EPISODE 6 SCENE 1

SFX: Silence, then the rustling of leaves, growth of plants

DAN: Where, where am I? Are you there, whoever you are? Hey, I can’t see any-

SFX: Rustling gets louder

SFX: Heartbeats and footsteps steadily get louder

LOU: I told you we shouldn’t have listened to Dan, run!

CLARA: Where are we running, we don’t-

DAN: Clara! Lou! Is that-

CLARA: Dan? Why are you-

LOU: How’s he on our radio? Can he do that?

CLARA: Apparently yes, how-

DAN: So, I don’t think I’m dreaming, right?

CLARA: No!

LOU: Hell no! And if Dan’s just going to make small talk, we should turn off the radio!

CLARA: It is off, somehow he’s still getting through.

LOU: Well, he can be quiet until-

SFX: Vines burst up from the ground

LOU: Faster!

CLARA: Dan, is there any way you can help us? Do you see an exit? They’re clogging the
stairwell near the entrance and we can’t find another way out-

DAN: I don’t see anything.

LOU: Use your, you know, weird stuff.

DAN: I still can’t see shit! What’s happening?

LOU: What’s happening is that we’re being chased by some, I don’t know, vines?

CLARA: And leaves! And branches and… we went to the gargoyle building and everything
seemed fine-

LOU: But then… vines! They almost impaled me!

CLARA: So if you don’t have a way out for us, you should probably-

DAN: OK, OK, just…

LOU: What is he trying to-

SFX: Radio static

SFX: Lou and Clara argue, but their voices and footsteps fade out.

SFX: Rustling is heard, a dry brittle rustling, with an emptiness towards a specific location.
Maybe some whispers.

DAN: [gasps]

LOU: So we just, fight it. We’ve got-

CLARA: Fight it? How?

DAN: There’s an emptiness. Towards your right.

LOU: What?

CLARA: Dan, if you-

DAN: I think it’s a service elevator. There’s probably a ladder. Whatever it is, the vines haven’t
reached it.

LOU: To our right? That’s not… we should try and-

CLARA: Come on, through the hallway.

SFX: Footsteps

LOU: He’s the one who told us to come here, that it’d be-
CLARA: Is there anything else we should know about the vines?

(A beat)

DAN: They sounded brittle, like they were… starved. Do you have a torch or lighter or-

CLARA: We have a flare.

LOU: We can’t just use up our-

SFX: Rummaging through backpack

CLARA: There it is… we’ll use it.

LOU: So we’re… there’s the elevator.

SFX: Runs up to the elevator

CLARA: How do we going to-

LOU: I’ve got this. [Grunts]

SFX: Lou starts to open the elevator

LOU: You can open up the… you just have to use a bit of… force.

SFX: elevator door opens wide enough.

CLARA: Thanks.

LOU: Dan was right about the ladder.

CLARA: Are the vines in there?

SFX: Silence

DAN: No. I don’t think… no.

CLARA: OK, let’s get in motion!

SFX: Vine rustling from the hallway

LOU: Come on!

SFX: Lou and Clara hurry down the ladder.

DAN: How… how high up are you?

LOU: Pretty high up, Dan!

CLARA: The building’s enormous. And Lou didn’t want to camp out on ground level!

LOU: We needed to sweep the rooms for-

SFX: Vines start coming down the elevator

LOU: Damn it!

DAN: Are they coming down-

LOU: Yes, they’re coming after us!

CLARA: Faster!

SFX: Footsteps and vines echo in the elevator shaft as they furiously race down

CLARA: Almost… almost

LOU: There! Come on!

SFX: They open the door

LOU: It’s blocking the entrance, how are we-

DAN: Are there any windows-

CLARA: And the windows. Come on, let’s see if this fire will actually work.

LOU: Bloody hell, I’ve got an axe, I can-

SFX: Clara lights and throws the flare

SFX: Horrible inhuman viney, naturey shriek. Seems to overload Dan’s recorder

CLARA: (heard very faintly) We got it!

LOU: (heard very faintly) Come on, it’s re… the damn thing is reforming.
SFX: Footsteps grow louder in volume as Clara and Lou escape through the front of the
building.

DAN: (Pained) Did… did you make it?

CLARA: Yeah, we’re outside, we’re just trying to get a better vantage point.

DAN: Where are you, what does-

CLARA: We’ll let you know once we can see…

SFX: Footsteps stop

(A beat)

SFX: In the distance, the sonic essence of the city crashes against the sonic essence of nature.

CLARA: Oh god

LOU: No. No it’s not right it’s not it’s not [vomits]

DAN: What do you see? What’s happening?

CLARA: The vines are crashing into the city, but the city, the concrete is moving and-

LOU: It’s wrong! It’s just wrong

CLARA: Dan, where do we go, where-

LOU: It’s going to crash over us and we’ll be-

DAN: I don’t know!

CLARA: Then listen! Or something! Because it’s everywhere!

DAN: Ok, ok, I’ll try and

SFX: Static radio shit

DAN: [Screams and gasps]

SFX: Louder cities meet nature sounds

EPISODE 6 SCENE 2
SFX: Whisper on the wind

GREEN WOMAN: Keep quick. Painful.

DAN: Wait, you’re here, how did you.

GREEN WOMAN: Not long painful. Will hurt you.

DAN: Ok, ok, just tell me how they can get out, what they need to do.

