FSW: The Heist Edition (Peter's entry)
Friday Sketch War
The Heist Edition
"The Team"
FADE IN:
INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE - NIGHT
BILL sits at a table piled high with schematics, maps, and diagrams.
Guns, rapelling equipment, and electronic gadgets sit on another nearby table.
A nearby chalkboard shows the (heavily-annotated) floor plan of a large mansion.
A giant photo thumbtacked to the chalkboard shows a big, glittery diamond.
Beyond the tables and chalkboard: darkness.
Bill scribbles on the papers, checks a map against the chalkboard floorplan.
A DOOR OPENS somewhere in the dark.
JULIAN steps into the light.
JULIAN
Mr. Ellis. Our employer hopes your plan for obtaining the Zawabi Diamond is coming together?
BILL
It’s the perfect heist, kid. Just gimme manpower.
JULIAN
Excellent. Mr. Ellis, please meet your team.
EZRA enters the area, holding a Boggle game.
JULIAN
Mr. Ezra Diablo, three-time regional Boggle championship.
Ezra shakes the Boggle game.
EZRA
Let’s boggle!
MARY enters, holding a chihuahua who wears a hand-knit sweater.
JULIAN
Mary Williamson, editor of Doggie Sweater Enthusiast Magazine.
MARY
Hello!
JEAN-CLAUDE enters in full chef costume.
JULIAN
Jean-Claude Brillac, expert pastry chef.
JEAN-CLAUDE
I am without equal!
STEPHEN HAWKING wheels forward in a motorized wheelchair.
JULIAN
And renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.
Mr. Hawking speaks via a computerized voicebox.
MR. HAWKING
Let’s do this shit.
Beat.
BILL
So... all the real criminals have gone into banking?
JULIAN
Afraid so.
BLACKOUT.
2 comments:
Nice build to Hawking - that's two sketches in two weeks where we've referenced him - as the final and weirdest player. I also like the thought of his synth voice saying, "Let's do this shit."
And a clean button. Nice and short.
Maddof is still under house arrest, so he's available!
Good stuff...I've been thinking about doing more of the blackout-length scenes, and this one is really clean and tight.
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