"who killed artie choke?" - a carrot crusader adventure
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“who killed artie choke?” - a carrot crusader adventure
detective in charge: chris saunders
zoom in on buildings shot
home to the weird and wonderful,
rich and poor, the drab and the
dramatic...
...speaking of dramatic, who’s this
figure swinging silently through
these modern moonlit monoliths?
Like a shadow, he cuts through the
night, ever-vigilatnt for the musky
smell of crime... At the peak of physical fitness, his muscles are
coiled like springs...
Sirens up ahead... the sound of trouble
...he can leap between rooftops like you or I would jump a
small puddle!
why, it’s the CARROT CRUSADER of course!
(hero shot)
our story begins in the concrete
jungle of Tabasco, the chilli city
landing shot
un-afraid, our hero calls upon his trusty grappling hook to help him survey the area
- a purpose-built, pocket-sized peacekeeping powertool, that performs practically
perfectly without problem or pause...- I think you see my point!
And now dear reader, prepare for
twists, turns and turnips, as together,
we try to solve the mystery of...
...who killed artie choke? by chris Saunders
...look what we just found lying
in the victims juice...
E. King: wait... isn’t that one of your throwing
knives...?!
s.p.u.d: freeeeze!!
forensic guy: you cheif! You’re gonna
want to take a look at this...E. King: Mind your footing son, this whole area’s covered in juice...
S.p.ud: Halt! Or we’ll shoot! ... s.p.u.d: ...open fire!!
CC: (thinking)Some one is trying to frame me...
CC: Who’s the victim chief? E. King: Vic’s name is artemis chalk, aka ‘artie
choke’ - a known snitch. looks like someone
tore his heart straight outta him.
cc: (thinking) ...but who? why?
cc: as a well known snitch, artie choke and those like him were more of an aset than a
hinderance to those they worked for, used to deliberatly leak controlled information,
to rival gangs, or the authorities, as a distraction techique... a hazardous profession, but
considered by most to merely be pawns in a larger game... dupes, not usually targeted
for vengence...
cc: ...and to have his heart brutally
torn from his chest... was it some
form of warning to other snitches?
CC: ...if so, it’s definitely a step up from
the previous snitch-related murder...
CC: ...huh?!CC: the police crime tape, it’s broken!
zoom in on severed tape
cc: someone’s been in there
since the murder took place!
CC: last week another infamous snitch known as Huggy pear was gunned down in the
alley behind the club that he owned - a dead-disco dive know as the fruit fly. as he
was killed by a gun-shot would to the head - a favourite method of dispatch among
his often villainous clientelle - both the police and myself assumed it was gang re-
lated, and I left them to it.. after all, the S.P.U.D have a whole unit for gang-warfare.
cc: but what if that wasn’t it... what
if someone is deliberatly knocking
off snitches? ... a cereal killer?
CC: I need to return to the cave, search
the data bases for any other connections
bewteen these two victims... see if they
share a common enemy...
cc: I have the feeling there’s going to be
much more to this case than a simple vegicide!
- long frame showing the carrot crusader working his way
through the city (over rooftops/climbing walls/sliding down
roofs) making his way back to his car -
- drops down into a dark alley next to
something covered in a big grey tarp -
- pulls back grey tarp to reveal shiny orange car (the carrot
mobile?) - *big frame to show off car, which appears very small
in upcoming frames*
- engine’s roar echo’s off buildings - - car leaves tabasco city via a big (golden gate-like)
bridge into the countryside-
- close up on carrot crusader in the
car looking cool (emphazing it is
indeed him that is driving) -
- zoom out to reveal the car is quite far into the
countryside now, silhouette of city in background -
- car approaches a large mansion, the road curves up towards
it, and it looks as though that’s where the car is going... -
- ...but it actually goes into the
drive/garage of a normal looking house
on the side of the road! -
- floor of the garage lowers into a secret
compartment under the house, dummy car
lowers into garage to hide the lift -
- a vaccuum tube pod big enough for a
person is on standby -
changing costume shot
- cc has walked into a vaccuum tube
labelled ‘daily intake’, indicating a
tube that will take him straight
there. A robot arm loads the right
costume in the tube and he starts
to get changed into it -
- the pod zooms off down it’s tube into a massive underground cavern,
you can see high-tech equipment in the background, as well as tubes
leading off in all directions -
Cc: computer: access the police statement
footage from the recent murder of subject
id: ‘huggy pear’ - display on main screen
peachie: inspector king, what can you tell us
about the victim? who might want him dead?
