Angel and May
Angel and May are two worn-out private investigators from LA. Events take a turn and they embark on a journey which will take them across time and space to the asteroid colony "New London". They hole up in a dodgy pub run by a crazy drag queen. What could possibly go wrong! They say the skies are the limit, but here they're just the beginning!
Angel and May
G02-E07 - Knight of Swords
The Ghosts of the Maritsuba mess with the Gambino family.
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THE TAROT INTERVENTION - G02-E07-KNIGHT OF SWORDS
JACINTA exasperated at having to play GANDER-DAVID's
sidekick in the TAROT con.
The Knight of Swords shows a knight dressed in armour,
charging ahead with great energy on his powerful white
horse. The knight's sword is held high, a symbol of his
dedication to his purpose and mission. The white horse
symbolises the purity of the intellectual energy that
motivates the knight. In the background, storm clouds are
beginning to form, and the trees bend in the strong
winds. The wind doesn't stop the knight, however; he
heads directly into it, eager to complete his mission.
INT. RETROGRADE INN - SUB LEVEL FIVE - TRAPPED
(GANDER-DAVID, JACINTA, MILTON COBO, RUDI)
GANDER-DAVID/ JACINTA infiltration team arrive at level
five and head towards the maintenance hatch of a small
air duct. They are starting to break in to the ducts to
gain access to VINCENT GAMBINO's bedroom when JACINTA
sees a hot spot on the wall. They rush to get in the
duct.
Dim, flickering emergency lights cast feeble pools of
light along the corridor, creating a stark contrast to
the encroaching darkness. The soft hum of malfunctioning
fluorescent tubes adds an eerie undertone to the silence.
The walls of the corridor are coated in a layer of frost,
evidence of the extreme cold that pervades this derelict
station. The air is frigid, and your breath forms
fleeting clouds as you exhale.
Abandoned equipment lines the corridor, left behind in
haste. Discarded space helmets and rusting maintenance
tools litter the floor. Dented, steel panels on the walls
bear the scars of impact, and loose wires dangle
ominously from exposed conduits.
Once-vibrant signage overhead, now covered in dust and
grime.
The sound of footsteps seems to reverberate endlessly in
the empty corridor, creating eerie echoes that enhance
the feeling of isolation. It's as though the very walls
of the station bear witness to the desolation that now
permeates this once-thriving hub of activity.
Two space suited figures move quietly along the corridor
carefully avoiding the debris on the floor.
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispering) JACINTA, is it me, or
is this place actually creepy? It
feels like a dead city full of
ghosts!
JACINTA
Oh for god's sake Earthworm,
ghosts don't exist! It's all in
the mind, your are such wooss! If
its not ghosts, its, ufo's and
then aliens. No time for such
nonsense in space.
GANDER-DAVID
That's what I thought, until a saw
a real live, I mean dead ghost!
JACINTA
Come on!
GANDER-DAVID
I saw an old man in Budapest!
JACINTA
There are thousands of old men in
Budapest. Whats the big deal.
GANDER-DAVID
He slowly vaporised in front of
me!
JACINTA
Imagination, things don't vaporise
like that. The mind can play some
real weird shit!
GANDER-DAVID
I know what I saw, and I studied
the art of illusion remember!
There is more to this existence
than we know. Ufo's do occur and
there is massive amounts of
evidence, shit even the
governments admit they exist.
Aliens, I'll lay bets on wether
they are out there watching us!
They'll rock up at your space port
one day!
JACINTA
Well, they'd get a huge shock if
they saw you, especially in DRAG,
That would blow their alien minds!
GANDER-DAVID
(Laughs) Perhaps I should put on
some antenna, that would really
freak them out!
JACINTA
It would definitely add to the
show. (Laugh) OK, I will
reluctantly admit to the unknown.
I just can't do it in front of the
warren kids!
GANDER-DAVID
I'm not in your warren!
JACINTA
Yeah, well then, I agree it is as
creepy as all Nanofrag in here!
