Blood and mercury seep across the screen and congeal in the caption: "INTERMISSION". The white limbo of the background then flares through the lettering and we white out again.
The first ominous thwang of Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, as realised by someone doing a musical impersonation of Wendy Carlos.
STEW and his ten disciples (as listed for the church hall footage), walking along like cocks of the yard, alongside the lake. Up front with STEW are SIMON, JOHN and MATTHEW, with the rest following. The footage is in slow motion. Funeral of Queen Mary plays over the top.
From inside his flowing coat, STEW produces a bike pump, extending it with a deft flick of the wrist. He then wheels around and whacks JOHN with it. JOHN, taken off guard, staggers sideways, and stumbles into the lake.
As this occurs, Purcell lovers will have noticed a subtle divergence in the chords being played, as the tune seamlessly segues into a rendering of the introduction to Abba's "Lay All Your Love On Me".
The music explodes in a shower of glitter, and we are in:
INT - SHEFFIELD ROXY - NIGHT
The Roxy was a big club that was desanctified and turned into a church.
We've gone back in and '80sed it up.
A wurlitzer organ rises up the back of the room, being played by SIMON
in big hair mode. He wears a glittering '70s disco dress.
The funky pair of phrases between the opening and the first verse allow us time to look around the building.
Then, emerging from behind a pillar, at the top of some stairs: JOHN with red locks, and disco-ed up red biblical robes, plus glittery boots and feather boa.
The whole thing is shot in soft focus with a diffuser.
JOHN
I wasn't jealous before we met;
Now every one that I see is a potential threat;
And I'm possessive -- it isn't nice;
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice,
But now it isn't true,
Now everything is new,
And all I've learned has overturned;
I beg of you...
STEW descends on wires, with the descending tones (and perhaps a little spluttering Tardis). He wears a big white Demis Roussos kaftan thing, and is in full Barry Gibb hair and beard. He holds out his hand to us and sings along with JOHN:
STEW
Don't go wasting your emotion;
Lay all your love on me.
We have a phrase of mild disco-funk, which begins with a DISSOLVE TO:
EXT - RIVER OUSE - EARLY MORNING
Various scenes with MADONNA (Christine Talbot) on a gondola, floating beneath the bridges of York. She wears blue and white biblical robes covering her head. Her face and hands are the only flesh on show. She has a perspex halo. Around her neck she has various beady necklaces, and around her wrists there are simple bangles. Her feet wear chunky Regency ankle boots, and she has white woolly tights beyond them. She gyrates sensuously about the boat, like a belly dancer with an inch she can't reach. The sequence is shot a la Like a Virgin.
MADONNA
It was like shooting a sitting duck:
A little small talk, a smile and, baby, I was stuck.
I still don't know what you've done with me;
A grown-up woman should never fall so easily.
MADONNA poledancing. Her outfit is now made out of a glittery blue slinky fabric, with sequins for the white bits.
MADONNA
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride;
I beg you dear...
She slides down the pole with the slide in the music, and passes down
to a lower level.
Here are GABRIEL and BHUVANA in racy mini-dresses. GABRIEL's white
outfit also has pink fairy-wings. His neon halo flashes pink with the music.
BHUVANA's costume is red.
BHUVANA & GABRIEL
Don't go wasting your emotion;
Lay all your love on me.
STEW joins the trio. Camera focusses on BHUVANA:
Don't go sharing your devotion;
Lay all your love on me.
Two phrases lead us to another part of the building, where MARY is sat,
tapping her legs with the beat. Her costume is green and trashy. The lighting
is largely red. She is seated on a small chair. We track around to the
front of her.
She sings to camera, with accompanying disco hand movements.
MARY
I've had a few little love affairs;
They didn't last very long and they've been...
The hand-jive reaches a turn to the left. We cut as she swivels on her
stool.
Cut to MARY wheeling left, on her feet now, with no chair.
MARY
...pretty scarce.
She does so more actions, facing us. Another change of direction after
four bars.
Cut to the new angle. Behind her now are SIMON, JIMMY, ANDREW, PHILIPPA,
NATALIE, TOM, MATTHEW and PEGG. The men are bronzed and oiled in variously
coloured croptop string vests and tight trousers. The women are in off-the-shoulder
batwing croptops and miniskirts. The men do the hand-jive routine behind
MARY, with some more elaborate dancing from the two women.
MARY
I used to think that was sensible;
It makes the truth even more incompre...
Turn again. The group is expanded to contain JIM_RG, LEON, IVY, ELSIE, JOHN, GABRIEL, BHUVANA and MADONNA.
MARY
...hensible.
After another half-length routine, another turn.
This time mix or cut (whichever is most effective) to a CU shot of MARY. We get to see the immaculate work of the makeup woman who has used half the world's reserves of gold in eye-shadow alone. The lip-gloss is so shiny it glares. The shot is broad enough for lots of arm movements. But there are no dancers, and the set is more confined.
MARY
Cos everything is new,
And everything is you,
Broader shot, with JOHN and MADONNA flanking her. Big arm-based dance moves will culminate in suitably sweeping final gesture.
MARY
And all I've learned has overturned;
MARY, JOHN, MADONNA
What can I do?