E.King: unfortunatly due to special
circumstances I am unable to divulge any
details about the victim, but i can tell you we
are treating this as a gang-related murder,
and are dealing with it accordingly. thank you.
cc: those ‘special circumstances wer due
to huggy being a police informant, but he’s
been in trouble before, maybe there’s a
clue in the daily intake’s archives...
CC: ...besides, if I want to get anything out
of chief king, he’s not going to be able
to speak to the carrot crusader right
now... maybe it’s time for a quick change
- cc emerges from the basement of
the daily intake in his disguise as... -
peachie: Nelson Nantes! What are you
doing sculking around down here? checking
the archives are we?
peachie: hmph, i’m almost impressed!
I had the same hunch! but this well’s
all dried up I’m afraid - zero files
on this ‘huggy pear’ character in
the archives... suspicious don’t you
think? looks like you’ll have to try
another source!
cc: cc: (thinks) time for plan b...
cc: hey romano! Chief king busy?
romano: Nelson! how’ve you been lad?
he’s in his office, but be careful, he’s
not in the best of moods today!
E.King: make this quick boy, thanks to this
whole mix-up with the carrot crusader, i’ve got
a lot on my plate right now...
CC: sure chief, I was wondering what you could
tell me about the huggy pear case?
E.king: well despite the fact that we
weren’t supposed to be releasing that
name until tomorrow, I figured that
was why you were here - here’s the
case file on huggy pear, knock your-
self out.
cc: oh, hey peachie! you’re a long way
from the newsroom! er yeah... I
thought i would check up on the guy
from that murder case last week -
see if there are any links to this new
case the spuds are trying to keep
quiet...
E.King: now if you’ll excuse me, i’ve
got to stop all my investigations
into this case, as i have a fugitive
superhero on the loose - if i were
the carrot crusader, i’d stay well
out of my way tonight!
- It appears there could be a
secret room! -
- cc spends the next few hours pouring
over huggy’s case file - some of the re-
ports go back decades... -
- suddenly he spots something when
comparing two photo’s taken of the
fruit fly’s basement... -
- CC rushes out of the room to
investigate, slamming the door
behind him -
- cc returns to the fruit fly later that
night (now back in his crusader costume) -
- uses a device (carrot shaped) to
disable the alarm and unlock the
door-
- the club is dark inside, cc heads
towards the stairs that lead to the
basement... -
- ...and goes down them -
- he finds the wall featured in the
photograph... -
- and proceeds to hunt all over for the secret switch that will open it up -
- eventually he tires of looking, and in sheer
frustration... -
- ...he kicks the wall/door down (showing for the first time emotional distress
about being framed for a crime he didn’t commit) -
- *wide shot of inside the secret room* it’s empty - aside from the shattered remains
of the wall/door there is nothing in the room but a few electricity cables, some
slightly luminescent goo, and something shiny on the floor...-
- cc investigates the goo, and takes a sample. The same goo is on the shiny
object, which turns out to be another replica of cc’s own throwing knives,
same as at artie chokes’ crime scene -
- cc compares this new throwing
knife to one of his own - they are
almost indistinguishable -
- he scans it using a gadget
hoping to identify the goo or
pick up a fingerprint... -
close up shot of
scanner’s screen?
- ...but the scanner doesn’t recognise
either, labelling them as ‘unknown’ -
cc: ‘unknown’? I knew this was more than
mere gang-warfare... looks like i’m
going to be spoiling the chiefs night
after all...
- cut to outside 5th precinct, a wary looking
edward king appears to be going home for the
night... -
- as he gets to his car, he see’s a carrot
shaped note attached to his windscreen -
“you and I both know i’m being framed - i
have new evidence relating to this case i
think you should see - meet me at the docks
at 11pm - come alone. The Carrot Crusader”
- it’s 10: 58, edward king is at the docks waiting for
the carrot crusader -
close up shot of evidence bag
- on the boardwalk in front of him, there is a small
evidence bag, there is a carrot symbol on it -CC: 11:59 - prompt as ever I see chief!
e.king: ‘it’s the early sprouter that catches
the days best sun’, as they say, or in this case,
a renegade murder-suspect in a cape...
