1  INT. VERA'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
 2  ===========================
 3  
 4  A window is open and its curtains are lisping on a breeze. Her room is a
 5  mess: clothes and books litter the floor; a towel drapes over her desk;
 6  a bra hangs from an open dresser drawer spewing unpaired socks.
 7  Bookshelves line one wall, noticeably filled with computer programming
 8  manuals and Cyrillic titles. Vera sleeps soundly in her bed, arms
 9  akimbo, an open book by her pillow, her face aglow from her reading
10  lamp. A pile of books askew teeters on her her bedside table. She is
11  almost snoring, with glasses slipping crookedly down her nose. The
12  digital clock shows 2:56.
13  
14  A cell phone ring ruptures the idyll. Vera flies up from her pillow.
15  Panicked, she seeks the source of the noise, reaches towards the bedside
16  table for her glasses, and, realizing they are on her face, sets them
17  aright. She sees the light of her ringing, vibrating phone blinking
18  under some papers on her desk. She tumbles up to her feet, cusses
19  violently in Russian, grabs the phone and answers, flushed with
20  frustration.
21  
22  > VERA
23  > <br> (Somewhere between a scream and a growl.)
24  >> What now? What now? What now? You call me three times in three nights!
25  
26  > COMPUTERIZED WOMAN'S VOICE
27  > <br> (Through cell phone, over Vera.)
28  >> Code 912. Code 912. Code 912. Please enter response code in 15
29  >> seconds. Code 912. Code 912. Code 912. Please enter response code in
30  >> 12 seconds...
31  
32  > VERA
33  >> Aaaaaarrrgghhhhh.
34  
35  Vera stabs some numbers into her phone with her index finger, cussing
36  more in Russian and English, and hurls the phone on to the bed. She
37  spins dervishly grabbing clothes - her jeans from the floor and an MIT
38  sweatshirt from atop her computer monitor. She yanks them on, cussing
39  and muttering all the while. She slips her belt, with leatherman
40  attached, around her waist, jams her phone onto the belt, stuffs her
41  wallet in a pocket. From a hook by the door she takes a set of keys with
42  a pass card and hangs them around her neck. She pauses, scans the room,
43  a predator eyeing prey.
44  
45  > VERA
46  > <br> (Saccarine sweet.)
47  >> Where are you little dearies. Come to mama. Come come come.
48  
49  Vera lunges forward to reach under the bed and grab the keys. A dust
50  bunny hitches a ride on her lanyard.
51  
52  > VERA
53  >> Mine!
54  
55  Vera barrels out of the room.
56  
57  After a moment she barrels back in, still furious, and cranes her neck
58  around the door. Looking down, she yanks a rubber band from the
59  doorknob. She is pulling her hair back into a ponytail as she leaves the
60  room. She is heard thumping down the stairs.