TWO TRAILER PARK GIRLS ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON

                                  

                                                      
                                                              1.

FADE IN:

Tree branches dance within the rhythm of a light wind. The season of Fall has changed the tree somewhat. Splashes of orange and scarlet adorn it’s outer leaves. 

The wind strips a few colored leaves from the tree and glides them toward the ground.    

EXT. TRAILER PARK - DAY

The wind scoots dead leaves down the middle of a paved road.

Parked cars border the road. They sit in front of older model mobile homes. 

There are many trees in the park that are still thick with leaves.

EXT. TRAILER - YARD - DAY

SYLVIA, 40s, rakes her lawn. She’s fighting a loosing battle against dropping leaves, but still she keeps raking.

Sylvia is dressed in jeans and a light-weight jacket. Her hair is put up, yet the wind still manages to pull strands loose and blow them in her face.

SPOOKY, a 5 year old black lab and chow mix is attached to a tie out cord in the middle of the yard.  

Past the dog is a thick line of trees, the woods.

EXT. TRAILER - DAY

The door opens. SHERRY, 18, steps out of the trailer.

Sherry’s hair and make-up are perfect, well they perfectly match her Goth clothing. Her hair is short, and dark with hot pink bangs. Her make-up is just enough to give her face a little something extra. 

                                                     2.

                      SHERRY
          Mom, I’m bored.

Sherry drops down to the top step and sits.

Sylvia stops raking. She turns toward the trailer, toward Sherry.

Sherry sits slouched over with her chin resting on her fist, her elbow propped up on her knee. 

                      SHERRY
          There’s nothing to do.

                      SYLVIA
          Bored? I’ve got plenty of 
          things for you to do. You 
          could wash the kitchen 
          floor. Do the dishes. Clean
          the bird cage.

Sherry frowns.

                      SHERRY
          That’s not what I meant.
          -- And I already did the 
          dishes.
                                                                    
Sylvia turns back to her raking.

                      SYLVIA
          Well, I’m not taking you 
          anywhere if that’s what 
          you’re hinting at. At least
          not right now anyway. This
          is my only day off and I 
          want to get some things
          done around here.

Spooky BARKS.

Sylvia looks to find Spooky BARKING at Sherry, and jumping around, trying to get free from the rope that holds her back. 

Sylvia turns back to Sherry.

                                                     3.

                      SYLVIA
          Why don’t you take Spooky 
          for a walk?          

                      SHERRY
          Mom!

                      SYLVIA
          Poor dog. How would you 
          like to be tied up all day? 
          Bet you wouldn’t like it at 
          all. She needs some exercise.

                      SHERRY
          But --

                      SYLVIA
          -- And maybe when you get 
          back we’ll go pick out a
          pumpkin. That was another
          thing on my list of to do’s 
          for the day. Take in a 
          haunted house or two later  
          on tonight...     

Sherry looks to Spooky and frowns.

                      SHERRY
          Oh, alright. Geesh. Black-
          mailed by my own mother.

Sherry trudges down the steps, not liking what she is forced to do.

Sylvia turns back to her raking with a smile.

                      SYLVIA
          It’ll do you both some good.

Sylvia glances up from the lawn, toward Sherry as she clips a leash on the dog’s collar. 
 
                      SHERRY
          Come on, dog. Let’s go for
          a walk so Mom can finish 
          the yard.

Sherry turns toward her mother.
                                                     4.

                      SHERRY
          About how long?

                      SYLVIA
          Just go. I’ll be done when
          you get back. It doesn’t 
          look like I’m making any
          headway out here. So I might
          as well go in and clean the
          bird cage out myself.

The dog leads Sherry toward the road.

EXT. TRAILER PARK - ROAD - CONTINUOUS

Spooky pulls Sherry down the road. Sherry tugs back on the leash.

                      SHERRY
          Dumb dog! Slow down! Why
          couldn’t Mom get a cat?

People are out and about doing their thing. Children ride bicycles. A guy works on his car. Others work in their yards, raking, putting up Halloween decorations.

ROBIN, and DEBBIE, both in their 20s, are dressed in sweats. They jog together side-by-side down the middle of the road, and approach Sherry from the opposite direction.  

                      SHERRY
          Hi Robin. Debbie.

The girls acknowledge Sherry with a nod and a smile. Spooky pulls Sherry past them, further down the road.

EXT. TRAILER PARK - DAY

Spooky has slowed down somewhat. She walks a couple feet ahead of Sherry. 

