S02-E12 THE MAN WHO PAINTED BUTTERFLIES
INT: BIANCHI'S APARTMENT
(ALEX, SHARROW, SOPHIE, ZED)
ALEX
SOPHIE, record, we're coming up to
BIANCHI'S floor now.
SOPHIE
Roger, recording.
ZED
Okay, just about to shunt the
camera feeds. (Pause) Oh good,
security is piss poor, just the
locks in the doors. System is old,
easy to override.
SHARROW
Roger, indicate when system by
passed.
ZED
Guys, looks like BIANCHI is
outside, selling oxy-tabs. Even if
she left now, you'd still have time
to get into her apartment and give
it the once over.
SHARROW
Roger. We're counting on you to
give us fair warning.
ZED
Roger.
ALEX
The door locks, they look as we
suspected.
ZED
Roger, got that. Now put the
device I gave you exactly over the
depression in the middle.
ALEX
Nothing's happening! (Pause) Oh
wait, it's moving and clicking.
It's loud, I'm worried that it's
going to attract attention.
ZED
Hold on, almost there. I love these
electro-mechanical security devices
so amenable to a good hack!
LOCK CLICK AND
DOOR OPENING
SHARROW
Door's open, we're going in.
ALEX
It's...
SHARROW
Wow.
ALEX
I'm afraid to breathe.
ZED
What's the matter? She a huge slob
or something?
SHARROW
No, ZED, she's the complete
opposite. She's an extreme neat
freak. I can smell the disinfectant
in the air.
ALEX
You start at that end, I'll start
at this one.
SHARROW
Done.
ZED
So give us some feedback, for the
recordings, what's it like in
there?
SHARROW
ZED, we can't talk to you, we have
to work. I'm linking my implants
for live constant broadcast, I'll
link to you ZED. ALEX can link to
SOPHIE. Are you ready for uplink?
ZED
Roger
SOPHIE
Roger, recording.
ALEX
ZED, we need a constant look out,
eyes on BIANCHI. If she moves or
even twitches, you tell us okay?
ZED
Roger that.
ALEX
God, this place, it makes my skin
crawl, its just too clean. I've
been in hospital intensive care
units less sterile than here. How
can someone live like this?
SHARROW
Let me look at her kitchen. Oh
hell, this is creepy absolutely
everything is labelled. Even the
cutlery drawer and the light
switches.
ALEX
She labelled the light switches?
SHARROW
Yep.
ALEX
That's just plain crazy stuff.
SHARROW
You do the bedroom; that little
room in there, I think she uses it
as an office, I'll do there next.
ALEX
Roger, far out, she must be a
puritan, the bed is as hard as
granite. ZED there's a data pad.
I'm going to use the device you
give me.
ZED
Roger that, connect via the uni
port and wait for it to bleep.
BLEEP
ALEX
All good done. It's just as bad in
here as the rest as the apartment.
Everything is placed with extreme
precision. It's all right angles
and precisely measured intervals.
Not a speck of dust to be seen.
No pictures of anything on the
walls, let alone pictures of her
husband or her daughter PAIGE. This
set of drawers has clothes. Here's
her socks and underwear. All in
beige, lined up in strict
regimental order. Definitely
whacko!
ZED
Guys, code red, She's moved! She
got a message on her data watch and
ran off she heading towards you. I
would say you've trigger an alarm.
ALEX
SHAS, you done in there?
SHARROW
Close enough to. I just data-vised
everything I could, I didn't stop
to read any of it. Let's go.
SOPHIE
Confirmed I've got the files.
INT: THE OFFICE OF ANGEL AND MAY
(ALEX, SHARROW, SOPHIE, ZED)
ALEX
How're you going over there,
SHARROW?
SHARROW
Good. BIANCHI has been running an
elaborate and, as far as I can
tell, an entirely legal tax fraud
for the past couple years. I'm
taking notes.
ALEX
Why tax fraud, seems a little over
the top for a small Oxy-credit
operation?
SHARROW
SOPHIE and ZED, we need to get this
data into our servers and start
some cross checking algorithms. We
need to transcribe any documents
that we videoed and all other
textual information. SOPHIE can
you split the video into smallish
sections and tag for the database.
