ENCORE
by
Bill
Olson
© 2000 William David Sherman
Olson
CAST
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FRANCIS “FRAN” CORDELL (A
burned-out artist) --
SOLENTO “SOL” (Fran’s lover) --
REP --
COMPUTER (Also in “The Energy
Commissioner”)--
"The Energy
Commissioner"
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CORDELL “DELL” (Fran's
ex-spouse) --
ALICIA “ALI” --
WAITER --
VOICE --
INSPECTOR GENERAL --
"The Justice Director"
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THE COLONEL --
THE ADMIRAL (Female)—
Casting Note: Computer can be an
actual computer voice.
NOTES:
OFF = “off mic:” The actor is
far from the mic when speaking.
GOING OFF = The actor moves away
from the mic while talking.
COMING ON = The actor moves
towards the mic while talking.
BEAT = A short pause.
1 - THE ARTIST
1 A
DOOR OPENS. FROM OUTSIDE IS THE
SOUND OF A BLIZZARD. THE DOOR
CLOSES. A BELL ON THE DOOR RINGS.
2 FRANCIS STOMPS HER FEET TO GET SNOW OFF.
3 FRAN:
Solento?
4 SOL:
Yeah?
5 FRAN:
Solento, We'll have to close the store. I Can't get the walkclear
'botter working. Damn thing cleared some
snow from the sidewalk – then quit. I
said, "Start," but all it did was make clicking noises.
6 SOL:
We should’ve replaced it two years.
7 FRAN:
And pay for it how?
8 SOL: Isn't that just what I said before? Every step forward is a step backwards.
(9-13 OMITTED.)
14 FRAN:
You've never said that.
15 SOL:
Sure I did.
16 FRAN:
(SIGHS) So tell me again.
17 SOL:
Read my book.
18 FRAN:
Don't start with me.
19 SOL:
I need the money.
20 FRAN:
Then write a better book; people
like good books.
Trust me on this --
22 SOL:
Funny. (BEAT) Look outside. Look at the snow fly. This is a major blizzard.
23 FRAN:
Let's lock up and go home. Call
Becky to pick us up.
24 SOL:
Yeah…. OK. So a thousand years ago, someone invented
typewriters.
25 FRAN:
I thought you wanted me to read your book.
26 SOL:
Just let me show off a little.
27 FRAN:
All right.
28 SOL:
So, the typewriter. Later, it
was the electric typewriter.
Suddenly – if you didn't have electricity, you couldn't type. Today everyone has a walkclear 'botter –
they don’t even know what a snow shovel is – so if the ‘botter breaks down, you
can't clear snow from your walk.
29 FRAN:
Ain't it the truth.
2 - THE ENERGY COMMISSIONER
30 WAITER: Sorry, Sir, the restaurant is
closing for the night -- the snow storm.
Your party never showed up?
31 DELL:
(DEPRESSED) No. Is my account
set?
32 WAIT:
Everything's fine, Sir. Have a
good night.
33 ALI:
(OFF) Mr. Cordell!
34 DELL:
Alicia… may I give you a ride home?
35 ALI:
(COMING ON) Yes! Thank you, Sir.
36 THEY GO OUTSIDE.
37 SOUND OF BLIZZARD.
38 ALI: Oooo . . . cold. Look at this blizzard!
(39-41 OMITTED.)
42 DELL:
They say snow used to get dirty after it fell because of ground traffic
– splattering mud or something…
43 ALI:
Oh, don't we live in a wonderful age, Mr.
Cordell?
44 DELL:
(UNENTHUSIASTIC) Yeah.
45 ALI:
Are you OK, boss?
46 DELL:
I was suppose to meet my daughter here tonight -- this is my car. (TO CAR:) Open door.
46A COMPUTER:
Door opening.
47 DOOR OPENS.
48 DELL:
Please, after you.
49 ALI:
Thank you.
50 THEY MAKE NOISES APPROPRIATE TO GETTING
IN AND SLIDING
ACROSS THE SEAT. THE DOOR
CLOSES, BLIZZARD
SOUND IS MUTED.
51 DELL:
Heat please.
52 COMPUTER: Heat activated.
53 ALI:
You were talking about your daughter.
54 DELL:
Becky. I -- uh, well, I haven't
seen her for years – since Francis and I divorced.
55 ALI:
Must be hard.
56 DELL:
Fly us to Alicia's house.
