Innocent’s Exposure Script
A story about a
woman’s search for the truth.
Innocent is at work
as a receptionist. It’s 3pm. She gets up from her desk and speaks to her
manager Mark.
Innocent
Hey Mark. As I said
earlier I have to leave early to pick up my son. The childminder is sick.
Mark
Okay Innocent. Don’t
make this a habit.
Innocent
Thanks Mark. I’ll
see you tomorrow.
Innocent puts her
jacket on and walks out of the office. She walks in a rush to her son Elliot’s
school and he walks out.
Innocent
Hey baby. How was
your day?
Elliot
It was a fun day.
They both walk to
the car and Innocent drives them home.
Next scene
Elliot is sitting on
the dining table doing his homework and Innocent’s boyfriend Stan comes in to
the house.
Stan
Hello.
Innocent
Hi Stan. How are
you?
Stan
It was alright. Long
day as usual.
Elliot gets off his
chair and shows Stan a picture he has drawn.
Stan
It’s amazing Elliot.
Stan
Innocent did you get
me my shoe polish?
Innocent
Oh no. I didn’t.
Elliot’s childminder is sick and I had to leave work early to pick him up.
Stan looks deeply
into Innocent’s eyes leaving a couple of seconds of silence.
Stan
Elliot. Can you go
to your room?
Elliot
But I’m doing my
homework.
Stan
Well you don’t have
to. Do it later. Go to your room and play with your toys.
Elliot
Yay.
Elliot goes to his bedroom
and plays with his toys.
Stan
How come you don’t
get me what I ask of you? It’s just shoe polish. You could have at least got it
on the way to the school.
Innocent
Stan. Don’t be mad.
Stan
I’m not mad. Just
get me what I need when I ask for it.
Innocent
You know what Stan.
Just do it. Hit me.
Stan hits Innocent
to the ground.
Stan
Innocent I didn’t
mean it. I just get so angry sometimes.
Stan attempts to
touch Innocent and she hits him back. He hits her again and she hits him with a
remote control. He throws her into the TV and she falls unconscious.
Next scene
Innocent wakes up to
find the house empty. Innocent gets into her car. A rollercoaster of scenes show her
looking all around town for Elliot. She goes to the forest as Stan loves that
place and they go there as a family on a couple of occasions. She then sees
Stan with Elliot.
Innocent
Stan. Stop it. Give
me back my son.
Stan
Give him back. I’m
practically his Father.
Innocent
You assaulted me and
kidnapped my baby. Give him back.
Stan lets Elliot go
and Innocent tells Elliot to go in the car and gives him the keys.
Innocent
Go in the car. Lock
it and open it only for me.
Elliot runs to the
car. Innocent talks to Stan.
Innocent
Why are you like
this? Why are you so abusive to me? Always a charmer around everyone else but
treat me like crap.
Stan
I love you. I just
get angry sometimes. I’m not perfect.
Innocent
No. You’re not.
You’re an abusive freak. I don’t know why I let you in and do this to me. I
don’t care anymore. It’s over. I don’t love you and I don’t want you in my
life.
Innocent walks away.
Stan grabs her, punches her in the stomach and chokes her. She grabs a rock and
hits him over the head. She gets up and he grabs her leg and she hits him
again. She runs away to the car, kisses Elliot and drives off home.
Next scene
Innocent and Elliot
speak.
Innocent
Baby it’s you and me
from now on. No more Stan.
Elliot
But I thought he
makes you happy.
Innocent
I finally realised I
don’t need him to be happy.
Innocent puts Elliot
to sleep. She then calls the Police. Half an hour later the Police arrive. They
knock on the door and Innocent opens it.
Damien
Hello. I am D.C.I
Damien Morgan.
Innocent
At last. You’ve arrived.
I want to report domestic abuse.
Damien
That’s not why we
are here. Innocent Khan I am arresting you for the attempted murder of Stan Thornton. You do not
have to say anything. Anything you do say may be used against you in a court of
law.
Damien places the
handcuffs on Innocent and drags her away.
Innocent
You can’t do this.
I’ve done nothing wrong.
The Police officers
take Elliot.
