Happy Thursday, crime slicksters. It's time once again to take a trip to the dark side, where the girls are hot, the drinks are cold, and the hardboiled-pulp-noir action is non-stop, right here, at the coolest crime joint in cyberspace ... at That Killing Feeling.
In Chapter 43 of NOWHERE GIRLS, super-spy sisters Cherry Nation and April Street chase after evil criminal mastermind Honey Almond, who they've just learned to their horror is their long-lost mother ...
INT. KODAK THEATER - NIGHT
April and Cherry RACE toward
the stairs to the boxes.
Monsterburg’s body HITS the floor
in front of them, THWUMP.
APRIL
Whoops. No golden parachute --
And they RUN toward the entrance.
SECOND FLOOR CORRIDOR
Honey dashes out the
opera box door into the corridor.
Starts RUNNING up the ramp
that goes to the next floor.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Appear in the corridor a moment later.
CHERRY
Shit. Which way?
APRIL
She has to go up, WE’RE down.
Cherry nods.
They start running up the ramp.
HONEY
Hears their footsteps behind her.
DUCKS into an opera box.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Race by.
HONEY
Waits a beat.
Peers around the corner.
Sees they’re gone.
Then RACES back down the ramp
to the first floor.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Get to the top of the ramp.
Look around.
APRIL
Shit.
CHERRY
Fuck.
APRIL
Think, think --
(beat)
She could be hiding in the seats
on this level --
CHERRY
Or she could have gone into another box --
APRIL
Nah, she’s a criminal mastermind.
She’d do something much more devious --
CHERRY
Like fake us out and go back downstairs?
APRIL
Fucking BRILLIANT --
They HIGH FIVE,
and RACE back down the ramp.
INT. BOX SEATS CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS
Honey gets to the bottom.
Grabs the handle to the backstage door.
YANKS it. LOCKED.
Pulls out her gun.
SHOOTS the handle off.
DASHES through the door.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Run down the ramp,
huffing and puffing.
CHERRY
Kinda weird that we’re
chasing our mother, huh?
APRIL
Didn’t stop Oedipus --
INT. BACKSTAGE CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS
Honey RUNS down the corridor. Stops.
Sees the backstage area.
Sees something. Gets an idea.
Marches over to the rear.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Get to the backstage door.
See it’s open. Go in.
BACKSTAGE
Honey walks over to a circuit breaker.
FLICKS it off.
The area is plunged into DARKNESS.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Walk down the backstage corridor.
The lights GO OFF.
APRIL
That’s her --
CHERRY
She’s close by.
APRIL
Backstage. She’s backstage.
CHERRY
How do you know that?
APRIL
Can you say 'flair for the dramatic?'
BACKSTAGE
Honey dashes over to a
spiral staircase in a dark corner.
Starts climbing up.
Her boots CLICK-CLICK
on the metal steps.
APRIL AND CHERRY
Enter the wings.
Walk carefully in the darkness.
April stops.
APRIL
You hear that?
CHERRY
Hear what?
APRIL
Shhh. Listen --
Click-click-click-click.
CHERRY
Footsteps.
(looks)
Up above --
APRIL
(looks, sees, points)
Over there. The spiral staircase.
They both WHIP OUT their guns.
Take aim.
CHERRY
Honey Almond, come down NOW
with your HANDS UP,
or we’ll commence FIRING.
HONEY
Stops. Looks down. Smiles.
Pulls out twin guns. Takes aim.
HONEY
Is that any way to speak
to your MOTHER?
This is all very exciting, chasing one another around in the dark with loaded guns... lot of places to hide backstage....
ReplyDeleteThis scene would play very nice on the screen. And, as always... great dialogue between the girls...
Sweetie... the suspense is killing me here... part of me wants the girls to take Honey down for what she did... but then part of me says.. "she's their MOTHER!!" I am so glad my Mama was not a criminal mastermind...
Looking forward to next chapter!
XOXOXO <3 <3