It was entirely original. Well, nearly entirely, at any rate. In the movie the autistic guy winds up holding everyone back and then being the vial key to getting out of the cube. In my play he doesn't fit in with people, and writes in code, thinking it's normal writing. He insists that those who don't know what he wrote can't read, and is a remarkable student in math. Aside from his mother, his only other friend is Achmed, an Arabic mute who talks to Kazan through sign language and E-mails, thus accessing his language capacity. His father, David, works for the FBI and is put on a team cracking a code indicating a dire terrorist threat obtained through a sting operation. The terrorists plan a massive joint-attack on several differant systems, and all personell with enough security clearance are trying to crack the code. Kazan, meanwhile, urged by his mother, is trying to get over his social anxiety issues, and starts with his father who has been something of a dick to him in the past. His father, distracted by his work, completely blows Kazan off. He locks himself in his study and tries to crack the code. The next day, at work, his boss flips through his file on the code and finds it entirely done, indicating that someone must have entered David's study while the code was still out. Kazan is the only person who makes sense. The play ends with David appologizing to his kid and telling him that the FBI has a job for him, teaching people to read. So yeah, completely differant than a horror movie. I just took the idea of an autistic guy really being a savant, and since they took it from Rain Man, I'd say I'm golden.