Sherry notices her shoelace is untied.                                        

She bends to tie her shoelace.

                                                     5.

                      GIRL (O.S.)
          Who de hoo.

Sherry turns toward a trailer.

DIANE, 18, stands in the doorway, holding open the door.

                      DIANE
          Where you going? 

                      SHERRY
          Takin Spooky to the dog
          run. My mom blackmailed me
          into it.

Diane cups her mouth, and lowers her voice.

                      DIANE  
          Hydro’s in. 

                      SHERRY
          Sweet.

Diane looks around, satisfied that no one’s noticed them. She shakes her head yes.

                      DIANE
          How about I go with you.
          We can test this batch 
          out together.

Sherry’s face brightens.

                      SHERRY
          Hell yeah.

                      DIANE
          Let me get some. I’ll be
          right out.

Sherry looks down to the dog. Spooky patiently waits.

                      SHERRY
          Wanna get high girl?

Spooky wags her tail.

                                                     6.

Diane comes out of the trailer with one arm in her jacket. She pauses on the porch to slip her uncovered arm through the jacket sleeve. 

Diane moves down her porch steps in a gallop, and rushes down the walkway. She passes by a sign that’s posted in the lawn. 

INSERT SIGN:

 “MANAGEMENT”. 

Diane meets Sherry in the street. The two walk off.

Diane pulls a baggie of pot from her jacket pocket. 

                      DIANE
          There’s dro to roll.
          Check it out.

Diane opens the baggie, and holds it below Sherry’s nose.

                      DIANE
           Smell it. Now that’s some
           good weed. Better than what
           Shane’s got.

Sherry takes a whiff of the pot. She lifts her brow, maybe.

Diane stuffs the baggie into her jacket pocket.          

The girls walk down the street.

                      DIANE
                (singing)
          Two trailer park --

Sherry smiles. She joins in and the girls dance to their song as they move down the road.  

                      DIANE AND SHERRY
                (singing)
          -- girls go round the outside.
          Round the outside. Round the
          outside. Do Do. 

                                                     7.

They turn round a corner. 

EXT. TRAILER PARK - CONTINUOUS           
           
Sherry quits dancing when she notices flat tires on a white mid-size car. A six-inch gash has been slashed in each of the tires. 

                      SHERRY
          Look at that.

Diane looks at the tires. She cautiously pushes Sherry past the car.

                      DIANE
                (whispering)
          Keep walking. I’ll tell you
          about that when we get
          there. 

Sherry glances over her shoulder at a trailer, but keeps on walking.

The front window on the trailer is covered with plastic. The glass pane has been broken.

The dog run, just ahead... across the street. It sits back off the road in a grassy lot. There are woods on one side of the dog run, and a small playground with swings and monkey bars on the opposite side.

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

A sign is posted on the fence for all to see. 

It reads: “This run is for park resident use only.”

Beneath the sign, another, which reads: “A kindly reminder, please remember to scoop your poop”.

A pooper scooper rests against the fence just below the sign. It’s propped up next to a garbage can. The can has a lid on it, yet the black beneath the lid tells that it’s lined with a black bag.

                                                     8.

Inside the dog run, a bench for sitting. No one is there.

EXT. TRAILER PARK - GRASSY LOT - DAY

Diane lifts a pack of gum from her pant pocket. She takes a stick from the pack, and offers a piece to Sherry. Sherry takes a stick of gum. She opens it, and plops it into her mouth. 

Sherry wads the wrapper up in her hand, and holds it.

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

Diane reaches for the gate and opens it. Sherry pauses at the garbage can. She lifts the lid.

Sherry’s face shrivels with disgust. She leans away from the can.

                      SHERRY
          Woo ooh.

She drops her gum wrapper inside and quickly puts the lid back on.

                      SHERRY
          Don’t you guys ever empty
          this thing?

Diane has a smile on her face.

                      DIANE
          Sure. When it’s full.

                      SHERRY
          Well, it’s full.          

Sherry shivers, makes a face. 

Diane, Sherry, and Spooky go inside the dog run. Once in, Sherry secures the latch on the gate, and unclips Spooky’s leash.  

                      SHERRY
          Go on girl. Run. Go play.
                                                     9.

Sherry and Diane go to the bench and sit. Spooky wanders off, sniffing the ground.

Diane lifts the baggie of pot and some papers from her pocket.

                      DIANE
          You seein Dylan tonight?

                      SHERRY
          No. He’s a jerk. All guys
          are jerks.

                      DIANE
          What happened?

Diane rolls a joint.

