Jerrold Dawson

Short Film

By Freddie Johnson

Characters:
Jerrold Dawson - henryk
Betty - mum
Police officer 1 - dad
Police officer 2 - jack
Hooded guy 1 - jack
Hooded guy 2 - chris
Hooded guy 3 - ash
Teddy - Ash
8 year old Dawson – Caroline son
Preteen/Teen Dawson - david
Teen Dawson’s Girlfriend - charlotte
Person killed – Phillip wife
News Reporter - sophie
8 year old friend – caroline son
Hologram -Ethan
Jerrold killer - Phillip
Henrick Smith – ?
Memory Bank helper - ?
 Text: The year is 2048
There has been a government project that looked at mind
control of humans but was forced out of existence at the end,
so they sent in the special forces to kill them all. This led
to the special forces getting arrested and the government
throwing the project out of the window the project was called
RedRobin. Until now the project wasn’t brought to the public…

INT Evening Lounge: The Tv is on in the dark house, the tv is

playing a news item about a government project that killed
many people and was forced out of existence the project was
called RedRobin.

News reporter on tv
Nathan Jason is the third person to be arrested in relation to
the government project called RedRobin which involved the
murder of thousands of innocent people at the end of the
project from the special forces. Who were either arrested or
fled the country for this. But from new evidence we have been
given they have been released and given a sorry from the
country, but from this evidence a third person has been
arrested in relation to the project. Nathan Jason was one of
the people to cover up the project by getting rid of the test
subject by sending in the special forces, who believed they
were sent there as there was a big terrorist there. We now
know that the government told the special forces to shoot
anyone and then told the authorities they knew nothing of this
order.
Thankfully all this information is coming to light from an
anonymous person giving the police tip offs, and sending
information to the journalists.
This only the third person to be arrested from this project
RedRobin and we expect many more to come in the near future…

Doorbell rings

News reporter on tv
…In other news Memory Bank has bec… (the news is turned off)

JERROLD DAWSON gets up and walks to the door.

EXT raining, front door: A hologram is standing outside in the

rain in the evening (although it is always dark now so is hard
to tell anymore) the blue hologram wears a red top, a blue
jacket and a fedora on with memory bank going around the hat.

INT, front door: Jerrold Dawson opens the door sees the
hologram.

Hologram
 Hello. Are you Jerrold Dawson?

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah

Hologram
Excellent here is your memory bank that you have purchased.

The hologram hands over a small circular disc. Jerrold Dawson

takes it and closes the door.

INT Lounge: Jerrold walks back into the lounge and puts the
disc on the table, a hologram of the bank of memories pops up.
A man appears at the start HENRICK SMITH CEO of Memory Bank.

Henrick Smith
Hello and welcome to your memory bank from us the Memory Bank,
this whole company would not be possible if it wasn’t for a
little chip inside of your head that records all your memories
that you can then get from a one-off purchase. So welcome to
your memories.

The screen then goes to a blue screen that shows words Mum
dying, grandma and grandad, playing, school, job, happy, dad
leaving and other.

Jerrold stares at the word mum dying he gets a bit sad he

reaches to touch it but retracts and says playing.

The screen then pops up with a memory of him playing with his
friend running around a garden, climbing a tree with his
friend wondering how he got up there. Jerold smiles.

Jerrold Dawson
School

The memories then change to one showing him in his preteens

going to school walking around, a girl then walks in and they
look like girlfriend and boyfriend who he doesn’t recognise,
another one shows him being good at drawing.

(V.O) Jerrold Dawson

You always remember who you went out with and who you slept
with, but that girl I don’t ever remember. And drawing I was
awful at it that drawing I got from a friend.

INT Kitchen: Jerrold gets up and moves to the kitchen where he

gets on the phone to the company.
 Memory bank
Hello and welcome to memory bank how can we help?

Jerrold Dawson
Yes, I have just ordered my memory bank and I don’t recognise
some of the memories.

Memory Bank
Oh, ok let me have a look for you…

From the lounge

Aaaahhhh

INT Lounge: There is a sudden scream from the lounge Jerrold

goes to investigate and sees that in a memory he is stabbing a
woman to death. The CEO of Memory Bank then pops back up.

CEO of Memory Bank

Unfortunately, you have committed a crime in your memory
54667890543s so the police have been notified (voice starts to
get muffled) and will arrive shortly.

Jerrold is panicking he is very confused.

(V.O) Jerrold Dawson

This was the new law which came about as soon as Memory Bank
began it stated any crime committed on a memory would be
enough evidence to commit the person. This did create a back
log of cases as everyone has committed a minor offence so they
started only notifying when you had a committed a serious
crime. But this would only happen when the memory was opened
by you as the company never looked into your memories
themselves.

