AWAKEN MY JUDE

Written by

Alex Pires

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EXT. DAYCARE - DAY

PUSH IN.

HAROLD (O.S)
(meditating)
Ommm.

INT. DAYCARE - PUZZLE BLOCK FORT

HAROLD sits cross legged in meditation position, eyes shut.

OWEN mirrors to his side, his legs twisted like a pretzel.

OWEN
(uncomfortable)
Ommm.

HAROLD
Ommm

OWEN
Umm?

Owen FARTS. He LAUGHS, eyes still shut.

OWEN (CONT'D)
Sorry.

JUDE walks into the fort.

JUDE
What’s up my dudes.

OWEN
Harold's teaching me how to
meditate!

JUDE
Meditate? What’s that.
HAROLD
Only one of the most important
skills a ninja must master. Sensei
Steve always says: A quiet mind is
the key to unlocking true power.
(beat)
Also it helps me relax after sugar.

INT. HAROLD’S BEDROOM - NIGHT - FLASHBACK

Harold bounces wildly on his bed in his signature orange

jammies. Crushed juice boxes lay strewn across the floor.
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HAROLD
I’m going to be young forever!

He bounces into the spinning ceiling fan above, he flies

SMACK into the wall.

BACK TO:

INT. DAYCARE - PUZZLE BLOCK FORT

JUDE
Wicked. I’m down for some calm.

Jude folds his legs.

OWEN
Are you sure Jude? You’re like...
the most mellow person I’ve ever
met. You might break something.

HAROLD
Excellent. Now! Back straight,
cheeks clenched, fingers touch.

PUNCHING-IN on every instruction.

HAROLD (CONT'D)
And... breathe.

On inhalation- A WIND CHIME SOUNDS.

INT. DAYCARE - PUZZLE BLOCK FORT - JUDE’S AWAKENING

We enter a psychedelic vision of Jude sitting. He splits into

three multi-coloured copies of himself. The fort dissolves
away into a peaceful sky-blue.

ALL
Ommmm.
The three Judes merge back together. Soft waves rippling off
the single figure. A raindrop PLINKS down onto Jude’s head.

And we’re back--

INT. DAYCARE - PUZZLE BLOCK FORT

Jude GASPS for air. His skin glowing a soft light. Owen and
Harold stare at him.
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OWEN
Um, Jude, what was that?

JUDE
I know how the universe was created
now.

HAROLD
Holy cow! You just unlocked your
zen! Do you know how difficult that
is to do!?

OWEN
Unlocked his hoohaw?

Owen turns, accidentally staring Jude in the eye- triggering

Owen’s own peaceful vision...

OWEN’S PEACFUL VISION - DAY

Owen is a donut floating on a chocolate milk river. More

donuts join him creating a beautiful, hypnotic array.

OWEN (CONT'D)
Ha ha! I’m a donut!?

He CHOMPS eating himself in one bite. His face POPS back up

again on another donut.

OWEN (CONT'D)
This is the greatest thing that has
ever happened to me.

He takes a DEEP BREATH.

OWEN (CONT'D)
And the air!? Ho man, is that...
grape flavour?

He starts HYPERVENTILATING excitedly.

BACK TO:

INT. DAYCARE - PUZZLE BLOCK FORT

Owen smiles at Jude dreamily.

OWEN
I feel... satiated.
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TALKING HEAD - FROGGY CHAIR - HAROLD

HAROLD
This is awesome! Jude is able to
awaken people’s inner peace with
just one glance! Luckily for me, my
specs here act as a shield- keeping
me totally unaffected.

He blinks, is that such a good thing?

HAROLD (CONT'D)
I wonder what other powers Jude
has.

TALKING HEAD - FROGGY CHAIR - JUDE

JUDE
I know you’re watching.

INT. DAYCARE - PUZZLE BLOCK FORT

HAROLD
Jude we have to use your powers to
spread peace and love across the
world. It’s what sensei would’ve
wanted.

JUDE
Or just, like, the school. Start
small.

They leave the fort, Owen still lazily staring off, munching
the air.

INT. DAYCARE - CONTINUOUS

The playroom is in disarray. DUNCAN kicks over a block tower

in front of CODY. LESHAWNA and COURTNEY fight over a toy
convertible. BETH screams while her painting of a bumble bee
spontaneously combusts.

JUDE
I sense... unease.

CHEF walks up to Jude and Harold.

CHEF
Woah Jude, is there something
different about you? I'm feeling
the sudden urge to cuddle by your
feet and sleep like a kitten.
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JUDE
Like, my mind and soul no longer
feel confined to this one single
bodily identity brah.

CHEF
Wow. Looks like someone has been
brushing up on their spelling.

HAROLD
We’re helping people achieve their
nirvana!

CHEF
Sounds cute Harold.
(squints)
Better not catch you two getting up
to anything... metaphysical...

HAROLD
We don’t even know what that means!

CHEF
Oh that’s right! You're children!
This is a daycare! Ha ha. Carry on
then.

Harold and Jude smile at each other.

INT. DAYCARE - PAINTING EASELS

Beth, frustrated, scribbles on her painting.

