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American Criminal


            The Opening Credits Appear over a Black Screen,Breathing Sounds a Heard,a Womans Face Comes Into
Focus,Shes Sleeping,Then Her Eyes Move From Left To Right,Classical Music Is Heard,The Woman Is
Sitting In a Theatre Box,a Tear Appears,The Man Sitting Beside Her Gently Wipes It away,She Smiles,
He Reaches Over and Gently Holds Her Hand,They Are Shown Together,Faces Blank Of Expression
The Theatres art Decor a Deep Red,This cuts back to The Woman In Bed,Shes Been Dreaming.The Woman Is In a Music Room,Shes Playing The Flute,a Man Sits Behind a Piano,The Woman Is
Kathy Gardner,The Man Is Her Boyreind Kevin McCann,He Tells Her She Has a,"Naturall Gift",and
Offers Her The Chance Of Joining His Jazz Combo,But Declines as Shes Travelling To Japan With
Her Father,He Speaks Of Talking To Him,But She Says No,Kevin Gives Her Some Cards,"3 Lions"
and Explains of The Talent Shes Waisting.We Then See Kathy In a Theatre,With Her Father Ben,"The Man In Her Dream" and His Freinds
Martin,"Jhon Martin" and Claire,"Gayle Hunnicut",Ben,"Paul Shenar" Mentions The Visit To Japan
But Kathy Explains Shes Been Given The Chance of a Music Scholarship,Claire Explains Ben Is
a Fool If He Doesent Let Kathy Go,He Replies That Kathy Is an adult and Can Make Her Own
Decisions,Martin and Claire are Then Leaving The Theatre,He Explains She Should Not Interfere,
But Claire Explains That Kathy Needs To Stand Up To Him adding How He,"Brutalized" Her Mother,
Solely Holding Hom Responsible For Her Death,"She Died In an Accident...Drunk".Kathy Is Then Sitting On Her Fathers Bed,She Kisses Him Goodnight and Leaves But Waits Outside
His Bedrrom Door,She Re.Enters,Kneeling On His Bed She Looks Up at The Painting Hanging Above
She Looks at Her Father and Mentions That She Hasnt Been To Japan For Sometime and Would
Like To Go With Him,"If She Can" Her Father Replies,"Of Course" She Smiles and Kisses Him
Goodnight,Kathy Is Then By Her Hope Chest,She Takes Out a Picture Of Her Mother,a Picture
of a Circular Tower Is also Seen,Ben Enters Her Room He Explains He Knows How Important
Kathys Music Is To Her and She Can Leave Out The Japan Trip and Continue Her Studys To
Wich She Replies,"Daddy,Thank You"We Then See Kathy asleep,"Again" Her Eyes Move From Left To Right,We Then See a Long Dark
Corridor and Kathy,"Dreaming" Shes a Child,Clutching Her Teddy Bear She Walks To a Large
White Door and Turns a Brass Door Knob,She Looks Up and Fear Is In Her Eyes,She Turns
Now We See Her as The Woman In The The Picture,Running We See a Large Window Come
In Veiw Wich She Opens,Shes a Child Again,a Bird Is Then Seen Flying In The Sky,Kathy
Leeps From The Window and Fades From View.A Street Scene Is Then Shown,and Kathy Is Moving Into Her New Apartment,But Is Startled By
a Man,"Joseph Culp" Who appears From Nowhere,He is Looking For a Woman Called Maggie,
Kathy Explains She Has No Knowladge of The Previous Tennants and The Man,"Embarrased"
Gives Kathy a Flower Hes Holding and Leaves,Kathy Is Then Seen Fronting Kevins Jazz Combo
and Finishing a Number,They Smile at Each Other,Then Back In Her Appartment The Group are
Ending a Get Together,The others Leave and Kevin Offers To Help With The Washing Up But
Trying To Show Off His Juggling a Cup Smashes On The Floor,Cleaning Up The Mess,Kevin
Expresses His Love To Kathy,But she Does Not Respond,Disconnected,She Cleans The Mess
She Truns and Smiles To Kevin,He Steps Over To Kathy,"a Tap Is Heard Dripping",and
Moves Closer,"Responding" To Each Other They Kiss,Then Moving To The Bedroom,"Music
Is Heard",They Make Love,"Possibly For The First Time".Kathy Is Next To Kevin But Looks,ashamed Of What Has Happened,She Gets out of Bed and