                      SHERRY
          He wouldn’t answer my calls
          so I drove by there 
          yesterday with Laura. He
          was sitting on his porch 
          with some other girl. She
          was all pressed up against
          him. 

Diane shakes her head. She licks the joint, secures it’s seal.

                     DIANE
          He’s such a horn dog. He 
          did that to his last girl-
          friend, too.

                      SHERRY
          He’s history. 

Sherry looks across the street toward the trailers.

                      SHERRY
          So what happened over
          there?

Diane looks and finds the trailer with the broken window. The car with the flat tires parked in front of the trailer.

                                                    10.

                      DIANE 
          You know how Debbie and Chuck
          are always fighting...

                      SHERRY
          Yeah.

                      DIANE
          Well...

EXT. TRAILER - NIGHT

The white mid-sized car is parked out front. The tires are full of air. Lights are on inside the trailer.

O. S. CRASHES come from inside the trailer. 

                      WOMAN (OS)
          Get out before I call the 
          police!

                      MAN (OS)
          You gonna call the cops on
          me!?

O. S. CRASH comes from inside.

                      WOMAN (OS)
          I can’t take it anymore!
          Get out!

A microwave oven CRASHES through the front window and drops to the ground.

A foot kicks through the aluminum door. The door opens, and the bottom part of the door flies out into the yard. 

The foot belongs to CHUCK, 30s. He steps out onto the porch, dressed in a flannel jacket and jeans, and moves down the steps. A beer bottle is in his hand. 

Chuck lifts the bottle to his mouth and takes his last drink. He flings the bottle into the yard. Chuck turns toward the door. 

                                                    11. 

                      CHUCK 
          This ain’t over yet!

Chuck looks around, then leaves.

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

Diane turns from the trailer and faces Sherry.

                      DIANE 
          Debbie thinks he came back
          in the middle of the night
          and slashed her tires.

Diane lights the joint. 

                      SHERRY
          Damn. Yeah, I can see him
          doin that. That guy gives 
          me the creeps. 

Diane nods in agreement.

                      DIANE
          My Mom calls him upchuck.

Sherry’s face brightens, she likes that. Diane puffs on the joint. 

                      SHERRY
          Puff puff give. 

Diane passes the joint to Sherry. Sherry takes a hit.

                      DIANE
          So, what do you think? Good
          stuff huh?

Sherry nods. 

Spooky goes to Sherry, and sits at her feet.

Sherry notices Spooky. She exhales the smoke toward her. Spooky sniffs the smoke.

                      SHERRY
          You’re such a pothead.
                                                    12.

Sherry passes the joint to Diane.
                                                                  
                      SHERRY
          It calms her, but she only
          likes a little. Can’t blow
          a bunch at her.

Diane hits the joint. She exhales the smoke toward  Spooky. Spooky lays down.

Diane LAUGHS.

                      DIANE
          She’s stoned. 

Sherry smiles, nods in agreement.

Diane looks around, and notices something. She elbows Sherry.

                      DIANE
          Look.

Sherry turns to find Chuck across the road. He’s walking toward the trailer, and he’s not alone. He’s walking a German Shepherd on a leash. Chuck opens the broken door and goes inside the trailer.

Sherry turns to Diane.

                      SHERRY
          They got a dog?

Diane shrugs, she doesn’t know. She passes the joint.

                      DIANE
          One my Dad doesn’t know
          about. Come on. Puff
          puff give.

EXT. DEBBIE’S TRAILER - DAY

Debbie and Robin slow to a walk outside the trailer.
                                                     MAN in his 40s pulls up in a black pick-up truck and stops. Debbie notices him. She smiles.

                                                    13.

Debbie turns toward Robin.

                      DEBBIE
          You can go on in. I’ll be
          right there.

Robin goes toward the trailer.

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

Debbie and Sherry look toward the trailer. 
                                                                   
They watch Robin go inside.

O. S. SCREAMS come from inside the trailer.

Diane stands, trying to get a better look at the trailer.

Diane sees Chuck drop out of a window on one side of the trailer. On the other side of the trailer, Debbie runs to the door, and opens it. 

Chuck sneaks up to the front of the trailer. He looks to make sure the coast is clear. He’s spotted by the man in the pick-up truck.

                      MAN IN PICK UP
          Hey! 

Debbie looks toward the truck. She watches Chuck bolt past the truck and head for the woods. 

Diane stares at Chuck as he runs through the grass.

                      DIANE
           I see you upchuck! What
           ever you did, you’re not
           getting away with it!

