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Title: RTI

Series: Chronicle

Writer: P E Leody

SYNOPIS

PAGE 1


Box out of Jack from the next frame gaining consciousness rubbing his head

JACK: WOW THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SOME NIGHT


In a barren wasteland, a minute figure can be seen, boxed out in frame 1

JACK: I CANT REMEMBER A SINGLE THING. IN FACT I CANT PLACE THE FIRST THING I CAN REMEMBER


Jack is looking at the back of his hands to see if this is real

JACK: UHM, HAIRY HANDS, SWEATY PALMS SO THIS IS REAL


Jack approaches a man eating by a fire he has fashioned a crude spear

JACK: HI, I'VE BEEN WANDERING FOR DAYS, I'M STARVING ANY CHANCE OF A BITE TO EAT?

HOBO 1: NO WONDER YOU'RE FAMISHED THAT SPEAR'S ONLY GOOD ENOUGH FOR POINTING


Man gives Jack a lift in his horse and cart

JACK: WHERE ARE WE?

HOBO 1: NAMES DON'T MEAN MUCH ROUND HERE, I'LL CAN TAKE YOU TO THE NEAREST CITY


Jack having been deposited looks at his jacket's label

JACK: THIS IS A FINE HAND MADE SUIT THE TAILOR'LL SURELY RECOGNISED IT


Arrival in a busy street

JACK: SO THE ANCIENT ART OF HITCH HIKING STILL LIVES. 7 DAYS OF CONVERSATIONS AND IS TILL DON'T REMEMBER MUCH


As Jack walks down the street he is grabbed by homeless person in a doorway

HOBO 2: HEY JACK

PAGE 2


Jack drinks a drink given to him by the tramps

JACK: SO MY NAME IS JACK

HOBO 2: NOT SEEN YOU FOR A WHILE THOUGH

JACK: NOT SURPRISING THIS IS A REAL FORGET ME NOT.


Jack is asleep in a doorway

JACK: SO THIS MY LIFE, KINDA COSY

Sfx: SNORE


Steve's feet kick a sleeping jack ion the doorway

JACK: PLEASE OFFICER LET ME HAVE A LIE IN

STEVE: JACK, IT'S ME... STEVE

JACK: YOU CAN'T HAVE MY DOORWAY


Jack holding his blanket is marched by Steve into the door of the doorway he was sleeping in, It is the tailors he was looking for

STEVE: I KNOW WHAT YOU DO IS HUSH HUSH, BUT YOU DON'T HALF TURN UP IN THE STRANGEST OF PLACES

JACK: THE TAILORS!


Jack tries on a new suit, Steve is the other side of the curtain

STEVE: YOU'RE FAMILY'S SUCH REGUALRS HERE THEY KEEP SPARES FOR YOU

JACK: HOW'LL I PAY FOR IT

STEVE: MY WALLETS IN THE COAT HANGING UP


Jack lifts Steve's wallet

JACK: SO I LIKE BOOZE AND THINGS THAT GO HUSH IN THE NIGHT. SO LETS SEE WHAT WE HAVE HERE

PAGE 3


Jack rifles the wallet

JACK: UHM PLENTY OF CASH, CARDS AND AN ADDRESS OF A BUSINESS FLAT


Jack escapes the shop

JACK: CAN'T BE TOO FAR I'LL AT LEAST BE ABLE TO REST THERE


Jack shows the cabbie an address

JACK: TAKE ME HERE PLEASE


Jack in the apartment complex hides behind the central lift spying on the flat in question

JACK: NO EXITS OR ENTRANCES IN THE PAST HOUR, LOOKS LIKE IT'S DESERTED


Jack stands in the doorway of the flat, it's is empty

JACK: NO MEMORY TRIGGERS IN HERE. BUT THERE MUST BE SOME FOOD SOMEWHERE


Jack in the kitchen, the doors open

Sfx: CREAK

JACK: OH GREAT POPCORN CAKES AND NOW WE'VE GOT COMPANY


Jack escapes the flat, he avoids Steve in the flat

STEVE: JACK WHERE ARE YOU, I NEED MY WALLET BACK


Jack outside the flat runs into a chauffeur

CHAUFFEUR: AH MR DAW

JACK: ER HELLO

CHAUFFEUR: I'M STEVE PATTERSON'S CHAUFFEUR, WHICH OF COURSE MEANS I'M AT YOUR DISPOSAL

JACK: TO THE WORKPLACE?

PAGE 4


The limo pull soup outside a very fancy office skyscraper

JACK: ER WHERE SHOW I GO

CHAUFFEUR: VERY COMICAL SIR, JUST PRESENT YOURSELF AT RECEPTION


A reception area Jack approaches a secretary

JACK: ERH

SECRETARY: EVENING SIR, 19TH FLOOR I THINK YOU WANT

JACK: 19TH?

SECRETARY: VERY GOOD SIR TESTING OUR SECURITY, AS YOU'VE FORGOTTEN YOUR PASS YOU'LL HAVE TO FOLLOW ME


The secretary leads Jack past a lot of itnerivewees

SECRETARY: DESPERATELY SHORT OF CAMS... HERE YOU ARE SIR


Jack sits a desk thinking it is his

JACK: SO IS THERE ANYTHING HERE I RECOGNISE


Steve enters

STEVE: AH THERE YOU ARE JACK, COME TO RETURN MY WALLET IN PERSON, THANKS


Jack follows Steve

STEVE: I NEED THAT REPORT FORM YOUR OFFICE

JACK: SURE, LEAD THE WAY


Jack sits in a his huge penthouse office, Steve is leaving

STEVE: THANKS, SEE YOU TOMORROW

JACK: BYE. WOW MY OFFICE, I'M MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN ANOTHER LIFE.

PAGE 5


Jack places his hand on a thumb identifier

JACK: A SECURITY CHECK. I WONDER IF IT KNOWS ME

COMPUTER: ID CONFIRMED


A drawer opens with a headset a tape deck and a counter

COMPUTER: RELEASING PERSONAL EFFECTS FOR YOU IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.


Jack has the heads phone son and plays the tape

JACK: HELLO JACK IT'S ME, THAT IS TO SAY IT'S YOU


Jack fiddles with the counter

JACK: PUT THAT DOWN NOW


Jack approaches a hidden locked door with a keypad

JACK: HERE'S THE DEAL, THE FUTURE OF MANKIND IS LOCKED BEHIND THAT DOOR. THE LOCK IS ALIEN AND IMPREGNABLE.


Jack looks at the keypad

JACK: YOUR GRANDDAD LOST THE CODE AND IT'S ANTI-JAM MECHANISM HAS UNFORTUNATE COLLOCATION CONSEQUENCES.


Jack clicks the counter

JACK: SO HE CAME UP WITH THIS STRATEGY WHICH HE PASSED ON TO YOU FATHER AND THEN ONTO YOU, INCREMENT THE COUNTER, MEMORISE IT


The items back in the drawer

JACK: RETURN THE ITEMS TO THE DESK, SHUT IT


The keypad

JACK: ENTER THE CODE INTO THE KEYPAD


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A barren empty landscape as page 1 frame 2

JACK: AND THEN …


11 
Box out of jack rubbing his head as page 1 frame 1

JACK: WOW THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SOME NIGHT

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