The dark side of Fiendship 1
Scene 1: aboard the StarFish (Baz is sat driving a control, Lance is sat tapping buttons, Julia is sitting down examining pots of medicine. Sharky is the ship and is offstage until directed otherwise)2
Lance: Cap’n we have problems over here, the velux generator has a slight bug.
Baz: You mean the escape pods?
Lance: Yeah. You know what I mean.
Baz: Can’t Sharky fix it?
Sharky: No sir, I cannot. It is beyond my comprehension
Julia: what sort of bug is it? (typing furiously)
Sharky: A un-marked distant life form
Baz: How distant is distant?
Sharky: So distant the ULFS cannot recognise it
Julia: You have to be joking? The utopian life form system boasts to recognise every life form
Lance: Apparently it can’t, but if this isn’t fixed the escape pods cant work
Julia: So if we get attacked we’re stuck
Lance: My point exactly.
Baz: Sharky, transmit yourself please (beeping sounds and a robot comes on stage)
Sharky: Reporting sir
Baz: Go and remove this bug, paralys it and kill it if you have to
Julia: Maybe then I can identify it
Sharky: Yes sir, miss (beeps and goes offstage)
Lance; should we go into stealth mode in case of bandit ships?
Baz: Yes, better to be safe than sorry.
Baz: How long until we land on the home-land Utopiar?
Lance: Well going at four trillion lspm, so I’m guessing about an hour
Baz: Wow that long? We’ve been flying for over ten hours
Julia: To be fair, we have travelled from the edges of the human empire
Baz: Yeah I do know that Julia, stop talking and go back to your post
Julia: I was about to take a toilet break, cap’n
Baz: Tough, we need you on double alert in case of bandit at attacks… you know, your medical experience and uselessness like that
Julia: Oh come of it! I’m allowed to take a toliet break
Baz: I don’t care, and don’t challenge me. We need you operating in case of bandits; if the ship is damaged we need you to repair it and especially if one of us is going to get hurt. Understand?
Julia: Yes sir
Baz: Good, you two keep working (goes to exit)
Julia: Where are you off to oh benevolent one?
Baz: To the toilet (exits stage)
Julia: Lance! Did you see that?
Lance: Yeah I did, he’s always like that
Julia: he’s a patronizing, arrogant-
Lance: Shh! You know, there are camera’s out here!
Julia: I don’t care! Arrogant, ignorant, woman disregarding, sexist ba-
Baz: (through speaker) Charming Doctor Julia, carry on with your work before I have you permanently detached from this spaceship.
Lance: (Whispers) Told you so! Believe me when it comes to insulting him (A red alarm and alarm sounds shriek through the ship creating a sense of urgency) Oh my god! Captain, abandoned ship flying towards us! (No response)
Julia: How fast is it going?
Lance: Fast enough to knock us into next year!
Julia: bloody dodge it then!
Lance: I can’t do that, that’s captain’s job!
Julia: Well we’re going to die other wise! (Lance thrusts forward to the handle Baz was driving but misses, Julia had pressed a button, as huge crashing sound happens, the ship shakes and Julia falls off her seat)
Baz: What the hell was that? (Through speaker)
Lance: A ship just crashed into us as I was trying to tell you! If you had your radio on you might of heard us!
Baz: Why are we still breathing then?
Julia: I managed to engage shields before the crash
Baz: Oh right… good work
Julia: I’m not completely useless, I do have one or three-thousand skills. (Lance laughs)
Baz: Yeah, whatever that means. Are you both okay?
Lance: Bruises nothing more
Julia: I’m fine, just a little shaken up and I’m just devising my complaint form about you.
Baz: Your funny Julia (sarcastic) real funny.
Lance: are you with Sharky?
Baz: No I’m not; hold on, I’ve got his radio in here “Sharky, sharky? You there?”
Sharky: Yessssss sssssir, losing energy fast!
Lance: God no! That means he’s dying! Get him in here as quick as you can BAz
Baz: I can see him, ill bring him in (Baz comes in holding Sharkies robot form)
Lance: Let me see him, I’m the only one that can help him right now! (Kneels down with sharky on the floor)
Sharky: Ssssir, there issss nothing you can do
Lance: There has to be! (Start’s fiddling in his pocket) Where is that damn sonic sensor!?
Sharky: Thatt won’t work! It wass the bug, it transformed, into sssomething horrible and vissshhhhous! You must beware…(The robot jerks around, before going rigid and dying)
Baz: Beware of what?
Lance: No! Wake up! Wake upp Sharky! (Starts to shake Sharky) WAKE UP!
Julia: Come on lance (affectionately pulls his arm)
Lance: wake up! I’m not going to let death take you!
Baz: Come away from him Julia
Julia: Come on (Lance stands up) I’ll take you to your room, you can rest there
Baz: How are we going to fly with that bug on board and with no sharky to guide the ship?!
Julia; Stop being so bloody insensitive! (Lance and Julia exit off stage. Baz looks at the dead body of Sharky and see’s something in his metallic hand, he pulls it out. It is a gooey substance; he smells it and grunts in distaste. Julia re enters)
Baz: Julia, take a look at this substance on Sharky’s hand (Julia bends down and takes a swab of it)
Julia: Hmm. Looks like hemafridatrium. (looks up catching Baz’s eye as there is a narrow awkward pause)
Baz: I er… what is that?
Julia: Its cosmic goo to you. When the atoms of over 30 collide in a zero gravity vacuole, it is created. Scientists say it has its own genetic trait, ill examine it. (She pulls out a microscope and puts the swab underneath)
Baz: How are we going to fly safely with that bug on board?
Julia: I think the shield I engaged knocked the most of the bug off the ship, so we should be fine
Baz: So why was… er… Lance so upset?
Julia: He grew up with that robot. His father created it, when his father and mother passed away the robot looked after him and his sister. When he left for military training, he took Sharky with him. Then Lance updated him and used him as a ship. He was like a robotic father.
Baz: I get it now.
Julia: Yes! I knew there was something wrong with it!
Baz: What? What?
Julia: Look! (Baz looks through microscope) You see the bacteria yes?
Baz: Yes…
Julia: Look closer (presses a button) the cells, for a start, have over three nucleuses. This is not uncommon in alien life forms but look closer (presses another button) each nucleus has its own distinctive sets of DNA, which means a dual personality. It also means that it’s a metamorphic gel, nasty or nice. Sharky must have got it wound up and it’s attacked him but it would need a lot more of it to tranform into something harmful.
Baz: Ohhh-kay
Julia: I must have discovered a new alien life form because this doesn’t match any we know of!
Baz: Is that what that jibberish meant?
Julia: Shut it you! I’ll become famous, people will write about me for years!
Lance: Thanks for the sympathy, I didn’t know you were so cold (appears behind the cheering Julia)
Julia: Lan- (Lance walks off)
Baz: Never mind him, we need to send an emergency signal to Utopiar (presses a button and a screen appears at the back of the stage with a stern looking man on it) Sir Lazen
Sir Lazen: Barreth Kilkum! What have you done now?
Baz: Sir, we have been crashed into, the ships pc is dead and we have no backup to fly with
Sir Lazen: The StarFish? Was it an abandoned ship that crashed into you?
Baz: Yes sir, and yes again sir
Sir Lazen: why you little wretch, are you a complete fool?! You know how much money went into the improvements on that ship!?
Baz: We do sir, but we do have some good news
Sir Lazen: Yes?
Baz: I have discovered a new alien life form
Sir Lazen: (laughs cruelly) you? Barreth Kilkum? Don’t joke around!
Julia: Actually it was me
Sir Lazen: Doctor Julia Brown? Well this I can expect from one who has such talents as you, please continue.
Julia: Our pc was attacked by, what we thought as a bug; it left some sort of hemafridatrium gel we thought. It had some distinctive qualities but it turned out to have three nucleuses, each with its own pair of DNA! This means it’s metamorphic too.
Sir Lazen: Oh this is a discovery. Barreth, we will send a support ship to you in the morning. Just don’t tip the ship with your weight. (End of transmission)
Baz: I hate him so much.
Julia: He hates you by the sound of it
Baz: Just get back to doing your job and repairing the ship
Julia: and he’s not the only one. Barreth? (Laughs at his name and exits leaving Baz awe struck)
Baz: Damn woman3
Scene 2: Lance’s room/ Baz’s room which is in black-out on one side of the stage (Lance is sat violently yanking wires around Sharky’s lifeless robot. A knock on the door doesn’t disturb him from his ‘work’)
Lance: If I can put this wire back in place then the discharge should- (Julia enters dressed in pyjama’s looking very tired)
Julia: Lance, it’s three in the morning, please stop
Lance: Just put this transistor here and
Julia: Lance just stop
Lance: (groans as his movements become more aggressive) No! Damn transistors
Julia: Lance stop it! He’s not coming back!
Lance: I’m not stopping until
Julia: (pulls on lances arm and yells) STOP! Your hurting your only piece left of sharky!
Lance: Get off me (push’s Julia who stumbles back and starts to punch the lifeless shell of Sparky which splits and breaks) Look what you’ve done now!
Julia: Lance… (lance stands up and pushes Julia to the floor) Lance! What are you doing?
Lance: Look what you’ve done, you stupid idiotic cow! Kiss Sharky and make my sister deadly ill! (falls to the remains of Sparky and starts trying to glue them together)
Julia: This wasn’t me Lance… this wasn’t me…
Lance: SHUT THE HELL UP AND GET OUT! (Julia cry’s) GET OUT!! (Julia scurries out in tears as Lance returns to work as the lights go to Baz’s room. Baz is reading quietly and drinking some water in a peaceful manner)
Baz: (reading) Then Gemma refuses the incoherent sounds of the souls which mourn around her (Julia bursts in and collapses into Baz’s arms) What is the matter?