Wibbly Bohemian Rhapsody effect and MIX TO:
The massed ranks of this scene's cast (minus SIMON) perform a choreographed
routine. STEW, BHUVANA, JOHN and MARY take centre-stage.
ALL
Don't go wasting your emotion;
Lay all your love on me.
Don't go sharing your devotion;
Lay all your love on me.
Another 90° turn. We cut with them. We are now shooting from 180° to our initial shot, past SIMON on the keyboard. Because of their turns, the chorus are still facing us, but we concentrate more on SIMON. The ensemble repeat the chorus. We do not move with them on their next turn but instead begin to crane away. We mix and crane out of:
EXT - ROXY - DAWN
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INT - CHURCH HALL - NIGHT JOHN, in Pete Townsend mode, windmills at an electric guitar, left front. He makes a bent and sonorous whine. In the back right, the other disciples are visible: SIMON is very distant, plugging away at an unseen synth.
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A shot of SIMON plugging away at a pair of black-cased Simple Simon electronic
games. His crude chords continue through the song. |
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STEW looking all suave and Bryan Ferry.
STEW
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The piece falls apart. General criticism ad libbed at JOHN. |
A long time... |
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| JOHN is forced off stage by the rest of the collective. | While general disappointment continues within the other frames, LEON mounts the steps to the stage. | ||
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Blood and mercury seep across the screen and congeal in the caption: "ANS Y". The white limbo of the background then flares through the lettering and we white out again.
NOTE: The intermission sequence above is omitted from those syndicated broadcasts that require ad breaks.
[TIME: c.37']
The limbo set is full of smoke. This is noticeable only in as much as it obscures the cast as they appear.
JIM_DT wafts his way through, spluttering.
He hits an unseen wall.
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INT - GRAVES ART GALLERY
ZOE and JOE step from the Tardis, coughing through the haze. BLEACH OUT.
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EXT - ARUNDEL GATE, SHEFFIELD - DAWN
The Wedding Cake comes spinning uncontrollably through an overcast sky. The overcast is such that we don't really notice the shift until the Wedding Cake starts to appear. |
Pull out to expose the shot as:
EXT - MAGNA - DAY We are outside the black-walled Templeborough Steelworks turned Magna centre. |
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It's overcast and we're on the roof. We 're a POV shot of the sky and then of the horizon of Sheffield. |
It spins about in a crash-dive, and then lodges itself firmly into the aperture of the roundabout at Furnival Square (pre in-fill). | As we pull out further we reveal a stainless steel bison stationed in a square before the main entrance. | |
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PICHOLL with binoculars, looking across towards Furnival Square. |
Great wads of filth are ejected with the impact, and the small amount of traffic does the obligatory haywire. | Our view is obscured by a bus pulling up. As we pull out further we see it is the same bus that ran over BESSY earlier on. | |
| He lowers his binoculars, only to be swooped at by a great stainless-steel bird. He fends it off, and it flaps away. | After a few moments the bus pulls away again, and we are left with our view of the square and the statue of the bison. | ||
| The bird comes back for another go, and PICHOLL legs it back to the stairs. | Crane up. |
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EXT - CONISBROUGH VIADUCT - DAWN
A shot of the viaduct past the castle and a medievalised town, by way of establish. |
Suddenly, the public begin to flee the scene. As in bounds BESSY, a little bloodied for her adventure so far. She charges about and then spies the bison. |
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PICHOLL slams the door behind him. MIX TO:
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The viaduct itself. ATOO whirrs over the rickety
structure only to bump into two pairs of legs. Reveal these to be
UTU and INANNA. |
She rounds it a couple of times and then comes up behind and mounts it like she were a bull. |
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EXT - MIDDLEWOOD HOSPITAL - DAWN Establish. |
OMRA approaches from behind ATOO.
OMRA
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She moos.
More worryingly, the bison snorts. MIX or WIPE TO:
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| Trolley-cam along a series of run-down corridors. |
We understand you are a herder of livestock. OMRA
INANNA
UTU
ALEX approaches. ALEX
INANNA
OMRA
INANNA
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EXT - McARTHUR GLEN RETAIL OUTLET, YORK - DAY
MARY appears in a doorway, clutching two large shopping bags. She steps out into the carpark, and makes her way across. We make use of a more distant position. As MARY reaches about half way, we pan left to reveal, one by one, the other disciples queuing at a bus stop. They are, in order of reveal (and greatest distance from stop sign): PEGG, MATTHEW, TOM, NATALIE, PHILIPPA, ANDREW, JIMMY, SIMON, LEON and STEW.
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nods.
ALEX
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As MARY reaches the queue, a bus hisses into shot, obscuring the cast as it comes to a halt. | |
| Reveal beyond, LUCY, rocking in her straight-jacket. |
My lady, we shall return forthwith, with news of your cow. |
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He courtesies and retreats backwards along the bridge. | INT - 403 BUS - DAY
STEW exchanges pensive but knowing looks with the driver, CHRIS (Christian Slater). |
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Shot past a garage door covered in runic graffiti (right), towards the exit to the multistorey (left). |
EXT - CENTRAL HALL IN CROISSANT - OVERCAST DAY
Establish the seat of power. Surrounding it, ruined buildings and sheep. |
INANNA looks at UTU. ALEX turns and follows the prostrating
retreat of OMRA.