- CC indicates the evidence bag, edward
king moves to pick it up -
cc: now chief, if you really thought I had killed
artie choke, you wouldn’t have come here by
yourself, not when I’d told you specifically
where i was going to be...
- edward king looks in the evidence bag -
e.king: don’t get smart with me lad, i’m missing an episode
of ‘m.a.s.h’ for this... so what do we have here then?
CC: it’s another replica throwing knife - i was pursuing a
hunch i had about a possible connection between artie
choke’s case and huggy pear’s from last week. I found
this in a secret room in the fruit fly’s bedroom - look
familair?
e.king: yes, so i’ll overlook you breaking and enter-
ing for now. interesting though, yo’re not the first
carrot to ask me about huggy pear today...
Radio: ** sorry to interupt your evening chief, but
Joey the leek has just been taken into custody,
seems he had a narrow escape with death about 20
mins ago! we’re getting ready to question him now **
cc: joey the leek? another well known snitch? this
can’t just be co-incidence!
e.king: roger that, i’m on my way back to the station
now - don’t start without me - over. I think you should
be here for this too boyo, but i can’t give you a lift...e.king: ...you’ll have to make your own way there!
- observation room &
interrogation room -
e.king: you took your time!
they’re about to start...
- cut to the area mentioned, with the parsip avenger flying
through the buldings and above the streets, looking very
pleased with himself -
CC: whooo! look! It’s the parsnip avenger!
PA: greetings citizen! fear not, your city is safe
while i patrol it’s skies! (note: he cannot actually
see where or who the voice is coming from...)
cc: heads up!
- parsnip avenger crashes headfirst into a big tarp
the carrot crusader had put between two buildings -
it is the same colour as the night sky -
- cc swings the tarp and the captured avenger
around and onto a nighbouring roof -- he hits it with a thud -
Pa: oomf!!
pa: what the hell bro!? (or something similar)
- news report states where the parsnip
avenger currently is in relation to the
city (eg: the business district) -
CC: someone’s been impersonating me,
and you’re the biggest pretender I
know!
pa: “pretender” am i!? I’ll show you who’s
the pretender around here!! rawrrr!!
- lunges at the carrot crusader -
- cc vaults over the lunging
avenger, driving his head into the
rooftop -
- he lands behind the avenger, spins
around and draws a bolas launcher
from inside his cape -
- he fires the bolas at the parsnip
avenger, momentarily trapping him... -
- ...but the avenger uses his super
strength to snap the bolas cable... -
- ...and his super speed to duck the
tazer cc had fired at him while he
was immobile... -
cc: I don’t know what your motives
were, or why you tried to frame me,
but i’m taking you in for the murder
of artie choke!
- ... and in the same moment grabs cc
by the scruff of the cape and hurls
him backwards -
pa: rrwwrr!! see?! who’s the pretender
now!?
cc: you don’t intimidate me pal.
pa: oh no? perhaps you’ll feel differently
about the thought of a 5 story drop?!
can’t say that impersonating you now can
you? after all, gravity is no nemesis of
MINE...
pa: waitaminute... before you said some-
thing about murder? i didn’t murder
nobody!
cc: well that’s a double negative, which is
almost a confession in itself - tell me
why should i believe you then? after all,
you’re first reaction was to attack me...
pa: ...which is hardly the acts of an
innocent veg, yeah i get it... but what
can i say, you got me all riled up! i
can understand why you came to me,
it’s true that’s i’ve been impersonat-
ing you, but i’ve never even heard
even heard of this artie choke guy, i
swear!swear!
cc: so it was you who saved joey the leek from don berry’s boys...
pa: sure it was me, i whooped their butts good - was easy too... wimps.
- flashback to scene shoing the same images as joey’s flashback
scenes, this time with the details of the hero filled in as the avenger -
pa: me and joey go wayyy back, we used to
hang out after school... but you know what
the parsnip families are like in this city, they
don’t approve of outsiders... still, I couldn’t
let him get whacked by those deadbeats...
pa: ...but because of this i couldn’t risk
information of a parsnip shaped rescuer
getting back to grandpa snips, he might
have put two and two together and
worked out my secret identity! besides,
me and the old goat don’t have the best
history... and i’ve learnt it’s a good idea
to avoid provoking assassins!to avoid provoking assassins!