57 COMPUTER: City guidance is down temporarily.
58 ALI:
Uh, oh!
59 DELL:
That's OK, I have wheels. Cost
me 2000 solaries extra.
59A
ALI: You said your ex-spouse was
Francis?
59B
DELL: Yeah.
59C
ALI: Not Francis Cordell the artist.
59D
DELL: The very same.
59E
ALI: Are you kidding? You were
married to Francis Cordell and you divorced her?
59F
DELL: At the time she seemed a little
decadent for me. Listen, I shouldn’t
force all this on you...
59G
ALI: Yes
you should, I’m nosey as hell.
59H DELL: Nosey, huh? OK. When I divorced Francis, I ignored Becky. I was too focused on my career.
Now I’m energy
commissioner, I had reached the pinnacle of my goals. After years in office – well, you know how it is – the euphoria
wears off, you relax a little bit and other goals enter your mind.
One day, I was
unable to remember what it was like to not be a high government
official.
But by then, I could
no longer remember Becky's eyes.
I had ignored my
daughter and I could no longer live with it.
When I called her
last week, she seemed pleased to hear from me, but maybe she had second
thoughts.
Maybe adult children
won’t put up with absentee parents.
Maybe Fran turned Becky into an anti-government dissident.
60 ALI:
Maybe she couldn't get transportation because of the
storm.
61 DELL:
Maybe she got into an accident.
62 ALI:
I'm sure she's all right.
63 DELL:
Access MedLine.
64 A BEEP.
65 DELL:
Accident victims; Becky Cordell.
66 COMPUTER: No reference.
67 DELL:
Why don't you just say she's all right? Call Becky.
68 COMPUTER: (PAUSE) No receiver.
69 DELL:
(PAUSE) Well, let's go. Start
car.
70 CAR STARTS.
71 ALI:
We're lucky Geneva still has streets.
So many cities have replaced them with parks.
72 DELL:
I like parks.
73 SOUND OF CAR DRIVING.
74 DELL:
Look at that snow.
75 ALI:
Yeah, it's really coming down.
76 DELL:
I mean on the street: must be half a meter. I guess plowing is out of fashion.
77 ALI:
Can these optional wheels of yours actually drive through snow that
deep?
78 DELL:
Maybe I can just fly over the top.
79 ALI:
You can get into a lot of trouble from traffic control for that.
80 DELL:
Even me?
81 ALI:
Well, I suppose you have a few strings you could pull.
82 DELL:
Where the hell is the exit from the parking lot?
83 ALI:
A lot of the streets are outlawed to ground traffic.
84 DELL:
(PREOCCUPIED) This one is open.
Hmm.
There is no exit.
85 ALI:
This parking lot is for air traffic only. I think taxis can fly in this.
85A DELL:
(FRUSTRATED) Summon a cab.
86 COMPUTER: Summoning cab.
(87-100 OMITTED.)
3 - THE ARTIST
101 REP:
(FILTERED THROUGHOUT) Ms. Francis Cordell?
102 FRAN:
Yes?
103 REP:
I represent Kelloga Jom.
104 FRAN:
Kelloga Jom?
105 REP: Yes Ma’am. He’s a big fan of yours, and he’d like to hire you to paint a mural inside a house he owns.
106 FRAN: I don’t paint anymore; I sell watermelons. Watermelons, cheese, cucumbers. Tell Kelloga Jom we’re having a sale this week on fresh eggs. Good-by.
107 REP:
No, wait -- I'd just like to explain–
108 FRAN: End Comm.
109 COMPUTER: Comm
Ended.
110 SOL: (COMING ON) Poor guy…. Why'd you hang up on him?
111 FRAN:
(MUMBLES SHEEPISHLY) I donno….
112 SOL: That's your public out there.
113A SOL: Kelloga Jom would pay well for a mural.
114 FRAN: I can’t paint anymore, Solento. I’m burned out. I’m out of ideas…. Did you call Becky? I wish she’d get here.
114A SOL: There’s no answer.
115 FRAN:
Call Becky.
116 COMPUTER:
(PAUSE) No receiver.
117 FRAN:
Where is she?
118 COMPUTER: No location.
119 FRAN:
This isn’t right.
120 SOL: Let’s not jump to conclusions, Hon, it could be anything.
121 FRAN: In a different time and place I might agree, but this is here and now, with a government that makes people disappear if they won’t believe in the right god.