GREEN WOMAN: Go into green. Deep as they can. Quickly. Do not stop. Get out other side.
Other way is madness.

DAN: They need to go towards the vines? Wait, you wanted to kill them! Why should I-

GREEN WOMAN: Reconsidered. Both reconsidered. No time-

SFX: Dan and Green Woman both scream in pain.

GREEN WOMAN: Tell them. Do not have long.

SFX: Static radio weirdness

EPISODE 6 SCENE 3

LOU: -brought guns!

CLARA: How would that even have-

DAN: Clara! Lou!

CLARA: Dan, do you-

DAN: You have to go towards the vines. Go into them, go quickly and then come out the other
side?

CLARA: How would we even-

LOU: Hell, this is more of your-

DAN: I got you out of the building, didn’t I?

LOU: You’re the one who told us about the building in the first place!
DAN: Listen to me, I don’t think I have much time, you have to go through the vines, trust me.

(A beat)

CLARA: Lou, look at the…

LOU: I don’t-

CLARA: I know, it’s like an icepick in my brain, but look. It’s not a solid wall. Do you see?
There’s a couple of places we could get in.

LOU: But how do we know there’s anything on the other side?

(A beat)

CLARA: We don’t. But I’d rather trust Dan and try something than stay here and die.

LOU: Fine. Is there anything else you can give us?

DAN: I don’t-

SFX: Radio weirdness

DAN: [Gasps in pain] Just get through it quickly. And don’t stop. I don’t think I can-

SFX: Radio weirdness

CLARA: Dan are you…

EPISODE 6 SCENE 4

SFX: Clara fades out and Rat fades in.

RAT: Dan. Dan. Wake up and hear what I have to say!

DAN: [Groans in pain] I-

RAT: Dan! Are you injured or in pain or otherwise-

DAN: I’m… not feeling too-

RAT: Have you been exploring the limits of your new body without telling me? I am feeling both
excited and slightly left out.
DAN: (Still in pain) Rat, please don’t stand over me like that.

RAT: Oh.

SFX: Rat stops straddling Dan and gets up

DAN: And… I think I can broadcast-

RAT: Oh, you should not tell me how you have been exploring your new body! Then I might
have to tell someone and I would prefer this to be a secret between you and me. [Shhhhh]

DAN: OK, OK.

RAT: Oh, but whatever you were doing [Giggles] you really should not do any more of it for at
least a little while. Look at your new body!

DAN: [Gasps, in pain and shock]

RAT: Your new body, the sound device, is so delicate and fragile and important. You are an egg
and a nest and a pregnant woman, about to birth power. It is not just a machine, it is tied in to
you, intimately and personally. These things, the things I work with, that I have been given, that
you have been loaned, they are not just physics, they are emotion and will and power. Feel!

SFX: Rat strokes Dan’s body

SFX: Slight recorder weirdness

RAT: Fragile!

DAN: Fine, I’ll be careful.

RAT: Oh good, I would hate to lose you and I am not longer cross with you and I should have
been more understanding of your particular situation and I apologize.

DAN: Well, thanks.

RAT: Oh, the reason I came to you! The rude person that filled Suit is gone!

(A beat)

DAN: I mean, don’t they rotate out?

RAT: But she was not scheduled and Suit is pacing the hallways without anything to do and we
have no guidance!

(A beat)

DAN: Do you think… something here could have affected the, the transfer process?

RAT: Perhaps! But our employers have their own issues and their own challenges and their own
dangers! So many frightful things could have happened to them in their own world!

(A beat)

DAN: I can’t… I don’t think I can worry about that right now.

RAT: Oh, of course not. The directions were quite clear and we shall move ahead regardless.

DAN: Yeah. Uhm, Rat?

RAT: Yes Dan?

DAN: Did you see anyone-

RAT: [giggling] Of course not, silly! What’s your other question, you have one and I know it.

(A beat)

DAN: Do you know of any tape in the archive that’s got anything to do with nature? Or… vines?

RAT: Oh Dan, you would know the archives better than me! I have only licked a few pages of
the catalogue.

DAN: Uhh

RAT: And most of the archive is devoted to urban topics. Buildings and cities and designed
objects. But nature is an interesting topic. I used to love gardens.

(A beat)

DAN: Really?

RAT: Oh yes, I worked in park management in my youth.

DAN: Wait-
RAT: Before I became interested and obsessed and fascinated with various histories of
buildings and cities and designed objects. Now, I should be off. Goodbye Dan, remember not to
tax your new flesh. There are so many important things that it should and will and can and must
do!

SFX: Rat rushes out.

EPISODE 6 SCENE 5

DAN: [Sighs] Well…

SFX: Dan gets up and walks out of his room, walking towards the tape library.

SFX: In the distance, Suit is singing, a slightly different song from last time.

DAN: Oh shit…

SFX: Dan rushes to help Suit

SFX: Suit stops singing

(A beat)

SUIT (EMPTY): Hello Dan. I was not aware you were awake.

DAN: Are you… alright? Usually when you sing it’s-

SUIT (EMPTY): Not in this case, it appears.

DAN: So… Rat says that you should be, well, filled up.

SUIT (EMPTY): I am scheduled to belong to another person, yes.

DAN: Is there… something wrong?

SUIT (EMPTY): I would not know. I am not informed of the trials and tribulations of my
superiors.

