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1.)
(On a miserable bus ride at night, two strangers sit together: Karl and Mildred. He listens to headphones while she talks on a cell phone.)
MILDRED: I said I was too
old for the slammer.
2.)
(She has the look of evil glee and he is looking aside in disinterest, probably unhearing, possibly seeing his stop grow near.)
MILDRED: --And they believed me!
BAHAHA!
3.)
(Karl approaches a classy city building.)
KARL: (in thoughts) OK. This is it. Try to be normal and... yeah. Normal.
4.)
(In a hallway, Karl raps upon someone's chamber door.)
5.)
(Allison appears, all sheisty looking. Quoth the Karl,)
KARL: Sorry! Did I--
I-is Jack...?
6.)
(Allison leads him inside, clad in a black t-shirt and pyjama bottoms - on a field sable, alien heads vert. It's Jack's place.)
ALLISON: Yeah.
He’s puttin’
his face on.
7.)
(She summons the lord of the manor.)
ALLISON: Jack! One of
your gay
boys is here!
8.)
(Karl looks a bit put out, but also on edge. This place is weird. Neat bundles of glenmarks are piled messily on a random table.)
KARL: ‘One’...?
9.)
(Thierry and Allison slouch on the modern furniture and chat, oblivious to the human.)
THIERRY: So anyway, (slew of occult symbols)
ALLISON: You
think?
10.)
(Karl is startled by Darren, who is trying to reach past him. Random crumpled bills litter the countertops.)
DARREN: Hey dogg, gotta get to
the fridge.
11.)
(Karl fanboys out on our erstwhile rocker. Behind him in another room, we see a coffee table bearing a spilled bag full of money.)
KARL: Darren...?!
Wow! I-- I loved
you guys when
I was a kid! Well now too,
of course!
I have a
tattoo of
the--
12.)
(Darren dismisses the dweeb with a quietly ragey gesture. Behind him the kitchen surfaces are bereft of things humans might use.)
DARREN: Tch. Don’t come in
my house with
that shit.
13.)
(Karl is startled as Darren opens the refrigerator, revealing it has no food at all - just one lonely semi-automatic pistol.)
DARREN: Ah. That’s where
I left it.
14.)
(Karl is buggin' while Darren considers his weapon. Jack appears behind them in a shirt with a black floral pattern.)
JACK: I’m ready!
DARREN: Wow, it’s cold.
15.)
(Walking away from the building, Karl folds his arms against the night chill, while we see that Jack's shirt is in fact translucent
- save the patterning - and he is wearing no undershirt. His pants are dark. Jack looks pleasant and Karl suspicious.)
KARL: Heh uh, so ‘coworkers’
can be weird, yeah?
JACK: I’m sure.
I bet those Masher
guys are freaks.
KARL: ...Well that’s
true. |