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Episode #10 The Call of the Wild

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38 EXT. HIGH GROUND. NEAR WOODS - 00:45, NIGHT 3 38

CERI, RHYDIAN

The half moon hangs over the horizon. Not a sign of human

life for miles. CERI and RHYDIAN stand staring north.

CERI:

You think this is beautiful. Our

home is majestic. Miles of

wilderness, all ours. And you’d be

welcome there.

RHYDIAN:

You want me to go with you? Like,

forever?

CERI:

What have you got to go back to?

Bullies, schoolwork, teachers

who’ve already given up on you?

RHYDIAN:

I’ve got friends.

CERI:

Come with me, and you’ll have a

pack. A family.

RHYDIAN:

I...have a pack.

CERI:

Traitors to our species. You

belong with your own kind.

RHYDIAN:

I can’t decide now. I need to

think about this

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CERI:

Thinking is for humans. Trust your

instincts.

RHYDIAN considers. What should he do?

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MOON PASSAGE:
LAST QUARTER

39 EXT. PLAYGROUND - SCHOOL - 08:45, DAY 4 39

N.S PUPILS

PUPILS arrive for school.

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40 INT. MADDY’S FORM ROOM - SCHOOL - 09:00, DAY 4 40

MR. JEFFRIES, JIMI, LIAM, SAM, KAY, KARA, KATRINA, TOM,

SHANNON, N.S REGULAR FORM MEMBERS, MADDY, RHYDIAN

MR. JEFFRIES hasn’t arrived yet, and the form room is a riot.

JIMI boasts to the 3Ks and anyone else who’ll listen:

JIMI:

But I grabbed the wild woman and

pushed her outside.

MADDY is besieged by TOM and SHANNON’s questions:

TOM:

So why was Rhydian talking to her?

SHANNON:

Where is he anyway?

MADDY:

Look, you can’t tell anyone, okay?

TOM nods; SHANNON has her serious face on. MADDY knows she

can trust them.

MADDY (CONT’D)

She’s Rhydian’s mother.

TOM:

What? That homeless woman?

SHANNON:

He hasn’t run off with her, has he?

MADDY:

(her fears showing)

I don’t know.

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The classroom door opens - expecting Jeffries, the pupils

quieten down a little

But it’s RHYDIAN. A little scruffy and tired, but okay.

MADDY feels like she’s been holding her breath for the last

twelve hours, and now she can finally exhale.

LIAM:

How’s your smelly friend, Rhydian?

Ignoring him, and the whispering and muttering, RHYDIAN sits

down with his mates - who all start talking at once.

TOM:

You all right, mate?

MADDY:

We were really worried.

SHANNON:

Is your mum okay?

RHYDIAN:

You told them!

MADDY:

I was worried, I had to tell

someone.

SHANNON:

So what happened?

RHYDIAN:

I went home about one a.m. Mr.

Vaughan went ballistic, and I’m

grounded for the next hundred

years, but everything’s okay.

MR. JEFFRIES arrives: the noise starts to diminish

MADDY:

And your mum?

MR. JEFFRIES

Let’s have some quiet in here!

RHYDIAN:

Tell you later.

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41 INT. LOCKER CORRIDOR - SCHOOL - 09:10, DAY 4 41

N.S PUPILS, MADDY, RHYDIAN

The few PUPILS here are leaving for class. Almost alone,

RHYDIAN opens his locker and stuffs his bag inside.

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In order to get it to fit, he has to take something out and

put that in the locker separately.

It’s a sleeping bag. Folded clothes under it in his bag.

He’s packed to leave home.

MADDY approaches his locker. She’s seen the sleeping bag.

MADDY:

Rhydian, what are you doing?

RHYDIAN:

I’m going with her.

MADDY:

What?

RHYDIAN:

She’s my mother. She can teach me

things...

MADDY:

You can’t just run away.

RHYDIAN:

It won’t be the first time. It’s

just the first time I’ve had people

I’m sad to leave behind.