CC: ...so this means it really was a coincidence... if don
berry was still planning to kill artie tonight, he
couldn’t have known he had actually been killed the
night before, and therefore couldn’t have been re-
sponsible for the murder... joey was never a target,
he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
pa: what about his croney? that vocado guy? maybe he
killed him the night before and didn’t tell his boss?
cc: hmm, al vocado is greedy and ambitious - it’s
not his m.o to kill small fries... but he could be
worth questioning about all this!
pa: great, i’ll come with you! we’ll work together
- i’ve always dreamed of a superhero team-up!
pa: “...make sure this time that creep knows
what hit him!”
- parsnip avenger flies off, being careful to hide
his face from the sunlight... -
pa: *fake yawn* well, good luck buddy, i’m sure i
would have just slowed you down anyway...
cc: but why pretend to be me??
pa: because man! joey and i are your biggest
fans! I knew as soon as i went all ninja with the
smoke bombs joey would finger you! besides,
as you said, we do share a resemblance...
- suddenly the sun starts to rise behind them -
pa: er, whoa, look at the time! well it’s been a
busy night for me, saved a life, foiled a bank
heist - i’m beat!
Screw: look sharp wise-guy, you’ve got a
visitor waiting...
av: a visitor? for me?
- Al vocado is shoved into the visitation room, you can
see smoke developing on the otherside of the glass... -
av: hey watch it pal!!
- the door slams shut behind him, and locks. al
appears to be the only one in the room. the
otherside of the room has now filled with
smoke... -
- suddenly the carrot crusader’s shadow looms out from the
smoke, appearing to al exactly as it did during the attempted
hit on joey the leek... -
av: it’s...it’s you!!
av: you here for another round you freak?!
I’d like to see you get me through 3 inches
of bulletproof glass!
- suddenly a hand appears from behind al and
squishes his face into the glass... the carrot
crusader was on his side of the room all
along, al could just see his reflection! -
av: urrk!
cc: surprise...av: oh gawd whattya want from me? i don’t
know nothing i swear!!
cc: you know why don berry wanted artie choke dead,
so you can start there... that was me asking nicely...
but perhaps you’d prefer the alternative approach...?
av: err, no, that’s ok, i’ll tell ya what i know...
av: “well, so long artie” i said, and took
aim with the intention of giving him a few
more air-holes, if you know what i
mean...
av: ...damn thing knocked my gun
straight outta my hands!av: ...we thought it was you!!
av: as we looked up to see where it
came from, a shadowy figure dropped
down from the rooftop...
av: he landed right next to artie, seemed
to us the two of them were in cahoots...
av: then, outta the darkness....!
av: ...ok, well it all started earlier in the week - the don, the boys and
i were just takin’ it easy in the salad bar, same as we always do - when
artie comes burstin’ in...
av: ...he looked different ter normal, usually he’s
a right wet lettuce, but this time he had his head
held high - confident to the point of smug i’d say.
av: so he strolls right over to our table
and says:
At: ok don, i’ve got something mighty im-
pressive to show you out in the alley...
at: but first, i need you to shoot me...
whaddya say?
db: sure artie, we’ll help you out...
av: as a lawyer, artie has his uses, but lately
his continuos attempts to impress the don
had started to get on all of our nerves -
we weren’t going to pass up this opportunity
to get rid of him. still, as we went out to
the alley, he didn’t seem the slightest bit
nervous... it was weird.
db: what the hell is he doing here? did
you sell us out you little punk!?at: whoa, chill out fellas! it’s not the
REAL carrot crusader, it’s a fake!!
at: look see...? no heart, no soul, it’s
just a mindless drone, does whatever i
tell it too!