Now lets focus shall we! We need
to find that air duct!
GANDER-DAVID
How the hell are we going to do
that without making a racket?
JACINTA
Inspection hatch, MILTON has a
drawing! It's tight, but it's do
able. It's the only way we'll be
able to get a camera into that
bastards room. Should be about
here?
JACINTA is looking at the duct work with her torch when
she sees something!
JACINTA
What's this, hello, come to mummy?
GANDER-DAVID
It's that hatch. So MILTON does
have his uses then! I'm taller
than you, are you OK to give me a
leg up, I'll remove the cover.
JACINTA
Be my guest, but don't loose the
screws, I want to reattach it once
we're inside. I don't want to be
flanked by someone in the
corridor!
GANDER-DAVID
Are you always so military, and by
the book? You ready, (Exertions
sounds)
JACINTA
You have no idea, Jesus you're
heavy!
GANDER-DAVID stands in JACINTA's hand and starts to
unscrew an inspection hatch in the ductwork.
JACINTA
If this was MILTON, there would be
no way that his fat arse would
fit!
GANDER-DAVID
(Exertion) Never a truer word! Oh
thank god!
JACINTA
I can see why he sent the A team,
that us bye the way!
GANDER-DAVID
Shish, then we really are in
trouble!
JACINTA
I hate to admit it Earthworm, but
you look good in lycra.
GANDER-DAVID
Thanks! I don't know wether to
take that as an insult or
something else to worry about!
JACINTA
Don't worry, I don't do queens,
especially in air ducts!
GANDER-DAVID
JACINTA you're a mystery wrapped
up in an enigma!
JACINTA
Lets just keep the wrapping on
shall we!
GANDER-DAVID
You told me to me careful and not
loose the bolts!
JACINTA
Shit, whats that. Switch to
infrared! Down the corridor, do
you see the access hatch on the
wall!
GANDER-DAVID
What! Pridurok [Pree-doo-rok], its
hot, its very hot. You know what
that means, we'll have company.
The hatch starts to glow in the deep infra red!
JACINTA
Get that vent cover off now
soldier, we only have a few
minutes!
JACINTA gets on the radio
JACINTA
MILTON come in!
MILTON COBO
Receiving!
JACINTA
We have a break through. They're
found that door in the kitchen,
their cutting through the plate on
the other side.
MILTON COBO
I guess it was bound to happen
eventually. How soon?
JACINTA
Soon, they must have plasma
torches. I can hear voices on the
other side!
MILTON COBO
The'll be removing the fake
bulkhead plate. I recommend
immediate retreat! Get back here,
no firefights, live to fight
another day! Stealth is our
advantage, don't give it away!
JACINTA
No, MILTON I think we can hide in
the vents, we are almost in!
MILTON COBO
You sure!
JACINTA
If we run down the corridor we'll
kick up a load of dust and lead
them straight back to you guys!
No we're going to stay, hide in
the vent system.
GANDER-DAVID
Sounds risky won't they see our
heat signature?
JACINTA
They might, I'm going to run down
the corridor and scuff up the
dust. Let them run about chasing
fake ghosts or whatever, it will
lead them off out trial. Who in
they're right minds would hide in
these ducts. If we are smart we
can still make our objective!
MILTON COBO
You're on the ground so it's your
call, keep me posted.
JACINTA
Roger, will do, OK things to do
people to meet!
GANDER-DAVID
On the last screw now!
JACINTA
Well, don't take too long! One
good thing!
GANDER-DAVID
What?
JACINTA
If they're in the kitchens having
a good old time, I'll bet that
VINCENT GAMBINO is going to be in
on it. He'll want to come through
and kill someone for sure. If
he's down here, he'll not be in
his rooms!
GANDER-DAVID
Yeah, right. Good thinking! OK,
all done!
Sound of duct inspection panel being removed. Then
struggling from JACINTA as GANDER-DAVID climbs in.