MADDY:

I’ll tell Jeffries. Or ring your

foster parents.

RHYDIAN:

You won’t. Tom or Shannon would -

they’d think they were doing the

right thing, saving me from a

hopeless mother. But you know the

truth. I’m going to live the life

I was born for.

MADDY:

And what if it isn’t? What if you

get there and you hate it?

RHYDIAN:

Maybe I will. But you have to let

me try.

MADDY can’t believe he’s asking her to keep this secret. But

she also knows he’s right.

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42 INT. SCHOOL. CORRIDOR. 10:30, DAY 4 42

TOM, RHYDIAN, PUPILS.

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TOM moving between classes. RHYDIAN catches him up.

RHYDIAN:

Hey, Tom, I owe you an apology.

TOM:

You feeling all right? Should I

get the nurse?

RHYDIAN:

I’m serious. The football team,

all that stuff. I let you down.

TOM:

Nah. it was dumb - expecting you to

be brilliant when you don’t even

like football.

RHYDIAN:

What can I do to make it up? For

you, I mean?

TOM stops. RHYDIAN too.

TOM:

Is this a wind-up?

RHYDIAN:

Why’d you say that?

TOM:

Because...you’re acting sort

of...cuddly.

RHYDIAN:

Seriously, Tom. I wanna leave with

a clean slate.

TOM:

Leave?

RHYDIAN:

...this issue...with no bad

feeling.

TOM:

Well, you could join the team

again.

RHYDIAN:

I can’t.

TOM:

Why not?

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RHYDIAN:

Because I don’t belong.

TOM:

Mate. The last time I heard such

total rubbish was Shannon claiming

she watched a Zac Efron movie cos

of the plot.

(but seriously)

You belong where you want to be.

If you want to be on the team -

even for one game - then make it

happen.

RHYDIAN:

I can do that? Join for one game?

TOM:

It’s our biggest match of the

season. The one everybody wants.

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43 INT. GYM - SCHOOL - 11:00, DAY 4 43

TOM, MISS GRAHAM, RHYDIAN

TOM hovers at a distance. MISS GRAHAM, putting equipment

away, talks to RHYDIAN

MISS GRAHAM:

When you’re in a team, you’ve made

a commitment. Whatever’s going on

your life, you have a

responsibility to the team - and

they have a responsibility to you.

RHYDIAN:

I understand that.

MISS GRAHAM:

One last chance. But this time,

you’d better play like you mean it…

TOM grins. Job done!

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44 EXT. FOOTBALL FIELD - SCHOOL - 15:00, DAY 4 44

N.S PUPILS, KAY, KATRINA, KARA

A few eager PUPILS gathering. The 3KS, in their sparkly,

cheerleading outfits, do their warm-up…

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46 INT. CHANGING ROOMS - SCHOOL - 15:12, DAY 4

RHYDIAN, SAM, TOM, N.S FOOTBALL TEAM, LIAM, JIMI

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The home team are changed and doing their own little warm-uproutines. Chattering and laughter The

door opens. It’s RHYDIAN. Hostile silence. Playersglare at him. Stung, hiding it, RHYDIAN unpacks his kit.

SAM:

He can’t play.

TOM:

We need him.

SAM:

(final desperate ploy)

He doesn’t even have any boots!

JIMI reaches under the bench, pulls out the boots RHYDIANdiscarded yesterday - and offers them back to him.

JIMI:

You’re on, Welshie.

there and win!

Let’s get out

SAM collapses onto a bench with a groan. Foiled again!

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EXT. FOOTBALL FIELD - SCHOOL - 15:30, DAY 4 47

JIMI, LIAM, TOM, RHYDIAN, N.S FOOTBALL TEAMS, N.S SPECTATORS,

MISS GRAHAM, MR. JEFFRIES, SAM, SHANNON, KAY, KATRINA, KARA,

REFEREE, MADDY

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