ZED you know what you do.
ALEX
We need to encode that data pad.
It's her personal diary and it's
rather odd.
SHARROW
How so?
ALEX
I'll read you a little excerpt:
"MOTHER told me today that I lack
discipline. Although my sales meet
her goals, my body is slack. I
urinate too often. I must purge. I
will drink vinegar and brine until
I vomit, and then I will drink
more. After I vomit again I will
beat myself with a leather whip
until I bleed"
SHARROW
Jesus, thats all very S&M. Okay, I
think I get the picture, its all
about control. What else is in
there.
ALEX
"Men are weak and the source of
weakness in women. MOTHER says that
the desire of EVE for ADAM was the
beginning of weakness in the world
and the source of female submission
to inferiority-"
SHARROW
Good grief, its a gold mine of
weird. SOPHIE can you hold on the
video and transcribe this pad data
first. Log and tag all entries.
ALEX
Look, this entry's more recent:
"MOTHER is angry. There have been
no good candidates for so long.
CULAN and KOPANJA go out every
Saturday night and find no one.
MOTHER says that it's just an
excuse for them to go drinking and
that they're no longer obeying her
like they should."
SHARROW
CULAN and KOPANJA, those names seem
familiar. ZED can you find links to
those surnames?
ZED
Hold on, ah ha, got them, they come
up on tagged on the SORENSON'S farm
video's.
SHARROW
Wait weren't they the ugly brutes
in the barn?
ZED
Yes they were.
ALEX
I quote: "-so MOTHER is going out
herself tomorrow night. She will
find a candidate and CULAN and
KOPANJA will bring him back to the
FARM for processing." Processing.
That does not sound good.
SHARROW
Keep going.
ALEX
The next entry: "We sit together at
a table, all four of us, MOTHER,
CULAN, KOPANJA and I. We don't
talk. It's too loud with music and
other voices to talk anyway. The
tabletop is sticky with spilled
beer and sweat and I try not to
touch it. It's so crowded. Miners
and tourists. Everyone except us
dressed in their best silks and
sequins. We are the six, six, six,
dressed drab. MOTHER says that
vanity is a the mark of the Eloi.
Taste of sickly sweet rum rolling
over my tongue, like blood. I hate
it here, sitting with the animals,
they haven't bathed and I can smell
them.
SHARROW
Ohhh, this is mega creepy.
ALEX
You think thats bad! I quote:
MOTHER says, "Look at the Ptaavs,
that one, he's perfect," and we
look and we see him, a Ptavv,
mentally deficient moronic grin
like them all. MOTHER gives
benediction, CULAN and KOPANJA are
designated as the carriers of the
judgement. MOTHER and I go back to
the FARM for the cleaning of Eloi"
SHARROW
Wow, super Medieval, with a touch
of the Revelation and a dose of
Jules Verne all muddled together.
ALEX
So we're right she a killer. It was
BIANCHI and her little friends
sweeping up the Ptavv's of the
Eloi. What ever that means.
SHARROW
They're a cult, that figures. Its
the Mansons all over again, with
SORENSON as chief priest, CULAN and
KOPANJA are the executioners, and
BIANCHI finds the Ptavv's for the
slaughter.
ALEX
And no one has never even noticed.
That's so fucked up.
SHARROW
Say's a lot about New London.
SOPHIE
I'm feeling sick, can I use the
loo.
SHARROW
Of course, SOPHIE, this stuff is
unusual even for this game.
SOPHIE
Thanks SHAS. I need to wash my
hands.
SHARROW
As do we all.
ALEX
The issue is, what the hell do we
do, we have to get the authorities
involved.
SHARROW
Do we, ALEX, really, it will take
months and we have to gather
evidence. How many have to die for
us to get that evidence.
ALEX
Yes, you right of course. I think
we may have to take action.
ZED
Should we get RUDI involved?
SHARROW
Yes and GANDER too, I think we need
some extra help on this one. Also
we might need some protection
ourselves. Right now, my spidey
sense is playing up. SORENSON,
knows me, I'll bet that at this
very moment, she is back tracing
and thinking of preemptive action.
