A DARK ROOM, A SINGLE LIGHT BULB, COLD WAR SPY THRILLER PRISON CELL.
The DOOR opens.
CASPAR and JACKSON are thrown ROUGHLY in.
THREE GUARDS drag a TIED UP DAVE in. He STRAINS AGAINST HIS BONDS. They thrown him to the ground.
GUARD
That’s it Jackson, you guys have blown it this time.
So you and your pet Arcadian and your skinny friend here
Can get used to this four walls because they’re the last you’ll ever see.
CASPAR
What! I don’t deserve to be here.
I wasn’t part of whatever these guys were into.
I demand to speak to my lawyer.
The GUARD reaches for his BATON. JACKSON jumps up.
JACKSON
Look, he’s just scared. He’s not used to all this, he just got caught up in everything.
Now look why don’t you see about getting him some kind of release, okay?
GUARD
Okay, if you keep him quiet.
I don’t want to hear one more whine out of him.
DAVE
That makes two of us.
The DOOR SLAMS SHUT.
JACKSON sits back down next to CASPAR.
CASPAR
Did you have to say I was scared?
Was that really necessary?
Could you have made me look more weak if you tried?
JACKSON
Probably not, as I was trying to make you look weak.
CASPAR
Thanks a lot!
JACKSON
He agreed to help you out didn’t he.
CASPAR
Yeah but only because you made me look like a pale faced geek who probably got beaten up in school because of his smart mouth.
JACKSON looks at him.
CASPAR
What?!
JACKSON
Oh? Nothing.
You have a lawyer?
CASPAR
Yeah.
JACKSON
You’re a 20 year old guy in a dead end job in a town in the middle of nowhere, I bet you live with your parents.
CASPAR
Your point?
JACKSON
What do you need a lawyer for.
CASPAR
I tried to develop a series of new products. Wallets, backpacks, etcetera. And I tried to sell them on the internet.
JACKSON
What happened?
CASPAR
I got sued.
JACKSON
By who?
CASPAR
Oh, pretty much every company that manufactures duct tape.
JACKSON
Why?
CASPAR
They didn’t like my usage of their product.
JACKSON
You were making wallets and backpacks out of duct tape?
CASPAR
It’s a growth industry.
JACKSON
Now I see why you have a lawyer.
DAVE is staring into space.
CASPAR
What’s up with him?
JACKSON
He’s meditating or something,
Realigning his chi.
Who knows.
He’s just goes like this sometimes.
Murray says it some sort of warrior ritual.
The camera zooms in on DAVE’S EYE.
The IMAGE DISSOLVES into STATIC.
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