(A beat)

DAN: Is there anything I can do to help, Suit?

SUIT (EMPTY): No. This place is an abomination.

DAN: What?

(A beat)

SUIT (EMPTY): I apologize. That was not a relevant statement.

DAN: Then… why did you say it?

SUIT (EMPTY): That was not a relevant statement.

(A beat)

DAN: Ok, uhm, do you want to know about what Clara and Lou are doing.

SUIT (EMPTY): Daniel Powell, I do not want anything. Cynthia left no instructions for me to
monitor Clara and Lou, therefore, I will not monitor them.

(A beat)

DAN: What will you do then?

SUIT (EMPTY): Right now, I am walking through the outposts, singing.

DAN: Any particular reason why?

SUIT (EMPTY): No.

DAN: Do you want to talk about it.

SUIT (EMPTY): No. I would like to resume my previous activities.

DAN: Alright. If you’re feeling-

SFX: Suit resumes singing, walks off.

DAN: [Sighs]

EPISODE 6 SCENE 6

SFX: Dan walks towards the tape archive

SFX: Dan walks into the archive

SFX: Dan opens the archive catalogue

DAN: OK, nature, nature, shit, Rat wasn’t kidding, there’s only one tape that’s even...

SFX: Flips through pages

SFX: Dan collects the first tape, sits down

DAN: [Dan sighs as he inserts the tape into himself]

SFX: Tape is inserted into Dan

EPISODE 6 SCENE 7 A and B

FLOWER TAPE BEGINS

SFX: Cheesy classical music

GARDENER: Hello and welcome to our guided tour of the gardens. This tape will serve as both
education and entertainment. As you walk through the Wall estate, this tape will give you
interesting tidbits about the plants as well buoyant classical music to aid in your contemplation.
And remember, as stated numerous times times, refrain from touching or clipping the flowers.

SFX: Cheesy music

SFX: more cheesy music

SFX: Cheesy music goes on way too long

DAN: Shit

SFX: Dan fast forwards the tape until he hears someone talking, then backs up

GARDENER: Like the Venus Flytrap, the Mars Flytrap is actually a carnivore. Unlike the Venus
Flytrap, the Mars Flytrap consumes much larger prey.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: Notice the bright, almost glowing purples of the Miranda Garthwait flower, how
lovely and charming! The history of this particular plant has troubling sexual and political
implications that are beyond the scope of this tour.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: When I was a young gardener, years and years ago, the Vallentenium Orchid was
the first flower I felt a true connection to. It’s spotted petals seemed to me like a work of art, like
it was the endpoint of all aesthetic beauty. If one can love a flower, and I believe one can, I
loved that flower. It was trampled by a careless guest whose name shall not be spoken of here.
Please remember, do not disturb the plants in my garden.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: The adolescent Le Guin vine grows at a rate of a foot a day, and as it ages, the
speed of its growth is increased. It must be destroyed with fire before it reaches six years, or it
will consume everything in the garden. Perhaps more.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: Ah, the Basque Watercress. As a child I would sit in the flowing streams for hours
and devour great handful of Watercress until my appetite was ruined. For the Watercress is full
of water, and therefore, water is a prisoner, or am I water’s-

SFX: Dan cuts off this entry halfway through to fast forward

DAN: Ah jesus, not this again.

GARDENER: It is said that plants talk to each other. That plants have memories. Sometimes,
when I dream, I am transported to a place where this is both obvious and true. I am not sure
whether it is a nightmare.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: Due to the varied origins of the plants, it is important to take great care in ensuring
that an approximation of their climate is provided for them. Notice the heat lamps and
greenhouses. Procuring the plants is a somewhat complicated endeavor, as it sometimes
involves working with those who… find objects for the Wall estate. They have their own…
unique way of looking at the world. But I should not speak out of turn.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: The Ruth LaMore flower was transplanted from Italy. According to local legend,
it’s perfume is said to make those who catch its scent go wild with lust, to forget their wives or
husbands and fornicate with the nearest willing participant. This is almost certainly an excuse. In
my experience, people will pollinate as they will.

SFX: Cheesy music, Dan fast forwards

GARDENER: Conversely, the Burnett Thistlecrest has the opposite effect. While odorless, its
blossom emits a substance suppresses all lust, desires, motivation and ambitions. Prolonged
exposure may result in a deep and possibly permanent sleep. Though once again, this might be
a bit of an excuse for laziness.

SFX: Tape weirdness

GARDENER: The bodies of the dead make a wonderful fertilizer. Please do not disturb the
plants in my garden.

SFX: Tape weirdness

GARDENER: Thus ends the tour of the Wall gardens. Once again, we appreciate your donation,
in whatever form it takes.

FLOWER TAPE ENDS

EPISODE 6 SCENE 8

SFX: Ringtone

DAN: [Grunts in pain] Did they…

SFX: Dan rushes to mother radio room

SFX: Hum of mother radio

SFX: Dan frantically connects his body to the mother radio

EPISODE 6 SCENE 9

LOU: are you-

DAN: I’m here!

LOU: [laughs] Didn’t know if we’d have to keep using this thing, with your new power stuff. Not
complaining, though!

DAN: Are you alright? Did you make it out of the vine forest ok?

LOU: We’re doing good, Dan!

CLARA: We’re safe. Or it seems that way.