Were sitting here, thinking we are
hunting them, but I'll bet their
already hunting us.
ALEX
Yes agreed, SOPHIE and ZED, you
guys come with us lock up the shop,
Were going to talk with RUDI and
GANDER at the Retro. This last
entry is creepy. "Last night was
wonderful but clumsy. We had to use
a horse but it spooked at the noise
and kicked CULAN. I'll wait three
days and sell the bracelet." And
that's all it says. Nothing about
the murder itself or the body
disposal after. The rest of the
entries appear to be about me and
my enquiries, and how I've
disrupted her life and business,
and what she'd like to do to me as
a result. She knows who I am, who
you are, and what we do, and where
the OFFICE is.
SHARROW
OK, that confirms that we have to
go proactive.
ALEX
We're only going to have one shot
at this.
INT. RETROGRADE GANDERS OFFICE
(ALEX, GANDER, RUDI, SHARROW)
RUDI
Jesus, this is bad, looks like we
might have to clean out some
vermin.
GANDER
Those poor innocents, you're right
the authorities, would be too slow,
we need to keep our own house in
order, even if its in the lanes.
RUDI
So what do you need?
ALEX
Well, I was thinking a small
tactical squad, maximum firepower,
but highly agile. We need
experienced wet workers, also those
that can handle close in combat. I
think we hold SOPHIE and ZED back
at C&C for tactical comms and
thought that perhaps this is
something JACINTA and COSTA might
enjoy?
RUDI
Yes, good idea, SLIM would be good
too with the wet work, but he is a
little long in tooth for creeping
about in the bushes. Will two
operatives be enough?
ALEX
I think so we need to keep this
tight, easy in, easy out.
SHARROW
I don't know those thugs were quite
big and SORENSION is physically
scary.
ALEX
We're going to be tool up SHAS, we
are going to have the best
equipment. I say we go at night,
with infra red night vision, even
up the odds somewhat.
RUDI
Yes. OK I will tee up our end,
I'll meet you in the armoury at
eighteen hundred. In the mean time
I think you should rest up in the
inn.
EXT: THE SORENSON FARM GATE
(ALEX, COSTAS, JACINTA, SHARROW, ZED)
ALEX
Team Alpha, about to breach.
Confirm gates are locked as
suspected. Proceeding to try cloned
passkeys. ZED are we good to go.
ZED
Confirmed, good to go. Just waiting
for the next encryption key. It's
347923 you have one minute.
ALEX
Yes, I'm trying to key it in but
these combat gloves don't make it
easy. OK got it.
BLEEP
ZED
Camera and sensor disrupt code
loading.
ALEX
Team Beta going hot, passkeys crypt
key, you have 30 seconds after us.
Going in.
A LOW, METALLIC
TINKLING SOUND
ALEX
Confirmed gate is open.
SHARROW
Cue count down on implant clock
one.
ALEX
Mark
SHARROW
Mark
JACINTA
Mark
COSTAS
Just get on with it, I'm bored.
ALEX
Perfect, lets make some real
nightmares come true for these
bastards.
SHARROW
SOPHIE status, proceeding to
FARMHOUSE for security nexus kill,
ALEX status.
ALEX
Status good no dogs.
SHARROW
OK at target one FARMHOUSE.
ALEX
No activity looking for possible
trigger traps?
SHARROW
You know, they may at this time be
over at our place, doing the same.
ALEX
Well, good luck to them, I didn't
feed A-ray, so she is going to be
pissed off.
ZED
Yes I can confirm he flicked me
with a pod as I was going out.
SHARROW
For once, I'm starting to like thar
plant. At the door, odd-looking
lock. It old, mechanical, looks pre
2030s metal key design, no
electronics.
ALEX
Sure it's not just a normal
electronic lock designed to look
old?
SHARROW
No, there's no sensor at all, see?
We need to find something to use as
lock picks.
ALEX
SHAS, your slipping, remember the
old ways. Look under the mat or
the nearest plant pot.
SHARROW
Your joking.
ALEX
No I'm not. Works every time baby.
One key!
SHARROW
God , your insufferable!
ALEX
Yes and thats just my good side.
