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Henryk Walczak

Playing: Jerrold Dawson

Information script

Includes:
Key dates
Script
Synopsis of film
Character profile
Background information on Memory Bank
Costumes
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Key Dates

3rd April – Cholsey Station for tunnel scene

5pm
Other actors: Ashley
Costume – overcoat, jeans, jumper/top
Pages in script: 12, 13

4th April – Freddie’s house

36 McCulloch Meadows Crowmarsh Gifford OX10 8FX in the new estate off Benson Lane
12am
Film all house scenes and voice overs
Other actors: Nick, Jack and Chris
Costume – jean, jumper/top x3
Pages in script: 6 ,7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

5th April – Castle Antiques (next to the Lamb arcade, was the old NatWest building)
4:15pm
Will film the jail scene
Other actors: Nick and Angie
Costume – same as when arrested
Pages in script: 9, 10, 11, 16, 17

Costumes

Overcoat (provided)
Jeans can be different for tunnel scene
Top/jumper x3 especially for house scene
Not hooded jumper though
Top can be long short or a shirt no logos or drawings/art unless small
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Jerrold Dawson profile

Age: 62
Married: no
Kids: no
Girlfriends: yes many of the years
Serious relationships: 2
Engaged: 0 come close
Family: none
Retired
Job: worked in government
Keeps files on all his projects just incase something happens.
He is anonymously tipping off the police about RedRobin leading to arrests
He got the chip put in his head from memory bank when he joined the government at 21, everyone
was at that point there had been no risks and people liked the fact they could resvist their memories
when they were older or whenever they bought their memory bank.

He lives in a nice house outside of the city in a nice area as he has loads of money from working
within the government on many projects including RedRobin. He has never gotten engaged but was
close too until she had an affair and slept with someone else. He has had two serious girlfriends in the
past one 7 year and one ten years, but all the others were either a year or a couple of months. He
doesn’t know the reason for his 10-year girlfriend having an affair, but he split up with his other
girlfriend over a disagreement and never wanted to see her again. No one knows what the argument
was about apart from the two of them.

Family
His family are all dead his mum died when he was young so his grandma and grandad was his parents
most of the time as dad was always away on business, he didn’t know what his father did, but he
thinks he went away as he couldn’t deal with bringing him up. His grandma and grandad loved him
very much and cared for him, but the grandma died when he was 17 that’s when dad went on another
trip, but this time never came back grandad died a year later when he 18 of mostly a broken heart.
Dad didn’t come to the funeral.

Jerrold then went to work for the government as a desk job at the bottom and worked his way up to
the big desk. He worked with Jack Johnson who he doesn’t speak to much anymore, Teddy who is an
investigator and still works there and Betty a government lawyer who is also now his lawyer. He then
worked on RedRobin which would be his last project and retiring after that.

RedRobin
It was a project that him and Jack Johnson worked on with many other people, it was a project that
was supposed to kill bacteria in the body so you wouldn’t die of anything, but it was actually killing
cells so the government could control the body. It was eventually turned off by sending in the special
forces giving them a false target or a big terrorist in there and that anyone in their way can be shot.
This led to killing of thousands of test subjects in this trial and many innocent people caught in the
crossfire. What happened at the end of the project that the government threw the case out of the
window and destroyed all copies apart from two, one they put in a safe and another one which they
didn’t know about was that Jerrold took a copy of his own, like he did for all of his other cases just
incase something bad happened. But this time he knew he needed a blackmail just in case anything
happened. The government blamed the shooting on information about a terrorist but blamed all the
shooting on the special forces who were either put in jail for it or fled the country hiding somewhere.
This made Jerrold retire at 59.
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A year later he realized what the project was all about so decided to start anonymously send tip offs so
the project could be exposed for what it really was. So, he sent out some information at a time leading
to two arrests and one more arrest at the start of the film.

He is a quiet man keeps himself to himself nothing bad has ever happened to him so can’t believe it
when he will be committed for murder which he didn’t do. So, focus one task, like he used to at work
that how he climbed the ladder quickly.