DAN: Where are you now?

LOU: An apartment! Get this, not everything in this place is trying to kill us! There’s a market
and a-

CLARA: We should start from the beginning.

LOU: [laughs] Sure. So, we followed your advice and went into the vines, though let me tell you,
I was not happy about that.

CLARA: He wanted to set the entire thing on fire.

LOU: [laughs] Anyway, we entered the… thing, and it was like a forest! Creepy, but like a forest.
The vines seemed to writhe, and the flowers seemed to drip-

DAN: You didn’t pluck any of them?

CLARA: Why would we do that?

DAN: Just a tape I listened to.

LOU: So we run through the jungle, huh, like the song, and we run and run deeper and deeper
and all of the sudden we’re on the other side-

CLARA: [sighs] You’re glossing over… we should tell him about what we saw in the forest.

DAN: What did-

CLARA: There were chains everywhere, it was like the forest was… contained somehow. Only
the edges were free. Have you been to Central Park?

DAN: Yeah, a couple of times.

CLARA: Once we got a bit in, that’s what it felt like. Managed, somehow.

LOU: And there were dead bodies.

CLARA: Yeah, three or four.

(A beat)

DAN: Can you describe them?

CLARA: Nearly skeletal. Business suits. We didn’t stop to check.

DAN: Probably a good idea.

LOU: Anyway, we get out of the forest, and then… boom. A city. With actual people!

DAN: What-

CLARA: They aren’t actual people, Lou, they’re-

LOU: Whatever, they’re… something. They can talk and they’re not trying to kill us.

CLARA: Yet!

DAN: Wait. Wait. There are people out there! Tell me everything about them.

LOU: They… look like people. Kind of. Stranger, though.

CLARA: Whatever these things are, they look human, but with more… variance. Every one of
them is either impossibly beautiful or impossibly ugly. They’re seven feet tall or four feet tall. It’s
kind of exhausting to look at them.

LOU: But they speak English! And they were fine with us setting up in here!

DAN: OK, wait, you need to give me more than that. Are they from our world? What exactly
happened after you arrived here?

CLARA: They’re not from our world. We asked, according to them, they lived here since...
forever. As soon as we got out of the forest we saw an open air market. Filled with people and
objects and… the things they were selling weren’t normal. I heard someone haggle for red hair,
and once they’d agreed on a price, the woman just… had red hair. And the seller, his hair went
shock white, like it was drained of-

LOU: Did you see the guy selling fireflies?

CLARA: Yeah. He said they were good memories.

LOU: Wait, wait, Dan! I recorded it! I recorded the market to my mic! Listen!

SFX: Lou gets his recorder out

CLARA: Lou! I told him he shouldn’t be recording

DAN: Lou, I really don’t think that’s the best idea. I was ok with you playing the radio station
tape, but-
LOU: You won’t hear any voices! Nothing distinct anyway! They didn’t like it when I recorded
their voices.

CLARA: Fine, I don’t know how helpful this’ll be though.

SFX: Lou clicks play

SFX: Sounds of market. Indistinct clatter. Strange instruments in the distance.

(A beat)

LOU: Don’t you hear it? Alien? It’s like we’re in a whole new world.

CLARA: That’s because we literally are!

LOU: Fine! Whatever. Anyway, everyone’s talking about the contest! There’s this arena in the
center of the market, like an amphitheater-

SFX: Market tape continues throughout conversation

CLARA: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. So we entered the market and asked one of the
vendors-

LOU: She was selling books, but she said they were forgotten books, and-

CLARA: We asked one of the vendors what this place was and if there was somewhere we
could stay. She said we were in the market, and that we could stay in the visitor apartments.

LOU: And it wouldn’t cost us anything since we were new!

CLARA: We asked around, and, well, it’s a market. The things here aren’t… people from our
world, but they don’t seem outwardly hostile. They’re selling things that shouldn’t exist, but
they’re not trying to kill us at least. Lou’s right, everyone we approached was eager to talk about
something called the contest. Apparently it’s this big event that happens in the amphitheater. I’m
unclear on the rules right now, but-

LOU: I’m going to go and talk to people once we get off the radio!

CLARA: No Lou, you really shouldn’t do that! I know this place seems exciting, but we’re still in
a horrorshow, have you forgotten those things that chased us?

LOU: I haven’t-
DAN: Ok, ok. I can help. First you’ve been out a couple hours, since I last spoke to you-

CLARA: Yeah. More time bullshit.

LOU: Time-

DAN: Yeah.

CLARA: Don’t worry Lou, nothing we can do about it.

DAN: So, you probably shouldn’t leave until I get as much information on… wherever you are,
as possible.

CLARA: Good plan.

LOU: Wait-

DAN: I’ll comb through and see if I can find anything on the contest or this goblin market. Wait a
few hours to call me back.

CLARA: You can’t contact us?

DAN: The last time took a lot out of me. And I’m not sure I can do it again.

CLARA: You still weird me out, you know that, Dan.

DAN: [laughs] I know.

CLARA: Alright, we’ll give you a call in a few hours.

LOU: I still think we-

CLARA: We’ll call you in a few hours. And turn that damn thing off, Lou.