122 SOL:
Maybe I can have some friends look into it.
123 FRAN:
(SUSPICIOUSLY) Friends? What
kind of friends?
124 SOL:
Errr…. It’s better if you don’t know.
125
FRAN: I always thought you were the somewhat shady
type.
4 - THE ENERGY COMMISSIONER
124 INSPECTOR: Commissioner Cordell, this is the inspector general. Cordell, you are responsible for the energy management for the entire nation. That position places certain challenges at your feet.
Look down! Look
down, Commissioner Cordell, and pick up those challenges. Sniff them, become good friends with them,
then solve them, because they are problems, Cordell; they are problems in the
Energy
Commission! They are inefficiency and waste -- and they
will no longer be tolerated!
125 COMPUTER: End of message.
126 DELL:
What an awful week this is turning out to be.
5 - THE JUSTICE DIRECTOR
127 COL.:
Pathetic, isn't it Lieutenant?
128 LT.: Yes, Colonel. She just sits there in her cell, oblivious to how dangerous she is to God and country.
We’ve interrogated her, but she told us nothing we didn't already know about dissident groups and their operations.
129 COL.:
Torture is not always the best way to gain information.
Sometimes the
subject is too loyal to a cause. They
simply decide life is over. Then, if
you cut out an eye or cut off a hand, they accept it as part of the sacrifice.
The cogniscanner
could change all this. If we could use
it to read people’s minds, we could dispense with all the screaming, all the
crying. I’m a man who likes peace and
quiet, Lieutenant. It would be nice to
have peace and quiet on this job.
130 LT.:
The cogniscanner is experimental and costly, Sir.
131 COL.: Yes. Too bad. Do you like the classics, Lieutenant?
132 LT.: Yes, Colonel. I’m very much into Shakespeare, Bacon, D'Avenant --
133 COL.:
And music?
134 LT.:
I'm a musician, Colonel.
135 COL.: Really. Well, I'm attending a Tellemann concert with the Admiral Friday night. I'd like you to join us. You need to get recognized by top officers.
136 LT.:
I'd be honored, Colonel.
6 - THE ARTIST
137 SOL: Francis, Honey, Becky was arrested by the Justice Agency.
138 FRAN:
I knew it! They’re gonna execute
her….
139 SOL: We can prevent that.
140 FRAN:
How?
141 SOL: I think you know.
142 FRAN: (PAUSE) Oh no! That would be a mistake… Dell is a leader of this damn theocratic dictatorship.
143 SOL: Pride can be a nutritious meal.
144 FRAN:
I'll take vitamin supplements.
144A SOL: Dell is the Energy Commissioner. He wields great power. We need him.
144A FRAN: I won’t consort with the Devil … again.
145 SOL:
How about bribing the Devil?
145A FRAN: The government won’t take bribes from
family.
145B SOL: True, but Kelloga Jom isn’t family. I think you should paint his mural in exchange for him paying the bribe.
146 FRAN:
Would that work?
147 SOL: It's worth a shot. He used to have pretty high connections in the government.
148 FRAN: Paint a pre-Cold War house -- an ancient landmark -- in 3rd Dynastic Terideusian Classical?
149 SOL:
Well, he hasn't been the same since his stroke.
150 FRAN: And I’m not the artist I used to be.
153 SOL: Dell can help Becky. You’re getting too old to keep snubbing him.
154 FRAN: It's not a snub, it’s progress.
155 SOL:
Huh?
156 FRAN: Life without typing … life without shoveling snow … life without Dell. I’d like to forget I was ever married to that devil.
157 SOL:
You’re too comfortable, Francis.
158
FRAN: Am I selfish, Dear?
159 SOL: Perhaps, but we’ll work it out.
Progress does something to a person. A thousand years ago, people wondered what they did before photocopiers. But a thousand years before that, they probably wondered what they did before monks. We keep getting more and more fussy.
160 FRAN:
And I thought it was old age.
7 - THE ENERGY COMMISSIONER
161 DELL:
Alicia, what are those photo-electric conservation
'botters we've had
so much trouble with, the ones that float around houses, soaking up energy?
162 ALI:
You mean the "sponges"?
163 DELL: That's it. Computer, search for "sponges." List each sponge and where they're used in the district.
Well, Alicia, if the inspector general wants efficiency, let’s give it to him.
164 ALI: I think the “sponges” use most of the energy they soak up for their own operation. Their anti-gravity systems must use a lot, but I've never been able to get much info from the Inspector General.