These guys they've been doing so
long, they have gotten lazy. I
think they were relying on people
just not knowing what they were
looking at. After you, miss.
SHARROW
Why, thank you. Well. This is
stranger than the lock. Vastly so.
ALEX
It's like being on a movie set.
SHARROW
It's a replica of a 1920s kitchen.
There's not even a food hutch, only
several wooden cabinets.
JACINTA
Team two at Barn.
SHARROW
Roger, hold position, we are in
FARMHOUSE, protect flank.
ALEX
This primitive gauge on the wall
reads 'Fahrenheit', it's like an
antique store. I wonder if we need
to talk to SINJIN?
SHARROW
Hmmm, I don't think this sort of
thing is his style. Mind you with
these cults you never know and he
does have a weird beard.
ALEX
Status, entering lounge, no weird
beards.
SHARROW
Still in the 1920s theme. Case
clock, well maintained, running.
ALEX
Jesus SHAS, its a military op, not
antiques roadshow. Thats strange,
can't see any informational stuff,
no terminals, data-pads, not even
paper books. What do these people
do at night? Listen to the SORENSON
show?
SHARROW
ALEX, you know these cults, they
need to keep up the mind
conditioning. I think that is
exactly what they do. I bet she
really likes the sound of her own
voice. SOPHIE Status, in laundry.
Whew, they are stinky bastards. I'm
in the bedroom now.
Looks meaner than a monk's cell, no
spike to sit on, but its close. At
stairs proceeding up.
ALEX
Team Beta, we are proceeding second
floor, any action outside?
JACINTA
All, quiet, we are hunkered down
behind some farm machinery, good
kill position, over.
ALEX
Roger, out.
SHARROW
Bedroom two clear.
ALEX
Bedroom One clear.
SHARROW
ALEX, what do you make of this?
ALEX
Ohhh, It's I little ornate, but in
bad taste. I bet its the head
bitches room.
SHARROW
That figures. Look, we have media
screens. It's the security system.
ZED, we have encountered tech in
bedroom 3?
ZED
Roger, monitoring, I can see the
feed. Use the umbilical C from the
utilities and connect into the hub
SHARROW
OK, connecting. I have green
light.
ZED
OK loading virus, attacking, OK
disabled.
SHARROW
Roger, ALEX we have green light,
security disabled.
ALEX
What's that, red signal on the
small screen. ZED we have a red on
another screen.
ZED
Looks like its a movement sensor
system, its seperate from the other
security. Can you get closer to the
screen.
ALEX
Roger.
ZED
Yes It says its movement in the
stable.
ALEX
Team Beta, we have movement in
Stable block, observe do not kill
at this stage unless necessary.
SHAS are there any other movements?
SHARROW
No, only one. My best guess is that
they're away raiding our office,
but once they find we are not
there, they'll be back.
ALEX
Look at this. This ornate white and
gold wardrobe is filled with canvas
overalls, but hanging behind the
door is a silk and lace nightgown
that could keep an elephant decent.
SHARROW
SORENSON the ugly Elephant,
although thats an insult to
Elephants.
ALEX
All this just adds more evidence to
the cult theory. SORENSON lives
luxuriously, while her followers
live in spartan little cells.
SHARROW
I'm going to do a quick search, we
are going to need to give closure
to the client. Any thing relating
to ANDREW or PAIGE would be good.
SEARCHING AND
OPENING OF
DRAWERS
ALEX
What the
A LOUD BUZZING
NOISE FILLS THE
ROOM
SHARROW
ALEX, shhh! Try to be quieter!
ALEX
SHARROW, remember when I said that
bit about the nightgown keeping an
elephant decent?
SHARROW
What?
ALEX
I just found what the elephant uses
when it wants to be indecent.
SHARROW
What are you talking about, oh shit
no. Stop! I don't want to know!
Just turn it off and keep
searching!
ALEX
But-
SHARROW
Now!
ALEX
Okay, okay.
THE BUZZING
STOPS. THE
CLATTERING
RESUMES, THEN
STOPS AGAIN
SHARROW
Anything?
ALEX
Nothing.
SHARROW
I think we should make a direct
move. Do some squeezing of the
puss.