Julia: Lance, he’s- he’s gone mad… he pushed me to the floor because he was trying to fix Sparky, and he- he split it into pieces! I tried to stop him, I really did
Baz: Shh Julia, Shh. everything’s okay, he’s just stressed that’s all. He could have taken it out on anything; you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Julia: But Lance said it was my entire fault…
Baz: It was his fault and no-one else’s (Julia eventually stops crying and they have a moment of intimacy as they stare into each others eyes. There heads move closer together but Baz abruptly pulls away) you, er, need some sleep.
Julia: Yes, I um, do need sleep, goodnight (runs out of the room in embarrassment)
Baz: Baz! You stupid idiot! She was right there, right there and you just let her slip away! (Lights go off as Baz settles down to sleep)4
Scene 3: Coffee room on the ship (Baz is sat drinking coffee and reading his book)
Baz: But the noises could not be helped as they swept in towards her… (Julia appears at the doorway, listening to Baz) She ran, as fast as she could, avoiding the stranded furniture that lay in that godforsaken house, hoping to find Jarrad, her one and true-
Julia: You know, you could have been an actor (Baz snaps shut his book as Julia awkwardly sits two seats away from him)
Baz: I uh, I was just reading this (pushes book towards her)
Julia: A la maison du Fleur? This is in French
Baz: I know
Julia: You can speak it?
Baz: Fluently, not bragging or anything
Julia: No because you would never do that (they laugh lightly then are submerged into utter tension) Elle aller a la chambre?
Baz: She went into a… (Gulps) bedroom
Julia: Oh
Baz: Yeah
Julia: Cool (another silence)
Julia & Baz: Abou-
Baz: No you go first
Julia: No, please, you go
Baz: I was about to say, what happened last night, could we just forget it happened?
Julia: Im not sure Sharky is that easy to forget
Baz: No I meant the, um, the sort of but not quite… kiss …
Julia: Oh (looks disappointed but quickly hides it) Yeah sure (awkward silence before Lance enters and stands looking at Julia)
Lance: Um hello
Baz: (standing up) Get out of my sight
Julia: (stands up pulling Baz) Baz, leave it!
Baz: No what he did was out of order, I will personally make sure he suffers
Lance: What are you on about?
Baz: What you did to Julia last night? Hitting a girl!
Lance: I’m sorry, but I look like I know what happened? I would never hit Julia
Julia: As a matter of fact you did
Lance: I uh, can’t remember though
Baz: Convenient
Julia: Shush! Let me take a look at you (Lance slides up onto a counter but Julia is pulled back by Baz)
Baz: Your not going anywhere near that monster
Julia: He could be suffering from post-stress memory loss, it isn’t his fault
Baz: He hit you!
Julia: He wasn’t thinking straight
Baz: I don’t care
Julia: You’ve changed you tune!
Baz: Coffee has that effect
Julia: I’m still taking a look at him
Baz: I forbid it
Julia: Who are you to forbid me form doing something?
Baz: Your captain
Julia: Broken record, Captain Barreth Kilkum
Baz: Don’t patronize me
Julia: Don’t hold me! (Baz lets go)
Baz: Don’t disobey my orders
Julia: Or what?
Baz: Or I’ll have you dismissed from duty
Julia: It will never happen, see the way Sir Lazen looked at me, appreciates me more than you
Baz: Don’t you dare do it
Julia: You have no right telling me not to do my job (walks over to Lance and examines him, writing some things on a clipboard)
Lance: What is it Julia?
Julia: Definitely post-stress amnesia, or short term memory loss to you, dilation of the iris suggests only minor damage
Lance: So I’ll get my memory’s back of last night?
Julia: Yes
Lance: That’s good, right?
Julia: Depends what memory’s you get back (walks over to where Baz is sat and slams the clipboard down) File them, will you?
Baz: Isn’t that your job?
Julia: Not for now
Baz: Where are you going?
Julia: On that toilet break you dismissed me of yesterday (exits smiling facedly)
Lance: So, are you okay Baz?
Baz: Its captain
Lance: Oh right… okay then
Baz: Don’t ‘oh okay then’ me! (stands) I don’t like you Lance, not for one minute, and I never have but this has given me a reason to despise you; and no amount of friendliness is going to change that fact
Lance: I wasn’t thinking straight and you know that
Baz: Great excuse, idiot. Don’t hurt Julia again, you understand me?
Lance: Like I would ever hit her again
Baz: I mean emotionally
Lance: Are you trying to say she likes me?
Baz: I’m not trying to say anything, I’m saying you hurt her in any form, and your legs are broken, okay?
Lance: Yes captain (exits)
Baz: (gets out diary) I have just told Lance she likes him. She probably does. Only explanation for her not wanting to be with me? It’s the only explanation for her checking on him. It just makes a hell of a lot of sense. Unless I’m just being paranoid.(Julia enters and Baz slams his diary shut)
Julia: I see your even more aggrevated today? (Transmission comes through)
Sir Lazen: Help is nearly on it’s way, Captain; oh and Doctor, good morning. You look a little worse for wear.
Julia: Always the confidence builder Sir Lazen
Sir Lazen: Oh stop it, your making me blush! (Baz clears his throat) Yes right, in five minutes help will be with you with a teleporter so you can come back to the human capital Utopiar immediately.
Julia: Why is that sir?
Sir Lazen: If you have discovered a new life form, it needs to be documented straight away of course! And out. (transmission ends)
Julia: Great! I have no speech and I have all of five minutes to explain a new life form to a rally of idiots!
Baz: Stop freaking out woman, you’ll be fine
Julia: I will do some preparation (something crash’s into ship)
Soldier: Help for Captain Barreth Kilkum, Doctor Julia Brown and Private Lance Ryan is here
Julia: Oh great
Baz: In the coffee room (a few soldiers enter with one at the head; Major Tyran)
Tyran: Good morning ma’m and sir, Major Tyran Jack at your service, sorry for the wait
Julia: Julia Brown and no problem, you were fast considering
Tyran: Oh I have heard much of you, true legend back on Thunkark
Julia: Thunkark? What is it?
Tyran: A mixed-raced planet under the Utopiarian rule ma’m, nearest one here
Baz: Do they all have annoying accents like yours there?
Julia: Ignore him, he’s a little toddlet still
Tyran: Oh I have heard much of Barreth
Baz: Captain Barreth to you Major! And what exactly have you heard?
Tyran: That you’re a waste of space, well that’s what Sir Lazen says. So far you have proved that theory right
Julia: Boys play nice! Even though it’s nice to see you get burnt, Barreth.
Tyran: Anyway we have a teleporting device for you here, where is the other?
Baz: Sulking in his room most likely (Lance appears)
Lance: Actually I am here, thanks for that compliment Barreth, you know, being nice really does suit you. (Julia sighs with irritation)
Tyran: Well if you’d like to step in it…5
Scene 4: Outside the hearing on Utopiar (Tyran, Baz, Lance and Julia enter)6
Baz: Ouch, I thought teleporting was supposed to be a nice feeling
Lance: Well you’d be wrong there, wouldn’t you captain?
Julia: God it’s like I’m running a nursery!
Baz: You do look like an old hag which usually gets appointed that job
Tyran: Always the charmer, I see as well as being the nicest man of all time.
Baz; Shut it Major
Tyran: Captain. Doctor the court is through there, you two will also go along with her, be careful with the people in there; important people, but most of all very ruthless.
Baz: Thanks but no thanks for the advice, Major, you are dismissed
Tyran: Incorrect Captain, Sir Lazen has appointed me to escort where you may need to be escorted
Baz: Typical control freak
Tyran: Yet another compliment for Sir Lazen, I’ll be sure to pass it on.
Julia: Come on (lights dim as lawyers, scientists, marshals and Lords enter as the court. Meek and Wynburg are also present, either end of the crowd. Sir Lazen is sat at the most important chair. The lights come up when Julia, Lance and Baz enter)
Sir Lazen: stand court (Court stands) Captain Barreth Kilkum, are you present?
Baz; Yes sir
Sir Lazen: Private Lance Ryan?
Lance: Yes sir
Sir Lazen: Doctor Julia Brown?
Julia: Yes sir
Sir Lazen: We are in concession today to discuss the apparent finding of a new life form, Doctor care to explain?
Julia: Of course. I have brought back with me a sample of this life form (she pulls out an apple)
Doctor number 1: (laughs) That is an apple!
Julia: Maybe now but it will surely change again. It’s a metamorphic life form, completely obsolete to temperature change or pressure. It’s amazing; different than anything I have seen.
Sir Lazen: And your ship computer, after transferring to a robotic shell, went to check this bug out and you claim it had latched itself onto the escape pod system and seemed to be making it malfunction?
Julia: yes, that’s when we heard a bang as a desolate ship crashed into us and he called back saying it had attacked him, then we found this stuff on his robotic hands
Meek: (laughs cruely) You expect us to believe you? Us as in professional medical and alien reporters to believe this, this rock dust shaped like an apple to be able to kill a metamorphic high tech computer of at least 3000 years ahead of its time?
Julia: well yes, Doctor Meek, but I think if you examined it you will agree
Doctor Meek: I doubt it…still it would be of most interest if I did examine it.
Julia: If you are as experienced as you sound, then you will. Otherwise you can’t be all you make out to be, can you?
Wynburg; never mind all that, are you going to give us this example to study?
Julia: Once I have claimed copyrights yes, Doctor Wynburg
Wynburg: A very wise move Doctor Brown (he smiles at her)
Julia: Truth is, this is a swab size example of the actual substance which suggests the idea of spontaneous combustion, you know, things forming from nothing?
