The script

Here's the shooting script to the short. Click on the image above to read the script in pdf format. There's quite a few differences with the finished film. Some changes happened on set, others in the editing room.

Chief amongst them is the appearance of two protesters who turn up at the scene to make their message heard. We filmed these scenes but in the end we felt it over-complicated what was a neat simplicity of a robot doctor dealing with a case. Short films must be told with economy and so we made the decision to take them out.

One fragment of these characters remains however: when we see the robot at the very end, you can clearly hear someone shout "murderer" amongst the commotion. This one word, spoken off screen, accomplishes a great deal of what we wanted the protesters to achieve. This was a valuable lesson to us.