Andy Galloway
03/03/2013
PASS
THE POPCORN: Chase
CG: Smiley face with “uncle Al’s Amateur Hour” written across it.
ANNOUNCER: (V.O.)
Welcome to Uncle AL’S
Amateur Hour. The place where we show
our Talent is not latent.
SETTING: STAGE WITH PETER SITTING AT THE PIANO VERY
BORED LOOKING WHILE VERDA STANDS ON STAGE.
SHE WEARS A MASK OVER HER FACE AND A COWL COVERING HER BODY. HER WRISTS AND ANKLES ARE BOUND TO ROPES ATTACHED
TO BRICKS ON THE GROUND.
ANNOUNCER: (V.O.)
Our first act,
Peter Camin, and Verdad Svboda playing and dancing to see if they Can-Can.
PETER MOVES
HANDS DOWN TO PLAY THE PIANO HALTS AND FLIPS HIS HANDS OVER.
CUT TO:
B&W: PETERS
HANDS, BLACK GLOVED HAND GRAPS PETERS WRIST AND PUSHES HIS HAND TO AN INK
BLOTTER AND MARKS HIS FINGERPRINT
CUT TO:
PETER SHAKING
HIS HEAD A QUICK LOOK UP
CUT TO:
B&W: PETER
WITH A PILLOWCASE ON HIS HEAD SEATED IN A CHAIR IN AN INTERROGATION ROOM. A BROTHER PROTECTOR STANDS WITH A BILLY CLUB
PATTING INTO A GLOVED HAND.
BROTHER PROTECTOR
Looks like little Peter loves to
think.
BROTHER
PROTECTOR LIFTS BILLY CLUB UP.
BROTHER PROTECTOR
(CONT’D)
Let’s see what
little brother thinks of this then.
CU BILLY CLUB
AS IT IS BROUGHT DOWN SPLATTERING OF BLOOD APPEARS ON BUTCHER PAPER PLACED ON
WALL. CLUB GETS BROUGHT DOWN THREE
TIMES.
BROTHER PROTECOR
(LAUGHS DIMLY) Where’re your thoughts now?
ON A SHEETPETER
BEGINS TO PLAY THE PIANO VERY LAONICALLY, BEARING A PASSIVE LOOK ON HIS FACE.
Slow Can-can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4XEUbtcXY VERDAD MEANWHILE, MERELYS SHUFFLES BACK AND
FORTH POINTING HR FINGERS DOWN AND TO THE SIDE RYTHMICALLY.
PETER’S FACE IS
VERY BORED. THEY CONTINUE MOURNFUL
DISPLAY FOR ABOUT TEN MORE SECONDS.
PETER SUDDENLY CRASHES HIS HANDS DOWN ON THE PIANO. ANGRLY HE TAKES HIS JACKET OFF AND MARCHES
OVER TO VERDAD. HE RIPS THE MASK OFF HER
FACE REVEALING A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN.
VERDA IS SHOCKED.
CUT TO:
B&W:
BROTHER PROTECTOR AND VERDA IN SMALL ROOM.
VERDAD HAS PILLOWCASE OVER HER HEAD AND IT IS RIPPED OFF BY BROTHER
PROTECTOR. VERDAD IS FRIGHTENED.
VERDAD
What’s happening?
BROTHER PROTECTOR:
It’s time for you to give.
BROTHER
PROTECTOR PUSHES VERDAD ONTO A TABLE
BROTHER PROTECTOR
Give all for god and country.
VERDAD
No… no… no!
PETER
SLIPS THE ROPES OFF VERDADS WRISTS AND ANKLES.
HE TEARS THE COWL REVEALING A CLASSICALLY DRESSED DANCER. VERDA IS FRIGHTENED.
VERDAD
What’s happening?
PETER
It’s time.
MUSIC: FASTER TECHNO BEAT CAN-CAN BEGINS
VERDAD
Time? Time for what?
PETER
Time to live.
VERDAD
Is it safe?
PETER
LOOKS UP AT HER AND SMILES
PETER
No.
PETER
PUTS OUT HIS HAND FOR HER TO TAKE.
PETER (CONT’D)
But
is it safer to stay?
VERDAD
TAKES HIS HAND. THEY RUN TO STAIR
CASE. A CLAXON BEGINS TO SOUND.
(V.O.)
Brother
protectors security breech Ground floor.
Brother protector’s security breech ground floor.
DIRECTOR: (v.o.)
Camera three off mount and follow.