GANDER-DAVID
Here take the door, arghhh!
JACINTA
Pull me up. I'm getting too old
for this shit. Give me the glue
and the vac clamp
GANDER-DAVID
I think I saw one of the door
dogging bolts move, come on!
JACINTA
Take this I'll glue it in from the
back.
Sounds of clambering and metallic clanking. Then
scrambling as JACINTA moves the door from the back side
over the hole in the duct work.
JACINTA
(Whispered) RUDI come in!
RUDI
Roger!
JACINTA
(Whispered) We have entered the
air duct, planning to hide out
near VINCENT's room, let the fuss
at this end die down. Going quiet
after this call.
RUDI
Affirmative. I'm on my way to
rendezvous with MILTON, are we
about to have company?
JACINTA
(Whispered) Possibly, they are
about to enter level 5 corridor
three, they might be smart enough
to follow our foot steps in the
dust. When we need to exfiltrate,
I'll let you know, might be good
if you can provide a distraction.
RUDI
OK, stay safe, don't take any
risks.
JACINTA
(Whispered) Roger that!
RADIO CLICKS AND THEN SILENCE
JACINTA
(Whispered) DAVID any luck?
DISTANT VOICE, ECHOEY!
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) Yes, I have found the
vent duct into VINCENT GAMBINO's
room. No one in there.
JACINTA
(Whispered) Good, I think they're
just about to break through, keep
the noise down.
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) OK!
DISTANT CUTTING TORCHES AND MUFFLED VOICES, THEN DISTANT
CRASH. MORE TALKING THEN SQUUK AS DOOR IS SLOWLY OPENED
Cutting torch noise diminishes, then some garbled voices
and then a big crash on the other side of the door. Then
some scrabbling sounds and the door in the wall, is un
dogged with a squeak and two thugs carefully enter,
shining torches.
INT. RETROGRADE KITCHENS - HATCHWAY TO HELL
(BERNARDO, GANDER-DAVID, GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO,
JACINTA, MILTON COBO, RUDI, VINCENT GAMBINO, VITO "THE
HAMMER" GRAZIONO)
This is the scene with VINCENT GAMBINO and his henchmen
cutting in from the kitchen side to gain access to the
back area's. This is happening at the same time GANDER
DAVID & JACINTA are starting to get into the duct work
not more than twenty meters away.
VINCENT GAMBINO and a group of his men are using plasma
cutters on the wall at the back of the kitchen ranges.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Ma dai! How long does it take to
cut a hole in a wall cazzo?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Sorry MR GAMBINO but these walls
are heavy duty plate and extremely
thick!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Then, how did those utility guys
get through?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
There where five of them, and it
took a day, with special copper
burning bars!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Yeah I get it, but I got you the
latest plasma gear! I think
you're not using it correctly!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
VINCENT please believe me,
BERNARDO is an expert with a
torch, he is port qualified. Don't
worry about it, he is going as
fast as is physically possible!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Don't tell me to relax GIOVANNI, I
have pressures you don't have! He
better not be fucking with us, or
he'll regret the day he picked up
that torch!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Relax, he's is legit, I promise
you!
BERNARDO
(Shout of delight) I've got a
break through, this is just a
plate over door!
VINCENT GAMBINO
What, we have a door? Why you not
see this?
BERNARDO
It's an old inspection hatch, they
sealed it over with a disguised
wall plate, very tricky. They do
this if it is a dead zone, or
perhaps has contamination!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Contamination, you mean like
radiation?
BERNARDO
Might be, might be not, could be
something else! I don't know!
What ever it is, its old, look at
the rust on the back of the plate!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Get those grapples and getta that
fucking thing off immediately.
The crew grab several mag clamps and as BERNARDO finishes
the cutting they pull the plate off and set it down with
a heavy clang.
GRUNTING THEN HEAVY METALLIC CLANG.
VINCENT GAMBINO
GIOVANNI come over here.
(Whispered) Listen, we don't need
kitchen staff behind the bulkhead!