ALEX
Agreed team Beta, we are
withdrawing from Farmhouse,
negative on search, I think we need
to get the operative in the Barn
alive for questioning.
JACINTA
Thank god for that, my arse was
getting numb with the cold. OK we
will prep, see you in a minute.
INT: THE SORENSON STABLES
(ALEX, BIANCHI, COSTAS, CULAN, JACINTA, SHARROW, SOPHIE)
JACINTA
Stay still, you fucking snake.
SLAP
CULAN
(Whimpering) And so MS ADELLE says,
CULAN, you're no good, CULAN, you
can't come, CULAN, you stay here,
CULAN, you're worthless, CULAN, no,
no, no. But MS ADELLE I said, I try
my best, I always try, and she
said, you are extremely trying. And
that awful MRS BIANCHI said, she
said (breaks down into crying)
JACINTA
Jesus, can I kill him now.
BIANCHI
I shit, his pissed his pants.
ALEX
Guys, just hold up let SHAS do her
work.
SHARROW
No CULAN were your friends, what
was it she said?
CULAN
(Singing laughter) Hey! You're one
of them! You're the blonde bitch-
A SLAP THEN THUD
THEN SINGING
WHIMPERING
ALEX
Now look, you piece of dog shit, as
a general rule, the only one who's
allowed to call SHARROW names is
me.
LAUGHTER AND
WOLF HOWLING
JACINTA
Of for heavens sake!
ALEX
Hold off Jacinta, I want to clobber
him as much as you do, but we need
some information first.
SHARROW
(Whispered) SOPHIE make sure you
are recording and time stamping
this feed from my implants, I think
we may get some valuable
information.
SOPHIE
Roger
ALEX
SHAS, grab some of that leather
tack over there and we'll tie him
up. Here we are, old boy, let's
prop you up on that bench over
there.
SHARROW
Here's some bridles and reins.
ALEX
Excellent. Help me bind his hands,
feet, elbows, and knees.
MUFFLED WHINING
AS CULAN
PROTESTS WITH
SOME CRAZED
SINGING
SHARROW
OK, quiet down. I'm sure you really
like this. It's how you get your
kicks, isn't it?
A THUD AND A
WHIMPER AS
SHARROW KICKS
CULAN
SHARROW
Oh your choking a little, having
difficulty breathing!
(ALEX sounds taken aback
as SHARROW is usually the
nice one.)
ALEX
Steady on, SHAS. We need this one
alive.
SHARROW
Yes, yes, but I keep thinking of
his victims.
CULAN BEGINS TO
SPIT AND COUGH
CULAN
Urgh, Urgh.
ALEX
What do you know you dirty animal,
your mummy will be upset.
CULAN
No, Nooo, Mummmy will punish me!
JACINTA
This bastards the classic gimp.
I'm starting to feel sorry for him.
SHARROW
JACINTA don't feel sorry for him,
he has probably killed quite a few
innocent victims.
SHARROW slaps CULAN very hard and he whimpers pathetically
WHIMPERING AND
WHISPERED
PRAYING
SHARROW
Where are they? What did you do to
them?
CULAN
Where is who? What are you talking
about?
SHARROW
How's your knee? Still sore?
SHRIEKING
CULAN
Okay! Okay! Mummy SORENSON have
gone to hunt and kill. I said it
was bad and wrong and they cursed
and left me here!
ALEX
I sincerely doubt that you had a
sudden attack of conscience after
all these years.
I think it's much more likely that
they realised that with your knee,
you'd only get in the way and that
it was best to leave you behind.
Regardless, that's not what we're
asking.
SHARROW
Fourteen people have gone missing
in the past three years. One woman,
thirteen men. The first was PAIGE
BIANCHI, ADELLE SORENSON'S own
granddaughter. The most recent was
ANDREW HELIGELIEN, who had one ear
higher than the other and a sister
who loves and misses him. Fourteen
people, CULAN. Fourteen people who
had their lives ahead of them, who
tried to get through the day with
one foot in front of the other just
like anyone else. What happened to
them? Where did they go? What did
you do to them? What. Did. You. Do.
To. Them.
SLAPPING INTIME
WITH DIALOG
CULAN
I didn't do nothing! I didn't do
nothing!
