· 8 years ago · Mar 13, 2018, 12:56 AM
1CARPATHIAN RIDGE - SUNRISE
2Donnie is asleep on road next to his bicycle. He wakes up, stands up, and smiles.
3(Music: The Killing Moon – Echo and the Bunnymen)
4
5Donnie gets on his bike and cycles home. At one point he cycles past a red Trans Am travelling in the opposite direction.
6
7DARKO HOUSE – FRONT YARD
8Donnie’s father is leaf blowing. Donnie’s sister approaches the father, and he points the leaf blower at her. She runs off, and the father laughs. Donnie arrives at home and dumps his bike. Donnie’s youngest sister is on a trampoline, and his mother is reading Stephen King’s It next to her in a chair. Donnie enters the kitchen and opens the fridge. “Where is Donnie?†is written on a board on the fridge.
9DARKO HOUSE – EVENING
10All the family are eating at the table.
11
12Elizabeth Darko: “I’m voting for Dukakisâ€
13
14Eddie Darko: Hmm, well. Maybe when you have children of your own and they need braces, and you can’t afford them because half of your husbands pay check goes to the federal government, you will uh regret that decision ….
15
16Elizabeth Darko: My husbands pay cheque? Anyway, I’m not going to squeeze one out till I’m, like, 30.
17
18Rose Darko: *Chuckles*
19
20Donnie Darko: Will you still be working at the Yarn Barn? Because I hear that’s a really great place to raise children.
21
22Elizabeth Darko: That’s really funny
23
24Rose Darko: No, I think a year of partying is enough. She’ll be going to Harvard next fall.
25
26Elizabeth Darko: Mom, I haven’t even gotten in yet.
27
28Rose Darko: Do you honestly think Michael Dukakis will provide for this country till you’re ready to squeeze one out?
29
30Elizabeth Darko: Yeah, I do.
31
32Samantha Darko: When can I squeeze one out?
33
34Donnie Darko: Not until 8th grade.
35
36Rose Darko: Excuse me?
37
38Elizabeth Darko: Donnie, you’re suck a dick.
39
40Donnie Darko: Whoa, Elizabeth! A little hostile there. Maybe you should be the one in therapy. Then Mom and Dad can pay someone $200 an hour to listen to your thoughts so we don’t have to.
41
42Elizabeth Darko: OK, you want to tell Mom and Dad why you stopped taking your medication?
43
44Donnie Darko: You’re suck a fuck-ass!
45
46Elizabeth Darko: What?!
47
48Rose Darko: Please.
49
50Elizabeth Darko: Did you just call me a “fuck-ass�
51
52Rose Darko: Elizabeth, that’s enough.
53
54Elizabeth Darko: You can go suck a fuck.
55
56Father puts fingers in ears, and tells Samantha to do the same.
57
58Donnie Darko: Oh please tell me, Elizabeth, how exactly does one suck a fuck?
59
60Elizabeth Darko: You want me to tell you?
61
62Donnie Darko: Please, tell me.
63
64Rose Darko: We will not have this at the dinner table.
65
66Donnie pushes his ears forward and mouths “I’m all ears†to Elizabeth.
67
68Rose Darko: Stop.
69
70Elizabeth Darko: Fuck.
71
72Samantha Darko: What’s a fuck-ass?
73
74*Father laughs
75
76DARKO HOUSE, DONNIE’S ROOM - EVENING
77*Donnie is sitting up in bed reading. His mother knocks at the door, enters and closes the door.
78
79Donnie Darko: I’m reading get out of my room.
80
81Rose Darko: Where do you go at night?
82
83Rose Darko: Would you just get out of my room?
84
85Rose Darko: Did you toilet paper the Johnson’s house?
86
87Donnie Darko: Is that what you came in here to ask me?
88
89Rose Darko: No.
90
91Donnie Darko: I stopped rolling houses in the sixth grade, Mom.
92
93Rose Darko: What happened to my son? I don’t’ recognize this person today.
94
95Donnie Darko: Then why don’t you start taking the goddamn pills?
96
97Mother leave and closes the door.
98
99Donnie Darko. Bitch.
100
101DARKO HOUSE, LANDING
102<Mother hears Donnie and stops.>
103
104DARKO HOUSE, PARENTS BEDROOM
105<Father is lying on bed reading. Mother is standing next to bed.>
106
107Rose Darko: Our son just called me a bitch.
108
109Eddie Darko: You’re not a bitch. You’re bitching, but you’re not a bitch.
110
111DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
112<Donnie opens bathroom cabinet and takes some pills.>
113
114DARKO HOUSE, PARENTS BEDROOM
115<Father wakes up and gets out of bed.>
116
117DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
118Michael Dukakis (on television): I want to be a president of the United States who makes sure that we never again do business with a drug-running Panamanian dictator.
119
120<Father is sitting in chair watching television.>
121
122Michael Dukakis (on television): That we never again ….
123
124Eddie Darko: Dukakis.
125
126Michael Dukakis (on television): …. Funnel aid to the Contras through convicted drug dealers.
127
128Eddie Darko: Son of a bitch.
129
130George Bush (on television): Panama is a friendly country. I went down and talked to the President of Panama …
131
132Eddie Darko: Tell him George!
133
134George Bush (on television): …. about cleaning up their money laundering. And Mr. Noriega was there, ….
135
136<Grandfather clock begins to strike midnight.>
137
138George Bush (on television): …. but there was no evidence at that time. When the evidence was there, we indicted him.
139
140OCTOBER 2 1988
141MD Frank: Wake up.
142
143DARKO HOUSE, DONNIE’S BEDROOM
144Donnie gets up, eyes closed, and sleepwalks to the door.
145
146DARKO HOUSE, LANDING
147MD Frank: I’ve been watching you.
148
149<Donnie sleepwalks down the stairs.>
150
151DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
152<Donnie’s father is asleep. Donnie sleepwalks through the room and into the kitchen. He takes the pen from the board on the fridge.>
153
154MD Frank: Come closer.
155
156DARKO HOUSE, FRONT GARDEN
157<Donnie leaves the house. Donnie walks down the front garden path.>
158
159MD Frank: Closer.
160
161GOLF COURSE
162MD Frank: 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.
163
164Donnie Darko: Why?
165
166DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
167<TV is on but there is no signal. Father is still asleep in chair.>
168
169DARKO HOUSE, PARENTS BEDROOM
170<Mother is asleep in bed.>
171
172DARKO HOUSE - HALL
173<Rumble of car engine, and Elizabeth Darko enters, closes the front door, leans back against it, sighs, you can hear a car horn, she laughs to herself.>
174
175**CRASH**
176
177DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
178<Father is woken by crash. Impact knocks all the books on the floor from the bookshelves.>
179
180DARKO HOUSE, PARENTS BEDROOM
181<Mother is woken by crash.>
182
183DARKO HOUSE, FRONT DOOR
184<Elizabeth sinks to her knees in fright.>
185
186DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
187<Father gets out of his chair. Car alarms can be heard blaring.>
188
189DARK HOUSE, FRONT DOOR
190<Elizabeth can be heard breathing in fear.>
191
192GOLF COURSE - MORNING
193Dr. Fisher: Son? Son. Donnie Darko? Donnie Darko. What the heck’s going on here?
194
195<Donnie begins to wake up.>
196
197Jim Cunningham: Who is it?
198
199Dr. Fisher: It’s Eddie Darko’s kid. I’m sorry about this Jim, it’s just a neighbourhood kid.
200
201Jim Cunningham: I guess he was sleep golfing?
202
203Dr. Fisher: (Laughs). Watch out for that drool spot.
204
205<Donnie stands up.>
206
207Jim Cunningham: Are you all right son?
208
209<Donnie looks at his left arm. On it is written 28:06:42:12 in black felt tip pen.>
210
211Dr. Fisher: So ah, lets stay off the links at night, OK?
212
213Donnie Darko: I’m sorry Dr. Fisher. It won’t happen again.
214
215<Donnie walks off.>
216
217Dr. Fisher: I hate kids.
218
219Jim Cunningham: Let’s golf.
220
221DARKO HOUSE, OUTSIDE
222<Fire engines, police cars and ambulances are outside the house, including personnel>
223
224Fire-fighter: Let’s go, fire it up!
225
226<Donnie approaches the house.>
227
228Woman: Donnie, Donnie, Donnie. What happened to your house?
229
230Police Officer: No one’s allowed through here.
231
232Donnie Darko: This is my house.
233
234<Police officer tries to restrain Donnie, but he pushes through.>
235
236Police Officer: I said …
237
238Donnie Darko: This is my house!
239
240Police Officer: He’s OK.
241
242<A jet engine is being winched clear of the house by a crane. The rest of the Darko family are standing at the foot of the crane watching.>
243
244Eddie Darko: Wait a minute. Here’s your brother.
245
246Rose Darko: Oh …
247
248Samantha Darko: It fell in your room.
249
250<A fire-fighter clears some debris from the roof.>
251
252Fire-fighter: Watch yourself down there.
253
254<Several men in black suits and sunglasses approach the family.>
255
256Bob Garland: Ms. Darko, I’m Bob Garland. I’m with the FAA.
257
258Rose Darko: The what?
259
260Bob Garland: I’m with the FAA. If you don’t mind we’d like to speak to you and your husband privately.
261
262Rose Darko: In private?
263
264Bob Garland: Please.
265
266Rose Darko: All right.
267
268<The jet engine is lowered onto a truck. Rose and Eddie Darko are signing papers surrounded by the men from the FAA.>
269
270Bob Garland: … and here ….
271
272Eddie Darko: You got it.
273
274Bob Garland: All right. We have arranged for you to stay at a hotel. Get some sleep and we will take care of things here.
275
276Eddie Darko: Great.
277
278Rose Darko: Thank you.
279
280Eddie Darko: Kids, come on we’re going to a hotel.
281
282Elizabeth Darko: They don’t know where it came from.
283
284HOTEL ROOM, PARENTS ROOM – LATE EVENING
285<Eddie is lying on the bed, and Rose is lying with her head on his chest.>
286
287Reporter (on television): Local and national transportation authorities have begun a nationwide search ….
