EIDOLON - Pilot Episode: EIDOLON (Opening scenes)

**Insane in the Brain – Cypress Hill**1

(Opening scene begins on the streets of a post apocalyptic world. The camera follows the wheels of a bike as it is being pushed out of a building. We then see a very pretty girl jump on it smoothly, even though she is carrying large pizza boxes. She is slender, with slightly tanned yet still pale skin. She balances the boxes between the handlebars, and begins to navigate herself through the crowded city. The city itself is unrecognisable, it is bigger than anything we have ever seen, and there is no possible way to determine what country it is in as there is a miss match of every culture imaginable. The camera not only follows the girl on the bike, but also shows scenes of what she is riding through. A banner can be read as: ‘YOU WANTED WORLD UNIFICATION’. People are living on the streets as there is not enough room in the derelict buildings for all of them to live comfortably. We continue to follow the girl until she comes to a skidding stop directly outside a shabby front door, knocking on it while she slides her bike to a stop.)2

**Insane in the brain – Cypress Hill, ends**3

ANYA: Pizza’s here boys! (She calls while waiting for a response from her knocking. The door opens enough for Anya to gain entry into the ground floor shed-like residence. She hands the pizza boxes over to one of four men, and receives cash money for her work. Without their knowledge, she quickly scans an expert eye over the room, as well as the four men – all dressed in scrappy business attire.)4

Pleasure doing business with ya. (She turns and exits, getting on her bike. Before she is able to push off though, one of the men reaches through the still open door and grabs hold of her handlebars.)5

MAN: What’s this then? (Waving the open pizza box in front of her face. It contains toasted bread with very few toppings on it)6

ANYA: (Inspects the box) That, my boys, is what a pizza is these days. (In her slight distraction she has freed her handlebars, and she then takes off without another word)7

(Opens in a flashy room, focusing on the expensive furnishings – an extreme contrast to the scene we have previously been exposed to on the streets. A small boy with dark hair and bright green eyes runs, giggling, through the room. A man is following him, obviously playing a game with the child. He scoops and picks him up in his arms, tickling him, causing the boy to giggle even more.)8

ALEC: Okay, go on Noah, I think you’ve earned your snack now (laughingly, the man puts the boy back on the ground)9

NOAH: I win! (Flashing a huge grin he runs back out of the room to a kitchen)10

(Alec, still smiling, picks up a cup of coffee, and turns his back to the camera. We follow his back as he walks into the next room while he drinks his coffee. It is a small room, with a couple of good quality computers set up in a network. The only thing not contrasting this to the outside scenes already seen is the eroded cables that run between pieces of equipment. Alec, with his back to us still, walks past a screen with information about an explosion on it, and heads across the room. While he is walking, he pauses at a table in the middle of the room to put his coffee mug on it. We follow his coffee mug, and can see the print out of what was on the screen before, along with the mug shots of the four men Anya had delivered pizza to. A clicking noise can be heard as the camera swoops back up to Alec again, and he now has a gun in his hand.)