'Wrap Pack' - Tom Corrigan
Episode 3
SCENE 1.3.1.
INT: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
JACK: Colin, get over here now. You gotta see this.
FX: COLIN CLAMBERS, SLOWLY, OVER THE BARS.
Come on champ, no rush.
COLIN: Leave it out Jack… I'm… I'm not as…
FX: COLIN LANDS.
There. I mean, would it have killed you to have offered me some… (STARTLED) Where's the body?
JACK: Exactly.
COLIN: Wow.
JACK: Hang on… It… it says something… look, on the side.
COLIN: Read it.
JACK: For… for my life, I thank god. For my courage, I thank my vessel…. For my vessel I thank St. Thomas.
COLIN: Saint Thomas. Saint Thomas. He must mean Thomas Becket. He must have been the one… the one to pass down the vessel, the… the chalice to Edward.
JACK: Wait. There's more…In death may my life return to god. In death may my courage return to St. Thomas.
COLIN: We've got to find Becket.
SCENE 1.3.2.
INT: OFFICE.
FX: KEYBOARD.
OLIVIA: Felicity… Felicity have you seen Jack and Colin?
FELICITY: Sylvia said something about them and the cathedral.
OLIVIA: The cathedral?
FELICITY: That's it, yeah. But… but that was, like a few hours ago.
OLIVIA: Felicity, would you mind going there and…
FELICITY: I'm sorry Olivia, I'm waiting on a call.
OLIVIA: Nevermind. Look after the office… I'll get them myself.
SCENE 1.3.3.
INT: CATHEDRAL.
FX: FOOTSTEPS.JACK: C'mon Colin, where the hell is this thing?
COLIN: I… I have no idea.
JACK: For someone who wears glasses, you run surprisingly low on ideas.
COLIN: Look… here… according to this plaque… this is the… the shrine to St. Thomas. Or at least, what used to be…
JACK: Shrine you say? Let's dig.
FX: GRABS STEEL BOLLARD
COLIN: (HISSED) Put that thing down!
JACK: You said so yourself… This is important.
COLIN: B-But you can't… You can't just disfigure this… this… Besides, you dig there and… and you'll fall into the crypt.
JACK: Crypt?
COLIN: Yes the Crypt. The… the basement.
JACK: Let's roll.
SCENE 1.3.4.
EXT: OUTSIDE THE CATHEDRAL.
FX: BIRDS. FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL.
OLIVIA: One please.
TICKET MAN: Would you like to visit the Crypt also?
OLIVIA: What?
TICKET MAN: The crypt Madam. It is the original resting site of the tomb of St. Thomas Becket. It really is the most ex…
OLIVIA: Look sure, whatever.
TICKET MAN: That will be four pounds eighty pence please Madam. A large price I understand, but you see, you…
OLIVIA: Have two guys come in here?
TICKET MAN: Two gentlemen? Why yes, two young men have entered, at different times mind. Though they haven't left. It is g…
OLIVIA: …Thank y…
TICKET MAN: …Sadly, you are the only customers we have had all day. But, as I was saying, it really is grand to see youn…
OLIVIA: (FRUSTRATED)Look. Keep the change.
FX: RUNNING FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL.
SCENE 1.3.5.
INT: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
FX: JACK PICKING UP STEEL BOLLARD
JACK: Let's dig.
COLIN: What is it with you and digging? Put that down. Look at this.
FX: JACK PUTS BOLLARD DOWN.
COLIN: This stone on the floor… it's loose. Gimmie a hand.
FX: SLIDING STONE.
JACK: Man, it's massive…
COLIN: And look… It goes straight down…
FX: FOOTSTEPS ON STONE.
OLIVIA: Jack Flanagan, what the hell are you doing!?
JACK: (SARCASTIC) Oh great.
OLIVIA: Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse…
JACK: The cup Liv, it's down here.
OLIVIA: That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever…
COLIN: (HISSED) Keep your voices down.
JACK: We're going down.
OLIVIA: What?
COLIN: What?
JACK: What's the big problem? Look, we can use this rope… I'll go down first… You two follow.
FX: JACK THROWS ROPE DOWN
OLIVIA: I don't believe I'm seeing this…
JACK: (WHILST LOWERING HIMSELF) ah. Come… Come on Liv. You next.
OLIVIA: If the investors ever find out about this.
FX: JACK LANDS
JACK: (CALLING UP) There… I'm at the bottom it's dark… but… but there are lanterns. Come on Liv!
OLIVIA: I'm… I'm not… I never had a treehouse Jack.
JACK: Look, give me your hand…
FX: OLIVIA LANDS.
JACK: Now your turn Colin!? (SILENCE) Colin!?
OLIVIA: Jack, what's going on?
JACK: Colin!? (SILENCE) He's gone.