288
289Eddie Darko: Frankie Feedler ….
290
291Reporter (on television): …. despite the fact that no airline will claim ….
292
293Eddie Darko: You remember him? From high school.
294
295Reporter (on television): The FAA remained tight lipped on the details of the current situation.
296
297Eddie Darko: He died.
298
299Reporter (on television): The engine, which appears to have detached
300
301Eddie Darko: On his way to the prom. Remember?
302
303Rose Darko: Mm hmm.
304
305Eddie Darko: They said he was doomed. Jesus. They could have said the same thing about Donnie.
306
307HOTEL ROOM, KIDS ROOM
308<Donne is lying on bed. Elizabeth is lying on bed also. Samantha is sitting at the foot of Donnie’s bed. They are watching the news still on TV.>
309
310Samantha Darko: It if fell from a plane then what happened to the plane?
311
312Elizabeth Darko: They don’t know, Samantha.
313
314BUS STOP - MORNING
315<Donnie’s Mom drops off Samantha and Donnie.>
316
317Rose Darko: Mrs. Farmer will bring you home after practice.
318
319Samantha Darko: Bye mommy!
320
321Rose Darko: Donnie? …. bye honey …. Donnie, good luck.
322
323Joanie: Oh my God! OK, tell me everything.
324
325Samantha Darko: I’m not allowed to talk about it.
326
327Joanie: Oh, my God.
328
329Samantha Darko: Hi, Cherita.
330
331Cherita Chen: Shut up!
332
333Ronald Fisher: Darko cheats death! Huh? You’re like a celebrity man! I’ve been calling you like a jillion times, where you been.
334
335Donnie Darko: We stayed at a hotel.
336
337Ronald Fisher: My Dad said he saw you at the golf course. You sleepwalking again now buddy?
338
339Donnie Darko: I don’t want to talk about it.
340
341Sean Smith: And now that you’re famous you gotta have a smoke.
342
343Donnie Darko: What happens if you tell Mom and Dad about this, Sam?
344
345Samantha Darko: You’ll put Ariel in the garbage disposal.
346
347Donnie Darko: Goddamn right I will.
348
349Joanie: So grotty.
350
351Ronald Fisher: Hey Cherita, you want a cigarette?
352
353Cherita Chen: Chut up!
354
355Ronald Fisher: Chut up!
356
357Sean Smith: Go back to China, bitch!
358
359Donnie Darko: Just leave her alone.
360
361Ronald Fisher: That’s some good shit huh.
362
363Donnie Darko: It’s a fucking cigarette.
364
365SCHOOL ENTRANCE
366<School tower bell rings.>
367
368(Music: Head over heels – Tears for Fears)
369
370<Donnie and his friends exit the bus and enter the school. They see Seth Devlin who mimics a snarl at Donnie and walks past. Seth continues to walk and gives a fake smile to Kittie Farmer. Kittie Farmer surveys him coldly. Gretchen Ross is looking at herself in her locker mirror. She closes her locker and walks down the corridor. She walks past Seth and looks in distaste as he is snorting Cocaine with a friend. The headmaster walks past the pair oblivious. Kittie Farmer is outside talking with Jim Cunningham. The headmaster approaches and they shake hands. He gestures for them to go inside, and they meet Kenneth Monnitoff and Karen Pomeroy, and introduces them, they continue inside. Kenneth Monnitoff looks knowingly at Karen Pomeroy and shakes his head. Samantha Darko and her friends are practicing a dance routine. Karen Pomeroy takes a deep breath and enters the school. Karen Pomeroy is at the front of a class of children. She is reading from a book.>
371
372Karen Pomeroy: “There would be headlines in the papers. Even the grown-up gangs who ran the betting at the all-in wrestling and the barrow boys would hear with respect of how Old Misery’s house had been destroyed. It was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his 15th year crystallized with the pain of puberty.†What is Graham Greene trying to communicate with this passage? Why did the children break into Old Misery’s house? Joanie?
373
374Joanie: They wanted to rob him.
375
376Karen Pomeroy: Joanie, if you had actually read the short story, which at a whopping 13 pages would have kept you up all night, you would know that the children …
377
378Ronald Fisher: You suck (whispered).
379
380Karen Pomeroy: … find a great deal of money in the mattress, but they burn it.
381
382<Ooh’s and Aah’s from the class.>
383
384Karen Pomeroy: Donnie Darko, perhaps with your recent brush with mass destruction, you can give us your opinion.
385
386Donnie Darko: Well, they say it right when they flood the house and they tear it to shreds, that destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things.
387
388<The door opens at the back of the class and Gretchen Ross enters.>
389
390Karen Pomeroy: May we help you?
391
392Gretchen Ross: Yeah, I just registered and they put me in the wrong English class.
393
394Karen Pomeroy: You look like you belong here.
395
396Gretchen Ross: Um, where do I sit?
397
398Karen Pomeroy: Sit next to the boy you think is the cutest.
399
400<Murmuring from the class.>
401
402Karen Pomeroy: Quiet! Let her choose.
403
404<All the class turn and look at Gretchen. Gretchen looks at Donnie.>
405
406Karen Pomeroy: Joanie, get up.
407
408<Joanie changes seats, and Gretchen sits down. She looks at Donnie, and he looks back.>
409
410DARKO FAMILY CAR - AFTERNOON
411Eddie Darko: The construction guys say it will take about a week to fix the roof. That damned airline better not fuck us on the shingle match.
412
413Donnie Darko: They still don’t know?
414
415Eddie Darko: Know what?
416
417Donnie Darko: Where it came from.
418
419Eddie Darko: No. Apparently they can’t tell us what happened yet. Something about a matching serial number that got burned. I had to sign a form saying I wouldn’t talk to anyone about it.
420
421Donnie Darko: So we’re not supposed to tell anyone what nobody knows.
422
423<Eddie turns to look at Donnie.>
424
425Eddie Darko: Yeah (laughs). But you tell ummm … what’s your what …. what's your doctor’s name?
426
427Donnie Darko: Dr. Thurman, Dad/
428
429Eddie Darko: Yes. You tell Dr. Thurman whatever you want.
430
431Donnie Darko: Dad?
432
433Eddie Darko: What?
434
435Donnie Darko: Dad!
436
437<Eddie turns and sees Roberta Sparrow standing in the middle of the road and slams the brakes on. Donnie gets out the car. Roberta Sparrow walks towards her mail box and opens it. It is empty.>
438
439Donnie Darko: No mail today. Maybe tomorrow.
440
441<Roberta Sparrow puts her hand on Donnie’s shoulder and whispers in his ear.>
442
443Robert Sparrow: <whispered> Every creature on this earth dies alone.
444
445<Roberts Sparrow continues on to her house.>
446
447Eddie Darko: Well? What did she say to you?
448
449PSYCHIATRISTS
450Donnie Darko: I made a new friend.
451
452Dr. Thurman: Real or imaginary?
453
454Donnie Darko: Imaginary.
455
456Dr. Thurman: Would you like to talk about this friend?
457
458Donnie Darko: Frank.
459
460Dr. Thurman: Frank. What did Frank say?
461
462Donnie Darko: He said to follow him.
463
464Dr. Thurman: Follow him? Where?
465
466Donnie Darko: Into the future.
467
468Dr. Thurman: And then what happens?
469
470Donnie Darko: And then he said …. Then he said that the world was coming to an end.
471
472Dr. Thurman: Do you think the world is coming to an end?
473
474Donnie Darko: No. That’s stupid.
475
476CLASSROOM
477<The class is sitting round a television, watching a video. Kittie Farmer is at the front of the class.>
478
479Woman (on television): For my entire life, I was a victim of my own fear.
480
481Jim Cunningham (on television): Love.
482
483Woman (on television): I was feeding fear through food.
484
485Jim Cunningham (on television): Fear.
486
487Woman (on television): And finally, I looked in the mirror. Not just in the mirror. I looked through the mirror. In that image, I saw my ego reflection.
488
489Woman 2# (on television): For two years, I thought it was normal for a 10 year old to wet the bed.
490
491<Class burst into laughter>
492
493Woman 2# (on television): We tried everything.
494
495Kittie Farmer: Shhh! Quiet!
496
497Woman 2# (on television): But the solution was there all the time.
498
499Boy (on television): I’m not afraid anymore!
500
501Jim Cunningham (on television): All over America, people have come together to join hands. People who believe that human life is absolutely too important, too valuable, and too precious to be controlled by fear. Hello, my name is Jim Cunningham. And welcome to “Controlling Fearâ€.
502
503DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM – LATE AT NIGHT
504
505<Donnie is asleep on the sofa. Donnie is dreaming. He sees classroom walls submerged in water, surrounded by the sky.>
506
507MD Frank: Wake up, Donnie.
508
509SCHOOL
510<Donnie is in the school cellar with an axe. He swings and hits a water pipe.>
511
512DARKO HOUSE, DONNIE’S BEDROOM – MORNING
513<Donnie is sitting on his bed.>
514
515OCTOBER 6 1988 (TWENTY-FOUR DAYS REMAIN)
516BUS STOP
517Samantha Darko: And the prince was led into a world of strange and beautiful magic.
518
519<Two girls are running towards the bus stop.>
520
521Girl: Hey, you guys, guess what?! My Mom said the school is closed today because it’s flooded.
522
523Joanie: No way.
524
525Girl: Yeah.
526
527Ronald Fisher: Holy shit! That’s the best news I’ve ever heard!
528
529SCHOOL, MAIN ENTRANCE
530<Water is cascading out of the main doors. The Principal and the Janitor are standing at the main doors with water cascading over their feet.>
531
532Principal: My God, is this ever going to stop?
533
534Janitor: Eventually, yes it will. But right now I got 12 classrooms full of water, all coming from a busted water main.
535
536Principal: What else?
537
538Janitor: What else?! Principal Cole, I’ll show you what else.
539
540SCHOOL, COURTYARD
541<The school mascot statue of a mongrel has an axe embedded in its head. The police, s security guard, the principal and the janitor are standing around the statue.>
542
543Security guard: That’s unbelievable. That’s solid bronze isn’t it?
544
545Man: Yep.
546
547Principal: How did this happen?
