Scripted Webisode - Overlap
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After Mason and Andre both write scripts for the same day they discover how the universe deals with it.
Transcript of Scripted Webisode - Overlap
1 EXT. STREET - DAY
TITLE CARD IN LOWER THIRD: EXT. STREET - DAY
MASON and ANDRE sprint around the corner sidewalk of a busy
urban intersection. Traffic is jammed, horns honk without
pattern. On the building behind, an enormous shadow seems
to be forming. A massive CREATURE in pursuit. They stop to
catch their breath.
MASON
This... (breath)... is why we don’t
write for the same day...
(breath)... everything gets
Spiderman 3ish.
ANDRE
(breath)... over saturated with
plot points?
MASON
I was gonna say fucked beyond
repair.
ANDRE
At least no one’s hurt.
As Andre finishes his sentence a CAR is tossed through the
air from around the corner. It crashes into the
intersection and explodes! Almost immediately a SCREAMING
MAN emerges from the fire ball, clothes a blaze, and in
panic gets in a TAXI to drive away. A moment later the taxi
explodes setting off a surreal, almost special-effects-like
chain of exploding cars as one blows up after another.
Mason glares at Andre.
ANDRE
Oh c’mon! What is this Grand Theft
Auto?
MASON
I think we need to get to higher
ground.
ANDRE
Not without party supplies.
Andre grabs a BICYCLE parked by a tree and hurls it through
the storefront window beside them. On the other side of the
broken glass are several MANNEQUINS holding FIREARMS. Andre
climbs in.
2.
MASON
Since when do gun stores
have storefront displays? With
live ammunition?
Andre tosses Mason an M16 RIFLE.
ANDRE
I’m not that big on exposition,
this seemed like the quickest way
to explain us getting these.
Andre loads the chamber with a "CHK-CHK!"
MASON
This was still my episode to write.
Andre hops to the sidewalk, rifle in arm.
ANDRE
First off no it wasn’t, second off
no it wasn’t.
Mason and Andre’s glares are interrupted by a voice further
down the street.
KID (OS)
(nasally)
My bike!
MASON
Let’s go.
ANDRE
(to KID)
Should have locked it! Life lesson
bitch!
Mason and Andre run into the lobby of an office building as
a KID, 12-14 years of age arrives at the shattered
window. He holds the bent frame of his beloved bicycle. He
is heartbroken.
KID
(tears turn to vengeance)
Life lesson learned. Now time-
(beat)
-for a death lesson.
The KID lifts a HANDGUN from the broken glass into frame and
chambers a round.
CHK-CHK
3.
As he does so the ground begins to rumble and a shadow casts
over him. He looks back at the enormity and grins.
2 INT. OFFICE BUILDING BULLPEN - CONTINUOUS
TITLE CARD IN LOWER THIRD: INT. OFFICE BUILDING - CONTINUOUS
Mason and Andre step out of an elevator, rifles by their
sides, and make their way through the cubicles toward the
building’s windows. Each worker they pass reacts
frightfully, either fainting, yelping or tossing their
PAPERS in the air. The office’s nervous and sweaty BOSS
steps into their path.
BOSS
I don’t know who you’re here for
but I swear we had no idea those
subprime mortgages were faulty.
MASON
Uh... no, that’s not what we’re
doing.
Worker pops up from a desk.
WORKER
Could I interest you in one then?
The return’s amazing. They should
really be called optimus-prime
mortgages! Get it!
BOSS
Donny! Shut up!
(to Mason and Andre)
I just had him watch Glen Garry
Glen Ross. What are you here for?
ANDRE
(non-chalantly)
Zombie Dinosaurs.
BOSS
(chuckling)
Ha ha okay sure...
As the Boss chuckles behind him an enormous pale and undead
BRACHIOSAURUS head rises into view. Everyone excluding the
boss stumble backwards in horror. A moment later the head
crashes through the window grabbing the Boss in its teeth.
4.
BOSS
(screaming)
This makes no sense! Sauropods are
herbivores!
With a crunch the Boss is swallowed and Andre and Mason
raise their rifles.
ANDRE
Has a point-
MASON
Had a point, just aim for the
brain!
Mason and Andre pull their triggers and completely lose
control of the weapons they’re firing, wounding multiple
office workers. The Zombisaur ducks out of sight.
ANDRE
Ah damn that’s right, we don’t know
how to use guns.
MASON
Ya to be honest I kinda thought
we’d just intuitively know how to
use them if they were in the
script.
Donny is mortally wounded on the floor and bleeding pretty
bad from the torso.
DONNY
(dying)
Can I interest you in a credit swap
derivative?
ANDRE
Sorry B.
(to Mason)
Let’s make our way to the roof.
MASON
The roof?
ANDRE
If there’s one thing every dinosaur
thriller and zombie apocalypse ends
with it’s a helicopter. Bound to
be one there.
Mason nods and they make their way through the office of
moaning workers to the stairwell, flashing apologetic faces
to them as they hop over bodies.
5.
As the stairwell door closes behind them the Zombisaur
raises its head back into view, except this time saddled
atop is the KID. They seem to have a partnership.
The KID leaps onto the exposed floor of the office building
and walks over to Donny. He picks a CONTRACT from Donny’s
clutches and begins to read it. His eyes widen.
KID
My father’s contract. You’re the
predatory lender that cost us our
home.
DONNY
Small.. (cough)... world.
KID
And about to get smaller.
The KID fires a round into Donny.
KID
Now who’s the predator.
3 EXT. ROOF - CONTINUOUS
TITLE CARD IN LOWER THIRD: EXT. ROOF - CONTINUOUS
Mason and Andre burst out the stairwell onto the roof and
sure enough waiting for them is a HELICOPTER starting up its
rotors. Near the edge of the roof military men are shooting
their machine guns down at the Zombisaur, which every few
seconds grabs one of them in its jaws unstoppably.
MASON
(worried)
A webisode is supposed to end with
things going back to normal isn’t
it?
ANDRE
Ideally.
The side door of the helicopter swings open and an army man
inside ushers them to join him. Mason and Andre oblige and
run across the roof and into the blackhawk.
6.
4 INT. BLACKHAWK - CONTINUOUS
Mason and Andre put on headsets across from the GENERAL as
the helicopter takes off into the sky.
ANDRE
(yelling over noise)
Ay what’s going on?
GENERAL
Brain of the creature is too small
to shoot. We’re doing everything
we can, but looks like we’re in its
territory now. Damn shame. Right
before Cinquo de Mayo too.
MASON
Wait today’s not Cinquo de Mayo?
ANDRE
(victoriously)
AH HA! See! My episode!
MASON
(sighing)
Ahhh god dammit.
5 EXT. ROOF - CONTINUOUS
As the Zombisaur finishes off the last soldier, the KID
bursts out onto the roof in time to see the blackhawk flying
away. He looks down at his handgun and tosses it to the
ground.
KID
(to Andre and Mason)
I forgive you.
The KID slowly turns to grains of sand is carried away in a
breeze. The Zombisaur continues through the city.
SMASH CUT TO:
CREDITS
