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Title: 4 Of Spades

Series: Marked deck

Writer: P E Leody

SYNOPIS: THERE'S ALREADY A BIG HOLE WHERE JAMES IS DIGGING, AND ITS BEING FILLED IN AGAIN

PAGE 1


1 
James digs

JAMES: DIG DOWN, DOWN, DOWN


2 
James turns and looks over his shoulder

JAMES: ITS ALMOST ALWAYS DOWN


3 
James walks down a hewn corridor in the rock

JAMES: ALMOST ALWAYS


4 
James finds a hole in the wall

JAMES: BUT NOT


5 
James pushes through the whole

JAMES: ALWAYS


6 
Reveal shot of a huge underground quarry, the hole is in one side. James pokes his head through it, he is about half way up

JAMES: SOMETIMES THERE'S NO DIGGING

PAGE 2


1 
James crawls down the underground quarry walls

JAMES: ORIGINALLY LOOKS LIKE A NATURAL FORMATION


2 

Caption: JAMES REACHES THE BOTTOM OF THE QUARRY

JAMES: BUT IT BEARS THE SCAR OF MAN'S INTERVENTION


3 
James sieves the rock dust on the floor

JAMES: HIGH DENSITY GRAPHITE, NOT UNCOMMON AT THIS DEPTH


4 
A flicker of light in the distance

JAMES: BUT NOT OFTEN FOUND BEING MINED


5 
A porta cabin on scaffold in the quarry basin

JAMES: UNMISTAKABLY, MAN'S BEEN HERE


6 
James looks in the porta cabin window and sees four men of different countries talking round a table

JAMES: AND SOME HAVEN'T LEFT

PAGE 3


1 
Back view of James holstering his spade. Watches as a loaded lorry drives off

JAMES: SO IT'S A COVERT MINING OPERATION


2 
A full rail truck of spoil rumbles past

JAMES: GOOD COVER FOR ANY KIND OF OTHER COVERT ACTIVITY


3 
James crouches behind a drum that is marked as radioactive, as he watches the rail traffic

JAMES: GOOD COVER FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE


4 
A large train passes close by

JAMES: NOT MUCH OF A VIEW, CLAUSTROPHOBIC AND IT'S A BIT NOISY


5 
The truck tips it's spoil in a hole

JAMES: PERHAPS THE CONFERENCE IS AN ALLIANCE FOR THE MINING


6 
James teeters over the edge where the spoil has just been tipped

JAMES: IF YOU PROJECT THIS SITE UP TO THE SURFACE IT'D COVER MORE THAN ONE COUNTRY. INTERNATIONAL WATERS RUNNING DEEP

PAGE 4


1 
James at the top of the precipice

JAMES: TECHNICALLY SPEAKING THIS IS A NATURAL QUARRY


2 
James shimmies down a rope ladder that leads to the bottom

JAMES: NO NEED TO DIG WHEN NATURE HAS LEFT A TRAIL


3 
Top view of James descending

JAMES: NOT MUCH USE FOR DENSE GRAPHITE


4 
James shimmies around when the ladder ends

JAMES: EXCEPT FOR THE OBVIOUS


5 
James climbs the remainder of the way by hand

JAMES: THE LADDER DOESN'T REACH THE BOTTOM WHATEVER'S BEING DUMPED DOWN HERE IS MEANT TO STAY HERE


6 
James finds a heap of filing cabinets

JAMES: AND THAT IS... A MOUNTAIN OF PAPERWORK

PAGE 5


1 
James climbs down the mountain of filing cabinets

JAMES: TOO MUCH PAPERWORK TO SHRED, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, PENSION REFORM SCHEMES, JUSTIFICATION BEHIND INHERITANCE TAX


2 
James pushes open a cabinet

JAMES: THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF THEY ARE SUDDENLY TRYING TO DISPOSE OF


3 
An close up of the mountain is made of fridges

JAMES: FRIDGES, ASBESTOS AND PLASTIC CARRIER BAGS, THE BIG 3 OFFENDERS AGAINST NATURE AND LAND FILLS


4 
Wide shot of the hills of cabinets

JAMES: WELL THEY'LL CERTAINLY KEEP ANYONE ELSE FROM READING THESE, THE QUARRY BOTTOM IS A LIVING DEATH


5 
At the bottom Jim pushes a cabinet away

JAMES: THE POLLUTION'LL BE FOCUSSED TO COHERENCE AND BLEED TO THE SURFACE IN A MASSIVE UNSTOPPABLE CATASTROPHE


6 
James digs a hole in the quarry floor

JAMES: GOING DOWN 3 FOOT'LL PROTECT ME

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