(SHARROW growls and CULAN
yelps again)
Nothing!
ALEX
Look, CULAN, right now I'm a little
lost and confused. See, the truth
is that SHARROW and I usually play
Good Cop, Bad Cop in these sorts of
situations, and I'm always Bad Cop,
which usually makes her the nice
one. So I must confess that I'm
unsure exactly as to what SHARROW
is going to do next.
A SHARP CRACK
AND CULAN YODELS
ALEX
Well, that, evidently. My point is,
I may be mean by nature, but
SHARROW is creative. Very creative,
as you're right now discovering.
Just tell us what we want to know
and we will end the pain.
SHARROW
Speak for yourself.
(CULAN sobs)
ALEX
Well, regardless, it'll all be over
if you just tell us what we want to
know. Where are the missing people,
CULAN?
CULAN
They were weak, Mummy SORENSON
said. They were losers, simple
Ptaavs. Nobodies. Cargo ship
rubbish. One less of each of them
in the universe, and the universe
is better for it.
SHARROW
What? Even PAIGE? SORENSON'S
granddaughter? BIANCHI'S daughter?
CULAN
Especially PAIGE! She was supposed
to stay here! She was the best
rider we ever had! She was supposed
to represent the farm and bring us
prestige and customers, and instead
she decided to sign up to a
freighter because she wanted to see
the solar system. She wanted to
leave us! She wanted to abandon us!
She was the worst of all of them!
If she'd wanted to be anything else-
a trader, a maid, a mechanic, a
miner or whatever- it would have
been okay but she wanted to be the
lowest form of life there is, a
cargo ship hand. She tried to leave
and she tried to bring shame to us.
But we stopped her. We stopped her
good.
SHARROW
What about the others? The thirteen
men? Why kill them?
CULAN
Because Mummy SORENSON told us to
clean. She said that in the coming
we would be rewarded, we need to
clean the Ptavs.
SHARROW
But why? Why?
CULAN
She told us to.
(A sharp crack)
SHARROW
But why did she say they had to
die?
JACINTA
(Whispering) Look SHARROW, you know
what we have to do don't you, now
I'm going to take him around the
back and put him out of his misery
CULAN
(Crazed laughter), chop off your
head, chop off you hand, its all
blood, blood. Kill the ptavs. I
love mummy. Mummy loves me
WEEPING
SHARROW
It's time to help mummy. Mummy
want's us to know where the alter
is?
CULAN
Oh, if mummy says then I must obey.
The Alter room is between the
stables that is where we worship
and do the cleaning.
JACINTA
COSTAS, give me a hand.
COSTAS
Yes Sargent, my pleasure.
JACINTA
You go and look we have some
cleaning to do.
ALEX
Sigh, yes I suppose you do.
SHARROW
These people who think they have
all the answers, there just the
worse. Fourteen people.
ALEX
Come on SHARROW, best not see
what's about to happen
SOUND DRAGGING
CHAIR,
WHIMPERING THEN
MUFFLED GUNSHOT.
INT: THE SORENSON SMALL SHED
(ALEX, SHARROW, SOPHIE)
SHARROW
SOPHIE, Did you get that?
SOPHIE
Yes, RUDI and GANDER also were
watching. Be careful.
SHARROW
Thanks, its grim business. OK
proceeding into Alter room.
ALEX
Proceeding, Door behind the front
desk leading. Clear.
SHARROW
Break room and general storage. So
there should be another door back
here.
ALEX
I'm worried about stepping into a
man trap. These cults always
protect their inner sanctum
SHARROW
Hmmm, I not so sure, I think we may
be giving them to much credit. I
honestly think it's been pure luck
and shoddy administration that's
kept this little serial killing
cult going. I don't think they're
all that smart objectively
speaking. Here, I think this is it.
SOPHIE proceeding, through hidden
door behind bookshelf.
CLICK AND CREAK
OF A DOOR
OPENING
SHARROW
Photographs and little jars filled
with mush.
ALEX
Fourteen photographs and fourteen
jars. Oh. Oh. Shit.
SHARROW
Yuck, I'm trying hard not to puke.
