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Brain for a Day - part 4 of 5 (teleplay format)

Friday, May 26, 2006

Through a bizarre turn of events (involving some wonderful inter-crew violence) River has her sanity back, or so it seems. A recent memory has just caused her to let out a horrifying scream...

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A coninuation of my spec.

You can find Part 1 here:

Part 2 here:

Part 3 here:

Leave me some love when you're done and don't be scared to tell a friend!

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ACT THREE

INT. SERENITY DINING AREA - CONTINUOUS

The crew moves in as River continues to scream.

RIVER

"AAAGGGHHHooohhh crap! I did this!"

JAYNE

"You’re just realizing that? How slow are you?"

Jayne takes a moment to think.

JAYNE

"Did she just curse? She never curses."

Jayne continues to mumble to himself. Fearing a relapse, the crew ignores him and surrounds River.

SIMON

"River, you remember?"

RIVER

"The fight, the sword, the picnic--"

MAL

"What picnic?"

ZOE

"What’s a picnic?"

KAYLEE

"River, we’ve never been on a picnic."

RIVER

"Have we ever had a 'Screw it' day?"

(off their confusion)

"Okay, that was me."

SIMON

"What do you remember?"

River takes a moment to rub her temples. Remembering seems to hurt.

RIVER

"I wanted something from Jayne’s bag."

SIMON

"What did you want?"

RIVER

(pauses to remember)

"What did I want...Oh, I wanted those face paints he uses sometimes."

MAL

"You wanted to paint your face?"

RIVER

"I wanted to escape."

SIMON

"Painting helps you escape?"

KAYLEE

"What did you want to paint?"

RIVER

"Anything. Drawing is--was one of the few things I could do that if I did it wrong, it was okay."

(a beat as everyone takes this in)

"And then Jayne grabbed me. And he was just...grabbing me so hard and leaning so close. It was like he was another person and then I couldn’t stop myself."

SIMON

"Why couldn’t you stop yourself?"

RIVER

"I don’t know. Sometimes I didn’t even know my own name."

MAL

"And the next t

Comments
Friday, 26 May 2006 18:42
Oh HOWL at the story of Simon and scissors.... I can imagine he'd be quite embarrassed over that!

Interesting what you're doing to River. Seems a bit too lucid but. . . there's more to the story so lets have it already! :)
Saturday, 27 May 2006 05:37
Ya know...you might be on to something here, LFabry. I mean...River and Inara never are shown 1-on-1 in conversation or anything, so no one but Joss would have any idea what River thinks about Inara's lifestyle. Though I would hope River would have tried to be a bit more sensitive to the matter;)

Can't wait for part 5...and anything else in this story vein that you might develop:P

BEB
Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:51
MORE! Nice sissor story..

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