Background information surrounding Memory Bank

Founded 2000
CEO Helen Smith
Made available to the general public 2006
It works by putting a chip in the brain that the records all the memories you store at one given time
and then creates a third person perceptive of that memory showing yourself but as the aspect of a
home video.
It was given many trials until it was made available, but what they found was that illegal acts were
being recorded so the government devised a new law that was if a memory shows you committing a
crime, then you will be sanctioned, and police will come. However, this will only happen when you
buy your memory bank which is a one-off purchase where you get all your memories up to that point,
but it also means no more will be added to it. So, the police could only come when you bought your
memory bank and watched that memory. This created havoc as almost everyone had committed a
crime even if it was a minor one, so they eventually made it if it was a serious crime then you will be
arrested, but because of the two years that law was in it created backlog of cases.
Memory Bank became the biggest business of today and won many awards, the CEO was the richest
woman ever of 3.14 trillion.

It sealed in the project RedRobin they were a huge investor so had to sign every paperwork so need it
to be covered up and the CEO would do anything to protect it even fake a murder in a memory which
is why she did it to Jerrold.

The CEO Helen Smith doesn’t care about anyone apart from herself her husband is her company, and
her kids is her money. She hates her workers but needs them but if they put one foot wrong, they are
out, however because how famous and how big her company is she always has people looking for
jobs.
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Synopsis: In a dystopian future Jerrold Dawson is given all his memories back from the
company Memory Bank. But he quickly realises that some aren’t his memories, that’s when
one memory features a murder. So, he is arrested but let out on a one-month bail because
of a backlog of cases. So, sets out to find what is happening, so he goes to his friend Teddy
who still works in the government and gets all the information on Memory Bank. When
looking at the information he spots a familiar name that worked with him on RedRobin.
When looking back at his documents for the project that he is leaking to the police leading
to three arrests so far, that Memory Bank was a key investor in the project that ended by
sending in the special forces killing all the guinea pigs (humans). But Memory Bank come
into his house and paralyze him so he is sent to prison to crime and can say nothing on the
subject. However, a week later all the information is sent out and he is released, and
everyone that was highly involved was arrested including the CEO of Memory Bank.

Tip: You don’t need to learn all the lines the voice overs you can just read. I
will do many takes so don’t worry if you get it wrong. I’ve also highlighted all
your lines/actions/ and key information about what you should be feeling.

The RedRobin Project

A short film

By: Freddie Johnson

Note: This film will be set at night because light is very poor in the future so
will always look like the evening.
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Text: The year is 2048

There has been a government project that looked at “mind
control” of humans, but it was forced out of existence in the
end. Special forces were sent to kill the human guinea pigs.
This resulted in the arrest of the special forces and the
government throwing the project out of the window.
The project was called RedRobin. Until now the project hasn’t
been brought to the public’s attention.

(All words fade except The, RedRobin and project creating the title)

INT Lounge: The TV is on in the dark house, it’s 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 has been arrested in relation to the government
project ‘RedRobin’, which led to the murder of thousands of
innocent people. The special forces involved were arrested or
managed to flee the country. From new evidence we have been
given, the special forces have been released and given a
pardon from the country. From evidence brought forward a third
person Nathan Jason has been arrested. He was part of the
RedRobin cover up. He sent in special forces to eliminate the
test subjects, at this time they thought they were terrorists
but in fact they were the RedRobin guinea pigs. The government
said to shoot all. Yet when questioned the government were
unaware of this order.
All this information is coming to light from an anonymous
person giving the police a tip off and sending information to
journalists.
He is the third person to be arrested in relation to the
project RedRobin. The police expect more arrests in the near
future…

(Doorbell rings)

News reporter on TV
…In other news Memory Bank has bec(ome)… (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 it’s a blue hologram wearing a red top, blue jacket and
fedora on (with the words memory bank going around the hat).
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INT, front door: Jerrold Dawson opens the door, and sees the
hologram.

Hologram
Hello. Are you Jerrold Dawson?

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah

Hologram
Excellent, here is your memory bank that you 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 woman appears at the start, it is HELEN SMITH CEO of Memory
Bank.