Getta the tough guys down here, if
we catch these bastardi, it's
going to be nasty. It's dark in
there! Do we have any night
googles?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
No, we have thermal, thats it.
VINCENT GAMBINO
I'm disappointed, we need better
gear.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Boss I wanted the gear, but you
killed the budget!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Yeah, well, that was then, and
this is now, so sort it!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
OK Boss!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Well, whatta are you waiting for,
someone open that fucking hatch?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
What if there is contamination on
the other side or vacuum.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Ma va, open the hatch. The CIS is
on the other side there will be
air. Just make sure everyone has a
torch and a weapon!
The security team arrives from the main body of the inn.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Listen up. This is a search and
secure op! We need to check out
the spaces behind the bulkheads.
We think the CIS has been planting
bugs. There might be CIS
operatives.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Yeah, if you find them, don't
shoot first, no killing, we need
them alive. I reiterate, because
I know how trigger happy you lot
are. Don't kill these fuckers,
bring them , I want to find out
who they're reporting to!
CLANG AS SERVICE HATCH IS OPENED, BLEEPING OF GAS
MONITORS
VINCENT GAMBINO
Well, what are you waiting for,
Christmas? Get your sorry arses in
that fucking hatch?
The security guys struggle to get through the hole as
they are a little fat and useless. Eventually they
squeeze through the hole and with considerable noise they
flounder around in the dark spaces behind the walls!
VINCENT GAMBINO
GIOVANNI, remind me to review the
team, I'm not impressed, I feel we
might need to visit the airlocks
again.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Minchia! I'm starting to see what
you mean boss! (Shouting through
door) Search the fucking corridors
you idiots!
VINCENT GAMBINO
OK, I'm going in, if only to stop
them shooting themselves, can you
cover me!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Sure boss, but I'm going first, it
my job to protect you!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Thank you GIOVANNI.
Grunting as they struggle through the relatively small
hole and then metallic footsteps as they travel down
corridor. Meanwhile JACINTA has carefully made her way up
behind GANDER-DAVID who is in the process of fixing the
camera bug.
JACINTA
(Whispering) RUDI come in!
RUDI
What?
JACINTA
(Whispered) They've broken
through, multiple teams, making a
load of noise in the upper
corridor. We're going to have to
stay put in the ductwork until
they go. Oh shit, someone else is
near the vent, there moving more
silently, going to have to go
dark!
VINCENT GAMBINO and GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO slowly
and carefully move down the corridor.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Give me the infra red thing!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Let it stabilise first!
VINCENT GAMBINO
You think it's the first time I've
used one of these gadgets?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
No of course not boss!
VINCENT GAMBINO
GIOVANNI, take a look at this. I
think I see heat by the duct.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Yeah, there is something boss,
very faint trace, could be
backdraft.
VINCENT GAMBINO and GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO slowly
move up to the duct inspection hatch where JACINTA and
GANDER-DAVID entered the ducting.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
The cover is on, but not straight?
DISTANT SHOUTING!
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
Over here boy, look, its a locker
room!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Dio! Those idiots, they found
something, vieni!
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
(Distant, Echoey) Boss, come here,
look.
VINCENT GAMBINO and GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO move
away from the ducts and head down towards the commotion
about 100 meters away.
JACINTA
(Whispered) Nanofrag, that was
close. I nearly crapped myself!
How you going?
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) Brown underwear for
sure! Take a look at this bug! Is
this angle OK?
JACINTA
(Whispered) Let me check on the
monitor.
Jacinta pulls out a small spy wear round corner camera
and plugs the bug GANDER-DAVID has just installed into
the screen.
JACINTA
(Whispered) It's good. Have you
fixed the canister of gah, gah
juice?
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) Its just here, I'm
just about to plug it into the
transmitter.
JACINTA
(Whispered) Give me a spare and
those nose filters?
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) What for?
JACINTA
(Whispered) I'm going fuck those
bastards up. Let them get high and
chase some hallucinogenic ghosts!
