Right. And today is…?
LANA
(Annoyed) Wednesday.
DUKE
Got it. We’re brushing dust off of stuff on Thursday.
LANA
In the meantime you and Wilt can clean the house while I’m working.
(Lana grabs the stone map and takes it off-screen into the library. Wilt opens a nearby closet and pulls out some cleaning supplies while Duke gets up off of the floor and goes off-screen into the kitchen. He comes back with a glass of water. Before he gets a chance to drink from the glass Duke’s phone starts ringing. His ringtone is obnoxiously loud rock music. He pulls the phone out of his pocket to look at it before he answers.)
DUKE
It’s Selene? There is no way that she’s ready to go at it again. (Answers phone) Selene? (Pause) I would but I’m kinda in the middle of something. (Pause) But I can’t just- (Long pause) I’ll be right over!
(Duke hangs up the phone, puts the glass on a nearby table, and hurriedly starts getting his things together.)
DUKE
Selene just finished her morning performance and wants me to come over.
WILT
Wait. What about work?
DUKE
Um… Cover for me?
(Duke exits. Cut to a close up of the full glass of water still on the table. Fade to black.)
INT. – DISCIPLE’S LAIR – THE NEXT DAY
(Scene opens with a full shot of a room inside of the disciple’s lair. The subtitle “Thursday” appears near the bottom of the screen then fades away. The Mistress is alone, still sitting at the table from before, and staring at the crystal ball. The camera slowly zooms in on her.)
MISTRESS
(Deep in thought) Underneath the glass lies the true path.
(The camera stops on a close-up of the Mistress’s face. Her expression changes as she finally realizes what she missed about the riddle. Cut to a one shot of her as she grabs the ball then launches it at the wall where it shatters.)
MISTRESS
Damn it!
(Cut to a full shot of the room as Jasmine runs in looking startled. The Mistress turns to address her.)
MISTRESS
Underneath the glass! As in literally under the glass. As in that ball wasn’t even the map. We need to send someone to retrieve that stone
that it was embedded in back at the museum.
JASMINE