screenplay by me:)

WAYS OF OUR KNIVES

SCENE 5

BATHROOM- a beautiful woman, dressed only in a dressing gown stands at a mirror in a poorly-lit bathroom after having a hot bath. A man bursts through the door.

MAN
Lydia! I can’t live without you!

WOMAN
Move on, Jared. It is time that you moved on.

MAN
(raised voice, down on knees) NO! I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOU! Please, tell me what I did wrong and I promise to spend each and every day for the rest of my life trying to make myself worthy of you! You are the most beautiful, compassionate, caring, virtuous, intelligent, strong, gentle, amazing woman I have ever met and will ever know.

WOMAN
(shaking head sadly but in a way that is wise and empathetic) No, Jared. Those things may be true but we can never be together.

MAN
(tone of desperation as he speaks softly) Why not? I promise, I swear, I-

WOMAN
-Jared. (raises eyes to the ceiling, as if searching for answers in God) I am searching for answers in God and I can find none that will tell you what you want hear. Thou shall not commit adultery.

MAN
I-

WOMAN
(gentle yet firm) I cannot begin to tell you how hurt I was. I thought it would be me and you for eternity but I cannot love a man I cannot trust.

MAN
Lydia, please.

WOMAN
Go home. Remember, time will heal the hole I will have left in your heart.

MAN
(anger) You bitch. I come and get down on my knees apologizing, and what do you do? You think you’re God’s gift? You think you’ll ever find anyone better than me?

(approaches woman)
(woman shrieks)
(man grabs woman by the neck and forces her head down into the bath still full of water, drowning her)
(shallow water is everywhere)

THE END