Helen Smith
Hello and welcome to your purchase of your memory bank for you
to look back on all your memories. The company would not be
possible if it wasn’t for a little chip inside your head,
that’s recorded all your memories. So, welcome to your
memories from the Memory Bank.

The screen then turns blue screen showing eight titles: Mum
dying, grandma and grandad, leisure time, school, work, happy
times, dad leaving and other.

Jerrold stares at the word mum dying, he feels sad, reaches to

touch it but retracts.

Jerrold Dawson
Leisure time.

The screen pops up with a memory of him playing in a garden,

climbing a tree with his friend, wondering how he got up
there. Jerold smiles.

Jerrold Dawson
School

The memories change to him in his teens going to school

walking around. A girl then walks in and they look like
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girlfriend and boyfriend, he doesn’t recognise her, 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 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 a memory he is stabbing a woman
to death. The CEO of Memory Bank (Helen Smith) then pops back
up.

Helen Smith
Unfortunately, you have committed a crime in your memory
544668903g. 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 a new law which came about as soon as Memory Bank
began. It stated, any crime committed on a memory would be
enough evidence to charge the person. This created a back log
of cases as everyone who even committed a minor offence was
arrested. So, it started only notifying when you had a
committed a serious offence. This would happen when the memory
was opened by the purchaser, as the company never looked into
your memories themselves.

Jerrold walks to the phone the company are still on the line.
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INT: Kitchen

Jerrold Dawson
So, are they, my memories?

Memory Bank on phone

Yes, it says he(re)…

Jerrold ends the call.

INT Hall: P.C HOPPS and Police Officer 1 knock on the door,
Jerrold answers and they put cuffs on him.

P.C Hopps
I am arresting you for a murder which has come from your
memory 544668903g. Under Memory Bank Act 2006 you will be
charged in due course…

INT, cell: Jerrold looks lost, he can’t come with terms with
what is happening. A police officer is stat at a table with
Jerrold the other side.

P.C Hopps
…Do you understand

BETTY walks in

Betty
Hi, sorry I’ve just arrived I got your call Jerrold. Hi
officer I’m Jerrold’s lawyer.

Betty moves her hand over his shoulder, and stands behind
Jerrold

Jerrold Dawson
How are the kids?

Betty
They’re good, they really want to beat you at the board game
next time they see you.

Jerrold smiles

Betty
Anyway, let’s get on, sorry (leaning forward with an
outreached hand) I didn’t catch your name officer?
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P.C Hopps
It’s P.C Hopps

He shakes her hand.

Betty
Right P.C Hopps where did we get to?

P.C Hopps
Betty, I just asked Jerrold if he understands why he is here.

Betty
Right ok. 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.

P.C Hopps
I don’t need to know that, plus I couldn’t care less. We need
to find out what he remembers, 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. He is
clearly trying to work out when this was himself and what has
happened. 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 to the
public.

P.C Hopps
Ok fine you’re right, we do have a back log and need to find
space for everyone, I’ll grant you bail for 1 month. At that
time, we will come to your house again to arrest you. We would
normally give you a tag to wear to know where you are, but we
don’t have enough so remain at your house. Do you understand?

Jerrold stares at him

Jerrold Dawson
I understand perfectly P.C Hoops

P.C Hopps
Excellent, Jerrold Dawson

Betty
Do you mind if I have a word with my client, please?
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P.C Hopps 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
Do you think this has anything to do with RedRobin, I know it
didn’t end well?

Jerrold Dawson
I don’t think so, I’ll have a look into Memory Bank and see if
I can find anything out.

Betty
Why don’t you ask Teddy to get you what you need, he’s always
happy to help?

Jerrold Dawson
Good point, I’ll ask him.

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

Betty had a good point about Teddy, she had always been very
helpful. I trusted her and she trusted me, I babysat her kids
sometimes when she was away with the husband, and she even
invited me to the family events too. I worked on a couple of
cases with her as she was the government lawyer. She knew I
couldn’t hurt anyone, that’s why I had a desk and didn’t work
out in the field.

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

opens it and walks into the house and closes the door.