548
549OUTSIDE LOCATION (STREET)
550Girl #1: Beth’s Mom said the boys locker room was flooded and they founded faeces everywhere.
551
552Girl #2: What are faeces?
553
554Girl #1: Baby mice.
555
556Girl #2: Awwwww
557
558OUTSIDE LOCATION (STREET)
559<Donnie is walking home. Seth Devlin and his friend are pestering Gretchen.>
560
561Seth Devlin: Hey …. has anyone ever told you that you’re sexy?
562
563Ricky: I like your boobs.
564
565<They both laugh.>
566
567Donnie Darko: Hey.
568
569Gretchen Ross. Hey.
570
571Donnie Darko: School was cancelled.
572
573Gretchen Ross: Do you want to walk me home?
574
575Donnie Darko: Sure.
576
577<Seth gestures at Donnie, but Gretchen and Donnie walk on.>
578
579Gretchen Ross: Don’t look so freaked.
580
581Donnie Darko. I’m not. You should check your backpack those guys love to steal shit.
582
583Gretchen Ross. Yeah.
584
585<Gretchen turns and raises her middle finger at Seth and Ricky>
586
587Donnie Darko: So, why did you move here?
588
589Gretchen Ross: My parents got a divorce. My Mom had to get a restraining order against my step dad. He has emotional problems.
590
591Donnie Darko: Oh I have those too. What kind of emotional problems does your Dad have?
592
593Gretchen Ross: He stabbed my Mom four times in the chest.
594
595Donnie Darko: Oh. Did he go to jail?
596
597Gretchen Ross: No, he fled. They still can’t find him. But my Mom and I had to change our names. And I thought “Gretchen Ross†was really cool.
598
599Donnie Darko: I was in jail once. I mean I accidentally burned down this house. It was abandoned, but still, I got held back in school and I can’t drive until I’m 21. But I’m over all of that. I … I …. I’m painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer, or maybe a painter, I don’t know, or maybe both. I’ll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don’t know, change things.
600
601Gretchen Ross: Donnie Darko? What the hell kind of name is that? It’s like some sort of superhero or something.
602
603Donnie Darko: What makes you think I’m not?
604
605Gretchen Ross: Look, I should go. For physics, Monnitoff is having me write this essay. Greatest invention ever to benefit mankind.
606
607Donnie Darko: It’s Monnitoff. But that’s easy. Antiseptics. Like the whole sanitation thing. Joseph Lister, 1895. Before antiseptics, there was no sanitation, especially in medicine.
608
609Gretchen Ross: You mean soap?
610
611Donnie Darko: Well, I’m really glad school was flooded today.
612
613Gretchen Ross: Why is that?
614
615Donnie Darko: Because you and I would have never had this conversation.
616
617Gretchen Ross: You’re weird.
618
619Donnie Darko: Sorry.
620
621Gretchen Ross: No, that was a compliment.
622
623Donnie Darko: Well, look, errr …. you want to go with me? (laughs)
624
625Gretchen Ross: Where do you want to go?
626
627Donnie Darko: No, I mean like “go†with me. You know like, it’s what we call it here. “Going togetherâ€.
628
629Gretchen Ross: Sure.
630
631<Gretchen turns and begins to walk off.>
632
633Donnie Darko. OK. Hey, where are you going?
634
635Gretchen Ross: I’m going home.
636
637<Gretchen continues home.>
638
639Donnie Darko: So stupid! (muttered) “Where are you going?â€
640
641PSYCHIATRIST’S OFFICE - EVENING
642
643Dr. Thurman: I’d like to try something new this time. Have you ever been hypnotized?
644
645Donnie Darko: No.
646
647<Some time later>
648
649Dr. Thurman: … and when I clap my hands twice, you will wake up. Do you understand?
650
651Donnie Darko: Yes.
652
653Dr. Thurman: So…. tell me about your week.
654
655Donnie Darko: I met a girl.
656
657Dr. Thurman: What is her name?
658
659Donnie Darko: Gretchen. We’re going together now.
660
661Dr. Thurman: Do you still think about girls a lot?
662
663Donnie Darko: Yeah.
664
665Dr. Thurman: How are things going at school?
666
667Donnie Darko: I think about girls a lot.
668
669Dr. Thurman: I asked you about school, Donnie.
670
671Donnie Darko. I think about fucking a lot during school.
672
673Dr. Thurman: What else do you think about during school?
674
675Donnie Darko: Married with Children.
676
677Dr. Thurman: Do you think about your family?
678
679Donnie Darko: I just turn down the volume and think about fucking Christina Applegate.
680
681Dr. Thurman: I asked you about your family, Donnie.
682
683<Donnie starts to undo his trousers>
684
685Donnie Darko: No <laughs> I don’t think about fucking my family. That’s gross.
686
687Dr. Thurman: I’d like to hear about your friend, Frank.
688
689<Dr. Thurman claps>
690
691<Donnie wakes up and looks surprised to find his hand in his trousers, and starts to do his trousers up>
692
693SCHOOL CLASSROOM – NEXT MORNING
694Principal: Sam Bylen?
695
696Donnie Darko: <Coughs>
697
698<Each student is being called up to write “They made me do it†on the blackboard>
699
700Principal: Donald Darko.
701
702<Donnie gets up and writes “They made me do it†on the blackboard. He returns to his seat>
703
704<The Principal puts a question mark next to Donnie’s name in a list on a clipboard>
705
706Principal: Daye Dennis.
707
708<Donnie looks perturbed, and Gretchen glances at him and then looks away in thought>
709
710SCHOOL, BOYS TOILETS
711<Donnie emerges from the toilet and goes to wash his hands>
712
713Seth Devlin: Hey, you fuck! Did you tell them that I flooded the school?
714
715Donnie Darko: I didn’t say shit.
716
717Seth Devlin: Well that’s now what I heard. They think I did it.
718
719Donnie Darko: Yeah, well, if you’re innocent then you have nothing to worry about, right?
720
721<Seth grabs Donnie’s head and pulls a knife>
722
723Seth Devlin: Fuck you! You know what I think? I think you did it.
724
725Donnie Darko: <coughing>
726
727WASTE GROUND – LATE AFTERNOON
728<Ronald Fisher, Sean Smith and Donnie Darko are shooting bottles>
729
730Ronald Fisher: Beer and pussy, that’s all I need.
731
732Sean Smith: We gotta find ourselves a Smurfette.
733
734Ronald Fisher: Smurfette?
735
736Sean Smith: Mm-hmmm.
737
738Ronald Fisher: Not some, like, tight-ass Middlesex chick, you know? Like this cute little blonde that will get down and dirty with the guys. Like Smurfette does.
739
740Donnie Darko: Smurfette doesn’t fuck.
741
742<Donnie shoots a bottle>
743
744Ronald Fisher: That’s bullshit. Smurfette fucks all the other smurfs. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her? Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny.
745
746Sean Smith: No, no, no, not Vanity. I heard he was a homosexual.
747
748Ronald Fisher: Okay, well, you know what? Then she fucks them while Vanity watches Okay?
749
750Sean Smith: What about Papa Smurf? He must get in on the action.
751
752Ronald Fisher: Yeah, what he does, he films the gang-bang. Later on, he beats off to the tape.
753
754Donnie Darko: First of all, Papa Smurf didn’t create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel’s evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario <laughs> is just couldn’t happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don’t even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That’s what’s so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What’s the point of living if you don’t have a dick?
755
756Sean Smith: <sighs> Damn it, Donnie. Why do you gotta get so smart on us?
757
758<A car horn is heard in the distance>
759
760Donnie Darko: Grandma Death.
761
762Kitty Farmer: Excuse me! Excuse me! Please stay off the road, Miss Sparrow. If this happens again I am going to call Social Services.
763
764Ronald Fisher: I hate that Miss Farmer.
765
766Kitty Farmer: Watch your step. That’s it.
767
768Ronald Fisher: She’s such a fucking bitch.
769
770Kitty Farmer: There you are, that’s a girl.
771
772Donnie Darko: Yeah.
773
774Ronald Fisher: How old is Grandma Death?
775
776Donnie Darko: 101. She does the same thing every day. Just walks back and forth and back and forth to the mailbox. Nothing ever in there.
777
778Sean Smith: Oh, wait, wait, wait. She goes…. she's going back to the box. We may still have mail.
779
780Ronald Fisher: Mail, mail, mail.
781
782Sean Smith: Here it is. And… ?
783
784Ronald Fisher: This could be it. Ohhhhhhh! No dice, Grandma.
785
786Sean Smith: No, sorry. Sorry.
787
788Ronald Fisher: Someone ought to write that bitch.
789
790DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM – EVENING
791<Donnie is lying on the sofa. Construction noises can be heard and construction workers are walking around>
792
793TV Reporter: Authorities continued their search today for a suspect in the Middlesex Ridge School vandalism. The private school has asked for public donations to help restore its beloved mascot known only as “The Mongrelâ€. In other news….
794
795MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL - EVENING
796<Sign outside the school says “Emergency. PTA Meeting. Tonight. 700.†Parents are entering the school>
797
798Principal: In cooperation with the county police, we have begun an active investigation into the cause of the flooding. And our suspects include several of our own students…
799
800Kitty Farmer: I want to know why this filth is being taught to our children.
801
802<Kitty is holding a book in her hand>
803
804Parent: That’s what I want to know.
805
806DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
807<Donnie enters the bathroom, coughs, and starts looking at items by the sink>
808
809MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL
810Principal: Kitty, I would appreciate….
811
812Man: Let her speak for God’s sake!
813
814Principal: If you would wait….
815
816Kitty Farmer: Dr. Cole, not only am I a teacher, but I am also a parent of a Middlesex child. Therefore I am the only person here who transcends the parent-teacher bridge.
817
818DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
819<Donnie takes some pills>
820
821Frank: Don’t worry. You got away with it.
822
823MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL
824Kitty Farmer: I have in my hand Graham Greene’s “The Destructorsâ€. This short story is part of my daughter’s English assignment.
825
826Woman: We’re with you Kitty!
827
828Kitty Farmer: In this story, several children destroy an elderly man’s house from inside out.