ATOO begins to exercise a three point turn. |
STEW and his posse board the bus. |
| A Citroën 2CV exits the car-park, and heads towards us. It contains PICHOLL. | After a beat or two a couple of the sheep ignite into flames and then explode. | We MIX away to: | |
| We ride with PICHOLL, paying little heed to local traffic systems. | INT - THRONE ROOM - DAY
CHE_F is sat in a comfy chair by the door; his gun over his shoulder. He's cleaning his nails. |
EXT - SNIG HILL, SHEFFIELD - DAWN
Establish the "Babysham" view of the Corporation Buildings, the Police Station and the brick steelworker. |
EXT - McCARTHUR GLEN - DAY
We see the bus pulling away. The destination, on a matrix sign, reads: 403 JERUSALEM. |
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As the car pulls out onto the gently chaotic Arundel, it's attacked by the metal bird, which swoops about like a pterodactyl. |
The door zjungs open and in
scrapes the meek SIMON.
SIMON
He scrapes to the side to allow the delegation to enter:
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We zoom in on the Corporation Buildings, home to Babysham's
office.
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INT - 403 BUS - DAY
STEW is sat at the centre of the back seat, flanked by LEON (on his right) and MARY (on his left). NATALIE sits next to Mary, then PHILIPPA. TOM sits next to Leon, then MATTHEW. SIMON, ANDREW, PEGG and JIMMY sit on benches facing the back seat. With their backs to us, they are arranged thus, L to R. Directly in front of them are seated:
ANDREW pulls out his mobile phone and prods it a bit. |
| The car veers about, trying to shake
off the bird. It heads off in the direction of Castle Square, where
the double helix from "Babysham" is clearly visible.
Intercut with interior shots of PICHOLL looking through his windows and in his mirrors as he zig-zags along the road. |
Two HORSE GUARDS in jackboots and tailed helmets, followed
by MEADOWS (Simon Rouse) - a senior police officer in full dress uniform
with braid and epaulettes. At the rear, two standard senior police officers
(MONROE (Colin Tarrant) and CONWAY (Ben Roberts)) without the same dress
affectations, and then a further HORSE GUARD.
They approach a large desk at which is sat GABRIEL flanked by two of the angels from the earlier scene: MICHAEL (Mike Read) and RAPHAEL (Bruno Brookes). All three wear golden dresses and much improved halos: translucent discs of shimmering gold-tinged light. These are full dress halos and are very Carravagian. Furthermore, the trio's wings are looking a lot less pathetic before. They're not the great wings of legend, but they are pretty impressive swan wings all the same. |
A light switches on in said office, beyond the round window.
We zoom in towards the window. A MASKED LUMBERJACK in yellow bib and helmet is walking towards us. He pulls a blind down over our window.
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A tinny Pinky & Perky version
of Toto's Rosanna begins to emanate from it.
LEON whispers something to STEW.
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We view from within the window, as the thick-set figure, with noticeably ginger hair, walks over to the other window at the far side. A crossbow hangs from his left arm. |
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| MEADOWS and his two subordinate officers are invited to sit in lesser chairs facing the three principal angels. They sit. | The LUMBERJACK puts the crossbow down as he struggles with the window. | STEW raises his hand in LEON's direction to quell him. | |
| PICHOLL puts his foot down and the car goes at pace past the Crucible. | SIMON brings out a formal looking new scroll of paper dripping
with seals and caveats.
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The window opens. The LUMBERJACK clambers out with crossbow. | The other disciples chatter loudly and uncouthly, ad lib. The four other non-extras are clearly a little annoyed by the noise. |
| At the far side of Castle Square
is a terrace of steps on which sit a selection of decent disc jockeys,
such as Kershaw, Wogan, Verity Sharp, Mark Radcliffe etc... They all wear
Nuclear Test goggles.
PICHOLL takes the Castle Square corner at speed, and zooms up High Street, out of shot. |
He places it on the desk, wheeling it around to face MEADOWS.
MEADOWS looks at the paper resignedly. |
EXT - BABYSHAM'S OFFICE - DAWN
We're looking across the grassy ruined floor of the bombed out section of the building. The LUMBERJACK, who we can probably recognise as JOHN now if we've anything about us, drops down onto the floor, then steadily and stealthily approaches the corner nearest the adjacent police station. |
JIM_RG turns towards ANDREW.
JIM_RG
STEW
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| The metal bird's momentum guides the creature straight on into the
double helix sculpture.
There is a blue flash of energy that is sent spiralling around the helix and up into the sky, while the bird itself is vapourised by the impact. |
GABRIEL plucks a feather from RAPHAEL's near wing, and offers it to MEADOWS. | Wider angle of the scene, ideally with a sign saying "police" in shot, or at least some parked panda cars or something. Above the police station is a sizable radio mast. |
Stew? I didn't recognise... Your mum's worried sick. You should call her. |
| The energy broadcasts into the sky
like some Teslatastic lightning storm.