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered low chuckle) Remind me
never to piss you off!
JACINTA
(Whispered) Too late for that! Can
you call MILTON and RUDI and let
them know they might have
incoming!
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) OK.
Sounds of quiet movement in ductwork.
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) MILTON, RUDI, come in!
MILTON COBO
Rog we're here, you good?
GANDER-DAVID
(Whispered) Yeah, we are lying
low. You might have incoming, a
load of tough guys plus VINCENT
GAMBINO and his Consigliere,
moving down towards level six.
Keep your masks on, we're spraying
PINKIES juice in the upper
corridor.
MILTON COBO
That's mean, what did they do to
deserve that!
GANDER-DAVID
They were born, thats what! Enjoy
the show!
INT. RETROGRADE INN - SUB LEVEL FIVE - MALIGNANT
TOTEM
(FRANKIE "THE FIST" CARUSO, GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO,
VINCENT GAMBINO, VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO)
VINCENT GAMBINO and Consigliere (GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER"
ROMANO) are investigating a small room found by their
security staff on level five behind the bulkheads. They
find a watch totem in a dress cabinet. Meanwhile JACINTA
and GANDER-DAVID wait hidden in the air ducting but have
sprayed hallucinogen into the upper corridor.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Ma che cazzo e? Where are we? What
does it say on the manifests?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Corridor five, level six, beta
two, locker room boss
VINCENT GAMBINO
What is this? It's a gun case?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Boss, let me!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO reaches up but struggles
to hold the small wooden box.
WOODEN SCRAPING NOISES
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Arghhh! Quasi, ohh, figlio di
puttana!
The box falls on to the floor with a crash, the lid opens
and a hand grenade, rolls out.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Porco dio!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Boss, It's an old grenade. It's
harmless see! (Pinging as the pin
falls out) Oh shit!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO picks it up, and tries to
through it through the door but misses and it bounces
back and rolls under the locker support frame.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Deficiente! Where did it go!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
It's under the lockers!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Mortacci tua, (shouted) get out of
here!
The thugs who by now have gathered around all suddenly
try and get out of the room, panic ensues.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Vaffanculo, outa my way! Idiota
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
Bastardo
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Gotta, your foot in my face, outa
my way! Arghhh.
FRANKIE "THE FIST" CARUSO
Figlio di putta!
FOOTSTEPS, BODIES STRUGGLING, PANTING
The party is now down the corridor, people bent over,
with hands over ears, panting with the exertions, but
nothing happens.
CLOCK TICKING DOWN, TO A RING
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
It would have gone off by now
boss!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Merda! I'm going to really kick
you in the arse GIOVANNI! You
pitch like a woman!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Sorry boss, bullet wound.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Get in there and get those other
boxes open, I want to see whats
inside. You, get that grenade and
chuck it down a shaft!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Boss its behind the lockers.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Well fucking move them, then!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
OK boy's, get to it, you heard the
boss!
They bundle back into the room and start by trying to
pull back the dresser.
METAL BANGING, TORTURED LEVERING OF METAL
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
Got it!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Why are you standing around then,
get rid of it!
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO runs out of the room and
disappears towards an old lift shaft.
FRANKIE "THE FIST" CARUSO
(Giggle) Oh boss, I feel funny.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Che cazzo!
FRANKIE "THE FIST" CARUSO
There someone in the corridor, I
saw a shadow!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Night suits, CIS?
FRANKIE "THE FIST" CARUSO
It was a shadow, boss, fuzzy!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Ma va, go see! Take GEORGIO!
FRANKIE "THE FIST" CARUSO staggers out of the room
grunting and runs down the corridor
VINCENT GAMBINO
He's a fucking idiot, we need to
visit that airlock soon! GIOVANNI
look at this, its an old watch. I
found it in this old box. Looks
like space kit. What, did that
stronzo want?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
He saw a shadow in corridor, he's
checking it out. I sent GIORGIO
with him.
