Tough Love: Episode 4

DUKE

Ok, new plan. I’m gonna go deal with this while you guys take care of things over here.

(Duke follows the stagehand off-screen leaving Lana and Wilt at the bar. Wilt sighs in frustration. Fade to black.)

INT. – WILT’S DREAM – NIGHT

(Scene opens with a full shot in a room from the night Duke and Wilt broke into the museum. There is a hazy filter and an echolike sound effect signifying that the scene is taking place in a dream. Wilt is walking cautiously across the room as it pan’s around to reveal Jasmine and the Mistress watching him from the other end of the room.)

MISTRESS

Take him out.

(Cut to a close-up of Wilt as Jasmine sneaks up behind him. She puts her hand over his mouth to keep him from making any noise.)

JASMINE

Don’t Struggle.

INT. – OBLEX’S STUDY – THE NEXT MORNING

(Cut to a close up of Wilt’s face. He opens his eyes suddenly. Cut to a one shot of Wilt as he sits up quickly. Cut to a full shot of Oblex’s living room. Lana and Oblex are sitting at a table looking down at the stone map.)

LANA

Good Morning. Work started an hour ago.

OBLEX

You looked so peaceful. I didn’t want to wake you.

WILT

Did Duke come back yet?

LANA

What do you think?

WILT

(Sigh) Of course not.

(Wilt finds a “Ball in a Cup” game on the floor and begins playing with it while Lana turns her attention back to Oblex and the map. Cut to a medium shot of Lana and Oblex.)

LANA

So how’s the translating going?

OBLEX

Could be better. Lágnos hasn’t looked like it does in this map for a long time. And the written directions? Well, ancient Greek doesn’t exactly… uh…

LANA

Roll off the tongue?

OBLEX