829
830DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
831<Donnie approaches the dimensional portal, and thumps it>
832
833Donnie Darko: How can you do that?
834
835<Frank thumps the portal>
836
837MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL
838Kitty Farmer: And how do they do this? They flood the house by breaking through a water main.
839
840DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
841MD Frank: I can do anything I want. And so can you.
842
843MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL
844Parent: We pay good money for this school. It’s our children! <Applause>
845
846Kitty Farmer: And I think that this garbage should be removed.
847
848Rose Darko: Excuse me. What is the real issue here? The P.T.A. doesn’t ban books.
849
850Kitty Farmer: The P.T.A. is here to acknowledge that pornography is being taught in our curriculum!
851
852Karen Pomeroy: It’s meant to be ironic.
853
854Kitty Farmer: Excuse me. You need to go back to grad school.
855
856DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
857Donnie Darko: Why did you make me flood the school?
858
859MD Frank: They are in great danger.
860
861MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL
862Woman: We have rights here!
863
864Rose Darko: Kitty do you even know who Graham Greene is?
865
866Kitty Farmer: I think we have all seen “Bonanzaâ€
867
868<Kitty sits down to scattered applause>
869
870Principal: Good work Kitty. While we are on other topics….
871
872DARKO HOUSE, BATHROOM
873Donnie Darko: Where did you come from?
874
875MD Frank: Do you believe in time travel?
876
877Samantha Darko: Who are you talking to?
878
879Donnie Darko: I was just taking my pills, Sam.
880
881MIDDLESEX RIDGE SCHOOL, CLASSROOM - MORNING (ASSUMED)
882<Donnie’s class is watching TV with Kitty Farmer>
883
884TV Narrator: It is time to breathe.
885
886Woman and son on TV: Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
887
888Linda on TV: Thank you, Jim Cunningham.
889
890Jim Cunningham on TV: So now let us begin Life Line exercise number one. Please press “stop†now.
891
892Kitty Farmer: As you can see, the Life Line is divided into two polar extremes. Fear and love. Fear is in the negative energy spectrum. And love is in the positive energy spectrum.
893
894Sean Smith: <Muttered> No duh….
895
896Kitty Farmer: Excuse me? “No duh…†is a product of fear. Now, on each card is a character dilemma which applies to the Life Line.
897
898Kitty Farmer: Please… take this…
899
900<Kitty tries to hand a card to Seth Devlin who refuses to take it>
901
902Kitty Farmer: … Thank you. Please read each character dilemma aloud, and place an “X†on the Life Line in the appropriate place. Cherita?
903
904<Cherita gets up, stands by the blackboard, and reads from the card>
905
906Cherita Chen: Juanita has an important math test today. She’s known about the test for several weeks but has not studied. In order to keep from failing her class Juanita decides that she will cheat on the math test.
907
908<Cherita marks an X next to Fear>
909
910Kitty Farmer: Good, good. Very good. Mr. Darko.
911
912<Donnie gets up, stands by the blackboard, and reads from the card>
913
914Donnie Darko: Ling Ling finds a wallet on the ground filled with money. She takes the wallet to the address on the driver’s license but keeps the money inside the wallet. <Scoffs> I-I’m sorry Mrs. Farmer. I don’t get this.
915
916Kitty Farmer: Just place an X on the Life Line in the appropriate place.
917
918Donnie Darko: No, I mean I know what to do, I just don’t get this. You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.
919
920Kitty Farmer: The Life Line is divided that way.
921
922Donnie Darko: Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.
923
924Kitty Farmer: Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.
925
926Donnie Darko: Okay. But you’re not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account. Like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can’t just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else.
927
928Kitty Farmer: If you don’t complete the assignment you’ll get a zero for the day.
929
930Donnie Darko: <deep breath>…
931
932
933
934PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
935Principal: Donald… let me preface this by saying that your Iowa test scores are intimidating. So… let’s go over this again. What exactly did you say to Ms. Farmer?
936
937Kitty Farmer: I’ll tell you what he said. He asked me to forcibly insert the Life Line exercise card into my anus!
938
939Eddie Darko: <snickers and coughs>
940
941OUTSIDE PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
942Woman: These are modern times. My political attitudes are forthright. And if there’s a Vice-Presidential candidate worthy of my vote, it has to be Dan Quayle.
943
944Kitty Farmer: Nobody cares about responsibility, morality, family values.
945
946Woman: Mm-hmm.
947
948Kitty Farmer: <sighs>
949
950Rose Darko: Kitty… Excuse us, please.
951
952<Woman leaves>
953
954Rose Darko. They’ve suspended him from after school activities for the next six months. Ever since this jet engine fiasco, I honestly don’t know what’s gotten into him…
955
956Kitty Farmer: Rose, I’ll tell you this because our daughters have been on the dance team together for two years, and I respect you as a woman. But after witnessing your sons behaviour this afternoon, I have significant doubts about your… Our paths through life must be righteous. I urge you to go home and look in the mirror, and pray that your son doesn’t succumb to the path of fear.
957
958DONNIE’S ROOM – LATE AFTERNOON
959<Elizabeth is on the phone>
960
961Elizabeth Darko: Wait. Do you remember that weird gym teacher, Mrs. Farmer?
962
963<Donnie enters the room>
964
965Elizabeth Darko: Yeah. Okay, well, my brother told her to shove a book up her ass today. And then my parents just bought him all this new shit. Yeah, I know. I wish a jet engine would fall in my room.
966
967<Elizabeth gets up and leaves>
968
969OCTOBER 10, 1988 (TWENTY DAYS REMAIN)
970Frank: I can show you the way.
971
972OUTSIDE SCHOOL – MORNING
973<Schools bells are ringing>
974
975INSIDE SCHOOL
976<Children are leaving after a lesson. Donnie approaches Dr. Monnitoff>
977
978Donnie Darko: Dr. Monnitoff?
979
980Dr. Monnitoff: Donnie.
981
982Donnie Darko: Urm. I know is gonna sound kind of weird, but err… do you know anything about err… time travel?
983
984OUTSIDE CLASSROOM
985<Cherita is standing outside the classroom, and lifts up an ear muff to overhear the conversation>
986
987INSIDE CLASSROOM
988Dr. Monnitoff: Ah, a wormhole with an Einstein-Rosen bridge, which is… theoretically a wormhole in space controlled by man. So, according to Hawking a wormhole may be able to provide a shortcut for jumping between two distant regions of space-time.
989
990Donnie Darko: So in order to travel back in time, you have to have a big spaceship or something that can travel faster than the speed of light?
991
992Dr. Monnitoff: Theoretically.
993
994Donnie Darko: And be able to find one of these wormholes?
995
996Dr. Monnitoff: The basic principles of time travel are there. You’ve got your vessel and your portal, and your vessel could be just about anything, most likely a spacecraft.
997
998Donnie Darko: Like a DeLorean?
999
1000Dr. Monnitoff: Metal craft of any kind.
1001
1002Donnie Darko: You know, I love that movie, the way they shot it. It’s so urm… like futuristic, you know?
1003
1004Dr. Monnitoff: Listen urm… don’t tell anybody that I gave you this. The woman who wrote this used to teach here. She was a nun many years before that, but err… then overnight, she just err… became this entirely different person. She up and left the church, she wrote this book.
1005
1006<Dr. Monnitoff hands The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow to Donnie>
1007
1008Dr. Monnitoff: She started teaching science, right here in Middlesex.
1009
1010Donnie Darko: The Philosophy of Time Travel. Roberta Sparrow?
1011
1012Dr. Monnitoff: That’s right. <chuckles> Come on. Roberta Sparrow?
1013
1014SCHOOL CORRIDOR
1015<Donnie approaches an old photo of some teachers, he sees Roberta Sparrow as a teacher in the picture>
1016
1017Donnie Darko. Roberta Sparrow. Grandma Death.
1018
1019DARKO HOUSE – EVENING
1020Donnie Darko: It’s called “The Philosophy of Time Travelâ€
1021
1022Elizabeth Darko: What does philosophy have to do with time travel?
1023
1024Eddie Darko: Let me see.
1025
1026Donnie Darko: Guess who wrote it.
1027
1028Eddie Darko: Who?... Roberta Sparrow?!... Huh. She wrote a book.
1029
1030Donnie Darko: Grandma Death wrote a book.
1031
1032Rose Darko: That’s a terrible nickname.
1033
1034Donnie Darko: We almost hit her with the car the other day.
1035
1036Rose Darko: She lives up there in that piece of crap house and you know she’s loaded. She’s…
1037
1038Eddie Darko: Yeah, you’re right. She used to be known for her gem collection. Kids… used to go up there all the time and try and steal stuff from her. She became a total recluse. Huh, I didn’t even know she was alive till we damn near knocked her down the other day.
1039
1040DARKO HOUSE GARDEN – DAYTIME
1041<Donnie and Gretchen are on the trampoline>
1042
1043PSYCHIATRISTS
1044Donnie Darko: She was just standing there in the middle of the road, frozen. So I got out of the car and I walked over to her to see if she was okay. And she leaned over and whispered in my ear.
1045
1046Dr. Thurman: What did she say?
1047
1048Donnie Darko: I think Frank wants me to go talk to her, because the last time I saw him he asked me if I knew about time travel. And she wrote a book about it so that can’t be like a coincidence, right?
1049
1050Dr. Thurman: Donnie, what did Roberta Sparrow say to you?
1051
1052Donnie Darko: She said that every living creature on Earth dies alone.
1053
1054Dr. Thurman: How did that make you feel?
1055
1056Donnie Darko: It reminded me of my dog, Callie. She died when I was eight, and she crawled underneath the porch.
1057
1058Dr. Thurman: To die?
1059
1060Donnie Darko: To be alone.
1061
1062Dr. Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
1063
1064Donnie Darko: I don’t know. I mean I’d like to believe I’m not, but I just… I’ve just never seen any proof so I… just don’t debate it any more it’s like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons, and in the end I still wouldn’t have any proof. So I just, I just don’t debate it any more. <laughs> It’s absurd. The search for God is absurd.
1065
1066Dr. Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
1067
1068Donnie Darko: It is if everyone dies alone.
1069
1070Dr. Thurman: Does that scare you?
