Script: Utterly Rucked, part nineteen

Now far to go now. I'm almost to the end of the writing. This has been a fun personal project for me. No matter what happens to this story, which at the moment would be steaming piles of nothing, I can say I enjoyed writing it.

UTTERLY RUCKED 19
Tackle Bag
by David Tulloch

Page ONE

1/1
Patel on her cellphone at the cafe with Patton looking on.
Patel: "C'mon, answer it, Bell."

1/2
Patel: "Bell, listen, we know who the killer is."
(from phone): "It's okay, so do we."

1/3
Switch to the bar. A mob made up of most of the remaining team and Burnsie (but not the two locks, nor the blinded flanker who remain behind).
(from phone): "It's the Jensen girl."
Bell: "Yes, I'm on it. I'm on it."
Bruce "Piker" Pike (No.16): "We're coming for you, bitch."
Mike 'Brick" Housden (No.13): "Can't believe it."
Latimer (No.10): "She's gonna pay."

1/4
Bell: "I've got to go ... if I don't keep up they'll lynch her.

1/5
One of the team, Jason "Little Willy" Williams (No.17), knocks the cellphone from Bell's hands as he pushes past.
Bell: "Hey! Watch it."


Page TWO

Titles and full page panel.
The mobs momentum pulls Bell along, he yells back out to the dropped phone.
Bell: "It's Cheryl Jensen."
(from dropped phone): "It's Melanie Jensen."
TITLES
UTTERLY RUCKED
Part Nineteen, Tackle Bag


Page THREE

3/1
Patel closing her cellphone.
Patel: "Cheryl?"

3/2
Patel: "Bell said it's Cheryl?
Patel: "Could it be both of them? A mother - daughter thing?"

3/3
Patel: "Maybe? But I doubt it."

3/4
Patel: "C'mon ... we'd better get back."

3/5
The two of them running out of the cafe.


Page FOUR

4/1
Meanwhile the mob, with Bell and two officers in tow, has arrived at Cheryl (and Wayne and Mel's) room.
(Thud thud!)
Latimer: "Open up. Now!"
Housden: We're gonna tear you a new one.

4/2
Bell: "Calm down, everyone. This is an arrest not an execution.
Latimer: "Yeah ... right."

4/3
Wayne opens the door and is pushed aside.
Wayne: "What is all this racket ... ?"
Latimer: "Out the way, Wayne."
Bell: "Please step aside, Mr Jensen."

4/4
Wayne: "What is going on?"

4/5
Bell: "We have reason to believe that your wife may be involved in the recent murders."
Pike: "Cheryl's the fucking killer!"

4/6
Latimer: "Where is she?"
Wayne: "Um ... she's, she's in the shower."


Page FIVE
5/1
Latimer and Housden open the door to the steamy bathroom.
Wayne: "You can't go in there."
Latimer: "Just try and stop us."

5/2
Wayne tries to reason with them, but they have disappeared into the steamy room. Bell puts his hand on Wayne's shoulder.
Wayne: "But she's all naked. And wet."
Burnsie: "I think that's how they're used to seeing her."

5/3
Wayne getting his first glimpse of reality. Bell ignoring him.
Wayne: "What do you mean?"

5/4
Latimer and Housden re-emerge from the steam carrying the naked Cheryl. You can arrange arms, hands and angles so nothing is actually seen.
Latimer: "Nice tackle, mate."
Housden: "Cheers."
Cheryl: "What the fuck are you boys doing?"

5/5
Housden "Shut up, killer bitch."
Cheryl: "What?"


Page SIX
6/1
Latimer: "We know it's you."
Housden: "Yeah. Davies saw you."

6/2
Pike coming from adjoining room carrying a backpack or bag ...
Pike: "Look what I found."

6/3
Close up of the bag filled with weapons. Knives, rope, spikes, files, hacksaw, tools, spiked gloves, a machete, a hatchet, a belt with knife, etc.
Housden (off): "Jesus. That's some serious stuff."
Latimer (off): "That proves it."

6/4
Bell moves in for the arrest
Bell: "Cheryl Jensen, I'm placing you under arrest."
Cheryl: "It's not mine. I'm innocent.

6/5
Cheryl being handcuffed by Bell. Make sure the handcuffs are shown, and the speech bubble is a double bubble.
Bell: "If there's one thing I can safely say about you Mrs Jensen ...
... it's that you haven't been innocent for a long time."

Next: Locked

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