Innocent
Let me at least call
my family to take care of Elliot.
Damien
Who can we call?
Innocent
Elliot’s Aunt
Natalie.
Next scene
Damien questions
Innocent.
Damien
Before you’re
report. Stan made a report that he had been hit over the head by you in a rage.
At the crime scene was loads of blood.
Innocent
What! Is he in
hospital?
Damien
He hasn’t been
found. Did you murder him?
Innocent
No. I wouldn’t. He
attacked me and I hit him in self-defence. He’s been abusing me for months. He
is crazy. I couldn’t take anymore. I wanted it to stop but not murder.
Damien
I don’t believe you.
Where is his body?
Innocent
I don’t know. I hit
him and ran off with my son home.
Damien
Did your son witness
this violence?
Innocent
No. You can dig up
the whole forest, check the water and he is not there. I swear.
Damien
Due to the evidence
I am charging you with the murder of Stan Thornton.
Innocent
No. You can’t. I
didn’t do it. Please think of my baby. Can I speak with him?
Damien
No. He is a witness.
Innocent
A witness. He’s
four.
Next scene
As Damien and the
Police drag Innocent she sees her son with Natalie. Elliot goes into another
room and Natalie walks up to Innocent.
Innocent
Nat. I’m innocent. I
didn’t kill Stan.
Natalie
I know. I know. Look
I’ll look after Elliot for now. You will get out.
Innocent
Take care of my
baby.
Natalie
Of course I will.
Just focus on yourself and get yourself out this mess.
Damien
Time’s up.
Innocent
Thank you Natalie.
The Police take
Innocent away.
Next scene
A court case has
happened. With all the evidence presented Innocent is sentenced to seven years
in prison. Innocent cries and speaks.
Innocent
No. Please. I didn’t
do it. I didn’t kill that man.
The security take
her away.
Next scene
Innocent is in her
cell writing a letter with a visiting order to see Natalie and Elliot as she
has missed Elliot’s fifth birthday. Innocent is called for lunch, she walks to
the dining area and a prisoner deliberately bumps into her, shoving her food at
her.
Harmony
Hey watch where you
are going.
Innocent
It was your fault
and you know it.
Harmony
What.
Innocent
Nothing. It was an
accident.
Innocent walks away.
Next scene
Harmony and her gang
enter Innocent’s room. Another female inmate speaks to the guard distracting
him.
Harmony
Hey Innocent.
Harmony punches
Innocent and kicks her while the gang watches. She then grabs a picture of
Elliot and rips it up.
Innocent
No. That’s my only
picture of my baby.
Harmony
Too bad.
Innocent punches
Harmony. The gang all beat up Innocent.
Harmony
Innocent. This is my
prison and you better respect me.
Innocent
No.
Harmony punches
Innocent and stabs her. They all leave her for dead. The prison guard finds
Innocent and she is taken to hospital.
Next scene
In Hospital Innocent
wakes up to find her sister Cassie there, her husband Rickie and her boss Mark.
Cassie
How are you?
Innocent
Like death.
Cassie
But you’re not thank
god. I’m so sorry. I could of stopped Stan.
Innocent
It’s not your fault.
Cassie cries.
Innocent
I know Stan is
alive. Out there somewhere.
Cassie
Why would he frame
you? What have you done? We will find him.
Mark
Just rest for now.
Cassie
Stay strong.
Rickie
We don’t want what
happened to Oliver happen to you.
Innocent
I will.
Police
Time’s up.
As Innocent is lying
in her bed thinking about her whole life. Her abusive childhood, her teenage
years and adulthood.
Flashback
It is Innocent and
Oliver’s wedding.
Priest
Do you Innocent Khan
take Oliver Issiah to be your husband?
Innocent
I do.
They kiss.
Next flashback
Innocent witnesses
her Father hit her Mother. He turns on Innocent.
Walter
Innocent you are
nothing and will never amount to anything.
Next flashback
Innocent is in the
Hospital with Doctors and Oliver giving birth to Elliot.
Oliver
It’s a boy. We have
a baby boy.
Innocent
Can we call him
Elliot. My Step Dad’s name.