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

works in the government.

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

Teddy
Yeah, Why?
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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, it’s very
important, I need you to find everything you can on them. Who
they work with, investors, heads of operation, finances, do
they deal with any other companies. You got that?

Teddy
Yeah, got it. Is everything all right Jerrold?

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

Jerrold hangs up the phone.

INT lounge: He sits down on the sofa and starts looking online
at memory bank on the table. (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, let’s meet at the Old Lion.

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

Teddy
Yeah 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 towards him.

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

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah, for good reasons.

Teddy
And what reason is that?
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Jerrold Dawson
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. I kinda 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 that now.

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

Teddy hands him a briefcase.

Jerrold Dawson
Thanks. I do hope you’ve found something that will help me.

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 (which is on the wall as a hologram) he looks at it
intensely. 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, do you remember Jack Johnson?

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

Jerrold Dawson
(Mumbles) RedRobin

Teddy
What?
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Jerrold Dawson
Nothing, is he still alive?

Teddy
Who Jack?

Jerrold Dawson
Yeah. Do you know where he is I need to speak to him?

Teddy
Ooooh, I’m sorry I thought you knew he’s dead, he was found in
the river a month ago.

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

doesn’t know his next move.

Jerrold Dawson
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, the officers cut a lot of
corners. Jack didn’t seem the kind of person 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 flicking through each one

until he finds the one. It’s a single by Prince called
Batdance which has the Batman logo on it.

Jerrold Dawson
(whispers) RedRobin

He places it on the record player. He turns it to 45 puts the

needle on. Pictures and documents fly by on the clear lid of
the record player, he slows it down to 33 still watching the
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images flicker. He stops it, the images stop, there’s a

document for the RedRobin project, Jerrold zooms in to the
bottom of the document using the middle of the record. There
is a signature by Jack Johnson, he zooms in closer, in small
print there is a signature from the CEO of Memory Bank with
the Memory Bank logo. Jerrold’s eyes widen

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

What I realised was that Memory Bank somehow have knowledge,
most likely from Jack, who knew I kept documents of all my
projects incase anything went wrong. Because I bought my
memory bank, the company must of put in the murder so I would
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 reached the answering machine of Teddy. 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 and a rattle of the letter box, 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 in the bottom with the murder video happening above.

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 5446
something. Don’t ask how I got it but when I was looking at
the memory, I saw that there was a CCTV camera in the corner.
I managed to find it and the feed from the day and what I
found is interesting. There was nothing there, you didn’t show
and neither did the woman. I’ve looked through the whole day
and other nights, 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.
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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 kitchen 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 to shine a light in his
ear. Jerrold is trying to get them off wigging moving his legs
up and down.

Jerrold Dawson
AAAAHHHHH

Jerrold then stops moving and is still, the hooded man turns
the light off.

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

he looks confused, sitting in his jail cell paralyzed.

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 down my house blaming me
being paralyzed to me hitting my head on the table when I fell
over.
(INT Jail:)
When in fact me being paralyzed was down to the light being
shown through my ear. which meant I went to jail for my crime.

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

Memory Bank has collapsed and the CEO Henrick Smith has been
arrested.

News Reporter
In a sudden end to the RedRobin project the journalists and
police were given all the documents about the project, and
files on the company Memory Bank. The news team here can now
reveal the person who leaked the information is Jerrold
Dawson. (a picture of him is shown) He was recently arrested
for a murder which is now believed to be a fake memory. The
memory was 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 RedRobin.
This has meant that the CEO Helen Smith, has been arrested and
is awaiting conviction, meaning the company has folded and
will now cease to exist. There has been no comment from the
company or the CEO at this time. (News reporters voice fading
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into the background.) There are set to be more arrests as

police look thoroughly at all the documents.

Jerrold Dawson (V.O)

What memory bank didn’t account for was me making several
copies. Which would get sent out to the police and journalists
after a week if I didn’t open the documents. This was the end
of RedRobin and for those involved, after a proper
investigation I was later released on a wrong conviction.

Jerrold gives a little smirk on his face.

The End