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FADE IN: EXT.OUTSIDE THE WINCHESTER’S WHEAT FIELD - DAY In the dead of winter, in the year 1936, snow as covered the frozen ground. There stands a big white and blue sign that reads, Winchester’s Manor. Standing on this land right in the middle of the wheat field is a coffee colored WOMAN holding a five-year-old GIRL. The woman is looking around and swinging a stick back and forward as if she sees something that is not there. The woman places the little girl who is wrapped up in a blue wool blanket on the snow-covered ground. Suddenly, she runs off as if she is casing away something, the little girl is crying and reaching out toward the woman. INT.TEN YEARS LATER, INSIDE THE KITCHEN OF WINCHESTER’S MANOR – NIGHT The same little girl, ELSIE MAY now fifteen years old, she is gracefully thin with long jet-black hair. She has flawless coffee colored skin and mesmerizing gray eyes. She is standing in the kitchen, taking pieces of bacon out of a cast iron skillet. She places it on a white plate on a brown table. Then picks up the plate and a fork off the table and looks toward the back door. She sees a BLACK SMOKE MOUSE, it is looking at her sideways and standing on its hind legs. …show more content…

Every time I look around there you are! (throws the fork at the mouse) Get out! I said get out of here! (Picks up plate and walks toward the hallway) INT.IN THE WINCHESTER’S PARLOR – NIGHT Elsie May walks into the parlor where MR. WINCHESTER is sitting in his tan Alvar Aalto tank chair that he brought back with him when he returned home from Chelsea’s Arms Asylum. Mr. Winchester is a beautifully masculine sixty-five-year-old with silver-gray hair that hangs to his shoulders. He is as kind as a butterfly but hard as a rock when it comes to his loved ones. Mr. Winchester does not look up from his newspaper. ELSIE MAY (hands the plate to Mr. Winchester) MR.

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