Oliver
Perfect. Baby Elliot
Issiah.
Innocent cries and
holds him for the first time.
Innocent
This is what it’s
all about. Me, you and Elliot forever.
Innocent and Oliver
kiss.
Next flashback
Innocent is in a
conversation with Oliver.
Oliver
I know you shouldn’t have gone back to work. This guy is crazy. He is obsessed with you.
Innocent
I’m not quitting
that job because of him or you. I’m going to work today. Pick me up for lunch.
Next flashback
Innocent is at the
photocopier and Jeff walks up to her.
Jeff
I’m sorry about last
week. I know you’ve got a husband and I respect that now.
Innocent
Jeff. That’s good.
We know where we stand.
Jeff
Maybe we can be
friends.
Oliver walks in the
office.
Innocent
I don’t think that’s
possible.
Jeff grabs
Innocent’s arm.
Oliver
Hey what the hell
are you doing to my Wife?
Jeff
We’re just chatting.
Oliver
Yeah right.
Oliver in a rage
hits Jeff and he falls through the glass door.
Next flashback
Oliver is sentenced
to three years in prison.
Next flashback
The Police inform
Innocent of Oliver’s death.
Next flashback
At the funeral Gloria
gives a speech, breaks down in tears and then shouts at Innocent.
Gloria
My son was fine
before he met you. You ruined him. You killed him. He was off the drugs for
years and you brought him to his death. He didn’t commit suicide with drugs. You killed him. You took him there. Down that road.
Innocent
I can’t take this.
I’m going.
Gloria
It should have been
you in that coffin.
Gloria slaps
Innocent. Innocent runs out of the church crying. Natalie speaks to her Mum.
Natalie
It wasn’t her fault.
Natalie walks
outside. Natalie and Innocent speak.
Natalie
You didn’t kill
Oliver. His drug habit got the best of him. We need to be strong for baby
Elliot and keep the legacy of Oliver alive.
Innocent
I will.
Next flashback
At the wake Oliver’s
favourite song plays. Innocent then thinks about Stan and where she recognises
him from (other than the relationship) and he was Natalie’s boyfriend way back
when they were enemies. She saw him at a party with Natalie.
Next scene
Innocent speaks to
herself.
Innocent
Oh my god.
Next scene
Innocent escapes
from prison in disguise as a nurse and goes on the run. She goes to Natalie’s
house. Natalie walks inside her house and sees Innocent sitting down on the
dining chair.
Innocent
Hello Natalie. Or
should I say Stan’s bitch of an other half.
Natalie
Oh so you figured it
all out then.
Innocent
How could you? You
knew the truth. I had nothing to do with his death.
Natalie
You might as well have killed him and you dared to move on.
Innocent
There really is
nothing such as hate as first sight and then grow to like you.
Natalie
No. But too bad you
aren’t going to survive. At least with Stan beating you we let you live.
Innocent
Where is he? Your
Romeo.
Natalie
We go way back and I
paid him.
Natalie slaps
Innocent and runs off. Innocent chases after her and Natalie pulls out a gun.
Natalie
Freeze. Don’t you
dare move.
Innocent
I’ve been through
hell. I don’t care.
Innocent hits
Natalie and takes the gun. Then Stan comes out of nowhere and hits her.
Innocent hits him with a chair. Innocent beats Stan and hits Natalie with the
gun.
Police arrive at
Natalie’s house.
Natalie
It’s over. They are
taking you to prison where I pray to god you die there.
Innocent
No. I’m not.
Innocent plays a
tape recorder of Natalie confessing. The Police enter and Innocent gives Damien
the tape. They arrest Natalie and Stan.
Next scene
Damien
I am so sorry. I got
it wrong and the whole of the Metropolitan Police apologise.
Innocent
I want to pick up my
son from school.
Damien
I can give you a
lift.
Next scene
Elliot walks out of
school and he sees his Mummy.
Elliot
Mummy.
Elliot runs to his
Mum and gives her a big hug. Innocent cries.
Innocent
I’m not going
anywhere baby. I’ve missed you. Mummy loves you.
Elliot
I love you too Mummy.
THE END
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