DAN: Until then

SFX: Radio disconnects

EPISODE 6 SCENE 10

SFX: Dan sighs and makes his way to the tape archive

DAN: (To himself) There’s no way Lou’s not going to head off. Goddamn explorer.
SFX: Dan opens the archive catalogue

DAN: OK, competition, contest, one there, and

SFX: Flips through pages

DAN: Alright.

SFX: Dan collects the first tape, sits down

DAN: [Dan sighs as he inserts the tape into himself]

SFX: Tape is inserted into Dan

EPISODE 6 SCENE 11

CONTEST TAPE

SFX: Tape being turned on

DAVENPORT: This is Davenport, I’m not at your phone right now, so you know what to do
buddy, leave your name and number after the beep.

EPISODE 6 SCENE 12

SFX: Beep

LMG CHAD: (Panicked) OK, OK, don’t delete this, Liam. This isn’t those… fuckers. The cult. It’s
me. It’s Chad. I put it in his drink like you said and... he’s so fast. He’s so fast. I caught up to
him, but, he just smashed my recorder, I got him to the basement, paid the guy, and I’ve got a
landline but... you said I had an hour, right, I don’t-

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: (In the distance, off landline) You have an hour.

LMG CHAD: Shit! Don’t talk until I tell you too. OK, I’m going to try and get as much out of him
as possible.

SFX: Chad yanks the landline, picks it up

(A beat)

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: It appears you have me at your mercy

LMG CHAD: Yeah, yeah, I do.

(A beat)

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: How were you able to locate me?

LMG CHAD: We tracked the money, the antiques… and I’m asking the questions!

(A beat)

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Then ask.

LMG CHAD: (scared) OK, OK. Who are you, who do you work for, and what’s the… nature of
the place you come from. Tell me everything.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: [Laughs]

LMG CHAD: Hey-

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: You realize you only have an hour, correct? The
ground up photo? That gives you one hour where I can’t kill you and must answer your
questions honestly. The queries you posed… I could spend months responding to them.

LMG CHAD: Well, OK, first-

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: No, no, I will be generous. Towards you and
your employer. I am not certain of my birth name, though I suppose it might have been Avery
Hamilton. It seems to have a ring to it. Though if you were able to access a picture of me, you
might know more than I would. Now, I assure you, I am quite human, although I don’t exactly
possess a human lifespan.

LMG CHAD: Davenport wanted to know how old you were.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: One, you really shouldn’t give away the name of
your employer-

LMG CHAD: [grunts/gasps]

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: don’t worry, we’ll discuss particulars later. And
two, I’m in my late hundreds, it’s difficult to keep track, I am an extraordinarily busy man.

LMG CHAD: OK, what happened? How’d you get so old?

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: I fear my backstory is far less interesting than
the nature of my employer, but if you insist-
LMG CHAD: Quickly, and then we’ll get to the other shit.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: How polite. To make a long story short, I
stumbled into, to put it mildly, another world-

LMG CHAD: Wait, how, how’d you get there?

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: I am not exactly amenable to interruptions, but I

was thrown overboard in the deep ocean during a night when the stars were in their proper
place, and I woke up in The City. I would recommend against diving into this particular rabbit
hole of study, these instances are… random at best. As I was saying, I explored the other world,
until I came across an amphitheater where the contest was taking place. Before you ask, the
contest is an… event for the entertainment of the inhabitants of this other world. It involves two
beings touching foreheads within a salt circle, and engaging in a battle of wills. And I am
physically unable to give you specifics, that ward is far more powerful than the… drink you gave
me. Seeing no other option, I entered the contest and… won. Thus, I was able to select various
boons from The Curator, the being who organized the contest. I asked to be able to leave and
enter The City at will, which I was granted, and also for extra life, because why not.

LMG CHAD: So… you didn’t have to go back.

(A beat)

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: The city is a beautiful place, in its way. And the
contest is… invigorating. I entered it more and more times, asking for more and more life from
The Curator. Eventually… I asked to be his representative. And thus, here I am.

LMG CHAD: That’s… it?

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Unless you would like to spend more of your
allotted hour?

LMG CHAD: No, no, OK, who do you work for, who is the curator?

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: You have been following me, so I assume you
have some idea. (A beat) I have perhaps spent more time with The Curator than any other
mortal, and I still do not understand him, her, it. It is very old, very powerful, and unlike many
other old and powerful beings in The City, it is sometimes, rarely, interested in humans. A
magpie, or perhaps a cuckoo, it enjoys artifacts both on their own merits, and as lures for the
unwary. It enjoys… I should not use that world, it implies The Curator is capable of emotion, but
it often will expose objects, his collection, to people to see how they react.

LMG CHAD: And… how do they react.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Not well. Most of them dissolve gradually, their
story being pulled out from their body. First as a note, then as a song. Once they become song,
the Curator controls them utterly. You must understand… it collects things, people, I am
obviously part of his collection, and it… experiments. It puts artifacts next to other artifacts, it
puts artifacts in people, to see what happens. Often nothing, but sometimes… if I had to ascribe
an emotion to the Curator, it would be curiosity.

LMG CHAD: Davenport said that songs come up a lot, in this, whatever this is.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Their world is one of will and stories, and when
you chip away at everything, you are left with song, it is how we perceive them.

LMG CHAD: That makes no sense.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: A word of advice, if you want to survive knowing
the things you know, you might want to attempt to comprehend.