VINCENT GAMBINO
CIS bastardi, why they do they bug
me.
We gotta do something GIOVANNI,
it's getting expensive with the
payoffs. Now we have another group
to bribe.
WATCH BEING HANDLED
This is nice, heavy, good quality?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Let me take a look boss! I used to
have a few watches. It was in
there?
VINCENT GAMBINO
Yeah, in a box, in this bag.
VINCENT GAMBINO hands over the watch.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Good condition, mechanical, vacuum
rated. Boss, look at the markings.
I think it could be a, (pause),
Merda, I need my glasses. Letta me
see, ah, I thought so. Amazing,
it's A. Lange & Söhne. Really nice
piece boss, old, worth some cash.
VINCENT GAMBINO
GIOVANNI, you continue to surprise
me with your hobbies. Bene.
(Pause) So, now those idiots are
gone, did you see those marks
around the door?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Si, looks like a knife was trying
to open the door.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Cazzo. Why not just unbolt it?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
It opens inwards, if the pressure
was wrong, the door wouldn't open.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Wouldn't the CIS know that,
they're not so dumb? Why make all
the noise trying to get through a
door they know will not open?
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
No idea boss, makes no sense.
And, why leave this nice piece?
The CIS boys would nick it
immediately, I know those
bastardi!
VINCENT GAMBINO
Ecco. It doesn't add up! Lets a
getta these lockers open and get
outa here I don't like the feel of
this room!
METAL LOCKER DOORS BEING ATTACKED WITH JEMMY
VINCENT GAMBINO & GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO use a
jemmy to break the locker doors. They are empty except
for the last one!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Boss, this one has something
inside, it doesn't sound hollow.
VINCENT GAMBINO
Dai! Get it open.
SOUND OF RUNNING AND PANTING AS THE THUGS RETURN UP THE
CORRIDOR.
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
Boss, there are shadows, the CIS
are always ahead in the corridors.
We went down two levels but we
can't catch them! I don't like
this place I think its haunted!
VINCENT GAMBINO
What are you! Twelve fucking years
old, you fat fuck? No mi rom-pe-te
le palle!
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
No boss, really, its haunted!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO finally gets the doors
open and slowly a space suit topples into the room, falls
on the floor and the helmet unclips and rolls to one
side. There is total silence except for the helmet which
rocks back and forth on the floor. They all take in the
dry desiccated face distorted in horror with a hand
raised as if to ward of some horrible monster.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
It's a space suit! There someone
in it! Che cazzo!
Just as this is happening a wild eyed VITO appears around
the door and sees the apparition!
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO
(In a high pitch terrified voice)
Porco Dio, it's a Maritsuba man!
Their coming for us, Maritsuba men
coming up the corridor. Boss, I'm
fucking otta here!
VITO "THE HAMMER" GRAZIONO hastily exits the door and run
down the corridor back the safety of the kitchens
whimpering as they run. VINCENT GAMBINO genuflects!
VINCENT GAMBINO
GIOVANNI, that fucker is going
outta the airlock. (Turns to dried
and desiccated figure in suit)
Figlio di puttana! What happened
to him!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Gesu Cristo, I don't know, looks
bad, he's all dried up Boss. Look
at the face. It happened fast!
Decompression, look the eyes!
VINCENT GAMBINO
What's it doing stuffed in there.
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Hiding, maybe. Look he's holding a
pony cylinder.
VINCENT GAMBINO
So, He died of suffocation. So
what! There's nothing to see.
I'll be in my office. One more
thing!
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
What boss, you wanna me, deal with
VITO?
VINCENT GAMBINO
No I'll do that, but I'm taking
that watch. I can use it to scare
the boys, after all its from the
fucking Maritsuba man! (Laugh)
GIOVANNI "THE ENFORCER" ROMANO
Boss the boy's are scared, don't
make it worse!
VINCENT GAMBINO
It's my job GIOVANNI, that's
whatta I do!
