Play 157: Kindergarten Narc

INT. KINDERGARTEN CLASS-INSIDE OF SCHOOL BUILDING-DAY

A kid playing with a toy car, moving it back and forth on the floor and up a ramp made out of a couple of wooden blocks. PULL BACK to a kindergarten class during recess, the kids are all in what appears to be a play area, playing with various toys such as toy cars, building blocks, dolls, and action figures.

ZOOM IN on two boys close up, Jimmy and Alex, are sitting on the ground, building some kind of structure with the wooden blocks.

JIMMY
Wanna play something else?

He puts down the block in his hand.

ALEX
Can’t we finish making the fire station?

He puts another block on top of the structure.

JIMMY
I’m bored.

ALEX
But I want to make the fire station.

JIMMY
But we built a fire station last time, can we do something else now?

ALEX
Okay.

He puts his block down. Brief pause.

ALEX
What do you want to do?

JIMMY
I don’t know.

ALEX
Think of something.

JIMMY
Hmm…we could…

JOHN
(A deep voice from offscreen.)
Do drugs?

PULL OUT to reveal JOHN, around 30 years old, with short trimmed neat brown hair and, wearing a suit and sunglasses. Jimmy and Alex look over at him with looks of confusion.

JIMMY
What?

JOHN
Nevermind.

Pause.

ALEX
Want to go draw?

JIMMY
Yeah!

They walk over to some desks off to the side where there are pieces of paper and crayons and start drawing. John walks over to the desk and sits down, looking ridiculous in the tiny chair. He picks up a crayon and starts drawing with them.

JOHN
Say fellow kindergarten students, you don’t know someone could, find, how should I say…special…substances around here do you?

They look confused.

ALEX
What are you talking about mister?

JOHN
Well…where could I get…drugs?

JIMMY
We don’t know what you are talking about.

JOHN
Okay.

JIMMY and ALEX stop drawing for a few seconds with confused looks on their faces, then go back to drawing, seeming to have forgotten the whole thing. The teacher, a woman in her mid 60s, in a plain dress with medium length grey hair, walks over to them.

TEACHER
Those are some nice drawings Jimmy and Alex. (beat.) and John.

JOHN
Thank you teacher.

TEACHER
Umm, John, could I talk to you?

JOHN
Yes, of course you can.

TEACHER
Alone.

JOHN puts down his crayon, and follows the teacher off to a side of the room, away from all the kids. She turns away from the kids, and immediately a scowl comes across her face.

TEACHER
(Angrily.)
What do you think you’re doing?

JOHN
Why, what do you mean teacher?

TEACHER
Cut the shit, I know what you are.

JOHN
Yes, I am John, kindergarten student.

TEACHER
(Flatly.)
You’re at least thirty years old.

JOHN
I do not know what you are talking about, I just turned six.

TEACHER
Look, what the hell are you doing here? This is a kindergarten class, not high school, what buisiness do narcs have coming here?

JOHN
Narcs?

ZOOM IN on his face, he is starting to sweat. He laughs forcibly.

JOHN
I assure you, I am not narc, I am just a little boy.

TEACHER
You are the most obvious undercover narc I’ve ever seen.

JOHN
I, don’t know what you’re…I…I

He pulls the collar of his suit jacket to infront of his mouth.

JOHN
(Into his suit jacket.)
They’re on to me.

TEACHER
Will you please just leave—

JOHN
(Into coat.)
My security has been compromised, mission abort! Mission abort!

He pulls a gun out of his coat and shoots starts shooting randomly into the air and into various objects as he runs to the door, the teacher screams and dives to the grounds, the children start screaming, some crying, and they lie on the ground or hide behind objects. When he gets to the door, he fires one last shot, kicks down the door, and runs out. There is silence, the kids remain hiding shaking in fear. The teacher tentatively stands up.

TEACHER
Is everyone okay?

CHILDREN
(In scared, soft voices.)
We’re okay.

PAN AROUND the classroom, various objects have been destroyed by the gunshots, and in the chaos, many things have been knocked over, there is a shattered vase on the ground, pieces of it lie everywhere.

ZOOM IN on the structure JIMMY and ALEX had built, the pieces are now strewn about the ground. One of the blocks has a bullet hole in it, and the back has been blown wide open.

FADE TO BLACK