We crane and track around the scene. Gradually, the electrical storm dissipates. At no point should the assembled DJs react. Their presence should scarcely be aknowledged. |
MEADOWS refuses it, as he is passed a pheasant quill by
MONROE.
He pauses over the contract for a beat or two, but it is apparent that this is in the interests of form rather than thoroughness. |
JOHN pulls a small, sharpened, bloodstained wooden bolt
from his tabard, and lines it up in the crossbow. Blue lighting effects.
Wider shot as the radio mast is struck by a burst of lateral blue lightening with an appropriate shower of sparks. Any lighting in the building goes off. JOHN continues with no regard to the fireworks. |
That fucking witch? Don't think so. JIM_RG
STEW
JIM_RG
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| We are now looking past the helix, back up Arundel.
We track at pace along Arundel to Furnival Square, where the crashlanded Wedding Cake is still lodged in its hole. |
CONWAY flicks open a ceremonial pocket-knife.
He makes a small incision in his wrist. Blue blood oozes from the wound.
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POV down the crossbow, to a window through which can be
seen the seated figure of the un-blindfolded BABYSHAM.
The bolt is fired.
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SIMON flicks open a knife.
STEW
JIM_RG, clearly annoyed and disappointed, looks at STEW. |
| He offers his wrist to MEADOWS who dips his pen in. |
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INT - INTERVIEW ROOM - DAWN
The window smashing behind the slumping form of BABYSHAM. |
STEW shows no emotion.
JIM_RG
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| From the left side, climbing up from an aperture made by the entrance to the Wedding Cake is BOND. He scrambles out onto the traffic island, wearing a wedding suit covered in concrete dust. | MEADOWS takes one more resigned look at the paper, and then
signs it with a flourish.
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ALAN leaps up followed by MOODY.
Silver blood is seeping onto the desk from BABYSHAM's neck. |
He turns back, shaking his head. ANNA is in tears. He comforts her.
At the same time: STEW
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He looks about the place. |
EXT - WALMGATE BARBICAN, YORK - DAY
Shooting from within the city, looking up Walmgate to the bar. A cherry-picker is parked at the side of the road, and is lopping branches off trees by the road. Many of the branches and leaves are spilling into the road. There is a shower of arboreal debris, which is rather pretty. |
MARTY bursts in, but the scene
is increasingly bleached... light is beginning to spill out from every
possible aperture of BABYSHAM's body. Some form of transfiguration is occurring.
ALAN, MOODY and MARTY recoil from light and from smell. We can see through the radiant light that BABYSHAM's flesh and clothes are smouldering. |
EXT - WALMGATE BARBICAN, YORK - DAY
Shooting from outside the city, we follow the bus, with the city wall in the background, panning as it approaches the barbican of Walmgate Bar. The bus enters the barbican and we fade. |
| Straightening his cufflinks,
BOND
casually picks his way right through the traffic chaos he's caused.
FADE.
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Into this debris drives the 403 bus,
as it appears from beneath the bar. The bus crunches over the foliage and
past camera.
FADE.
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Suddenly, BABYSHAM's body springs backwards, arms flailing
out, and lands in an upright cruciform position. At
the same moment he bursts into flames.
The others recoil and edge out of the room. |
FADE UP ON:
INT - POLICE CORRIDOR - DAWN
A view of the top right of a corridor; perhaps with some transom windows or something. |
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All frames are combined, to reveal the other three quarters of the picture initiated in TOP RIGHT. MARTY pulls himself up the now closed door of an interview room, to look through an observation hole. ALAN is quivering beyond, with MOODY looking profoundly concerned. INT - INTERVIEW ROOM - DAWN Spyhole fish-eye POV of the cruciform BABYSHAM, covered in clean pink flame. An eerie squeal is muffled by the door. Slowly the flame burns out to reveal a sleek clean stainless steel robot: BABYSHAM's inner gubbins. To avoid confusion, we shall call him ROBOSHAM. He looks like a smoother version of the Vulcan on the side of the Co-op, only somewhat smaller. We CUT back before the process is complete. INT - POLICE CORRIDOR MARTY
HELEN
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SPILLAINE.
MARTY turns to ALAN. MARTY
ALAN
ALAN (A) looks up to see ALAN B (out of shot). ALAN A crumples with a degree of shock, understanding and despair. |
SPILLAINE pokes his head round from an interview room around
the corner. He addresses an out of shot MARTY.
SPILLAINE
There's a scrabbling from SPILLAINE's end.
A second ALAN (ALAN B) pushes his way into the corridor.
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EXT - MOORHEAD, SHEFFIELD - MORNING
PICHOLL in his 2CV, waiting at the pedestrian crossing parallel to Furnival Square. |
A third angle, looking from behind MARTY, along the corridor
towards SPILLAINE.
SPILLAINE struggles to hold ALAN B back. |
EXT - DEV GREEN - MORNING
The crowd has dispersed from the scene of God's assassination. The street is crawling with police, some of whom are questioning small groups of witnesses. General crime-scene atmosphere. Beyond the tape are journalists, but only a handful because the rain is bucketing down. Police are flash photographing the 2CV. We view through the pack of journalists who are mainly silhouettes. |
| MARTY doubletakes in a moment of realisation, leaps into action and runs to check SPILLAINE's room. | Across the crossing walks BOND. PICHOLL thinks he recognises
him.