1071
1072Donnie Darko: I don’t wanna be alone.
1073
1074DARKO HOUSE?
1075(Music: Ave Maria)
1076
1077Rose’s Friend: And so his tapes have me realize that for the last 39 years I have been a prisoner of my own fear.
1078
1079Rose Darko: Fear?
1080
1081Rose’s Friend: Rose, you have got to meet this Jim Cunningham. I can’t believe he’s single.
1082
1083DARKO HOUSE?
1084<Donnie, Eddie, Dr. Fisher, and Ronald Fisher are sitting watching TV>
1085
1086TV Announcer 1: And it has been a disappointing night indeed for these Super Bowl champions.
1087
1088TV Announcer 2: You’re right Dan. Coach Joe Gibbs is on the sidelines water dripping off his glasses, but he’s gotta be thinking “What happened? What went wrong tonight?â€
1089
1090<Samantha skips into the room around to the other door and leaves>
1091
1092TV Announcer 1: And here’s the kick…
1093
1094<Everyone groans>
1095
1096TV Announcer 1: … and it’s no good.
1097
1098Eddie Darko: Shit we need a quarterback.
1099
1100Dr. Fisher: And a miracle.
1101
1102Ronald Fisher: We need to go for a safety.
1103
1104TV Announcer 1: Mark Rypien certainly has some big shoes to fill that’s for certain.
1105
1106TV Announcer 2: He sure does. So what the future holds for this Super Bowl MVP we’re just gonna have to wait and see.
1107
1108<Donnie turns to look at his Dad, and a time spear is emerging from his chest>
1109
1110Eddie Darko: <sighs> You guys want anything?
1111
1112Dr. Fisher: No.
1113
1114TV Announcer 1: Darrel Green again with a display of amazing speed…
1115
1116Eddie Darko: I’m gonna get a beer.
1117
1118<Eddie Darko gets up and the time spear leads ahead of him into the kitchen>
1119
1120DARKO HOUSE KITCHEN
1121<Eddie arrives at the fridge. “Vote Dukakis†is written on the fridge notice board. He gets a beer and returns to the living room>
1122
1123DARKO HOUSE LIVING ROOM
1124TV Announcer 1: First down and 10…
1125
1126TV Advert: Good evening ladies and ghouls. Join us at the Middlesex Pavillion Hall…
1127
1128<Samantha skips again into the room, but this time preceded by a time spear>
1129
1130TV Advert: …for the Middlesex Halloween Haunt <man laughs>
1131
1132<A time spear emerges from Donnie’s chest. He looks down and chuckles. The time spear extends away, then forms a beckoning finger. Donnie gets up and follows it upstairs.>
1133
1134DARKO HOUSE PARENTS BEDROOM
1135<Donnie enters the bedroom and opens the cupboard following the time spear. He opens a box at the bottom of the cupboard and retrieves a pistol>
1136
1137BUS STOP – MORNING
1138<Airplane engine whines overhead. Donnie looks up, as so his friends>
1139
1140OCTOBER 18 1988
1141WOODS
1142Gretchen Ross: And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?
1143
1144Donnie Darko: Like images, or what?
1145
1146Gretchen Ross: Yeah, like a Hawaiian sunset, or the Grand Canyon. Just things that remind you of how beautiful the world…
1147
1148Donnie Darko: You know we’ve been going together for like 2 weeks.
1149
1150Gretchen Ross: Yeah?
1151
1152Donnie Darko: Well, I err…
1153
1154Gretchen Ross: Do you want to kiss me?
1155
1156<Donnie leads forward to kiss Gretchen but she moves away>
1157
1158Donnie Darko: I… I’m sorry.
1159
1160Gretchen Ross: Look, Donnie, wait.
1161
1162Donnie Darko: I like you a lot.
1163
1164Gretchen Ross: I just want it to be… at a time when it…
1165
1166Donnie Darko: When what?
1167
1168Gretchen Ross: When it reminds me just…
1169
1170Donnie Darko: When it reminds you how beautiful the world can be?
1171
1172Gretchen Ross: Yeah. And right now there’s some fat guy over there staring at us.
1173
1174<Donnie and Gretchen turn to a jogger in a red tracksuit, who is smoking. He put s out his cigarette and walks off>
1175
1176PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE
1177Rose Darko: Thank you for seeing us at such late notice. We both felt it was time for us to come in and discuss…
1178
1179Lilian Thurman: What I think is going on with your son?
1180
1181Rose Darko: Yes. Well he’s erm… you know about his past, and he was suspended from school for insulting his gym teacher.
1182
1183Eddie Darko: Well I’m not really sure that’s a good example Rose. I think he had just cause to insult her.
1184
1185Lilian Thurman: Rose, let me just lay out what I believe is happening here.
1186
1187DARKO HOUSE - KITCHEN
1188<Donnie removes a large knife from the knife block>
1189
1190Dr. Thurman (as voiceover): Donnie’s aggressive behaviour…
1191
1192DARKO HOUSE - BATHROOM
1193<Donnie takes some pills>
1194
1195PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE
1196Lilian Thurman: His increased detachment from reality, seem to stem from his inability to cope with the forces in the world he perceives to be threatening. Uh… has he ever told you about his friend Frank?
1197
1198Rose Darko: Frank?
1199
1200Lilian Thurman: Yes, the giant bunny rabbit.
1201
1202Eddie Darko: The what?
1203
1204Rose Darko: I don’t recall him ever having mentioned a rabbit.
1205
1206Lilian Thurman: Donnie is experiencing what is commonly called a daylight hallucination.
1207
1208DARKO HOUSE – BATHROOM
1209<Donnie stabs the dimensional portal with the knife. Frank can be seen on the other side.>
1210
1211PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE
1212Lilian Thurman: This is a common occurrence among paranoid schizophrenics.
1213
1214Rose Darko: What can we do?
1215
1216Lilian Thurman: I would like to do more hypnotherapy, and increase his medication.
1217
1218DARKO HOUSE – BATHROOM
1219<Donnie continues to stab the portal, grunting with effort. A light shines from Frank’s eye>
1220
1221Rose Darko (as voiceover): Whatever will help him, really…
1222
1223PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE
1224Rose Darko: Because that’s why we’re here. We just would like him to experience some relief. So if you think that more medication will do that, then I think we should give it a try.
1225
1226SCHOOL – STAFF ROOM
1227<Kenneth Monnitoff is looking through papers, Karen Pomeroy is eating lunch>
1228
1229Kenneth Monnitoff: Donnie Darko.
1230
1231Karen Pomeroy: I know.
1232
1233<They both laugh>
1234
1235SCHOOL – HALL
1236Jim Cunningham: Good morning, you mongrels!
1237
1238Audience: Good morning.
1239
1240Jim Cunningham: Is that all the gusto you can muster? I said, good morning!
1241
1242Audience: Good morning!
1243
1244Jim Cunningham: Now that’s a tiny tiny bit better. But I can still sense some students out there who are actually afraid to say, good morning!
1245
1246Audience: Good morning!
1247
1248<Donnie doesn’t say it>
1249
1250Jim Cunningham: Yeah, that’s what I like to hear! Because entirely too many young men and women today are completely paralysed by their fears. They surrender their bodies to the temptation and destruction of drugs, alcohol, and premarital sex. Now, I’m going to tell you a little story today. It’s a heartbreakingly sad story about a young man whose life was completely destroyed by these instruments of fear. A young man, searching for love in all the wrong places. His name was Frank.
1251
1252<A slide appears on the project with a cartoon picture of a boy, and “his name is Frank†written next to it. Donnie looks concerned>
1253
1254Female audience member: Hi, my stepsister… like, I sometimes worry that she eats too much.
1255
1256Female audience member 2: Shut up, Kim!
1257
1258Jim Cunningham: Sweetheart, sweetheart, please.
1259
1260Male audience member: How can I decide what I want to be when I grow up?
1261
1262Jim Cunningham: That’s a hard one.
1263
1264Male audience member 2: What do I do to learn how to fight?
1265
1266Jim Cunningham: What can I do to learn how to fight? Son, violence is a product of fear. Learn to truly love yourself.
1267
1268Male audience member 2: Okay.
1269
1270Jim Cunningham: Okay, get yourself up here.
1271
1272Male audience member 2: Okay.
1273
1274Jim Cunningham: All right.
1275
1276Donnie Darko: Good morning.
1277
1278Jim Cunningham: Good morning.
1279
1280Donnie Darko: Um… how much are they paying you to be here?
1281
1282Jim Cunningham: Uh… excuse me? What is your name, son?
1283
1284Donnie Darko: Gerald.
1285
1286Jim Cunningham: Well, Gerald, I think you’re afraid.
1287
1288Donnie Darko: Are you telling us this stuff so we can buy your book? Because I got to tell you, if you are, that was some of the worst advice I ever heard.
1289
1290Jim Cunningham: Do you see how said this is?
1291
1292Donnie Darko: Do you want your sister to lose weight? Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies, and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up. It takes a little while to find that out. Right, Jim? And you… yeah, you. Sick of some jerk shoving your head down the toilet? Well you know what, maybe you should lift some weights or take a karate lesson . And the next time he tries to do it, you kick him in the balls.
1293
1294<Adults gasp, students laugh>
1295
1296Jim Cunningham: <chuckles> Son. Do you see this?
1297
1298Donnie Darko: Right?
1299
1300Jim Cunningham: This is an anger prisoner…
1301
1302Man: Remove him.
1303
1304Jim Cunningham: A textbook example. Do you see the fear, people? This boy is scared to death of the truth. Son, it breaks my heart to say this, but I believe you are a very troubled and confused young man. I believe you are searching for the answers in all the wrong places.
1305
1306Donnie Darko: You’re right, actually. I am pretty… I am pretty troubled and I’m pretty confused but I… and I’m afraid really really afraid. Really afraid. But I… I think you’re the fucking antichrist.
1307
1308<Audience gasps, the teachers move to grab Donnie>
1309
1310Man: Get him out of here! Who do you think you are?