Meek: Do not insult our intelligence, Doctor Brown, it would be most unwise
Julia: I meant no offence
Sir Lazen: Very well, leave this with a Doctor Wynburg please, as he is a doctor you trust, correct?
Julia: Correct
Wynburg: Fantastic
Sir Lazen: very well, he will aid you in claiming copyrights to it as well. I expect a full report on it by tomorrow
Meek: Excuse me?
Sir Lazen: Yes Doctor Meek?
Meek: I am not trying to stir up trouble, however how long, Doctor Wynburg, have you been a professional Doctor and scientist?
Wynburg: Four years, what’s the importance?
Meek: And how old are you now?
Wynburg: 48 years young, Doctor Meek, answer me please, why is this important?
Meek: I have been working as a doctor for over 10 years, am only 28 and have specialised in alien presence through the duration of this period. Is it not common sense that I take this role?
Wynburg: This is a matter of trust, not mere common sense or degree’s!
Meek: Do you not trust me, Julia? (Meek’s eyes narrow down on Julia and she feels under pressure)
Julia: I um…
Sir Lazen: I am sorry doctors but this medical quarrel is not to be settled here. Nevertheless I can see Meek’s point
Wynburg: I am sorry sir I won’t carry this discussion on
Meek: Where is the substance going?
Julia: It’s a life form, not substance
Meek: (ignoring Julia) well?
Sir Lazen: I think Doctor Brown should keep it for now while we deliver our verdict on which doctor it should be examined by
Meek: You cannot be serious, she is a weak child?
Sir Lazen: I am perfectly serious; carry this disgrace of an argument elsewhere, it is not suited to a courtroom! Court dismissed, Julia you are to keep the life form for now, Major Tyran shall escort you in case of danger (all the court exits except Meek who approaches Julia)
Meek: You will regret this Julia, that’s a promise (exits as Tyran comes onstage)
Tyran: How did it go little lady?
Julia: Nothing to be gained other than Doctor Meeks hateful glares and words
Tyran: Oh, she can be a little sharp
Julia: You know her?
Tyran: My brother dated her for a while. She was extremely cruel to him and my family
Baz: What a waste of time!
Lance: I can’t believe they talked of Sharky like he was just a circuit board, and Meek isn’t that bad
Julia: You will be fine Lance and you have to be joking, she’s a full grown bi- (comfortingly)
Tyran: How about we grab some Coffee from Caffeine Direct? We all look like we need some
Lance: I’ll think ill pass, I’m going to visit my family on Nublea 5
Tyran: Good, but don’t be too long, I know Nublea 5 is on the outskirts of Utopiar but the traffic can be bad
Lance: I do know that
Baz: Well I’m not going either, got my book to read
Tyran: Just me and you little lady, care for a ride in my hover skate?
Julia: sure, see you later!
Tyran: Bye guys (Julia & Tyran exit)
Baz: Lance, I’ve told you to stay away from her before, you best do it next time
Lance: You may rank higher than me in our career, but you don’t in my private life, so get out of it
Baz: When you attack our ships only doctor it is my business and on a personal level, I hate you anyway so it doesn’t matter which way your career goes, now run back to your mummy and daddy
Lance: They both died in the war, you stupid idiot (exits and lights go down)7
Scene 5: Caffeine Direct (Coffee house look, a few people in background buying products. Julia and Tyran enter)
Julia: This one is surprisingly nice compared to the dull street its on
Tyran: I know, most parts of Utopiar are like this though
Julia: why?
Tyran: After the war with the Hiss, government’s funds were running low so they spared no cash to decorations just to what the people needed (waiter approaches)
Waiter: Good afternoon, table for two?
Tyran: Yes please
Waiter: Would you like our honey moon table?
Julia: (laughs) No we’re not together thanks
Waiter: Okay then, take these bean bags. I take it you want coffee?
Julia: decaf for me please
Tyran: I’ll take a latte
Waiter: Very well (zooms off)
Tyran: So then, what’s up with you and Baz?
Julia: I, er- what?
Tyran: You and Baz, there’s something there, tell me about it!
Julia: No there really isn’t anything! Why would we argue all the time?
Tyran: It’s a sign when you argue all the time plus I have seen the way you look at each other when you think others aren’t looking!
Julia: No we really don’t!
Tyran: You can’t lie to me!
Julia: Drop it man, there is nothing there and never will be
Tyran: well if you’re sure
Julia: Yes I am
Tyran: Okay then… (pause) Will I be invited to the wedding?
Julia: shut it Tyran (laughing gesture on her face in embarrassment)
Waiter: One decaf and one latte (hands two mugs of coffee)
Julia: Thanks
Tyran: So Julia tell me of your family
Julia: Mom and Dad are still together, no brothers or sisters. My Dad works as a hydro-electrician and my Mom is the classic housewife. I haven’t seen them in a while
Tyran: Oh, I guess it’s the whole military protection thing?
Julia: Yeah. What about yours?
Tyran: My Dad left me and my mom before I was born, I have one older brother and no sisters. My mom lives off benefits but only because she is manic depressive, I joined the force when I was thirteen (Julia’s phone rings)
Julia: Sorry Ty (answers) Yes? Wynburg? Where is it? So your office is just in the city centre? Okay I’ll be there asap (closes phone) sorry I have to go
Tyran: don’t worry about it, see you later8
Scene 6: Doctor Meeks mansion (Servants are rushing around as Meek is lay out on a recliner talking on the phone)
Meek: (slams down the phone and screams like a ‘brat’) what the hell is going on around here? Get your bony ass over here Jeffrey! (clicks her fingers a scared servant walks over) Why won't the stupid court house people not give me what I want?
Jeffrey: I do not know ma’m (Meek stands)
Meek: well find out or I will rip that fake smile right off your stupid little head and shove it up your-
Servant number one: (stands forward with phone) Madam, a phone call for you
Meek: Your one lucky Jeffrey (snatches phone) Yes? What? Oh hello, yes, really? That’s great, what is it? A-huh, yes, ooh, fantastic, that plan is perfect! How will we get her to bring the- oh? Yes, well that’s rather clever, you’ve already got him? Ohh that is conveniently brilliant, see you tomorrow, bye (snaps close the phone) Jeffrey! (Jeffrey steps forward) It looks like we have a plan
Jeffrey: Excellent, what does this involve?
Meek: Well… (black out)9
Scene 7: Wynburgs’ office (Wynburg is sat at his desk, shuffling papers, signing them, typing on a keyboard etc. until he receives a phone call)
Wynburg: Good, send her in (answering the phone and Julia enters after a time)
Julia: Doctor, nice to see you again
Wynburg: Please, its Robert to you, I’d say it’s nice to see you but its grave news I ask you to come here
Julia: Grave news?
Wynburg: Please sit (they both sit at the desk)
Julia: well?
Wynburg: Well I was sent this in the mail (hands her an envelope)
Julia: It’s off Meek
Wynburg: Yes it is, read further
Julia: it’s for me?
Wynburg: Yes it is, read along
Julia: Inviting me to the MEH tomorrow night?
Wynburg: Your clearly not aware of what this is; it’s the Meeks Enterprise of Health. It’s huge in Utopiar and is spreading across other planets as a smaller business.
Julia: What does it do? And I’m guessing Meek runs it
Wynburg: Yes she does, well she owns it, well her parents owned it before they died in the war when she was one
Julia: The war with the Hiss?
Wynburg: You’re right. They make health care products which are described as magical, miraculous and have worked throughout Utopiar. They have a pill range which, depending on the pill you take, changes your weight and body shape to accompany that certain pill.
Julia: Why is this grave news? I mean Meek hates me, and I dislike her back but its no reason for me to hate her ‘enterprise’
Wynburg: These pills, are fine for humans like you and me but are deadly for other species, which are now taking them
Julia: Surely the authorities would do something
Wynburg: They don’t know and for good reasons, if Meek were to find out we reported her to the authority’s she would kill us, literally. She is a spoiled brat who will do whatever she needs to, to get what she wants. Her mother and father left her a fortune, and she could hire, kill and bribe her way out of anything
Julia: And she wants the life form?
Wynburg: I can’t see why else she’d want you to go. She hasn’t ever had a visitor to any of her factories; no school trips, college trips and no family, that’s for certain
Julia: surely if I don’t go then she will know that we are onto her, and if I use a reasonable excuse she will just rearrange another time
Wynburg: Which is precisely why you need to go, just do not take the life form with you
Julia: Why does she want the life form so bad?
Wynburg: That’s what we need to find out. My educated guess is that she wants to get the honour that her parents had when they were alive… and obviously go down in history
Julia: I will never let her take what is mine.
Wynburg: I know, but think why she wanted to examine it in the court meeting today! You will need to find out the connection with the aliens too
Julia: Are the aliens dying?
Wynburg: I don’t know, but on Junkthort the MEH has expanded and the Junkthortians have been volatile ever since the Link between races, if they find out this has affected them there will be war. In turn other races will join them and it will be Universal War between the different aliens and life forms. You have to figure this out Julia.
Julia: I will, and I’ll take my group with me
Wynburg: If you can get them passed
Julia: If she wants me there that bad, she’ll allow it. I’ll find out what she is planning and report back to you, Robert. I can meet her tomorrow, Lance comes back then. Set it up for 7pm please
Wynburg: Certainly, may the luck of the stars be with you
Julia: Robert, can I ask something? How is she going to ensure that I take the life form; there was no mention of it in the letter
Wynburg: Again, it is something I have no clue of. Just brace yourself for the worst, Meek is ruthless as I have told you. She could use anything; your job, friends but most likely family; be on guard
Julia: I will thanks again (exits after giving Doctor Wynburg a hug)10
Scene 8: Meeks basement (meek is pacing up and down, a chair sits behind her, several army-looking men are stood around with no expression and no movement. Suddenly two guards burst in carrying a man with a bag over his head; they slam him down on the chair and tie his hands)
Meek: Finally! They arrive! Is this the one?
