Brazil Page #12

SPOOR:

Mumble ... mumble ... mumble ...

Tuttle

DOWSER:

Mumble ... Tuttle ...

SPOOR:

Tuttle! ... mumble!

(to Sam)

You've had that scab Tuttle here,

haven't you?

DOWSER:

...aven't you?

SAM:

What?

SPOOR:

Who fixed your ducts?

DOWSER:

...your ducts?

SAM:

I fixed it myself.

SPOOR:

Oh yeh? Where'd you get this from eh

(he holds up Tuttle's spare

part)

out yer nostril?

DOWSER:

...Yer nostril?

SPOOR:

Central Services don't take kindly to

sabotage!

DOWSER:

...sabotage!

SPOOR and DOWSER and the other workmen gather up their

tools - put them in the bag, grab everything else that

belongs to them and are leaving. SPOOR grabs the form-book

out of SAM's hands, rips out the last page, thrusts that

page at SAM, shoves the book into his bag. The WORKMEN

begin leaving the flat.

SAM:

Hang on! Wait a minute! You can't

just go and leave it like this!

SPOOR:

(mock innocent)

Why not? All you've got to do is blow

yer nose and fix it, haven't you?

DOWSER:

...ven't you?

SPOOR:

(leaving)

You're putting your talents to very

odd use Mr Lowry - yes, odd use - to

pit wits against Central Services -

DOWSER:

...sod you, stupid twit.

They go, slamming the door behind hem, leaving SAM in the

ruins of his flat.

SAM stands in the maimed sitting-room. Wall panels are

off. Tubes, ducting wires etc. spill out into the room

like greasy intestines. SAM more or less collapses onto a

couch. He stares at the ceiling. The room is gently

hiccoughing and belching around him. He stares at the

print-out of JILL's face. Slowly it dissolves into the

DREAM GIRL.

51 EXT. CONDUIT FORESTNIGHT 51

DREAM GIRL's face fills screen. The camera pulls back to

reveal that she is separated from us by a tangled forest

of conduit/ducting-like vines. SAM is struggling through

the vines, which grab at him, entwine and entangle him.

Finally bursting free he reaches out for the GIRL hovering

before him, But as he embraces her she dissolves in smoke

and he plummet into a void beneath his feet.

52 EXT. CLOUDS NIGHT 52

CUT to SAM plummeting down through dense clouds, his cape

twisting around him. Somehow he manages to wrestle it

clear of his body. Gripping the corners he whips the cape

up and over his head. The wind catches it and fills it out

until it acts as a parachute slowing SAM's descent.

Suddenly the clouds thin out and SAM can see below him.

53 EXT. STRANGE LANDSCAPE ANTI-DAY 53

SAM is heading down towards a barren landscape. Strange

mounds dot the barrenness - they ooze smoke and the

occasional flame. Near one of the mounds are two long

lines of shrouded FIGURES being forced into two giant

cages, suspended beneath two great misshapen balloons. The

black-robed FORCES OF DARKNESS (FOD) surround the

PRISONERS, relentlessly herding them towards the cages.

The entire scene is strangely coloured by unearthly light.

The sky is blood red and where the sun should be is a

black disc. SAM descends on his cape-parachute.

CUT to PRISONERS in their grey shrouds, shuffling towards

the jaws of the brutal cages. They are defeated,

destroyed, without hope. The FOD prod and whip them

forward. One of the FOD raises his spear to force a

stumbling PRISONER to his feet but stops with the spear

raised above his head. He has seen something. Other FODS

turn to see what it is. CUT to SAM landing on the beach -

a short distance away. The PRISONERS stop and look up. We

see their faces clearly for the first time. One of them is

MRS BUTTLE. Others are PEOPLE SAM saw in the flats, and

the KIDS. SAM recognises them. He is slightly taken aback.

A look of determination crosses his face. He draws the

sword. EVERYONE is frozen in place. SAM starts forward.

But he is stopped by a violent tremor as the earth begins

to tremble and shake. EVERYONE looks terrified. With a

mighty roar a crack opens up in the ground between SAM and

the OTHERS. Brilliant rays of light shaft upwards from the

opening. And then, with a maniacal shriek, the large black

flapping thing shoots out of the crevasse and streaks high

into the sky. SAM hesitates and turns to look down into

the light. There, under several meters of the earth's

crust are fluffy white clouds darting about in a beautiful

blue sky. SAM is delighted but as he looks up he is frozen

in his tracks by an enormous FIGURE that straddles the

crevasse. This terrifying CREATURE stands over 12 feet

high. He is encased in a frightening concoction of ancient

Japanese armour which seems on closer examination to he

made of computer parts. His face is hidden behind a

horrific steel mask. It is the GIANT SAMURAI WARRIOR that

was pushing the drawer closed in the Storeroom Of

Knowledge. In his hand is an evil-looking spear. SAM is

unsure which way to turn. The GREY PRISONERS are being

loaded into the cages with more speed. He turns to face

the GIANT WARRIOR. As SAM steps forward the GIANT stands

ominously still. Then very slowly he raises his spear in

an almost religious gesture. POOF! He vanishes. As he does

the light from the day is cut off. Looking down, SAM sees

that he crevasse has vanished as well. Maniacal laughter

from the flapping black thing makes SAM look up to see the

ballooned cage packed with GREY PRISONERS rise up from the

ground and begin to float away escorted by the Black

flapping Thing. SAM rushes after it grabbing one of the

trailing ropes. But as he is hoisted into the air it is

severed by the FODS. He tumbles to the ground. Looking

around he sees that, for some reason, the second ballooned

cage is still tethered nearby. SAM rushes over to it and

begins chopping the tethers away.

The cage bobbles ungainlily as SAM cuts the last

restraining rope. Grabbing hold he is pulled upwards, but

before he can reach the cage something clutches his leg

halting his progress. As he struggles his other leg is

caught. He is being pulled back by two giant hands.

Looking down he can see that from the top of one of the

smoking mounds a head and two giant arms protrude. The

face looks like MR KURTZMAN. SAM desperately clings on to

the rope as he struggles with the restraining hands.

MR KURTZMAN OF THE MOUND

Don't go! It's a trap! She's not what

she seems.

SAM kicks and strains but the hands hold firm.

54 INT. SAM'S FLATNIGHT 54

SAM wakes up. His feet are entangled in some wiring and

ducting. He is still in his devastated sitting room. As he

untangles himself the door bell rings. It takes a moment

for SAM to recognise it as the door bell. Annoyed and

still disturbed by the dream he gets up and goes to the

door. He opens it. In bursts a GIRL dressed in a silly

bell-boy costume with lots of glitter, net stockings and

big-bowed tap dancing shoes. She launches into a terrible

song and dance routine.

GIRL (singing)

Mrs Ida Lowry requests the pleasure

of your companyyyy

at her apartment tonight,

from eight thirtyyyy

midnight

to celebrate the completion

of her recent cosmetic surgeryyyy

The guest of honour will be

Mr Conrad Helpmann,

Dep. Under Minister of State

for Public Information,

R.S.V.P. by singing telegram.

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