2: Episode 3 - The Pleasure Coast
FLEET: I won't warn you again, Ralgrieve!
RALGRIEVE: Fleet, stop–
FLEET: (THROWS SOMETHING)
F/X: Thud/clatter
RALGRIEVE: Ow! Stop it! Stop throwing things!
FLEET: Why on earth should I? You're trying to kill me!
RALGRIEVE: I'm not trying to kill you, I'm trying to talk to you!
FLEET: And then kill me!
RALGRIEVE: No! Just talk!
FLEET: About how you're going to kill me.
RALGRIEVE: Fleet, I need your help!
FLEET: What?
RALGRIEVE: I need your help, Fleet. I'm in great danger.
FLEET: And you want to talk to me about it.
RALGRIEVE: Yes!
PAUSE.
FLEET: You'd better not try and kill me.
RALGRIEVE: I'm not going to. Fleet, you might be the only one who can help me. Can I come across?
FLEET: This is why you've been following me ever since I left the Tower? You need my help?
RALGRIEVE: Yes!
FLEET: Tell me why you were breaking into the lodging house!
RALGRIEVE: I told you at the Tower! I was trying to uncover what had happened to Salik, I was following orders!
FLEET: Did the Warders kill Salik?
RALGRIEVE: You don't understand!
FLEET: What's to understand? I know he fell from the Tower. Tell me who killed him!
F/X: Low horn.
RALGRIEVE: They're here.
FLEET: Who's here?
RALGRIEVE: Listen to me, Fleet. The Warders, we've been infiltrated. I discovered them today.
FLEET: Who?
RALGRIEVE: Six of us – friends of mine! – I saw them meeting, they were wearing hoods, they were talking about their plans, about how the Warders suspect nothing! I saw them Fleet! But they saw me! I ran out and I've been trying to catch up with you ever since.
FLEET: Why?
RALGRIEVE: Because we've been infiltrated! Who else would I tell? Who knows how many of them there are! You're from the outside, I can trust you!
F/X: Low horn, louder.
We have to get out of here!
FLEET: Who are they, Ralgrieve?
RALGRIEVE: I don't know! But they said there were many. They called themselves–
FLEET: Yes?
RALGRIEVE: They–
F/X: Low horn, much louder.
They called themselves–
FLEET: Just say the name, Ralgrieve!
RALGRIEVE: They called themselves, the Obfu–
F/X: Something flying through the air, hitting
RALGRIEVE.
(SCREAMS) My eyes!
FLEET: Ralgrieve!
RALGRIEVE: (LOSES BALANCE, SCREAMS WHILE FALLING)
F/X: Body hitting the ground far below.
FLEET: My god. Who– who are you? Stay back! Oh, both of– all three of y– Right, the whole lot of you, stay back! Your hoods don't scare me! But all the same, stay back!
CLARA: (DISTANT) Fleet!
F/X: Cab horn.
FLEET: Hello?
CLARA: Down here, Fleet!
FLEET: Clara! Is that you?
CLARA: Yes, I found a cab. Thought we might need one to find our way out of here … Jump down, Fleet!
FLEET: Hey, all of you, I said stay back! How are there more of you, where are you coming from? How can you even climb up here with those hoods?
CLARA: Jump, Fleet!
FLEET: It's too high!
CLARA: Slide down that metal tube! We'll drive underneath.
FLEET: The gravel chute? What if it's full of debris and twisted metal?
CLARA: You could stay up there instead?
FLEET: Oh, damn it. (SCREAMS)
F/X: Jumping, sliding, metallic sounds, followed by canvas tearing.
ALL: (COUGHING)
FLEET: Hello.
CLARA: Driver, get us out of here!
CABBIE: Certainly, miss. However, as we did pull to a halt briefly to pick up another passenger, that'll be an additional shilling–
FLEET: You! What the devil are you doing here?
CABBIE: Hello, sir! I'm on holiday, but who am I to resist the inevitability of the invisible hand guiding my services to the needy and shillingful.
FLEET: Just give him the money, it'll be quicker.
CLARA: Here!
CABBIE: Right you are! Hold on everyone!
F/X: Horses move on, cab pulls away.
FLEET: Thank you.
CABBIE: No trouble at all–
FLEET: Not you!
CLARA: What happened to Ralgrieve?
FLEET: He's dead. He fell.
CLARA: You killed him?
FLEET: I didn't do anything! These people, these hooded people, they turned up and they blinded him! Then he lost his footing. He said he found them in the Tower, they've infiltrated the Warders! Who are they? There must have been a dozen of them, and their robes, they had this symbol–
CLARA: Of a dagger wrapped in thorns.
FLEET: Yes! How did you know that? Do you know who they are?
CLARA: No. But Salik did. Let me show you his notebook.
END