165 DELL:
Why not?
166 ALI: I keep asking, but they never get it to me.
167 DELL: Between you and me, I think the Inspector General worries more about his pride than about solving problems. I trust your instinct; if you feel something's not right, let me know.
(PAUSE) O-o-o-kay. I have a list here of how often the sponges keep breaking down.
(168-171 OMITTED.)
172 ALI:
I'd like to see the whole program scrapped myself.
173 DELL:
Then let's scrap it.
174 ALI:
It won’t be easy – they’re in every house, every office.
175 DELL: Then we put in long nights.
(176-183 OMITTED.)
8 - THE JUSTICE DIRECTOR
184 COL.:
What a wonderful concert!
185 ADM.: So, Colonel, what’s on your mind. You’ve been beaming all evening.
186 COL.:
Well Admiral, Kelloga Jom has
offered to buy us a cogniscanner.
187 ADM.: A waste of money.
188 COL.:
How so?
189 ADM.:
The cogniscanner can tell you where every Axon is in the brain. It can tell you when acetylcoline binds with
receptors, when sodium ions pass through ion channels … but it cannot tell you
how sensory input is encoded.
190 COL.: I believe it’s only a matter of fine-tuning the software.
191 ADM.: You've been awfully quiet, Lieutenant. What do you think?
192 LT.:
Well, Admiral, this is a unique opportunity to get a
cogniscanner. I don’t think we should pass it up. Even if it means losing a prisoner.
193 ADM.:
Why lose a prisoner?
194 LT.:
That’s Kelloga Jom’s price.
195 COL.: Lieutenant, tell the Admiral the name of the prisoner.
196 LT.:
Well . . . uh, we have Becky Cordell, daughter of
Energy Commissioner Cordell.
197 STUNNED SILENCE FOR A MOMENT, THEN
THE
ADMIRAL LAUGHS.
198 ADM.: You're keeping this a state secret, I hope.
199 COL.:
(SWELLING PRIDE) Of course.
200 ADM.: Because if Cordell finds out, he’ll have you killed.
201 LT.:
How could Kelloga Jom know about Becky?
202 ADM.:
Connections. He used to work in
the office of the
Vicaph herself.
203 COL.:
He was her hairdresser. The guy
knows all the state
secrets. Still finds them out though he’s
retired.
204 LT.: Respectfully, Admiral, Colonel, I’m not sure we need to fear Commissioner Cordell. Inter-Agency Intelligence reports he’s in trouble with the Inspector General.
205 ADM.:
Don't let that fool you, Lieutenant; Cordell is one of
the most dangerous
people alive.
206 COL.:
When he's motivated.
207 ADM.:
That's right, when he's motivated.
208 THE COLONEL AND THE ADMIRAL LAUGH.
209 ADM.: So, Colonel, you’ll really release Cordell’s daughter if Kelloga Jom buys you a cogniscanner?
210 ALL JOVIALITY NOW DECAYS.
211 COL.: Everyone has his price. But if I had a choice, I would like to forget Becky Cordell was ever free. She’s an important dissident, and she’s probably a rebel. I’ll give her up, but I won't give her up without a price. Kelloga Jom, I think, has named my price.
9 - THE ARTIST
212 FRAN:
Dammit!
213 SOL:
Are you all right, Francis?
214 FRAN:
Yeah . . .
215 SOL:
I like that shade of red.
216 FRAN: Aqua Red. It took me years to discover. (PAUSE) I really need to work uninterrupted, Solento, so go back over there and work on your next book or whatever it is you're doing.
(217 OMITTED.)
218 SOL: I can’t concentrate on my writing with you swearing and grunting --
219 FRAN:
So I'm swearing and grunting, so what?
220 SOL:
You need a break, Fran. Just
rest a little while.
221 FRAN: I don't have a little while. My dear, lovely, idealistic daughter doesn't have a little while.
222 SOL: Well, I've watched you painting that horse for the last hour, and swearing every minute of it --
223 FRAN: (OVERLAPPING) I used to paint a horse in five minutes. It's so damn frustrating, Solento!
OOOOh! I've worked
an hour on a five-minute horse and it still doesn't look right. And look at these doves. Look at these vines. None of them looks right. And I’m mad at you, too.
You said I’d be
painting a mural. You didn’t say I’d be
painting pictures on every wall in the downstairs.
