Script
Scene 1:
(Children laughing)
Sophie Harding: (walks from kitchen, out door to garden)
Sophie: (getting closer to Charlotte
(Fades to white, car screech, then fades to black)
Scene 2:
Dr Campbell: (spreads out case file on table, showing newspaper article of children in the car crash) How are you feeling Mrs Harding?
Sophie: (hesitate) I’m confused, why am I here? I’m fine.
Dr Campbell : That’s not what your husband told me, Sophie.
Sophie: Why what has he told you? Why have he been speaking to you about me?! And I’d prefer it if you called me Mrs Harding.
Dr Campbell: I think you’re very confused, and are not in a good place at the moment, the loss of your children is a very traumatic experience –
Sophie: (cuts her off) - my children aren’t dead, why would you say that?
Dr Campbell: (continues) what do you mean? Soph- Mrs Harding, you’re children died in the car accident.
Sophie: no, they didn’t, they’re alive, I know they are.
Dr Campbell: here, take these, they will make you feel more like yourself until our next session. (hands her pills)
Sophie: why do are you giving me pills? I’m not ill; I know my children are alive.
Dr Campbell: Mrs Harding, these are just precautionary, they will help you see things more clearly. You will feel better soon, I promise.
Sophie: (takes pills from her) (sarcasm) I can guarantee you, nothing is going to make me feel better, Dr Campbell.
Scene 3:
(brushing teeth, looks over at pills on shelf of mirror, continues brushing teeth, looks again at pills, stops brushing teeth, takes pills from shelf, looks in mirror, takes pills with water, puts pills down and looks again in mirror)
END.
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