Thought Vomit #168: ft. Another Scene From A Pilot

October 18, 2012

Thought Vomit #168: ft. Another Scene From A Pilot

Here’s another clip from the Hodgson pilot we wrote. This one happens nearer the end, just after Wil exits a pub because a huge fight is breaking out.

EXT. OUTSIDE OLD ROAD – MOMENTS LATER

Wil darts into the street. He walks straight into an old fashioned COPPER, complete with the helmet.

COPPER

Where are you off to? I hope you’re not off to Townies. It’s Riot Night, dontchya know?

WIL

There’s gonna be a terrible fight in there.

COPPER

If I arrested everyone who committed a violent assault on a Saturday night, we’d never get anything done, now would we?

WIL

I think it’s gonna get nasty in there.

COPPER

Now you calm yourself down young Wil.

WIL

How do you know my name?

COPPER

(taps nose)

Good old fashioned coppering.

We hear smashing and fighting emerging from the pub.

WIL

Aren’t you gonna radio for back up?

COPPER

No need for any of that new fangled radio lark. I’ll handle this with some good old fashioned coppering.

With that, he turns on his heels and ambles into the pub, hands behind his back, whistling a jaunty tune. We hear the two factions roar with menace as he enters.

COPPER (CONT’D)

(from inside)

Now, now, no need for any of this. Turn it in, there’s good la...

He is drowned out by the charging roar of what sounds like a whole army now.

Cut to Wil, legging it away.

WIL

(narration)

So, with every civilised drinking option thwarted, all that was left was to fill my face with lard, sugar and donner meat.

The Copper’s helmet lands in front of Wil, smoking.

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Keith: A Novel

Crime, conspiracy, and cutlery.
Keith, an average man, with a sensible job, cocks a snook at his mundane existence, and he’s about to make the biggest mistake of his life.
When an insomniac with an over-active imagination decides to give in to his fantasies, what could possibly go wrong?
And what do the bloodied thorn of a rose, an empty buff folder, and a SWAG bag full of forks have to do with anything?
Keith takes you on a criminal romp through suburbia.
You’ll never sleep again.
[amazon asin=B009L2X75I&text=Buy it now from Amazon]

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