Entropic

BERNADETTE is a Nuclear Physicist who is frustrated with the local energy company, Newton Oil and Gas, as they are ruining the natural environment that allows her to go fishing and relax in her otherwise stressful lifestyle. Bernadette is in the process of writing a paper that will prove the feasibility of a new type of energy production that will put Newton out of business. However, Bernadette thinks that Newton Energy has hired an employee, REX, to stalk her and eliminate her to keep operating their dirty energy plant. Bernadette attends a psychiatry appointment with ANDREW to discuss whether these grandiose and persecutory thoughts are real or just delusions. Andrew does not believe in Bernadette and he thinks that she has a mental disorder. He prescribes her medication and writes off the possibility that she is being stalked. The medication only makes matters worse and now Bernadette experiences all-encompassing hallucinations of REX. Bernadette has a eureka moment in which she completes her paper, but now she is even more terrified that REX will kill her and destroy her work. Bernadette goes back to Andrew's office and please that he believes in her and her work. Andrew is still skeptical, but he agrees to at least take Bernadette's USB and hard copy of her paper and hold onto it in case anything were to happen to her. Andrew leaves his office briefly and returns to find that her USB has been stolen from his office. Realizing that Bernadette is in grave danger, Andrew speeds towards Bernadette's house. Bernadette now at home hears someone break into her house. She hides in the closet. REX descends the stairs, destroys her desk, and then stares directly at her through the crack in the closet. However, REX does not enter, he does not kill her, instead he goes back upstairs. At this point, Bernadette is completely unaware whether REX is real or a figment of her imagination. Unable to take the stress anymore, Bernadette prepares to cut her wrists and end it all. Then, we hear someone descending the stairs again - Andrew arrives at Bernadette's house to find that she is dead, killed by a fishing harpoon sticking out of her head. Instead of blood, oil spills out of her body. Andrew, still with the hard copy, ponders over whether Bernadette killed herself or whether she was assassinated. He walks down by the river, he sees Newton Oil and how it ruins the environment, looks back at the paper, wondering if he should publish it. We fade to black hearing the sound of a printer.