Tells Kevin He Must Leave as Her Father Is Visiting,He Explains That Her Father Must accept
as a Woman and Not a Child,She Replies,"Not Today" Leaving He Says He,ll Call Her,She
Smiles and Takes His Hand,outside He Taps The Window and She Puts Her Lips To It,"We
Shoud Be Living Together",He Says Yet Kathy Shows No Expression,Kathy Is Then Sleeping,
Again,Her Eyes Move Left To Right,Again We See Her,"As The Adult/Child" In a Long Corridor
She Walks To One End and Again Opens a Large White Door,This Opens To a Scene That
Resembles The Painting Above Her Fathers Bed and,"In Her Dream" is in Victorian Clothes
When She Is Greeted By Kevin,This Then Cuts To a Hand Holding Keys Wich Then Goes
Back To Kathy In Her,"Dream World" Where She Sees Her Father,Kathy Then Wakens
To a Police Siren,She Walks To The Kitchen Turns On The Light and Makes Some Warm
Milk,Holding One Of the Cups She Smiles But Notices Her Apatment Door Is Open,She
Secures It With The Chain But Turns and Sees The Man Who asked About The Previous
Tennant Who Proceeds To Vicously Assault Her.The Intruder,"Danny" aquired The Apartment Keys From Maggie and Demands Her Whereabouts
Terrified,Kathy Says She Doesnent Know,Danny Pulls Bare Wires From a Socket and Explains
If She Doesent Tell Him Will Put Them,"Where It Hurts The Most" Kathy Still Maintains She
Doesent Know Where She Is,Danny attacks,But Running To The Kitchen Kathy Throws The
Hot Milk Into Dannys Face,Blinded,Kathy Sees The Knife He Theatened Her With and Plunging
It Into His Back Danny Falls To The Floor,The Police are at The Scene Kathy Shows No Emotion
They ask If her Attacker Had,"Sexual Realtions" With Her Due To The,"Traces of Semen" In
Her Bed,Kathy Simply Explains She and Her Boyfreind Had Made Love The Previous Night.Her Father and Explains If She Doesent Change Her Story,"She Stabbed an un-armed Man"
The Police Wont See It as Self Defence,Kathy Explains,"It Wasnt Self Defence" But abides
By Her Father and,"Lies For Him",Leaving,Kevin Is Waiting Outside Kathy Hugs Him But
Leaves With Her Father,Back at Her Fathers Home,Ben Explains Over The Phone What
Has Happened,Kathy Stares Void Of Emotion,Sitting Down To Tea a Note arrives Under
The Door,Kathy Sees It,"Its From Kevin" But Ben Tears It up,Ben Will Not Let Kathy Go
She Is,"HIS" Daughter,Kathy Explains Shes,"Made a Commitment" and Moves Back in
With Kevin.Kathy is Apprehensive at Returning To The Apartment,But Kevin Plays,"No Place Like Home" on a
organ,She Smiles and They Hug Each other,This Cuts To Kathy In Bed,We Here The Dripping Tap
and We See Danny Attack,Kathy Wakes Sceaming,"No",She Sees a Doctor,Kevin Is With Her,
She Explains She Will Have To Just,"Wait Till They Go Away",She Also Mentions That,"Barbituates
Could Help" But He Wont Give Them To Her Becouse There Addictive and The Nigtmares,"Will Be Worse",
But Mentions a,"Sleep Center",Kevin Has Other Ideas,Back at The Apartment Kathy Is Getting Ready For
a Bath Pills In Hand But Flushes Them Down The Toilet,In Her Bath Kathy Falls Asleep But again Has
another,"Experience" and Wakes In Tears,She Then Tries Sitting Up Infront of The Tv But Falling asleep
We Here Dannys Voice,"Do You Know Theres Over 100 Tortures" Wakening Again She Resorts To
Listening To Loud Music and Drinking Black Coffee Till The Sun Rises.At the Sleep Center She Is Suggested To See a Psychiatrist,When a Man Appears at The Reception
Desk,They Both Get In a Lift and Kathy,"Distraught" Sits Down,The Man,"Ben Masters" Shows Concern
about Her Re.Occuring Nightmares,Kathy Explains What Has Happened and Though He Explains About
The Strict Rules of any Kind Of Therapy,"I Work With Cats" Believes He Can Help,In His Laboratory
He Suugests Kathy Shoud Re.account Her Dream Before She Sleeps But Stop The Nightmare at The