Chuck eyes Diane and Sherry as he passes them. He enters the woods.

EXT. DEBBIE’S TRAILER - DAY

The German Shepherd runs out of the trailer.
                                                    14.

Something red is on the shepherd’s chest. In fact, something red is smeared all over the dog’s face. It’s blood. The dog lunges at Debbie. She kicks the dog, and it falls off the porch. Debbie goes inside. 

O. S. SCREAMS come from inside the trailer.

The man in the pick up opens his door, but the shepherd lunges at him, forces him back inside.

The SCREAMS continue.

EXT. DOG RUN - CONTINUOUS

Diane looks toward Debbie’s trailer.

                      DIANE
          What the hell?

EXT. TRAILER PARK - ROAD - CONTINUOUS

KAYLA, 8, on her bike. She’s two trailers down from Debbie’s trailer, and riding toward it.

EXT. DOG RUN - CONTINUOUS 

Diane steps outside the dog run. She’s looking at the girl in the street.  

                      DIANE
          Kayla! Turn around!

Kayla looks toward her. She is scooped off of her bike and thrown into the back of the pick-up truck by the 40 year old driver. 

The driver dives into the truck bed behind Kayla, but he’s not as lucky. The shepherd bites onto his shoe. He kicks the dog loose.

The dog leaps, almost up on the truck bed, and falls back.  

                                                    15.

EXT. GRASSY LOT - CONTINUOUS 

Diane stands in the middle of the lot. She’s looking toward the road. 

                      DIANE
          Hey doggie dog! Look this
          way! Come on!

The shepherd turns from the truck, and faces her. Here he comes, and he’s hauling ass. 

                      SHERRY(OS)
          Run Diane! Run! 

Diane turns back toward the dog run, and runs. She turns to look over her shoulder. 

The dog is only a few feet behind her.

EXT. DOG RUN - CONTINUOUS

Sherry opens the gate, and Diane makes it back inside. Sherry quickly closes the gate, and the shepherd slams to a stop against the fence.

The shepherd is pissed. It bears it’s fangs, and lunges up onto the fence, trying to get inside.  

Spooky runs to the gate. The hair on her back is up. She BARKS fiercely at the dog on the other side of the fence. 

                      SHERRY
          Spooky no!

Sherry pulls Spooky back from the gate. She stoops next to Spooky and holds onto her collar. 

The shepherd paces back and forth showing it’s teeth. It wants in.

                      DIANE
          Shit!

                                                    16.

Diane moves toward Sherry and Spooky. The three huddle                                   
together, waiting...

The shepherd isn’t giving up. It paces along the fence line and GROWLS at the three inside.

                      SHERRY
          What now?

An idea lights across Sherry’s face.

                      SHERRY
          The pot!

Diane looks at Sherry.

                      DIANE
          What?

                      SHERRY
          Get it high.

Diane’s fingers shake nervously as she takes the pot from her jacket pocket.

EXT. TRAILER PARK - WOODS NEXT TO THE DOG RUN - DAY

A hand pushes the brush to one side. 

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

The shepherd BARKS ferociously through the fence. 

Diane jolts, and drops the joint.

                      DIANE
          Oh God.  

Diane lifts the joint from the ground, and crawls toward the gate. 

                      DIANE
          Here puppy puppy. I got
          somethin for you.

Spooky BARKS. Sherry pulls back on her collar.
                                                    17.
                                                     
                      SHERRY
          Ssshhhh.

Diane sits inside the gate. The shepherd lunges toward her face. Diane leans back.

The shepherd SNARLS.
                                                                  
Diane lights the joint. She puffs on it and blows a large cloud of smoke directly into the dogs mouth. The shepherd bites into the fence. Diane puffs on the joint some more, and blows it into the dog’s face.

                      DIANE
          Come on now work. -- Lay
          down puppy. You know you 
          gotta. Don’t fight it, now. 
          Lay down.

Diane tokes on the joint, and blows more smoke into the shepherd’s face.

The shepherd has finally had enough. It lays down outside the gate. Diane turns to face Sherry.

                      DIANE 
          It worked. I told you this
          is some good shit. 

Sherry and Spooky inch toward the gate. The shepherd lies still. It’s stoned. 

Sherry cautiously inches the gate inward. The shepherd doesn’t move.

Diane looks at Sherry.

                      DIANE
          Go. Get outta here.

Sherry lifts Spooky into her arms. She carefully steps around the shepherd and goes out of the dog run.