He leans over to pick up Caroline's file from the passenger seat, and in so doing leans against the horn: PEEP. |
MARTY doubletakes in a moment of realisation, leaps into action and runs to check SPILLAINE's room. | |
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BABYSHAM, en blindfold, sat at the table.
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BOND turns and looks; sees PICHOLL as he sits up again. Eye contact. | ALAN B escapes SPILLAINE's half hearted efforts and leans against the wall opposite the door to the interview room. He taps his shoes against the skirting board and watches MARTY. | |
| MARTY launches around the door jamb. | Another pap of a different horn. The lights have changed. | MARTY launches around the door jamb. | |
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Hello? Is everyone still there? What's going on? |
PICHOLL's car pulls away and bares left up past Debenhams. This is the direction BOND is heading. | ALAN A strolls up towards ALAN B. | Two plain-clothed officers in suits, JUNE (Trudie Goodwin) and GINA (Roberta Taylor) step out of the Green Room bar, shepherding STEW between them. |
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EXT - MAGNA - DAY
A corner of the square. BESSY is as curled up as it is possible for a cow to be, sleeping in a triangle of shade.
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Being in a car, PICHOLL passes BOND, rubber-necking him
as he does so.
He turns left at the top of the hill and falls out of view.
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Er... boss... MARTY pulls his head back into the corridor. At the same moment, ALAN A stands in front of ALAN B and then carefully but confidently leans back onto the wall. The two ALANs merge into each other. |
The unidentified journalists chatter.
We overhear the following amongst the hubbub.
JOURNALIST 1
The officers put up black brollies, partly obscuring STEW. STEW is wearing a grey pack-a-mac. |
| We notice a small wire coming out from between her legs. | BOND scurries across the pedestrian crossing to the front of Debenhams. | The remaining ALAN shivers as if someone has walked over his grave.
MARTY just stands there, twisted around the doorway. Mix to: |
Well there he is, Let's ask him. |
| The camera follows the wire away from BESSY.
The wire is very long. We see people's legs walking over it |
He looks down the hill and we establish the view to the Manpower ziggurat. | EXT - ATKINSONS CAR PARK - MORNING
PICHOLL's 2CV pulls off Charter Row and up the
ramp to the car park.
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STEW is clearly distraught. The officers are doing their best to support
him. An NME JOURNO (Paul Morley) breaks the barrier to rush him.
NME JOURNO
STEW shies away from the flash photography.
A black car is waiting nearby and the police are herding STEW to it.
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FADE OUT.
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Please; there will be no interviewing him until after Saturday. |
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| Some distance away, we find the end of the wire: a big wooden box with a plunger sticking out of the top. | EXT - HUMBER BRIDGE - MORNING
Establish. |
By the way, Where'd you meet him? |
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| Over it are stood ALEX and OMRA.
They're looking pretty smug with themselves.
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It is a quiet morning, with the early sun glowing through
yellowish clouds. The traffic is slight and calm.
We crane across the scene. |
PICHOLL spots something in the folder. Rather than parking up, he turns around the car. | They're just pushing him into the car, when STEW
leaps up with instrumental backing:
STEW
Someone brazenly takes a photo right in front
of STEW.
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| ALEX slowly mouths out: 1, 2, 3. |
You get the picture? JUNE
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| ALEX and OMRA push the plunger together. The camera races along the cable. |
That's when I first saw the DJ Steve Lamacq. |
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| The unsuspecting BESSY explodes, but she awakes for a split second before, and looks at us askance. She also lets out a plaintive moooOOO! in the same key as the song in TOP RIGHT. | TARDIS materialistation noises in the mix, as a white K6 phonebox materialises in one of the lanes of traffic. | PICHOLL zooms off down the ramp. | STEW is dragged into the car which
pulls away with a broooooooom.
[TIME: c.42']
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| Beef rains down.
MIX TO:
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Cars are forced to swerve past the impromptu kiosk. |
MIX TO:
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INT - BLACK POLICE CAR - MORNING
Windscreen wipers going. The driver, CATO (Philip Whitchurch), looks up at his rear view mirror to see STEW sat between the two officers in the back seat. MIX TO:
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| EXT - MOORFOOT - MORNING
Establish, crane-shot, around the sculpture at Moorfoot, with Manpower in the background. It is beginning to rain. |
The door opens and LUCY stumbles out, looking very cold in a red tabard mini-dress of the usual spiritual design. Her hair and make-up has been expertly done, but her face seems vacant. JIM_SP squeezes out behind her, pushing her forwards into the road. | EXT - SHEFFIELD RD, TEMPLEBOROUGH - MORNING
Beef stew is raining across the busy road as cars swerve about. |
INT - BUS - MORNING
STEW between MARY and LEON. MARY
LEON & STEW
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| One of the tiled walls of the Manpower
block begins to lower into the floor.
