mirror

END SERIES

CONTINUES..