'Wrap Pack' - Tom Corrigan

Episode 4

 

SCENE 1.4.1

INT: CATACOMBS BENEATH CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.

FX: FAINT WATER DRIPPING.

JACK: Colin!

OLIVIA: Colin! (PAUSE) I knew this was a stupid idea.

JACK: Relax, I'm sure…

PETERSON: (FROM ABOVE) Well, well, well…

OLIVIA: Peterson!

PETERSON: What have we here?

OLIVIA: I should have known.

JACK: What have you done with Colin?

PETERSON: I can assure you, your little friend really is quite unsafe.

JACK: You have the prop don't you!?

PETERSON: I may have paid that lady's home a visit, true. I may also be in possession of a new ornament.

JACK: Give it back!

PETERSON: Why ever would I do that? With this contract of yours ruined, you really are in quite a pickle. I will finally be rid of your puny little competition and now… Peterson and Son Locations will once again be the one - and only - location finding company in Kent!

OLIVIA: I should have known.

PETERSON: Imagine my joy when I hear you… you…are honestly trying to find the chalice… the actual chalice yourselves! Ha! You really are making this too easy for me. Now, enough chit-chat. Henry, Harry, put the lid on these fools!

FX: SLIDING STONE BACK ON

You better hope there is another exit down there!

SILENCE

OLIVIA: Great… I mean honestly… Great. Not only am I out of a job. But I'm going to die. And worst of all… My last remaining hours, my last few moments, will be spent alone… in the dark… with you.

JACK: Charmed.

OLIVIA: (PANICKING, FREAKING OUT) I mean…What… What… It's just… Oh…

JACK: Easy. Look… Calm down. Now, do you have a light?

OLIVIA: Of course I do. There's no way… I mean, you think I'd come near you without a cigarette to calm my nerves?

JACK: Pass it here.

OLIVIA: You're not having a cigarette.

JACK: Relax. You wanna stay here in the dark? I'm lighting a torch.

OLIVIA: A good idea. Finally. Did it hurt?

FX: LIGHTING LANTERN. LOW RUMBLE NOISE.

What's that noise?

FX: FAINT SQUEEKING.

JACK: Rats.

OLIVIA: Rats!? You must be…

JACK: Quick.

OLIVIA: Get your hands off…

JACK: Over there! A door!

OLIVIA: (SCARED) They're coming through the walls!

FX: JACK BARGES AGAINST DOOR.

JACK: It's stuck!

FX: JACK BARGES AGAINST DOOR

OLIVIA: Oh my… They're everywhere!

JACK: I'm trying!

FX: JACK BARGES AGAINST DOOR

OLIVIA: Well try harder!

FX: JACK BARGES HARD AGAINST THE DOOR. DOOR SWINGS OPEN.

JACK: Got it! Quick!

FX: DOOR SLAMS SHUT. JACK & OLIVIA PANTING.

 

PAUSE

OLIVIA: Oh my… It… It's beautiful.

JACK: (EXCITED, GIRLY) Wow. I… I mean (DEEPER, MASCULINE) Wow.

OLIVIA: This room Jack. It's all… I mean what is it… Is it Gold?

JACK: A gold room Liv… Now this is my kind of pad.

OLIVIA: Look… Over there…

JACK: The chalice!

OLIVIA: I don't believe it. Jack… Jack, what are you doing?

JACK: I'm taking this bad boy!

OLIVIA: But Jack, what if… It's a little too easy don't you think?

JACK: Relax Liv, what's the worst that could…

FX: CLICK.

JACK: Okay, I don't like that noise.

FX: VARIOUS MECHANICAL SWITCHES AND CLICKS.

FX: DEEP RUMBLE.

JACK: Now I certainly don't like that noise.

OLIVIA: (SCARED) What is that? Rats?

JACK: No. Bigger.

OLIVIA: Bigger? Bigger!?

JACK: Boulder!

OLIVIA: (SCREAMS)

JACK: Run! This way!

FX: RUMBLE GETS LOUDER.

OLIVIA: Ohhhhh Jack!

JACK: Don't look back!

OLIVIA: (LOOKING BACK) I'ts close!

JACK: I said don't look back!

FX: BOULDER BREAKS THROUGH WOODEN SUPPORT.

OLIVIA: (SCREAMS)

JACK: Faster Liv!

OLIVIA: We're not gonna make it!