At: my... business partner and i have been
making them at his lab - told you it was im-
pressive didn’t i! pretty good huh?
dB: ...this thing... it does whatever you say?
at: go on, get outta here... return to
base. see the plan is, if we make super-
heroes that we can control, they don’t
need to be a problem no more, and you
know the best part...?
at: ...they’ve all got secret identities -
no-one knows who they really are, so
when we replace them, who’s gonna know
the difference!
db: what are you doing! you’re just letting
that thing loose in the city??
at: sure! watch this... hey you! pick up that
throwing knife! -it’s always dropping those,
must be a design flaw or something. pretty
lifelike though ain’t it?
db: ...is it... dangerous?
at: nah, it’s like i told you, it’s got no
brains, can’t think for itself.
av: the boss told artie to forget abbadit,
he wasn’t interested. artie wasn’t too
pleased about that - he swore that he’s
show us the mistake of not endorsing his
freakshow, and that we’d better watch our
backs yadda yadda...
at: of course not! it’s got an in-built
tracker on it - see? there it goes,
back to base just like i said...
course, can’t let you see where that
is now can i?
at: so whaddya say boss? want to be part
of the plan that’s gonna revolutionize the
crime in this city? you’d be crazy to say no!
db: it’d be crazy to say yes! i’ve never heard
such a stoopid scheme! you can’t just play
around with nature that way -did you see the
look in that things eye?? that’s a ticking
time bomb of disaster right there!
cc: well you clearly haven’t heard, but artie
choke was killed two days ago...
av: what!? but how... wait, it must’ve been that
monster of his!
av: i knew it would happen... that thing just
wasn’t right... it’s like the boss said: ‘you
shouldn’t mess with nature’...
- meanwhile cc has hopped over the glass
back into the smoke, al hasn’t noticed -
av: err... hello? duke: hey that was quick, i hardly noticed
you go in! you’re right, this article on apple
macs is fascinating...
cc: no problem man, keep it, i’ve gotta run...
- tabasco city general hospital -
cc: dr cumber? dr quentin cumber?
you’re wanted at the loading gate -
emergency apparantly!
Dr q: an emergency? I’m a mortician!
surely all the emergency has long
left my patients...
av: ...’you should keep it organic’ - so,
what did he do to him? was it grisly?
dr q: *grumbles* there’s always something...
never a moments peace...
- cc looks for artie choke’s body -
- after searching the body, cc turns to
his evidence file... -
- and finds the tracker artie used
on the creature during al vocado’s
story. he turns it on... - - it still works! -
av: so the little punk had finally gotten
too big for his boots... but the boss had a
plan - he decided to call in an old favour
from the parsnips... if anyone could handle
artie and his travelling circus, it would be
them - in fact the deals probaly already in-
motion to whack him even as we speak!
- cc tracks the creature through the
city, narrowing it down to a dark alley -
- he sees a dark shape moving around in
the alley, assumes it is the creature -
- he drops down with the intent of a
surprise attack... -
cc: FRREEEZZE!!!
- OH NO, IT’S JUST DRUNKEN BUM, ONION BOB!
CC: UH-OH...
- HE REALISES HIS MISTAKE AS THE
CREATURE LOOMS BEHIND HIM... ONION
BOB RUNS OFF -
- *BOFF!!* THE CREATURE GETS IN THE FIRST BLOW... - - ...AND WHILE CC IS STILL REELING, *WHAM!!* THE CREATURE KICKS
HIM HARD AGAINST THE ALLEY WALL -
- STUNNED, CC CAN ONLY WATCH AS THE CREATURE
DRAWS NEARER, STANDING ON AND CRUSHING THE
TRACKER AS HE DOES SO -
- IT’S A FACE-OFF! BUT CC IS BACKED AGAINST A WALL... -- THE CREATURE LUNGES...!! -
- BUT AMONG CC’S MANY GADGETS IS A TORCH, AND HE
SHINES IT STRAIGHT IN THE CREATURES EYES -
- WHILE THE CREATURE IS MOMENTARILY BLINDED **WHAM!!**
CC HITS HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH THE TORCH... -
- ...AND FOLLOWS THROUGH WITH A PUNCH TO THE BELLY SO
HARD, THAT THE CREATURE SPEWS VOMIT EVERYWHERE
(INCLUDINGA SMALL METALLIC OBJECT) -
- BUT THE CREATURE RECOVERS QUICKLY, AND SLICES
AT CC WITH HIS CLAWS, RIPPING HIS COSTUME -
- AND FOLLOWS THROUGH WITH A POWERFUL PUNCH TO CC’S HEAD
**BAM!!** KNOCKING HIS HEAD INTO THE ALLEY WALL **CRACK!** -- THIS HEAD INJURY IS TOO MUCH FOR
CC AND HE STARTS TO BLACK OUT... -
- ...WHO FINALLY SUCCUMbS TO UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND
BLACKS OUT -
- THE CREATURE MOVES TOWARDS HIM,
PRESUMABLY TO FINISH THE JOB... -
- ...BUT INSTEAD, SEEMS TO
NOTICE/READ A POSTER ON THE WALL... -
- ...AND THEN TURNS AROUND AND
LEAVES, SEEMINGLY FORGETTING ALL
ABOUT THE CARROT CRUSADER... -
ob: oh i saw that part - that thing
chucked it up when you hit him in the
stomach... gotta say, i’ve been there
man!
