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Head Shrinker (Screenplay exercise)

by Aaron Howard

How do you sue for malpractice when it's psychological damage?
How do you prove intent in the locked subconcious?
How can you prove anything?

It all started a year ago..

Samantha and I had met through mutual friends and quickly had formed a bond that I would say was one of the strongest in my life.. I had felt complete.. but then as a stroke of bad luck.. Dr. Lewis had entered our lives.. I'd never herd the name until last week.. but I knew he existed.. just by reputation.
I'd known Sam had been seing a shrink for a while now.. to help her cope with her family situation and issues about herself.. and of course, I'd been very supportive.. I wanted my love to be happy..I wanted her to be free of her mental chains... but I was unknowing to the dangers that had been laid in Samantha's mind.. and it snuck up on me like a thief in the night.. only to awaken to someone I felt like I never knew.

...

Pan in to a blonde smokeing a cigerette with shaky hands..dark circles underline her eyes.. her blue eyes scatter around the scene, she jumps as the clang of steel doors brings her to reality.Dark grey prison bars can be seen in the background.. but She's dressed in casual clothes..

A built young man appears in the seat, shoved into place with a omnious black nightstick.. a sneer escapes his lips as he stares at the guard.. and the sneer doesnt leave his lips as he stares into the thick safty glass. He shakes his head in disbelief.

She shakingly picks up the phone...
He stares at the phone for a second.. and reluctantly picks up the reciever.

Samantha voice shaking, asks..'You know why I'm here, right?'

Still shaking his head.. his brown eyes staring deep into her blue eyes. 'Yeah.. I have my ideas..'

'Why did you do it, Aaron? Why?'

'I did it to save you...'

'Save me from what?'

'You don't even know, do you?'

'What do you mean, aaron? You're the one who killed him'

'But that was to stop him from killing me to get to you..'

'You're insane! You killed all those people!!'

'I didnt kill anyone..but him. You killed those people...and you don't even know it..No.. I'm just aware of what's going on in that head of yours..' He pauses..she takes a long drag from her marlboro light and stares over the shoulder of him at the guard making eyes are her...

'I think I know you better than you even know yourself'

'You might be right, Aaron.. but that doesnt explain your actions..'

'Answer me this, Sam. How long we been together?'

'I don't know, Aaron. A couple of months?'

'Wrong.. it's been Over a year.'

'That's impossible, I was with Dave..' her voice trails off as her mind races through a pile of blurred memories..

'Dave doesn't even exist...you're whole world doesn't even exist.. do you even know where you are right now?''

'That's wrong.. I know dave. I saw him last week..'

Dave was an imaginary character that Dr. Lewis created...

'Created? you can't just create a realtionship!'

'A relationship? He made a whole reality in your head. Do you even remember being hypnotized?'

'What? I've never been hypnotised'

'Yes you have... I have proof...right inside your head.''

'What do you mean, Aaron?!'

'I don't want to have to do this.. but..So tell me Sam..Who raped you when you were little?"

Samantha's eye's glaze over and she drops her cigerette as she stands..looking at the glass...she slams her forehead into the glass..

the guards yank up Aaron with the force of a mack truck.. and proceede to smackdown will force.. the slappin sounds can be faintly herd on the other side of the glass..

Samantha just lays on the floor.. bleeding from a bluespot on her forehead as her mind races in it's own maze... a guard runs up to her twitching body and checks her pulse... We need an EMT in here NOW! Call the Doc!

People in white coats rush in the room.. toting bags and yanking out tools to find her pulse, a guaze pad for her forehead.. They converse quickly over her condition.
The chance of her concussion..
The doc looks at the glass and sees a thin blood trail down the safty glass..

'What did he do?' the words trail off as darkness circles the room an envelopes

itself around her racing eyes... her breath is racing as if she's ran a marathon and came in first place.

The click and whirrs of electronics fade in, as samantha wakes up..

She jumps out of her skin as she see's the tubes running to her arm, and the wires attached to her chest..she starts ripping wires from her as an orderly rushes in.. haveing to restrain her from yanking out her Iv's.. Samantha Screams a blood curdling scream that can be herd echoing off the walls..

Fade in to doctors standing over Samantha looking at her catatonic state..

'You think it was caused by the concussion?'

'It's hard to say.. a concussion might explain a few things.. but this selevtive catatonia is an indication of a deeper problem.. and her constant nightly outburts is just a sign that there's something deeper going on here'

'Still waters run deep...' as they stare at her charts.. Sam just turns her head and stares off out the window..

