Squirrel in the Room - Script

Squirrel iN tHe RoOm

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Screenplay by

Arpith Scindhia

Original Story by

Arpith Scindhia

INT. House – EARLY MORNING

Black screen shown.

Looking at an alarm on a table beside a bed.

Sound of Alarm started.

A man fast asleep just nudges.

EXT. Outside (tree) – Early Morning

Going outside through the window onto a tree, a squirrel hears to the alarm and wakes up.

Walking outside its tree hole, still eyes half closed, suddenly slips and falls down from the branch.

Bounces on a branch below and ends up inside a room of the house.

INT. ROOM – Morning

Opening Steve’s (squirrel) eyes, he realizes he is somewhere in a new place.

Doing a 360◦ turn with Steve at the center with eyes wide open and jaw dropped.

Slowly turning back to see the window and the outside world.

Steve realizes he has to get out through the window and walks across the room to see the surroundings.

Coming across the bathroom wall tiles, he notices another squirrel. Not knowing it’s his own reflection, he tries to communicate with it.

Frustration builds up as the reflection is performing the exact same actions as Steve.  

Suddenly, the door knob turns, Steve could hear and takes cover as a human opens the door and enters.

The man stands inside the bathroom and looks into the mirror. Steve closely hides behind.

Then Steve notices a stinky smell, the camera rapidly un-zooms showing a commode behind which Steve is hiding.

Unpleasant expressions on Steve’s face as he slowly tries to move away from that place.

Keeping an eye on the human, Steve slowly moves as he accidentally hits a “Rubber Ducky” (squeaky) which made a squeaky noise.

In shock, Steve slowly removes his leg from the toy which in turn made more loud noise.

The human pays attention and looks back

Everything looked normal and he turned back.

Focusing back to Steve, as he quickly hid behind a shampoo bottle with his tail in his hands.

Steve makes his way onto the bathtub where he stood on the edge. Slipping on the soft surface, swinging his arms and tail.

The human notices something move through the mirror, and as he turns back, everything seemed normal.

Focusing back to Steve, he fell into the tub.

Now getting back up, jumping from the tub onto the towel hanger and clinging to a towel.

Staring at the window (few feet away from the hanger), Steve takes a deep breath.

Narrower eyes and a race position and runs.

Jumps at the edge.

Slow motion in air.

Showing facial expressions and movement.

Reaches the platform but unable to stop the momentum.

Slides across and hits the window!

“Splat” sound is heard and the human again turns to his attention.

(From first person) Looks down, side, back and sees movement at the window.

(Steve is getting out as this happens which is visible in the field of view)

By the time the human looks at the window, Steve is out and is gone as the human notices a squirrel.

Confused as the human is, Steve is happily in his tree house!

THE END