As it does so, it slowly reveals a racing green Aston Martin Vanquish. |
He takes off his cape and wraps it around LUCY. He fixes his Robin Hood hat, and then marches LUCY forwards up the road towards the Kingston side. | To make matters worse, a stainless
steel bison is charging up and down the road, butting cars, and toppling
some.
General chaos. Eventually the bison charges us, and we MIX TO: |
They said that He came from the wrong side of town. SIMON, ANDREW,
MARY
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| The wall is fully dropped, and the indicators of the car
flash.
BOND walks casually into shot and towards the driver's side. |
INT - PICHOLL'S 2CV - MORNING
The two BOTTOM frames are combined. PICHOLL's parked up outside Atkinsons on Fitzwilliam Gate, looking towards Moorfoot. His wipers are on as the rain gains strength. PICHOLL takes a swig from a bottle of Jack Daniels as he watches BOND walking across Moorfoot. |
MIX BACK TO:
INT - UNMARKED POLICE CAR - MORNING
STEW
JUNE & GINA
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| BOND in the car. The headlights come on. | PICHOLL turns the ignition. |
He stood there And asked me why, But all I could do was lie. |
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| The car pulls out of the garage and onto the street, towards Eyre Street. | BOND's Aston can be seen pulling onto the street. PICHOLL enters a discrete pursuit. |
He sought to usurp you, The leader of the pack. |
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| There now follows a chase sequence, using all
the frames except TOP RIGHT. Timing this to the song will be tricky given
the greater restraint of physical distance. This section of script offers
a rough guide. Locations for each shot will be determined in the editing
room.
BOND crosses Eyre Street and on to Jessop Street.
On to Sylvester Street. |
INT - BUS
The disciples are quietly doo-dooing. LEON
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| Sidney Street. It is now raining quite hard. |
As we drive away On that rainy day, I beg them to go slow; |
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| On to Brown Street. | INT - POLICE CAR
STEW (vo)
The car is heading down Furnival Street to the junction with Brown Street. |
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| BOND slices nicely onto Brown Street, passing the Rutland Arms. | BOND's Aston whooshes past.
JUNE & GINA
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| As PICHOLL pursues, he
narrowly misses a collision with the unmarked black police car from TOP
RIGHT.
Fortunately, the police car brakes in time to avoid the collision with PICHOLL who zaps off in pursuit up Brown Street. |
PICHOLL's 2CV crosses their path.
STEW
Braking hard to miss the collision. |
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| BOND heads up Paternoster
Row, past the Showroom Cinema which is advertising the cinematic release
of ANSX.
The temporary traffic lights set up for the elaborate roadworks at Sheaf Square change to red, and Bond is forced to stop. This allows PICHOLL and the police car to catch up, and all three are
sat in a row. We hear the eek eek of windscreen wipers.
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INT - BUS
STEW
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| Amber.
Bond gets ready to go.
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The fools, They won't understand The role that I'll play In the masterplan; I'll never betray him; The leader of the pack. |
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| BOND and hence PICHOLL
head up Pond Street. The police car carries on to Sheaf Street and off
our radar.
BOND is taking us down the canyon between the bus station and the city campus of Sheffield Hallam.
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PEG & JIMMY Ooh. Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh. NATALIE, PHILIPPA,
STEW
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| BOND pulls into the NCP
multi-storey opposite the bus station.
Here begins the Epic aspect of our chase, and once the TOP RIGHT shot fades out, we're able to go with a fully dynamic four corner split-screen riot of fun, thrills and adventure, like as if we were Thomas Crown or 24 or something. Whee. |
EXT - YORK MINSTER - DAY
The bus pulls up outside the cathedral as the music repeats and fades out. FADE.
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Up the car park, which is the same car park we were in at the end of Take a Chance; plenty of dizziness-inducing rises to new levels; the occasional near miss of other traffic and pedestrians.
Out the top, and onto Arundel (again), past the Odeon on our left and the Lyceum on our right. Arundel is still lightly chaotic following its encounter with a spaceship, but that makes it all the more weave-inducing. Not least because our cars cross into oncoming traffic and then dip into the Novotel's underground carpark. Note that the THX is digitally replaced to our left.
Once in the Novotel carpark, we weave around pillars, and finally come up for air along a ramp and into Tudor Square. The ramp is now infilled, but we bagged sufficient shots to do it in a computer.
Through Tudor Square, displacing huge crowds (again) and knocking over cafe tables. Along Tudor Way; all the time the 2CV is just managing to keep up.
Left onto Norfolk Street. BOND puts his foot down as he heads straight for a large stainless steel bollard with red lights blinking at the top of it. Green neon flashes at the bottom of his Aston. As the car approaches the flyover between the two town hall buildings, sparks fly and the Aston disappears. PICHOLL's 2CV skids to a halt, scraping against the curb and nearly tottering over.
PICHOLL pulls himself out of his 2CV, and looks about. He kicks the shimmering bollard, which hurts him. The red lights twinkle against his leg (in the BOTTOM LEFT of the shot).
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FADE.
EXT - CONISBROUGH VIADUCT - NIGHT
FADE UP ON: Distant establish. The moon is full. |
Hold the corner of the previous shot. |
FADE.
