Doctor's Office With a View

DOCTOR'S OFFICE WITH A VIEW

Idea date 3/1/2000

By Ryan B. Foss

INT. DOCTOR'S OFFICE, INTERIOR WAITING ROOM

In a small waiting room, a MAN dressed in a white hospital gown sits on an exam table. He nervously looks around the room, waiting for the doctor to arrive. Over a muffled speaker, a female's voice broadcasts a call for a doctor.

"Doctor _Name_, you have a telephone call on line…" fading out.

Unnoticed a small SPHERICAL CRAFT flies around the waiting room. It pauses in front of a medical poster depicting a human's mouth, throat, and digestive system. It continues a slow, but jostled and arching flight through the small waiting room.

A DOCTOR enters the room and closes the door behind him. He begins talking to the MAN. The conversation is unheard, but the MAN raises a hand to his mouth. The DOCTOR motions (conversation still unheard) for the MAN to open his mouth. The DOCTOR removes a tongue depressor from his lab coat and inserts it into the MAN'S mouth.

While the DOCTOR is looking in the MAN'S throat, the SPHERICAL CRAFT quickly flies toward them, and enters the MAN'S open mouth.

INT. MAN'S MOUTH

The SPERICAL CRAFT flies over the MAN'S tongue as his mouth closes and the DOCTOR'S tongue depressor is pulled away rapidly. The MAN'S teeth come together with a click as the SPERICAL CRAFT is thrust into darkness.

INT. DOCTOR'S OFFICE, INTERIOR WAITING ROOM

MAN is holding his neck with his hands as the DOCTOR backs away. MAN coughs briefly. The DOCTOR does not seem surprised because he didn't see the SPHERICAL CRAFT; instead he turns and tosses the tongue depressor into the trash.

CUT WITH TONGUE DIPPRESSOR FLYING AT CAMERA TO SPHERICAL CRAFT

INT. DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

The SPHERICAL CRAFT moves rapidly through pink tunnels, lit only by small lamps, lighting the tunnel like headlights. It rounds a turn and is immersed in fluids. The fluid is murky and filled with particles. It moves though the liquid, eventually reaching thinker murkier depths. After some moments of scattered darkness, the craft enters a cavern that is blocked by dark brown matter. It examines the blockage briefly.

After the SPHERICAL CRAFT has hovered within the cavern a few seconds, it is jarred and tossed around, and eventually is surrounded by brilliant whiteness. A splashing sound is heard. The SPHERICAL CRAFT looks up through clean and moving water to see the MAN peering at it.

INT. HOSPITAL BATHROOM

Standing over a hospital toilet, the MAN looks curiously into the toilet's basin. The MAN, while still gazing into the bowl, reaches up and flushes the toilet.

INT. TOILET BASIN

The SPHERICAL CRAFT looks up through the swirling water at the MAN. The rim of the toilet bowl is rapidly spinning around.

CUT OUT WITH SWIRLING FADE TO BLACK

THE END

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