Gigolo Script
Characters:
Jenny – College student in her early 20’s. In a relationship with Savannah that is getting exponentially more abusive emotionally and she is scared it will soon become physical. Does not want to break-up/ leave Savannah.
Savannah – Goes to the same college as Jenny, knows she is out of control but is helpless to stop it. Paranoid that Jenny will cheat on her and leave her. She is controlling and insensitive.
John – Neighbor who lives in the same dorm and is aware via hearsay of what is going on between the two women. Becomes overly heroic and macho in the face of domestic violence. Naïve and hopeful for a relationship with Jenny.
Scene opens panning from Jenny to Savannah in the bed together after having had sex. Jenny looks content but is apprehensive. Savannah is turned facing the wall, she rolls over and looks at Jenny then her room. A close up is shown, she has deep bags under her eyes.
Savannah attempts to fondle Jenny under the covers but Jenny pushes her away.
Jenny: I have to go to class soon.
Savannah: When?
Jenny: We can’t right now-
Jenny get’s out of the bed and starts to dress.
Savannah: Why not?
Jenny: Calm down.
Savannah: I am calm.
Jenny: OK then.
Jenny is fully dressed and we can hear her putting something else on in the background, Savannah sits up and puts her shirt on then starts looking at the rest of the room.
Savannah: Why is this picture over here?
Jenny: What picture?
Savannah: It’s always on your desk, why is over here?
Jenny: I don’t know, it’s just a picture.
Savannah: Did you move it? Did someone else move it?
Jenny: Don’t start this again.
Savannah: Just tell me and I’ll drop it.
Jenny: I’m not-
Savannah: Tell me!
Savannah has moved into her personal space threateningly. Jenny backs towards the door.
Jenny: Stop it! Get out! Now! (She says while going out into the hallway followed by Savannah who has now put the picture frame down.)
Savannah: TELL ME WHO HE IS! I KNOW YOU’RE WITH SOMEONE ELSE! (They are now exiting the hallway into the living room.)
Jenny: There. Is. No one. Else. (Jenny says reaching the dorm door)
Savannah makes eye contact with Jenny, her breathing quickens and she begins to get closer to her face.
Savannah: You went somewhere last night. Where did you go?
Jenny stays silent and resolute, and starts opening the door for her to leave.
Savannah suddenly shuts the door with Jenny still trying to open it. There is a jump-shot at this instant of the door shutting from outside and someone walking down the stairs. Screaming and pounding on the door is heard from outside. The passerby is John, who goes up to the door wondering what is going on. Both females are screaming inside. Jenny opens the door again for her to leave, John rushes in and pushes Savannah down, pinning her on the ground with his hands on her throat and shoulders. Savannah becomes even more angered.
John: You motherfucker!
Savannah: (Choking)
Jenny: You don’t know what you’re doing! Stop!
Jenny’s voice cannot be heard with the yelling between John and Savannah. Savannah kicks him and scratches him, further infuriating him. He starts to punch her brutally, and she gets knocked out. Jenny is still trying to pull him back from her, and he finally relents. He gets up slowly and turns towards her. Once he gets up Jenny runs to Savannah and tries to help her.
Jenny: (screaming) What have you done!? Why would you just come here and do this?!?!
John: She was hurting you! I heard it!
Jenny: She didn’t hurt me! It may have sounded that way but she would never hurt me!
John: She did! She’s done it before too.
John: She did! She’s done it before too.
Jenny: You don’t know what you’re talking about.
John: Yes I do. She’s insane, she’s hit you-
Jenny: No-
John: Yes, you two argue all the time, she’s been trying to control you. You shouldn’t be with a person like that.
Jenny: (scared and concerned, still clinging to Savannah) What!?
John: (Flashes a creepy smile and has a wild glint in his eye)I love you Jenny. Why don’t you be with me?
Jenny: (starts backing towards the kitchen looking horrified)
John: Where are you going?!?!
Jenny quickly gets off the floor and runs to the kitchen. John follows her at a slow and deliberate pace. We see Jenny run up the stairs to her room and open a door at the top, cut to John walking through the kitchen and taking a kitchen knife. John begins to walk up the stairs, and there is a POV of him walking up the stairs cutting to a POV of a different day as Jenny walks down the sidewalk towards her house. The POV is low and partially hidden by bushes, we are watching as Jenny walks towards her house. Cut again as he reaches the top stair and turns toward the door and opens it. Cut again to the same POV and setting as he walks behind her normally and she begins to turn her head. Cut to John turning the door knob of the room and a high angle of him entering the bathroom is seen, it is dark and the only place to hide is a standing shower which is darkly lit.
Cut to his hands flicking the light switch to find that there is no one inside. He rushes out of the bathroom and goes into the bedroom looking for her, turning his head slowly until he sees a window open. He goes toward the open window. Cut to him walking onto the roof from outside. Another cut as he walks past the patio and Savannah welcomes Jenny. Another cut and he is closing in on Jenny at the edge of the roof. Jenny is cowering from him as he closes in with the knife, he closes in and we see a pov of his hands coming towards her when there is a sharp fade to a different setting. The setting is in the school and Jenny is getting up from a seat behind John, when she looks over his shoulder and sees him flipping through a sketchbook and there are many photographs and pictures of Jenny inside it, which Jenny sees.