Diane moves back inside. She bends down toward the dog, and inches back.

                      DIANE
          Here puppy puppy.
                                                    18.

Sherry puts Spooky down.

                      SHERRY
          Have you lost your mind?

Diane shakes her head no. She pats her legs, trying to coax the dog inside.

                      DIANE
          Come on now...

The shepherd lifts it’s head. It scoots on the ground, and inches itself inside the dog run.

Sherry unclips the leash from Spooky’s collar.

                      SHERRY
          Go home girl. 

Diane watches the shepherd inch toward her.

                      DIANE
          Just a little bit more.  

The shepherd is inside.

Diane straightens up, and runs past the dog. She makes it outside the gate, and latches the door. She’s safe. Diane kicks at the gate.

                      DIANE
          How do you like me now
          bitch.

The shepherd lies motionless inside the dog run.

                      DIANE
          That’s what I thought.

EXT. GRASSY LOT - DAY

Chuck steps out from the woods. He’s pissed. 

Chuck watches Diane kick at the fence. 

He moves toward her.

                                                    19.

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

Diane LAUGHS at the shepherd. An arm reaches around her neck, grabs her. It’s Chuck.

                      SHERRY
          Let her go you creep!

A knife is in Chuck’s hand. He raises it to Diane’s face.

                      CHUCK
          So you saw me huh? How
          bout I pop your eyes out
          one at a time. You won’t
          see nothin then.

Spooky didn’t leave. She stands at Sherry’s feet. The hair on her back is up. Spooky runs up behind Chuck and bites him in his butt.

                      CHUCK 
          Yeeeeoooowwwwww!

Chuck loosens his hold on Diane, and turns toward Spooky.

                      CHUCK
          You little...

Diane lifts the lid from the garbage can. She slams it down on top of Chuck’s head.

                      DIANE
          Take that upchuck!

Sherry runs to the pooper scooper. She lifts it and takes a swing. It connects with the back of Chuck’s head. 

                      SHERRY
          You big pile of puke!

Spooky lunges on the back of Chuck’s legs, forcing them to bend. Diane hits Chuck with the garbage can lid again. Sherry beats Chuck with the pooper scooper.

                                                    20.
                                                     
Chuck falls forward. His face drops into the garbage can. The girls continue to beat on him.

EXT. DEBBIE’S TRAILER - STREET - DAY

An ambulance and a police car pulls up.

EXT. DOG RUN - DAY

Diane bashes Chuck with the garbage can lid, forcing him further into the garbage can. 

Sherry looks toward the street.

Sherry watches the cop get out of his car.

                      SHERRY
          Hey! He’s over here!

Diane looks to the street.

The cop is moving across the grass, coming toward them.

                      DIANE
          Good.

Diane drops the garbage lid to the ground. Sherry leans the pooper scooper back against the fence, and finds Spooky’s leash on the ground. She clips the leash on Spooky’s collar.

Chuck pulls his head out of the garbage can. He’s covered in brown goo. He makes a face, disgusted by himself.

The cop cuffs Chuck.

                      SHERRY
          That’s his dog inside the run.

The cop nods. He sees the shepherd.

                      COP
          God damn boy! What’s that
          smell? 

                                                    21.
                                                     
Diane smiles proudly.

                      DIANE
          It’s dog poop. Ha! Ha! That’s
          funny! Upchuck’s covered in
          poop! There’s poop on the
          puke!

Diane LAUGHS hysterically.

                      COP
          You ain’t gettin in my car
          like that. We’re gonna have 
          to hose you off first.

Diane and Sherry turn away. They slap each other’s hand in a high five. Sherry reaches down toward Spooky, and pets her.

                      SHERRY     
          You’re such a good girl.

Spooky wags her tail. The three walk away from the dog run. Diane looks toward Sherry. 

                       DIANE
                (singing)
          Guess who’s back. Back again.
          Sherry’s back. Tell a friend.
          Do doo.

Sherry smiles at Diane. Diane nods at her, and begins to dance as she walks. Sherry joins in with the song and dance as they move away from the dog run. 

                      DIANE AND SHERRY
                (singing)  
          Two trailer park girls go
          round the outside. Round the
          outside. Round the outside.
          Do doo --

Sherry looks down to Spooky.

                      SHERRY
                (singing)
          -- Ooou... With a friend
          named of Spook. Do do.
                                                    22.

Spooky wags her tail.
                                                     Spooky, Sherry, and Diane move across the grassy lot, heading toward the trailers.

                                             FADE OUT.