MOTIVE PILOT "Creeping Tom" - Zen 134237

CONTINUED:62.SNOW (cont'd)So you want to tell me how ithappened, Tom? Why’d you kill Mr.Martin?SLOWLY PUSH IN on Tom. The world closing in. Tighter andtighter. Tom’s face appears beyond hope.TOMHe found my backpack.The park behind Tom SWIRLS INTO a green chalkboard. We’re --INT. MR. MARTIN’S CLASSROOM - DAYTom stands in front of the chalkboard. PAN to Mr. Martin’sdesk. Mr. Martin leans against it holding Tom’s backpack.MR. MARTINYou left it in the park.TOMHow’d you know whose it was?MR. MARTINI checked inside for an ID. I foundsomething we need to discuss.TOMThe marijuana isn’t mine.MR. MARTINIt’s not the drugs I’m worriedabout.The teacher pulls out a DIARY. Tom looks up, intenselyviolated and humiliated, and takes a threatening stepforward. His body is coiled, ready to attack.TOMThat’s my diary.MR. MARTINIt reads more like a manifesto.You’re holding a lot of hatredinside, Tom.Mr. Martin flips through pages. We can’t see them clearly.We’re not meant to. But what we can make out is disturbing.Violent drawings. Pools of blood. Bodies being tortured,abused. It’s a peek into a dark and dissociative world.(CONTINUED)