Script+Period+3+Sam+T_Elliott_Mark


 * __//Jammed// __**

Characters Jim, the funny one Michael, the panicky one Robert, the strong, kind one

Setting: The characters are in a crowded middle school hallway next to a jammed locker trying to open it before their next class.

At Rise: Michael standing center stage next to his locker. Robert and Jim are walking through the hallway together.

Michael: //(rushed)// Hey guys, get over here. Can you help me open up my locker?

Robert: //(walking over to Michael)// Sure.

Jim: //(sighing)// Make it quick. //(sarcastically)// Is it jammed, again? You need to make sure everything's in the locker before you close it, Mike.

Michael: Okay, okay. Just help me this one time, the bells about to ring.

Robert: Don't worry we'll help. I'll try pulling it open.

M: Go ahead.

R: //(walking over to locker and pulling on it)// It won't open.

//(Michael starts to panic and doesn't pay attention to what Jim and Robert are doing)//

J: //(coming over with a sledgehammer)// Let me through, I'll do it.

M: //(Michael and Robert standing with a quizzical expression)// Where'd you get that?

Jim: //(speaking coolly)// I know people.

Robert: Here, let me try again. Michael, you help.

Jim: //(Jim returns with a jackhammer out of control) (bouncing rapidly)// Here, this might work.

//(Jaws dropped and staring with astonishment)//

Robert: Why do you have a jackhammer?

Jim: I told you I know people! //(Jim drills on the locker)//

Jim: I have another idea.

Robert: Let's try again, do what I do, Michael.

//(Michael and Robert try again with their feet on the other lockers)//

Michael: Try harder!

//(Jim returns with dynamite)//

Michael: //(in disbelief)// Where did you get dynamite!?

Jim: I got it from the janitor.

Robert: Why does the janitor have dynamite?

Jim: Just in case.

Robert: Just in case of what?!

Jim: You know, just in case.

Michael: //(With urgency)// Well, Don't blow up my locker!

Jim: Oh well, I just want to go outside. Jim: //(Jim sticks the dynamite on the locker and lights the fuse)// Fire in de hole!

//(Jim blows up the locker flying backwards) (all characters hit the ground and duck in cover)//

Michael: //(furious)// You blew up my locker!

Jim: Now you don't need to open it anymore!

Robert: //(livid)//Yeah but you blew up his locker! That's not helping! That's destruction of school property.---

Jim: I did more to help than you did!---

//(Michael looks at his "locker" with a look of shock)//

Robert: Well it doesn't count because you completely demolished whatever was in the locker!---

Jim: I'm not talking to you!---

Robert: Oh yeah, well I'm not talking to you!---

Jim: Well, I'm not talking to you first!--- //(The two glare at each other for a few seconds and finally give up.) // Robert: Ughh!

//(Robert storms off the stage in one direction)//

Jim: Ughh!

//(Jim walks away in the opposite way Robert went)

(Michael bangs on his locker one last time and the locker door falls off)//

Michael: //(ecstatic)//Hey look, my books are still okay, Huh.

//(The bell rings, Michael gets his books and walks off the stage looking pleased)//