Every wall,
Solento! This is crazy.
224 SOL: Then call Dell – he can spring Becky.
225 FRAN:
Never! I’ll never speak to him.
Never!
226 SOL:
I’ll speak to him --
227 FRAN: No you won’t! He’s a non-person. (BEAT) Maybe I can skimp a little bit. Kelloga Jom has never been the same since his stroke. Maybe he won’t notice a little skimping.
228 SOL: Never the less, he's kept this old house going. When was it built?
229 FRAN: 1880, Christian Calendar, I think. Look I've got to work, Solento.
230 SOL:
Ok. I'll just (GOING OFF) return
to my writing.
231 FRAN:
(STARTLED) Uh!
232 SOL:
(COMING ON) What's wrong, Honey?
(233 & 234 OMITTED.)
235 FRAN: This sponge – it startled me – bumped into my head.
236 SOL:
What makes them float like that?
237 FRAN: I'm not a scientist. Anti-gravity, that's all I know about it.
238 SOL:
It's spinning on it's axis like a little black world.
239 FRAN:
(SARCASTIC) You should be a poet, Solento, a poet.
240 SOL: You suppose they really convert enough light to energy to make them worth while?
241 FRAN: I doubt it. I’d like to turn mine off someday just to see if my electric bill goes up.
242 SOL:
This sponge has a spot on it.
243 FRAN:
Ummm . . .
244 SOL:
It's a streak of your paint.
245 FRAN: My paint? (BEAT) AHHH!!! My horse! It smeared my horse! Damn sonofaBITCH! Get out of here you little bastard!
(246
OMITTED.)
247 THERE'S A SLAP AS FRANCIS SMACKS THE
SPONGE. THEN A BANG AS THE DEVICE HITS A
WALL AND BREAKS.
248 A LOUD ALARM SOUNDS.
249 FRAN:
(VERY UPSET) What the hell is that, now?
250 SOL:
An alarm goes off whenever one gets broken.
251 FRAN: No, no . . . I'll never get any work done. How am I going to paint this entire downstairs? – How?!
10 - THE ENERGY COMMISSIONER
252 VOICE:
(FILTERED THROUGHOUT) Sorry, Commissioner
Cordell, but so far
we've found no sign of your daughter.
253 DELL: I can give you Seventh-Level Security Clearance. Get back to me later.
254 A KNOCK AT THE DOOR.
(255-257 OMITTED.)
258 VOICE:
Yes, Sir.
259 DELL:
End comm. Enter!
260 THE DOOR OPENS.
261 ALI:
We have energy news about the Justice Agency:
They're getting a cogniscanner.
262 DELL:
Now how the hell did they manage that?
263 ALI: It's an energy-eater. (DEVILISHLY) Should we pull its plug?
264 DELL: It's tempting, but what the hell – let them play with their toys. For now at least.
265 ALI: By the way, I have something to show you in the products lab.
266 DELL:
I can’t wait.
267 TRANSITION MUSIC.
268 ALI: Here we are, Commissioner: These black walls are what we came up with.
269 DELL:
Hm, very patriotic.
270 ALI: It was such a simple, obvious idea, I’m surprised no one thought of it earlier. Take this flashlight.
Now shine the beam
at the black wall. Nothing reflects
back. Almost total energy conversion.
271 DELL: (PRIDE IN HER) You're gonna have my job one day, Alicia, and you'll be better at it than I.
272 ALI: (BASHFULLY) If that happens, I’ll be building on what you taught me, Commissioner.
273 DELL: It looks like we’re ready. If sponges fail, we rip out every wall in that house, rip out every wall, and replace it with these black walls. It won't be popular, but it's our calling. Begin this policy immediately.
(274-284 OMITTED.)
11 - THE JUSTICE DIRECTOR
285 LT.:
(ENTERS OFFICE HASTILY, OUT OF BREATH)
(COMING ON:) Commissioner
Cordell is getting closer to finding out we have his daughter.
286 COL.: I almost wish he would. I'd give that idiot a fight he’d never forget.
287 (THE LT. IS WORRIED ABOUT THE RAMIFICATIONS
AND TRIES TO
PROTEST, BUT FEARS BREAKING
DISCIPLINE:)
288 LT.:
Ahhh -- Colonel, we . . .
289 COL.: Relax, Lieutenant. You know, at one time government agencies did not have to compete for survival. It’s not progress, but it is rather fun.