Guard 1: Yes, it is the one you requested
Meek: Oh good! I’m sure she will be… impressed. Maybe, I can even forgive you for your lateness, which your master will be… unimpressed if he found out
Guard 1: Thanks ma’m
Meek: Yes, yes, get out of my way! So, you are my prisoner now
Prisoner: Who is this?
Meek: Ever heard of MEH?
Prisoner: a little
Meek: I am a, a… correspondent of that company
Prisoner: Why have you taken me?
Meek: A certain girl that you know has something which we want
Prisoner: Who?
Meek: That is unimportant, just know that if she fails to give us what we want you will be hurt. So she had best do as we say. Clear?
Prisoner: Take this out with her, it has nothing to do with me!
Meek: She is guarded by high authoritive figures so it would be difficult to get directly to her, but getting to her in a personal way will be easy with you
Prisoner: My daughter!
Meek: Yes, Mr Brown, your daughter (wipes the bag of Mr Browns head)
Mr Brown: what had she done to you to deserve this?
Meek: Nothing as of yet, but it will just be a way to insure that she gives me what I want
Mr Brown: Hang on a second… your Doctor Meek! The owner of MEH
Meek: Oh so intelligent Mr Brown, like father like daughter eh?
Mr Brown: This has got to do with the alien races dying, hasn’t it?
Meek: What are you talking about now?
Mr Brown: Ignorance isn’t bliss, Meek. You know exactly what your products, especially the pill, do to other creatures. You’re scared she’s onto you, aren’t you?
Meek: Shut your mouth, or I’ll cut your tongue off
Mr Brown: a touchy subject I see, you know what will happen if you get discovered, you’ll be slung in the prisons!
Meek: (angry) you’re over stepping the line!
Mr Brown: Like your stupid parents in the war! (Meek grabs Mr Browns face with her hand, and crushes it)
Meek: Do not bring my parents into this equation you good for nothing little worm, I will squash you with my bare fingers
Mr Brown: Oh, what the authorities will do with you will be worst than this
Meek: get him away from me or I might cut his throat with my nails! (Guards drag him off) Jeffrey! (Jeffrey comes onstage)
Jeffrey: yes
Meek: take a picture of our… guest and write a note which goes something really cliché like “Bring the substance, or your father dies”
Jeffrey: Yes
Meek: And make sure our guest is not in his best shape… if you catch my meaning
Jeffrey: are you sure that is most wise?
Meek: do it! (Scream’s this as Jeffrey runs offstage in fright)11
Scene 9: Outside Lances home on Nublea 5 (Baz, Julia and Tyran are outside Lance’s home about to go in. Everything is grey and dingy)
Baz: Remind me why I have to come all the way to Nublea 5 for? Especially since we only got back to our home territory yesterday!
Julia: This planet is under Human rule, so technically we are on our own territory. And I asked you to!
Baz: Don’t tell me too many details at once
Julia: all will become clear once we’ve got Lance, okay?
Baz: No it’s not okay but it will have to do, won’t it?
Julia: Yes it will
Tyran: I don’t mean to rush you but I hate this planet, so can we hurry it up
Baz: I agree
Julia: Oh my god! Baz did you just, I’m sorry but did you just agree with someone?
Baz: always the sarcasm with you, I thought this needed to be urgent or something?
Julia: It does (knocks on door) Lance, its Julia (no response) Lance? (Lance comes onstage from stage left wit ha medical box) Lance why aren’t you at home?
Lance: enough of the questions. What do you want?
Julia: I need to enroll you on a mission
Lance: No
Baz: so god damn stubborn!
Lance: Shut your big oversized mouth, you, I’m not coming end of story
Tyran; Can we go now?
Julia: Please Lance we need you…
Lance: I said no, now go
Julia: what’s the medical box for though Lance, are you hurt?
Lance: Stop asking me questions. Get away from my house, I’m not coming and it’s final
Baz: I think you owe it to her
Tyran: Why does he owe it to her?
Baz: He-
Julia: Baz don’t you dare!
Baz; Sorry I can’t say, emphasis on can’t.
Tyran: Hmm
Julia; Okay, if you don’t want to come that’s fine but I want to know why you’ve got a medical box (Lance looks and hints at Tyran and Baz) Oh okay, will you two wait back at the Utopiar ship?
Baz: Why?
Julia: Just do it
Baz: Don’t give me orders!
Julia: Okay then, please just do it?
Baz: That’s better (Baz and Tyran exit)
Julia: What is it?
Lance; It’s for my sister, she’s… ill
Julia: what kind of ill?
Lance: Liver Cancer, she’s close to death and she is very weak and so her body bruises and breaks bones easy
Julia: Lance! They invented a cure for it ages ago, I know this fantastic Doctor Robert Wynburg maybe he can-
Lance: She has a fatal allergy to Barcikartro
Julia: Oh I see, its one of the main ingredients in it… I’m so sorry
Lance: So am I (exits stage)
Julia: For what? (shouting after him)Weird… 12
Scene 10: Julia’s apartment (Julia walks in with Baz)13
Baz: Nice place you got here, compared to some of the other houses on Utopiar.
Julia: You’re in a good mood today.
Baz: Yeah I think it’s because we just lost that annoying Tyran guy
Julia: Oh don’t be such an idiot, you should give him a chance, he’s not bad once you get to know him. You can have friends, its allowed you know?
Baz: No I don’t
Julia: Yes you do! Why did you demand to come back to my apartment anyway? I have things to do.
Baz: I just wanted to check it out. I can’t believe your parents pay for you to have this!
Julia: I know. My parents are really sweet. They always tried to give me the best even when we were short on money, shame we can’t visit them often
Baz: But you know why we can’t? It would make it all too obvious for enemy’s to take your parents as blackmail
Julia: yeah, yeah but I haven’t seen them in three years so there is no danger with that
Baz: why though? Your allowed two visits a year in the military
Julia: You obviously don’t know how busy a doctor’s life is
Baz: Well I wouldn’t be Captain Baz Kilkum, I’d be Doctor Baz Kilkum if I knew that
Julia: Still wrong (wipes a bit of fluff of Baz’s shirt) Doctor Barreth Kilkum!
Baz: Right, that’s it! (Jumps on Julia sending both of them toppling onto a sofa, there eyes meet like before as they prepare to kiss, a knock at the door reminds them of themselves as they spring to there fit. Julia opens the door to a worried Wynburg rushing in)
Julia: Robert, it’s not what it looks like
Baz: Doctor Wynburg’s name is Robert?
Wynburg: I don’t care what it looks like; take a look at this you two! (hand’s them a sheet of paper)
Baz: My god
Julia: My Dad!
Wynburg: This is terrible, of all things to happen!
Baz: What’s going on?
Wynburg: You haven’t told him yet?
Julia; Oh no, not my dad… (Collapses on sofa, reading the paper over and over again)
Baz: Obviously not
Wynburg: Meek invited Julia to her MEH factory tonight in two hours at 7pm, we thought it could be a trap to get the new life form and we also said it would be good for her to investigate the factory for the alien problem
Baz: That’s why she tried to assemble the group, to go with her
Wynburg: This is just a way of blackmailing you Julia
Julia: I know, but you said yourself that Meek is ruthless and this is not a false threat! Look at his face, its bloody and bruised! She would kill him without a seconds thought!
Wynburg: You can’t take the life form though, she probably won’t just take the credit, she’d probably use it in some dastardly experiment!
Julia: So I’m supposed to let my father die?
Wynburg: I- I- really don’t know this time.
Baz: I have a plan
Julia: Tell us
Baz: We kidnap two of the guards, me and Robert do
Wynburg: Its doctor Wynburg to you
Baz: Okay then, me and Doctor Wynburg, we strip the guards of there uniforms and pose as guards so the moment Meek goes for the life form we hold her against her will, rescue your father and then run to get the authorities with this blackmail
Julia: Will that be enough to get her prosecuted?
Wynburg: No, but I have just received testing evidence of what the MEH pill does to alien life forms, that will get her prosecuted. However, she will recognise me and Baz immediately.
Julia: I’m a girl, I have make-up
Baz: That won’t do it
Julia: You don’t doubt me do you?
Baz: If you say so. We will need back up as well, ill get Tyran to get his squad around the perimeters
Wynburg: It’s a plan then, one thing that does strike me however, is how they found your father. It has to be someone from the army with that kind of reference, so a high ranking officer
Baz: or someone with a personal computer they can hack
Julia: Don’t even try it
Baz: Try what?
Julia: Accusing Lance, or suggesting it at least
Baz: Still, it makes sense. Aren’t you going to ask Lance to come?
Julia: You saw him today, he won’t come
Wynburg: enough of this, its approaching 5:10 we need to get ready. Go do your chores and meet us outside the MEH headquarters where we can meet her inside. 14
Scene 11: Julia’s parents house (stage is scattered with furniture as Mrs Brown comes in carrying shopping)
Mrs Brown: Browny bear! Help me with this shopping please (comes in and drops shopping all over the floor) Damn those new anti-plastic shopping bags laws! Oh my gosh, I said damn! Praise the forgiveness and mercy of the lord upon my head! Breathe Tanya, breathe (soothes herself) Okay then (carries on picking up shopping of the floor) Husband, help me please! (stands up with her hands on her hips) Browny bear? (calls offstage) George? (goes to other end of stage and calls) George, are you here? Hm. Maybe he isn’t back from work yet. Wonder why (starts with shopping again before doorbell rings) Just coming (two of Meeks’s guards enter) Well how rude!