The voices slowly settle in her ears.. as if far off.. but slowing becomming clearer..


'Hey Dave.. when's the concert?'

'It starts at 7.. but we can't be there till 8.. Sam has to close'

and then it's there.. clear as day.. Dave's face. His smile.. his eyes but she can't remember anything else.. where he grew up. Who his parents were..

even his last name.... She felt it welling up in the back of her throat.. and could hear it as if it were miles away..

the Doctors almost jump out of their skin as she sits up from her catatonia and

lets out a blood curdling scream...

'Daaaaavvveee!'

The doctors stare in awe as she struggles against her constraints... They pause in disbelief as she snaps the leather strap on her right arm with the quickness of hidden fury.

They both jump to differnet sides and try to restrain Samantha as best they can..

but she's jumping in that bed like someone hooked her up to a cattle prod and had just set it on the Nuke setting.

'I've never seen a case like this before..' gasping the taller doctor trying to restrain her freed arm..

'We need a tranq quick before she hurts herself..'

'or us..' laughing as he grunts to restrain the bucking woman underneath him..

a nurse runs in with a needle filled with clear liquid..she taps it quickly and inserts it into sam's arm..

Sam screams "No.. No drugs.. No needles.. NO!!!"
the doctors try thier best to hold her down, but she snaps like a whip.. and the needle breaks off and the syringe shatters on the floor..

Sam continues to scream as the nurse basically throws herself over the top of Sam.. trying to restrain her. The nurse gasps, "Someone get that needle! quick!"

The taller Doctor looks sharply at her arm and can see the needle spurt blood as he grasps the thin sliver of broken metal..

'Got it!' Decree's the doctor.. as he see's Sam knee jump up and slam into his face..a crunch noise reflects the condition of his glasses..as they crumbled against his eyebrows with the impact of a knee..
The nurse jumps off the bed screaming as a huge bleeding bite mark can be seen on her cheek. Three orderly's enter the room quickly.. and the muffled screams can be herd down the hall.. Sam's screams fade into a muffle..

"Dave.. where are youuuu?'

08/21/2004

Author's Note: The main plot line of this is as follows.. Boy meets girl and it goes great for about a year, the girl gets a new shrink, girl get's hyponotised.. and the character Dr. Lewis emerges and uses it to pervert her world to his whims. He'd been stalking this young girl for about a year.. and she hasen't a clue to who Dr. Lewis is.. or the fact that he'd be planning on this for a while. There'd been a problem tho with her current boyfriend.. she'd fallen in love..a Dr. Lewis became insanly jealous.. and no matter how many time's he'd hypnotised her.. she would not fall out of love with Aaron.. he created a fictional character named Dave in her mind.. which was basically Aaron, but perfect so that Aaron could never compare to Dave.. Dr. Lewis' plan was to pervert that image in her mind to meld into him someday.. and to become her lover.also in hopes that Sam would have thought that Aaron was substandard but he was perfect for her.. he loved her more than anything.. and took great a pride in being with Sam.. this had driven the Dr. to replace Aaron in Sam's life with a different person..When she looked at Aaron.. She'd See Dave. until Dr. Lewis decided it was time to change all that. He'd implanted memories that didnt exist. He'd also placed sexual abuse, rape, and insercurity in her psyche and ends up in the end driving her insane by creating this unanswerable question in her mind.. who's real and who isn't, was my abuse real?, and the more the delves into these question.. the deeper the rabbit hole goes.. as she slips into catatonia. For all intents and purposes.. Aaron is the perfect guy.. Dr. Lewis is a 40 something doctor with an affixation for young girls.. esp. Blondes. He'd been caught doing some risky things at his old practice.. but had kept a low cover since he'd moved into town 3 years ago.. only to find out in the end.. he'd been using hypnotism to further his devious plans of sex, corruption and even.. murder.He'd planted words in their minds.. and reactions that suited his needs. A single phrase could bring back trained responses.. even suicide..It's all internal.. making them think they want this more than anything...that this is what they need. Be it to kill someone.. or jump out of a 5th story window..the world of the victim is pastel colored.. and much like a dream world. Light switches dont work and common things that we take for granted can't be interacted with.. which is the only way to really tell the real from the dream. In the end.. Aaron kills Dr. Lewis while he's raping another patient..since Sam is considered insane, she can't stand up for Aaron and divulge her secrets before her suicide set off my someone else trying to hypnotise her..the blame ends up falling on Aaron and he ends up getting a lethal injection and having to die knowing he's the only one who really knows the truth of what happend.

Posted on 08/21/2004
Copyright © 2024 Aaron Howard

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