Asylum Page #9

DOUG:

We don't speak Czech!

DOUG and Chris exits.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT - TRAM - DOUG - DAY

Doug is on a tram going along the river, it is fairly CROWDED and Doug

is sitting by one of the doors. At the next stop an old LADY gets on

board and stands by Doug and stares at him until he gives up his seat

for her. Czech people give Doug a suspicious look and he is harassed

by a small DOG that keeps sniffing him.

EXT - PRAGUE STREETS - DOUG - DAY

Doug gets off a tram by the river and heads down side-streets towards

the Asylum. Doug has his knapsack on and stops to light a cigarette.

He passes a coal delivery and an OLD LADY struggling to open the door

to her apartment, she has a shopping bag. A couple of old cars are

parked up and a fancy Western car goes by. Doug passes the street

where the squat bar is and double-backs to go there. Doug looks

around for Jiri then goes through the main entrance of the Squat

building.

EXT - SQUAT HOUSE - DOUG - DAY

Doug enters and crosses the internal courtyard with smashed furniture

and two broken bicycles and a DOG which comes running to him. Doug

pats the dog and proceeds to the stairs of this run-down old apartment

block.

INT - SQUAT HOUSE - DOUG - DAY

Doug approaches a battered apartment door, he knocks and walks in.

PAN to show very squalid conditions, the floor is littered with PEOPLE

in sleeping bags and there is another DOG resting with it's owner.

Fabric is hung across the windows.

INT - POV - SQUAT ROOM - DOUG/LUBOSH - DAY

Show a double hot-plate on the floor with dirty pans by it and a

carton of milk and a wine bottle nearby. Show some ragged clothes and

a sleeping bag with Lubosh's scraggy head poking out along with a

scruffy-looking young GIRL. They are both asleep.

INT - SQUAT ROOM - DOUG/LUBOSH/GIRL - DAY

Doug shakes Lubosh gently.

DOUG:

Lubosh, Lubosh.

Lubosh wakes, but he is groggy.

LUBOSH:

What?

DOUG:

Lubosh, it's me Doug.

The GIRL wakes and looks Doug over and turns away to sleep.

DOUG:

My squat is looking great and it

should be up and running by the weekend.

LUBOSH:

Good for you!

DOUG:

Yeah, well do you think you and the guy's

could stop by on Saturday and play some

tunes. All the beer you can drink!

Lubosh looks at the girl and then rests back.

LUBOSH:

Okay, but remind me Saturday, yeah.

DOUG:

Ugh, okay...Thanks.

Lubosh smiles and turns to sleep. Doug gets up but comes back to

Lubosh.

DOUG:

Oh Lubosh...If you see a young man spying

on this joint, his name's Jiri and he's

cool.

Lubosh turns once more to sleep, Doug exits.

EXT - BETLEMSKA STREET - DOUG - DAY

Doug walks by the building site where workers are putting up a new

heavy-duty mesh fence and the foreman is barking orders.

INT - ASYLUM FOYER - DOUG/CHRIS - DAY

Doug carries some scaffold from the foyer in the direction of the

balcony. Chris enters Asylum.

DOUG:

Afternoon!

CHRIS:

Am I late?

DOUG:

No, not if you've got better things

to do.

CHRIS:

Who put a bee up your butt?

Doug swings a length of scaffold close to Chris and exits to balcony

area.

CHRIS:

Like a hand?

DOUG(OS)

When your ready Son!

Chris picks up a length of scaffold and goes after Doug.

INT - ASYLUM BALCONY - DOUG/CHRIS - DAY

Show a stack of scaffold on the balcony area. Doug is measuring the

distance between the square vertical pillars that support the balcony

edge and run up to the ceiling. On the floor is Doug's knapsack, a

metal saw, two-dozen masonry bolts and an adjustable wrench.

CHRIS:

You want those fittings as well?

Doug turns.

DOUG:

Yeah and can you bring the drill up too.

Chris exits while Doug marks up a length of scaffold, props it up then

gets the saw and starts cutting it. Chris returns with scaffold

stands and joint pieces and drops them down before going off again. A

piece of cut off scaffold falls and rolls down and off balcony. Doug

gets another length and saws it like the other. Chris brings up the

drill, dragging a connected extension lead behind him. Chris watches

Doug in action.

CHRIS:

You should qualify for some kind of

award.....I've got it, the Nobel prize

for Unauthorized Reconstruction.

Doug takes no notice, finishes off the scaffold.

DOUG:

Okay Bonzo, we've got to join these

pieces together then stick those stands

on the ends and fix'em to the pillars.

CHRIS:

A safety rail, Ingenious!

Doug c*cks a grin.

DOUG:

You measure up the other sides and cut

the rest of the scaffold.

Chris salutes and Doug picks up a joint piece and the wrench. Chris

waits a moment.

CHRIS:

Tape?

Doug looks up, realizes it's clipped to his belt and un-clips it and

throws it to Chris. Chris goes over to measure distances between

other pillars while Doug slots the joint piece between two lengths and

tightens the expansion bolt. Chris gets to work on the other lengths

of scaffold. Doug holds up a scaffold stand to a pillar.

DOUG:

Hey....That look high enough to you?

Chris turns from his work.

CHRIS:

Yes Boss!

Doug takes out a pen and marks the pillar through the two holes in the

base-plate and puts it down. Doug grabs the drill changes the bit

then drills the two holes and proceeds to fix the plate to the pillar

with masonry bolts. Doug then drills the opposite pillar but does not

fit plate. Chris takes a break and gets a pack of cigarettes out.

CHRIS:

Want one?

Doug blows a drill hole clear and turns from the pillar.

DOUG:

No. Here give me a hand with this

scaffold.

Chris puts cigarette back and helps Doug pick up the extended length

of scaffold. Doug slots it onto the fixed base-plate.

DOUG:

Just hold it up there.

Doug picks up a base-plate and walks over to Chris's end, moves

scaffold clear of pillar, slots on the plate and slides it into

position and screw up the masonry bolts. When first rail is done Doug

stands back in admiration and Chris gets out a cigarette.

DOUG:

Here, give me one of those smokes.

Chris shakes his head and gets packet out again and offers it to Doug

who gets out Zippo lighter and lights them both up.

CHRIS:

Do you think anyone will really

come here?

DOUG:

Well, I think I_ve got a handle on the

Czech pysche and I reckon this kind of

joint will make _em reminisce about

the sixties. Plus we should get

a few stray expat_s looking for Kafka.

Doug starts working with tools.

CHRIS:

Fancy some lunch after we_re through

with this Meccano sh*t?

DOUG:

Sure, I think it_s your turn to buy too.

EXT - PRAGUE STREET - DOUG/CHRIS - DAY

Doug and Chris walk along a street and enter the pub U VIOLA.

INT - U VIOLA PUB - DOUG/CHRIS - DAY

Show typical Czech pub crowded with lunchtime drinkers and an

accordian player. Doug and Chris sit at a table. Doug reaches for

two coasters and lays them in front of Chris and himself. PAN to show

pub and occupants. ANGLE Doug and Chris getting beers, toasting and

then drinking hard. SHOW pub action.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT - PRAGUE STREET - DOUG/CHRIS - DAY

Doug and Chris stumble out of the U Viola pub and walk off.

DOUG:

We'd better get some booze in for tonight.

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