Point of Danger,He Shows Her a Video of Whats Involved,"He Can Monitor Her Brain Via Electrodes"
She Accepts,However Just Before The Experiment She Says,"Shes Scared",He Asks If There Was a
Kind of,"Sleep Ritual" That Her Parents Did To Help Her Sleep When She Was Young,She Explains
There Was Something Her Father Did,Wich,"at First" She Finds Distressing,"It Reminds Her Childhood"
But He Eases Her With It and Sucessfully Completes The Expereiment,Kathy Wakens Before The Point
Of Danger Thanking Him.Masters Shows Her a Print Out Of The Experiment and "Reads Her Dream" Explaining That While We
Sleep The Brain Is Still Functioning Sending,"Messages" To The Approprite Limbs,But The Body Also
Releases a,"Paralizing" Chemical To Prevent The Body From Moving,However It Transpires That Kathy
Is Not Fully,"Paralized When Dreaming" Masters Has Seen This Only Once Before and Shows Kathy
a Video of One Of His Cats That Has Been,"administered" a Drug That Removes The Paralasys Thus
Abelling The Subject To,"Act Out" There Dreams,She Asks If She Should Return and,"Try Some More"
To Help With His Research But He Says No and Shoudnt Even Really Have Shown Her His,"Discovery"
She Thanks Him For His Help and He aknowladges This With His Name,"Dr Michael Hansen".Back Fronting Kevins Jazz Group,They are Approached and Offered The Chance Of a Making a Recording In
London,and Kathy Is Happy For Him,Then Back at The Apartment Kathy Test Michaels Theory,It Works Her
Steps and Movemements Matches The Print Out He Showed Her,Then She Sees a Letter From Her Father,
Emotionless Kathy Goes To Bed Re.Accounting What Micahel Explained,Her To Do,This She Does and
Wakes at The Point Of Danger,But Turning To Kevin Sees Danny Instead Who Attacks,But Is,"Shaken"
awake By Kevin,Back In Michaels Labaratory Michael asks If She,"Changed Her Pattern" Kathy Explains
She Doesent Know and Explains She Has To Leave For London,Micahel Mentions If She Has any Family
But Kathy Begs If He Can Help Her Again,He Suggests That Instead of Stabbing Her Attacker,"Disarm"
Him,They Try The Experiment Again and,"In Her Dream" Kathy Disarms Danny and Runs To Her Apartment
Door But Opening It She Sees,"Herself" as The Killer Who "Attacks",Kathy Wakes,Terrified She Tries To
Get Out Of The Labaratory,Calmed By Michael She Explains What,"Really Happened" and That She
"Stabbed" Her Attacker,and How It,"Never Felt So Good" Doing So,Michael Explains That,"Well Attack
When Cornered" and Re.Assuring Her,They Try The Experiment Again,This Time It Works,Kathy Disarms
Danny and Opens The Door,We See Her as The Child.Adult Kathy Then The,"Victorian" Kathy Who Turns
To The Camera,Then We See Micahel Looking In On Her as She Sleeps,She Is,at Peace In Her,"Dream
World".The Next Morning Kathy Thanks Michael For His Help,Back at Her Apartment She Explains To Kevin She
Must See Her Father,He asks To Go With Her But She Declines,"Itll Be Hard Enough Going Alone",Kathy
Is Then Seen With Martin Asking Him To Give Her Father The Cigars Shes Brought For Him,asking Him
To,"Make Sure" He Reads The Greeting Card,Ben Ignores Them,Martin Apologises To Kathy and Kathy
If Hell,"Ever Forgive Her",Martin Explains,"You Have To Give Him Time",Kathy Replies,"Like My Mother
Did" Then Returning To The Apartment She Finds Kevin With Another Woman,Nowhere To Go She
Returns To Michaels Laboratory,He Awnsers The Door With Electrodes Connected To His Skull,Smiling
He Explains Hes Tried The Drug Hes Been Working on and Could Be,"Acting Out" a Dream,Kathy Smiles
"And Youre Dreaming Ive Come Back",But He Explains Hes Awake and Is Unable To,"Monitor" Himself
Wathcing a Playback He Sees Himself,"Turn Over" He Explains This Is Not Possible When,"Paralized"
