Answer the Call
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- Why did I feel it was my calling to rescue those girls from slavery?
- Why did you let those men take my innocence?
- Why weren't you there?
- Who are you talking to?
- Who are you?
- I am Known.
- Hollywood Shot - Haley slumps at a park bench, hunched over her bible, (Slow pan left into shot), aimlessly flipping through the pages. Flips it closed.
- Is that some sort of code name?
- Hollywood Shot - Her brow furrows as she speaks
- A kind of code name. I have many names.
- Medium Shot - Haley lifts her head to the sky.
- Medium Wide Shot - Haley rises, paces. Glares up at the sky.
- I'm sorry. I shouldn't have scared you like that.
- Medium Wide Shot - Known speaks up from behind Haley. Shocked, she whips around to face him. (Known appears behind Haley)
- It's not just you. The very thought of how my life has been up to this point is scary.
- Over Shoulder Shot - Medium Wide - Known is sitting, calm. Haley is frightened, standing frozen. Takes a step or two back.
- Would you like to talk about it?
- Medium Close up - Haley
- Perhaps God sent me to hear you out?
- It isn't your problem. It's between me and God
- Medium Wide Shot - Known is perched on the bench.
- Medium Wide Shot -Haley remains guarded. (Simultaneous shots of over the Shoulder between Haley and Known)
- Even when I thought I heard his call in my life.
- Medium Wide - Known perched on the bench.
- What did you think was your call?
- Medium Shot - Haley
- Why are you so interested in my life? I don't know you!
- Full Shot - Known
- If you look closer, you'll see you know me quite well.
- Hollywood Shot - Haley remains guarded, looks Known up and down.
- Over Shoulder Shot - Haley
- Ha! Why would he do that? He stopped hearing my cries two years ago.
- Continued
- Hollywood Shot - Known (Side view)
- Medium Shot of Haley
- Cowboy Shot - Known
- I'm not in the mood for games. Who are you?!
- Haley, I am Jesus.
- It's easy to fake a scar now-a-days. And I come to this park a lot. You could have been watching me without me knowing.
- Haley, you have always known I am there with you, before and after that horrific attack.
- Hollywood Shot - Haley increases distance between them.
- Yeah? If you really are Jesus, then why didn't you stop them from raping me? I screamed your name, but they just mocked me!
- Medium Shot - Known
- I felt the call to go out into the world, just as you asked, before you rose to glory! But after that night, I realized I let my big heart get in the way and fooled myself into thinking you walked beside me.
- Medium Close up of Haley studying Known. Locks on to scarred hands.
- They come from greater forces than this world cares to acknowledge. That is why I did what I did for you. (Pause) Even when you feel most vulnerable, I am there.
- Battles are meant to strengthen us. I fought them, just as everyone must fight them.
- Close Up of Known's scarred hands.
- Then why am I so terrified to walk out my door? Why, every time I close my eyes, do I see those faces? are scars meant to heal or torture us?
- And they mocked me just as they mocked you. What I went through as a human was meant to strengthen the God and man relationship. And forgiveness was what humanity needed. It is what must take place now.
- Medium Shot - Haley
- Haley... It was not an easy task for me. I knew of the consequences. I knew of the torture that would eventually take place.
- Was it so easy for you to come and die a symbolic death?
- Cowboy Shot - Known
- I won't face them.
- Hollywood Shot - Haley
- That time may come, but not now. Your first step to healing is to forgive.
- Medium Shot - Haley
- Close-Up - Haley on the ground, sobbing. A moment, Known Joins her.
- Continued Close-Up - Haley and Known on the ground.
- Continued Close-Up - Haley and Known Haley speaks first (continuous)
- I want to forget this. I don't want to relive those moments.
- Medium Shot - O.S.S. Haley
- Medium Shot - O.S.S - Known
- Medium close up
- Then you will not be free. You will remain as much a prisoner as them.
- What if I don't?
- Medium close up
- (whispering) I want to be free.
- Medium Shot
- Freedom comes in surrender.
- O.S.S - Haley
- O.S.S - Known
- It is harder to forgive than to forget. But doing what is hardest is the key to following me.
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