CAMERA
VIEW HAND HELD. BEGINS TO FOLLOW PETER AND VERDAD. PETER AND VERDAD APPROACH A HALLWAY.
DIRECTOR: (V.O.)
Ready four. Take four.
PETER
AND VERDAD APPEAR IN THE HALLWAY. RUN
TOWARDS DOOR.
PETER:
We have to get out of here.
PETER
TRIES TO OPEN DOOR BUT IT IS LOCKED.
VERDAD:
There is another way out. There has to be.
DIRECTOR: (V.O.)
Ready five. Take five.
SHOT
OF BROTHER PROTECTOR FOLLOWING THEM.
DIRECTOR:
Ready four. Take four.
PETER:
This way.
PETER
AND VERDAD RUN TO FIND ANOTHER DOOR.
DIRECTOR:
Ready six. Take six.
SETTING:
(CHEMISTRY BUILDING) PETER AND VERDAD APPEAR RUNNING DOWN A HALL.
VERDAD:
Where are we going?
PETER:
(Laughingly)We are getting out.
THE
PAIR REACHES A STARICASE.
VERDAD:
By going up?
PETER:
Why not?
DIRECTOR:
Ready five. Take five.
BROTHER
PROTECTOR RUNNING DOWN HALLWAY THEY JUST LEFT.
VERDAD LOOKS IN DIRECTION THEY JUST CAME FROM THEN STARTS TO RUN UP THE
STAIRS.
DIRECTOR:
Ready six. Take Six
VERDAD:
You coming.
PETER
SMILES AND FOLLOWS AS THEY GO UP THE STAIRS.
DIRECTOR:
Ready seven.
v.o.
Brother protectors level two. Brother
protectors
level two.
DIRECTOR:
…Take
seven.
(EXPERIMENTAL
SCINCE BLD) OPEN ROOM WITH CATWALK PRESENT AND PLANTS HANGING DOWN. AFTER A MOMENTS PAUSE
CAMERAMAN
I can’t find them Sir.
DIRECTOR:
Wait for it… Wait for it
SETTING. PETER AND VERDAD STANDING BY A DOOR.
PETER:
Give me that broom.
VERDAD
GETS A BROOM THAT IS ON THE WALL NEXT TO THE DOOR. VERDAD HANDS IT TO PETER.
VERDAD:
Here.
PETER
PLACES THE BROOM HANDLE THROUGH THE DOOR.
PETER:
That should hold them.
PETER
TRYS TO OPEN AND CLOSE DOOR. IT MOVES A
LITTLE, BUT SOME RESISTANCE GIVEN.
VERDAD:
Not long… but long enough.
PETER:
Let’s find our way out.
PETER
AND VERDAD ENTER THE VIEW OF CAMERA SEVEN. RUN ACROSS HALLWAY AND DOWN STAIRS.
CUT TO:
BROTHER
PROTECTOR BANGING AGAINST DOOR.
CUT TO:
BASE
OF STEPS. PETER EXCITED.
PETER.
That door might be our way out.
VERDAD
LOOKS BEHIND HER.
VERDAD:
Should we take it?
PETER:
We have to.
PETER
GOES AND TRIES THE DOOR. THE DOOR OPENS. PETER STEPS OUTSIDE RUNS A FEW STEPS AND
BECKONS VERDAD TO FOLLOW.
PETER:
We made it.
CLAXION
HEARD.
V.O.
External sercurity breech. External
security
breech.
CUT
TO:
BROTHER
PROTECTOR TRYING TO GET DOOR TO OPEN.
CUT
TO:
OUTSIDE
ESB. PETER IS IN FOREGROUND WHILE VERDAD
HESITANT IN DOORWAY.
VERDAD:
Is it safe?
PETER
LOOKS AROUND EXCITEDLY.
PETER:
The world is
calling. All you have to do is step out
Verdad. One step… and we will be free. Verdad… you were meant to be free.
CG:
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES PLEASE STAND BY.
FADE
UP: PETER’S FACE IN FOREGROUND WITH
BLOOD SMEARED ACROSS FOREHEAD. VERDAD IS
STUCK IN THE DOOR WITH THE GLASS DOOR CLOSED IN ON HER. HEAVY BOOT OF BROTHER PROTECTOR ENTERS FRAME
GRABBS PETERS HAND AND BEGINS TO MOVE HIS BODY OUT.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Well that was exciting, exciting indeed.
But if you
thought that was exciting, hold on to your chairs for Citizen Johnson, and her
trained poodles. Bow wow…
FADE TO BLACK:
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