Voices

   
          INT. ROOM                                                        
                                                                           
          A MAN sits alone, sad. A VOICEOVER narrates.                     
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Has this ever happened to you?                         
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                         (confused)                                        
                    What? Has what ever happened to me?                    
                    Who’s talking?                                         
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Sitting at home? Nothing to do?                        
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    Yeah, what’s it to you? And who are                    
                    you anyway?                                            
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Are you hearing voices?                                
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    Yes! You’re the voices! What the                       
                    hell is going on?                                      
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Are they driving you crazy?                            
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    Yes! Yes! Get out of my head!                          
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Do you think they’ll never stop?                       
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    That’s it! I gotta get out of here.                    
                                                                           
          MAN tries the door, but can’t open it. He moves to the           
          window and tries to open it. Can’t.                              
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Have you tried to escape but find                      
                    all the exits have been sealed                         
                    shut?                                                  
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    Oh, god. What’s happening? What are                    
                    you doing?                                             
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Feeling anxious? Nervous?                    
        
                              MAN                                          
                    YES!                                                   
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Would you pay money to make it                         
                    stop?                                                  
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    I would! I would!                                      
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Like, how much money?                                  
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    A lot of money.                                        
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    All your money?                                        
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    ALL my money! Just make it stop!                       
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Would you give up your first born                      
                    son?                                                   
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    ...what? My what?                                      
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                    Would you lay his pale nubile body                     
                    upon my altar of bones?                                
                                                                           
                              MAN                                          
                    Altar of bones? What altar of                          
                    bones? What are you?!                                  
                                                                           
                              VOICEOVER                                    
                         (increasingly sinister)                           
                    Would you sacrifice him as my                          
                    personal flesh-vessel so I may                         
                    bathe this insolent mortal plane in                    
                    fire and blood?                                        
                                                                           
          The MAN starts shrieking. Freeze-Frame. A NEW VOICEOVER,         
          more friendly and ad-style, reads the logo that appears.         
                                                                           
                              NEW VOICEOVER                                
                    Ghosts: They’re a bigger problem                       
                    than you think!(extremely quickly)                     
                    Paid for by the Committee for the                      
                    Opposition of Ghosts.                                  
                                                                           
          BLACKOUT.
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