EXT - YORK MINSTER - DAY
FADE UP ON: The RIGHT frames are combined. STEW, in sweeping coat, leads his gang into the Minster. It is a sunny day. |
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I'm afraid your cow is dead. |
FADE OUT.
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| Closer angle. INANNA breaks down.
OMRA holds and comforts her.
ALEX
OMRA helps INANNA along the bridge. FADE
INT - SHEFFIELD LIBRARY STAIRS - DAY
Crane shot. JIM_DT, ZOE and JOE going down the stairs. |
INT - THE OWL ROOMS, CRAGSIDE - DAY
JIM_AH in a semi-gothic control room, decorated with wooden owls. The roof is curiously angular, with wallpapered square panels arranged on a bue-grey grid. The windows are stained and light-boxed. A door opens. Beyond is white limbo.
LUCY is looking less wild than she was. She sits herself on a bed beside JIM_AH. JIM_AH gently turns her face towards his, with his hand, and stares into her eyes. He rest his forehead against hers. A single teardrop rolls down LUCY's cheek. Shot of JIM_SP looking down at his feet. MIX TO:
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INT - YORK MINSTER - DAY
We've really made the place look good, with floodlighting through the stained glass, and a bit of smoke to catch the light. Tourists abound. STEW marches through past the kiosk, manned by an OLD WOMAN (Liz Smith). OLD WOMAN
STEW turns on her, with an aspect of savagery. STEW
OLD WOMAN
SIMON and ANDREW start digging into their pockets behind STEW. But STEW is going a funny colour. |
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| TOP LEFT converges with BOTTOM LEFT, revealing
in the latter, coming up the stairs to the first floor, PICHOLL.
JIM_DT, ZOE and JOE pass PICHOLL by the door to the main first floor collection. They carry on downstairs. A moment later, PICHOLL stops and turns to look behind him. His expression is puzzled. |
With great effort, he
lifts up the till and throws it to the floor, then stumbles about, knocking
as much kiosk material to the ground as he can find to move. As
he goes about this:
STEW
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| This frame holds PICHOLL's expression.
Cut to him moving over to the balcony and looking down into the lobby. This move, combined with the action in BOTTOM LEFT, creates a single
unified view of the entrance to the library.
MIX TO:
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Cut away to:
JIM_DT, ZOE and JOE continue down the stairs.
As the party reach the bottom of the stairs, the two LEFT frames merge
into a single unit.
MIX TO:
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The old woman is shaking in fear as STEW pushes
her aside.
He leads his minions back out the door. He is clearly irate. PHILIPPA mouths a shrugged and wide-eyed "sorry" at the OLD WOMAN as she wheels past her. At the same time: PEGG
LEON stares back at him. FADE.
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| INT - POLICE STATION - DAY
An increasingly flustered MARTY is stood at the door to the interview room containing ROBOSHAM. He has another peer through the doorway. POV: ROBOSHAM just stood there by the window, glinting in the sunlight. His
arms are still outstretched.
Back in the corridor, MOODY, JADE, BABYSHAM (still blindfolded), ALAN and SPILLAINE, leant against the wall, look up at MARTY. MARTY shakes his troubled head. |
The BOTTOM frames combine as:
EXT - SURREY STREET - DAY
Establish the library.
JIM_DT, ZOE and JOE exit. SAM (Kit Hesketh-Harvey) stands there, cold,
in an orange bib, trying to sell Big Issues. JIM_DT buys one.
That transaction concluded, the trio head left. We follow.
As they leave the confines of the initial frame, PICHOLL exits the library.
He too buys a Big Issue, while keeping an eye on the trio. But he only
has a £10 note.
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EXT - MINSTER - DAY
An ice-cream van. In the back, serving ice-creams to a sweet little girl is ARCHIE (Tony Pitts), who wears a 1995 Sheffield Wednesday shirt. STEW comes up and shoves the girl out of the way. He is clearly enraged. STEW
ARCHIE
MARY and LEON exchange glances. |
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| Mid-way through shaking, six metal poles extend from his head, showering blood and flesh. | Shot along Surrey Street from the Fargate end.
In the distance, SAM is struggling to find the right change for PICHOLL.
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STEW just turns away from the van and walks back to his
posse.
STEW
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| MARTY's head crumbles away to reveal a silver hand at its
core, stretching from a hole punched in the metal door.
The poles retract and MARTY slumps to the ground. Shocked faces. Except BABYSHAM who's grinning away like an idiot. ROBOSHAM walks through the door like a ghost. He looks at each of the five in turn.
He turns his head left. His head moves left and his body turns and follows as he glides down the corridor, two inches above the ground. MOODY, JADE, ALAN and SPILLAINE look very scared. BABYSHAM still none the wiser. |
JIM_DT is distracted by something to his left.
POV of PICHOLL as JIM_DT heads over to the silver bollard.
PICHOLL needs change from SAM, but decides not to wait for it. He dashes
off up the street.
Between Tudor Square and the Winter Gardens, he drops his Big Issue. He considers picking it up again but decides against it. JIM_DT is crouched by the bollard, examining it... touching it. He's looking about the area. POV shot of the Peace Gardens. In the side of one of the waterfalls is a louvered door. JIM_DT gets up. PICHOLL observing this while pretending to casually walk along the street. JIM_DT walking over to the doorway. His colleagues follow. |
The girl has returned to the van with her mother. ARCHIE passes her
her ice-cream, and pours on it strawberry sauce from a decapitated head.
