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MALac
Fade in from black: white text on black background:
Courage is the belief that there is
something more important than personal safety
Fade to black
Int.Day.Room
HE is sweating. Hard.
SHE stands impassive. Unconcerned.
HE rubs his wrist and we see HE is chained to the chair.
SHE
(Bright. Breezy)
Are you sure you wouldn’t like a drink?
(smiles)
Never too late to change your mind.
HE
(Afraid)
I swear, I swear. Please. Stop. Please?
SHE
(placing a briefcase in front of the chair)
Shush. Be quite quiet. It will no longer be necessary to
lie.
HE
I swear…
HER
Shush, shush.
(popping open the case)
I have here a malac. God it’s beautiful.
Could you hold him please?
MAN steps out of the shadows and forces HE’s hand
horizontal.
HE
Don’t. Don’t. I swear.

SHE
(pleased)
MALacs. Now no more shall we part on this path of truth we
find ourselves on.
Playing with the MALac in the case, its metallic sheen
plays on SHE’s face.
SHE
Pain, enlightening truth. This is what MALac brings.
Shall we continue?
SHE removes the MALac and shutting the case she steps
forward.
HE screams.
THE END
 

The script tells a story about a man and a woman. They are talking about something in a room. The woman has a magic thing- the malac, and it looks very powerful that can recognize which one is the truth. The man is being chained to the chair looks so scared, and he is begging for the woman all the time. However, the woman seems do not believe him. At last she uses the malac to punish him.

From the script I think maybe the man knows something that the woman want to know, but he cannot say that. From beginning of the text to see, “Courage is the belief that there is something more important than personal safety”. Maybe the man is protecting something that he cannot say to the woman, and he think that is more important than his personal life.