Scene: “Patient Number 9” – Nelly & Joe Remember Ozzy Osbourne
INT. STUDIO LOUNGE – NIGHT – DIMLY LIT WITH RED AND BLUE LIGHTS
Nelly Furtado sits across from Joe Jukic in a booth lined with velvet. A framed photo of Ozzy Osbourne in a hospital gown hangs crookedly behind them. The turntable spins slowly, playing faint echoes of “Patient Number 9.”
NELLY
(softly, reverently)
They called him crazy… but I think he was just sensitive. He felt something deeper than most. That’s why they locked him up.
JOE
Yeah. Patient Number 9. The system couldn’t handle Ozzy. They didn’t treat him—they punished him. Gave him electroshock therapy like it was a spiritual exorcism.
NELLY
His doctors didn’t understand mysticism. He wasn’t delusional. He just believed… his left hand was Satan and his right hand was Christ.
JOE
(leaning in, intrigued)
That duality thing—it’s old. Gnostic almost. Light and dark in one vessel. Ozzy was living a cosmic battle in his own body. But instead of guiding him, they zapped him into numbness.
NELLY
It’s so cruel. He wasn’t hurting anyone. He was singing. Screaming, even. Trying to warn us.
JOE
You know what I heard? After one shock session, he tried to bless his own hand… said it turned black, like it had burned with sin. He called it the “Mark of the Beast.”
NELLY
But the right hand… he said it glowed. Said he could feel Christ in the tendons. Said he could write lyrics that channeled heaven—but only with that hand.
JOE
(quiet)
And the doctors just wrote “schizoaffective.” They called his visions hallucinations. Never once asked if maybe… he was right.
NELLY
You know what scares me, Joe? How many other artists we’ve lost to hospitals like that? To drugs, to isolation, to being misunderstood.
JOE
That’s why we remember Ozzy. Not as a victim—but as a prophet. A wounded prophet. Patient Number 9… locked up for trying to heal himself.
They sit in silence as the record skips. A final lyric loops endlessly:
“When they called your name, did you hear them scream?…”
[END SCENE]
A tribute to those who saw beyond, and paid the price for speaking it.