Guard: We have known whereabouts of your husband
Mrs Brown: he’s at work silly, care for some tea?
Guard 2: You’ll find he is not
Mrs Brown: well where is he then? At the pub again? He had better not be, I’ve told him before that drinking is bad for his-
Guard: No he is not at the pub either. He is not even on Utopiar
Guard 2: Come with us and we will show you where he is
Mrs Brown: I’m a big girl now you know! I think I’ll just wait for my browny bear here
Guard: I advise you to come
Mrs Brown: No thanks
Guard 2: Fine then (grabs Mrs Brown)
Mrs Brown: Get your filthy paws off me!
Guard: Come quietly and you will not be hurt
Guard 2: Hurry, she is waiting15
Scene 12: Outside MEH headquarters (Julia walks in with Tyran and his squad)16
Julia: Thank so much Tyran, this wouldn’t be successful without you
Tyran: It’s your father; I wouldn’t stand by and let a friend get blackmailed
Julia: Thanks so much, and you guys (She says to Tyran’s team, they hold up guns in predicted triumph, Baz and Wynburg walks in)
Tyran: Where have you two been, adjusting your make up?
Baz: very funny
Wynburg: I do not sense you are all taking this as serious as I. You do realise it is not only Julia’s fathers life at danger, but all of ours and potentially the universes?
Tyran: We’re sorry, but do you honestly think Universal War is her goal?
Wynburg: I have no idea, are we all ready?
Julia: I have the life form with me
Tyran: Myself and my squad will surround the perimeter of the building
Baz: We will go in with her now, and say we thought it would be best to escort her here
Wynburg: Right. That’s what we wanted, organisation. I think we’re as ready as ever, let’s go17
Scene 13: MEH headquarters (Meek is standing with Jeffrey and the guards)18
Meek: They had better be here soon Jeffrey, I am losing my patience
Jeffrey: Like wise, they will be here at 7pm we requested
Meek: Its 7:02 by my watch, they’re late. I hope we got the other one by now
Jeffrey: Who would that be? (knock at the door stops the conversation and Wynburg and Baz in disguise enter with Julia) You’re here, at last. Why are you two with her?
Baz: (in a pretend gruff voice) We thought we had better in case she made an run at the last minute
Meek: Whatever. So Julia, you come for your father yes?
Julia: Show me him
Meek: Give me the alien life form then
Julia: First, let me see that my dad is okay
Meek: You’re in no position to demand things (clicks fingers and surrounds the group of people) give me the life form
Julia: You can have it once I see my dad is okay
Jeffrey: It would be a wise move to be silent girl. However meek it would be okay to show her
Meek: Show me you have the life form then your father (Julia takes out a feather) How do I know it’s the real thing?
Julia: Because you’re an expert, you know this feather is a feather of the long extinct duck creature so therefore it cann’t be anything but a metamorphical life form.
Meek: Hmm, Correct, Jeffrey bring Mr Brown out (Jeffrey looks at two guards near to Meek who quickly go offstage and return with Mr Brown tied up)
Jeffrey: May I say, wise choice Meek
Meek: yes, yes (passive comment)
Julia: Dad! (goes to run forward)
Meek: (stepping infront of Julia) Not one finger further
Mr Brown: Julia! Your okay, I’m so glad to see you, I never stopped worrying-
Meek: Enough (Guard muffles Mr Brown) give me the feather
Julia: Fine, but let my father go!
Meek: Hit him (Guard smacks Mr Brown) another line of backchat from you and he will get worse, give me the feather
Julia: Here it is (Julia reaches forward with the feather, Baz and Wynburg stake place behind Meek, Meek reaches but stops abruptly and laughs along with Jeffrey)
Meek: Get those two guards, and grab the girl (Guards latch themselves upon Baz, Wynburg and Julia. Baz and Wynburg wrestle to receive a few hits around the head from the guards) Please, there is no need for violence, just come quickly and silently. See Julia, I knew your intentions; they were as clear as lagoon water!
Julia: No, this was our only hope! (as she gets tied up)
Meek: Now who are these two guards which have either betrayed me or (takes hats off Wynburg and Baz) or have kidnapped some of my peasants and took there uniforms
Baz: Let me go!
Meek: Feeble attempt, captain
Wynburg: What are you up to, Meek?
Meek: (turns on Jeffrey) How did Wynburg get involved Jeffrey?
Jeffrey: I- I mean I
Meek: I told you not to get him involved, you idiot!
Wynburg: a little afraid are we, Meek?
Meek: (not facing Wynburg) Slap him (guard slaps Wynburg) Do you know how you are going to pay for this, Jeffrey? Do you even know what you’ve done?!
Jeffrey: please let me explain myself
Meek: I think you should before I tear you’re your heart out and feed it to my poodle!
Jeffrey: There was no direct address for Julia, I tried everywhere, Directories, Digital Pictures, I even tried-
Meek: Hurry up, my candle of patience is nearly burned out
Jeffrey: I could only find Wynburg’s office, I didn’t think he would-
Meek: (screams in a brat like fashion) Get him and kill him
Jeffrey: Please Meek. I have served you for-
Meek: Hurry up with it (guards drag him offstage where we hear a gun shot, the guards return)
Guard one: He is dead
Meek: Good, burn his body and make sure all of his family is dead (pause) to remove any threat of unveiling our plans
Guard 2: Yes ma’m (Guard and Guard 2 march off)
Julia: you heartless cow!
Meek: What can I say? I’m a perfectionist
Wynburg: You’re sick Meek!
Meek: Hit him (Guard hits Wynburg) Shut up and you won’t get hurt. Julia, give me the feather…
Julia: How did you know where to get my father?
Meek: Give me the feather and I’ll tell you
Baz: Don’t give it her!
Meek: Now!
Julia: Here (gives her a feather)
Meek: Ooh great! Cooperation, that’s what I like. What was your question?
Julia: How did you know where to find my parents?
Baz: And where’s Tyran and his squad?
Meek: Oh the squad is dead, Tyran was of more worth, I mean, we could sell him back to Utopiar for lots and lots, just as we could with you lot if I didn’t have different plans. Guards bring Tyran in (Guards go off, come back on dragging Tyran. They throw him over to where the other heroes are)
Julia: It’s not like you need the money!
Meek: Very true
Wynburg: Answer the other question, how did you get her father?
Meek: You can’t figure it out?
Wynburg: Inside help is my primary guess
Meek: You’d be right
Julia: Who would do such a thing?!
Meek: Barreth, you know, don’t you?
Baz: Do I?
Meek: Well, you probably have suspected him
Julia: Who is it?! (Lance comes onstage)
Lance: (quietly) Me
Julia: Lance?! What are you doing?! I know this wasn’t you!
Baz: I knew it; I told you I was right!
Wynburg: Lance Ryan, your parents would be ashamed to hear of this
Lance: You didn’t know my parents!
Wynburg: We worked together you fool
Meek: (laughs cruelly) Aw! Family reunions are so… (expression turns darker) sour
Julia: Please Lance… why?
Lance: Meek is the only one who can help my sister, I had no choice
Wynburg: There is always a choice
Lance: Would you not do something evil for a good cause? Her invention can save my sister, I just came to collect it and I didn’t mean to see you… I’m sorry
Wynburg: Impossible. If your sister is allergic to the Barcikartro in the cancer cure, there is no cancer cure! It’s the main property, something like a ratio of three thousand to one. Take away that three thousand and there is barely anything left
Julia: It all makes sense, why he said sorry to me outside his house and why he wouldn’t come here with me today
Lance: She did weight pills, she can do this and she has. Please can I have the medicine for my sister?
Meek: Hmm. Do you know of my plans Lance?
Lance: Yes, you told me of them. I had and still have no interest in your Universal War
Baz: You were right Wynburg
Meek: See, that’s the problem Lance… you know of my plans which makes you a threat to the whole operation, sorry (cocks head to side in a patronizing way guards grab Lance and tie him up)
Lance: You traitor! You horrible, evil traitor!
Meek: Your a fine one to talk! There never was a cure that didn’t involve Barcikartro, it was all a trick to entice you and wrap you around my little thumb, it worked brilliantly!
Baz: (to Lance and Meek) You’re a disgusting traitor! I wouldn’t spit on you even if you were on fire!
Julia: I can’t believe you would fall for it, I thought you were better than that
Wynburg: Why do you want universal war Meek?
Meek: see you lot do not grasp this simple concept. This feather is just the start of Unviersal War. Along with MEH virus installed in all of our weight pills, the other races would turn on each other. Killing each of the races off, the world will become desolate. Then this little beauty has an advanced metamorphic ability, expose it to the ultimate bits of each race and it will morph into exactly that. I will poison them all so they are stuck and cannot change into anything else. Then I will rule all over the universe, over the new life form which will bid to my every command. If you think for one second that the last surviving race will rule supreme, my little pets (stroking feather) will have evolved and morphed into what I want them to, the most powerful race to have ver existed, and then wipe out the last race. It will be eternal bliss, for me and my highly strung servants that I have not yet killed.
Julia: Where will you be when the whole universe is at war then?
Meek: Deep on Nebula 5, you know that fort planet?
Tyran: Nebula 5 isn’t a fort planet, its industrial but not a fort
Meek: That’s where your wrong boy. The high human council intended that as a fort for the war against the Hiss, but as construction started the war ended and so it was half built. There was no need for a fort, so they finished the building and placed low cost housing on it. However the fort inside the planet is high tech and ever so protective, even from the most unorthodox weapons.
Lance: What are you going to do with the people that live on there? They will notice you!
