Scene 19

Pilot Scene 19.




Daniel is eating dinner with his girlfriend. The Tv is playing in the background but they seem to be un-aware of it. Daniel is enthusiastically telling a story.

Daniel:
And I have no idea what I’m meant to do because Mark is my mentor the guy whose teaching me everything and David is asking me to go behind his back with this scene.

Chloe:
What’s the issue anyway?

Daniel:
 Mark’s books about Incel’s and the spy trying to take them down?.

Chloe:
I’ve read it.

Chloe smiles cheekily at him.

Daniel:
Right yeah, sorry. Well that bit in the school. Right at the beginning. The main character makes this huge mistake at a school and the kid gets shot by police. Then he says something about it being just one more lonesome freak off the street.

Chloe nods.

Chloe:
I remember. He was criticised massively for not understanding or respecting the trauma some Incel’s went through.

Daniel:
 Exactly but it was what Mark was trying to show that the character didn’t understand the Incels. Some Incel gets killed just after the books released and everyone blames Mark for it. He weathers the storm and the next two books become a best seller. That scene is in the show with that line. That wouldn’t be an issue but.

Chloe:
A kid today took a shotgun into his school and held them hostage.

Daniel:
 And he just so happens to be an Incel. Then the police shoot him and.

Chloe:
One more lonesome freak off the street.

Daniel:
We have to be so careful and hope they don’t realise that the same scene is played out in the show.

Chloe:
That’s why you need the alternate scene.

Daniel:
I can’t do much about it, now I have to sit with Mark tonight and pretend that I’m not working on crushing his legacy while we talk.

Chloe has a sad smile on her face.

Chloe:
Oh. That’s why you wanted dinner early.

Daniel:
Yeah I thought we would have a bite to eat and then head down to the oyster and see everyone.

Chloe:
We did that last week.

Daniel:
Yeah well its been a stressful day I thought it might be nice to un-wind.

Chloe:
We can do that here though Daniel. Sit down, watch tv, just us, like we used to.

Daniel:
That was back then, I don’t unwind like that anymore that was before.

Chloe:
Before what? Before you got friends, I am the only person who has been with you through everything.

Daniel places his fork on the table

Daniel:
Please Chloe, don’t be like this?

Chloe:
You don’t get it do you Dan. You don’t see it.

Daniel:
It’s only for a couple.

Chloe smiles, concealing a tear.
Chloe:
It’s okay. You go with your temporary friends. I will stay here watch the soaps and unwind on my own. I will only bring your mood down.

Daniel smiles naively.

Daniel:
Are you sure?

Chloe:
Positive.

Daniel stands up and kisses her on the cheek.

Daniel:
 I love you.

Chloe:
yeah.

End scene