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re-live your weird little episodes -  

re-live your weird little episodes -  

CHALICE plunges into the pool. A DEMO BOB locks into her spinal cord. It’s terrifying, so different from her own BOB. So free from her own life. She beams with excitement.  

CHALICE plunges into the pool. A DEMO BOB locks into her spinal cord. It’s terrifying, so different from her own BOB. So free from her own life. She beams with excitement.  

 

 

800 INT. WAVYVERSE 1000 LIVES DEMO CONFLUX - INDETERMINATE TIM800 E

INT. WAVYVERSE 1000 LIVES DEMO CONFLUX - INDETERMINATE TIME

[note: each “Now” below is a tableau vivant still-ish image] Now: CHALICE in a fat child’s body, encounters a lizard laying in the shadows while other lizards bathe in the sun. Now: Near the lizard’s head: its bleeding, injured. She’s curious. Now: Her fat hand is wiring up electrodes into a cut in its head. She’s nervous. Now: She beholds the lizard: her hand makes a gesture, the lizard curls into a shape. Again. Another shape. Again. It grows up a bit each time. She’s delighted. Now: She lays nestled in the lizard’s curled body like its furniture. She’s blissed out.  

 

Now: The lighting goes blinding red. CHALICE squints. She hears faint distorted voices: “Invalid candidate” “Wong” “Prefer spending new years with him?” She looks confused at the lizard. Now: it puts on sunglasses. She feels sunglasses resting on her head too. She puts them on. She smiles.  

[note: each “Now” below is a tableau vivant still-ish image]  

Now: a smeary jittery DR WONG leaks in. He bursts into a spaghetti of wavy strings. The strings speak: “my C2, C3 - you saved me - thank you - I love you too - my perfect girl”. She’s scared, looks at the lizard. Now: the lizard produces a little toy of DR WONG riding on its back. She gestures and a little toy of her BOB appears riding double. She laughs. BOB coils around DR WONG and they kiss. She sours. The lizard stretches its neck to gobble them with its mouth.  

Now: CHALICE in a fat child’s body, encounters a lizard laying in the shadows while other lizards bathe in the sun.  

Now: a voice: “Anomaly clear. Resuming demo.” Elements of the scene begin to leak out and new elements leak in. Her sunglasses disappear. Then the lizard’s sunglasses. Now: She gestures to slow this moment. She watches the lizard: its eye blinking in super slow motion. Its mouth gobbling BOB and DR WONG for an eternity. The demo struggles to refine its sub-temporal detail, but eventually finds it. It’s sublime. She smiles a long frozen smile.  

Now: Near the lizard’s head: its bleeding, injured. She’s curious.  

Now a crystal voice cuts thru:  

Now: Her fat hand is wiring up electrodes into a cut in its head. She’s nervous.  

Now: She beholds the lizard: her hand makes a gesture, the lizard curls into a shape. Again. Another shape. Again. It grows up a bit each time. She’s delighted.  

Now: She lays nestled in the lizard’s curled body like its furniture. She’s blissed out.

Now: The lighting goes blinding red. CHALICE squints. She hears faint distorted voices: “Invalid candidate” “Wong” “Prefer spending new years with him?” She looks confused at the lizard.  

Now: it puts on sunglasses. She feels sunglasses resting on her head too. She puts them on. She smiles.  

 

 

Now: a smeary jittery DR WONG leaks in. He bursts into a spaghetti of wavy strings. The strings speak: “my C2, C3 - you saved me - thank you - I love you too - my perfect girl”. She’s scared, looks at the lizard.  

Now: the lizard produces a little toy of DR WONG riding on its back. She gestures and a little toy of her BOB appears riding double. She laughs. BOB coils around DR WONG and they kiss. She sours. The lizard stretches its neck to gobble them with its mouth.  

 

 

Now: a voice: “Anomaly clear. Resuming demo.” Elements of the scene begin to leak out and new elements leak in. Her sunglasses disappear. Then the lizard’s sunglasses.  

Now: She gestures to slow this moment. She watches the lizard: its eye blinking in super slow motion. Its mouth gobbling BOB and DR WONG for an eternity. The demo struggles to refine its sub-temporal detail, but eventually finds it. It’s sublime. She smiles a long frozen smile.  

 

Now a crystal voice cuts thru:

Z (O.C.)  

Z (O.C.)  

1 Housekeeping! 1 All the elements leak out and a flash of lights -  

Housekeeping! All the elements leak out and a flash of lights -  

 

END ACT 2 / 4  

END ACT 2 / 4  

900 EXT. ZIM SHORE COMPOUND, FUTURE — AFTERNOON 900 We’re close on Z’s face; he opens his eyes and squints.  

 

EXT. ZIM SHORE COMPOUND, FUTURE — AFTERNOON We’re close on Z’s face; he opens his eyes and squints.  

 

Z (V.O.)  

Z (V.O.)  

1 Sorry little god this is the best I 1 could do. Did you miss me?  

Sorry little god this is the best I could do. Did you miss me?  

 

He looks at his hands like he’s never seen them before. Touches his face. We zoom out to see Z mounted on a RAPTOR, in a drippy, verdant, ruined interior space.  

He looks at his hands like he’s never seen them before. Touches his face. We zoom out to see Z mounted on a RAPTOR, in a drippy, verdant, ruined interior space.  

CHALICE (V.O.)  

CHALICE (V.O.)  

2 Z - this - is - amazing! 2

Z - this - is - amazing!  

 

Z (V.O.)  

Z (V.O.)  

3 *Zah* you like? Drone tech now. So 3 A+. My gen six raptor lounger ain’t  

*Zah* you like? Drone tech now. So A+. My gen six raptor lounger ain’t bad either.  

bad either.  

 

RAPTOR winks. Z (DRONED BY CHALICE) [Z(C)] rides up a flight of stone steps into the open. The sunlight burns her eyes. CHALICE tries to like the feeling.  

RAPTOR winks. Z (DRONED BY CHALICE) [Z(C)] rides up a flight of stone steps into the open. The sunlight burns her eyes. CHALICE tries to like the feeling.  

CHALICE (V.O.)  

CHALICE (V.O.)  

4 Ack! heh. Z which subplot is this? 4

Ack! heh. Z which subplot is this?

 

Z (V.O.)  

Z (V.O.)  

5 *Zuh!* - A subplot ten years in the 5 making - Wong wrecked my demo - Ava  

*Zuh!* - A subplot ten years in the making - Wong wrecked my demo - Ava pushed me out - Orlando Study - bleh - Weird they kept the company name without me, no? Ava never has new ideas. I mean I’d keep it too.  

pushed me out - Orlando Study - bleh - Weird they kept the company  

 

name without me, no? Ava never has  

new ideas. I mean I’d keep it too.  

The outdoor space comes into focus. They’re back at the ZIM COMPOUND. The buddha ruin’s face is now filled in with a pearly material. The compound is overgrown. Z(C) trembles.  

The outdoor space comes into focus. They’re back at the ZIM COMPOUND. The buddha ruin’s face is now filled in with a pearly material. The compound is overgrown. Z(C) trembles.  

CHALICE (V.O.)  

CHALICE (V.O.)  

6 What is this? Z? Where’s BOB? 6 Where’s dad?  

What is this? Z? Where’s BOB? Where’s dad?  

 

Z  

Z  

Just get a feel for my figure. I’ll guide you.  

Just get a feel for my figure. I’ll guide you.