Meek: You know when you encounter a knot in your finely done hair Julia, would you class that as a problem? (Julia looks stone faced) I’ll take that as a yes; well you comb out that knot or cut it out, yes? (Julia is stone-faced) Well lets say I am going to comb out the people or maybe, cut them out
Wynburg: You’re going to kill the innocent people
Lance: My sister lives on there!
Meek: collateral damage, Lance. You know of that? You do remember when you betrayed your pals? See this is why I don’t make friends, fear is a much better feeling for people to feel towards you.
Julia: Once you get discovered they’re going to put you in the electric chair or throw you into a mouldy damp cell to rot away!
Meek: Charming Julia but please, you will not live to tell the tale, nor anybody else that is a hostage here
Baz: Julia… I don’t think angering her is going to help us
Meek: No one can help you, you poor things. Now I have the life form I’ll breed it, my this is so exciting!
Baz: Why are you so heartless Meek? Is there no human left within you?
Meek: There will be nothing left of you once this has gone off… give me the package! (guard steps forward with a parcel) It’s a bomb, once it goes off the six of you will be… cut out of the equation. I will rebuild the MEH headquarters elsewhere.
Tyran: That metaphor got old when you first used it!
Lance: Why did you betray me Meek? We had an agreement, now your going to murder my sister and try to take over the universe
Meek: Never trust a traitor, and I didn’t trust you in the first place. Now tell me Julia, how do you think this life form got created? (examines feather) crash of atoms? Yes, that’s it (presses button on package and places it on a stool) 2 minutes before this explode and then… boom (turns to guards) Bring the equipment with us, we will need all the firepower we can get as well as the maximum number of Pills. If we run out, we will have to use blunt weapons to take the lives of other creatures. Be more concerned about the weapons. I’ll see you all later… or maybe not
Lance: Please don’t do this Meek! (Meek exits along with guards)
Wunburg: Pull yourself together you grovelling little baby!
Baz: How are we going to get out of here
Mr Brown and Julia: I’m working on it
Wynburg: The ties are knotted, we have no chance of pulling ourselves out of them
Tyran: Well think of something fast cos we have a bit of a deadline!
Lance: I can’t believe she did that
Julia: If you’re not going to help us, then at least do us all a favour and shut your mouth
Tyran: This isn’t helping, think guys think
Baz: It’s the bomb that’s going to kill us, so disable that and we’ve got more time to get out of these
Julia: That’s true, but how?
Wynburg: If it’s a timed controlled package then it gets triggered by electricity
Tyran: And what disables electricity?
Mr Brown: We can redirect the energy onto an electrical item
Julia: My hair clip (shakes hair and clip falls out)
Baz: How do you know how to this?
Mr Brown: I’m a hydro-electrician
Baz: Hard work
Mr Brown: doubt you know how that feels
Julia: Not the time Dad. Where is mom in all of this?
Mr Brown: She will still be at work or shopping probably, it was yesterday I was captured so she has probably gotten the police involved already.
Baz: That’s good, it’ll get Meek prosecuted easier
Wynburg: Lance is the one nearest the package, do you have long legs Lance?
Baz: You expect him to help us?
Wynburg: I know he will now his sister is in danger, Lance, kick the chair over towards us please?
Lance: What’s the point?
Julia: You’ll never speak to your sister again
Lance: she’s going to die anyway
Julia: You will never be able to say goodbye
Tyran: You can’t be that cold, no one can, excluding Meek of course
Wynburg: Do it Lance, we don’t have much time
Baz: Isn’t pressure another sensor with that type of bomb?
Mr Brown: shows how much you know, boy, just do it Lance or whatever your name is. I don’t quite know what you have done but whatever it is this will make up for it
Lance: I’d rather just die here then go through more pain
Julia: don’t be so stupid Lance, this is the whole universe your talking of! Women, soldiers, children and babies lives will be lost all because of your vanity and self pity! Now don’t make me hate you anymore ( Lance weighs up his options then hooks his leg around the stool and slides the package over to Mr Brown and is silent as he does so)
Baz: What now?
Mr Brown: Slide me over that hair clip ( Julia slides over hairclip) Now everyone lean towards me as far as you can and move your hands as far as you can into the direction we’re leaning in (they all sway but Mr Brown still cant reach the hairclip) again, really stretch yourself, hurry (try again; fail)
Wynburg: we have twenty seconds (they all lean: fail once again)
Mr Brown; Come on, we can do this! (try again; success. Mr Brown gets the hairclip and stabs it into the package) That’s going to buy us another minute or so
Baz: I thought it would disable the alarm
Mr Brown: That’s what I had thought, the beeps are dragged on because we have extended the circuit
Lance: How the hell are we going to get out of these ropes
Wynburg: Impossible, the only way is to make everyone stand up, everyone try, 1,2,3 (try but fail) Lean into each other, 1,2,3 (it works and they stand)
Everyone except Lance: Run! (They all sprint offstage. Lights go into blackout as a huge ear shattering explosion happens)19
INTERVAL IF REQUIRED20
Scene 14: Outside MEH headquarters (Everyone runs onstage and falls to the floor as another explosion takes place)21
Julia: (still on floor) is everyone okay?
Wynburg: I am fine
Tyran: Same here
Mr Brown: (standing) I’m more concerned for your mother Julia (everyone stands)
Baz: What do you mean?
Lance: Look I’d love to stay but I’m going to rescue my sister before she kills her
Baz: Your not going anywhere!
Lance: You can’t tell me what to do, get that into your pathetic little head!
Wynburg: Lance Ryan! You are a disgrace to wear the Ryan name!
Lance; Wha-
Wynburg: Your father was a hero in the Hiss war, and your mother just the same! They died protecting this universe and were honoured with it, now you, there only healthy descendent is going to betray his loyal friends who are fighting for exactly the same cause as your parents, and not betray them for the first time, which was bad enough and nearly got us all killed, for the second time!
Lance: I –uh (confused)
Julia: I can’t even believe you would do that to us Lance
Lance: You have to understand
Tyran: We don’t have to understand anything
Mr Brown: You could have had us all killed, and if my wife is in danger then I will personally hunt you down, boy
Julia: Why do you think Mom’s in danger Dad?
Mr Brown: I have been thinking in that moment of madness. If they know about me, they know about your mother and Meek is cunning. She knows she will need a back up scheme in case we escape
Baz: God the taking-family-hostage game is getting so old!
Tyran: I know but this is Julia’s family we have to take it serious
Julia: Lance, are you going to help us?
Lance: If it means saving my sister then… I guess so… but if she is going to die because of it then I can’t
Wynburg: You don’t honestly think we would let all them people die? (smiles weakly) I knew there was a Ryan gene in there somewhere
Baz: Let’s do this then!
Julia: All in together?
Tyran: Anything to help you
Wynburg: Of course
Lance: Okay
Mr Brown: Let me call your mother though first?
Julia: Of course (Mr Brown gets out phone and dials number)
Mr Brown: Hello
Meek: (through phone) Oh excellent (hangs up)
Mr Brown: NO!
Julia: She’s got Mom!
Baz: And she knows we’re alive
Wynburg: we’re all in danger
Mr Brown: My wife…
Julia: Come on Dad, you have to stay strong; we’re going to get her back without any harm (hugs him tightly)
Tyran: Where will they go first Lance?
Lance: Nublea 5, there is a lab underneath in the fortress and she is going to breed it there, and expose it to the different parts
Julia: How did she get parts of… living things?
Lance: By killing them, throwing away bits she didn’t want and keeping the bits she did want
Baz: And you knew about that, you waste of space!
Lance: I told her, I had no interest in her plans but she told me them anyway! I didn’t agree with it but I had to keep her sweet
Wynburg; There’s no time for this now! We have to save Nubela 5 or all them people will die
Julia: Will she kill them all now?
Lance: No doubt about it, see how many guards there was? Imagine that, times by ten. She will use them to exterminate everyone on that planet. She already has disabled all the radio signals so that no signals can be sent out in alarm and the perimeters of the planet are patrolled by her aircraft, she has an entire army; and plans to use it
Baz: Then we have to stop her
Tyran: It’s not going to be easy to get past her aircraft
Lance: Nigh on impossible
Mr Brown: That’s where your wrong
Wynburg: I sense a plan coming on
Mr Brown: I am a hydro electrician and anyone who messes with my family is going to feel the full blow of that occupation
Tyran: Huh?
Julia: He means he is going to cut out the aircrafts power
Tyran: How did you-
Baz: Don’t ask!
Wynburg: I’m guessing we should leave now, she might not keep your mother alive for much longer… if I may be so blunt.
Baz: Isn’t this going to be a trap for us to follow her?
Tyran: She knows that we know where she is headed
Wynburg: We don’t have many other options
Tyran: Okay then, we can use my ship: Claw
Mr Brown: Lets go, team Claw!
Everyone: Team Claw!22
Scene 15: Nublea 5: (Meek and guards walk onstage, Mrs Brown is being dragged behind) 23
Meek: this planet smells disgusting! And looks worse in this night air
Mrs Brown: Ooh you don’t know my husband! Once he gets ah old of you, lady!
Meek: Shut up, or we will kill your daughter
Mrs Brown: You have my daughter?
Meek: Of course we do, she’s just got to slip into our hands
Mrs Brown: what do you mean? And why have you brought me here?
Meek: She is coming to get you, I doubt she will make it past the first ship before being captured where she will be tortured and eventually executed
Mrs Brown: You don’t know my daughter then!
Meek: I know her very well, and your husband
Mrs Brown: Leave my browny bear alone you vile pig!
Meek: shut her up for good (Mrs Brown is muffled) did you arrange my meeting with the King Rut of this crap hole?
