Thursday, February 7, 2013

HONEY # 13 (final)


...continuing on from HONEY # 12...

269 INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT

HELEN looks at Honey’s present. She opens it. Inside there is a CD and

four cellophane packets with violin strings in them. HELEN stares at
them for a long moment.


270 INT. STUDIO LOFT. NIGHT


JASPER sits with her back to the wall on Daniel’s futon. DANIEL,

Jasper’s Illustrated Biblical stories in his hands (he has been
reading to her) sits beside her.

JASPER

Mum really does love you.

DANIEL

I know.

JASPER

Almost as much as me.

DANIEL laughs, takes JASPER in his arms, hugs her tight. JASPER’S face

breaks into a radiant smile.

271 INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT


The room is empty. Violin music plays on the CD deck. Moving into the

room we see half a dozen small goblets of different coloured liqueurs.
The camera moves to the water damaged photo albums spread out on the
white ‘leather’ sofa. Resting on one is an almost empty glass of
Brandy.

HONEY sits on the sofa, picks up a photo album, looks at:


A photo of YOUNG HELEN, (9), violin tucked between her neck shoulder,

smiling happily for the camera.

HONEY looks up, sees HELEN walk into the room.


HONEY

Couldn’t leave without having one last crepe, ay!

HELEN smiles.


HONEY

Perfectly symmetrical, please.

HELEN  laughs.


A LITTLE LATER


HELEN drinks a small goblet of red liqueur.


HELEN

Want a green one or a red one?

HONEY looks at the small goblets of liqueur.


HONEY

One of each!

HELEN smiles, unscrews the top of the kerosene bottle, starts to fill

the base of the chafing dish.

272 INT. DANIEL’S ‘LOFT’. NIGHT


DANIEL and JASPER lie together on the futon – JASPER’S head on

DANIEL’S chest. They both have their eyes open.

DANIEL

You thinking the same as me?

JASPER nods.


273 INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT


HELEN, more than a little drunk, dances around the room playing an

imaginary violin in tune with the up tempo violin music playing on the
CD. HONEY dances with her.

HONEY

To beautiful lies!

HONEY and HELEN pick up glasses of liqueur, toss them back.


HELEN

To beautiful crepes! Symmetrical crepes.

HELEN laughs, lights a long match.


274 EXT. OLD FACTORY. NIGHT


DANIEL kick starts his Harley. JASPER puts on a crash helmet.


275 INT. DINING ROOM NIGHT


HELEN splashes Brandy straight from the bottle into the flambé pan.

Flames leap up. HONEY looks on, excited. HELEN splashes more Brandy
into the pan. The flames leap higher. HELEN laughs; HONEY is
mesmerized. HELEN sloshes a large amount of Brandy into the flambé
dish. There is an explosion of flames  - the fire backing up to the
bottle itself and igniting the fumes in it in a small explosion. HELEN
drops the bottle. Brandy sprays onto the carpet, the white ‘leather’
couch, igniting as it goes.

276 EXT. CITY STREET. NIGHT


DANIEL drives his motor bike. JASPER clings on the back.


277 INT DINING ROOM. NIGHT


HELEN looks to her photo albums, arranged on the table by the burning

'leather' couch - in the early (and not particularly dangerous) stages
of a fire. She makes her way over to them, piles them on top of each
other and turns to rush from the increasingly smoky room. She bumps
into the edge of the table in her panic and knocks over the bottle of
kerosene. Kerosene spills from the bottle onto the table and then the
floor but does not, at this stage, come into contact with any flame.

278 INT KITCHEN. NIGHT


HONEY stands in the smoky kitchen – mobile phone in hand.


HONEY

Daniel, pick up. Please…

There is a flash of light in the doorway. The kerosene has ignited.


279 EXT. CITY STREET. NIGHT


JASPER smiles happily as the wind whips the hair around her face.

DANIEL is driving fast. He leans the Harley over as he takes a corner.
The foot rest catches the bitumen, sends up a flurry of sparks. JASPER
laughs gleefully.

280 INT DINING ROOM. NIGHT


HONEY rushes into the room. HELEN is sprawled on the floor –photo

albums spread on the carpet in front of her. The fire is serious now.
HONEY helps HELEN to her feet, drags her towards the kitchen door.
HELEN looks back at her photo albums.

HELEN

My photos!

HELEN pulls free of HONEY, rushes back to her photo albums.


281 EXT. CITY STREETS. NIGHT


CLOSE ON a footrest scraping the bitumen’; sending up an explosion of sparks.


CLOSE on JASPER laughing as DANIEL leans into yet another curve,

driving fast. Up ahead:

A fire engine. The glow of a fire in the distance


DANIEL overtakes the fire engine – siren blaring, red lights flashing.

Concern shows  in is face.

282 EXT. DANIEL AND HELEN’S HOUSE. NIGHT


DANIEL and JASPER arrive a little ahead of the Fire Engine, get off

the motor bike and run towards the house. There is no sign on Helen or
Honey. JASPER screams.

HELEN and HONEY emerge from the front door – coughing and spluttering.

DANIEL and JASPER rush forward, hug them both. DANIEL turns, sees the
Fire Engine pulling up, runs to greet the FIREMEN.

