2. 2.
"ROCKET"
FADE IN:
SERIES OF SHOTS:
A) Kate is vacuuming her bedroom.
B) Kate is polishing the banister
C) Kate is tidying her bedroom
D) Kate is dusting bookshelves standing on the desk.
E) Kate is vacuuming along the landing she then switches
it off and picks it up she begins to walk downstairs.
INT. STAIRS/ DAY
Kate is walking slowly downstairs carrying the vacuum
cleaner which is almost her size. She reaches the bottom
of the staircase, and looks over the banister in to the
living room.
INT. LIVING ROOM DOORWAY/ DAY
Fi (Kate’s Mum) is sitting on a sofa watching the TV. It
is Apollo 13. She takes an inhaler from her pocket and
takes a couple of puffs. A wheelchair is resting against
the arm of the sofa.
INT. HALL AND STAIRCASE/ DAY
Greg (Kate’s Dad) walks in to the hall from the kitchen.
Kate looks at him.
GREG
Have you done Jesse’s room?
KATE
But she’s not here anymore.
GREG
Don’t argue with me.
Kate irritated sulks back up the stairs and Greg walks
back in to the kitchen.
3. 3.
INT. LANDING/ DAY
Kate sulks along the landing walking towards a bedroom
door. The vacuum cleaner is dragging behind her. She
pushes the door almost with her head.
INT. JESSE’S BEDROOM/ DAY
Kate plugs the vacuum cleaner in to a socket she begins
to vacuum the room and walks towards the window. She
takes of the floor adaptor for the vacuum and then begins
vacuuming the window sill. She sees a butterfly out the
window sitting on the outdoor window ledge. Shocked she
quickly runs to the vacuum and switches it off. She grabs
a chair and puts it up against the wall under the window.
Kneeling on it she looks out at the Butterfly, fragilely
fluttering its wings but resting on the Outside window
ledge. She begins to tap on the glass in the direction of
the butterfly, as if to attract its attention or help
push it off the ledge. It flutters of the ledge and Kate
looks shocked as it flies of the ledge.
INT. LANDING/ DAY
Kate runs across the landing
INT. STAIRS/ DAY
Kate runs down the stairs
EXT. OUTDOOR PASSAGE/ DAY
Kate walks towards a shed in the garden.
INT. SHED/ DAY
Kate looks at the recycling holding area, which is full
of cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and glass jars all in
separate compartments, which are labelled appropriately.
She walks towards it.
EXT. OUTDOOR PASSAGE/ DAY
She walks backwards and forwards from the garden to the
garage with handfuls of different packaging materials.
Each handful is large enough to impair her vision. On the
third time of walking across Greg walks down the passage
towards an airing cupboard, where he begins to get out
sheets. He becomes distracted by Kate and looks at what
she is doing, as she returns to the Shed and then walks
back to the garage, he turns to her.
4. 4.
GREG
What are you doing?
KATE
I’m going to fly mum to the moon.
GREG
OK, be careful.
Greg finishes getting the sheets and walks back in to the
house. Unphased by anything her father has said, Kate
continues her journeys back and fourth from the shed.
INT. GARAGE/ DAY
A) Tape is ripped from a band.
B) Kate moves some boxes together.
C) Bottle caps are unscrewed from the empty bottles
and thrown in to a pile.
D) Foil is ripped
E) Kate wipes her forehead and then looks back at
then continues to build.
INT. LIVING ROOM/ LATE AFTERNOON
Kate walks in to the living room, and Greg and Fi are
sitting on the sofa watching TV. Both of them turn to
look at Kate and Fi turns the TV to silent with the
remote.
KATE
It’s ready for take off.
Greg turns to Fi who is smiling at Kate. He looks
concerned and then stands up and begins to walk towards
Kate.
GREG
Kate, your not actually going to be able to fly
mummy to the moon, it’s ...
Fi holds Greg hand and squeezes lightly. Greg stops
talking and Kate who looked slightly puzzled goes back to
smiling at Fi.
KATE
Don’t worry Dad. Come on.
5. 5.
Kate runs out the living room. Greg reluctantly lifts Fi
in to the wheelchair and begins to push her out of the
living room.
EXT. IN FRONT OF THE GARAGE/ LATE AFTERNOON
Greg finishes pushing Fi to the front of the garage. Kate
is standing by the garage door and begins to turn the
handle to open the door. Greg moves in to help and lift
the door fully open to reveal the Rocket scale in size,
large enough to fit the wheelchair in, and filling the
space similarly to a car. Kate excitedly runs behind her
mum and begins to push her in to the Garage. Greg begins
to pull down the garage door.
KATE
It’s OK Dad, you can leave us from here. I’ve
got this.
Greg steps out back in front of the garage door and Kate
finishes closing the door.
INT. GARAGE/ LATE AFTERNOON
Kate again pushes Fi in to the Rocket. She closes up a
cardboard hatch. Anxiously she walks towards Fi, who is
in shock.
KATE
What do you think?
FI
It’s, (cough) It’s wonderful.
Kate smiles and begins to play around with the levers and
buttons. Fi welling up smiles at her daughter, as she
works around her.
KATE
Houston we’re clear for take off.
The soundscape from Apollo 13, when the rocket is taking
off, begins to play.
