Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat!

Three men are standing in front of a building, trying to keep warm in the autumn chill and generally trying to waste time. The men will be called 1, 2 and 3. Man 1 groans, looking up to the sky.

Man 1: Fu-uck! (drawn out, exasperated) Where the hell is Joey?

Man 2: Jesus Christ I don’t know, he said he just had to make a quick trip to 5th and Quincy to get some decorations.

Man 1: They better be worth it, I’m so fucking cold.

Man 3: Quitch-yer bitchen, it’s not even November.

Man 1: Next week it’s November.

Man 2: Shut it, here comes Joey!

Joey approaches empty handed and smiling.

Man 1: Where’s the stuff?

Joey: In my car.

Man 3: And?

Joey: They’re pretty heavy; I need some help getting them up here.

Man 2: Alright, come on guys…

Group moves down the road, then scene changes to group approaching a parking lot. Joey leads them to his car, where he fumbles with keys at the back.

Joey: One minute, here we go…

Joey unlocks door, replaces keys in pocket. He swings the back open, revealing to the group but not the camera, a dead body. One hand, visible to the camera, was leaning against the door, falls out, caked in dirt and rather nasty looking. The Men are appalled, sickened, and
Man 1dry heaves or possibly vomits, the other two ad lib astonishment and disbelief.

Man 2: Jesus Christ! That’s a body! Like a dead body!

Man 3: Dude did you fucking kill someone?

Joey (confused): No, of course not. Think I’m sick or something?

Man 3: Then where the fuck did you get it?

Joey: The cemetery on 5th and Quincy.

Man 2: Dude that’s a person, you dug up a person, Jesus Christ! Ah, God!

Joey: I thought you guys wanted scary decorations?

Man 1 continues to dry heave, or if he previously vomited, is now dry heaving.

Man 3: This is illegal!

Joey: Should… Should I go put it back?

Man 2: Yes! Go put it back! Right where you found it! (to self) Jesus Christ he dug up a person!

Joey (resigned): Alright, I’ll be back in a bit. We still on for wings tonight?

Man 3: Go.

Joey: Okay then

Joey closes the trunk, gets in car and drives away.

Man 2: He dug up a person!

Cuts to black, credits, then Joey getting shovel and body wrapped in sheet out of car.