These photographs, they've all been
taken in front of the Progressive
Impact Generator System. ALEX, that
thing is a garbage disposal unit.
It uses shock waves to break waste
down to molecular levels.
ALEX
Every one of these photos is of a
missing person. Up top is PAIGE. At
the bottom is ANDREW. Every single
person is smiling and happy. ANDREW
is even patting a damn horse. These
photos where taken just before they
were murdered. Sigh, this is the
evidence we need, jars of DNA mush.
SHARROW
Human jam.
ALEX
This is a bloody death camp and
horror church..
SHARROW
Breathe ALEX, breathe.
ALEX
You're remarkably calm about this.
SHARROW
To be honest with you, I'm running
on pure rage right now. There's no
room for anything else. We've found
ANDREW. We've found the others. Now
let's go find SORENSON and her
little followers and send them all
to hell.
ALEX
Sounds good to me. Let's go. I
can't stay here. Human jam little
jars. It's the sickest thing I've
ever heard of, and that takes
serious effort. SHAS, when we get
back to the RETROGRADE, I- oh,
shit, we weren't paying attention!
Team beta, multiple targets
SORENSON and her cultists, they
have dart guns.
EXT: THE SORENSON FARM
(BIANCHI, COSTAS, JACINTA, KOPANJA, SHARROW, SORENSON)
A THUD AND ALEX
CRIES OUT AND
FALLS TO THE
GROUND. SHARROW
CURSES
INDISTINCTLY AS
SHE SCUFFLES,
BUT FINALLY
SHE'S PINNED AND
HELPLESS,
SHRIEKING IN
FRUSTRATION
BIANCHI
That mouthy swine is down for the
count! Take that!
(Several muffled thuds as
BIANCHI kicks ALEX on the
ground)
SORENSON
It doesn't matter what you do,
you're too weak and helpless to
fight me.
SHARROW
Your going to regret this!
SORENSON
Shut up, where is the CULAN dog?
SHARROW
Gone to the same place that your
all going to!
KOPANJA
I'm going to enjoy killing you.
SORENSON
Step back, KOPANJA! Shit I hate
having to train another gimp. How
dare you play with my animals.
SHARROW
Your a sick bitch, what did they
ever do to you?
SORENSON
Disobedient animals need training.
In her case the training didn't
take. As for the men...
CRAZED LAUGHTER
SORENSON
It is fun. That's all there is to
it.
SHARROW
Fun? It's all just a game to you?
SORENSON
It God's work, training gimps just
animals for the coming of the six.
SHARROW
Why is it always God's work to
kill. They all say that, just
before the electric chair. If
thats your God, its not one I'm
going follow?
SORENSON
There's no need to get so worked up
about it, my God would never accept
an accolade who is so clearly a
Ptav.
SHARROW
You crazy BITCH.
SORENSON GIVES A
LOUD, PAINED
SHRIEK AS
SHARROW BITES A
SIZABLE CHUNK OF
SKIN OUT OF HER
ARM
SHARROW
Fourteen people. Thirteen of them
you picked just because they were
men who worked on cargo ships!
Fourteen people, you evil shit, you
waste of oxygen, fourteen people
murdered for fun!
TWO LOUD
GUNSHOTS, AND
KOPANJA AND
BIANCHI BOTH
SCREAM
SHARROW
I'm sending you to meet your bloody
God, SORENSON! I've been
distracting you while the B team do
some cleaning up. Hello Girls!
BOOTS UPON
GRAVEL
JACINTA
COSTA, kill shot, execute.
ONE GUN SHOT
COSTAS
Confirmed kill. Thank you Sargent,
the next ones yours.
SHARROW
JACINTA, COSTA, thank you.
JACINTA
Vermin killing, its a nasty
business but it has to be done. We
have a couple more to clean, I'll
be back. COSTA go find Alex see if
she's OK.
COSTAS
Yes Sarg.
INT: THE OFFICE OF ANGEL AND MAY
(ALEX, SHARROW, SOPHIE, ZED)
SHARROW
Easy there. Easy, easy.
ALEX
Ow ow ow ow.