INT. RETROGRADE INN - SUB LEVEL FIVE - THE
WHISPERING PASSAGE
JACINTA and GANDER-DAVID are hiding in the ventilation
ductwork, having installed the bugs looking into VINCENTS
bedroom. They explore the side duct as they can't go back
into the main corridor as it's full of VINCENT's men with
gang. They discover another horizontal pipe-way, mostly
empty but unused for years, they exit ducts and start to
explore.
The hidden corridor seems to belong to a bygone era of
space exploration. Rusty metal pipes snake along the
ceiling, dripping with condensation that echoes through
the corridor's eerie silence. Dust gathers in corners,
and forgotten tools lie scattered about, untouched for
years. Old, obsolete computer terminals, now defunct, sit
inserted into wall cavities, their screens displaying
nothing but static.
RADIO CLICK
JACINTA
(Whispered urgent) MILTON, you
there!
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio voice) Where the hell do
you think I would be? Over!
RADIO CLICK
JACINTA
Sleeping! Or more likely back at
MOMO's sipping a large margarita!
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
Very funny, I'm in this Nanofrag
suit for you, just in case you
need rescue! You out of the ducts
yet? Over!
RADIO CLICK
JACINTA
(Whispered urgent) VINCENT and
consigliere and thugs are
patrolling the corridors, they've
cut off our means of retreat.
We heard them talking about a
locker room, and a dried out body!
Its not you is it?
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio voice) That's strange! Why
have a locker room on the higher
levels, they're usually near a
lower air lock? Over!
RADIO CLICK
JACINTA
(Whispered urgent) Chromium
remediation perhaps, I don't know!
Its doesn't matter, we need to get
out. There was a tee junction in
the ducts, we're going to explore,
see if its another means of
escape.
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio voice) Roger, worth a try.
Keep me posted! Over!
JACINTA
(Whispered urgent) DAVID I'm going
back to the tee junction to check
it out.
QUIET METALLIC, DUCT SOUNDS
JACINTA carefully backs down the duct and then squeezes
into the T junction.
SLIPPING ON METAL
JACINTA
(Stifled cough with the dust) This
has no airflow, I'm going to mask
up.
GANDER-DAVID
You OK?
JACINTA
(Whispered urgent) Yeah, its just
dusty, there's a outfall vent.
VENT BEING REMOVED CAREFULLY
SONIC SCREW DRIVER
JACINTA uses her sonic screw driver to release the vent
nuts. She carefully removes the vent and then hands it
back to GANDER-DAVID behind her.
JACINTA
DAVID take this!
JACINTA pokes her head out and then uses her infra red
lights and goggles.
JACINTA
Shit, its another corridor DAVID,
dead headed, construction access.
I.m going in.
GANDER-DAVID
If you think I'm staying in this
nanofracking duct, you have
another think. I'm coming as
well!
JACINTA
OK, help me down will you, then
climb over me.
MOVING IN DUCT
THEN STRAINING AND FOOTSTEPS DROPPING TO CORRIDOR
JACINTA
Its a huge old corridor. Looks
like an old construction access
passage, long disused, look at the
newspapers. Jesus look 2038!
CREAKS AND ECHOES
JACINTA
It's bloody spooky. Here take the
infra red torch!
GROAN AS GANDER-DAVID CLIMBS ON JACINTA
GANDER-DAVID
Thank you! oh shit!
JACINTA
Weird hah?
GANDER-DAVID
Yes, but fortuitous!
JACINTA
I can see what looks like a glass
window, look!
JACINTA quietly walks up to the corridor end.
GANDER-DAVID
Strange, it cuts off the whole
passage, whats the point?
JACINTA
According to the plans this should
be the wall of GAMBINO's bedroom.
Suddenly the light in VINCENT GAMBINO's bedroom light
goes on and a maid turns the bed. JACINTA can see dimly
into the bedroom.
JACINTA
(Whispered) Shit! Get down!