*click* at: ---kkk--- don’t believe ---
don berry --- show himm ---kkk---
cc: that’s artie choke’s voice!
cc: he must have kept a voice-recorded
diary in case something went wrong... the
creature must have ate it along with his
heart!
shot of cc talking excitedly
to ob, ob looks confused
- or dream sequence imagining
the attack on artie choke
cc runs out of the alley, with the
indication he is going back to base
**splash!!**
- onion bob throws water on cc to
revive him -
cc: ...whu?
ob: you alright sonny? you got
wanged on the head pretty good!
cc: that ...creature... where did it go?
ob: oh that thing ran off about 10 minutes
ago in a big hurry, it went thatta way...
close up on cc’s face -
he spots something
ob: ... i was hidin’ in the boxes over
there... dang near thought he’d
killed ya i did...
cc: ahh, dammit...
cc: ...the tracking device... it’s broken.
how the hell am I going to find him
now? And what’s this...?
cc: er... for you’re own saftey, it might be better if you forgot all
about this...
ob: don’t worry son, i’m halfway there already! *hic* you go get ‘im!
shot of cc looking away
cc: The sound file is damaged though...
i’ll have to take it back to base, see
if the computer can clear it up...
- ob starts drinking -
Dr p: you want me to use my superior
knowledge of genetics to modify
regular fruit and veg into replace-
ment superheroes? I have to say, this
is quite an ingenius plan; as morally
despicible as it is wickedly creative...
dr p: ..of course i can do it - i’m in. but
we need equipment... a lab...
AT: i can use my connections in the
mayors office to... redirect any crates
of medical supplies and equipment we
might need from incoming shipment... as
for lab-space, i think I’ve got an idea...
< this one time when he was drunk, I’d heard
huggy pear talking about a secret room in
his basement he used to use back when his
club was a broth-el - apparently no-one
else knew about it >
Huggy:Huggy: ...it’s not much really, but it’s well
hidden - i don’t need to know what you get up
to in here man, just in case I have to deny
any involvement, if you now what i mean!
at: ...it’s perfect!
< he tells me that he ain’t gonna tell nobody, but
I can’t take the risk, we’ve come too far... >
at: sorry huggy...
< i blew his brains out right there in the alley... the
power from the gun... it felt good. but this was no
good, soon the cops would be sniffing around... we
had to move the lab. >
compuer: audio file repair is now complete
CC: computer: play audio file...
day 01
< so earlier i went to the warehouse
like we’d arranged - I asked him what
he thought of my idea >
at: “ so whaddya say doc? i figured if
anyone could pull off this scheme, it’d
be you... can you do it?”
day 02
< the doc said he needed test sub-
jects, and the major had been on my
ass about sorting out the homeless
problem in tabasco (apparantly it was
hurting his votes) so i thought i’d kill
two birds with one stone... >
< i gave ‘free nutrients’ leaflets to every
homelss piece of trash I could find, soon
they were queing up to the back entrance of
huggy’s club (it being during the daytime,
huggy was fast asleep and none the wiser) >
day 03
<...and then it was lights out time. the
doc was happy, plenty of ‘test subjects’
he called ‘em... i thought it was all
pretty creepy, but it’ll all be worth it to
impress the don, when he see’s the
result, he’s going to freak! >
day 06
< potential disaster today - huggy comes stubbling into
the lab looking for ‘a spare keg of beer’ or something
- anyway, when he see’s Dr p,s experiments, he freaks out
and runs for it...>
< i rented a storage unit in the factory district and we
steadily moved the equipment in there - i don’t think
anyone found the original lab, as i went back there
the other day long after the police had been and
gone for the last of it - nothing had been touched >
< soon we were back on track - turned out for whatever
reason, carrots worked the best, so we decided the
carrot crusader would be the first to be ‘replaced’.
the one in tube 01 had shown particular promise... >
< i thought it was time for a test run, but the doc said it
was still mutating or something, and needed more
tests... but he can’t be in the lab all the time can he?
as soon as he goes out for a leak, i’m getting this
thing in it’s sunday best and taking it straight to the
don! he’s gotta be impressed by this baby... >
< i don’t believe it!! don berry called me
crazy!! me!? short-sighted old fool!!