The girl bursts into tears. The ice-cream bursts into flames. ARCHIE's freezers suddenly explode into balls of fire, and ARCHIE is forced to escape through the roof light. As he does so, a light aircraft plummets into the flaming van. All this in the background. The gang are gawping at this.
STEW
PEGG
FADE.
[TIME: c.50'] |
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Can I smell pizza? Has somebody brought pizza? |
MIX TO:
EXT - POLICE STATION - DAY
This is not the actual Police Station car-park. Rather it is the car-park of the Niche nightclub. We shoot in CCTV quality from a fixed high angle. The black car stopping in the car park. |
FADE TO BLACK.
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FADE UP ON:
INT - PEACE GARDENS - DAY
Light spills through the louvers of a door and
into a darkened room. The shape of a man may be discernible beyond the
door.
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Boss, are you alright? SPILLAINE
JADE
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After a moment, the back doors open,
and JUNE and GINA escort the phased STEW out of the car.
They escort STEW up a flight of stairs to the left of shot. |
Light spills in from the top of shot, revealing a flight
of industrial looking stairs.
This is a continuation of the TOP RIGHT frame. |
The door opens away from us, spilling in light. Beyond the door we
see JIM_DT clutching his sonic nosehair clippers. And beyond him ZOE and
JOE.
JIM_DT wields his clippers as a torch, dazzling us with blue light, as he steps into what is an industrial looking roomlet at the top of the stairs in BOTTOM RIGHT. |
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Who's had his head exploded? ALAN
BABYSHAM
ALAN
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JIM_DT leads the way tentatively down the stairs. | ||
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The metal me? ALAN
BABYSHAM
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STEW is escorted through doors at the top of the stairs, and into the station. | As they get lower, more light begins to spill up the stairs from whatever is at the bottom. | |
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SPILLAINE
BABYSHAM
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INT - BACK LOBBY OF POLICE STATION - DAY
A tradesman's entrance. Several officers are being generally frantic and there is much commotion, as STEW is escorted into the room. |
The lighting is slightly orangey. | |
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It went down the corridor. BABYSHAM
BABYSHAM pushes off the wall and heads down the corridor after his twin. BABYSHAM
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Reveal ROBOSHAM approaching through the melee. Before him he holds the palm of his left hand on which spin 3ft long blades. These rather brutally and bloodily chop down any police in his path. Note: All Bill cast have blue blood. Babysham cast and extras have red blood. | Reveal a huge chamber. The walls are tiled with
off-white rectangles; the cracks between them glowing with orange light.
Victorian pipework crawls about all over the place. And in the centre of
the room, directly beneath where the bollard is, a huge and twisting helix
of a wood-slatted column. From between the slats comes a sickly green-yellow
glow, but most of the gaps have been pitched over with black tar or a thick
red paint.
The roof is of reinforced concrete, and at the top of the column is the unmistakable polygon of a TARDIS control panel, surrounded by a cross-plate gangway and rail. A green-painted iron ladder with catch-cradle leads up to the gangway from the base of the chamber. Around the walls are metal units and the room has a garage feel, heightened by the presence of a racing green Aston Martin Vantage in a smaller chamber to the right of shot. |
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| BABYSHAM paces sweepingly along the corridor and into the
distance, in a speed walk.
The other four head off after him in a jog.
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JUNE and GINA stare agog; frozen.
STEW just stares intently at ROBOSHAM. |
JIM_DT and his helpers peer about.
From behind the console, on the gangway, appears BOND, a little oily, and clutching a rag and a sonic spanner. BOND
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MIX TO:
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ROBOSHAM retracts its blades.
CUT TO:
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MIX TO:
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All frames converge:
ROBOSHAM stands there facing STEW.
STEW approaches.
ROBOSHAM prostates itself before STEW, albeit still hovering 2" off the floor.
STEW puts out his hand and touches ROBOSHAM's head.
STEW closes his eyes. He screws up his face; angered and tearful.
A sound like a burst of energy.
STEW's screwed up face falls forward out of shot while patterns of red light dance off everything.
New angle to reveal BABYSHAM stood at the end of the corridor, clutching his bandage in his right hand. His left arm is held out with a metal spike extending from the wrist. His eye is spilling laser light all over the place.
BABYSHAM
Caesar, now be still...
MOODY, JADE, ALAN and SPILLAINE catch up with BABYSHAM and are bemused by the scene.
STEW lies dead, with a metal rod through his chest. ROBOSHAM clutches him in his arms like Michelangelo's Pietà. The rod is hissing, and as it does so, it melts and drips into a pool of mercury. ROBOSHAM holds his head against STEW and wails.
BABYSHAM grins a slightly evil grin. He relaxes his arm, and the spike retracts into it.
ALAN
(with a newfound confidence)
He's not going to resurrect again, is he?
White out.
FX:
Blood and mercury seep across the screen and congeal in the caption: "ANS X". The white limbo of the background then flares through the lettering and we white out again.