Anchor Script

1. INT. SUBURBAN HOME. DAY

We hear a doorbell chime. The front door of a home opens to reveal a small boy holding a fish bowl containing a fish. The bowl is two times the size of the boys head. The bowl obscures most of the boy’s body.

MOTHER
Jimmy... Where have you been?

JIMMY
He followed me home, can we keep him?

2. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY

Inside the fish bowl, the fish suddenly dodges into one side. A small stone sinks into frame.
We see Jimmy peering down at us through the water of the fish bowl. He holds another stone, poised to drop it.

JIMMY
(Menacingly)
Make a wish Anchor.

MUM (O/S)
(Calling)
Jimmy! Leave him alone. You are not going to kill that little one too…

We see the fish suddenly gets terrified after hearing the dialogue.


3. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY

Jimmy steps into the room and looks to the fish bowl, its empty! He searches the room looking for the fish.

JIMMY
(Calling)
MUM!!!

We hear a PLOP and see the fishbowl from Jimmy’s POV, but this time the little red fish is there, blinking innocently. Jimmy gets angry.



4. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY

Jimmy pulls a welding iron from behind his back, reaches behind his head and flips down a welders mask.
Fish’s eyes bug out of his head and he darts around his bowl desperately, turning quicker and harder with each pass. Through the water we see Jimmy approaching.

5. INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY

We see an open window sill. In slow motion, little Fish leaps into view. The fish jumps triumphantly over the window sill and out through the open window. This action becomes Grey scale and the pace changes to slow motion.His grin stretches from gill to gill. Then as he begins his descent, his face changes from ecstasy to terror. The colors of the scene return. Freeze frame on the fish’s face of terror.