Jude walks up to her tapping her on the shoulder. She meets

his gaze.

BETH’S PEACEFUL VISION

Beth is a booger wedged tightly in a nostril.

Suddenly- a gust of wind passes from the inside carrying

Booger Beth out.

Zoom Out: The nostrils belong to Beth! Her nose shoots out
boogers, flowers and rainbows!

BETH
Life is meant to be experienced-
unfiltered!

BACK TO:
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INT. DAYCARE - PAINTING EASELS

Beth smiles wide absently. She tips backwards into cans of

paint. They SPLATTER everywhere.

Harold-green, Jude-pink thumbs up one other.

EXT. YARD - SANDBOX

Courtney fusses over Duncan’s messy digging. She turns to

grab a pail to find Jude’s face waiting inside.

Courtney SCREAMS.

COURTNEY’S PEACEFUL VISION

In a psychedelic silhouette we see Courtney’s spine filled

with knots and bricks haphazardly stacked. At once the knots
become untied while the bricks warmly melt away.

BACK TO:

EXT. DAYCARE - SANDBOX

Courtney’s strict demeanor immediately softens. A dopey,

relaxed grin spreads and she flops backwards into Duncan’s
hole.

INT. DAYCARE - TOY CHEST

Cody is crying as he holds an upside down teddy bear. Jude

crouches beside him and pats his head. They share a look.

We enter Cody’s eyeball.

CODY’S BIRTH

Cody is equally cute yet disgusting as a fetus floating in

the womb. He reads a newspaper while sitting on a fleshy
toilet.

The womb shakes.

FETUS CODY
Uh oh. But I’m not done!

He and his newspaper spin as they are “flushed” out of the

womb.
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FETUS CODY (O.S) (CONT'D)

This was a big moment for me!

BACK TO:

INT. DAYCARE - TOY CHEST

Cody’s stopped crying, holding the teddy upright.

JUDE
It’s not your fault little bro.

Jude embraces Cody.

JUDE (CONT'D)
Its not your fault.

CODY
I’m a product of my past
experiences!

INT. DAYCARE - LATER

Chef marches up to Harold and Jude.

CHEF
Jude! Harold! What did I say!?

HAROLD
“When eating a croissant always
seal your jam jars afterwards.
That’s how you attract wolves”

CHEF
No! Well, yes. Good memory Harold.
But I told you to be careful- now
look!

Beth wanders aimlessly covered head to toe in paint.

Courtney’s legs poke out the sandbox, buried. Owen lays in a
puddle of his own drool- biting the air like a haunted
animatronic. Cody sits pleasantly.

CODY
My life is finally starting to make
sense!

JUDE
(REFF: Chef)
An acorn must first be a sapling
before it becomes the mighty oak.
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CHEF
That’s it! Jude! You stop enjoying
eternal bliss this instant!

Chef grabs Jude’s face. Immediately his pupils widen into a

trance. A wave of energy flutters like a ribbon between the
two.

Chef GASPS and breaks free. He stares at his hands confused.

CHEF (CONT'D)
Oh my goodness.
(breath)
I need to call my dad... I’ve been
a bad son. A very, very, very bad
son.
Chef runs off crying.

Jude bows.

JUDE
Namaste.

HAROLD
Um, Jude? Maybe Chef’s right.

COURTNEY (O.S.)
(yelling)
Jude!

EXT. YARD - DAY

Courtney stands disheveled across Jude and Harold.

COURTNEY
Uhg. I’m feeling... back to
normal... Jude I need you to relax
me this instant!
Beth appears, followed by Owen and Cody.

BETH
Jude! The world is becoming
increasingly more disappointing!
Make it stop!

OWEN
Make it stop Jude!

COURTNEY
Jude!
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They form a cultish, zombie mob around Jude.

CODY
It’s simple. You make the bad turn
to good--

COURTNEY
Or we turn the you into mush!

JUDE
Woah! Hold up my little grasshopper
dudes. I can fix this.

OWEN
Make it stop!! The air tastes
of...nothing! Nothing!!

Jude gets into meditation position and takes a DEEP BREATH.

HAROLD
Wait Jude...

The world around Jude melts away to...

JUDES SECOND AWAKENING

A WINDCHIME rings.

Jude sits as a dark blue silhouette against a deep orange

sunset. The dark blue shatters leaving behind a bright neon
yellow glowing Jude.

The Jude zooms forward creating an endless corridor of

repeating kaleidoscopic Judes. One last bright white Jude
FLASHES the screen--

EXT. YARD - DAY

Jude BLINKS, looking at the mob around him.

JUDE
Huh. Funny, I don’t feel that diff--

Jude EXPLODES in a flash of white light. His body consumed in

fiery white energy. Arms dangling at his side, he floats mid-
air like an all-powerful being.

JUDE (CONT'D)
I knew there was a reason I always
felt called to shed these garments.
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Jude whips off his clothes leaving him in nothing but his
underpants.

JUDE (CONT'D)
These clothes are a prison!

A massive energy laser BLASTS from his body towards the

school.

Chef pokes his head through the door, wiping away a single
tear.

CHEF
I’ve collected my emotions and am
ready to share what I’ve learned
about myself from the last several
minutes.

