Friday’s seem to be the day for this, probably because I’m off work and my Son is in school. We’ve hit up a gear now…
Michael continues jabbing the wall.
Plaster begins to fall down to the floor, gathering in a pile on the floor.
TONY
You’ll be pissing off next door.
MICHAEL
Temporary noise.
TONY
That’s in your head.
MICHAEL
No it’s from the wall.
Tony looks utterly freaked out by all this.
Suddenly Michael stops.
There’s a moment of silence
MICHAEL
There it is.
TONY
There’s what?
MICHAEL
I give you the route of the problem.
TONY
Your problem.
MICHAEL
That’s in your flat.
Tony kneels down beside Michael.
Both stare at the wall.
There’s a thick cable running through it.
It connects to a socket.
TONY
You’ve come into my house and ruined a wall purely to reveal an electrical wire.
MICHAEL
It’s still buzzing.
TONY
Because it’s electric.
MICHAEL
What cable do you know in a house that’s this thick?
TONY
I don’t know, how fat is electricity Michael?
MICHAEL
That’s not the point.
He digs some more.
Tony pulls Michael away from the door.
TONY
That’s enough, you’ll be in next door if you don’t stop now.
MICHAEL
Okay fine but I’m coming back tomorrow and we’re finding out what that is.
TONY
It’s a cable, mystery over.
MICHAEL
That’s no cable.
Michael walks over to the sink and starts to clean the utensil.
MICHAEL
Move the bin over it or something.
TONY
Why?
MICHAEL
Because we don’t want your friend knowing do we?
TONY
Did you not want to think about that beforehand?
MICHAEL
Not when the buzzing was around.
TONY
Was?
MICHAEL
Well, not really, it’s still here. You seriously can’t hear that?
TONY
No.
MICHAEL
Must be some kind of frequency buffering or something.
TONY
Frequency what?
MICHAEL
Never mind, just put the bin over it and we’ll be done until tomorrow.
Michael walks towards the door and opens it.
MICHAEL
Remember, if you need anything then just knock. I’ll be back later.
TONY
Thank you for just turning up to wreck the place.
MICHAEL
You’re welcome.
Michael closes the door behind him.
Tony walks over to his bed and sits on the end of it.
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INT/TONY’S FLAT/DAY
Tony is fast asleep on his bed, still fully clothed from the night before.
He awakes slowly, getting to a vertical basis.
He walks over to the window and pulls the curtains back.
Light streams into the room.
Tony smiles.
He looks down at the bin in the corner, covering where the hole would be.
He walks over and moves the bin.
The hole is still there.
Tony suddenly looks very concerned.
He quickly places the bin back.
The door suddenly flings open.
Michael runs in.
He is clutching a large, plastic toolbox.
He places it down on the floor before shutting the door behind him.
It seems like he’s ran down the corridor.
MICHAEL
Does she know?
TONY
Who?
MICHAEL
Your friend.
TONY
Andrea?
MICHAEL
Is Andrea your friend?
TONY
Yes
MICHAEL
Then her then, does she know?
TONY
I haven’t seen her, I was asleep.
MICHAEL
You were asleep? Like a normal homosapien.
TONY
Yes, I feel great.
MICHAEL
Excellent, you’re getting better already. This is progress. Can you hear that sound yet?
TONY
I’m still hearing nothing.
MICHAEL
Truly? Well I’ve brought something.
He reaches into his tool kit and brings out a stethoscope.
He puts it in his ears and holds the other end to the wall.
MICHAEL
Certainly buzzing.
TONY
I seriously thought I’d dreamt this.
MICHAEL
No, you were awake.
TONY
But I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in months.
MICHAEL
Wonderful, now let’s get digging.
Michael brings out a chisel and starts to hack at the wall.
TONY
Don’t hit the bloody wire.
MICHAEL
Yeah, that would be bad wouldn’t it?
TONY
If it is electricity running through it then yeah.
Michael hacks away more carefully this time.
A whole piece of plaster falls off revealing a switch.
MICHAEL
I’m flicking it.
TONY
You don’t even know what it is.
MICHAEL
That’s why I’m flicking it
Michael flicks the switch.
The light that filled the room from the window suddenly stops.
The window is filled with static.
The words ‘No video feed’ move across the screen.
TONY
What the hell have you done?
MICHAEL
What was that? When was your window a TV screen?
TONY
It wasn’t.
MICHAEL
Well that’s not what I’m seeing now.
TONY
There were people, cars, lights, everything.
MICHAEL
Not any more. What else in this place is fake?
TONY
Nothing, it’s been here for as long as I have.
MICHAEL
That doesn’t make it real though does it. I knew I could hear something.
Still a bit too ‘talky’ though. I like the bit with Tony on his own waking up and moving the bin to see the hole still there. We’re essentially confirming that Michael is real with that action then so my next question would be how he’s got into a science lab and what he represents? I’m also wary of the entire thing turning into Andrea visiting him, then Michael, then Andrea, then Michael and repeat. It needs something to break it up a little bit more. At this current time Tony is just a zombie shell being led along, he needs more flesh.
But it’s going well on the whole, another charge should finish draft one.