‘time-bomb of disaster’? it came right
back to it’s tube, just like i told it to! >
< wait... I think something... no!!
Something’s gone wrong...! >
< it’s turned into a monster! it’s
coming after me... got to get out
of here! it’s coming after me! >
< it’s too fast!! I don’t
know my way around
this part of the city! >
< no!! a dead-end! oh gourd help
me! somebody help me!! >
< ...no!! i’m sorry! I’m sorry for what i’ve done to you!
Dr Potassium! it was all his idea! I swear! maybe we can
cut some kind of deal- aaaaaaaaaaaaHHHH!!! --- >
- sound file cuts off to be relaced by a loud alarm -
< i’ll show him, if he thinks this thing is dangerous i’ll show him dangerous!! all
i gotta do is turn up the heat on that genetic soup he’s sittin’ in - lets see what
the don has to say when i turn a suped up version of this thing on him! >
close up of james
prune’s face
peachie: while the s.p.u.d are yet to release
any official details, eye-witness reports are
coming in describing a grisly scene, where
the victims body was ripped apart as if the
murderer was looking for something...
- flashback shot -
- the creature is looking at a poster of
james prune that says ‘soul’ on it -
- flashback shot -
peachie: “the ‘godfather’ of soul was
brutally murdered... body was ripped
apart as if the murderer was looking
for something...”
peachie: prune was of course famous for
such soul classics as ‘papaya’s got a
brand new bag’ and ‘peas, peas, peas’...
CC: soul...
- flashback shot -
AT: “look see...? no heart, no
soul, it’s just a mindless drone!”
- flashback shot -
e. king: “...looks like someone tore
his heart straight outta him...”
cc leaps from his computer
toward the pipe that leads
to his garage
cc: computer: plot fastest route from the
locastion of artie choke’s murder scene,
to the nearest rentable storage unit
- flashback shot -
at: “it’s got no brains, can’t think
for itself...”
close up shot of cc’s face
heart, soul ...brains ..the creature... it’s
going after all the things that artie said it
didn’t have! but who does it know with
‘brains’... wait, of course! dr potassium!!
computer: incoming news buletin
featuring peachie keen ---
cc: on screen.
peachie: ...world of music lost a legend
today, as soul muscian james prune,
often referred to as the ‘godfather of
soul’ was brutally murdered sometime
this evening.
- scene opens with cc at the now abandoned lab,
which is still wrecked due to the creatures escape
- there is no sign of dr potassium -
cc wanders over to tube 02
- you can see a murky silhoette floating in the tube -
cc: so you’re another failed version of me then? that
stuff you’re floating in must be the same stuff i found on
that fake throwing knife...
- cc wipes away condensation from the tube -
cc: i wonder what you look like in there... huh?
- cc spots a copy of last weeks daily intake
lying in a puddle of the genetic fluid -
- “battle of the brains - the worlds top
scientists gather at tabasco city museum
next week for the ‘scientist of the year’
awards - presented by jim cherry” -
- realising the creature could have come
back to the lab and seen the paper the
same as he did, cc rushes off to the
museum to intercept him -
- tabasco city museum, scientist of the year
award ceremony -- wide shot of the stage/seating area where the
ceremony is already in full swing -
- a shadowy figure watches from the rafters - it’s the
carrot crusader! he has let himself in via the skylight -
- cc swings in to save the day (hero shot) -
cc: ok chief, i’m in, hang back until i give the
signal, then start evacuating signal - i’m Sure
he’s going to wait until the ‘scientist of the
year award’ has been announced...
e.king: ---kkk--- you better be right about this
kid... ---kkk---
jc: thank you professor plum, winner
of the ‘outstanding break-through in
forensic science’ award! Professor
plum ladies and gentlemen!
jc: so please welcome to the stage
your winner and over-all big brain,
professor gilbert pinestein!