SHARROW
Sit down here. I'll get a cold pack
from the back. Well, I have to say
I'm pleasantly surprised. I thought
that SORENSON and company would
have trashed the office out of
spite, but it looks like all they
did was force the lock on the door
open and then have a short scuffle
with A-Ray, who I must say looks
happy. SOPHIE Can you hand me that
other pack.
SOPHIE
I told the Doc you might be up for
some wound dressings, she was
waiting in her office.
SHARROW
Yep, well, be there shortly
ALEX
Can you not talk so loud?
SHARROW
Sorry, look its the after effects
of her sleepy drug.
ALEX
I'm proud of you, you executed a
mark one field bite on the bitch.
SHAS you dog.
SHARROW
Well, I guess its just my medical
training, although I'm going to
have to get a load of shots.
ALEX
No you won't our Nanities remember!
SHARROW
Oh of course, do you know I'd
forgotten all about them.
ZED
Wow, you're really a wolf in
sheep's clothing SHARROW!
SHARROW
Yep I guess I lost it, that bitch
had terrible eyes. I skinned
SORENSON with my bare teeth. And I
would have done much, much, more if
JACINTA hadn't taken over. It Was
terrible ALEX, Oh god.
VERY SOFTLY,
SHARROW BEGINS
TO CRY
SHARROW
Nobody missed them. Thirteen men
died and nobody missed them. They
just vanished and no one batted an
eyelash.
ALEX
Shhh, it's all right. It's all
right. Look we have family here its
could never happen in the
Retrograde, thats the amazing
thing, we are in the rough end of
town, but there is more love here
than anywhere. Its the up town and
the docks that are the lonely
places. Look lets get ourselves up
the infirmary, I need a shot of
something, and then the bar for a
gin.
INT: THE OFFICE OF ANGEL AND MAY
(ALEX, ALICE, SHARROW, ZED)
SHARROW
We are so, so sorry ALICE. I wish
we could have found ANDREW for you.
But by the time you received his
last message, he was already dead.
ALICE
I... I understand.
ALEX
The people who took him were evil
and they were experienced. They'd
already taken many other victims
before him. That's why they took
ANDREW. They were careless. The
others they took had no family or
friends to miss them, so they got
away with it over and over again,
and they became arrogant. They
didn't check to see it ANDREW had
family that would miss him. They
only cared that ANDREW was male and
a low rank worker on a cargo ship.
ALICE
I saw there was a fire up on one of
tiers, was that to do with this
case.
SHARROW
Yes, it was, we had to cleans the
site with fire. Look, you have
saved a lot of people, these
monsters would have kept killing.
It was only your love that stopped
this.
ZED
Only... that's not quite true. Not
for any of them.
SHARROW
Ah hum, ZED? ZED, we're with a
client, OK. Now is not the best
time, okay?
ZED
You told me at the beginning to
find as much information on all of
the missing men as I could,
remember? So I did. And sure, some
of the men are better known than
others, none of them are forgotten.
See here, this man, ABBAD NASER, he
wrote psalms for children for the
online Mosque he was a member of.
MAUING NANDA painted butterflies.
Can you imagine that?
Painting butterflies in space? This
butterfly society in Myanmar would
send him butterflies all fixed in a
special resin that he could put
under a microscope and he'd paint
them. He'd done two dozen paintings
that way. He'd had an entire art
gallery named after him back on
Earth even though in space he was
just a cargo ship labourer.
SHARROW? SHARROW, are you all
right?
SHARROW
I'm fine. I'm fine, ZED, I really
am. But ALICE is here for her
brother ANDREW, so maybe we should
save this for another time.
ALICE
No. No, I mean, it's okay. I mean,
I want to hear it too. ANDREW loved
pictures of butterflies. He would
have loved MAUING NANDA. Look we
need to here this to respect their
memories.
ALEX
Well, go on then, ZED.
ZED
JAMES FARQUHAR wasn't refined at
all, but he played a mean game of
pool. His name is on plaques all
over NEW LONDON and asteroids,
moons, satellites and stations
between PLUTO and EARTH. His rival
was a man called MOSES BLACK, with
almost as many wins under his belt
as FARQUHAR...
ZED'S VOICE
FADES OUT. PLAY
TITLE MUSIC.
END