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Patient Zero Sci Fi/Suspense 00:10:00
Logline: A stranger has 5 minutes to convince a woman to kill herself to save mankind. Director: Forest Olinger Writer: Joshua A. Cohen Producer: Joshua A. Cohen
Produced for the Almost Famous Film Festival 2008. The film was a Top 20 finalist, and Amanda Ouest won a Best Acting award.
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FADE IN
EXT. CONDO - DAY
PAM ZENDRA exits a condo with BRAD FORNETTI, post-coital. They kiss.
SALLY McGEE storms up to them.
SALLY Brad! How could you?
Brad and Pam are surprised.
BRAD Who the f --
SALLY -- After everything we've been through!
BRAD (to Pam) Baby, I don't know who this psycho -
BAM! Sally shoots him in the head.
Pam SCREAMS.
Sally turns the gun on Pam, who runs around the corner.
FRANK BROWN drives by.
PAM Help! Please help me!
Frank SCREECHES to a halt.
FRANK Get in!
She gets in. They drive off.
PAM Oh, thank you...
FRANK You're welcome, Pam.
PAM Wh... how do you know my name?
Frank gives her a handgun.
FRANK Everyone knows your name.
PAM Will you please let me out?
FRANK I can't. Not yet.
PAM What the hell is going on here?
FRANK My name is Frank Brown. I've come to save a lot of people.
They stop at a light. Frank locks the door.
PAM I have no idea what you're talking about. Let me out.
FRANK The man you just slept with was Brad Fornetti. You two just created a super-virus that will eventually kill 2 billion women.
Pam points the gun at him.
PAM You're insane. Let me out!
FRANK The world spent half a trillion dollars to send me back to this moment. We traced the virus to you. It was created right there in that bedroom. There is no ambiguity. There is no question.
She COCKS the gun.
PAM You have 3 seconds.
FRANK No, I have several minutes.
She lowers the gun a little.
PAM Can you prove any of this?
He reaches in the back seat and hands her a back pack. She opens in and sees a screen inside.
FRANK Men are carriers, but it's women that are killed by it. The virus was just created in your cervex, and you'll become infectious in less than 5 minutes.
She closes the back pack.
PAM So what do you want from me?
FRANK It's not what I want. It's what we all need. We need you to die.
Pam points the gun at him again.
PAM I have a good life! I have friends! I haven't hurt anyone! I don't deserve this!
FRANK I know. But neither did those 2 billion women. You owe it to them.
EXT. DESERT - SAME
They continue driving.
PAM What if I don't let you kill me?
FRANK I'm not going to kill you. You're going to kill yourself.
Beat.
PAM You can't make me.
FRANK I know. You have to make the decision yourself.
PAM Why couldn't you have just told me to use protection? Or deuche? Or not have sex with anyone for the rest of my life?
FRANK We've calculated every possible past and future. This is the only way. You killed all those women... and you're the only one who can save them.
He pulls to a stop.
PAM (CONT'D) What are you doing?
He exits the car, grabs a tank of gas from the trunk.
FRANK I've been in a hermetically sealed environment my entire life. Meeting you means I've been infected.
He douses himself in gasoline.
FRANK (CONT'D) I know you'll do the right thing, Pam.
He lights himself on fire, SCREAMS.
Pam GASPS, starts shaking and crying.
PAM This changes everything.
She looks at the keys in the ignition. She looks in the back pack again, then out to Frank's body.
With great sadness and resignation, she exits the car, walks to the fire, puts the gun to her head.
FADE OUT.
BANG.
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