12 - THE ARTIST
290 SOUND OF COAL BEING SHOVELED INTO AN
OLD FURNACE.
291 FRAN: (OUT OF BREATH) Damn that Kelloga
Jom.
(PAUSE AS SHE
SHOVELS) Me, Francis Cordell shoveling coal! (PAUSE)
Got . . . only half
this . . . half this damn house finished! (PAUSE) Historical authenticity!
(PAUSE) Keeps a damnable ancient coal
furnace, then has his walls turned into a mural of 3rd Dynastic
Terideusian
Classical art! (PAUSE) I'm getting too damn old for historical inconsistencies!
Solento, why did you
listen to me when I told you to fly back home to Geneva and give me some peace?
292 THE SHOVELING STOPS AS SHE TAKES A BREAK
FROM HER CHORE.
293 FRAN: Yes, sparks, fly -- fly upward like glowing insects escaping the heat. Fly, and take me with you: me and my troubles. Me and my daughter. (BEAT) Well… time to get back to painting.
294 HEAVY IRON FURNACE DOOR BEING CLOSED.
295 FRAN:
Wait a minute.
296 DOOR OPENED AGAIN.
297 FRAN: I think I have a solution to one problem.
298 DOOR CLOSED.
299 TRANSITION MUSIC.
300 FRAN: Now, to find a flashlight.
301 SOUND: RUMMAGING THROUGH DRAWERS FULL OF
JUNK.
302 FRAN: Ah, here. Good, it works. Computer, lights off. Good. Now to draw the little bastards to me. OK, there's one. There's another. Computer, how many sponges are there?
303 COMPUTER: Eight still functioning.
304 FRAN: And here they come.
305 CELLAR DOOR OPENS.
306 FRAN: Down the cellar stairs. Good: They're moving toward the light just as they should. And now – the furnace.
307 FURNACE DOOR OPENS.
308 FRAN: And to turn off the flashlight. (BEAT) Ah, beautiful flames. That's it, my children, the flame's light must be recycled. That's it, go into the flames. One … two … go on, go on…. Seven … eight. Good.
309 AN ALARM SOUNDS.
310 FRAN:
Dammit! I forgot about that.
13 - THE ENERGY COMMISSIONER
311 ALI: Commissioner Cordell, we can begin installing the new black walls. All nine sponges failed in a house owned by Kelloga Jom.
312 DELL: All of ‘em! Incredible. Today is full of good news, Alicia. I’ve even found my daughter. Colonel Proble Factin has her in custody at the Justice Agency. If he does not release her unharmed by noon today, my militia will… go to work.
313 ALI: In that case, Mr. Cordell, maybe we should take the day off.
314 DELL:
Maybe we should.
14 - THE JUSTICE DIRECTOR
315 LT.: Colonel, I was just informed that Kelloga Jom has had a nervous breakdown – and he'll no longer finance the cogniscanner.
316 COL.: That's unfortunate, Lieutenant, but it's of no matter, really.
317 LT.:
We've also received a demand from Cordell, and --
318 COL.:
Let me show you my toy drawer.
319 LT.:
Your … toy drawer, Colonel?
320 SOUND OF A DRAWER OPENING.
321 COL.: Yes, see? An ice pick, a stun gun, a hammer . . . lots of fun things to play with. Grab a hand-full and let’s go down to Becky Cordell’s cell.
322 LT.: Actually, Colonel, I have a meeting across town with the Zaynum Corps Commandant.
323 COL.: Well, you'd better leave, then. But I'll tell you about it later. This is so wonderful, Lieutenant: it reminds me of my days as a young officer in the gulags. Go, go now, I wouldn't want you to be late.
324 LT.:
But the message from Cordell --
325 COL.:
I know all about it. We'll be
waiting for him. I’ve dispatched a
company of Zaynum Terror Knights.
Give my regards to
Zaynum General Horcher. Get going now,
Lieutenant, don't be late.
15 - THE ARTIST
326 DOOR OPENS IN FRANCIS'S HOUSE.
327 FRAN:
I'm home, honey.
328 SOL:
How's your mural?
329 FRAN:
It's finished. I finally got
things working for me. What a good
feeling. And I didn't have to turn back
the hands of progress to ask for Dell's help.
Solento, I feel young, strong, and renewed. It's great to be in my house with the man I love. It’s great to have that work done.
Now I can relax. I can relax and await my daughter's return.
THE END