HELEN and JASPER look back at the Fire Engine for a moment also and do

not notice that HONEY is staring at the fire –mesmerized. As FIREMEN
spill from the Fire Engine HONEY starts to walk towards the front door
– picking up pace as she goes. By the time HELEN and JASPER turn back
to the fire HONEY is walking fast now towards the front door.

HELEN

Honey! No.

HELEN runs after HONEY. DANIEL turns, sees HONEY running now to the

front door. He takes off after her.

DANIEL

Honey, stop...

As HONEY disappears in through the front door, HELEN can see that

DANIEL intends to follow her. She intercepts him, grabs hold of him.

HELEN

No.

DANIEL struggles to free himself from HELEN. JASPER screams. TWO

FIREMEN can see what is going on and rush to the front door. They take
one look at the flames and decide not to go inside. DANIEL breaks free
of HELEN, arrives at the front door and tries to get past the FIREMEN.
They block his entrance.

FIREMAN

No, mate…

JASPER runs into HELEN’S arms. HELEN holds JASPER tight – both of them

crying, hysterical.

JASPER (voice over)

There was nothing anyone could do. Honey had gone to meet her angels.

283 INT. CHURCH. DAY


JASPER sits between DANIEL and HELEN in the church. The PRIEST waves

the thurible over the coffin.

JASPER (voice over)

At least that’s what we thought as we stood there,helpless…but God was
in that fire and he had his plans for Honey…

CLOSE ON the coffin.


JASPER (voice over)

Just like he did for Shadrach, Meshach and Abedigo.

The shot of the coffin tilts down to reveal, resting up against it,

Daniel’s portrait of Grant – his eyes blazing.



284 EXT. DANIEL AND HELEN’S HOUSE. NIGHT.


JASPER, clinging tightly to HELEN, watches the house burn – all three

in deep shock. Suddenly JASPER screams:

JASPER

Honey!

Behind an upstairs window, surrounded by fire, is HONEY.


285 INT. HALLWAY. NIGHT


HONEY, clutching something wrapped in a blanket, runs from the window

to the top of the stairs. They are on fire. She is trapped.

286 EXT. HOUSE. NIGHT


HELEN and JASPER are screaming; hysterical. DANIEL helps the FIREMEN

get a ladder from the side of the Fire Engine.

287 INT. HALLWAY. NIGHT


HONEY, seemingly mesmerized, stares into the flames leaping up the

stairway. She snaps out of it, runs to the window, tries to open it.
She can’t. It is locked. The heat is getting to her. She is surrounded
by flames now. She looks around for some escape route. Her eyes fall
on an antique chair.

288 EXT. HOUSE. NIGHT


HELEN and JASPER watch in panic as DANIEL and the FIREMEN run towards

the wall with a ladder.

The upstairs window shatters. In slow motion the antique chair flies

through the air. A moment later HONEY climbs onto the window sill,
clutching something wrapped in the blanket.

CLOSE on HONEY, framed by fire. She looks back to the fire, looks

down, closes her eyes and jumps. She falls, in slow motion, into the
arms of DANIEL and a FIREMAN - losing hold of the blanket-wrapped
object in her arms.

HELEN and JASPER greet HONEY with hugs, kisses, tears.


They watch the fire for a moment – all in various stages of shock.

HONEY’S hair is singed and she has some minor burns. An AMBULANCE
OFFICER rushes up to attend to HONEY.

A LITTLE LATER


HONEY sits at the back of an ambulance as the AMBULANCE OFFICER

dresses burns  on her arm. HONEY looks at

HELEN and JASPER watching the fire as DANIEL talks to a FIREMAN

nearby. JASPER turns, starts to walk back towards HONEY and the
ambulance.

HONEY takes out her mobile phone.


DANIEL rejoins HELEN and for a moment they look at the fire. HELEN

starts crying. DANIEL wraps his arms around her. HELEN looks back to
where HONEY sits behind the ambulance, mobile phone to her ear.

HELEN

She risked her life for my silly photos.

HELEN smiles through her tears. DANIEL brushes them away. HELEN looks

at the house on fire – the FIREMEN now with hoses  playing on it.

HELEN

Haven’t got a secret stash of marshmellows, I suppose!

DANIEL smiles, kisses HELEN lightly on the lips. They look at each –

deep into each others eyes. With flames leaping in the background
DANIEL moves to kiss HELEN again – his eyes wide open. They kiss –
their eyes locked on each others.

HONEY, mobile at her ear, waits nervously. In the background JASPER

stops alongside the object wrapped in a blanket.

HONEY

Mum…?

There is no response.


HONEY

I’m coming home, mum. A BEAT) I’m going to take care of you. (A BEAT)
I love you.

There is a long moment’s silence.


HONEY’S MOTHER

I love you too…(A BEAT) what’s your name these days?

HONEY(smiles)

Honey.

HONEY’S MOTHER

Honey.

JASPER finishes unwrapping the blanket. We do not see what is inside

it. She smiles, shakes her head in amazement, looks back to the
ambulance, sees HONEY talking animatedly on her mobile – her face
beaming with the happiest smile.

JASPER looks down at Helen’s battered violin case. She opens it and

takes out Helen’s violin – newly strung.

THE END

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