A Sample Of The Script!

EXT. A SMALL SUBURBAN HOME - DAY (story in progress)

We see Dean as a young man in his late 20's. He is sitting on a porch with two longtime friends, Dipper and Clint. It's a very hot and windy day, and tensions are escalating to near violence...

DEAN

I don't know the answer. I... don't... know! How many times do I need to tell you that?!? That is why we are here.

CLINT

Dean, we know that. But we're not making any progress.

DIPPER

(sarcastically) Oh Clint, you are so wise and observant.

DEAN

Not making progress? A few hundred thousand dead people a year in the US alone, half of which were not criminals. Your right, we should just give up. But then again, what about the SAC's? (terminally ill people who sacrifice their life so that Dean and his team can analyze data). We are starting to get a pinpoint on which satellites transmit data and which ones receive. Tell me that is not progress or just walk away right now.

CLINT

I didn't say I want out, but that was our last big find, and that was over a year ago.

DEAN

(quietly) yeah, I know. But hey, this GPS system didn't have a bunch of masterminds working on it at first. I mean, you do recall the days of the one-mile "proximity" reports. A crook could have shot a flair in the air and still ditched the collectors (basically morticians that pick up the dead bodies just after the system has terminated them for their crime). Talk about your needle in a camel's eye.

DIPPER

The what?

DEAN

The what "what?"

CLINT

You lost us on that eye/needle thing.

DEAN

I have no clue what the hell you are talking about.

DIPPER

You said, "talk about a needle in a camels eye."

CLINT

Do you mean walk a camel through the eye of a needle, or find a needle in a haystack?

DEAN

(puzzled) Must be nice to have the time to worry about metaphors at a time like this. What I meant was a needle in a haystack- the proximity reports were weak, it was hard to find its target. And now it never misses, and then some.

DIPPER

(politely) Please continue. I will send you a note explaining my sincere apology - asshole!

The group chuckles at the sarcasm, and the tension has been broken.

DEAN

Now, if we can continue. We are making progress as in the cable link data from last week. And if I may use a metaphor, this is going to be the calm before the storm.

CLINT

(in a dumb voice) Uh, as in weather related storm or like a mob of GPS revelators taking to the streets?

DEAN

(in a yoda voice) Ah, young Skywalker, you are wise in the ways of the force!

DIPPER

Ok, the cable link data showed that if you commit a crime 30 feet underground, the system won't see you. (sarcastically) Great, that means that the crime rate in mines and sewers is going to shoot through the roof when this info gets out to the public. I don't call that progress.

DEAN

It shows that the system is not perfect, and that is huge, my friend.

FADE TO BLACK

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