GANDER-DAVID
I don't think she can see us, look
her face!
JACINTA
Oh my god, this is brilliant, a
one way mirror into the inner
sanctum, we don't need those bugs.
GANDER-DAVID
So the CIS was not as dumb as we
thought! The bugs will still be
useful to pick up sound!
JACINTA
Sure. Look at this, this is way,
way old, goes back years, look at
the dust build up! Undisturbed
too!
GANDER-DAVID
So the CIS are sneaky bastards,
whats new! Well, we can turn this
to our advantage now! If we can
find easy access!
JACINTA
About time we had some breaks!
Look this is a corridor ,it has to
go somewhere. Check out the
direction, I think it follows
Widmanstaten street past MOMO's
about three stories down at
kitchen level.
GANDER-DAVID
Why does old GAMBINO have his
bedroom down in the bowels?
Strange place to have a bedroom?
JACINTA
Yeah, will as MILTON said,
probably for security, can't be
got with a bomb.
GANDER-DAVID
I'm going to call MILTON, he is
going to go ape shit over this!
RADIO CLICK
GANDER-DAVID
MILTON come in!
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio Voice) Hows it going? Over!
RADIO CLICK
GANDER-DAVID
We've stumbled upon something
brilliant!
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio Voice) What? Over!
RADIO CLICK
GANDER-DAVID
Believe it, or not, we found a
corridor cut off from the rest of
the level, and this nanofrag
corridor, comes complete with a
one way mirror into VINCENT's
bedroom.
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio Voice) You're shitting me,
thats great! We can use that! Look
we're getting pretty tired at our
end, and we need to do a
spacewalk, can we go? Over!
RADIO CLICK
GANDER-DAVID
Sure, we are going to explore the
corridor, it follows Widmanstatten
street. JACINTA thinks we'll get
out one way or another. We think
it goes close to MOMO's!
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio Voice) Even better! Still I
think we should wait a few more
minutes to see if you can get out.
We may need to create a
distraction for a retreat? Over!
RADIO CLICK
GANDER-DAVID
OK, we'll get to it, I'll let you
know!
RADIO CLICK
MILTON COBO
(Radio Voice) OK, we will hang
here until you confirm you can get
back to base! Over!
GANDER-DAVID
Thanks!
MILTON COBO
(Radio Voice) Over and out!
GANDER-DAVID
JACINTA, MILTON says they are
getting tired, but their going to
wait. If we can't get out we go
out the long way around. We need
to find out where this ghost
corridor goes.
JACINTA
OK Right behind you! Lets go.
TIMEPASSING THEN FOOTSTEPS IN ECHOY CORRIDOR
GANDER-DAVID
I see a door! How far have we
walked.
JACINTA
Five hundred meters, maybe. I need
a... well you know!
GANDER-DAVID
I thought you space hardened,
street wise types could hold on!
JACINTA
Yes of course we can, but usually
we're not having to listen to an
Earthworm, make such boring yak
lectures on space stuff. Gives me
a loose bowel!
GANDER-DAVID
Nasty! So whats this door look
like. Should be near MOMO's
according to my communicator.
JACINTA
Well, lets open the fucking door
and see what's on the other side.
GANDER-DAVID
It's like a Christmas advent
calendar!
JACINTA
You're all weird, you Earthworms!
Arghhh!
SOUND OF A METAL DOOR BEING UNLATCHED AND THEN PUSHED
OPEN WITH DIFICULTY AND SCREACH.
GANDER-DAVID
Look's like a store room.
JACINTA
(Chuckle, growing to laughter) Oh
this is so sweet! You got be
nanofragging kidding me! I
recognise this, its behind the
Warrens!
GANDER-DAVID
You mean, we stole the suits,
struggled through vacuum and air
locks, I filled numerious barf
bags, all for nothing!
JACINTA
It would appear that way. It was
three times, if I remember! I have
it marked down in my EVA log as a
record. Where did it all come
from?
GANDER-DAVID
From listening to you!
