REHASHED PILOT
FIT THE FOURTH FADE IN: INT. BREUGHAL'S VAN. THE VAN IS STOPPED. BREUGHAL AND MAHLER ARE SEALING AND MARKING THE VARIOUS BIT BAGS. BREUGHAL How many arms is that? MAHLER Seven arms. Four legs. And one right hand. BREUGHAL Only seven arms? You're sure? MAHLER Yeah. Third one we got only had one arm. War Vet. Shame about him. BREUGHAL Yeah. If he hadn't got a dishonorable we might've got a few extra quid for him. MAHLER (nods) Just can't get good pay for the bits anymore. Shame about that reporter. BREUGHAL He'd have fetched a prize, that's for certain. Well, we'll just have to try again. CUT TO: INT. MALL TECH SHOP AKA BRYCE'S PLACE EDISON How old were you when you ended up in the Scarlet Room? BRYCE Just short of my tenth birthday. It was a nightmare. CUT TO: INT. CONTROL ROOM THEORA (stares at the screen in horrror) Poor kid. MURRAY (to himself) Stick with it, Edison. This is a good one. They'll love it upstairs.) THEORA How could anyone do something that vile? CUT TO: INT BRYCE'S PLACE EDISON (horrified) Ten?! What made you go there? BRYCE Well, you have to understand that I didn't know what type of place it was until I walked in the door. EDISON Yeah. I understand that. But why check it out? BRYCE I was trying to earn some money to attend the Academy. EDISON Which Academy? BRYCE ACS. The Academy of Computer Sciences. EDISON That's pretty expensive. BRYCE Exactly. And my folks didn't make a lot of money. So they couldn't afford to send me. EDISON What about scholarships? BRYCE They don't give scholarships to Fringers like me. EDISON So you tried to earn your own way through... BRYCE And ended up working in a brothel instead. TOM And not doing secretarial work. BRYCE Tom was a real life-saver. He couldn't rescue me. But his visits were always a relief. He never touched me. Just gave me a break from all the hell I was otherwise forced to endure. TOM It wasn't right for you to be there, Bryce. EDISON Sounds to me like they kidnapped you. BRYCE They basically did. What really hurts, though, is that no one ever came to save me. Not my parents or so-called friends. EDISON Maybe they couldn't afford to buy law? BRYCE What about searching themselves? TOM It's not always as simple as that. BRYCE I never want to go back there again. EDISON I promise. You won't have to. stupid window
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