But Is Unable To,"Monitor" Himself,Kathy Suggests Monitoring Him and They Try The Experiment But
Nothing Happens,He Explains He Needs,"Someting Stronger" To Work On and Kathy Mentions,"Like My Nightmares" At First He Declines But She Still Suggests She Sould Be The Subject.Michael Accepts But Tells Her To,"Ring The Buzzer" To Stop The Experiment and Watches Closely,
Kathy Shuts Her Eyes But,"Almost Immediately" Wakens But Shes Not Awake,"Shes Dreaming" But
Michael Lets The Experiment Continue,Kathy Is Trapped and Cant Get Out Then,"In Her Dream" Sees
Micahael,Who Vicously Attacks and Rapes Her,Kathy Wakes Up and Stares At Micahel,Violated She
Leaves For London,Micahel Trys To Apologise But Kathy Explains He Should Have Stopped It,"Why
Didnt You Wake Me",and Gets a Cab To the Airport,But Michael Realises He Didnt Give Her The
Drug To Re.Instate The,"Dream Paralsis" and Rushes In Persuit of Kathy.On The Jet To London Kevin and Kathy are Not Talking,Then asleep Kathy,"Awakes" and Picking up
a Plastic Knife From a Food Tray,"Stabs" Kevin In The Back,"Shes Dreaming" Again,Meanwhile Michael
Locates The Adress Of The Recording Studio at The Airport,Back In London Kathy and Kevin are Booking
Into a Hotel,Then at Night Kathy Wakens and "Dreaming" Shes a Child Passes a Man Making a Phone Call,
But Then Stops,Turns,Runs To Him,Stops Again Then,"Jumps" On Him,Realising What has Happened She
Calls He Father Who Is In London Looking For Her,Just as Micahael Arrives There.Kathy Arrives at Her Fathers Hotel Suite and Bursts Into Tears as He Opens The Door,She Explains What
Has Occured and Her Father Leaves To Get Pills,Kathy is Left alone and Removes a Bread Tray With a
Knife On It,Meanwhile Michael Has Located Where Her Father is Staying,Back In Her Fathers Hotel Kathy
Is On a Bed Telling Herself To,"Dream a Gentle Dream" and That Shes,"Safe" Then We See Her as The
Child/Adult In Her Room,Again Holding Her Teddy Bear,There Is a Dolls House In Front Of Her and Moving
Over To It Opens The Front,She Moves a Doll Of a Child To One Of a Man In a Chair,"Another Referance
To Kathys Relation To Her Father Perhaps",But We See The Lamp and The Bare Wires From Her Apartment,
There Is a Knock at The Door Kathy Looks Up Camera Closes Up On the Door,Kathy Stands Up and Walks
Over To The Bread Tray,Now We See The Long Corrdor Kristy In a White Dress,She Looks Cautiously and
Picks Up The Knife,"The White Dress is Now Deep Red",Kathy Opens The Apartment Door To Her Father
Returning From The Chemist,But Kathy Sees Him In Her,"Dream World" as Her Father/Lover,"The Dream
Lover" of The Title Perhaps,She Looks at The Medicine Wich Says,"Roses Chemist" She Therefore Sees
a,"Rose",But Looks Up and Instead Of Her Father,She Sees Danny,Terrified She Backs To The Bed,Ben
Walks over To Her Holding The Medicine,"Kathy Sees The Keys Danny Had" and Seeing Her Attacker
Stabs Her Father,Then Moves To The Outer Ledge Of the Window.Michael Arrives and Sees Kathy High above,Ben Moves Closer To Kathy,"The Hotel Is Now The Tower
That Kathy Saw With Her Mothers Picture",and Kathy Moves Right Onto The Ledge,"The London Streets
Clearly Below",But Michael Is Now In The Apartment and Moves Carefully To Kathy But She Turns and
Tapering On The Edge Of The Ledge Looks Up and Sees a Bird,"As She Saw In Her Earlier Dream"
She Drops The Knife and Jumps,The,"Dream" Kathy Falls From The Tower,But The,"Real" Kathy Is
Caught By Micahel,Who Pulls Her To Safety,Awake Michael Comforts Her,Then She Looks Up Sees
Her Father,She Smiles,Father and Daughter are Re.United,Perhaps Closer and With a Better Understanding of Each Other,Then The Screen Fades Out To Dakness Just as It,"Faded" In
at The Beginning.
    

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