Jerrold walks to the phone the company are still on the line.

INT: Kitchen

Jerrold Dawson
So are they my memories?

Memory Bank on phone

Yes, it says he(re)…

Jerrold ends the call.

INT Hall: Two police officers knock on the door, Jerrold

answers and they put cuffs on him.

Police officer 1
 You have been arrested for a murder which has come to from
your memories where you will be committed at some point…

INT, cell: Jerrold looks lost, can’t come with terms with what
is happening he is behind a table with a police officer the
other side, with Jerrold’s lawyer (BETTY) standing in the
corner.

Police officer 1
…Do you understand

Betty
I think my client understands quite alright what is about to
happen to him more than you think as he did work in the
government.

Police officer 1
I don’t need to know that plus I couldn’t care less. But we
still need to find out what he remembers, So Jerrold (leaning
forward) what do you remember?

Jerrold tilts his head up slowly staring at him.

Betty
As you can see my client is in shock at the moment on what has
happened and is clearly trying to work out when this was
himself. So I suggest that you let my client out on bail to
come to terms with this and figure it out for himself. I also
know that you still have a big back log of cases to do with
memory bank, and my client is clearly not a risk.

Police officer 1
Ok fine you’re right we do have a back log and we need to find
space for everyone, so I’ll grant you bail for 1 month. Where
at that time we will come to your house again and arrest you.
Do you understand?

Jerrold stares at him

Jerrold Dawson
I understand perfectly

Police officer 1
Excellent

Betty
Do you mind if I have a word with my client, please?

Police officer 1 gets up and leaves the room.

 Betty
I’ve known you for years Jerrold and I know you would never do
anything like this, is there anything you remember.

Jerrold Dawson
No, nothing at all Betty. (softly)

Betty
Well you had better find out what is happening.

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

My lawyer Betty was very good I could trust her and she could
trust me I babysat her kids sometimes when she was away. I
worked on some cases with her as she was the government lawyer
but helps me out from time to time. She knew I wouldn’t hurt
anyone, that’s why I worked behind a desk and not out in the
field.

EXT, raining, outside house: Jerrold walks to the front door

and opens it, he closes.

INT, kitchen: Jerrold is talking to his friend (TEDDY) who

still works in the government.

Jerrold Dawson:
Teddy you’re still working for the government as an
investigator, right?

Teddy
Yeah, Why?

Jerrold Dawson
Great, don’t ask about why yet I’ll tell you over a drink
later. But I need you to look into Memory Bank, this is very
important ok, I need you to find everything you can on them.
Who they work with, investors, the heads of operation and do
they deal with any other companies. You got that?

Teddy
Yeah, I’ve got it. Is everything all right though Jerrold?

Jerrold Dawson
Look just do this and I’ll tell you later.

Jerrold hangs up the phone.

INT lounge: He then goes online looking at memory bank. Fades

to black
INT, Kitchen: Suddenly the phones rings, the person ringing is
Teddy. Jerrold answers the phone.

Teddy
I have what you asked for, lets meet at the Old Lion.

Jerrold Dawson
No, I don’t want to go there, let’s go to the tunnel that is
just out of town. You know the one.

Teddy
Yeah but why there it’s a dump, nobody goes there anymore.

Jerrold Dawson
Exactly.

INT, Tunnel: Jerrold Dawson walks into the tunnel with an

advert of memory bank playing on one side. Jerrold sees a
figure at the end which is Teddy. He walks to him.

Teddy
Jerrold Dawson, it’s been so long and this is where you
thought we should meet.

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah it was, but it was for good reasons.

Teddy
And what reason was that?

Jerrold Dawson
It was because I believe that I’ve been framed by memory bank
for a murder but I don’t know why.

Teddy
Wow I didn’t expect that. Well I kinda did always knew
something was wrong with them that’s why I never got the
implant. I warned you about them

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah I know I probably should have.

Teddy
Well look I did a lot of digging and I hope this helps.

Teddy hands him a briefcase.

Jerrold Dawson
Thanks. I do hope you have found something that will help.
 Teddy
Well, you can tell me all about it another day.

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah, we’ll go to The Old Lion.

Jerrold walks back down the tunnel leaving Teddy standing

there.

INT, kitchen: Jerrold is looking at all the information he got

from Teddy on the wall as a hologram. He looks at. He then
spots something a name in a document signed by someone named
Jack Johnson. Jerrold goes to the phone and calls Teddy.

Jerrold Dawson
Teddy you remember Jack Johnson?

Teddy
Yeah, he was part of our department back in the day. He then
went with you to work on some secrete projects.

Jerrold Dawson
(Mumbles) RedRobin

Teddy
What?

Jerrold Dawson
Nothing, is he still alive?

