The Crazies
Billy scene from The Crazies, practice script
- Men
- Playing age Teens
- 3 pages
- Two-person scene
- Drama
A drama scene from The Crazies for an actor, playing age teens (13–19), with David.
The Crazies: Billy scene
EXT. SILO STORAGE FACILITY - NIGHT
A young private sits against the silo wall, welt on his forehead where Russell smacked him. Blue-collar kid from a blue-collar state. Well-mannered. He’s scared. They are the enemy.
DAVID
What’s your name?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Billy Babcock...
DAVID
Why are they doing this?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Orders, sir.
DAVID
From who?!
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
(Shrugs)
Whoever gives ’em, I dunno. (Beat) Are you gonna shoot me?
DAVID
No.
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Then can you stop pointing that thing?
Russell’s shotgun aimed at his head. David gives Russell a look and Russell lowers it.
DAVID
Billy, I want you to tell me what exactly the hell is going on down here.
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
I dunno. All they said was there’d been some accident. My whole unit got flown in. We didn’t even know what state we were in till we saw the license plates.
DAVID
There wasn’t anything on the news? Before you left?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
No, sir. From what I hear they’re doing one of those media blackouts. Am I gonna die breathing without my mask?
DAVID
Is that what they said?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
They just said keep it on.
Judy tosses him his gasmask.
DAVID
Nobody’s said anything about what it was they spilled?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
No, sir, but... I’m probably not supposed to talk about this, but my sergeant, he saw this computer program they ran over at central, some kinda ’casualty projection’ I think he called it, you know, to see how things were gonna turn out down here.
DAVID
How’d it go?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Nobody lived past the third day.
DAVID
Nobody?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Crazies killed most of ’em, sickness got the rest. Today’s the second day, I’d get out of here tonight if I were you.
DAVID
How? The truckstop?
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Dunno, sir. Perimeter’s pretty hardcore. Even for healthies,
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK (cont’d)
they’re giving ’em one warning shot then it’s a kill order. Look, um, I know I don’t deserve anys favors from you people, but if you let me go I swear to God I won’t come back, they can court martial me, I don’t care, I didn’t sign up to shoot unarmed civilians. I’ll just leave. Okay...?
DAVID
Okay.
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
(Referring to his guns)
I guess you’re keeping that, huh?
DAVID
Yeah, we’re gonna hold onto those, Billy.
Billy nods okay. Steps to the hatch. Pauses there.
PVT. BILLY BABCOCK
Sorry ’bout your folks’s town.
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