Guard: Yes ma’m
Meek: Then where is he?
King Rut: I am here, Doctor Meek, as instructed (enters with his guards who are greatly outnumbered by Meek’s) It is an honour to have you on our planet
Meek: So you don’t mind?
King Rut: Mind what?
Meek: shoot them all ( Guards gun fires as King Rut and his guards fall to the floor dead, Mrs Brown screams in her muffled voice) Oh how brilliant! I love death. Stage two; the people. Guards, go and drag the people from there slums, shoot them all. Except for Melissa Ryan, bring her to me
Guard 2: What about the children and babies ma’m?
Meek; Are you deaf? Kill them all
Guards: Yes ma’m (march off, we here more gun shots and screams, sound effects)
Meek: (over gun shots and screams) don’t you just love the sound of that, Mrs Brown? And the delicate aroma of blood and gunpowder (Guards bring in three women)
Guard: Which one of these is Melissa ma’m?
Meek: (screams) IDIOTS! It’s the one in the middle (the other two are shot. The middle one is pushed forward, she weakly stumbles down) Good evening Melissa
Melissa: Who… are… you?
Meek: A little tired are we? I am one of your brothers friends, come with me
Melissa; Liar... My brother… not befriend… you who do… this (points offstage)
Meek: Oh I think you will find he did befriend me, this way Melissa, we have a lot of work to do before the breeding begins tonight (Melissa is picked up by two guards as lights go down)24
Scene 16: Aboard the claw (Tyran and Baz are pulling steering wheels, Lance is sat at a chair pushing buttons on a control pad. Wynburg and Julia are sat talking. Mr Brown is sketching something out on paper. It looks almost the same as scene 1)25
Tyran: Everyone, we’re nearly there
Julia: Okay, so we all know the plan?
Baz; repeat it once more please?
Julia: Jesus! Do you ever listen?
Baz: Only to words I understand, which happen to be none of yours
Tyran: Not really the time
Wynburg: Focus, Julia, repeat it please?
Julia: Dad will disable the ships that surround Nublea 5, we fly in and Lance will show us the way to her secret fort lair thing. We go in and warn King Rut, you know, the king of Nublea 5? Well we warm him of her plans, make him evacuate the people into his own on the surface fort. Then Lance and Tyran stay with the people to protect it. Myself, Dad, Baz and Wynburg go in with King Rut’s army and arrest Meek. Got it?
Baz: Just about
Tyran: I can’t believe that its this tiny, I know I’ve been there before but we weren’t driving the ship. It really is tiny!
Wynburg: can you see the ships yet?
Baz: Just about
Tyran: The ships look bigger than the planet
Wynburg: Your disabling mechanism okay to go?
Mr Brown: Yes (stands up) Excuse me Lance (Lance moves to allow space for Mr Brown who takes his place) I have sketched out how I can refigure these buttons to cause an electronically pulsed wave of static (presses buttons furiously then sits back admiring his work) ready?
Tyran: The ships are nearing us so I say now is a good time or they will blow us out of the sky
Julia: Hold on a second, are you sure those ships are MEH ships?
Baz: They must be
Julia: How do you know though? They could just be patrols
Wynburg: Julia I understand your concern but we have no choice other than to take this risk
Lance: (stands and looks out over the audience) Those are definitely her ships
Mr Brown: Okay then
Tyran: But they’re in Utopiarian crafts
Lance: Stolen obviously
Tyran: Think about it, what if this is a trick to make us get into trouble?
Baz: Hurry up and make a decision!
Tyran: If we take down a platoon of Utopiarian ships we would be imprisoned for sure
Wynburg: They will understand our cause for concern
Lance: Trust me on this, those are her ships
Baz; Trust you (laughs forcefully)
Julia: But- (Mr Brown already presses a button with a deafening beep) Dad!
Mr Brown: There was no choice
Tyran: Those ships have malfunctioned that’s for sure (buzzing sounds)
Wynburg: Then let’s get onto Nublea 5 before any damage can be done 26
Scene 17: Streets of Nublea 5 (Lifeless bodies are sprawled across the stage as the group enters, including King Rut)
Julia: Oh god!
Baz: We were too slow, the King is already dead
Wynburg: This is… appalling
Lance: My sister! (starts rummaging through dead bodies)
Tyran: I hated this planet… but no-one deserves this
Mr Brown: That heartless scum! She could freeze water by merely touching it!
Lance: My sister where is she?!
Julia: Where is her house Lance? Myself and Baz will look for her there
Lance: It’s A0048
Julia: Okay, c’mon Baz (Julia and Baz exit)
Mr Brown: She is surely a monster… no one with human blood could do this
Wynburg: I assure you she is human, a cold merciless human at the most
Tyran: I can second that, come away from those dead bodies Lance, you might catch something (Lance pulls away)
Lance: If she’s dead I’m going to personally rip Meek’s head off, you do understand that? I really will kill her, with my own bare hands
Wynburg: Let’s not make hasty decisions
Lance: I will, and I’ll make sure it’s slow and painful (Julia and Baz enter)
Julia: Nobody in the house… and no bodies either
Baz: But there were track marks in the gravel, I think she’s got your sister in captivity
Lance: Then we have to get her back
Julia: And Mom
Wynburg: I do not see Lance going as a wise suggestion
Lance: What do you mean? (snaps)
Wynburg: Now, I’m not saying this will happen but if she has your sister, she’s got power over you. She could force you to do things you later regret
Lance: You want me to stay on the ship while my sister is being held hostage? No way!
Wynburg: No, I think if only some of us went into her lair, excluding Lance, if we get in danger trying to capture your sister you can help us then; but only if that happens. That way we have your sister and our operation in full health
Baz: I’m not staying with him
Mr Brown: And I am going after my wife!
Wynburg: Fine. Julia, Mr Brown and Baz go in, myself, Tyran and Lance stay back with me in case of danger
Julia: there’s a problem, none of us know where her lair is…
Lance: I do. I figured it out when I was a child; it’s a hatch, half a mile north of here. I’m not happy about staying at the ship but it… makes sense
Julia: Okay it’s decided
Wynburg: Be careful though, she will have patrols on the street now that it is her planet
Julia: Don’t worry Lance, we will get your sister back, my mom and stop this whole event from taking place
Lance: Thanks Julia
Baz: Let’s go, time waits for no man27
Scene 18: Meek’s underground lair (Meek is stood in the centre, Melissa and Mrs Brown are tied up in front of her. Guards and other scientists are rushing around behind her)
Meek: So it has begun my guests, the final step
Mellissa: What… are… up to?
Meek: What’s that, I can’t hear you little girl?
Mrs Brown: She said; what are you up to?
Meek: Shut up, you. I want to hear my breathless little monkey squirm again
Mrs Brown: She is dying!
Meek: I said shut up! Go on repeat yourself
Melissa: What… are… you… up… to?
Meek: Oh spectacular, see wasn’t so hard, was it? And let’s just say, your families are not of a concern any longer
Mrs Brown: They’re dead!?
Meek; Oh not yet, but if they survived the bomb on MEH factory, which I think they all did from when they called your phone and I had conveniently stolen it, and can survive being shot at by my army of spaceships, then survive the land mines set around the planet, they will surely be killed by my patrols. And if that all fails, then I guess the saying “If you want something done, do it yourself” will be correct (draws a knife and runs her finger up and down the blade)
Melissa: Then… what… for… us
Meek: Then, you two are of no need to me and will meet the same fate as your relatives and counterparts
Mrs Brown: So we are merely the bait before you snap them up in your net?
Meek: Isn’t that obvious? (To guards) Has the gel reproduced yet? (a scientist and guard step forward)
Scientist: Massively, we thing perhaps in the next hour we will have sufficed for your army and then we can start the exposure
Meek: Oh good! And what of the enemy, are they still breathing?
Guard: Bad news with that-
Meek: What? (Screams)
Guard: We lost contact with the ships just two minutes ago
Mrs Brown: That’s my browny bear for you, Meek!
Meek: (screams) shut up (holds knife under Mrs Brown’s throat) get it sorted you lot! Double the patrols! (to Mrs Brown) I have no need for both of you, one of you will suffice, maybe if I cut your throat here and now it will save me a lot of earache
Mrs Brown: Please no…
Meek: (laughs madly) Well then shut your mouth (steps away) come on everyone! I said double patrols!
Scientist: (offstage) Madam, I think you’d like to see this
Meek: What is it? (runs of stage)
Melissa: Mrs… brown
Mrs Brown; yes deary, but please don’t waste your energy
Melissa: My brother… is he… coming?
Mrs Brown: Don’t be so silly! Of course he is, even if it’s not him in person someone will come
Melissa: The doctor said… I have only… two days… to live… that was… two days… ago… if I… die… tell my brother… that I… love him… very much… and that I’ll be watching… over him
Mrs Brown: Oh Deary, hold in strong. And I’d be honoured to give him a message for you
Melissa: thank you… so much
Meek: (enters) Having a nice little chat are we? Well STOP! No more chattering away or I’ll kill one of you, and torture the other! Understood? (alarms ring wildly) What is it?!
Scientist: (same as before) Someone has breached the upper layer sensors! It means someone is coming!
Meek: prepare for attack, take these two away separately (Melissa and Mrs Brown get dragged off in different directions. Everyone pulls out a gun and points it at one side of the stage. Nothing happens for a while) what is it? (Lights flicker off) WHAT?! GET THEM LIGHTS BACK ON NOW! (sounds of pain are heard)
Julia: Dad the lights (lights come up and Baz and Julia are stood with guns pushed up against Meek, Mr Brown enters from offstage)
Mr Brown: It turns out that being a hydro-electrician is worth long working hours and low pay!