1311
1312<Whistling and cheering from students>
1313
1314HEATHLAND – AFTERNOON
1315Donnie Darko: It’s amazing. The man thinks he’s telling the truth and everything he says is just a fucking lie! Everything he says! Everyone think he’s so rad. He’s such a fucking chud. Everything he does…
1316
1317Gretchen Ross: Are you okay?
1318
1319Donnie Darko: Yeah.
1320
1321Gretchen Ross: Sit down. Calm down.
1322
1323Donnie Darko: You ever hear of Grandma Death?
1324
1325Gretchen Ross: Who?
1326
1327<Donnie passes Gretchen the book>
1328
1329Gretchen Ross: The Philosophy of Time Travel. What is this?
1330
1331Donnie Darko: She wrote it. I’m… I’ve been seeing stuff. Like, a lot of really messed up stuff. And there are chapters in that book that describe the stuff I’ve been seeing. And it can’t just be a coincidence.
1332
1333SCHOOL – CLASSROOM
1334Kenneth Monnitoff: Well each vessel travels along a vector though space-time, along its centre of gravity.
1335
1336Donnie Darko: Like a spear?
1337
1338Kenneth Monnitoff: I beg your pardon?
1339
1340Donnie Darko: Like a spear that comes out of your chest.
1341
1342Kenneth Monnitoff: Umm… sure. And in order for the vessel to travel through time it’s got to find a portal, or in this case a wormhole…
1343
1344Donnie Darko: Well could these portals erm… could these portals just appear anywhere, anytime?
1345
1346Kenneth Monnitoff: I think that’s highly unlikely. No, I think what you’re talking about is umm… an act of God.
1347
1348Donnie Darko: Well if God controls time, then all time is pre-decided.
1349
1350Kenneth Monnitoff: I’m not following you.
1351
1352Donnie Darko: Every living thing follows along a set path. And if you could see your path or channel, then you could see into the future, right? Like err… that’s a form of time travel.
1353
1354Kenneth Monnitoff: Well, you’re contradicting yourself Donnie. If we were able to see out destines manifest themselves visually, then we would be given a choice to betray our chosen destinies. And the mere fact that this choice exists would make all pre-formed destiny umm… come to an end.
1355
1356Donnie Darko: Not if you travel within God’s channel.
1357
1358Kenneth Monnitoff: Umm… I’m not going to be able to continue this conversation.
1359
1360Donnie Darko: Why?
1361
1362Kenneth Monnitoff: I could lose my job.
1363
1364Donnie Darko: Okay.
1365
1366DARKO HOUSE – DONNIE’S BEDROOM
1367<Donnie is lying on his bed playing with a rubix cube. He rolls onto his side and looks at the calendar>
1368
1369JIM CUNNINGHAM’S HOUSE – ROAD OUTSIDE
1370<Donnie is walking along and sees a wallet on the ground, he picks it up and opens it. He checks a photo card and it is Jim Cunningham’s. He chuckles to himself>
1371
1372MD Frank: Now you know where he lives.
1373
1374PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE
1375Lilian Thurman: And they grow out of out chest… solar plexus?
1376
1377Donnie Darko: Just like she described in the book, the way they moved and they smelled. It’s like… like they’re workers. Assigned to each one of us. They’re just… they’re like liquid. I followed it… into my parents bedroom.
1378
1379Lilian Thurman: What did you find?
1380
1381Donnie Darko: Nothing.
1382
1383SCHOOL – CLASSROOM
1384Donnie Darko: So we call them IMG’s.
1385
1386Gretchen Ross: Infant Memory Generators.
1387
1388Donnie Darko: Yeah, so the idea is that you buy these glasses for your infant and they wear them at night when they sleep.
1389
1390Gretchen Ross: But inside the glasses are these slide photographs. And each photograph is of something peaceful of beautiful whatever the parents want to put inside.
1391
1392Kenneth Monnitoff: And what effect do you think this would have on an infant?
1393
1394Donnie Darko: Well, this thing is, nobody remembers their infancy. Anyone who says they do is lying. So we think this will help develop memory earlier in life.
1395
1396Gretchen Ross: Yeah.
1397
1398Kenneth Monnitoff: And did you stop and think that maybe infants need darkness? That maybe darkness is part of their natural development?
1399
1400<Seth Devlin raises his hand>
1401
1402Gretchen Ross: No.
1403
1404<Seth clicks his finger>
1405
1406Kenneth Monnitoff: Yeah.
1407
1408Seth Devlin: What is the parents like put in pictures of Satan? Or, like, dead people? Crap like that.
1409
1410Gretchen Ross: Is that what you’d show your kids?
1411
1412Ricky: Err well, I mean… didn’t your Dad, like, stab your Mom?
1413
1414<Seth does the stabbing motion with psycho music>
1415
1416Kenneth Monnitoff: Get out.
1417
1418SCHOOL – OUTSIDE
1419<Class bell rings>
1420
1421Donnie Darko: Gretchen! I’m sorry, Gretchen. Gretchen. I’m sorry about those guys. They’re fucking…
1422
1423<Gretchen kisses Donnie>
1424
1425CINEMA - OUTSIDE
1426Donnie Darko: Two for Evil Dead please.
1427
1428Ticket booth attendant: That’ll be $2.
1429
1430CINEMA – INSIDE THE THEATRE
1431<Gretchen is asleep. Donnie turns and MD Frank is sitting next to Gretchen>
1432
1433Donnie Darko: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
1434
1435MD Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
1436
1437Donnie Darko: Take it off.
1438
1439<MD Frank removes his mask>
1440
1441Donnie Darko: What happened to your eye?
1442
1443MD Frank: I’m so sorry.
1444
1445Donnie Darko: Why do they call you Frank?
1446
1447MD Frank: It is the name of my father… and his father before me.
1448
1449Donnie Darko: Frank? When’s this going to stop?
1450
1451MD Frank: You should already know that.
1452
1453Donnie Darko: <giggles>
1454
1455MD Frank: I want you to watch the movie screen. There’s something I want to show you.
1456
1457<A portal appears in the screen>
1458
1459MD Frank: Have you ever seen a portal?
1460
1461<Within the portal appears Jim Cunningham’s house>
1462
1463MD Frank: Burn it to the ground.
1464
1465<Donnie puts up his hood>
1466
1467CINEMA – OUTSIDE
1468<Donnie comes out of the cinema, stops, smiles, and moves on. Behind him you can see the cinema is showing Evil Dead and The Last Temptation of Christ>
1469
1470SCHOOL – HALL
1471<Cherita is dancing>
1472
1473Kitty Farmer: Okay, now girls I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option. And Bethany, if you feel the need to vomit up there just swallow it.
1474
1475Bethany Farmer: Okay Mom.
1476
1477Jim Cunningham: Hey you guys, good luck out there.
1478
1479<Someone whistles rudely as Cherita’s performance ends>
1480
1481Seth Devlin: Get off the stage Cherita!
1482
1483Principal: Hold on.
1484
1485Jim Cunningham: Now that was really something. Thank you, Cherita Chen, with “Autumn Angelâ€. And now the moment we’ve all been waiting for is here. It is my very distinct pleasure to introduce to you Emily Bates, Suzy Bailey, Samantha Darko, Beth Farmer, and Joanie James. They are… Sparkle Motion.
1486
1487<Sparkle Motion dance to Notorious – Duran Duran>
1488
1489JIM CUNNINGHAM’S HOUSE
1490<Donnie is pouring petrol around the house>
1491
1492SCHOOL – HALL
1493<The performance ends>
1494
1495Girl: All right Sparkle Motion!
1496
1497<Sparkle Motion get a standing ovation>
1498
1499SCHOOL – OUTSIDE
1500<Cherita is sitting on the bench surrounding the Mongrel’s statue>
1501
1502CINEMA- INSIDE
1503<Donnie returns and sits down. Gretchen wakes up>
1504
1505Gretchen Ross: How long was I asleep for?
1506
1507Donnie Darko: Whole movie.
1508
1509JIM CUNNINGHAM’S HOUSE
1510<Firemen are walking round inside after having put out the fire>
1511
1512Fireman: Captain looks like we’ve got another room back here.
1513
1514DARKO HOUSE – LIVING ROOM - MORNING
1515<Elizabeth is watching TV>
1516
1517TV Reporter: The blazed was extinguished sometime after 8:00 last night. Now fire-fighters discovered what has been referred to as a kiddie porn dungeon. Cunningham who has become a recent celebrity for his books and motivational tapes was arrested early this morning…
1518
1519Elizabeth Darko: Oh my God!
1520
1521TV Reporter: … at Sarasota Heights Country Club. Arson has not been ruled out as part of the cause of the fire.
1522
1523<Donnie enters the room and sits down>
1524
1525TV Reporter: A group of Cunning Vision employees lead my self proclaimed leader…
1526
1527Elizabeth Darko: Oh my God. Dad played golf with that guy.
1528
1529TV Report: … vehemently denied the alleged link to a child pornography publishing circuit. In a vicious statement Cunningham attacked the Middlesex Fire Department officials claiming a vast conspiracy.
1530
1531OCTOBER 24 1988 (SIX DAYS REMAIN)
1532SCHOOL – PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE
1533Principal: I’m sorry, Karen, but we don’t think the methods you’ve undertaken here are appropriate.
1534
1535Karen Pomeroy: With all due respect, sir, what exactly about my methods do you find inappropriate?
1536
1537Principal: I don’t have time to get into a debate about this Karen. I believe I’ve made myself clear.
1538
1539Karen Pomeroy: You call this clarity? I don’t think that you have a clue what it’s like to communicate with these kids. And we are losing them to apathy… to this prescribed nonsense. They are slipping away.
1540
1541Principal: I am sorry that you have failed. Now if you’ll excuse me I have another appointment. You can finish out the week.
1542
1543SCHOOL – OUTSIDE
1544Karen Pomeroy: Fuck!
1545
1546<Karen turns and sees Cherita is behind her eating lunch>
1547
1548SCHOOL – INSIDE
1549Principal (on tannoy): Good afternoon. It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Middlesex Ridge School dance team has been invited to perform on Ed McMahon’s Star Search 88 in Los Angeles California.
