David Lynch Rabbits Script

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DAVID LYNCH'S "RABBITS" (2002)

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

rabbits live with a fearful mystery"

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DAVID LYNCH'S "RABBITS" (2002)

Scene 1

INT. THE LIVING ROOM

We see a gloomy room lightened only with lampshade and standard-lamp. 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? (Audience’s laughing) JACK: (Stands up) I have a secret.

JANE: There have been no calls today. (Audience’s laughing) JACK: (sitting back) I am not sure

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. (Audience’s laughing) SUZIE: Where was it?

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JACK: I hear someone.

JANE: There is something I would like to say to you, Suzie. (Audience’s 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? (Audience’s 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. (Audience’s 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

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

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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

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

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.

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JACK: Quiet.

JACK stands up and goes to the door, leaves the room and back soon with audience’s 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

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

SUZIE stands in the left corner of the room near the standard-lamp, 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? (Audience’s Laughs) JANE: I was speaking about the other night.

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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: It has always been like that.

JACK: When did you go out?

JANE: I have known since I was seven. JACK: 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

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.

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Scene 9

SUZIE stands in the left corner of the room but she isn’t 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? (Audience’s 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 (AUDIENCE’S 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.

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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.