Baz: Drop the gun Meek! (Meek slowly lowers her gun, but instead swipe kick to Baz’s legs, he falls, gun gliding towards Meek who holds it up in the direction of Julia. The two girls are stood pointing guns at each other, Mr Brown is noisily pulled offstage as well as Baz)
Julia: Dad? (not looking) Dad!
Meek: My guards got both him and Baz, simple really; did you think a mere beat up would stop my ruthless little lemmings? Your plan was cunning Julia but not enough I’m afraid.
Julia: Its equal Meek, we are both equal
Meek: (laughs cruelly) Whatever helps you sleep at night!
Julia: So how is this going to be resolved? Both of us dying or neither of us dying looks like the only options
Meek: That is correct, but I have your mother, well, did have
Julia: what does that mean?
Meek: She’s dead, as is Melissa. I only kept them here so you would follow and walk into my traps, which you evaded perfectly
Julia: This can’t be…
Meek: look Julia, you are admirable but your mother lies in a cold pool of blood. Drop your weapon and I’ll let you live in harmony
Julia: never! It is more of a reason to kill you than to join you
Meek: Very well, we shall duel then
Julia: With what?
Meek: I have two swords. Guards bring the swords in, as well as her father and Baz (Guards drag Mr Brown and Baz in who are asleep as well as two swords, one is laid down for Meek and the other for Julia) Now, slowly, without dropping your gun reach for it as will I (they both slowly reach for there swords in complete symmetrical) Now drop your gun (they both drop guns, and they skid away) Now lets fight
Julia: And believe me, you will die today (they fight frantically, this fight should be long. During the fight Lance, Mrs Brown, Wynburg, Tyran and Melissa walk on)
Mrs Brown: Darling be careful (facing towards Mr Brown’s captures) Ooh and you better let him go before you feel this bulk of one angry momma! (Mrs Brown runs at the guards screaming as Tyran unties Mr Brown)
Julia: Mom, your still alive? (Meek and Julia are still fighting) You lied! (A hard hit from Julia sends Meek sprawling to the ground, sword sliding away. Mrs Brown enters stage throwing the guards who had previously held Mr brown to the floor. She lies on the ground where the gun is and picks it up)
Meek; Say hello to my parents in hell-
Melissa; no! (Melissa runs in front of Julia with a sudden burst of energy, as Meek fires three distinctive gun shots. Melissa jerks three times as if being hit, then falls dead to the floor, Lance runs over to Melissa’s dead body)
Lance: What have you done?! (Meek stands up and readies herself to run away but Lance quickly scoops up Julia’s old gun and three more shots are fired, Meek jerks three times and collapses onto the floor not yet dead)
Julia: No Lance! (everyone is shocked and speechless, all that is heard is the sobs of Lance over Melissa’s dead body)
Meek: You… are all going… to hell! (screams a wicked mad laugh as she gives a last groan and dies)
Mr Brown: Oh my god (embracing Mrs Brown in a warm hug) I’m so glad you are safe my chocolate muffin
Mrs Brown: You too my Browny bear
Wynburg: I’ll go and get the life form
Tyran: I’ll come too (Wynburg and Tyran hurry offstage)
Julia: Lance… come away
Lance: She is dead! (is crying)28
Scene 19: Melissa’s Funeral (a gravestone is in the centre stage as a sorrow full piece of music comes on. Lance is grieving with Julia behind him for support. Baz is nearby with Tyran. Mrs Brown and Mr Brown are linked arms paying there respects. Wynburg is stood on his own, along with a few other people. The vicar can be heard faintly over the music)
Vicar: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to wave goodbye to Melissa Jayne Ryan as she enters the spirit world. As today we stand here before this tomb of where Melissa will at last rest in peace from the torment of her raging illness. If any speeches are to be made, please make them now
Wynburg: I will ask permission to make one, if you condone it Lance?
Lance: Of course (clutching to himself)
Wynburg: We all know of the Ryan’s legacy throughout life; most of all Ralph Ryan and Emily Ryan, parents to Melissa and Lance, who fought bravely in the Hiss war; and unfortunately lost there lives to it. Well, the Ryan’s legacy lived on through Melissa as a week ago today she, being weak and drowsy and totally helpless as we all thought; performed an act of sheer selflessness that would not only save the lives of us all but of the whole universe; she sacrificed herself just as her parents did and it was all for the good of the universe. You can certainly tell, throughout all her trials that Melissa had showed that she had the right to be called a Ryan. She was, and still is, a Ryan further than the skin and bone, and not just through her blood, she is a Ryan from her soul. And so today should not be completely sorrowful but should also be a celebration that Melissa will finally meet her parents and be welcomed into the spirit world where her true Ryan soul will be able to live comfortably and without worry, god rest you, Melissa (everyone claps weakly)
Vicar: Anybody else? No? Okay then, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we beckon you Melissa, pass into the spirit world and there thrive happily (the music dims as everyone disperses) Please everyone, pass any flowers over her grave now (a line forms from the heroes)
Mr Brown: (along with Mrs Brown) Melissa, you truly are a hero
Mrs Brown: aye she is, she is (they place some flowers on the grave
Tyran: (with Baz) Thank you so much Melissa
Baz: Truly, we owe you our life and are eternally grateful (put some more flowers onto the grave)
Wynburg: You have heard what I have to say, Melissa, hero is one thing that you always were even throughout illness (places more flowers)
Julia: Jeez, what to say to you. Your great, I know that much. And I owe you more than anyone here. I’ll tell you how I’ll make it up to you, when I come to the spirit world, I will take you to a club and show you what you missed when you were ill? I bet you would like that. You have my thanks beyond words. (smiles sadly and places a ribbon on her grave)
Lance: I am sorry that I can’t and couldn’t do more for you, I tried ever so hard. I don’t deserve to be called your brother, after what I did to my friends, and how I endangered your life. Just know this Melissa, I love you beyond what anyone else can understand. Say hi to mom and dad for me too while your there, I’m not sure they’d like to here from me but it’ll be worth the effort. (places a single rose on her grave) You deserve so much more than this, so much more…
Julia: Come here Lance (gives Lance a tight long hug over the following in the background)
Wynburg: (to Mr & Mrs Brown) This is a tragic way to end, when it should have been happy ever after for us all
Mr Brown: You know it never works out like that Robert
Mrs Brown: and I hope Lance will cope. He did unspeakable things yes, but I would not wish this to happen to anybody
Tyran: I could certainly wish it on Meek, and a hell of a lot of other things
Baz: Meek got her punishment through death, all I know is that Meek is going to hell and I hope she burns there until her body is nothing but ashes
Wynburg: and fifty times more of that wouldn’t even amount to what she did while she was alive
Tyran: How did the authorities take Lance killing Meek?
Wynburg: Not very well as expected, I managed to pull a few strings though and persuade a few High Court members to vote for Lance’s freedom; though many did not want this outcome
Baz: That is understandable; he murdered someone but had good reason for it
Mr Brown: What of the MEH?
Wynburg: Closed down, everyone who worked directly on that operation and knew of its effects was sent to prison. Those who had no idea but worked for her were freed and given jobs (Julia and Lance join the group)
Julia: Lance has something to say… go on
Lance: Thanks, all of you. I could have gotten you all killed and you still are kind to me. This has reminded me of what is important in life, and that death cannot be fought by any miracle cure plucked out thin air or else we would all be eternal. I know it is not me you have come here for, but I hope that you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me
Mr Brown: I forgive you for endangering me, but endangering my daughter and wife is unforgivable; but I will hold no grudges
Mrs Brown: but forgetting is something which never comes easy of something this size
Tyran: All that has happened was not all your fault, and Meek would have thought her way around anything, so I can put that behind us and move on
Julia: What you did nearly killed my whole family and that I cannot forgive you for Lance, but I agree with Tyran, lets put it behind us and start afresh. Mom, Dad; I’m coming home to Utopiar, I left home too early. I’m going back to university and studying medical to be at a more professional level.
Mr Brown; It will be good to have you back (Julia runs over and gives her parents a crushing hug)
Mrs Brown: Your room is still the same you know! Warm and cuddly and oh so pink
Julia: Thanks mum, I miss our old life so much
Tyran: So what’s next for everyone?
Lance: It’s time to start again for me. I always wanted to be a journalist like Melissa; I think I’ll retrain maybe. What about you Tyran?
Tyran: I think a visit to my mom would be afforded; I’ll probably stay and help look after her. All this death and betrayal doesn’t suit me at the moment, not while I have so much to lose plus she needs me. All I know is that this tale will be passed down through my family and many will know of our team; good and bad.
Baz: I think its back to the book; I haven’t done a lot of reading lately and I’m beginning to forget the plot
Julia: You’re obsessed with that book, what is it that’s so good?
Baz: Its love interest reminds me of you and me a little(embarrassed)
Julia: Er… what do you mean?
Baz: Work always holds them back from what they truly want in each other
Julia: Well I don’t think work is holding me back now…come here you big french shauvanist lover boy! (Julia runs over to Baz and they kiss)
Mr & Mrs Brown: Ooh! (everyone looks happy at this prospect)
Wynburg: I remember young love once.
Julia: I’m sure you’ll find someone yourself, Wynburg.
Wynburg: I’m going back to work, and concentrating on that not y poor excuse for my love life! I’m glad we’re all fine, and together. And I’m glad that this action hero stuff isn’t going on anymore either, it tires me out! (he wipes his forhead with tissue)
Baz: Back to the day job then.
Julia: I guess it is.29
THE END- BOWS
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so so
I think this play is good. I noticed some grammatical errors that could be fixed quickly. I also noticed that it was hard for me to picture the characters in my head. I think that it is a good peice but it still needs some work. You are a good writer.
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