1550
1551<Karen looks incredulous>
1552
1553DARKO HOUSE – OUTSIDE
1554<Samantha is on the trampoline>
1555
1556<Kitty Farmer is at the front door, answered by Rose>
1557
1558Rose Darko (on the phone): No, it was ridiculous. I’ll call you back.
1559
1560<She hangs up the phone>
1561
1562Kitty Farmer: Rose.
1563
1564Rose Darko: Kitty.
1565
1566Kitty Farmer: Rose I’m sure that you’re aware of the horrible allegations against Jim Cunningham.
1567
1568Rose Darko: I know, I saw it on TV. Something about a “kiddie porn dungeonâ€â€¦
1569
1570Kitty Farmer: Please, please. Don’t use those words! It’s obviously some kind of conspiracy to destroy an innocent man, and I have taken it upon myself to spearhead the Jim Cunningham defence campaign. Rose… I have to appear at his arraignment tomorrow morning. And as you know, the girls are scheduled to leave for Los Angeles in the morning. Now as their coach I was the obvious choice to chaperone them on their trip…
1571
1572Rose Darko: But now you can’t go.
1573
1574Kitty Farmer: Yes.
1575
1576Rose Darko: Hmm.
1577
1578Kitty Farmer: Now believe me, of all the other mothers I would never dream of asking you. But none of the other mothers are available to go.
1579
1580Rose Darko: I don’t know Kitty. It’s a bad weekend. Eddie’s in New York.
1581
1582Kitty Farmer: Rose! I don’t know if you realise what an opportunity this is for our daughters! This has been a dream of Samantha’s and all of ours for a long time. I made her lead dancer! Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
1583
1584DARKO HOUSE – DONNIE’S ROOM
1585<Rose is staring at Donnie’s drawing of Frank on the calendar. Donnie enters>
1586
1587Rose Darko: Elizabeth will be in charge. She’ll drive you to therapy. If you need anything you promise me that you will call Dr. Thurman?
1588
1589Donnie Darko: <softly> Okay. How’s it feel to have a wacko for a son?
1590
1591Rose Darko: It feels wonderful.
1592
1593DARKO HOUSE – LATER IN THE DAY
1594<Donnie turns over a sealed envelope with DARKO *EXTREMELY IMPORTANT written in the top left-hand corner, and ROBERTA SPARROW written in the middle>
1595
1596OCTOBER 26 1988 (FOUR DAYS REMAIN)
1597SCHOOL – CLASSROOM
1598<Karen Pomeroy is reading, and Donnie is sitting at his desk>
1599
1600Donnie Darko: So what do I tell the other kids when they ask about you?
1601
1602Karen Pomeroy: Tell them that everything is going to be just fine.
1603
1604Donnie Darko: What’s “Cellar Door�
1605
1606Karen Pomeroy: This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that “cellar door†is the most beautiful.
1607
1608Donnie Darko: Cellar Door.
1609
1610<Karen leaves the classroom, and gets stuck trying to get out the door with all her stuff, but manages to make it through. Donnie follows her and sees Cherita outside at her locker. He approaches her and she backs away. He grabs her by her earmuffs>
1611
1612Donnie Darko: I promise that one day everything’s going to be better for you.
1613
1614<Cherita pulls away and drops her books, and Donnie keeps hold of her ear muffs>
1615
1616Cherita Chen: Chut up!
1617
1618<Cherita runs away. Donnie looks down and notices she has written “Donnie Darko†on one of her books>
1619
1620OUTSIDE
1621<Donnie is walking along wearing Cherita’s ear muffs>
1622
1623Lilian Thurman <as voiceover>: I want to talk about your past today.
1624
1625Donnie Darko <as voiceover>: No.
1626
1627Lilian Thurman <as voiceover>: I want to talk about… you and your parents.
1628
1629PSYCHIATRISTS OFFICE
1630Donnie Darko: They didn’t buy me what I wanted for Christmas.
1631
1632Lilian Thurman: What did you want for Christmas that year?
1633
1634Donnie Darko: Hungry, hungry hippos.
1635
1636Lilian Thurman: How did you feel, being denied these “Hungry, Hungry Hippos�
1637
1638Donnie Darko: Regret.
1639
1640Lilian Thurman: What else makes you feel regret?
1641
1642Donnie Darko: That I did it again.
1643
1644Lilian Thurman: You did it again?
1645
1646Donnie Darko: I flooded my school and I burned down that pervert’s house. <laughs> I only have a few days left before they catch me.
1647
1648Lilian Thurman: Did Frank tell you to do these things?
1649
1650Donnie Darko: I have to obey him. He saved my life. I have to obey him or I’ll be left all alone. And then… and then I won’t be able to figure out what this is all about. I won’t be able to know his master plan.
1651
1652Lilian Thurman: Do you mean God’s master plan? Do you now believe in God?
1653
1654Donnie Darko: I have the power to build a time machine.
1655
1656Lilian Thurman: How is that possible? How is time travel possible? Donnie?
1657
1658Donnie Darko: Time’s up, Frank said.
1659
1660Lilian Thurman: When is this going to happen?
1661
1662Donnie Darko: Soon. <crying> Soon.
1663
1664<Donnie stands up and walks to the end of the room>
1665
1666Lilian Thurman: What is going to happen?
1667
1668Donnie Darko: Frank is going to kill.
1669
1670Lilian Thurman: Who is he going to kill? Who is he going to kill Donnie?
1671
1672Donnie Darko: I can see him right now!
1673
1674<We get a flash of Frank in front of Donnie, and a flash of the sky in fast forward>
1675
1676Donnie Darko: The sky is going to open up.
1677
1678Lilian Thurman: If the sky were to suddenly open up there would be no law. There would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories… the choices you’ve made, and the people you’ve touched. If this world were to end there would only be you and him and no-one else.
1679
1680<Donnie starts to cry and hugs Dr. Thurman. Dr. Thurman claps her hands and Donnie wakes up looking confused>
1681
1682OCTOBER 29 1988 (ONE DAY REMAINS)
1683DARKO HOUSE – KITCHEN
1684<Donnie walks into the kitchen>
1685
1686Donnie Darko: Hey.
1687
1688Eddie Darko: I got in. I’m going to Harvard.
1689
1690Donnie Darko: Hey we should totally throw a party. I mean Mom and Dad are gone and… it’s Halloween Carnival. We could totally get away with it.
1691
1692Eddie Darko: Okay, but it has to be small, all right?
1693
1694DARKO HOUSE – OUTSIDE - EVENING
1695<A man in a red jogging suit is looking around with a torch. Kids in Halloween costumes run past him>
1696
1697Kid 1: What do you guys got?
1698
1699Kid 2: Nothing good.
1700
1701Kid 3: Happy Halloween!
1702
1703DARKO HOUSE - INSIDE
1704(Music: Green Mummies – Proud to be loud)
1705
1706<The Halloween party is in full swing. Donnie walks down the stairs and puts up his hood, the doorbell rings and Donnie answers it>
1707
1708Ronald Fisher: We got eggs, water balloons, and a dozen rolls of toilet paper.
1709
1710Sean Smith: I stole four beers from my Dad.
1711
1712Donnie Darko: Well, we got a keg.
1713
1714Ronald Fisher: Keg beer is for pussies.
1715
1716DARKO HOUSE – BACK GARDEN
1717<Donnie, Ronald Fisher, and Sean Smith get some keg beer. The phone is ringing but they do not hear it. The answer machine gets it>
1718
1719Lilian Thurman (on phone): Rose, this is Lilian Thurman. It is extremely important that you call me as soon as you get this message. Thank you.
1720
1721DARKO HOUSE – FRONT
1722(Music: Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart)
1723
1724<Gretchen knocks at the front door>
1725
1726Gretchen Ross: Hi.
1727
1728Donnie Darko: Hey. Are you okay?
1729
1730Gretchen Ross: Yeah, my mom’s gone.
1731
1732Donnie Darko: You want to come in?
1733
1734Gretchen Ross: Yeah.
1735
1736<Gretchen and Donnie go upstairs. Elizabeth sees them go upstairs>
1737
1738DARKO HOUSE – PARENTS BEDROOM
1739Gretchen Ross: I don’t know, she… she didn’t leave a note and the house was all messed up.
1740
1741Donnie Darko: But you’re okay?... Did you call the cops?
1742
1743Gretchen Ross: Yeah, they said I should leave the house, and that I should go to a safe place. I’m just so scared. I keep thinking something awful is happening, and… it’s my fucking step dad, I know it… I guess some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.
1744
1745DARKO HOUSE - HALL
1746Elizabeth Darko: Hey have you guys seen Frank?
1747
1748Elizabeth’s Friend: No, I think they said they were going on a beer run.
1749
1750Elizabeth Darko: Shit.
1751
1752DARKO HOUSE – PARENTS BEDROOM
1753<Donnie and Gretchen are kissing. The phone rings. The answerphone gets it>
1754
1755Rose Darko (on phone): If you’re there please pick up. Oh well. Good news. The girls, they got three and a half stars, and they get to come back for the quarter finals. It was amazing. Anyway, umm… we’re going to take the red-eye back tonight, and we ought to arrive…
1756
1757Samantha Darko: Mom… the plane’s about to leave.
1758
1759Rose Darko: Okay, okay. We’ll take the red-eye back tonight. We should arrive around 8:30 in the morning. Umm… I hope everything’s… I hope everything’s all right. I love you. Bye.
1760
1761DARKO HOUSE – HALL
1762(Music: The Church – Under the Milky way)
1763
1764<Gretchen and Donnie descend the stairs. The clock strikes midnight>
1765
1766OCTOBER 30 1988 (SIX HOURS REMAIN)
1767<Donnie and Gretchen kiss in the hall. Gretchen leaves Donnie – presumably for the toilet – Donnie seems to start to lose his grip on reality, and then a time spear emerges from his chest. He follows it to the fridge. On the fridge is a message saying “Frank was here went to get beerâ€. He sees other time spears from people at the party. One comes in from the outside and Donnie drops to his knees, his head within the time spear. His vision seems to travel along it into a wormhole>
1768
1769Karen Pomeroy (as voiceover): … the cellar door…
1770
1771<He wakes up, and is kneeling in front of Gretchen>
1772
1773Donnie Darko: Come with me.