**clap clap clap**
cc: now chief!! - suddenly the creature bursts out from under the
stage, lunging at professor pinestein -
jc: ...and now the moment all you nerds
*cough* -i mean esteemed guests- have
been waiting for: the winner of the ‘sci-
entist of the year award!’
- cc swings right into the creature, delivering a kick to it’s
face so hard it sends the creature hurting to the back of
the stage. jc has fled, but pp is still on the stage -
cc: chief! we need those people out and the doors
sealed, i don’t know how long i can hold this thing!
e.king: we’re working on it lad! alright everyone,
please exit in a calm, and orderly manner, everything
is being taken care off...
- cc throws two throwing knives,
not at the creature, but up
toward the display... -
- the knives sever the cables connecting
the ring, it starts to fall...
- which falls right on the creature,
trapping it’s arms -
pp: vot the heck iz that thing!
cc: it’s a horribly mutated, near
indestructable clone of me!
professor, you really shouldn’t
still be on stage!
cc: ...but as you are here, any ideas on
how to stop it?
- meanwhile the creature notices a
large version of the award statue... -
- the creature starts to come towards cc
and pp, cc notices he’s stood underneath a
stage prop of a planet with a ring around it-
pp: vell, i’ve never had to battle a mutant
clone before but like all carrots, it might
be easier to snap if you could refrigerate
it somehow...?
cc: cool it down... but how...?
- suddenly the creature leaps at them, it’s
broken free of the ring! cc shoves pp out of
the way -
cc: nevermind, just get out of here!
- the creature grabs cc’s neck and forces
him down onto the stage to throttle him, the
s.p.u.d open fire, pp lies on the far end of
the stage -
- pp notices that he has landed right next
to a fire extinguisher, the creature is
snarling at the police, agigtated, but not
injured by the bullets -
- suddenly a jet of freezing cold
c02 hits the creatures back while
it’s distracted by the bullets -
- professor pinestein to the rescue! -
- pp pours on the co2, the creature
starts to freeze... -
- cc uses this opportunity to strike
while the creature is helpless, winds up
a big kick... -
- ..and slices the creature clean in half! -
cc: i never meant to slice it in half! I was
just hoping for any kind of surface
damage really!
pp: i vouldn’t feel too bad about it... some-
how it’s still alive! look at it go!
- suddenly for no reason, a
section of the stage lighting
support grid comes loose... -
- it lands on the creature **SLAT!** dicing
him into strips -
- ...it’s going to fall on the
creature! -cc: look out!!
cc: so... it’s still alive? incredible...
e.king: that’s what the medics said, although i don’t
know if you can really call that living... we’re putting
in in cold storage for now.
forensic guy 01: ‘sliced and diced’ eh buddy?
forensic guy 02: that’’s totally inappropriate steve...
e.king: as for the ceiling grid, no sign of anyone
having been up there - the tech’s reckon it must
have been hit by a stray bullet and come loose...
cc: hmm...
e.king: we went to check out the storage unit you told
us about, but when we got there it was a blazing wreck
- we’ve got guys looking through the wreckage, but so
far they’ve found zip. my guess is potassium torched
the place - and any gm crops still inside - to cover his
tracks. the remaining clones must have perished.
cc: that’s the one thing about all this that i don’t
understand - dr potassium’s motives always centre
around a need he feels to prove himself to his
scientific peers - this creation was an enormous
breakthrough, but it was artie’s idea, and potassium
hasn’t even tried to take credit for it?
e.king: yeah well believe it or not, i had the same thought, so
i had some experts look into the equipment that artie had...
‘relocated’ for potassiums experiments - it seems only about
half of it would have been used for genetic modification...
not that artie would have known of course.
- cc waves to professor pinestein -
cc: so what else did he take?
e.king: well to avoid suspicion, artie moved stock
from about 30 different locations, so we’re
having a few problems finding exactly what’s
missing if you know what i mean.
cc: well let me know when you do, whatever he’s up
to, it can’t be good...
e.king: sure kid, no problem. you must be relieved
to know there aren’t anymore clones of you out
there wrecking your good name...? - fin
cc: i sure am chief...cc: ...i sure am.
- as he swings away we see a carrot crusader shaped
silohette watching from a nearby building... -
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