LMG CHAD: Whatever. OK, tell us everything you know about these beings, what are they, how
can we contact them… everything.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: They are many and unknowable. Most of them
want nothing to do with humans, the very few that do, the messenger, the choir, the curator,
others you have not even begun to be aware of, it is best not to deal with them. They are not
evil, they are not good, they simply are.

LMG CHAD: Ok, you talked about the messenger and the choir, who are they, what do they
want?

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Want? Like I said, they are unknowable. But…
the messenger is flighty. Bird-like. Greatly interested in pleasure and language. You might have
heard of the travelers, or of its radio station? Perhaps not. Much more amenable to using
humans. The choir… wants more. Always. Cyclicly. Exploitatively.

(A beat)

LMG CHAD: OK, Davenport’s going to need a hell of a lot-

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Chad. Yes, I heard your name. Chad, what do
you believe is going to transpire, after the hour is up? What did Davenport tell you to do? Chad,
you’re not going to be able to kill me after you’ve finished conversing. Chad, I can’t die. Look.

SFX: Rep grabs a knife and stabs himself in the stomach, blood pours out, gross stuff.
LMG CHAD: Oh god!

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: [Gasps] The… concoction prevents me from

killing you, it does not prevent me from harming myself. And I always carry a knife. Painful, but
see, see it reforming.

LMG CHAD: Oh god.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Yes Chad, that is an adequate response.

LMG CHAD: I don’t, I don’t-

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Bring the phone closer, this is for Davenport. I
have given you a wealth of very interesting information. You having access to this information
does not concern me. However, I would very much like it if my name were not attached to it. I
realize you are recording this, simply put this recording in your archive and delete my name and
any identifying features from your records. You will have received this information another way.
Bringing down LMG would be difficult and call attention to myself. I have no desire to do so. You
must realize I am being quite generous. I’m sure you’re wonderful at keeping secrets. Chad,
does this sound like something Davenport would agree to?

LMG CHAD: Uh, yes.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Wonderful. Now, this concoction… will wear off
in approximately thirty minutes, correct? Then I suggest you start running. I apologize, I have
been alive such a very long time, and sometimes it takes takes a while for me to control my
instincts.

LMG CHAD: [Gasps]

SFX: Phone hang up

END CONTEST TAPE

EPISODE 6 SCENE 13

SFX: Ringtone

DAN: [slight gasp,still painful]

SFX: Dan rushes over to mother radio

SFX: Dan hurriedly connects to mother radio.

CLARA: -Calling in-

DAN: I’m here!

LOU: Hey mate. You found any info?

DAN: Yeah, actually.

CLARA: Really glad we waited, Lou.

(A beat)

LOU: Look, I have nothing to apologize-

CLARA: You went out there without even-

LOU: I’m not going to argue about this again. I’m fine. Nothing happened!

CLARA: You almost sold yourself into indentured servitude! To some sort of goblin.

LOU: I backed out!

CLARA: You are the most gullible-

DAN: Wait, wait, so you went out there-

CLARA: Lou did. And then I had to go with him or we would have been split up.

DAN: So… tell me what you learned.

LOU: It was… incredible. There were so many different… beings, they all looked kind of like
people, but taken to extremes, like-

CLARA: We’ve been over this.

LOU: Well. It was amazing. I wanted to buy everything and talk to everyone. But there are
these… rules.

CLARA: That we didn’t know because we don’t know where the hell we actually are.

LOU: And so there was this robot thing, but this robot that looked like it was designed in
medieval Europe, all gears, and I… entered into this strength contest, you know, like the ones at
carnivals, there was a really brilliant prize, it was this orb! And listen!
SFX: Lou gets the orb out of this pack

SFX: Glowing orb

CLARA: Lou!

LOU: No, just…

EPISODE 6 SCENE 14

SFX: Shimmering

SFX: Goblin market sounds

AUTOMATON: -May attempt to gain another, if you wish.

LOU: Bloody hell yeah!

CLARA: Lou! This is such a dumb idea! We know nothing about this place!

LOU: It’s a carnival game! What’s to know!

CLARA: Have you noticed that you haven’t paid for this carnival game? Carnival games always
cost something! That’s the point!

LOU: Hey mate, what’s the next prize?

AUTOMATON: The next prize is the memory of a noted lothario losing his virginity. Available to
access whenever you desire.

LOU: Well that’s just brilliant, it’ll be a lark! Come on, I’m trying again.

AUTOMATON: Step right up. Step right up.

CLARA: Lou!

LOU: Nothing’s changed? Just hammer the bell thing here?

AUTOMATON: Correct! You are an intelligent mortal!

CLARA: Please don’t-

LOU: Watch me work my magic.

SFX: Lou grunts, hits the bell

SFX: Losing carnival game sound

(A beat)

AUTOMATON: You have… lost. Now. For payment.

LOU: Bloody hell

SFX: Memory dissolves

EPISODE 6 SCENE 15

DAN: What the hell was that?

LOU: Oh, it was a memory I won.

CLARA: Yeah, your greatest failure in a year and a day. Guess it looked into the future too.

LOU: Look, I-

DAN: What happened?

CLARA: Turns out, if you lose, you become someone’s servant for seven years and seven days.
I had to convince that automaton that since we were new, the rules didn’t apply to us. And I had
to bargain ‘my tenth birthday,’ away, and now I don’t even remember my tenth birthday. Did we
have cake? A pinata? I don’t know! So thanks, Lou!

