Script: Utterly Rucked, part two

Here's the second part of the rugby/horror story. I'll post these as I write them, so consider them all first drafts. I'm having fun with these and the weekly W.A.S.P. scripts. I'd say they are writing themselves, but I still have to put fingers to the keys and then go back and correct my spelling.

UTTERLY RUCKED
Part Two: A GAME OF TWO HALVES
by David Tulloch

Page ONE

1/1
Splash page with Titles showing the severed (half) body of Paul "Shorty" Seddon on the airport baggage carousel. Gain, the titles and the half body are a visual 'joke'. The conveyor is stopped, and there is police tape around the thing, as well as some policemen taking crime scene photos, etc.
TITLES
UTTERLY RUCKED
Part Two: A GAME OF TWO HALVES


Page TWO

2/1
Burnsie and Patton (Glen "Gen. Patton" Patterson) from the previous episode being talked to by Police Inspector Diane "Don't even think about giving me a nickname" Patel and Sergeant Andrew "A bell" Bell.
Inspector Patel: "So you last saw him going to the toilets at the back of the plane?"
Patton: "Yeah, he was going for a leak."

2/2
Inspector Patel: "You don't remember him coming back?"
Patton: "Nope. But ... "

2/3
Patton: "I do remember "Blow Me" Jensen coming back from the lav with a smile on her face?"
Inspector Patel: "Blow Me?"

2/4
Patton looking a little embarrassed.
Patton: "Oh, sorry, Inspector, That'd be Cheryl, Cheryl Jensen, the wife of the referee we bought along with us ... we gave her a nickname because ... well, you know ..."

2/5
Sergeant Bell: "You bought your own ref?"
Patton: "Yeah, well. He's a tosser ... but he's a fair tosser. Calls a good game."


2/6
Burnsie adds to the conversation, just because he's the kind of guy who can't stop talking.
Burnsie: "Bad blokes make good refs, they say."
Patton: "He didn't want to come, but we sweetened the trip by allowing him to bring his wife and kid along."


Page THREE
Show the daughter, Mel Jensen, in the background, reading her book, in a number of these panels.

3/1
Cheryl being interviewed by the two policemen, and her daughter, Mel, reading a book in the background.
Cheryl: "I didn't kill him. I fucked him, but I didn't kill him."
Inspector Patel: "I see ... Tell me Mrs Jensen, does your husband know about your extramarital activities?"

3/2
Cheryl: "Wayne? Wayne wouldn't know where his arse was on a cloudless day."

3/3
Sergeant Bell: "Perhaps he discovered your ... dalliance ... with Mr Seddon?"
Cheryl: "Who?"

3/4
Sergeant Bell checking his notes.
Sergeant Bell: "Paul Seddon, the deceased."
Cheryl: "Oh, Shorty. Wayne didn't know a thing. All he cares about is referring."

3/5
Cheryl looking nonplussed.
Inspector Patel: "Perhaps he found out and and lost his temper?"
Cheryl: "Wayne?"

3/6
Cheryl explaining why the idea of her husband as a killer is crazy.
Cheryl: "Wayne's just not the type. It's not that he wouldn't hurt a fly ... it's more like he couldn't, ya know? The fly would win."


Page FOUR
The hotel bar. Burnsie and Patton having a beer, other teammates about. Make sure you foreshadow the next victim, Brice "Chopper" Morse, the fullback (wearing the number 15 jersey). Have "Chopper" in the background of a few panels on the next two pages, sometimes from behind so the number 15 on his jersey is shown a couple of times.

4/1
Large frame setting the scene of the hotel bar, filled with the London Kea's and some other rugby types.
Patton: "Cheers!"
Burnsie: "To Shorty!"
Echoed through the bar.
(teammate): "To Shorty!"
(teammate): "To Shorty!"
(teammate 15): "To Shorty!"

4/2
Patton: "To Shorty. May he rest in peace."
Burnsie: "Pieces more like. Poor Bastard."

4/3
Burnsie: "Did the cops find his legs yet?"
Patton: "Yeah ... in a luggage sorting machine ... they think he may have wandered off and had an accident."


Page FIVE
5/1
Patton: "Terrible way to start a rugby tour."
Burnsie: "Bad Omen you think?"

5/2
Patton: "Maybe. But it means "Little Willy" Williams will have to play half ... he's just not in the same class as Shorty is.

5/3
Burnsie: "Was. As Shorty was."
Patton: "Jeez, Burnsie, you're a cold bastard sometimes."

5/4
Burnsie: "Speaking of cold ... you want another one?"
Patton: Sure. Tonight's a good night to get pissed."

5/5
Patton raising his glass to the barroom in general.
Patton: "Drink up lads ... tomorrow's hangover is for Shorty."

5/6
Close up of beer glasses being clinked together.
(off) "For Shorty!"


Page SIX
Brice "Chopper" Morse heading to his hotel room, pissed as a newt.

6/1
Chopper (singing to himself): "Show me the way to go home ..."

6/2
Chopper trying, unsuccessfully to put his keys in the lock.
Chopper: "Something, something, um ... way to go home."

6/3
He drops his keys and bends over to get them.
Chopper: "Shit!"

6/4
Gloved hands from behind, about to reach the still bent over Chopper.
Chopper: "Come here you little buggers!"

6/5
The classic head turned around in surprised fear at something the reader doesn't see (except the hands).
Chopper: What the ... ?

6/6
Small black panel to indicate something has happened to Chopper..

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