DAVID LYNCH'S "RABBITS" (2002)

"In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three

rabbits live with a fearful mystery"

DAVID LYNCH'S "RABBITS" (2002)

Scene 1

INT. THE LIVING ROOM

We see a gloomy room lightened only with lampshade and standardlamp. There are two women in the rabbit costumes in the room. One
of them (JANE), dressed in white, sits on the red sofa near the
lampshade. The second one (SUZIE), dressed in red, stands in the
left corner of the room near the standard-lamp, and irons the same
piece of clothing over and over again. There is a door at the
left side of the screen. Near the door we can see an old black
telephone. There is another room on the background. We can hear
the rain outside.
After a long time the door opens, and a man in the rabbit costume
(JACK), dressed in a black suit, comes into the room. His
entrance is accompanied by the rapturous applause of an unseen
audience. After the applause has grown silent, Jack takes his
place on the sofa.

JANE: I'm going to find out one day.

SUZIE: When will you tell it?
JACK: Were there any calls?
JANE: What time is it?
(Audiences laughing)
JACK: (Stands up) I have a secret.
JANE: There have been no calls today.
JACK: (sitting back) I am not sure

(Audiences laughing)

SUZIE stops ironing, and goes to the sofa. We hear the applause.
SUZIE stops behind the sofa.

JACK: A coincidence.
SUZIE: (laughs)
JANE: Do not forget that today is Friday.
SUZIE: Where was it?

We hear steps outside

(Audiences laughing)

JACK: I hear someone.

JANE: There is something I would like to say to you, Suzie.
(Audiences laughing)
JACK stands up and goes out the room.
Scene 2
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JANE sits on the sofa near the lampshade. SUZIE stands behind the
sofa. They both stare at the door. The door opens, and JACK comes
back into the room.
(We hear the audience's applause. After the applause has grown
silent, Jack takes his place on the sofa.)

SUZIE: Oh?
(Audiences laughing)
JACK: It must be after 7:00 PM
SUZIE: I have heard those things being said before.
JACK: I will bet you are both wondering.
JANE: It is still raining.
SUZIE: I have misplaced it. I am sure of it now.
JANE: All day.
(Audiences laughing)
JACK: It was a man in a green suit.
SUZIE: Why?
JACK: It may even be later.
SUZIE: I am going to get them.
SUZIE goes into the adjoining room.

Scene 3
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JACK stands up and sits back.
JACK: Where was I?
JANE: I only wish that they would go somewhere.
JACK: I almost forgot.
JACK goes out of the room and comes back soon. We hear the
audience's applause. After the applause has grown silent, JACK
takes his place on the sofa.

JACK: Were you blonde? (Pause)Suzie?

JANE: I could hear it also.
JACK: When it happens, you will know it.

Suddenly the light turns off. SUZIE comes back into the room
carrying two lighting candles.(We see the RED RABBIT a
frightening and weird figure in the upper left corner of the wall.
The RED RABBIT speaks loud incoherent strange language.)The RED
RABBIT disappears. SUZIE goes out of the room. The light turns on.
SUZIE comes back into the room without candles and stops behind
the sofa.

Scene 4
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
SUZIE comes in and the living room is empty
SUZIE: Something's wrong. Cold. Siren. Dark. Smiling teeth. Moving
wing, fingers. Smoke. Oil. Heat. Mirror. Smear of blood. Eye
opened. Darkness. All wet. But in bed. Thorn. Bug in bed,
crawling. Over? Moose.
DISAPPEARS
Scene 5
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JACK and JANE sits on the sofa near the lampshade. SUZIE stands
behind the sofa.

SUZIE: There was a call for you, earlier in the day.

JACK: We are not going anywhere.
SUZIE: I almost forgot.
JACK: I knew that was what happened each time I thought about it.
JANE: Are you going to tell?
JACK: It is the rain.
JANE: I was wondering when Suzie was going to do that.
JACK: Who was it?
SUZIE: (looking to the side) It must be the rain.
JANE: It is 11:15 PM, it is dark outside.
(Audiences laughing)

JACK: Quiet.
JACK stands up and goes to the door, leaves the room and back soon
with audiences applause.

JACK: Let me tell you.