Teddy
Who Jack

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah of course do you know where he is I need to speak to him?

Teddy
I am sorry but I thought you knew he’s dead, he was found dead
in a river a month ago.

Jerrold is taken back he doesn’t know what to think. He

doesn’t know his next move.

Jerrold Dawson
Oh thanks… was it an accident?

Teddy
No, it seems to have been a suicide, but if you ask me the
whole case seemed a bit sketchy, they cut a lot of corners and
Jack didn’t seem like the kind to commit suicide.
 Jerrold Dawson
Interesting.

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

The thing about Jack was that he was like a machine he didn’t
feel anything so for him to commit suicide is weird. Jack
worked with me on some projects, but I forgot he worked with
me on RedRobin the project that killed loads of people.
Luckily for me I had all the documents as I was the anonymous
person tipping everyone off about it.

Jerrold hangs up the phone and rushes to his record player.

INT Lounge: He looks for a record fingering each one until he

finds the one. It is a single from Prince for Batdance which
has the Batman logo on it.

Jerrold Dawson
(whispers) RedRobin

He places it on player. He turns it to 45 and starts it.

Pictures and documents fly buy on the clear lid of the record
player. He then slows it down to 33 still watching the images
flicker. He stops it the images stop, there is a document for
the RedRobin project, Jerrold zooms in on the bottom by using
the middle of the record, at the bottom is a signature by Jack
Johnson, he zooms in closer, there is a small print that has
in associations with Memory Bank and a signature from the CEO.
Jerrold’s eyes widen

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

What I realised was that Memory Bank somehow knew most likely
from Jack who knew I kept documents of my projects just encase
anything went tits up. And then because I bought my memory
bank, they put in a murder so I could go to prison. Meaning
that they wouldn’t go to jail like the other three people so
far have done.

INT, Kitchen: (fade in) Jerrold is calling Teddy, he gets

through to the answering machine.

Answering machine
I’m sorry you’ve gotten through to the answering machine. Who
won’t allow you to record a message at this time please try
again.

Jerrold tries again, it starts ringing when there is a knock

at the door with a drop, a circular disc is dropped through.
 INT hall: Jerrold picks it up feeling confused he walks into
the lounge.

INT Lounge: He places the disc on the table a video pops up of

Teddy, with a video playing of the murder.

Teddy
When I realised Memory Bank was setting you up for a murder I
decided to do some more digging and looked at your memory
546678 something. Don’t ask how I got it but when I was
looking I saw that there was a CCTV camera. I then managed to
find that camera and the feed from the day and what I found
was really interesting, I found that there was nothing there,
you didn’t show and neither did the woman. I’ve looked through
the whole day and other nights but there is nothing absolutely
nothing. Memory Bank have definitely set you up.

There’s a knock at the door, Jerrold walks towards it slowly

realising everything.
INT Hall: Jerrold opens the door two hooded figures are
standing there, as soon as they realise its open they rush in.
Jerrold realises and rushes towards the kitchen.

INT Kitchen: Jerrold runs into the kitchen, the kithcne door
opens to show another hooded guy, Jerrold stops suddenly and
is then taken down by the other two. Hooded figure 1 walks
towards him and takes out a device and shines a light in his
ear Jerrold screams.

INT Jail: Jerrold looks like he doesn’t know what is happening

he looks confused, sitting in his jail cell.

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

They had taken everything they
(INT kitchen flashback: The men destroying the files and
burning the house down, and Jerrold hitting his head)
destroyed all my files and burnt my house down blaming me
being dumb to the smoke and hitting myself on the table when I
fell over.
(INT Jail:)
Meaning I went to jail for my crimes.

One-week later INT Jail: Jerrold is watching tv. It is showing

Memory Bank has gone down and the CEO Henrick Smith has been
arrested.

News Reporter
In a sudden end to the RedRobin project we were given all the
documents about the project and on Memory Bank which we can
now reveal was sent to us by Jerrold Dawson. (a picture of him
is shown) Who was recently arrested for a murder which seems
to have been a fake memory, one planted by Memory Bank so that
their name would never come into this. Well now it has,
showing Memory Bank was a key investor in the project. With
this now out there the CEO Henrick Smith has been arrested and
is awaiting conviction, and the company has folded and will
now seis to exists. There has been no comment from the company
or the CEO at this time. (news reporters voice fading into the
background) There are set to be more arrests as police look at
all the documents.

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

What memory bank didn’t account for was me making several
copies stored everywhere yet nowhere. Which would get sent out
to the police and journalists if there was a set period of
time that I didn’t look at it. This was the end of RedRobin
and those involved, and I was later released on wrong
conviction.

Jerrold gives a little smirk on his face.

The End