Bugs

EXT. SCHOOL GROUNDS - ESTABLISHING SHOT


The school seems perfectly ordinary, if a little empty at the
moment. There are no foreboding signs of what is to
come.

INT. SCHOOL BUILDING


The JANITOR is standing behind a desk that comes up to above
his waist, and is looking down at nothing in particular. The JANITOR is
a young man, but he looks nervous, tired and worried. He is constantly
fidgeting and avoids eye contact.

The Exterminator gives the Janitor a very stern look, and he
trails off.

The Exterminator gives him another very stern look, and the
Janitor trails off again.

The Exterminator scribbles something on a slip of paper,
leaves it on the desk and walks off. The Janitor stays quiet and stares
at an invisible spot on the desk.

INT. SCHOOL BUILDING


The Janitor is in a deserted area of the school, sweeping up
while the children are in lesson. As he goes about his mundane task a
strange, ethereal noise takes him by surprise. He looks around for the
source of the noise, but finds nothing. A pupil walks by and is clearly
oblivious to whatever it is that the Janitor can hear.

INT. SCHOOL BUILDING


The children have all left. The background is deserted. The
Janitor and his boss are sitting in a small room.

He points in the direction of the Janitor and recoils in mock
horror. He looks immensely amused. The Janitor tries to summon up the
same expression of pleasure, but fails miserably.

EXT. SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY


The Janitor is walking around the empty school. As he walks
past the willow sculpture, a large twisting formation of branches
growing from the ground, the noises he heard earlier return, more
pronounced than ever. He stops and stares at the sculpture in
amazement.

INT. SCHOOL BUILDING


The Janitor and his boss are in the same room they were seen
in before. The Boss is reading a magazine, and the Janitor is staring
straight ahead, deep in thought.

He ignores the question, drops his magazine on the floor,
stands up and walks out.

But by this point the Boss has left and doesn't hear (or
chooses to ignore) the Janitor's momentary loss of
control.

EXT. SCHOOL GROUNDS - DAY


The Janitor stands in front of the willow sculpture for a
while. It towers above him. After a moment's deliberation, he walks
into the centre of the sculpture and we lose sight of
him.

The credits roll, but half way through they cut away for a
short shot of the willow sculpture with people crowded round. It seems
to have been turned into the scene of an emergency. People are staring
in horror at something we can't see and everyone looks generally
distraught. One person is being led away from the scene, towards the
camera, head in hands. Cut back to credits.