WHAP. Jude’s pants smack Chef in the face.

CHEF (CONT'D)
What the?!

BOOM. Jude’s laser beam incinerates Chef.

HAROLD
Guys! We have to do something!

Courtney, Beth, Owen and Cody surround Jude, jumping up and

down CHEERING.

COURTNEY, BETH, OWEN AND CODY

Jude! Jude! Jude! Jude!

Beth leaps to her knees ripping off her bee costume- now
donning a grey hood with Jude’s face on the front.

BETH
Bathe me in your glow!

A massive laser BLASTS Beth. Leaving her smiling sweetly in

the grass.

HAROLD
I created this monster. Now it’s up
to me to end it.

DUNCAN
What?

Duncan is revealed to be standing in a hole beside Harold.

HAROLD
Um nothing.
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DUNCAN
I heard you. Were you talking to
yourself?

HAROLD
No I wasn’t!

DUNCAN
You were talking like some action
hero! Pahaha! Guys guess what
Harold--

A giant laser BLASTS Duncan.

DUNCAN’S PEACFUL VISION

Duncan stands on the beach, opposite a mirrored version of

himself. Mirrored Duncan sucks a pacifier, wearing a brown
leather jacket.

MIRRORED DUNCAN
It’s okay Duncan. You can stop
digging.

Duncan reveals to have a shovel in his hand. Scared- he

tosses it to the floor.

MIRRORED DUNCAN (CONT'D)

Maybe... we don’t have to be the
bad guy all the time.

Duncan stares. Suddenly- he BURSTS into tears, hugging

himself.

BACK TO:

INT. DAYCARE - SOON

Jude’s body continues firing lasers spontaneously, blasting

holes in the school’s walls.

Harold hides behind a toy chest clutching a firehose. He

takes a DEEP BREATH.

HAROLD
I’m sorry Jude.

He jumps over firing high-pressure water.

The water is met mid-stream by the laser, it immediately

turns into sweet juice. It sprays the kids, all wearing their
gray Jude robes.
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OWEN
Fruit punch! Awesome!

HAROLD
Don’t drink the punch!

Harold dives out of the way as a laser shoots towards him.

EXT. TORONTO SKYLINE - DAY

The CN Tower stands tall against the cheerful blue sky.

Judes laser BLASTS it. Leaving behind a giant smiling flower.

EXT. TORONTO STREETS - DAY

Business people run screaming as the giant flower face smiles

upon them, blocking out the sun.

CN FLOWER
Good morning everyone!

INT. DAYCARE - DAY

Jude rises in the center of the classroom.

HAROLD
Jude this has to stop!

JUDE
Pierce the veil of reality with me
Harold! I swear it’s so much
cooler!

Harold scans the room, spotting a mirror.

HAROLD
Aha!

He rolls over grabbing it. A Jude-Laser comes at him, Harold

perfectly reflects it back.

HAROLD (CONT'D)
Time to reflect a bit!

The beam hits Jude. He blinks.

Suddenly- his fiery energy DOUBLES.

JUDE
Wicked.
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He motions with his hands. The brainwashed kids growl and

begin running on all fours towards Harold.

JUDE (CONT'D)
Peace and love Harold. I can make
everything totally cool.

HAROLD
Ahh!

Harold runs for the puzzle block fort. Out from behind jumps
Duncan holding Cody under his arm. He whips Cody like a
frisbee.

CODY
Wee! I’m a football!
Harold ducks. He makes a sprint for the door. Beth and
Courtney appear blocking the way- throwing flowers like ninja
stars.

Harold walks backward bumping into:

Chef- donning the gray Jude robes.

CHEF
Sorry Harold. But once you get a
taste of the sweet life, you won’t
want to go back!

Harold rolls back between Chef’s legs. He jumps through the

window SHATTERING it.

EXT. YARD - CONTINUOUS

Jude floats outside following. The kids and Chef block the
school’s entrance.

HAROLD
I gotta bring Jude back down to
Earth.

Harold spots Jude’s signature toque on the floor. Bingo.

Rolling, jumping and twirling through the maze of Jude’s

laser beams Harold grabs the toque and flings it. Sailing
through the air like a missile, the hat lands perfectly on
Jude’s head.

The fire around Jude sputters, then extinguishes. Jude flops

to the ground.
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One by one the spell is broken on all the affected. The kids
GROAN.

JUDE
Oh dude... I feel... heavy.

He BURPS, a small fire comes out.

JUDE (CONT'D)
Ah. Just some gas.

HAROLD
Well I guess we won’t be trying to
spread anymore peace and love after
that.
JUDE
Yeah. I think I’m all loved out.

Harold gives Jude a hug.

JUDE (CONT'D)
Guess, there’s always a bit left in
the tank huh.

Owen GROANS in pain.

OWEN
At least everything is back to
normal.

A giant shadow covers the kids. Above- the CN Flower smiles

upon the yard.

CN FLOWER
I can’t stop smiling! Make it stop
Jude! Make it stop!

EXT. DAYCARE - DAY

PUSH-OUT.

KIDS
Ahhhh!

FIN