1774
1775<Donnie grabs Gretchen by the hand and leads her out of the back door. His two friends follow as well>
1776
1777Gretchen Ross: Where are we going? Donnie.
1778
1779Donnie Darko: Look, we gotta go.
1780
1781Gretchen Ross: Where?
1782
1783Donnie Darko: You ever see Grandma Death?
1784
1785Gretchen Ross: Why, is this about the book?
1786
1787Donnie Darko: No, it’s Frank.
1788
1789Ronald Fisher: Donnie.
1790
1791Donnie Darko: Time is running out! We gotta go.
1792
1793<Donnie, Gretchen, Ronald, and Sean cycle to Roberta Sparrow’s house>
1794
1795ROBERTA SPARROW’S HOUSE – FRONT YARD
1796Donnie Darko: <whispered> Roberta Sparrow. Grandma Death.
1797
1798<Donnie puts up his hood>
1799
1800Sean Smith: Donnie, nobody’s here. Let’s just forget about it.
1801
1802Donnie Darko: Huh, cellar door.
1803
1804Gretchen Ross: What?
1805
1806ROBERTA SPARROW’S HOUSE – CELLAR
1807<Donnie and Gretchen open the cellar door and enter the cellar. Gretchen plays a note on an old piano, and startles Donnie. Suddenly Seth Devlin and his friend appear, wearing stockings on their heads, each grabbing Donnie and Gretchen around the throat. They are carrying knives>
1808
1809Gretchen Ross: <screamed> Oh my God! Donnie! Donnie!
1810
1811ROBERTA SPARROW’S HOUSE – FRONT YARD
1812<Seth and his friend drag Donnie and Gretchen out of the cellar>
1813
1814Gretchen Ross: <screamed> Donnie!
1815
1816<Seth throws Donnie to the ground and sits on him>
1817
1818Seth Devlin: Why the fuck are you here?!
1819
1820Sean Smith: Hey!
1821
1822Ronald Fisher: Oh my God
1823
1824<Ricky throws Gretchen to the ground. He turns to face Ronald and Sean, and takes the stocking off his head>
1825
1826Ricky: You’re dead!
1827
1828Sean Smith: Shit!
1829
1830Ronald Fisher: Leave him alone!
1831
1832Ricky: Don’t fucking move! Don’t fucking move!
1833
1834<Donnie pulls Seth’s mask off>
1835
1836Donnie Darko: Fuck!
1837
1838Ricky: There’s a car.
1839
1840Gretchen Ross: <coughing>
1841
1842Ricky: Get the hell out of here now! Seth, there’s a car coming. Let’s go!
1843
1844Seth Devlin: <whispered> I have a bigger knife now.
1845
1846Ricky: Come on let’s go! He called the cops!
1847
1848Gretchen Ross: <coughing>
1849
1850Seth Devlin: Did you call the fucking cops?!
1851
1852Donnie Darko: Deus ex machina.
1853
1854Seth Devlin: What did you just say? What the fuck did you just say?
1855
1856Donnie Darko: Our saviour.
1857
1858<Roberta Sparrow is standing in the driveway. The approaching car swerves to avoid her>
1859
1860Gretchen Ross: Donnie!
1861
1862<The car drives over Gretchen, and swerves to a halt. Seth gets up off Donnie and runs away. The car engine is trying to be restarted. Donnie runs over and crouches by Gretchen>
1863
1864Donnie Darko: Gretchen…?
1865
1866<A man dressed as a clown gets out the car>
1867
1868Donnie Darko: Gretchen…? Gretchen. Wake up Gretchen.
1869
1870<Someone else exits the car>
1871
1872Clown man: Frank…
1873
1874Donnie Darko: Wake up.
1875
1876Clown man: What did you do?
1877
1878Donnie Darko: Gretchen, wake up. Wake up. Wake up… Gretchen… Gretchen…
1879
1880Clown man: What the fuck did you do, man?... You killed her, Frank!
1881
1882Frank: Is she dead?
1883
1884<Donnie stands up>
1885
1886Frank: What were you guys doing in the middle of the road?! What are you thinking?!
1887
1888<Donnie cocks and raises the pistol. He shoots Frank in the eye>
1889
1890Donnie Darko: Go home!... Go home and tell your parents everything will be okay… Go!
1891
1892<The clown man runs off. Roberta Sparrow slowly ambles back towards her house>
1893
1894DARKO HOUSE - OUTSIDE
1895<Donnie is carrying Gretchen along the road>
1896
1897DARKO HOUSE – INSIDE
1898<Elizabeth is asleep in a chair. Donnie walks up to her and kisses her head. She stirs slightly. Donnie takes the car keys from the hall>
1899
1900DARK HOUSE – OUTSIDE
1901<Donnie walks to the car, then clutches his stomach and looks up. A tornado type cloud formation is forming over his house. He gets in the car and drives off at speed. Seconds later police cars arrive, sirens blaring>
1902
1903FOREST
1904<Donnie is driving through the forest>
1905
1906MD Frank (as voiceover): 28 days… <voice dies away>
1907
1908CARPATHIAN RIDGE
1909<Donnie is sitting down looking towards his house and the cloud formation>
1910
1911Donnie Darko: Six hours… 42 minutes… 12 seconds.
1912
1913MD Frank: I’m going home.
1914
1915Donnie Darko: <chuckles>
1916
1917AIRPLANE
1918<The camera pans across the passengers, stopping at Samantha and Rose Darko who are both asleep>
1919
1920Donnie Darko (as voiceover): So in order to travel back in time, you have to have a big spaceship or something that can travel faster than the speed of light?
1921
1922Dr. Monnitoff (as voiceover): Theoretically.
1923
1924Donnie Darko (as voiceover): And be able to find one of these wormholes?
1925
1926Dr. Monnitoff (as voiceover): The basic principles of time travel are there. You’ve got your vessel and your portal, and your vessel could be just about anything, most likely a spacecraft… Metal craft of any kind.
1927
1928<Rose wakes up. There is a loud bang as the cabin depressurises, which shocks Samantha awake>
1929
1930SKY
1931<An engine is seen falling through the clouds>
1932
1933CARPATHIAN RIDGE
1934<Donnie gets back in the car and looks at Gretchen’s body, and smiles>
1935
1936Gretchen Ross (as voiceover): What if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?
1937
1938WORMHOLE
1939<The jet engine is seen travelling along the wormhole. Time is seen to wind back, with events from the movie in rewind>
1940
1941Donnie Darko (as voiceover): Dear Roberta Sparrow, I’ve reached you in your book, and there’s so many things I need to ask you. Sometimes I’m afraid of what you might tell me. Sometimes I’m afraid that you’ll tell me that this is not a work of fiction. I can only hope that the answers will come to me in my sleep. I hope that when the world comes to an end I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.
1942
1943DARKO HOUSE- DONNIE’S BEDROOM
1944<Donnie is sitting up in bed laughing hysterically>
1945
1946DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
1947<TV is on but there is no signal.>
1948
1949<Father is still asleep in chair.>
1950
1951DARKO HOUSE - HALL
1952<Rumble of car engine, and Elizabeth Darko enters, closes the front door, leans back against it, sighs, then laughs to herself.>
1953
1954DARKO HOUSE – DONNIE’S BEDROOM
1955<Donnie lies down and smiles and looks content. He rolls over onto his other side>
1956
1957DARKO HOUSE – HALL
1958<Elizabeth is breathing heavily. You can hear the car horn beeping repeatedly>
1959
1960DARKO HOUSE – DONNIE’S BEDROOM
1961**CRASH**
1962<The jet engine falls through the room>
1963
1964DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
1965<Father is woken by crash. Impact knocks all the books on the floor from the bookshelves.>
1966
1967DARKO HOUSE, PARENTS BEDROOM
1968<Mother is woken by crash.>
1969
1970DARKO HOUSE, FRONT DOOR
1971<Elizabeth sinks to her knees in fright.>
1972
1973DARKO HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
1974<Father gets out of his chair. Car alarms can be heard blaring.>
1975
1976DARKO HOUSE, FRONT DOOR
1977<Elizabeth can be heard breathing in fear.>
1978
1979OCTOBER 2 1988
1980DR. THURMAN’S HOUSE – BEDROOM
1981<Dr. Thurman wakes up abruptly and sits upright, deep in thought>
1982
1983(Music: Mad World – Michael Andrews/Gary Jules (orig. Tears for Fears))
1984
1985POMEROY/MONNITOFF HOUSE – BEDROOM
1986<Karen is asleep in bed, Kenneth is awake and touches her shoulder then rolls onto his back looking concerned>
1987
1988JIM CUNNINGHAM’S HOUSE – BEDROOM
1989<Jim is sat upright in bed, sobbing quietly>
1990
1991KITTY FARMER’S HOUSE – BEDROOM
1992<Kitty is sat on the side of her bed, she touches her mouth and is deep in thought>
1993
1994CHERITA CHEN’S HOUSE – BEDROOM
1995<Cherita is lying on her side in bed, she is smiling>
1996
1997FRANK’S HOUSE – BEDROOM
1998<Frank is sitting on the floor, the drawings of his rabbit mask are around him. He touches his eye. The pewter rabbit mask is beside him>
1999
2000DARKO HOUSE – OUTSIDE (MORNING)
2001<Police and other agents surround the house. A stretcher covered in a sheet is wheeled out of the house. Elizabeth is crying, make-up running down her face. Eddie is holding Samantha, they are both crying. Rose is leaning against a tree, smoking. A truck pulls away carrying the engine. Gretchen approaches on a bike.>
2002
2003Gretchen Ross: Hey… what’s going on.
2004
2005Boy: A horrible accident… a neighbour got killed.
2006
2007Gretchen Ross: What happened?
2008
2009Boy: Got smooshed by a jet engine.
2010
2011Gretchen Ross: What was his name?
2012
2013Boy: Donnie. Donnie Darko… I feel bad for his family.
2014
2015Gretchen Ross: Yeah.
2016
2017<Gretchen stares at Rose>
2018
2019Boy: Did you know him?
2020
2021Gretchen Ross: … no.
2022
2023<Gretchen waves at Rose. She waves back. The boy waves at Rose also>