JANE: I do not think it is the rain.
SUZIE: He goes to work each morning, and then he comes back home
each night.
JACK: It may have been a coincidence.
SUZIE sits down between JACK and JANE.
JANE: It did not happen that way.
Scene 6
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JACK comes in and the living room is empty
JACK: Distant siren. An old warm rug. A dog crawls. Something's
wrong. Something's wrong. The dog crawls. Lights blown out. A
wind. Dark. Smiling teeth. A swollen tongue. The dog crawls.
The socket drips. Disease. Hot. Electricity. Barbed wire. Sharp.
Tearing open, red. And wiggling, wet dogs. Running swollen blue
feet. Tearing, scraping. Black, old blood. Yellow saliva. Dark
room. Broken window. Green tear. Vinyl. Knife. Blood. Burn. Bulb.
Legs high. Cold.
DISAPPEARS
Scene 7
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
SUZIE stands in the left corner of the room near the standardlamp, and irons the same piece of clothing over and over again
while JANE is sitting on the sofa.
JANE: When did you say that?
SUZIE: It was the voice of a man.
JANE: I do not think it will be much longer now.
SUZIE: Where is it that you think I meant?
(Audiences Laughs)
JANE: I was speaking about the other night.
SUZIE: I do not know where Jack is.

JANE: I was near the harbor after it happened. It was raining.

SUZIE: It is 8:35 PM.
JANE: Who was on the phone?
SUZIE: It is still raining.
JACK comes into the room and sit-down on the sofa
JANE:
JACK:
JANE:
JACK:

It has always been like that.

When did you go out?
I have known since I was seven.
It happens all the time.

The phone rings for a long while and no one answers. Then JACK
answer without talk.
SUZIE: There is no moon tonight.
JANE: I said it looks like it is still raining.
SUZIE: Where was it exactly, do you remember?
JANE: Is it that late?
JACK :(sitting again) Since then?
SUZIE: And getting darker.
Scene 8
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
JANE comes in and the living room is empty
JANE: An old warm rug. A dog crawls. Something's wrong. The dog
crawls. Lights blow out. A wind. Dark. Smiling teeth. A swollen
Tongue. The dog crawls. The socket drips. Disease.Hot.
Electricity. Barbed wire. Sharp. Tearing open, red. And wiggling,
wet dogs. Running swollen blue feet. Tearing, scrapping. Black,
oil blood. Yellow saliva. Dark room. Broken window. Band Aid, old
grease cotton. Green tear. Vinyl knife. Steam blood. Burn. Bulk.
Chord. Bugs wiggle on their backs. Legs high. Ceiling drip. Cold
distant siren. Distant ships. Distant ships. Distant ships. Moving
wing. Fingers. Old skin. Smoke. Oil heat. Mirror. Smear of blood.
Eye opens darkness.
DISAPPEARS

Scene 9
INT. THE LIVING ROOM
SUZIE stands in the left corner of the room but she isnt ironing
anymore. JACK and JANE are sitting on the sofa looking at other.

JANE: I saw it too.

JACK: I am not sure.
JANE: I went earlier, when it was just light.
JACK: I need to tell you something.
SUZIE: It was red.
JACK: Did he say anything?
(Audiences laughs)
SUZIE: You could not do anything?
JANE: No one can know about this.
SUZIE LEAVES THE ROOM
JANE: It happened to me only once.
JACK LEAVES THE ROOM
JANE: It's past midnight!
JACK ENTERS TO THE ROOM (AUDIENCES APLAUSE)
JANE: All day.
SUZIE: There is something here! (FROM THE OTHER ROOM)
JANE: It happened like that earlier.
JACK: Who could have known?
Suddenly the light turns off. SUZIE comes back into the room
carrying two lighting candles (AGAIN). We see the RED RABBIT again
but this time is shortly

SUZIE: I heard it too.

JACK: Do not forget what I have told you.
The door opens by itself and the rabbits look at that. We hear a
scream and the lights go off suddenly. SUZIE goes to close the
door and the scene comes back to normality
SUZIE: And then, there it was.

JACK: No. Nothing.

JANE: Well then, it must be very dark.
JACK: It was the man in the green coat.
SUZIE sits down between JACK and JANE.
JANE: I wonder who I will be.
END.