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Act I.
EXT. Frankie’s House
The house is of a grand, Gothic construction, curiously
wedged between a pair of typical Victorian terraced
houses.
ESTABLISHING SHOT of Frankie’s house, a delivery van is
seen pulling into shot.
CUT TO Front Door.
In keeping with the aesthetic of the house, the door is a
hulking mass of twisted iron and wood.
The door is seen from the perspective of the delivery
man, he can be seen holding a box. The holes in the box
indicate it is used for transporting animals.
A pearlescent button is set within an ornate iron base.
Assuming it to be the doorbell, the delivery man presses
it. A deep, heavy tone rings out, followed shortly by the
sound of footsteps, growing louder as they shifted closer
and closer to the door.
The door rattles as locks are opened and the door emits a
piercing creak, as it slowly swings open.
HOLD SHOT, showing the distant corridor.
PAN DOWNWARDS to reveal a small child looking up at the
delivery man. He is clothed in an oversized lab coat and
safety goggles resting upon his head. A badge fastened to
the lab coat shows the child’s name to be Frankie,
scrawled above the scribbled out name of the previous
owner.
(Name could also be discovered through a CLOSE UP shot of
Frankie signing his name on the delivery man’s
clipboard.)
CUT TO a sideways shot of Frankie and the delivery man’s
legs. The delivery man passes the box to Frankie. His
legs buckle under the weight, and the box falls to the
floor, leading Frankie to push the box through the front
door.
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INT. Frankie’s House, Hallway
Short, DOLLY SHOT, following Frankie using all of his
weight to force the box down the hallway, his oversized
lab coat trailing behind him.
INT. Frankie’s Laboratory
MID SHOT of Frankie opening the box on his workbench. His
eager expression soon shifts to one of disappointment.
CLOSE UP SHOT of the opened box reveals the source of his
disappointment. The box contains what remains of a small
cat that appears to have died during transit.
Shaken but not disheartened, Frankie takes it upon
himself to resurrect his furry companion.
CUT TO MONTAGE of Frankie connecting his feline friend to
his experimental God device.
MONTAGE ends with a CLOSE UP SHOT of Frankie throwing a
rust ridden switch. Lights flicker and the sound of
pulsating electricity bounds around the laboratory.
As the process begins take speed, the cat begins to throb
and swell. The electricity passing through the animal is
simply too intense. The skin of the animal shreds at thepoints where the limbs join and the pressure produced by
boiling blood forces the limbs to violently break away.
(The idea is that the cat simply ‘overloaded’, much like
when you blow a fuse or capacitor in a circuit by using
the wrong mains adapter with an electrical appliance.
Imagine putting a ‘Stretch Armstrong’ in a microwave.
That’s the idea.)
MID SHOT of Frankie standing across from the device, as a
mechanical whirring sound slows to a halt. A paw lands athis feet as Frankie raises his goggles.
Frankie tidies up what is left of the cat, arranging it
loosely into its previous form. He’s left with about a
third of a cat, causing Frankie to acquire the missing
parts.
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Act II.
INT. Pet Shop
The distinctive bell rings as Frankie enters the shop.
PAN UP and OVER Frankie’s head, revealing shelves
littered with various animals.
Quick, CLOSE UP MONTAGE of Frankie’s hands picking up
various cats from cages.
CUT TO DOLLY SHOT of Frankie pushing a wheelbarrow,
covered in a tarpaulin, through the shop and out through
the door. Signs of struggle can be seen and heard coming
from beneath the tarpaulin. The door closes, the bell
rings once more and the shot fades to black.
INT. Frankie’s Laboratory
SHOT FADES IN, ABOVE SHOT, PUSH IN
Frankie is seen leaning over his workbench. The camera
positioned behind him and gradually moves inwards towards
him. Noises from power tools etc. are heard, as thunder
rattles the room. Flashes of lightning light the room.
REPEATED CUTS between Frankie at workbench and his hand
casting severed limbs into a container. The camera pushes
closer towards Frankie with each cut.
Sequence ends with a CLOSE UP of the head and the neck
being sutured together. The camera pulls in closer,
turning as it does, as the neck and head are drawn
together, closing off the scene and eventually cutting to
black.
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Act III.
INT. Frankie’s Laboratory
The camera quickly PULLS BACK, revealing the cadaver (or
in this case, cat-aver) lying on the slab, connected once
more to the device.
Frankie throws the switch once more, the process closely
resembling the previous effort. Whilst the device is
operating, it needs something more…
Rain continues to pound the house, so much so that it
begins to penetrate the building. Rattling wind forces
the windows in the laboratory to open, scattering
raindrops across the equipment.
In a frantic rush to prevent any damage to his work,
Frankie assembles an elaborate assortment of umbrellas
around his workshop, failing to acknowledge the danger of
using an umbrella in a thunderstorm.
A bolt of lightning strikes the umbrella placed by the
window, linking from one umbrella to the next. The arc of
electricity eventually leads to a transformer, linked
directly to the device.
The jolt of electricity is exactly what the device
required in order for it to operate successfully.
CAMERA PULLS BACK RAPIDLY, as the patchwork cat bursts to
life.
FADE OUT
INT. Frankie’s Laboratory
MID SHOT of the cat in it’s new basket under the stairs
of the laboratory.
Frankie’s legs can be seen descending the stairs.
CUT TO TWO SHOT of Frankie and the cat. Frankie is seen
to have a new collar for the cat. CLOSE UP SHOT of
Frankie fastening the collar, the camera PANS IN towards
the name tag, revealing the cat’s new name to be
‘Fran-cat-stein’.