LOU: I told you I’m sorry!

CLARA: So yeah. Other than the fact that everyone’s really excited about the contest for
reasons they won’t explain, we didn’t learn anything useful. Dan. How about you?

DAN: Well, I know what the contest is now.

LOU: Wow, nice job mate.

CLARA: What is it?

DAN: It’s some sort of... willpower contest, might be the best way to describe it. Two people
enter a ring, they touch foreheads, and the one with the stronger will survives. The actual battle
takes place in some sort of mindscape.
CLARA: What happens in the mindscape?

DAN: A battle. The tape wasn’t clear. But will and desire are important. And if you win… you’re
granted a boon. By someone called The Curator… who seems creepy as hell

LOU: That sounds brilliant... but kind of iffy.

CLARA: Really Lou, now you’re not cool with iffy magical contests?

LOU: Listen, I said I was sorry, I don’t know what more you want from me!

CLARA: God! Just…

(A beat)

DAN: He… it’s, the curator’s good on it’s word.

CLARA: And you get anything you want?

DAN: Yeah, listen, the person on the tape was able to get out of The City and-

CLARA: Really? Get out?

DAN: Yeah, and he was able to become immortal but-

CLARA: He was able to get out.

DAN: Yeah

(A beat)

CLARA: I’ll do it.

DAN: What? (same time)

LOU: What?!? (same time)

CLARA: I’m guessing this is the only way we’re going to get what LMG wants. And the longer
we’re out here, the more chances we have of dying or forgetting who we are or becoming
indentured servants to some sort of goblin.

DAN: But the contest is so dangerous, the tape was really clear on that point.
CLARA: I just said, every second we’re in this… place, we’re more at risk. I’m going to get
home, Dan. And I’m going to use this to get home.

LOU: Then I should be the one to do it!

CLARA: No. This thing is based on willpower. You really shouldn’t enter.

(A beat)

DAN: Clara. The asshole that’s been controlling Suit is gone, and she hasn’t left any
instructions. I don’t... I think there’s something happening at LMG. Something bad. Or good.
Depending on how you look at it. But if you’re doing this for-

CLARA: I’m doing this to get home.

(A beat)

DAN: So… that’s it then? I just wait here until I know whether you survived?

(A beat)

CLARA: You… contacted us before, without the mother radio.

DAN: Yeah, I just used my new body, but I was just speaking to you through your radio I don’t
see-

CLARA: But you were able to extend yourself outwards, hear things we couldn’t!

DAN: You think I could enter the mindscape?

CLARA: You could try. I’ll see if I can bring the radio with me into the arena. Either way, I’m
doing this.

DAN: But if there’s someone else in the mindscape, won’t that-

CLARA: I don’t know. You can try or you can just wait. I’m still doing this.

LOU: Now, Clara, girl, wait just a-

CLARA: Shut up, Lou. Dan… see what you can do.

SFX: Radio shuts off.

EPISODE 6 SCENE 16
DAN: Shit! Shit shit shit!

SFX: Dan leaves the mother radio room

DAN: Fuck. Fuck. [deep breath] Rat! Rat!

SFX: Rat comes scurrying

RAT: Oh, hello Dan!

DAN: Rat. My… new body, this is going to sound weird, but can it… connect with people, if
they’re in some sort of mindscape, she’ll be wearing a radio and-

RAT: Oh, you mean the contest! That’d be cheating but it will be our little secret and I’m not one
to judge. Do you have an emotional connection with this person?

(A beat)

DAN: Yes.

RAT: Then it should be… possible. But tricky. Your new flesh is dependent on your feelings and
will and desires. You would have to go to sleep and try and think of them very, very hard.

DAN: Al… alright. Do you have any other… advice.

RAT: No. It’s your body, you should discover it. Have fun.

SFX: Rat scampers off.

DAN: Well… shit.

EPISODE 6 SCENE 17

SFX: Dan goes to his room

SFX: Dan climbs into bed.

DAN: OK, think of Clara, think of Clara think of Clara

SFX: His voice fades out as his breathing slows

SFX: Weird tape recording thing, think flying through the city, then, all of a sudden it stops.
DAN: Clara. Clara?

SFX: His voice echoes into nothingness.

SFX: Tape sound/magic

EPISODE 6 SCENE 18 A and B

MERC KEVIN: One Two Three One Two Three

Military Training Group: One Two Three One Two Thre

SFX: Military footsteps, their training continues throughout this scene

DAN: Clara! Are you-

CLARA: Dan! You’re here!

DAN: Clara! I can’t see anything!

CLARA: The contest has started, we’re in his memory, and I don’t know what I’m supposed to
do!

DAN: Is this just-

CLARA: Yeah, it’s training camp, the guy I’m fighting is in the group.

DAN: Were you given any instructions?

CLARA: No!

(A beat)

DAN: Can you… affect the memory? Maybe you’re supposed to change it? Make things turn out
differently?

CLARA: I’ve tried! I can’t do shit, I just pass through things, see?

SFX: Some ghostly passing through sound effects

DAN: Well, no. But can you, possess one of the people in the memory? Maybe you’re supposed
to convince him to do things differently.

CLARA: I’ll… fuck. Nothing.

DAN: Can you whisper something in his ear-

CLARA: No, I tried that! You took your sweet time getting here, you monster. And I’m just going
to die here and I’m not going to see my brother again after all I went through to fucking make
him normal again and I- [screams]

SFX: Slight weird tape shit

DAN: Wait, do that again.

CLARA: What? Scream? [Screams, lacking passion]

DAN: No, no, use that anger, about your brother, wanting everything to be normal.

(A beat)

CLARA: [Screams with passion]

SFX: Tape recorder weirdness, as if the memory is a tape that’s beginning to break down.

CLARA: What’s happening?

DAN: I think… I think I get it. You see someone’s life, and then you have to will it out of
existence, knowing that they were a human being and and can you do that Clara?

(A beat)

CLARA: Yes [Screams]

SFX: Tape recorder weirdness, memory breaks down

SFX: Another memory starts up

EPISODE 6 SCENE 19 A AND B

SFX: A pop song plays from the car radio

MERC KEVIN: Are you sure you want to do this?

DATE: Yes. You know I am.

SFX: Kissing sounds

MERC KEVIN: God, I love your hair

DATE: [laughs] My hair?

MERC KEVIN: Yeah, your hair. I don’t know, it’s, I like it.

DATE: [laughs] I like your hair too. Now-

SFX: They kiss

SFX: This is the background as Clara and Dan talk.

DAN: God, do we have to do this with every memory he ever had.

CLARA: Probably only the important ones.

DAN: God, Clara, how can you be so-

CLARA: He’s doing the exact same thing to me! Now, help me with this! [Screams]

SFX: Tape weirdness

DAN: I don’t know if I… he’s so…

CLARA: [Screams]

SFX: New memory

EPISODE 6 SCENE 20 A AND B

SFX: Sounds of a tennis match

DATE: You didn’t miss anything

MERC KEVIN: What would I miss? It’s a tennis match.

DATE: Stop. He loves it when you come.

MERC KEVIN: I’m kidding, come on, I love his… you know, morehand.

DATE: Forehand.

MERC KEVIN: Right, forehand. If he played basketball, I’d be able to-

SFX: Crowd cheers

MERC KEVIN: Oh shit, that was kickass. (Louder) Yeah Ben!

SFX: This is the background as Clara and Dan talk.

CLARA: [gasping] God, it’s so tough to… Dan, I need your help on this

DAN: God, he’s at a tennis game, I mean, he’s a person and…

CLARA: Dan. It’s me or him. Now. [Screams]

DAN: [Reluctantly joins in]

SFX: Tape weirdness

EPISODE 6 SCENE 21 A AND B

CLARA: Where are we?

DAN: Ugh, I’m getting tired.

CLARA: Ok, rest for a few seconds and then-

MERC KEVIN: Are you sure… are you sure about this?

SUIT (CAROLINE): Are you growing attached to them?

MERC KEVIN: Of course I’m growing attached to them, they’re my buddies! I fight with them.
I’m just… can’t we do something else? If we told them what was really going on, what was
really-

SUIT (CAROLINE): I sympathize, but they will soon commit the most dangerous act in all of
human history. They will let in the same… abominations... that killed Ben. Do you want that on
your conscience?

MERC KEVIN: No… I

SFX: Caroline and Kevin continue to talk in the background

CLARA: OK we need to [Screams]

DAN: No, I think that was the guy from the merc tape, the guy that tried to sabotage-
CLARA: There’s no time! You said it yourself! [Screams]

DAN: [Screams]

SFX: Tape weirdness

EPISODE 6 SCENE 22 A, B, C, D

SFX: Starts a quick montage of a bunch of life events including…

DAVENPORT: Now, I might have a little task for ya, buddy, it’s a special assignment, but I know
you’re going to do a bang up job.

DATE: He loved you, he loved you so much, know that.

MERC GREG: Yo, have you ever seen The Room, it’s so bad it’s hilarious.

SUIT (CAROLINE): No, it is best not to ask questions about the… exact nature of our
organization, we work on a cell model and-

MERC GREG: Fucking toilet.

DATE: Ugh, just pick him up, he’s not going to-

SUIT (CAROLINE): We can make sure that Ben didn’t die in vain, that what happened to him
doesn’t happen to anyone else

DAVENPORT: Of course we’re very proud to-

MERC GREG: Greg, you’re such a fucking tool.

SFX: As the montage happens

EPISODE 6 SCENE 23

CLARA: [Screaming] Dan, I need more from you!

DAN: I’m trying, I really am it’s- [screams]

CLARA: Just give me a little bit- [screams]

DAN: I’ll… [Screams and sobs]

CLARA: Come on! I am not dying in this godforsaken weird as fuck HELL HOLE [Screams]
SFX: So much tape weirdness. All the tape weirdness.

SFX: Silence

(A beat)

DAN: Clara, did we, did we...

CLARA: Shhhhh

SFX: Crowd cheers!

EPISODE 6 SCENE 24

SFX: Crowd becomes very quiet as someone with heavy footfalls walks to Clara

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: It appears we have a victor.

SFX: Crowd cheers

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: A most… unusual victor. Tell me, creature, what
are you know as?

(A beat)

CLARA: Clara.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Clara. You are to be given a boon. But first, your
unusual circumstances. You are not… of this city.

CLARA: Neither was he.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CURATOR: Which made this particular competition so…
exhilarating. We will sort out all of this in due time. But first. To sever a connection.

SFX: Radio cuts off